Okay. It's really funny to me that this is so hard for me to wrap my head around. Here is my understanding:
1. You spend time together individually with friends and/or an established partner, but not someone you're interested in being with (see, here I would have said dating, half the time we use it to describe an established relationship). 2. You get to know a potential partner within a group setting, off to the side at a friend's house or at a bar. 3. You repeat spending time with this person in those settings until you act on your attraction to whatever extent, but something physical. 4. Then this person becomes your partner by default unless you have a conversation to say otherwise, and then you spend time together individually.
Regarding 3: Is there a lot of kissing going on at people's houses, then? And does a relationship generally always begin by spending a whole night together, sex or not? That's the impression I'm getting.
And one more: What if you're at a bar with your friends and you meet someone you're interested in?
So basically...you just don't spend time with people you're interested in without friends around you. Is that accurate?
Re: I had a thought:
1. You spend time together individually with friends and/or an established partner, but not someone you're interested in being with (see, here I would have said dating, half the time we use it to describe an established relationship).
2. You get to know a potential partner within a group setting, off to the side at a friend's house or at a bar.
3. You repeat spending time with this person in those settings until you act on your attraction to whatever extent, but something physical.
4. Then this person becomes your partner by default unless you have a conversation to say otherwise, and then you spend time together individually.
Regarding 3: Is there a lot of kissing going on at people's houses, then? And does a relationship generally always begin by spending a whole night together, sex or not? That's the impression I'm getting.
And one more: What if you're at a bar with your friends and you meet someone you're interested in?
So basically...you just don't spend time with people you're interested in without friends around you. Is that accurate?