Choosing The Wrong Partner: What We Learned The Hard Way (So You Don't Have To)

If you’re like 46% of our audience, you may be afraid of choosing the wrong partner—and that fear can keep you stuck overthinking every decision or holding onto something that doesn’t feel right. In this episode, we share why the real mistake isn’t picking the wrong person—it’s staying too long when it’s not working. We discuss what we wish we could tell our younger selves to relinquish this fear and actually get into healthy relationships (and leave ones that are draining our time, energy, and mental health!) Enjoy! - Take the Dating Archetypes quiz now: Read our book: How To Be Dateable: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Person and Falling in Love: Try the Dateable AI Dating Coach: Get personalized advice trained on our years of podcast episodes, courses and frameworks:

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Choosing The Wrong Partner: What We Learned The Hard Way (So You Don't Have To) is an episode from Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating by Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick.

This episode is 20:47 long.

This episode was published on Apr 10, 2026.

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