Planting the Seeds of a Successful Relationship

By Andrea Marie - 2007-09-20 - Viewed 1024 times. Find more articles like this in our Disability Sexuality category.

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When you're courting someone or being courted by someone, there's always that question that wonders through your mind – are they the one?

Whether you believe in soul mates or not, there are definite ways to doom a relationship and here's a guide on how to avoid that, particularly if you are a disabled single dating online.

The key to fostering a long-term relationship that not only survives through the years, but thrives, is communication. While dating sites are a great place to start, especially for those who use disabled dating services and otherwise might find it difficult o meet people they share a common bond with, they are only there to encourage an offline relationship.

What does this mean to you? Do not get caught up in the misleading world of the Internet. Even if two people are completely honest with each other, it's difficult to size someone up without meeting them face to face. Watching their body language, how they interact with people around them, and how they treat you in person usually will tell you a lot more than your talks in disabled chat rooms or even a phone conversation! So if you want to see if a relationship will work, you must bring out into the open as soon as possible.

If you don't, you might invent a fantasy about how you two will get along and having those kinds of expectations will kill your chances at true love.

However, for disabled singles, those first dates can be extra nerve-wrecking. What will he or she think of my physical handicap? Will it shock them or make them feel awkward? One great advantage to single dating online is that you can knock out a lot of these concerns right off the bat. Talk about your disability upfront!

Use online dating disabled web sites to help you overcome this major hump and then as quickly as possible, meet your love interest in person. The longer you wait to do this, the more likely you will be to just end up disappointed and perhaps even heartbroken. We often feel that we have much deeper connections and attachments to people than we really do, if we only know of them through online chats, phone conversation, and photos. That is because no matter how much you try, the relationship can only remain superficial at this level.

There's no sense in nurturing a relationship in an environment it won't ultimately need to exist in. For instance, would you practice bike riding throughout the city streets for months and months in order to prepare for a mountain biking race? Probably not. So, use those alluring personals and online networking opportunities to meet people and foster that open form of communication – consider dating sites as training wheels! Then take that same kind of intimacy and bring it into the real world. As you see your relationship blossom, you won't regret it.

Register your free profile on our disabled dating site. We can increase your chances immensely of finding true love. You can sign up today and have a date at the weekend. It's so fast and easy to meet genuine disabled singles in your area. Disabled online dating can be nervous at first, so we've made it effective, fun and friendly.

Disabled World offers a Free Disability Dating Service for the Disabled

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