In this stage of our relationship, I see planning rather than passion as what we must first share.

He also compares the stages of their relationship with chapters in a book saying:

Nicodemou said Leah is not thinking about marriage at that stage of their relationship.

Russell and Peter are in the very early stages of their relationship and are unsure whether even to attempt to build it.

A very nice offer, Your Grace-but at this stage of our relationship, not a very trustworthy one.

Yet this experience may provide parents and children with an opportunity to get reacquainted and begin a new stage of their relationship as adults.

From what he understood, Layla's self-esteem when it came to body image had suffered greatly in the initial stages of her relationship with Sam.

At that stage of their relationship, it suited Tom and Linda to maintain a running pseudodisagreement on matters spiritual.

As the widower later wrote, the disease was probably caused by an abortion procedure she had undergone at an early stage of their relationship.

We will not, in any case, accept their being relegated to an earlier stage of their relationship with it.