Taking things slow 🐌
Taking things slow is highly crucial if you want a healthy, lasting relationship. It's very important that you ask yourself a lot of questions during the beginning in what you want in a significant other and observing that person. Phase two is the longest part of taking things slow because it's the trust building stage. You're not correcting them when something go wrong every time, which can be difficult if you have a lot of past trauma, but it's important that you remain silent at times during this particular part. What you're doing is seeing if this person is trustworthy and if their words match their actions. It's important that you aren't intimate or at least keep it low, so you can actually put in the work to build a solid foundation for the relationship. This is probably one of the hardest things for people in 2023 cause people are obsessed with sex and crave it too strongly. You need to set that boundary in the beginning. It makes it easier to decide if you want a long-term relationship with this person or not and figure out what you are. From there the both of you can decide what is next.
