Watch how a new person changes your exercise, eating, work, and sleep habits. If those shifts move you away from your goals, the relationship is probably costing you more than it's worth.
I think a really good litmus test is, what does this person entering my life change about my behavior? Thinking, okay, when I'm on my own, I work out like this, I eat like this, I work like this, I go to sleep at this time. These are the social things that I find meaningful or interesting. Now, when this person enters my life, how many of those things that when I had nothing interfering with me change in their expression? Do I work less? Do I work out less? Do I eat differently? Do I spend my time differently? Well, if that occurs, then all of those changes will certainly change the outputs of your life. And are those changes to the outputs what you want? And I think most people, if they really looked at themselves in the mirror, be like, no,
