I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray.

And this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed recap podcast about reality dating

shows like The Bachelor and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse the patriarchy.

We can't live with these shows and we can't live without them, but we can break down every

juicy moment and unpack all the weird messages these shows send us about love, sex, and dating.

Welcome to Love to See It, a podcast about the questions that you have for us.

That's right, today is Mailbag Day. And we have gathered a bunch of questions that you are

dear listeners, graciously sent over email and DM and we'll be discussing all of it on the

podcast our thoughts about reality TV in general about the bachelor franchise specifically and

we'll end with some more personal questions. Before we get into it, over on Rich Text this week,

subscribers got an episode all about friendship. I had so much fun discussing a lot of questions

about adult friendship, how to maintain friendships through differing life stages, how to make friends,

how to deal with friend breakups, how to great time discussing all of this with normal gossip

host Kelsey McKinney. And you can find that conversation over at Claren't Emma dot sub stack dot com.

Just going to say, if you are not a subscriber, a paid subscriber, now is a great time to sign up

for a yearly subscription because we are running a 20% off fall fun sale. That's the best

discount of the season. Three yourself. I swear, it's fun. Love that topic though. It's so important

to talk about like friendships and as we grow out of them and into them. Exactly. And it really

ended up dovetailing nicely because New York Mag just dropped a cover story that Alison P Davis

wrote all about the way that babies change friendship dynamics, which I think, you know,

something that I've talked to you about Lee Claren, I've talked about a lot. So yeah, just

so win win. I have great timing is what I'm saying. Okay, let's get into the questions that you all

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