A new crush isn’t a person yet. It’s a trailer your brain edited together.

Early on you have a handful of clips and a lot of imagination, and your brain fills the gaps with whoever you were hoping to meet. The feeling is real. The person it is attached to is still mostly a draft, assembled from a laugh, a few messages, and how they looked walking away. Disappointment later is usually the trailer failing to match the film rather than the person doing anything wrong.

Spend time finding out boring things about them, how they handle being bored, tired, or wrong. Let the real one show up before you decide how you feel.