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I think you should picture yourself in a relationship and ask yourself how much you'd confide in your significant other. Do they need to understand your situation entirely, or is it enough to be polite and patient, or even just okay with it? Are you better off relying only on your friends for support? Is it worth trying to conceal your stutter? I've never been in a real romantic relationship before, and I don't know the answer to these questions yet (or at least my perspective). But if a relationship does head in that direction I've already discussed personal things (including stuttering) with my closest friends and I have the language and rhetoric to extend that to a romantic partner if it seems fitting. There's this funny effect of vulnerability- I'm guessing you haven't, but try talking to a trusted friend about your stutter in-person and you might find yourself temporarily fluent. Or better, you might eventually be so fluent around them that you sometimes forget you stutter at all. And then turn around and ask yourself those questions because you'll have a pretty good idea of intimate trust by which you can measure potential or growing relationships against. And hopefully be just as much yourself with a romantic partner as you are around your friends. I hope. (I'm rambling because I'm also trying to figure all of this out as I go.)