Dating can be a delicate dance. One wrong move and your partner can swing away from you. This is why relationships aren’t fairytales and require a large degree of work to sustain them. When you’re with the right person, they’re always worth it though. But no matter how much we want to love our partners better, we may not always understand where to start.

Highly sensitive people (HSP), for instance, face many challenges in the realm of dating, because their partners don’t always know how to approach them. Whether you’ve been dating your highly sensitive partner for a while now, or you’re just getting started, here are 5 tips for dating a highly sensitive person (HSP).