Morning guys, happy Monday. Welcome back to It's Me Tanks. Hope everyone had a fantastic

weekend. I'm back from Boston. I hope that I got to meet a lot of you. When I went to

DC and I did my rich mom walk, I met a couple girls and they were like, we really, really

want you to talk more about being in a relationship and like the real deal and how you feel.

And I've been trying to do that more and more as I hope you've noticed on the pod. And

I think I articulated one of the things that like really scares me about being in a relationship

or not that scares me, but that I struggle with, which is that I don't like having half

of my emotions or whatever percentage of my emotions in someone else's basket. And

by that, I mean, it's scary for me, a control freak, a self, self proclaimed, I know it.

I'm a control freak to have some of my emotions be tied up in another human being. And I

know that that sounds like crazy and closed off and all that stuff. But again, you know,

I think it is helpful when I share how I feel and what I what I work on too, because

nobody's perfect by any means. And I, you know, maybe someone else out there is feeling

this way too. By that, I mean, it's like, do you ever have a fight with your boyfriend

and you feel like you feel so upset? And it's like, you don't control that part of your

emotions. Now, I guess you could say, well, your friend could make you upset too or, you

know, something, you know, if someone cuts you off and you have to swerve into another

lane, like that could make you upset too. But it's just different when you're in a relationship

because it's like those deep, deep emotions that are controlled, not controlled. But

the other person has such an influence on how you feel every day. Whereas when you're

single, every day you wake up and you're like the master of your universe, you're like,

okay, I'm going to choose to strive for joy today. I'm going to choose to strive for productivity

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