The Biggest Mistakes We Make at the Beginning of Relationships

3. Premature Compromises. This refers to the adjustments you make when you come into contact with a new partner. Mainly, this happens for two reasons: 1. Compromise is necessary because you are not sufficiently compatible. Your partner is too different from you, and you have to sacrifice your own interests, otherwise your relationship will have no future. 2. You compromise because you desperately need love and want to achieve reciprocity at any cost. Your partner may not want you to give up your 'self' at all, but you are so afraid of disappointing them that you mislead them yourself. You go to great lengths to portray yourself as the 'perfect partner'.