“Links” panel doesn’t support relative links?

I want to link to Pages with relative links, to enable portability of the blog to another domain. (coming up in the near future)

Background: I have WP installed in the root directory, ie there is no directory named “wordpress”. Permalinks are active. I’ve already read a billion posts in this forum that don’t quite answer this question:

When I use the “Links” panel in the WP Dashboard, it will not allow relative links to the root. In other words, if I type in the link:

/page/

or

../page/

WP converts the link to:

https:///page/

or

https://../page

which is not helpful at all.

it works wonderfully if the Pages are in a subdirectory, but not at all when WP is installed at the root.

Any suggestions???

(Of course, I could use absolute links, but when I move the blog I will be doing a lot of retyping.)