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With regard to Rand's romances, it's simply not an issue for now, especially given that it looks like Elayne won't even appear in Season One and while Min will, she's likely to be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it presence in one or at most two episodes. Rand vaguely falls out of love with Egwene over the course of the first three books, but he also barely sees her during them - when they reunite in Tear at the beginning of book four they're both completely different people than who they were leaving the Two Rivers.

There are hints of the Elayne and Aviendha romances in book four, but Elayne is immediately separated from Rand for a very long time - after leaving Tear they don't see each other again until Rand visits her in Caemlyn which is in book nine. Aviendha's relationship with Rand doesn't become romantic - a development that due to circumstances is extremely sudden - until midway through book five. It would be perfectly possible for the show to completely drop those romances between seasons four and five and it would disrupt basically nothing previously established to that point.

Overall WoT's romantic elements are rather late developing. Mat, for all his vaguely playboy-ish behavior doesn't get involved in any sort of substantial relationship until he gets stuck in Ebou Dar in book six and doesn't meet Tuon until book eight. Rand's relationship with Min doesn't become serious until book six. Egwene's 'relationship' with Gawyn barely manages to unfold at all. Nynaeve's romance with Lan just sort of appears as a fait accompli and then they spend most of the series dealing with the bizarre obstacles the warder bond throws out in its direction. None of the minor romances Siuan/Gareth, Moraine/Thom, etc. even materialize as possibilities until the later books. Somewhat hilariously, it's only Perrin who actually gets anywhere significant in terms of romantic relationships in the first four books - and because he's so far ahead of everyone else Jordan had to continually hammer at that relationship in order to force drama.

I wouldn't be surprised if the show tried to accelerate some of the romantic elements early on, especially Rand/Min, simply to prevent the show from coming across as shockingly sexless for the first three seasons.
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Also Min and Rand spend about 100X as much time together as lovers/in a relationship as him and the other two. They could easily have Avidendah and Elayne date each other and he has like a fling with each of them and nothing would change. Heck he barely talks to Elayne after book IV.