How to Know You’re Ready to Share Your Life with Someone

Sarah Maclin Lyons
4 min readApr 24, 2019

It can’t be all about you anymore.

Photo by Simon Boxus on Unsplash

Most people want to be in relationships. We want to fall in love and be loved. We want the ideal partner. We want to share our lives with someone special.

But what does sharing your life with someone actually mean? How do we know that we are ready to include someone in our lives? Here are some examples of when you know you’re on the right track to letting the right one in.

You’re Willing to Make Time for Them

This is key. When you decide to make someone a priority in your day, you’re taking a step in the right direction. This doesn’t mean you’re spending every day with them, but you at least think of them.

You can show that through a phone call asking about their day or a text saying that they’re on your mind. You incorporate quality time with them into your schedule. Time is a valuable thing and none of us want to waste it, so if you’re choosing to spend your time with someone, you’ve already begun to share your life with them.

You Introduce Them to Your Friends

Before you started dating this person, you had your own life and your own friends, who you spent time with frequently. If you’re willing to bring your new partner into your circle of friends, you’re…

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Sarah Maclin Lyons

Storyteller | Poet | I write what feels right. Obsessed with love and how we live life.