What was a foolish idea you once held about dating & relationships?

As an adolescent I thought dating as I aged would be less difficult because (presumably) people know themselves better and would be more comfortable in their skin as adults. Couldn't have been more wrong...the complexity increases.

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DDonde · 31-35, M

That things would just happen. That life was this track. You leave school, then you go to college, you meet a woman, get married, have kids, etc, etc.
I didn't really have a good sense of my necessary agency in all that.

AnonymouslyYours

This is such an overlooked essential: making life happen for ourselves.@DDonde

DDonde · 31-35, M

@AnonymouslyYours And if you don't take action, well it won't happen.