Relationships and Age

[durendal]

You see, this is what courtship is for. It is like a testing period to see if two people get along enough to start a relationship. Don't mind about the fine print or whatever, just see how you two would be able to cope with each other as you go along. Of course you can't divulge every little aspect of your life in one go, it's how the other person will react when you give out a small part of yourself. This interaction is what gives you memories of each other, and in trying times, these are the memories that will save your relationship. Many young couples just hook up or get married too soon, only to realize they are incompatible with each other. These people are missing the deep understanding required to make a relationship work. But like I previously said, no relationship is a sure thing. It is a gamble and you need to have the initiative to make it work.

I am not an expert in relationships, but I pride myself as someone who has managed to salvage and fix a few deteriorating relationships or two.

Not to stray too much off of my original point, you cannot force two people together if their interaction together doesn't click. If you like someone, you can't force them to like you, but you can convince them, given the right circumstances that is.

[*Steel]

Yeah there is definatly not enough courtship or groundwork happening these days. People generaly take it too fast and then run out of steam, realising they arn't as compatable as they once thought (or didn't think) Relationships dont have the level of respect I would like. Everything is just a bit too casual. Ok for some but not for me.

And I think we all want someone to share our intests with, but I'm in that same boat of my friends not liking the same stuff I do. Its a bit harder to make new friends these days.

I wont lie and say there arn't a whole bunch of things I dont miss terrably about not being in a solid relationship but I'm not ready for a new one and alot of the women I know just arnt what I'm for.