Thinking about dating and relationships has become exhausting in the post-modern, or understood by all, contemporary. Not only that life is, however, very short, but we must also try to search, compare, change and suffer to find someone who can, maybe could meet and satisfy our expectations and live together on long term.
Not looking for ideals, not dreaming heroes or superb stories, but simply hope for happy and healthy relationships. And yet, the leap from a date to a relationship, and in another, and in another becomes increasingly deleterious and erases the actually time available to us which we can dedicate to a single person, potentially suitable or compatible with us. I think that love is always on delay.
I once knew a guy who told me I cannot have a relationship with him because he was "emotionally handicapped". And, looking around, everyone who has "enjoyed" this failure too often can make him right. We lose days analyzing the signals from the guy on who we have a crush, because the rules say so, do not let too much at first, play the approachable cards, because otherwise you may look desperate, waiting for another good weeks to see a positive sign for us and for months after trying to return from another missed attempt of "cohabitation".
Sometimes we lose valuable years by investing in dating and relationships that do not bring us any benefit emotionally or spiritually, sometimes even physically, and get out with lack of pride, paralyzed and powerless. And the biggest disadvantage is lack of time. If you encountered "the special one" over the age of forty, you still got more than ten years to enjoy that person and your life together.
What do you think? It's important to spend as much time with the beloved or time does not matter, but the intensity?