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When partners joining our solo activities changes their essential nature

My wife started coming to my weekly poker game and now I cannot bluff or take risks the way I used to and I am losing money and feel like I cannot be myself anywhere.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The presence of intimate relationships can alter the psychological freedom that makes certain activities restorative.

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