The start of a relationship is very important.  How you meet, what you say, the things you tell the other person about you. But its usually when everyone is on their best behaviour.  You’re both feeling eachother out, not only are you obsverving, but you are allowing the other person to see you.  You dont want to hand yourself over to them on a silver platter, but yet you have to give them enough information to know you also.  Its about communicating and enjoying the person you have in front of you, one step at a time, and not jumping into the future.  And most importantly, seeing if they follow through with their actions over time.  Its not something that happens over night.  Feelings change and grow and friendship can turn in to the love of your life, or the love of your life could only be friendship.  That is why you need to spend time with the person.  There are many different types of relationships, and many levels of love.  You can love a friend, you can love a lover, but there is only one special type of feeling you have with that person you want to spend your life with, or that you want to spend your relationship with exclusively.   The beginning is precident, because at the beginning you are learning each others patterns of life, lifestyle and priorities.  At the beginning of a relationship you are looking to see if that person is who they say they are.

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