Given the societal pressures now, especially around the nuclear family and like in parenthood

is the be all end all and how much pressure we put on parents to have their kids in all the activities

and making sure they're doing all the homework and like being so involved, like almost the helicopter

parent like pressure cooker, if that makes more people feel like me like oh I thought it was supposed to be

this all-encompassing fulfillment.

Hello and welcome to other episode of Finding Mr. Hyde the podcast.

I'm your host, Allie Jackson, and I am bringing you my positive and practical approach to dating, relationships, and a lot of other stuff in life, built on my lived experiences.

I'm so grateful you are here.

Thank you to everybody who has contributed to this podcast over the years.

I'm just really thankful, especially in this moment as I'm prepping for the focus groups that we're going to be doing this month. And if you are part of that, I really, really thank you. Emails are going out in terms of scheduling this week. I've just been so thankful reflecting on that in this past week as I read all of these applications for people who want to make this podcast better, who've been listening for a long time, a lot of you.

And I just, I can't thank you enough.

If you are so inclined to leave a review on either Applepods or Spotify, Spotify only has ratings, not reviews. I would really appreciate that

as well. That is how advertisers and new listeners find the podcast. And I don't mention it enough on here.

I listen to a lot of pods and most of them talk about leaving reviews and in every episode.

And I really should, but I just don't. So this is me doing that. And thank you. Thank you so much.

This has been a wild week. I am cohabitating. I am coming at you live from Skylands and my condo for the first time.

Recording the main pod. He's at work right now, so it kind of feels like I still live alone. But it has been a really great week, a really overwhelming week, mostly just because of the

physical stuff. He only had a one bedroom, well, more like an

alcove studio apartment. And yet, so much stuff. More stuff than we realized was going to be here.

So we're still figuring out where everything is going to go and what we're selling and donating

and all of that stuff. So it's been a lot, but also so fun, like really fun, designing where things are deciding, rather,

where things are going to go and buying new decor together and figuring out what furniture we want

...