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Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod. I'm Victoria Garrick, former D.O.N. athlete and mental health and body amazh advocate.

Every Wednesday I'll be bringing you awesome guests, weekly inspiration and the realist conversations around everything and anything.

Now let's get real.

Welcome back to RealPod everybody. I hope you are having a fantastic week. I certainly am. The week has been good so far and I have been having such a fun time with my new roommate Max.

As many of you know, if you follow my Instagram or YouTube, I just moved in with my boyfriend Max. We have been together for about four and a half years now. And this was a pretty big step for the both of us.

And a lot of you guys had questions and were messaging me and I wanted to do a podcast episode about moving in together just updating you guys on how it's going. I mean, I feel like you guys are all literally like my best friends.

So you need to know you need to know the scoop. You need to hear it from us. So today Max now are going to be diving into all the questions that you submitted through Instagram. And we are going to answer those today.

Before we get started, I want to read a review from TJ Jackie shout out girl she gave the podcast five stars said love love love as a former college athlete these podcasts have truly been a staple for me after graduating so many topics that I can relate to.

Not only as an athlete, but as a woman to love that TJ Jackie. First of all, thank you for rating this podcast and giving it five stars literally means the world to me. I so appreciate it. And I picked that review because for this episode, obviously, I think this topic really is about what happens after you graduate and what a lot of us might experience as we get in serious relationships.

And so I'm hoping that this episode today can also be informative and helpful because Max and I don't always take ourselves too seriously. We hope that you guys don't either.

If you are enjoying real pod and you want to leave a review, you can go to iTunes. It takes like five seconds to leave a star rating. And then also if you want to add a comment like TJ Jackie did, you can definitely do that. All our welcome. I love hearing your feedback. And you just might be the review that I read out next week.

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All right, let's dive into this episode with my boyfriend Max Brown.

Okay, we're going. Why am I always so scared when we do this? No idea where it's going to go. Okay, so I organized the questions where we're going to start with the chronological ones we need to answer.

But then there's a category of most asked questions from our listeners or from my listeners. Yeah, just your squad. Hey, if I'm coming back to this my third time, I know it is at your show. It's far from my show, but I'm at least getting the thumbs up.

Okay, babe. Question number one. What made us decide to move in together?

Oh, baby, a few things. I'm moving with buddies over the summer. And I feel like quickly there. We were like, well, we were long distance. So you moved back to LA. And you when you came to LA, I was still in a place where I was like, we're not living together until we're married.

Remember when I was adamant about that. Yeah, you were adamant about that for a while. We've been dating for a minute. And for the most of the time, you're like, nope, can't live together until we're married.

My whole life. That's what I thought, which I respected. Yeah, I get it tied turned when I moved into a new apartment with some buddies was there for a few months and you were chomping at the bit to get out of my parents house out of your parents house.

And things just changed. I had thought as a young girl, like I'm not going to move in with anyone until we're married. My mom didn't do that. Her mom didn't do that. Super traditional families. And I really wanted to, you know, keep that traditional I haven't be just like them.

And I always kind of bought into that narrative of like, oh, the excitement of living together is what you're going to experience once you're married. And I think part of that, you know, is true. But I think that the way our relationship evolved.

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