Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing? Hope you're getting through the week. Well, focusing on tons of self-care as much joy as possible.

Resting. I'm sitting here laughing to myself because of the topic I want to talk about is simple habits, little things we can do to keep romance alive.

But my eyeballs, as I'm looking at some of the notes I wrote down, I'm looking

at an article that I had saved. And the article says, I'll read you the full quote. A meta-analysis

suggests that emotional intelligence is declining. And it's like, yeah, that's part of why dating's

rough. And then my eyeballs my eyeballs, scroll down to another

article that I want to talk about at some point, talking about, you know, why divorce rates are

rising. And then there's another zinger says, this is the headline of an article. So you're dating again.

Here's what to keep in mind to maintain your mental health. And then it brings me right back to

how do we keep romance alive.

What is going on out there?

You know, I think one of the blessings and the curses of the work I do as a couples

and sex therapist as a mental health professional.

And again, I'm one of those people where I built a specialty in scholarship within

relationships and sex.

I think there's the most important attributes to our mental health

and also to what brings joy or conflict into our lives. So I think that I always advocate for people

to see certified sex therapists and couples therapists, even to do individual therapy. I work with

individuals and couples. Anyway, what has come out of that is a lot of, you know, learning and a lot of understanding

what works and what doesn't work.

I've been doing this work for two decades about.

And so I have a really good grasp on the relational science.

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