Does Saying "I'm Sick of Being Single" Reflect the Healthiest Mindset to Have While Searching for a Significant Other?

It seems that being single and living the life of a bachelor or bachelorette just isn't the desired lifestyle for many people. I regularly see people venting how sick and tired they are of being single and though I understand their desire to love and be loved, this really isn't the healthiest of mindsets to have while searching for a significant other.

When someone says that they're sick and tired of being single, what they're really saying is that they're miserable within and of themselves and they think that having a partner will change that. But they couldn't be further from the truth. A person who feels this way is emotionally, psychologically and spiritually incomplete. Trying to engage in an intimate relationship while being incomplete in this fashion typically yields a relationship that's fairly dysfunctional once they euphoric high of its newness wears off.

A person who's emotionally, psychologically and spiritually incomplete is a good description of a person who lacks self-love, self-respect and self-esteem. Self-respect and self-esteem seem to be relatively understood by most people, but many people don't seem to understand what self-love is. When you look up self-love on dictionary.com, it defines it as Narcissism. But from a spiritual point of view, self-love and narcissism are two very different things.

I believe that self-love is a subcomponent to both self-respect and self-esteem. Self-esteem is briefly defined as one's overall appraisal of their own worth. Self-respect is briefly defined as a measurement of the combination of one's dignity and self-esteem. But defining self-love can be too complicated to briefly define.