All right, let's go. We're in a series of messages if you just jump in and now it's the perfect time by the way

Glad to have you here, but the series is called some assembly required and that's because our

relationships they don't work like they're meant to they don't function like they're ultimately going to right out of the box

It takes

painstaking work to assemble them I think about when I bought my daughter at the time I only have one

daughter it's crazy thing about that and I was like 94 of them I bought a

little kitchen set and and it was a great thing to buy and bring home.

That was easy. I mean, I had to pay for it, but I had to bring this thing home.

That was easy compared to putting it together, because there was approximately 94 billion

pieces to this thing and I remember just so many hours just hunched over my back

hurting just all the work that went into assembling this

thing that that I had bought and brought home but before it could work like it was

meant to it had to be assembled and if I had stopped at any point in the process,

it wouldn't have done everything

that the picture on the box said it would,

or that it ultimately could, had I stopped prematurely.

And our relationships are like that. Some of us are just for

years have been limping on with relationships in our lives that are missing out

on features that they could have that they have within them the capacity to produce and to function like but we're just we're just keeping them in the state of arrested development because we're unwilling to move on to that next step.

So that's our goal.

Each week of the series, we're trying to receive tools

because you can't assemble something if you don't have the proper tools.

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