Its five key characteristics:

- trusting morally ambiguous people
- refraining yourself from changing people who clearly urgently need to be fixed; loving people for the mess they are
- having transparent communications with liars and judges
- admitting your real delusional expectations to resentful people not hired for that job
- weather storms with the wimpiest sailors

Something very hard to find on Tinder.
Jane: What are you doing?
John : I'm shopping for an authentic relationship online.
Jane: Gosh... better look for a needle in a haystack!
by CharlesM January 4, 2015
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