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 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 reenter 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 heart 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 is 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 take

some more time for myself and that's fine too.

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