What is considered Dating and what is considered a Relationship? When and how does it progress from one to the other?

Pure Curiosity

I think it's when you go back for seconds.

Or thirds or fourths?

You are mistaking it for the buffet there spanky :-)

I think it's when both ppl agree to no longer date anyone else but the other:)
N both decide to take the relationship a step further. Or u put a ring on it lol

sounds good

IF YA HAVE TO ASK..........I BELIEVE WE ALL KNOW.....AND IF YA DON'T KNOW....

A fella can always dream. can't he?

I guess I don't have my brainy hat on

when dating has moved from dating to a relationship . if you are going out or dating someone on a regular basis and you and your partner agree to date only one another , then you are in a commited relationship. and no longer just dating.

and the next step would be to get off the dating site

Nope, forums r always still on

Sorry, was not including the forums as in the dating site

When your perceptions and rationalizing tell you it's "changed."

The distinction is in your head.

It's not really an external phenomenon, for practical purposes.

So...whenever you want to see it as having changed.

Your relationship starts right around you say "hello" to someone for the very first time.
As soon as you see them as an individual rather than just a faceless member of the crowd, background noise, you are in a relationship with them.

IMO this is kinda like asking "when does reading a book become reading a story?"
It's always a story, it's always a book. It's only your perception and personal desire for a distinction that changes, mostly for your own emotional benefit.


Whatever your insecurities tell you which is which so you can feel you have understanding and therefore control over it, or if/when communication in the relationship, or your own personal communication abilities suck, and you need some sort of designation to tell you how you are supposed to feel and behave.

Some people like to pay lip service to "be yourself" and if/when they are ever really "themselves" then they are the same whether they are "dating" or in a "relationship."
If they aren't really themselves, needing to adopt different facades for different situations, then they need to know the "rules" and expectations that differ between "dating" and a "relationship" so they can start acting accordingly, developing a new facade for that "relationship."

Other than that, IMO, the only time the distinction really needs to be made is when there are legal considerations.
e.g. "that's my husband in a coma in the hospital, let me in, I make their medical decisions," vs. "I dated that chick with cancer in the hospital once, 10 years ago, can I go in to see her?"


Depends on how you want to see it.
It's mostly in your imagination.
Otherwise it's a complex study of different chemicals in the body that you are never aware of being produced or stopped or inhibited or supported or mixing, and is about as interesting as determining the chemical composition of water, how it's effected by gravity, air particulates, temperature, and light, rather than just enjoying a rainbow.

"perception" and "personal Desire" sounds good to me.

You no longer dating... and have moved into a committed relationship..
When... he or she lets you have one drawer in the dresser drawer in the bedroom.... when one or the other passes wind or burps loudly in front of the other..lol...
.. when after spending a night together hitting each other's bells and whistles..wink wink.. you don't feel the need to get up and go back to your place immediately.... but you want to stay and cuddle...

Smart man....I think you hit it on the head.

great question!
great answers.

When she starts leaving toiletries at your place.

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