Welcome to Comparing Notes. I'm Allie from Finding Mr. Haidt. And I'm Talia from dating intentionally.

We are teaming up to support you beyond the early dating stages and through

the different stages of a new relationship. Yes, and we both have a ton of experience going on

lots of dates that actually led to getting into long-term relationships. And we're excited to share

our wisdom with you to help you avoid the pitfalls and anxiety spirals along the way.

This first episode in our three-part series is going to cover the first three-months of a relationship. You'll learn what to expect, how to navigate common challenges that come up, and more. And then in parts two and three, we're going to go into the three-to-six-month range and everything leading up to the year mark. I'm so excited to get into this with you, Allie. Same. when you said you said you wanted to do a series, I'm like, we need to talk about this date, for the first year of relationships, because there's so much on early dating, but not a lot to navigate this stage. Very true. As somebody who was like sort of recently hit that year mark and like was kind of out there looking, there't a lot there's so much about dating and not a lot

about this yes okay so we have a lot to get into today we're going to talk about our experiences and

we have some polls we have some questions and we're going to share kind of the core tips that we want

you to take away in the first three months of a relationship. And we asked both

of our audiences on Instagram, which stage of a relationship is the hardest? So, Allie, what of

these three stages does your audience think is the hardest? Mine was an even split. How many people

answered in your rules? Oh, I didn't write that down. Usually it's like a couple thousand.

But it was like 33% first three months, 31% three to six months and a slight lead

36% nine months to a year.

That was different than mine.

So for me, 49% said the first three months and then it kind of just, and the lowest one was the,

the last stage, the nine to one year mark, nine months to one year. Interesting. That's so weird.

And I would say 2,000 people answered my poll. Yeah, I'm curious. I wonder like what the split is.

We didn't do this poll, but I'm curious of the people answering if they're at a certain stage

currently. Right. Maybe if you have more people in your audience that are like in the dating throws, then maybe they think that this first part is harder. Well, I think this part when we're going to get into it is the most fragile. So it's so true. Yeah. It's when things are shakiest. Yeah. So to kick things off, I'd love to know what your experience was like in this stage with Johnny. Like how would you describe that first three months together? Yeah. So if you are, if you don't know, Johnny is my husband. We got married. We met on Hinge. And I would say after we became official, which was like about two months after we matched, things were kind of off to the races.

Like we were definitely leaning hard into that honeymoon phase, the lovey-dovey stuff.

We were seeing each other, I would say, like two to three times a week at this point.

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