Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. Got a great show plan for you, but I say that every show.

I wanted to kind of open up by just sharing an article that that was really interesting. It aligns with a lot of the things that we talk about here on Lovelin.

And it was, I'll read you the headline. Being exposed to ready for this, toxic relationship memes can warp your romantic outlook.

I think this is meaningful.

We all know we are impacted by the influences that we spend time around.

And who knew?

I think I did.

Some of us did.

How harmful some of the TikToks memes Instagram posts we read could

actually be on our perspective of the future ourselves those around us and that's meaningful

think about that if you're constantly reading ones that are focusing on the dark side of what

we can do to each other well well, you're priming your brain

to expect that, predict that, and seek that, versus maybe finding things that really orient

you towards a more positive perspective. Now, is that toxic positivity? No, I think it's reality

testing that all of that exists. We want to be aware of all of that, but whatever we place

our attention on is going to have a powerful impact on our mood and our thinking.

And we want to be making sure we're placing our attention on some of the positive feel good things.

Um, so this was rooted in a study where participants were shown romantic memes. Ah, yes. Um, and then the romantic beliefs and relationship satisfaction levels were then tested after that exposure.

Now, we know that we know such a thing because there is a concept in the field called state dependent learning.

And also mood dependent behavior, which basically means whatever mood we're in is going to really dictate how we act and how we

see the world. If we're cranky, it's everything through that lens. But state dependent learning is

about whatever state you're in when you are internalizing and coding or learning new information,

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