Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Grove podcast. I have been thinking about a few things that I want to share.

One, I want to say thanks for the feedback on the podcast about sound quality. I just keep investing

and getting better and better mics. So I think I'm at the top of the game now. So this shit

sound pretty good in your ear. Crisp. You hear that be sharp like a knife, but not too sharp that it cuts

your ear, you know what I'm saying? So that's the first thing, is to know that I really do care

about what you think and what you feel and what you say, and I'm always doing the best I can,

and that, you know, I'm not a radio host interviewer

trained I have lost I have asked millions of questions in my life and learning the balance

of what people want in the podcast is also learning the separation between what people want in the podcast

and I want the what I want the podcast to look like.

And I think that's just this balance of what is my self-expression and what do I love versus

what do people think about what I love and my self-expression.

And those, if I make that more important than my self-expression, then I enter a

codependent pattern.

And it's important to care about what people think, but it's important to not make that

the abandonment of self-expression and the abandonment of what we would like something to me.

And I say this because I think it's

really important to recognize when we do that in any area of our lives, you know, when we become

or shape ourselves into who we think we need to be in order to minimize the amount of conflict

or minimize the amount of possibility of rejection.

But this is what happens when we don't share what we truly want in relationship.

When we begin dating or when we don't share our needs when we're in a relationship.

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