I lived and learned already. How about you?
The key to being happy is needing no one. I repeat, no one. Be happy with yourself. Be OK going out to eat alone, like a boss. If you like and respect someone and they don't like/respect you equally back, next! Don't expect anything out of no one. Learn to depend on no one but yourself. Having another person there should just be to purely enjoy the ride with. If they don't want to walk the journey with you, cool. Walk alone. Nothing wrong with that. Serious. No lie. Don't settle until you are treated right, the way you truly deserve to be treated. No one deserves your love and attention if they don't reciprocate the same amount of love and attention back.
and it's just like that..