The Readiness Audit

Honest questions to gauge whether you're truly ready to date:

• Emotional check — can you spend a weekend alone without spiraling?
• Identity check — do you know who you are outside a relationship?
• Pattern check — can you name your top three relationship patterns?
• Expectation check — do you want a partner to complete you, or complement you?
• Capacity check — do you have the bandwidth for someone else's needs right now?

If you answered "no" more than twice, you're not behind — you're just not done yet. Dating before you're ready doesn't speed up healing. It slows it down.