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In romantic relationships, doubt can feel like a dirty word.
If it's love, true love, then you'll just know it.
For certain, you'll lock eyes, preferably across a crowded room,
maybe on New Year's Eve, and know that this person is the one for you.
As if there's some, like, mystical, like, judge who has a secret answer.
There's no secret answer.
Haley Naumann is a culture writer, an editor and author of Maybe Baby,
a newsletter and weekly podcast about the mysteries of modern life.
There is just a set of circumstances that have upsides and downsides.
And, like,
if you happen to be in a relationship that has maybe a few more downsides than another hypothetical relationship you could be in,