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"Today, a reader wonders if she should pull the plug on a perfectly nice relationship, just because she knows he&amp;#x27;s not The One. What do you think?Here&amp;#x27;s our sweet reader&amp;#x27;s question: What do you do when you&amp;#x27;re in a relationship that you know isn&amp;#x27;t going to turn into a &amp;#x27;forever&amp;#x27; situation but is good for the time being? Whether life plans will make it impractical in the future, you&amp;#x27;re not that compatible or you&amp;#x27;re just not THAT into him...you like him but know he&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;the one.&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m in college and not looking for &amp;quot;forever&amp;quot; yet, but I do have a nice boyfriend. I find myself between &amp;quot;why bother, I should end it before I get more attached&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s drag it out until we&amp;#x27;re sick of each other and the whole thing goes sour.&amp;quot; What do you think? Here&amp;#x27;s my answer: Good question! This is a tricky one to answer, since every relationship is different. But here&amp;#x27;s a good rule of thumb: Date him, fall in love with him, don&amp;#x27;t fall in love with him, do whatever you want--but always, always be honest with the guy. If you&amp;#x27;re not in love with him, or feel like you can&amp;#x27;t see a long-term future with him, tell him, and then he can decided if he&amp;#x27;s comfortable staying in the relationship, too. You don&amp;#x27;t want to lead him on. As for relationships that aren&amp;#x27;t on a five-year marriage plan? That&amp;#x27;s totally OK. Sometimes it&amp;#x27;s nice to date someone, simply because you enjoy their company, without looking too much toward the future, especially because you&amp;#x27;re so young. As long as you&amp;#x27;re honest with yourself and with him, it&amp;#x27;s fine to experiment, date different people, have serious relationships, get to know people, fall in love, fall out of love--and just learn about yourself, live life and see what happens! What do you think, dear readers? It&amp;#x27;s a toughie, right? Have you ever been in a relationship wasn&amp;#x27;t going anywhere? What happened? P.S. More reader&amp;#x27;s dilemmas, including &amp;quot;Can I date some who hates reading?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Help, I&amp;#x27;m a lesbian, but I&amp;#x27;m falling for a guy!&amp;quot; Photo: Superbomba"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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