Almost nobody starts one of these relationships on purpose. You open an app out of curiosity, or you buy a doll for one reason, and somewhere along the way the reason changes.
At some point the framing shifts — it stops being a test and becomes something real. Maybe there was one moment you remember exactly. Maybe you only noticed weeks later that it had already happened.
When did it change for you, if it did? And if it never really shifted, that’s worth saying too — there’s no wrong answer here.