--- title: Ariana Grande Doesn't Need a Relationship to Feel Complete description: See why Ariana Grande said she doesn't need a partner to feel complete, and find out how she and Mac Miller started dating. canonical: https://time.com/4687155/ariana-grande-relationships-feel-complete/ author: Kate Dwyer article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-01T16:32:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:00.047Z og:title: Ariana Grande Says She Doesn't Need a Relationship to Complete Her og:description: 'I want to feel a hundred percent myself' og:url: https://time.com/4687155/ariana-grande-relationships-feel-complete/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a3bb36f13c33c39/6988a154196cf404c903cc14/ariana-grande-sings-whitney-houston.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2016 Billboard Music Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ariana Grande Says She Doesn't Need a Relationship to Complete Her twitter:description: 'I want to feel a hundred percent myself' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a3bb36f13c33c39/6988a154196cf404c903cc14/ariana-grande-sings-whitney-houston.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ariana Grande Says She Doesn't Need a Relationship to Complete Her > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage) Steve Granitz—WireImage by [Kate Dwyer](https://time.com/author/kate-dwyer/) ## Kate Dwyer Mar 1, 2017 4:32 PM UTC In [_Cosmopolitan_‘s](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a8977091/ariana-grande-april-2017/?src=socialflowTW) April cover story, Ariana Grande opened up about her views on relationships, and explained that she doesn’t need a partner to be happy. “I’ve never looked at love as something that I need to complete me,” the 23-year-old singer told the magazine. “I would like to be complete on my own first and fall in love with somebody who is also complete. You can still celebrate and be totally obsessed with each other, but I want to feel a hundred percent myself so that I can love that person better.” The star also talked about meeting boyfriend Mac Miller years before they started dating. “I met him when I was 19,” she said. “We have loved and adored and respected each other since the beginning, since before we even met, just because we were fans of each other’s talent.” Miller told [_People_](http://people.com/celebrity/mac-miller-on-how-his-friendship-with-ariana-grande-evolved-into-more/) in September that their relationship evolved out of working together on his track “My Favorite Part.” \[[_Cosmopolitan_](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a8977091/ariana-grande-april-2017/?src=socialflowTW)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4687155/ariana-grande-relationships-feel-complete/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4687155/ariana-grande-relationships-feel-complete/"},"headline":"Ariana Grande Says She Doesn't Need a Relationship to Complete Her","datePublished":"2017-03-01T16:32:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:00.047Z","description":"'I want to feel a hundred percent myself'","url":"https://time.com/4687155/ariana-grande-relationships-feel-complete/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a3bb36f13c33c39/6988a154196cf404c903cc14/ariana-grande-sings-whitney-houston.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Dwyer","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kate-dwyer/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a3bb36f13c33c39/6988a154196cf404c903cc14/ariana-grande-sings-whitney-houston.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 Billboard Music Awards - Arrivals","caption":"2016 Billboard Music Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Steve Granitz—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4687155/ariana-grande-relationships-feel-complete/","name":"Ariana Grande Says She Doesn't Need a Relationship to Complete Her"}}]}] ```