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More often than not, you encounter days where you just want someone in your life. This can be triggered by watching romantic comedies, reading an article on the internet or seeing your best friend happily settled with someone. Yes, they come, and they’re perfectly natural, but are you sure that’s what you really want?
常常在某些瞬間，你莫名渴望生活中能出現另一半。或許只因剛剛看過幾部浪漫喜劇、在網上讀到某些文字，抑或因為看到好朋友都喜滋滋牽上了手。他們是如此自然而又完美地出現在一起。可是，你確定這當真就是自己想要的嗎?
1. Do you even know yourself well enough already?
你已經足夠了解自己了嗎?
It’s important to know yourself before becoming part of a relationship. If you don’t stand for anything, you’ll find yourself unconsciously giving too much and questioning if it was even enough.
談戀愛前一定要對自己足夠了解。如果你毫無立場，到時候會不自覺地無限付出，還一直困惑自己到底付出得夠不夠。
Set standards on the people you want to be in your life and how you want to be treated. Know what you’re worth and eventually, you’ll make him or her believe it too.
生活中要出現另一半時，先定下雙方相處原則。你要清楚自己的價值，然后讓對方相信你有這樣的價值。
2. You’re just in love with the concept of love.
你只是喜歡愛情本身的美好。
Cliché but this is most likely the situation if you think a relationship will save your life’s monotony. People always have a romanticized notion of what having a boyfriend or girlfriend would make them feel like. You toy with the idea of having someone constantly with you, the dates and the candlelit dinners, but the exhilaration of having one only lasts in its early stages. If you expect too much from it you might jump into the first potential relationship you find and end up disappointed.
雖說陳詞濫調，但也確實如此：如果你以為戀愛能救你擺脫無聊乏味，那必定只是喜歡“戀愛”字面的蘊意。人們對談男女朋友總是充滿過于浪漫的幻想，覺得身邊會一直有人陪伴、能享受數不盡的約會和燭光晚餐。其實，這種情調只會短暫出現在戀愛初期。要是你懷著過高期望一頭扎進去，最后只能失望收尾。
3. You just got out of one recently.
你剛剛結束一段戀情
When you’ve just broken up with your ex, finding a rebound would seem like the most convenient solution. It’s an easy distraction from the past, all of a sudden your attention is claimed by someone else.
若你剛和前任分手，找個備胎貌似再簡單不過了。你的注意力突然轉移到了另一個人身上，自然更容易忘記過去。
However, this shortcut to recovery is also short-lived. If you’re not genuinely ready, it will show. Give it time, enjoy being single and save someone else from the heart ache.
可是，這條捷徑恢復得快，結束得也快。如果你還沒有真正準備好，后面會給你顏色看。所以，慢慢來，先享受好單身生活，別再輕易傷害到另一個人。
