The personality characteristics and traits which you might want to look for in a partner are associated with the ability to have long term, healthier relationships.

These traits are: having emotional openness, integrity, honesty, and trustworthiness, having maturity and responsibility and a willingness to be open to personal growth.

A couple of other important traits are finding someone with good self esteem and a generally positive attitude towards life. A person with low self esteem loves in order to feel good about themselves. A person with high self esteem loves because they feel good about who they are.

You might check out whether that special someone takes good care of themselves, doesn’t allow others to abuse them, doesn’t procrastinate for fear of failure and takes reasonable risks for success.

Finally, it’s important to be with a person who has a somewhat positive attitude towards life. Negative people always focus on problems and fears and complain about others.  They’re also cynical and don’t’ trust others easily.

More positive people focus on finding a solution to problems.