Opt-Out of Potential

Black Girl Burnout

Kelley Bonner

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 762 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Today I want to talk to you about 5 ways to successfully Opt-Out of falling in love with a person’s potential. Instead, you are going to learn how to begin opting into attracting healthy relationships. If you are tired of being treated poorly 95%, but still hanging around because the relationship has potential, this episode is for you. Leaning too heavily on a person’s potential can cause us to start projecting onto them the qualities that we desire instead of accepting them for who they are. Let’s talk about it. Our Sponsors: * Check out Super.com and use my code super.com/credit for a great deal: https://super.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.
0:11.6	Today we are going to talk about opting out of falling in love with potential.
0:17.6	If that resonates for you, this is your episode, episode just that phrase falling in love with potential
0:24.5	so many of us in relationships understand that because we've done it and honestly there are many
0:35.4	articles that say maybe 80% of the reason why people's relationships don't last
0:40.7	is because they've fallen in love with the potential of the person and not the reality.
0:48.0	This episode is going to break down what that means in day-to-day practice and how we end up
0:53.1	falling in love with people's potential
0:54.7	and then provide five ways to adjust and to opt out of falling in love with potential
1:02.2	and opt into attracting worthy and ready folks into your world.
1:11.0	Falling in love with potential is a tale as old as time.
1:15.4	Most people want to assume the best in people.
1:18.6	And having a healthy level of optimism in a relationship is really key to having a happy one.
1:25.7	But we also may let our own insecurities, our own past color.
1:32.4	What is the reality that is before us? When we fall in love with potential, we will take the least
1:43.7	qualified individual and start projecting onto them the qualities of who
1:49.5	they can be. Maybe it's the fact that sporadically that person has these beautiful and credible
1:57.1	moments of kindness. Or early on, we see all these behaviors that are really great.
2:03.3	And we just think, okay, if they could only keep doing X, if they could only stay being the
2:12.1	great person I see once in a while.
2:14.7	And we stick around hoping that that person will become the best version of
2:20.2	themselves if we just love them a little more, if we just maintain a little more patience. Or maybe we
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