Sure-Fire Ways To Kill A Budding Romance

The rush of a new romance is an unparalleled high. We've all felt it at some point. The feeling that the world is indeed a beautiful place. Actually, when you become infatuated with someone, the neurotransmitters in your brain - dopamine mainly - trigger a feeling of buoyancy, elation, and a general feeling of blissful wellbeing. Of course, along with that high comes insecurity. And sometimes, that's enough to put the dampers on a budding romance, which is at a fragile stage as it is, even without your anxiety. Ok, so you're young, burdened by the proverbial biological clock, not to mention anxious matchmaking relatives. But that's no reason to make mistakes in the first few weeks, even months of a new beginning - which has not yet found the potential of being termed a 'relationship'. We asked a few women who've been there and done that, what NOT to do in a new romance.

Don't wonder where this is going: There's no easier way to kill the 'new romance' euphoria than anxiety pangs about where 'this' is leading? 'This' being the beginnings of what could be a lasting relationship. "Do yourself and the man a favour... give it time," says 28-year-old Sakshi Shukla, who, after two failed relationships, and a lot of pressure from her parents to 'settle down', scared away two potential 'good guys' because of her constant anxiety about whether five dates meant a possibility of 'happily ever after'. "I asked myself, and unfortunately the guy too, more than once, in just two months, whether we were compatible, whether he thought we were heading somewhere... I didn't allow the two of us to just discover for ourselves if we fit," she says. Just enjoy the many firsts a romance offers... the rest will work itself out, if it's destined to.