‘You Are Not Their Parent’: 19 Users Spill the Beans on Lessons They Learned From Their First Relationship

Let's be real, dating is hard - and more often than not, it'll take you a few goes to get it right! A good way to cope with the struggle is by reframing: use every dating experience as a learning opportunity, and it will bring you closer to finding the guy or gal that's right for you. It's all in the lessons you get along the way, right? Thanks to Reddit, we've compiled some of the very best ones that people say they learned from their very first relationships – the big things that they later looked back on and said, 'Yep, good thing I got out of there! Next time will be different.' So while we're sure we'll keep on learning by doing, as we're sure to keep making mistakes in our own dating lives, maybe in reading this, we'll figure out some things without the necessary heartbreak. A girl can dream, am I right?

Posted by Yael Palmon

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