how someone treats you the week youre run down with a cold and cant be your best self tells you more than ten perfect dates ever will.
just keep this in mind. the right person will check in with a "how are you feeling" text without making it a big thing, drop a takeaway round, send a film recommendation, give you space to rest without making you feel like youre letting them down. they wont need to be entertained while youre on the sofa with a temperature.
what they wont do is suddenly go quiet for the week, ask if youre still on for friday like they havent heard you, complain that you "havent been very fun lately," or rope you into a phone call you havent got the energy for and then sulk when you cut it short.
dating should be easy on the easy weeks, sure, but the real test is the weeks you cant carry the whole thing. if someone vanishes the moment youre not at full battery, move on, you deserve better.
submitted by