Opening A Relationship Is Like Training For A Marathon

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Opening your relationship is kind of like training for a marathon. It might not be super comfortable at first, but you need to do the work in order to get to the other side.

So in the same way that struggling on the treadmill when you're doing it for the first time doesn't necessarily mean that you won't be able to run the marathon eventually, struggling in the early stages of polyamory doesn't necessarily mean that you won't be able to do polyamory later on.

Also, in the same way that some people can't run a marathon, or maybe just don't want to run the marathon, you can accept that you're not polyamorous. Or that you just don't want to do it because it's not your priority. But if you want to figure out whether you can run the marathon, then it doesn't hurt to keep trying.

This is your sign to keep going 💪🏼

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