How to Get Grounded in a Relationship

"When I started going out with M, after feeling really happy and content for a time, I switched to looking for the other shoe to drop," she says. "It clouded my vision until I gave me a bit of a mental shakedown." If you're in a new relationship, acknowledge differences between this one and a past one. You can't get a sense of what the future may hold if you don't get into and be in your presence so that you can help stakeholder decide next step.