These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

Okay, I want you to imagine you have a good friend or even a potential romantic partner.

And it's a new relationship and you're really enjoying their company.

And so you hang out for a while, you know, going out every now and then.

Again, could be romantic, could be a friendship.

And let's just say that after hanging out for a while, they say, hey, I want to take you

to this place.

We're going to have some food.

And it's just a little get together between some work buddies and myself. I'd love to take you there.

And you say, okay, that sounds good. You know, we're hanging out. You're thinking to yourself, we're

in a good time. Why not? Let's do that. And it's no big deal. And then you get there and sit through

a two-hour multi-level marketing meeting. And I'm not putting down MLMs, although I do have a

problem with them. But if you're in one and it works for you, totally,

that's great. That's awesome. Do your thing. But this actually happened to a person, my ex,

actually one of my ex-girlfriends, my first long-term relationship. She told me that she met

this guy. This is before we met. And he took her to an MLM event.

I think it was Amway or something.

I'm not sure.

But she told me that she felt this huge betrayal.

They were friends.

He was kind to her and he was appearing to be wanting a relationship with her. But his goal, at least

in that moment, was to get her into his downline. If you're not familiar with that, it's basically

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