Hey everyone. I'm Evian Whitney and this is the sexually liberated woman. Why hello everyone.

Long time no see. It's been a minute. More than a minute, actually, since you've heard my voice.

And I'm honestly a little embarrassed that I was gone for as long as I was. But if I could explain,

things have been very, very intense around these parts for the last nine months.

I mean, they still are, as I journey slowly and trepidiously along with you through this global pandemic we're currently in.

But just on a smaller scale, like what's been going on in my personal world for the last several months, things have been very hard

and very beautiful and very interesting.

So let me first start off by saying that I never, ever intended to have this long stretch of radio silence happen here.

Actually, here's what I wanted to happen.

This is how I planned it in my head. Big, hard, beautiful

things started happening in my life around August of last year. Some of them I peeped. Others sort of

blindsided me. But for the ones I could see coming, I told myself, okay, things are about to get a little

hectic, take an impromptu break from the podcast, come back in October, and then you can

reveal what's been going on because surely things will be settled by then.

You know that saying that's like, make plans, God laughs.

Baby, when I tell you that God wasn't just laughing at me, they were straight up gaffying,

like big, gasping belly laughs. So three major things have happened in my

personal world since I last spoke to you. I made a big decision to move cross-country back to

L.A., my hometown. Then, on the eve of that big move, the moving track, which held

all of our belongings, all of our furniture, pictures, family heirlooms, all of my clothes and shoes,

all of my journals and crystals, all of my podcast equipment. Literally everything we had was stolen from our driveway.

Yeah. And then, and then right after that, my relationship with Jonathan went through a major

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