Anticipation ...
My best advice is always the same. Don't approach it as it as a major life changing experience.
Definitely, because anticipation raises the bar too high for women (and men) sometimes.
Anticipation is one thing when you've experienced something and know what a lover is capable of.
It's completely different when you don't.
Its meeting a new acquaintance, not proposing. Sometimes people make things more complicated than they are.
Definitely, because anticipation drives predisposition and assumed action-reaction.
It rarely works that way, and can completely skew your entire approach towards someone.
Everyone should concentrate on making a good friend of someone before getting in so deep.
Definitely, because I fell in love with my wife (to be) as my best friend well before anything else.
I never thought, not even once, "Whoa! I can't wait to have those tits wrapped around my cock, and I hope she gives head at the same time!"
Yes, I noticed her apple-hourglass, but just noticed that her body was compatible with my physical preference.
Not that I was imaging myself being intimate with her before we were.
A few weeks later, after we had become very close, she went down on me and made me pass out, before I even realized what she was up to.
Now talk about surprise!
The best love is left to surprise, not predisposition, let alone what drives you before it happens.
Because it rarely happens as you think it will, and in my case, I'm glad I didn't even think it would happen any different than it did.