That sounds like a good plan, it sounds like you need to get out of your apartment for a while. I know it sometimes seems like everyone else has some secret to the perfect relationship, but actually I'm not sure that there's such thing as a 'normal' relationship. everyone just muddles along as best as they can, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't. It doesn't mean that you will never have a good relationship, just that you haven't found it yet.