{"id":300,"date":"2026-07-26T23:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/?p=300"},"modified":"2026-07-26T23:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:18:27","slug":"the-almost-relationship-tax-why-your-fallback-plan-costs-you-the-real-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"The Almost-Relationship Tax: Why Your Fallback Plan Costs You the Real One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!1mYE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!1mYE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!1mYE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!1mYE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!1mYE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:427,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:91824,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/psychologyofrelationships.substack.com\/i\/195578222?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!1mYE!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!1mYE!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!1mYE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!1mYE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08b0653f-08bb-4da1-8e70-aefd28740c40_640x427.heic 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"><em>You can\u2019t go both directions at once. You need to choose a path.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dating is full of people using seemingly smart strategies that are actually holding them back.<\/p>\n<p>There are two things every dater knows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>You don\u2019t want to end up alone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>It\u2019s good to have options.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So you make sure you have a relationship insurance plan. You make sure you have fallback partners and\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyofrelationships.substack.com\/p\/the-almost-relationship-tax-why-your\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t go both directions at once. You need to choose a path. Dating is full of people using seemingly smart strategies that are actually holding them back. There are two things every dater knows: You don\u2019t want to end up alone. It\u2019s good to have options. So you make sure you have a relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-relationships","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftmauthors&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}