how does everyone date before you lock in on a LI?

how do you prefer to play? i’m curious about the number of LIs people explore in the early days, like do you pick one route and don’t break rules with other characters or do you date around, break rules with multiple people and decide later who you want you main/final LI to be?

in my replaying, i find that i’ll go into the game with my main route already selected, for example, i just replayed with Taz in mind as my main LI but before we made it “official”, i basically had a love triangle with him and Matthias but didn’t really date anyone else outside of them. then once it came down to choosing, i chose Taz.

i’m interested to see how others play around with the all the choices and to see how i can mix/spice things up on my replays and try things i may be missing out on!