Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing? I hope you all are taking care of yourselves.

If you are getting over COVID, I hope you are resting and healing. And if you haven't gotten it,

I hope you are boosted and wearing your darn masks and taking care of yourself, but also taking

care of those around you. Um, finding love in the time of COVID. Wow. I remember at the very early stages when people would be like, hey, can I still be dating?

And we were talking about, you know, FaceTime and all these different ways that you can still date while social distancing.

And remember we would talk about staying six feet apart, meeting them outside, leaving them outside,

you know, not spending that much time around them, but hey, you can meet them in the park,

you could do FaceTime dates.

We're still kind of in that a little bit.

But yeah, I was saying that we were going to talk tonight about a few things, but one of them is,

you know, date night questions. The best questions

ask your partner on a date night. Now, before we even get into that, because, you know, it doesn't

mean that these are all good questions, but they're really rooted in people that are in a relationship

because it's date night with, you know, your partner. But I also thought, hey, let's talk a little

bit about early dating. And again, this is

applicable to those that are already currently in something. I think that there's something we can

learn from all different relational stages and dynamics. Having said that, I want to also

just point out that, you know, looking at research and the clinical work I do with

people in all different relational styles, the styles that are very different from those

can also still learn something. I have really been able to teach monogamous couples some valuable

lessons born out of polyamory and polyamorous couples and different open styles can learn a lot from some monogamous

couples because a lot of the things are the same. Communication, trust, boundaries, care, different

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