Understanding Dating | Page 21

Say things you don’t mean.

• Make promises you can’t keep.

• Dig a hole that’s hard to get out of.

• Arouse expectations you can’t fulfill.

• Complicate things by adding sex to an

undeveloped relationship

• Trust your feelings rather than the truth.

• Find it easy to make wrong choices.

• Don’t give the relationship time to grow in a

healthy way.

• Keep looking for more emotional thrills and then

invite the curse of boredom into the

relationship, where everything normal starts to

feel boring.

• End up spending too much time with the one

you’re dating, and excluding your friends.

• Believe in the myth of love at first sight. There’s

no such thing. There’s good chemistry at first

sight, but not love at first sight. People don’t fall

in love, they fall in ditches.

Dangers of going too fast:

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