This is the biggest cliche out there, but stop trying to find someone to love you until you can love yourself. Figure out what it is about yourself that you don't love and either learn to love it or learn to change it. You're never going to find "the right person" for you until you can think of yourself as being that for them.
I know. I really do. But knowing and understanding at a level where you can apply it to yourself are two different things.
I am working on it. Most days I like who I am. Which is a big step up from hating myself entirely.
Doesn’t mean I don’t want someone to cuddle with, or talk to, or laugh about stupid shit.
It just means that when it finally happens, when I’m ready without realizing it, it’s going to be well worth the wait.
But I hadn’t thought about it that way. Being the ‘right person’ for them too, and not just looking for my own ‘right person’. I’ll have to remember that.