Let’s all be honest here. The best part of a relationship is always the beginning. Yes, there are other amazing parts in the lifetime of relationship-hood, don’t get me wrong. The moment you realize you've fallen in love. The moment you realize this other person's happiness is more important than your own. The day he proposes. The day your first child is born. All the other good shit. And, yeah, I’m totally in awe of your parents who have been married for forty years and still seem to be madly in love; but if you were to ask them when the best part of their long-term romance took place, I’ll bet a billion dollars it wasn’t when they were eyeballs-deep in a pile of your dirty diapers or when they negotiating the price on their first house. Those things are the natural part of the long-term commitment you make to another person. The beginning? That isn't real life, not just yet. But hot damn, it's great. It’s that initial period of courtship: the small w...