Let’s say you go on a hundred first dates. You might develop excellent first-date skills. You discover the perfect cozy wine bar. Or you perfect the story of that time you got lost backpacking in Nepal. But what happens on dates five through seven? Or date twenty-five? Or fifty-five? You don’t know, because you haven’t gotten there. And if you keep dating people for three months and breaking up with them, you’ll never get your reps in. You’ll lack the experience of truly getting to know someone, of seeing the face of the person you love lit up by birthday candles or streaked with tears because
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