Dating Desires And Expectations
The passage of time reveals partners’ characteristics more objectively. The idealization of early dating and the thrill of early sexual relations tend to wear off as people come to know each other better. While just about everyone is shown to have redeeming characteristics, some partners are revealed as unreliable, uncommunicative or unable to reciprocate trust and intimacy. Some people become hurt and let down when their idealized prince or princess charming turns out to be just another imperfect human being, but others find ways to stay connected to their imperfect partners such that their relationship endures and grows with time. It is a truism that most dating relationships fizzle out into nothing and that only a relative minority will endure. However, people by and large very much want to find a relationship that will endure, and will endure a number of dating relationships that don’t turn into anything substantial in order to find one that will.
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