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Hear me out:

The only, absolutely only reason why people don't generally marry on the first date is to figure out whether they DON'T fit together.

So if you manage to figure out that the relationship is not going to work out before you get into real commitments (kids, mortgage, ...) you successfully avoided trouble.

I see it so often that people think that dating is already a strong commitment and that ending a dead-end relationship is a failure.

There is no shame in realizing the relationship is going nowhere and ending it.

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[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're not wrong but it still feels bad.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

This is why it feels bad. Only one of you didn't think this was the right partner to reach that eventuality. It's not wrong to mourn the loss of a future you believed was assured.