You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience

relationships and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome

insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

In today's episode, we are talking about how to know

if you are ready for a new relationship. So this is one

that I'll often get asked when people have been through a breakup and they've taken some time.

How do I know that I'm ready to date again? How do I know that I'm sufficiently healed,

which is not language that I would use, but it's often the way the question is phrased to me.

What are the signs that you are ready to re-enter the world of dating and potentially

exploring new connections with someone? So I'm going to be sharing some thoughts on that,

things that you can look for. I mean, at the outset, I'll say, I don't think there's any

hard and vast rule. I don't think there's some objective point of

readiness that suddenly you'll wake up and go, today's the day, I'm ready. Everything about my

previous relationships is behind me and I am undeniably, unequivocally ready as of today. I think it's

a little bit more nuanced than that, of course. But that being said, I do think that

there are some things that we can look at and look for in terms of the work that we've done

and passage of time, how we're feeling within ourselves that can point to whether it would be

something that we could explore. And you may find that you feel ready and then you take that

step and you start exploring new connections and then you actually decide, no, I maybe want to

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