Falling in love with someone you’ve been dating is typically a beautiful, romantic experience, but when depression, low self-esteem and other mental health issues crop up and cause you to turn to the negative coping mechanism that is the bad habit of procrastination, it can raise problems in a relationship you otherwise might not encounter.
Procrastination is the gap between intention and action, which is why people who procrastinate sometimes having trouble finding love or end up self-sabotaging their relationships.
The word procrastination comes from “pro” meaning forward and “cras” meaning tomorrow. Procrastination, therefore, means to put off until tomorrow. It is the act of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference for more urgent ones or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones.
Procrastination voluntarily delays an intended course of action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay. And, no, procrastination is not a problem of time management or planning. It is a force that prevents you from following through on what you set out to do, which can lead to self-sabotaging relationships.
In a nutshell, procrastination:
Is irrational.
Drives you to act against your own judgment.
Is counterproductive.
Is devastating to personal and business lives.
Twenty percent of people identify themselves as chronic procrastinators.
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Source: Your Tango