I wasn't going to bring this up, but I decided to do it anyway.

Now, at first glance, it might seem like this has nothing to do with mortgages and help you ramp up your business.

But I tell you, this may be one of the most or the most important

message that I've ever sent to you. So here's the thing. Making sure everything at home is good

is critical to how we do things at work. I mean, it all overflows to each other, home and work.

And I want you to like people think, well, I'll leave home at home and

work at work. It doesn't work that way. Think of a, think of a jar of water and then just

putting even just one drop of red dye in it. The red dye doesn't just sit there on one side

of the jar in short order, the entire jar is red. And this is the same for, you know, work and home for

us. It all overflows into each other. And so what happened was I had a life-changing

conversation about 10 years ago. And I was sitting on the front porch,

visiting with my 30-something-year-old niece, and out of the blue, she said,

Uncle Carl, you know why so many people end up in divorce, or let's call it separating from

your mate or like partner, right?

And my first thought was,

what is somebody that just got married a year or two ago?

What are they going to have to say to me about how to make relationships work?

I mean, what the heck does she know? She's in my mind, you know, just a kid, you know, kind of thing.

Because she was my kid niece, right? You have to understand the, the concept of this.

But anyway, but then she shared with me something that has been an absolute game changer for me.

She said, Uncle Carl, the reason why so many marriages, and you could insert in romantic living

together relationships, right? The reason why so many romantic marriages break up is because they

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