Your partner will never be able to meet all your emotional needs.

A loving partner will rarely be able to meet all your emotional needs. Thus, the fact of having someone at your side capable of loving you fully and unconditionally does not mean that your fulfillment as a person is already complete. Nor does that love, however nutritious it may be, fill every part of your rich being, every aspect of your personality, aspirations and worth.

The love of a life partner is something exceptional, there is no doubt. However, the human being is an entity in constant growth and expansion, in such a way that we are always placing new and higher needs as we mature, advance and self-realize. The passion, affection and affection of the couple is just one more element of our being, an important one, but not the exclusive one.

Goethe said that people are made of what we love. In some way, that’s the real key to everything. Love is actually a polyhedral dimension, a multiverse filled with wonderful dimensions that make up who we are..

We need the love of family, friends, partners, and of course the love we offer ourselves. If we think about it, there are multiple areas that can strengthen us emotionally and all of them are important to feel good, to be happy.

If you want to fulfill all your emotional needs, remember what the word “love” means.

For Oscar Wilde, a life without love was a garden without sun where all the flowers end up withering. After all, this feeling is what should nourish the roots of everything we are, of everything we do, that we decide and even that we dream.

Because whoever fights every day to improve at their job is because they love their profession, because whoever commits to themselves to achieve certain goals is because they love themselves, because they feel worthy of what they want and desire.

Your partner will not be able to meet all your emotional needs no matter how much he or she loves you, because there are many more varieties of love and a lack of just one of them leaves consequences. In this way, if we think that the affection offered to us in a relationship is enough to achieve full and lasting happiness, we will be heading for disaster.

Loving and being loved by that person is something exceptional, but it is not everything. There are many more needs.

Human needs are not a desire, they are realities that must be met

The human being is made of meat, nerve cells, bones, etc. However, above all, it is made up of needs that must be met.. Abraham Maslow already explained it to us in his now classic pyramid, where factors such as diet, health or rest would lay the foundation. Later dimensions such as family, work, housing would appear…

Later our needs for affection arise (partner, friends, belonging to certain groups, etc.). Next, and Having completed the highest parts of the pyramid, we find those areas related to self-realizationsuch as job promotion, achieving personal goals and the sense of transcendence (feeling good about ourselves and inspiring others).

Let’s be clear, not a single one of these dimensions can be neglected. Because a need is not a mere desire. Having a partner is enriching, but alone they will not be able to meet all your emotional needs. Elements such as friendship, a satisfying job, and personal goals configure binding areas for happiness.

Your emotional needs are important. Don’t neglect even one!

An interesting study carried out at the University of Illinois tells us the following: one of the pending matters of the human being is emotional awareness. Authors of this work, such as Dr. Howard Berenbaun, point out that having this clarity when it comes to understanding the universe of emotions, their needs and their particular language, would undoubtedly help us achieve better personal and psychological self-realization.

However, One of the scenarios where the greatest emotional deregulation appears is in emotional relationships.. There are ups and downs and we often focus excessive resources on the loved one to the point of neglecting ourselves. Remembering something as basic as that your partner cannot meet all your emotional needs would undoubtedly help us suffer a little less.

Let’s think about it, The love that truly makes us happy is composed of multiple nutrients. Our family, our friends, our most valued hobbies, work, our self-esteem and our personal dreams make up that variety of emotions capable of enriching us as we deserve.

A partner’s affection is one of the most precious, while in reality we need all of those vitamins mentioned above to be well, to feel strong, valuable and happy. Because love has no limits, it is expansive and speaks many languages. And as human beings we all need them…

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