By developing a mindset that is about dating someone until you find someone better, you run a risk of getting stuck in this mindset.

Meaning, when you reach a point in your life where you believe you are ready to settle down, no one you encounter will be good enough.

That is because you spent years dating guys that you deemed temporary, believing that there would be better men as boyfriends in your future.

Every time you date a new guy and get into a relationship with him, you are already thinking that the relationship won’t last.

He is for right now and not for the long term.

Having this mentality for years and living by it puts you in an impossible position when you reach a stage in life where you are ready to settle down.

You don’t realize this while you are doing it.

But, you are creating a very difficult predicament for yourself as you make this approach to relationships a part of how you go about dating men.

When you make yourself believe that every man you date is only good for the moment until you find someone better, you make it impossible for any man to match what it is you want in a man.

Every man you date will have strengths and weaknesses.

When you choose to date a man that you think is for right now, until you find someone better, you are more focused on his weaknesses than his strengths.

You will have the same approach with the next man you date, and the next.

In each one of these relationships, you are more so focused on his weaknesses than his strengths.

With every new man you date, you expect him to be better than the last.

You want more strengths than weaknesses.

Whenever you date someone who has more strengths than the last man you dated, it encourages you that much more to ultimately leave him to date someone new.

You are thinking that the next man will have even more strengths.

This puts you into a mindset that you are bound to meet the perfect man.

After all, with each new man you date, he has more strengths than the last man.

This puts you in a dangerous rabbit hole of your own making.

You don’t realize that you are in this rabbit hole until it is too late.

Next thing you know, you are older, ready to settle down with your perfect man, and he is nowhere to be found.

At this stage in your life, as an older adult, your standards are so impossibly high, no man you date is capable of meeting them.

You are still stuck chasing that perfect man, believing he exists.

He doesn’t.

There is no man without weaknesses.

You were addicted to the idea of finding someone better, leading to you ending relationships with plenty of men who were the right matches for you.

This mindset sets you off on one path and one path only.

That of ending up alone, or deeply unsatisfied in a relationship that you force yourself to settle for, believing that you deserved better.