Don't Settle for Less

Don't settle for someone who agrees with your ways of life, your mannerisms and your likings and dislikings, only until you are wooed.

Don’t settle for someone who treats you like a queen only during the wooing period.

Don’t settle for someone who doesn’t share your level of faith.

Don’t settle for someone who doesn’t kiss you with his eyes closed.

Don’t settle for someone who is a subtle racist- someone who doesn’t have a ‘problem’ with Tamils, but doesn’t want you to wear a bindi cz then you look like ‘them’, or someone who doesn’t have a problem with Muslims but doesn’t want you to wear Salwar Kameez cz then you look like them.

Don’t settle for someone who doesn’t open up to you about his past. You cannot trust him/her with your future.

Don’t settle for someone who lies to you about where he/she is. Especially with excuses of ‘work’.And even after you confront him about it would create stories to cover up the lie instead of being truthful..

Don’t settle for someone who doesn’t want to confront you when you have problems, someone who ignores issues and doesn’t want to discuss them.

Don’t settle for someone who bottles up all bitterness and bashes you with things you can’t even remember as soon as a problem arises.

Don’t settle for someone who doesn’t call you cz he/she is tired, but whom you see online on Whatsapp all night long.

Don’t settle for someone to whom you’ve given your whole self but doesn’t reciprocate the same love.

Don’t settle for someone who pretends to like what you do or dislikes what you don’t only until you are wooed.

Don’t settle for someone who doesn’t want to talk to you during moments you’re hurting, but says you should ‘switch off your phone, go to sleep and call me back when you’re in a better mood.’

Don’t settle for someone who postpones your engagement/wedding/ any commitment cz they have ‘work’.

Don’t settle for someone who after the above excuse, calls you and says they want you to ‘change’ before getting married.

Don’t settle for someone who wants you to be buddies with his/her friends, but tells you your friends are ‘good-for-nothing’s.

Don’t settle for someone who doesn’t want to use your bathroom cz ‘your whole family is using it’.

Don’t settle for someone in front of whom you constantly have to walk on egg shells, and never openly can be yourself.

Don’t settle for someone who tells you to let go of your passions and dreams ‘once we are married.’

Don’t settle for someone who sweet-talks you in front of others (colleagues, etc) but who doesn’t give 2 pence when you’re alone with him/her.

Don’t settle for someone who doesn’t care about your reputation.

Don’t settle for someone who is not proud of your achievements.

Don’t settle for someone who changes their word almost every day, with new interpretations.

Don’t settle for someone who cannot put a fight to rescue you from the wrong hands.

Don’t settle for someone who knows the ‘ways of dating’ but doesn’t know what Love is.

Don’t settle for less.

Not worth it.