Hmmmm, I'm not sure I can give a set time limit. Everyone's different & some will be more compatible than others. If I knew it wasn't the love of me life I'd just enjoy it until it was more bother than fun. Given my limited attention span, that'd be about 3 months.

If its still dating, now is a good time. More time to finding the more perfect one!

7 days

I don't have a time limit set, but when the bad times start to outweigh the good ones, then its time to move on for me.

All depends on what you mean by imperfect. If all hes doing is not tying his shoes you can fix that. If hes a cheating whoring violent drunk. "RUN" for your life and don't look back!

Hey, Jadey! To me, as long as the person is trying to better themselves, there is little need to divorce myself from them (of course, that is also assuming that I didn't hook up with someone who has deepset emotional or mental issues to start with). I have to make sure that my expectations are realistic, so I don't expect the problem to become SOLVED, I merely expect the problem to be acknowleged and worked on. For me, they key was learning to differentiate between average, every day problems from those stemming from various pathologies. Once I got that, it was very smooth sailing, indeed. You're very bright, so I won't go into detail on this unless you ask me for clarification. Abuse (in it's many forms) and Addictions are not my thing. I've tried to be a loving partner with someone who had an addiction (and was therefore emotionally abusive), but I admit, I didn't do so well. Addicts are not big on taking responsibility for their actions (duh!). Expecting them to do so is unrealistic. It's asking an "abnormal" person (for lack of a better word) to produce normal results. All that does is frustrate all parties and add to the problem. As long as the person is TRYING to do better, my stay with them will last indefinitely. +5

I don't think the "time" thing is as significant as the incidents or encounters. I have felt the need to end at least one very soon. I could see the "writing on the wall". When everything I did was criticized as being not appropriate, selfish, or 'insensitive',...I could see it was not going to work.

I try for far to long, and always end up exhausted by the whole thing. Wish I could let go easier.