Let's dissect the situation from an energetic point of view and unveil the real blockage behind "the impossible quest for the perfect significant other."
First of all and before anything else, there is a profound need to clear a myth. You will not attract mister or miss Right until you will not have fallen in love with your own self and make it a still foundation within.
Love is no more no less than the divine energy out of each of us is created. We intuitively know it and can automatically recognize it if its vibration emanates out of us.
The step back is that most of us have forgotten what Love really is and in order to remember we need to associate our self with another self to create a similar emotional state of mind. Thus, there isn't a creation per say, it becomes a co-creation involving more than one being. When the created energy needs to be share again, the feeling of emptiness comes back and separation occurs. When there is separation, there is room for fear to move in and spread out.
Love is an inner feeling. It is unconditional, still and innate. The belief of falling in love for someone exists only to help us remember the feeling we should feel about our own Self.
Stop looking for Love outside of your own beautiful universe. Start to look in and re-discover the beauty, the power, the perfection and the divine that animate you.
It is by knowing, recognizing, embracing and vibrating this very part of You that you honor your physical experience and attract the one who will vibrate the same emotions.
Then, out of two wholly bodies will emerge a third powerful experience: A fulfilling Love life based on truth and infinite energy.