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Loving an Emotionally Healthy Man is Heaven
Be with a man who’s generous.
Emotionally healthy is a broad term but, in this article, it means emotionally available, intelligent, and secure.
My fiance is an emotionally healthy man, and I feel amazed every day by how satisfying it is to love him. It’s night and day compared to my past experiences being anxiously attached dating avoidant or otherwise unavailable guys (who also lack emotional skills.)
Those guys taught me many ugly things about love. For example, I learned to expect absence after intimacy.
When I first got physically intimate with my partner, he showed me the opposite: he became even more attentive and affectionate. It felt like a milestone for him as much as it was for me. It bonded us.
Over time as our relationship progressed, I learned to stop expecting negative things from love; I started to feel more comfortable opening up to him because my bids for connection and intimacy were always rewarded and my needs for closeness were always met.
He was excited and proud to introduce me to his friends and family early on. He said I love you openly and frequently. From the beginning, he was generous to me with everything he had. He listened to me, he knew what I wanted and needed, and he made it happen.
