
What they don’t warn you about your third relationship is that it’s sometimes the hardest one of all. That’s why the third relationship is always such a shock.

And real compatibility is not always something you can predict. Your second relationship really teaches you that attraction, infatuation, obsession… it isn’t love. And just because you have a lot in common and someone is everything you always thought your significant other would be doesn’t mean you’ll actually get along. You don’t understand that love isn’t compatibility, and compatibility? It matters. You become indecisive, you remain in denial. What they don’t warn you about your second relationshipis that just because someone claims to love you more than anything doesn’t mean you’re right for each other. That’s what makes the second relationship so appealing at first. Most people break their expectations through a slew of people who flake, half-commit, betray and earn their mistrust. Not everyone has the kind of high school relationship that you see in the movies. What they don’t warn you about your first relationshipis that it’s often not a relationship at all. Sometimes, we have to cycle through many relationships to learn one of those lessons. Sometimes, our feelings can betray us, and we can end up treating a teacher like a soulmate. But what most people don’t realize is that these relationships aren’t always singular. It’s true that our first love dispels our myths about fairytales, and that our second shows us to ourselves, and that our third is often unexpected. Kate Rose explained that each happens for a specific reason, the first to teach you about your expectations, the second to teach you about who you really are, and the third to teach you about what it really means to love another person. They say that you only really have three loves in your life.
