8 Signs You Are Subtle Settling In Your Relationship & Overcome the Fear of Being Alone

Do you often feel unappreciated by your partner? Do you avoid addressing issues to keep the peace? Today, Jay tackles a common yet often overlooked issue in relationships: subtle settling. He begins by acknowledging the pervasive uncertainty many people face about their partners and the fear of being alone that often drives them to stay in unfulfilling relationships. Is it true that the lack of current excitement or passion necessarily indicates settling. One of the key questions Jay poses is whether individuals feel they can be their true selves with their partners. He highlights the importance of authenticity in relationships, sharing anecdotes about how people often hide or underplay parts of themselves to be more likable, which ultimately leads to losing their true identity. In this episode, you'll learn: How to foster emotional availability How to deal with unrealistic expectations How to ensure mutual respect in your relationship How to discuss important issues in a healthy way Healthy communication is another crucial aspect in all relationships. This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking to ensure they are not compromising their happiness and well-being in their relationships. With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 01:24 Subtle Settling 02:26 #1: Do You Feel Like You Can Truly Be Yourself? 07:18 #2: Do You Discuss Important Things In A Healthy Way? 13:19 #3: Do You Feel A Sense Of Respect? 15:36 #4: Are You Scared Of Being Lonely? 20:58 #5: Do You Compare Your Partner To Other People? 22:23 #6: Do They Understand Why You Are The Way You Are? 23:53 #7: Can They Tolerate Your Weaknesses And Can You Tolerate Theirs? 24:53 #8: You're Subtle Settling If It's A Financial Decision See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  Jay Shetty. Jay Shetty. The one, the only Jay Shetty.

• 3:06Jay Shetty?

  Hey, everyone. Welcome back to On Purpose, the number one health podcast in the world. Thanks to each and every one of you that come back every week to listen, learn, and grow. Now, today's episode is inspired by so many conversations I've had this week, whether it's with friends, family members, clients, people I've been talking to. And what I've realized is that there's this feeling of, am I settling? I know a lot of people in relationships right now who are not sure whether they're with the right person, whether they're with their person, or whether they're with a person that they want to spend the rest of their life with. But at the same time, they're worried about being alone.

• 3:50Jay Shetty?

  They're concerned about having to be out there again. A lot of people are nervous and anxious around dating right now. And I know you're either one of those people, or you know one of those people, or you're thinking of someone right now. And this general belief around subtle settling is if you don't feel passionate for your partner anymore, or you don't feel excited about them anymore. And I want to really look at that closely, because I don't believe that a lack of excitement currently, or a lack of passion currently, are good enough signs that you're settling. And I want to talk about how passion and excitement can actually be created and also be lost and diminished.

• 4:35Jay Shetty?

  So this episode is for you or your friend, if you think someone's settling. This episode is for you, if you want to make sure you never settle and know what it takes to create a healthy, meaningful relationship. And this episode is for you, if you just feel like you've lost the spark, you've lost your way, and you want to get it back. I'm going to give you a set of questions that are going to help you reflect through this. You can even share this episode with a friend, or you can discuss it with them and answer these questions together. So the first question, to figure out whether you're subtle settling, and I think this subtle settling point is really important, because you know when you're settling, right?

• 5:16Jay Shetty?

  When you've like totally settled and you're like, oh, I'm really compromising here. But subtle settling is this idea of, well, I kind of don't know, I'm not really sure, maybe it'll be okay, and that's why these questions are so important. So the first question is, do you feel like you can truly be yourself? Now, what does it mean to be yourself? This is a really important question for you to answer on your own. What do you think it means to be yourself? Does it mean to be goofy? Does it mean to be fun? Does it mean to be silly? Does it mean to be serious and deep and profound? Does it mean to be both of those things?

• 5:58Jay Shetty?

  I was talking to a friend the other day, and she was saying that this guy that she's kind of seeing just started following her on Instagram. And she was scared, because on Instagram she feels like she's really herself. She's funny, she's silly, she's goofy, and she was thinking, oh gosh, now that he follows me, is that going to affect our dating? And then she realized, she said, "Well, actually, it's good that he's seeing it, because then he knows the real me. He knows who he's gonna come home to. He knows who he's gonna catch up with. He knows the kind of person I truly am. And if he doesn't wanna be with that version of me, then it's gonna be hard for him to be with me." Now, that takes a lot of confidence. It takes a lot of courage to be able to say that. But it is true. How many of you, and be honest with yourself,

• 6:43Jay Shetty?

  how many of you have hidden parts of yourself so that people like you more? How many of you have underplayed parts of yourself so that people like you more? How many of you have limited, held back, given less of yourself so that people like you more? We mold, we shapeshift, we transform because we want people to like us. But in that process, we diminish, lose, and restrict parts of our best selves. And what we don't realize is

• 7:28Jay Shetty?

  the person we wanna be with will like us for all of us and be okay with the parts that they don't like, but recognize they're a part of us, as opposed to trying to find someone who likes certain things about us and doesn't even know about the other things about us. And I know it's hard. We want that person in our life so bad. We're so attracted to them. We're such people pleasers. We want that person to like us no matter what the cost is. But we don't realize that we lose ourselves by trying to get someone else to like us. We lose ourselves by trying to get someone else to love us. We lose ourselves by trying to find someone else.

• 8:13Jay Shetty?

  And so I want to remind you, can you be all parts of yourself with this individual? And here's the important part: they don't have to understand all of you. They don't even have to like all of it. They just have to know that that's who you are. They have to be okay with it. And we have to have the same back. And I think that's one of the things we've lost. We think that the person that loves us will love all of us. Now, the truth is that someone can love all of you, but still not resonate with all of you and may not understand all of it. And that's natural. But you have to feel like you can be yourself and you have to feel like you're allowing that person to be themselves. Because I think one of the things we miss out on

• 8:58Jay Shetty?

  is we don't realize the amount of pressure we put on someone else to also behave in ways that we like. We don't realize how much pressure and judgment we place on others, that they're scared of showing that part of themselves. I have a guy friend of mine who's so scared of showing his softer, vulnerable side because he thinks his partner just wants the alpha, wants the kind of like tough exterior version of him. Now, I'm not saying that he's read his partner right or that he's sure about that. But it's interesting that he also feels that he's holding parts of himself back because they're not invited. What parts of your partner are you not inviting forward?

• 9:41Jay Shetty?

  What parts of your partner are you not allowing to come through? Think about that. So are you being all of yourself? And are you allowing your partner to be all of themselves? That's an important part of recognizing you're not settling. Point number two. Do you discuss important things in a healthy way? Now, so many of us have got so used to drama. We've got so used to anxiety. We've got so used to arguments that if you're having peaceful, thoughtful discussions, we undervalue them. We underestimate them. We think, where's the drama? Where's the passion? Right? It's interesting how when you're having a debate, there's passion.

• 10:25Jay Shetty?

  It can be exciting, can even be exhilarating. When you're having an argument, that can be kind of like a turn on. But we don't realize that if all of that's done in an unhealthy way, then that passion we're also feeling is somewhat unhealthy. Sometimes peace doesn't feel like passion.

• 10:45Jay Shetty?

  Peace feels like security. Peace feels like stability. Peace feels like sureness. Peace feels like energizing, but not necessarily intoxicating. And I think so many of us have got lost in that belief of wanting something intoxicating, that we lose the thing that's energizing and enlivening. So do you discuss important things in a healthy way? Now, here's what I've realized. A lot of the challenges I see in couples can be broken down into two things. The first is one person has unrealistic expectations. Now, both people can have unrealistic expectations,

• 11:28Jay Shetty?

  but generally I find one person has unrealistic expectations. Like, I want them to be ambitious and I want them to be available all of the time. Listen up. There is no one who is ambitious, who is available all the time. Or we want someone who's super organized and super spontaneous. Those two things don't always go together. Or we want someone who's really, really kind and really, really caring, but then we also want them to be in control. I'm not saying these things are impossible, but sometimes we have really unrealistic expectations, where we've genuinely put two polar opposite values and demands into place. And now when our partner's one of them, we're like, well, wait a minute,

• 12:13Jay Shetty?

  why are you not the other? And then when the partner's the other one, we're like, wait a minute, why are you not the other thing? And that just goes on and on and on. And it just keeps repeating itself. It keeps going crazy and it doesn't really help us. So, do you discuss important things in a healthy way? Now, that was one of the issues that people have. The other issue that I find is the lack of emotional availability, the lack of vulnerability, the lack of being able to talk things through, the lack of having a transparent conversation. What I find is those are generally the roots to a lot of the reasons why we don't have healthy conversations. One is because someone's demanding something unrealistic. The other is because someone's not open enough to have that conversation.

• 12:59Jay Shetty?

  I want to throw this out there. If your partner is not good at having vulnerable, open, honest conversations about how they're feeling, you telling them that they're not vulnerable, telling them and targeting them, saying that they're not open, and telling them that they're not curious enough, they're not thoughtful enough, isn't going to inspire them to become that way. We have to learn to inspire our partners to be that person, not interrogate, investigate, and push them to be that person. Most of us are trying to blame our partners into change. We're trying to shame our partners into change. Here's a true story.

• 13:41Jay Shetty?

  You can't shame or blame your partner into change. You can only inspire them into change. You can only engage them into change, right? You can't blame and shame them into change. So you pointing out all their flaws, you pointing out all their weaknesses, isn't going to solve the problem. It isn't going to fix the challenge that they're facing. You have to ask yourself, am I inspiring this person? Am I helping them with this change? Am I encouraging them or really am I just becoming their parent? Am I just pushing them around? Am I just forcing them to change? That's not discussing things in a healthy way. We say, wait a minute, I laid out the roadmap for them. I told them exactly what they needed to do.

• 14:26Jay Shetty?

  I told them exactly what I wanted. Well, by the way, that doesn't sound like a partnership. That sounds like ownership, right? So I want you to really think about that. If you want your partner to think about something, to be a certain way that you think is useful for the relationship, you have to think about how that's inspired, how that's encouraged. That's how a coach thinks. You don't want to fear them into it. You don't want it to be an ultimatum, right? Now, at the same time, if you're the person who's looking at your partner and just thinking, wow, they have some unrealistic expectations of me, I'll never be that. I think it's really important to sit them down and have a conversation and say, that's not who I plan to be. This is who I plan to be.

• 15:11Jay Shetty?

  And by the way, in order to do that, you need to be clear on who you plan to be. And a lot of us, in order to stay with the person and just keep, you know, pacifying them, we're like, oh yeah, I'll do that little thing. Oh yeah, yeah, I'll apply for that job. Oh yeah, yeah, I'll work a little harder and guess what, last for a couple of weeks. Then we don't want to be that person anymore. So don't pretend to say you're going to become someone that you don't want to be because your partner wants you to be them. So much is lost in the pretending to be the person our partner wants us to be. Whether it's pretending to be more vulnerable and open or whether it's pretending to be someone we're not. No, I'm not saying we go the other way and say, I'm not going to do anything. I'm not going to change. I'm not going to grow. I'm not going to evolve.

• 15:54Jay Shetty?

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• 16:36Jay Shetty?

  So head to our store locator at drinkjuni.com and find Juni at a Target near you. Number three, to check whether you're subtle settling. Do you respect how they treat you? Do you respect how they talk to you? This isn't like, do you, do they, you know, throw rose petals at the ground you walk on, right? It's, do you feel a sense of respect? And what do you measure as respect? And do they know that you measure that as a sign of respect? Most of us respect one thing and we measured that thing in our partner. But guess what? They respect another thing and they're measuring that. So often in our relationships, our respect languages are different.

• 17:20Jay Shetty?

  Imagine you're measuring, analyzing and observing a completely different thing in another person. Imagine someone was observing how you're dressed and the other person's observing your accent. You're both measuring completely different things and then you're making a decision about whether that person is good or not. That's kind of what we're doing and getting mixed up about respect. If someone respects you, that is probably the greatest form of a relationship possible. That's not settling at all. And I would say that someone respects who you are more than what you achieve. I think a lot of us are after, do our partners respect our achievements? Do our partners respect us when we do something amazing in our career? Do they respect us?

• 18:05Jay Shetty?

  Do they validate us? Do they approve what we've achieved, what we've done? Real respect is, does that person respect who I am? Do they respect me regardless? Do they respect me beyond all of this? I've talked about this before. For a long time in my relationship, my male ego wanted Radhi to respect me because of what I achieved. And really what I realized is I was trying to achieve in order to respect myself. And therefore I wanted her to respect me for that because then I would be worthy enough. And all the time I was missing the point that Radhi respects me. She's been with me when I've had nothing. She's been with me when I've failed. She's been with me since I've started and she's been grateful ever since.

• 18:50Jay Shetty?

  Isn't that the deepest form of love and respect? So I would ask you to assess that with your partner. Reflect on that. Number four, are you scared of being lonely? If you are scared of being lonely and that's why you're staying with your partner, chances are you're subtle settling. And that's a hard truth. It's an inconvenient truth because so many of us are subtle settling because we don't want to be alone. We're scared of not having someone to go home to. We're scared of not having that person that we call when we're on a car journey. We're scared of having to go to sleep on our own.

• 19:34Jay Shetty?

  And that fear is creating and forming the basis, the foundation of a relationship. Fear is an unhealthy foundation for any relationship. I'll say that again. Fear is an unhealthy foundation for any relationship. If fear is the foundation of your relationship, you are subtle settling. Whatever that fear may be, one of them is the fear of being alone.

• 20:06Jay Shetty?

  I was talking to a friend the other day. And I said to him, you just have to block that person. He has someone in his life who keeps walking in, keeps walking out. And he loves it because he doesn't want to be alone. And I said, I think it's about time you block them. Like you keep breaking up and getting back together and breaking up and getting back together. And I can see how unhealthy it is for you. And yes, you're scared of being alone. But you know what's scarier is being in this situation in 10 years' time. And I said to him, which one are you more scared of? Are you more scared of being alone for the next two years? Or are you more scared of being in this situation in seven years' time? When you're seven years older and you've lost seven years of your life? And he said, when you put it that way, I was like, yeah, you have to put it that way. Right? You have to put your life into perspective.

• 20:51Jay Shetty?

  When you look at everything through the next three months, the next three months, the next three months, you'll keep elongating and extending even a bad situation. Because you're thinking about the next three months. Whereas when you start looking at it through the lens of the next three years, being three years older, three years into your career, three years wiser, three years smarter, and then you look at it, everything's put into perspective.

• 21:16Jay Shetty?

  As Wayne Dyer used to say, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. I think often we either look at things too short term, especially in relationships, especially with loneliness. Now, I was talking to a friend the other day about my book, Eight Rules of Love. She was reading it. And she was saying she really liked the reframing of loneliness to solitude. And she's been exploring what solitude means for her. And I was saying that this is what we need to do. Our mind has created a story around loneliness. You're not good enough, you're not worthy, you don't have a plus one. All your friends say things like, oh, we gotta find you a person. Oh, we can't have you be single for too long.

• 22:01Jay Shetty?

  Oh, we gotta hook you up, right? That becomes the rhetoric. So our story around being alone, we have a story around every word. Right? If I say the word fear, you have a story around that. If I say the word power, you have a story around that. If I say the word money, you have a story around that. If I say the word fame, you have a story around that. If I say the word failure, you got a story. And if I say the word success, you've got a story. You and your mind and your thoughts have a story around every word. The goal of our life is to rewrite, retell and reshare

• 22:47Jay Shetty?

  our stories around our life. What is the story you want around being alone? Is it that you're lonely? Or is it that you're in solitude? What is your story around being single? Is it about being empowered? Or is it that you're not worthy? What is your story about being in a relationship? Is it a necessity? Or is it something that you're building and nurturing? What is your story about being a failure? Is it that you're not sharing your life with someone? Or is it that failing is not knowing yourself and therefore picking the wrong person?

• 23:29Jay Shetty?

  We have to rewrite, retell, redefine what our story around these important words in our life are, and love, love is an important word, to think about what our story is about it. What is your story about the word love? Is it that you don't deserve it? Is it that you don't need it? Right? One side is I don't deserve it. The other side is the ego and arrogance of I don't need it. I don't need anyone. Notice how attachment and aversion are two sides of the same coin, the Bhagavad Gita says. The Bhagavad Gita says, attachment and aversion are two sides of the same coin. They're both an addiction, right? If we hate something or we obsess over

• 24:11Jay Shetty?

  it, we're giving it the same energy. But let's tell a better story. Let's tell a smarter story. Let's tell a more thoughtful story about that.

• 24:22Jay Shetty?

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  That's indeed.com/podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? This is a job for Indeed sponsored jobs. This episode is brought to you by Wayfair. Home should be a place that feels like a sanctuary, a space that truly reflects who you are, but it can be challenging to balance style, budget, and endless options. I was looking to create a dedicated calm space for my morning meditation and reading, but I was struggling to find pieces that felt grounding but could also stand up to daily use. I went on Wayfair and found a beautiful, solid wood accent chair and a bookshelf. Now that corner is my favourite place to anchor my day. The quality is incredible, it's built to last, and it completely shifted the energy of the room.

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  That means you'll see thousands of organic products across their stores, from the produce department to the aisles. It also means you'll never see certain ingredients. They've banned artificial sweeteners and colours, high fructose corn syrup and more, so you can shop with peace of mind. Shop Whole Foods Market in-store or online. Number five. Do you compare your partner to other people? You're subtle settling if you keep comparing your partner to other people for qualities they'll never have. And when you're making someone feel that way, you're also disintegrating their self-esteem and their confidence.

• 27:16Jay Shetty?

  You're subtle settling, move away. If you keep comparing that person, okay, you want something else. And you may say, oh no, but I don't really mean it. Well, don't think about it then. You're comparing that person because you want them to be more this or less this, more that or less that. Right? More of this and less of that. That's what you want.

• 27:37Jay Shetty?

  If you're comparing your partner to some other people, you're so settling. If you're comparing them in a way to fall more in love with them, that's different, right? If you're comparing them in the sense of like, "Oh, actually, I'm so grateful to have this person because, you know, I've seen what my friends are going through," that's different. But if you're comparing them on the level of, "I wish they had that, oh, look at that person, their partner's always thinking about them, their partner organizes the best birthdays, their partner's got the best career, their partner makes more money, their partner has a better career, their partner, you know, their partner makes time, whatever it may be." You're so settling, or you're not grateful enough. And that's what I want you to reflect on. Is it that you're settling, or is it that you're not grateful? Could be either or. The next principle, number six, is do they understand why you are the way you are?

• 28:22Jay Shetty?

  And do they take interest? Do they understand the depths of you? Are they are trying to understand your context? I said this to someone recently who was asking me for relationship advice. I said, "A real relationship is where you've tried to understand not how the person is and how they behave and who they've become, it's how they became that. What did they go through? How did they become that person? Why are they that person? Are you curious to understand that? Because I promise you, that context will make you connect on a much deeper level. But if you don't have that context, you'll never truly know. So ask yourself, do you know the context of why your partner is the way they are?

• 29:06Jay Shetty?

  And have you shared the context of why you are the way you are? Right? Have you figured that out? It's so important. That is not settling. If your partner's taking an interest in you, and if you're taking an interest in them, and if you've started, and if you haven't done that, try it out. I think a lot of us expect our partners, or people we're dating or seeing, to already have these skills. And actually, the purpose of a relationship is that you're both challenged to build these skills. Right? A relationship isn't a relationship where you both come in with all these skills. The point is, the relationship challenges you to develop these skills. And the question you're asking is, "Do I want to develop these skills with this person? And do they want to develop these skills with me?" There's two more I want to share with you. Can they tolerate your weaknesses?

• 29:51Jay Shetty?

  And can you tolerate theirs? Everyone you meet will have flaws, weaknesses, and make mistakes. The question you're asking yourself is, "Are these the ones I want to deal with?" Everyone's gonna have something. Are these the ones I'm comfortable with dealing with? Right? There is going to be some mistake. There's going to be some flaw. Am I okay with this one? And your subtle settling, if you're accepting less than you deserve. Of course, if you're going through verbal, emotional, physical abuse, then that isn't something that you negotiate with. Those are non-negotiables and those are based on your self-respect and a big part of it is that subtle settling

• 30:35Jay Shetty?

  happens when we don't have a sense of self-respect. It's not arrogance. It's not ego. It's do I respect myself? Do I understand what human level of respect is? And the final one is financial dependence. Your subtle settling, if it's a financial decision. If it's purely financial, it's subtle settling. I get it. I understand it. I empathize with it. But you know that if it's just based on that, then you're easily losing out. So I hope this episode helps you make a sense of subtle settling. I hope it also helps you move towards a healthier relationship. And I hope it helps you help your friends think through these dilemmas.

• 31:17Jay Shetty?

  Thank you so much for listening to On Purpose. Make sure you pass this on to a friend. And here's a reminder for you. I am forever in your corner and I'm always rooting for you. Thanks for listening. If you loved this episode, you will enjoy my interview with Dr. Julie Smith on unblocking negative emotions and how to embrace difficult feelings.

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  Digger. See the trailer online. Only in theaters October 2nd. Rated R. Under 17. Not a minute without parent.

• 32:48Speaker 06

  Espolón Tequila. It arrives in a cloud of feathers with a cry to wake the dead. Espolón Tequila. Balanced, delicious. Perfect for nights out, nights in, and people who like to drink tequila. Just add ice, lime, and your mouth. Then hold on tight. 100% agave, 0% ego. Espolón Tequila. For a real margarita, ride the rooster.

• 33:11Speaker 05

  Espolón Tequila, 40% alcohol by volume, 80 proof. Copyright 2026, Compaia America, New York, New York. Drink responsibly.