Dating to see if you relationship is viable?

Working on it? Your relationship I mean… I can’t tell you how many times people “work on” their relationship by dating someone else. This is not working on your relationship. It is avoiding your relationship because you believe it is basically over but you are too scared to actually cut it off. If you are too scared to cut it off or “hurt” the other person it is likely that you do have something to work on and it just may not be over. BUT the only way to figure that out is to cut your dating relationship off and actually commit to taking some baby steps in your relationship. There are some qualifiers to this… Some of you reading this could be in abusive relationships and are scared to exit (this post doesn’t apply to you). Some of you may have a clandestine relationship that has been ongoing for a long time (this post MAY apply to you but your partner may leave you when they find out).