I really believe assuming exclusivity is a very dangerous thing.

You just don't know until you know, until you have the conversations with somebody. Hey everyone this episode is a rewind episode one from the archives. I think you're going to enjoy it let me know what you think

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What is it about the early stages that makes it so difficult to have the conversation about where it's going.

Let's talk about that for a moment

because that is at the crux of this, right?

This is a difficult conversation to have.

Hey, where is this going?

And it's difficult for a reason.

It's difficult because we think we might come across

too intense, that we might suddenly seem like we're sucking the fun out of the situation.

You know, we were having a romantic time, it was fun, it was exciting, and now all of of a sudden it's almost like we're worried

we've become high maintenance we're worried that we're giving away our

power if we suddenly start talking about commitment or what we want because we're being honest,

we're being honest about the fact that we like them enough to want it to go somewhere.

So it can feel like we're giving up our power in that moment. We may not know how to have the

conversation and importantly we're really afraid of getting an answer we don't want. And that is at the heart of all of this. If we knew, if we were guaranteed that when we said,

hey, you know, where do you see this going?

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