But what is an ideal relationship? That depends on what phase of life and mentality you are in. Are you both at the exploring phase, spending one on one time with various other people so you develop an understanding of what is out there? are you in the "I value stability" stage - stability meaning, no other person from my gender can do the same things I do to you stage? This seems to be brought in the picture a little early in my opinion. Expectations like that before the exploring stage will deprive certain personality types of the order they have to go through to make sese of the world. They understand there is uncertainty and want to limit it with experience. Sope people don't believe they need experience, they just need stability in another person. Break that and bye bye- regardless of your needs. People evaluate you based on their perceptions of expectations. And these are not
universal which makes dating/ relationships so confusing. Realize you may need to say, "I like you, but

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