Hey everyone. Welcome back to He'll Survive and Thrive. Let's talk about being single for a second. Can we please just, we're going to completely keep it real this week. And we're going to talk about everything regarding single life and all that stuff because when I went through my divorce,

I was single for four years before I really, really got into like another relationship,

like a committed relationship. And I remember those years in at in the moment they felt long.

But now looking back, I'm like, that was actually like such a short period of time,

although I would tell people, yeah, I was single for four years and people would look at me

like, oh my God, that's so long. But I loved it. I actually really loved it. And I think you just, it really is all about perspective.

So, you know, first off, being alone is not a sentence. You didn't do anything wrong. This isn't

life's way of kind of putting you in the corner and placing you alone because that's just what you

deserve. You're simply in a phase of life,

just like every phase, where you have an opportunity to enjoy this phase, do some good stuff

in this phase, like literally enjoy this phase. Don't take it for granted. Now, everyone has this

opportunity, but not every person really will actually do the work.

And I think a lot of people just either rush back into relationships because of so many reasons

and we're going to get into all of that stuff, but or they honestly even just deny any kind of

like inner work that needs to be done. for me being single was my time this was

not about anyone else this was not about my ex-husband this was not about a new guy this was not

about my friends like this was just about me and I definitely am the type of person where when a

relationship ends like I need a hot

minute like I am not I've never really been the person that kind of jumps from relationship

to relationship I always needed a minute to kind of like decompress figure out what's going

on figure out where I'm going next and like reassess and I will say that is definitely something

about me that I've always respected I guess that I didn't really always jump ship that I really

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