The more I look at lifestyle relationships, the more I recognize they are really no different than non-lifestyle relationships.

My perspective is that two inexperienced people can learn and grow with each other... BUT, all too many times, these relationships will fail and it's the second or third person you meet who benefits most from what you learned with the first girl/boyfriend.

That's why young love, though romantic, fails more often than not... sometimes quickly, sometimes after years of unhappy marriage.

I see those parallels in this conversation.