u/Fableglyph_5

I always have trouble knowing when a bad session is just a bad session and when it's actually telling me something.

One rough workout is easy to ignore. Maybe I slept badly, ate weird, had a stressful day, whatever.

But if the same lifts feel awful three or four sessions in a row, I start wondering whether I should reduce volume, change the exercise, take an easier week, or just stop overthinking it and keep going.

The annoying part is that sometimes session five suddenly feels great again and all the panic was for nothing.

Do you have any kind of rule for this? Like a certain number of bad workouts before you adjust the program, or do you mostly judge it by feel and whether your numbers are actually moving backwards?

I've been seeing someone for about six weeks and we've gone on five dates so far. I like him, conversation is easy, and in person everything feels pretty natural.

The one thing starting to annoy me is planning.

He'll text something like "Want to do something Saturday?" I'll say yes and ask what he has in mind. He says he's flexible and asks me to choose.

So I suggest a restaurant. Too far. Mini golf? Not really his thing. Drinks somewhere? He'd rather do something during the day. Then after I've thrown out three or four ideas he'll say "I'm honestly good with whatever."

At that point I usually just keep suggesting things until something survives.

I don't mind planning sometimes, but I'm starting to feel like the social secretary for dates he originally asked me on.

I don't want to turn this into some weird test where I refuse to suggest anything and wait him out. What's a normal way to shift some of the planning back to him without making a small issue feel bigger than it is?

Not different powers. Different *attitudes* toward magic.

I want one person who grew up thinking magic is basically plumbing: useful, normal, occasionally annoying. And the other person still stops mid-conversation because the candles lit themselves and that's INSANE.

Or one character who treats their power like a craft they've spent years practicing, while their love interest thinks using magic for mundane stuff is lazy as hell.

I feel like once both characters are established as magical, they often become weirdly casual about the same things. The differences are usually about who is stronger or what type of power they have.

But beliefs around magic could tell you so much about them. Is it private? Religious? Embarrassing? Something you show off? Do you use it to heat bathwater or would that feel disrespectful?

And yes, I absolutely want petty couple arguments about this.

Forget "our kingdoms are at war" for a minute. Give me "you summoned a demon to avoid walking downstairs."