7. How you make them better

Since you’ve already considered your partner’s impact on your life, it’s time to take the opposite perspective: how are you as a partner? Are you loving and understanding, and do you try your best to ease the pains of this life for them? A relationship is essentially a partnership, and both parties involved should have the same goals in mind, or you’ll just be going in circles.

Think about whether you still want to be that person who shows them that life can’t be all that bad.