If you find this hard to believe, then imagine how seriously you'd take your younger self if ey were to talk about how to be in a good relationship, before having had a significant other.

Most of my dating life has been the process of figuring out how to take my younger self's wisdom and actually implement it. I'd actually trust my younger self more than my current self - she didn't care about dating, and thus didn't have this annoying set of emotions getting in the way.

I seem to be rather unusual in my dating life, but a quick look at the species seems to reveal that hormones and emotions are INCREDIBLE at clouding judgment when it comes to relationships.... In this, at least, I seem to actually manage to have a normal problem.