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family and friends?
Be aware of the way he/she behaves with your family and friends, especially if she/he
interrupts them, contradicts them, or behaves dismissively. If you feel you need to apologize or
explain her behavior to your family or friends, there's a problem there.
Are you realizing it's just become easier not to spend time with people you've loved for years,
rather than to make apologies or excuses?
Recognize your blindness to your partner's faults.
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Infatuation isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it can be necessary and good; however, it does make
one "temporarily insane" for the first part of a relationship. Sometimes our starry-eyed affection can
make us willfully close our eyes to warning signals, even though we really kind of know that our
friends and family have a point when they say they don't like this or that about the significant other.

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