Romantic Relationships

With Valentine's Day coming soon I thought we could look at some multi-word verbs and expressions for describing the different stages of a relationship.

The first stage is meeting your Mr or Miss Right. Perhaps you will notice them one night when you are out on the town. You will look across the room and see them and perhaps you will want to get their attention or let them know that you fancy them. You may even start eyeing them up. If they also look at you with interest you may go up to them and start talking to them or chatting them up. If you are lucky (and not jinxed!), you might hit it off, in which case you could ask them to go out on a date. Alternatively, you might meet your Mr or Miss Right on a blind-date set up by a friend.

Once the first date is over and you decide to continue seeing each other you can say that you are going out together. If things continue to go smoothly and you have built up a steady relationship, you might decide to move in together and share a home or perhaps you will get engaged and then married first.

Hopefully the relationship will be long and happy and you won't cheat on your partner, or be cheated on! If this does happen, it is likely that you will decide to break / split up or even worse your partner will dump you! Although, you would deserve it! However there is always the chance that you can both forgive and forget and get back together. Some people do live happily ever after (or eat partridges as the Spanish say).