How to know if you're dating "The One"

Sometimes you’re absolutely sure, only to watch what should have been the perfect relationship explode in your face a while later. Sometimes you’re unsure, and spend unnecessary time in a holding pattern, or much worse, end up destroying a relationship with someone who was the one, but is now just a figment of a vaguely uncertain past. Perhaps you’re not in a relationship at all, but just wondering how on earth, when the time to choose arrives, anyone can possibly make the right choice with so many factors at play. It is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make, and never a matter to be taken lightly. It also involves another person, and even at their best, you’re holding on to a snapshot of them at a specific point in time— as if the person who is perfect now will never change later. So how does anyone get this right? Is it all accidental? Is there a secret? Is it luck? Is everyone faking it? Is everyone naive? Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way first. Or maybe som

Sometimes you’re absolutely sure, only to watch what should have been the perfect relationship explode in your face a while later. Sometimes you’re unsure, and spend unnecessary time in a holding pattern, or much worse, end up destroying a relationship with someone who was the one, but is now just a figment of a vaguely uncertain past. Perhaps you’re not in a relationship at all, but just wondering how on earth, when the time to choose arrives, anyone can possibly make the right choice with so many factors at play. It is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make, and never a matter