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Aug 10
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What's the real reason you keep getting ...

PAUL COLAIANNI
About this episode
Sure, some partners are toxic or dysfunctional. But what if they're not that at all but just not that bright? What if you are trying to squeeze something out of a partner that simply doesn't exist? Does that make automatic incompatibility? I go through deep exploration of that in today's episode. 
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