Relationship Review Point
August 26, 2008 by Greg
While visiting friends recently, they shared with me a dating pattern their roommate uses. She schedules regular reviews with scientific rigidity to evaluate the relationship. If she approaches a hard spot but it’s not a review point, she doesn’t prematurely end the partnership. Instead she chooses to work through the problems till the next review checkpoint.
Any thoughts on this? Does it sound like a logical way to keep a relationship strong or an overly methodic approach to dating?
I like it. I think for the first period of your relationship that’s a smart way to go, but after you’ve both committed and you’ve been together for whatever you deem long enough, they should ditch that plan. I like to see how things work out on there own personally… but if there is a rough patch early on, then I give it a certain amount of time (2 weeks or so), and when that time limit is up, I review where the relationship is and go from there. Not quite the same but has a similar quality. The whole scientific process seems a bit much, but if it works for her… To each his own!
that’s an interesting idea. In the past i stayed in a relationship a year after i first realized things were going sour. Who knows, if i’d done review points maybe i could have saved us both some headaches haha.
This is the dorkiest shit I’ve ever heard. If you want to be this anal/logical about it, you don’t need a relationship, you need a robot. “2ND BASE.. DOES NOT COMPUTE!!!!”
I do like my robot.
I think it’s a good idea… for women. Let’s face it, equality BS aside, women tend to be irrational, and can’t compartmentalize well. By keeping herself from making rash decisions based on one day’s fluctuation of emotion, she’s basically acting like a man. Men tend to act on relationship trends instead of singular occurrences of problems, and probably wouldn’t benefit from this method.