Hello, little tower bottom.

As you probably already saw from the episode title,

this is part two of my conversation with Mike.

So if you haven't listened to part one, do that now.

But if you already have, and you're chomping in the bit for the rest of his story,

get ready for part two.

Yeah, more.

Give it to me. Mm, yeah, more.

Good morning, Sotomites with Zach Bowie Towers.

Do Joey Towers. Do you consider yourself a relationship girlie?

I'm a gay Charlotte.

I am a gay Charlotte.

Oh, you want like...

And I say gay Charlotte because, like, I love sex and I have a lot of it, but I'm a romantic

at the end of the day I'm a romantic at the

other day I can romanticize any situation but I like I've only been in one long-term

relationship so I can't call myself a relationship girl two and a half years is it

is it what you want though yes desperately are you no no you don't want a relationship

I mean I don't I don't consider it as a priority. A priority? Really? Or a metric of success. That's an interesting way to think about it. Because I don't necessarily consider it a metric of success, but I am like, God, why are we here otherwise? So maybe I do. But I'm like, I don't look at it. Well, I mean. They've done it. But I'm like, God, I want to, yeah, I just want to come home to one person. Sure. I get that. I guess, um, I see the merit in that. I also see so many friends who have sacrificed a lot of time and happiness for this thing. That was my first relationship experience. Yeah. And like I think I learned a lot from that being like, oh, this shouldn't be something where you're like, yes, of course compromise and like it's too people. But in a deficit the whole time. Exactly. It's the deficit of it. It's like, oh, I was robbing myself a lot of like joy and autonomy.

For what? You know? To do the thing. To do the thing because you thought that's what you do. You know what I mean? I was like, and I wanted to be, because once again, my best friend in college, he had like, I saw him go from like truly like he had like four or five boyfriends over the course of our, like time in college. I was like, well, it just happens for people like that and you're just always in relationships.

And some people are just always in relationships and some people aren't. And I was so desperate to be in one out here. I tried the amount of like hinge dates I went on. Is that when you got your two and a half year? Don until COVID though. Like, I was already out here for like... Damn, people needed to be like it's this or that.

I already out here four years.

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