Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Gen Z Girl podcast. My name is Abby Asselin and I'm the host of this podcast. This week I'm going to be talking about relationships and I feel like I haven't talked about relationships much on my own on the podcast when I have been. It's been like with guests or with my boyfriend being on and that kind of thing. I feel like I haven't. I don't think I've ever done just like a relationships episode by myself talking about it.

And I didn't really know what I wanted to do for this week and I had a few ideas.

But then I like thought of relationships and I was like, wait a second.

I have so much I could say.

And that's exactly what I'm going to do today.

Just kind of talking about like

the most important lessons I've learned over the years um and dating and everything at 22 and a half

years old and not even just like lessons just things that I have found personally that are

have just transformed my relationships and my relationship now and things that I just like noticed

didn't work that I changed up, that kind of thing. And just a disclaimer, I am not saying that like

this, that you don't have to like take this advice. You can take it with a grain of salt. But I'm

just like sharing my personal experience. So don't think I'm like sitting here telling you like all this is like the standard or it's like the line and that kind of thing because I just want to share my experience and what I've learned in my experience and how I my perspective of some things.

So if your perspective is not the same of mine, that's okay.

I'm just presenting to you my perspective. So that's perspective is not the same of mine, that's okay. I'm just presenting to you

my perspective. So that's a little disclaimer on that and also a disclaimer that my relationship's

not perfect. I know it's really easy to look at influencers and celebrities and just people

online, even people in your life. I feel like I do it more with people in my life than I do

people online and influencers. And on social media, I feel like I'm used to like compare my

relationship a lot to those around me, especially the people I knew. Like if I was around other

couples a lot and just remember not to do that because I'll get into that later but it's just

important to remember that my relationship's not perfect and I'm me saying all of this I'm not saying

that all of these things are problems from my current relationship um I've been in a coupled

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