How Your Platonic Relationships Can Prepare You For Love When You're Single

Relationship influencer Sahar Khorram shared on TikTok that there are some tips you can learn (when single) from friendships that can help you prepare for an intimate relationship setting. According to Khorram, waiting till you find your ideal partner to know if you're ready or healed doesn't always work. "The way that you perform in your other relationships, the characteristics that you exhibit in your platonic relationships, [and] in your work relationships, are naturally going to transfer over to your intimate relationships," she explained. 

Setting healthy boundaries is one lesson you can learn from nonsexual relationships, per Khorram. "If you can't establish boundaries, if you can't say no, if you're a people pleaser, if you're always giving in to what other people want in a platonic relationship where the stakes are extremely low, you're not going to be able to do it in an intimate relationship when your heart is intertwined and you got these chemicals going on, and [there's] just so much more on the line," she added. 

When in a relationship, do you find it difficult to give your partner space when they need it? Think about the time your friend didn't respond to a text or couldn't make it to a party. Sure, you were disappointed, but didn't you understand and let it go eventually? Did you respect their need for space? This could be a tip on how to operate within a romantic setting.