Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan. I am your host and I'm back

with the lovely co-host, Kit Bender. I'm so lovely tonight. Thank you. How are you?

You are always so lovely. This episode was suggested to me to record solo, to really lean

into the topic. But I decided against that because not only do I want to male perspective,

because I think there's differences in how men and women heterosexual speaking can experience

being alone, but also non-heterosexual too actually. And you just have longer periods of experience

in this than I do. I do. Yes. Not only just because of age older than me, but also just a different

perspective. So as much as I love that idea of like doing a podcast alone, I was like,

is a certain poetry to it, right? Yeah. I was like, no, like I feel like it'd be much more

beneficial for people to have an added perspective. So thanks for being able to join on this episode.

I'm happy to be here. I do have some experience being alone, partially because of life circumstances

and also partially just because of personality. I've always been kind of a person that has enjoyed

alone time. The peacemaker? Yes. Is that the peacemaker? A peacemaker and an introvert. Yeah.

In a big big family, a big loud family. Yes. So I learned to cherish my alone time early on.

Definitely. I don't know. It kind of became a thing. Yeah. Being an only child and the only girl

in the family, I definitely was more the center of attention and did not have a lot of time alone.

I did have some as an only child, but you know, I had the cats or I had just me and my mom and

really didn't have to be alone a lot. And today we'll go into a little bit of like, we're going to

share some personal stuff. And then we're also going to like answer some questions via the

Graham. You guys have sent in some questions about this. So we want to answer some of your questions.

And then also we're going to share a little bit of our personal experiences and hopefully

through talking about being alone, we all feel a little less alone. And if we are feeling

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