By Laura Snyder

Some of us (okay, mostly women) worry about The Relationship. But overanalyzing makes every minor pothole in the road to everlasting love look like a bottomless crater.

Some problems just aren’t a big deal. Are you wasting your time fretting over these?

You’re Hated By Friends and Family

Okay, so her friends think she can do better. Or his mother doesn’t adore you. The important thing is that your sweetheart does. Assuming you’re dating a grown-up, you shouldn’t need the approval of kin and cronies to make the relationship work.

You still ogle eye candy

As long as neither of you are acting on your second-long lust of the stranger walking down the street, there’s no need to call your coupledom quits. You’re in a relationship, you’re not blind.

You Had First-Date Nookie

There are worst things than having gotta-have-it-now chemistry! Many a happy, stable relationship had an accelerated start. If it really makes you uncomfortable later, you can always back off. But don’t assume that first-night nookie is a death sentence for your future relationship.

You Met Online

And so have millions of other couples. You think this is somehow less appealing than meeting the love of your life at some bar, drunk out of your mind? Some of the best relationships happen with both parties are really out there looking for love. And the Internet has helped make that happen.

You’re not having sex

Don’t panic if the bedsheets have cooled since you first hooked up. Even Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes don’t do it every night. It’s not that you no longer find each other desirable, it’s just that you’ve got other stuff going on. As long as neither of you feel slighted by the other (or are getting it somewhere else), it’s perfectly natural.