Hey friends it's Jamie Grace and welcome to wait it out the podcast all about dating

relationships and other things worth waiting for I know I say this a lot but I think I'm the most

excited about this question so far because this is the kind of stuff that like me and my friends we like

sit up like talking like no he did it and I yeah that was dramatic but I just

get really pumped about this question it comes via Instagram and S wants to know how do you know when a relationship is official.

Oh my goodness that is a good question.

Now I'm presuming she's talking about a romantic relationship, not a platonic one, so we're

going to be talking about this in the context of a romantic

relationship and how do you know when it's official now in my personal opinion I don't think

that there's like a rule for like okay this many dates and now it's official or this many dates and

now you are you know exclusive you can't see anybody else or whatever like I mean I

don't I don't think it's like okay two dates now okay no three and a half

to no no two dinners and a coffee.

You know, I don't think it works like that exactly,

but I will say that the first few dates,

typically two, three, four dates

can kind of still be getting to know someone a little bit

depending on what the dates are because some of those dates might be group dates or

they might be a coffee date, something like that. But as far as my personal convictions like most of you guys

most of you guys know that I didn't really go on second dates

or third dates until, well my only third date

was with my husband but I just feel like you, you know a good

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