#serial dating

Arya scowls at her sister before turning to Gendry and then sighing heavily, “She’s spying on me, isn’t she?”

Gendry holds both hands up in innocence while laughing, “I’m not in this. I’m just serving drinks like a good employee of this fine establishment.”

"Hopefully in a better place."

I (29M) am with my girlfriend (28F) for three and a half years now. We have a good relationship, we get along well and care each other a lot and are very comfortable together. When we first started going out, I fell in love harder and faster than ever before, and was crazy about her and she felt the same. Now of course, I know these feelings don’t last forever and neither would I expect them too. However it has faded a lot more than I would have expected over these years on my end. We’ve had some issues in our relationship, but it has gotten much better now on both ends and I can confidantly say she is the most loving and caring person I have ever been with. I have never been with anyone this loving, which sucks as I feel like I struggle to give the same amount of love back, which she feels as well. I think my dating history is relevant here. I am a serial monogamist, and have been in long term relationships almost all of my adult life, with maybe a year of being single over all. I really enjoyed those times, and I do tend to look at them with rose tinted goggles. Also thinking about those times makes me restless, and makes me feel like I haven’t had enough time being single. I tend to go through periods where I yearn to be single again, go wild, but eventually these feelings tend to die down a bit, and then come back hard again. I tend to be jealous of all my single friends, and I miss having fun as a single with them. Being in relationships is all I know, and I think a large portion of my self worth stems from them. This is an issue for me, feeling like I haven’t had the chance to really develop by myself and get to know who I am when I’m alone and also get to be comfortable by myself. However, I don’t like hurting people and I love to love, and paradoxically it seems like not confronting these feelings over the years has made it more difficult to love, creating a sort of block on my emotions. I’ve had these feelings in past relationships as well, and I feel like ignoring it and hoping it goes away has only made it worse. I am starting to think that I can’t keep going like this, but also I don’t want to get rid of something good in my life just because of some selfish desire, which I will probably regret. Does anyone have any advice in how I can navigate this, and possibly talk about it with my partner in the least hurtful way possible?

What would you rather do when you come out of a wrong relationship? Sit in the nest for a while and heal or find the next available 'ship' and jump in? Find out one woman's thoughts on serial dating, and how important it is to guard your heart.

For me, serial dating is much more than being involved romantically with multiple partners at the same time(c’mon guys, this is serial cheating).

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It is about dating simultaneously without intermission; meaning, immediately you are out of a relationship, you are in another even before your girlfriends can digest the fact that you just…