<human>: I'm in a wonderful relationship of 10 months with a man who is open-minded, affectionate, attractive, intellectually stimulating, fun to be around, communicative, trustworthy, *etc., etc.* I'm comfortable as hell when I'm with him and I think what we have is amazing. That being said...

I was browsing r/relationships as per usual, when I came across [this gem of an question by hellolily] on how to know if you're settling in a relationship:

>How do you know? If you were single right now, would you date your girlfriend or look for someone else?

Now this question REALLY made me think. If I was single right now and meeting my boyfriend for the first time, YES I would be interested in dating him... BUT I would also want to date other people casually for a while, not tie myself down, and just put off commitment to a relationship for a month or two, yunno?

Am I having commitment issues here? When we met and started dating, I had been actively "putting myself out there" with the intent of meeting new people and gaining relationship experience... I had been going on several first dates with different people in the meantime. But he stepped into my life, as incredible as he is, and I fell for him, *hard.* And FAST! We DTRed as exclusive a mere week after meeting in person for the first time (met online a couple weeks before that).

Knowing then what I know now (not anything specific to my relationship, just a general increase in maturity/patience/cautiousness I guess), if I could do it over I would never have jumped in so fast. But it hasn't negatively impacted our relationship or anything! Also, even IF I had kept things casual for a month or so and been dating other people, I'm still about 99% sure we would have ended up together and been just as happy. I just wish it had been different, and I can't put my finger on why. :(

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<bot>: I've done some growing up since my relationship started, and the person I am today would have taken things much slower at the outset than the old me did.