Somebody you are proud to be seen with
Leo Venus in the 7th house turns partnership into something you want to be visible. You are looking for a person you admire, whose company reflects well on both of you, and who is willing to be openly devoted rather than privately fond.
That is a high standard and it is not really about status. What you want is to be with somebody impressive because you intend to give them your whole loyalty, and giving that away to somebody you do not admire is genuinely unthinkable to you.
Loyalty handed over in one piece
You do not commit gradually. Once you have decided, the whole of your allegiance goes across at once, and you will defend that person in rooms where nobody else would. It is a remarkable thing to receive. It also means you rarely reassess, so a partner who changed considerably five years ago may still be getting the loyalty you gave to somebody else.
Admiring somebody is not the same as knowing them
Your attraction begins with what a person can do, and it can take years to notice that you have never seen them unimpressive. That is a gap in the relationship rather than in them. Ask about the failures early, and be glad rather than disappointed when they arrive, since a partner you cannot see struggling is a partner you cannot actually reach.
Public warmth, and a private scoreboard
In company you are generous about your partner: the credit given, the compliment paid, the visible affection. In private you keep a quiet tally of what has gone unacknowledged. Both are real. Say the tally out loud in small instalments, since it does not disappear and it eventually arrives all at once as something much larger.
Apologising costs you more than it should
Being in the wrong is an uncomfortable position here and you will go to some lengths to avoid occupying it out loud. The result is long stand-offs about things neither of you cares about. Say the plain sentence first, early, before the position has hardened, because your dignity survives it perfectly well and the relationship often does not survive the alternative.
You give magnificently and keep count
What you provide in a relationship is genuinely lavish, and somewhere behind it a tally runs of what has come back the other way. The tally is not mean; it is how you check that you matter to somebody. Let it out in small instalments rather than at full size after four years, by which point nobody knew it existed.
You want the family to approve of them
Introducing a partner to your family is a significant event for you and their reaction carries real weight, occasionally more than it should. Notice when you are auditioning somebody on other people's behalf. The person you are with has to work in your life rather than in the family portrait, and those are not always the same test.
An unresolved row keeps its grip on you
Conflict with somebody close sits in your chest and shoulders and stays there for as long as the situation is open, which is often longer than necessary because neither of you will move first. Move first. The physical relief is immediate and disproportionate, and it costs you considerably less than the week of carrying it does.
You and your partner as a joint act
Socially you operate as a pair and enjoy it: the couple who host, who are invited together, who have a shared routine in company. It works well and it leaves you with few friendships of your own. Keep two that belong only to you, seen without your partner, since a life entirely conducted in pairs has nowhere to stand if the pair changes.
You do your best work for somebody
Professionally you are at your strongest in a partnership: a co-founder, a named collaborator, a client you are personally loyal to. Anonymous institutional work leaves you flat. Seek the arrangement where there is a specific person on the other side of what you do, since that is where your considerable effort actually finds its motive.