Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing? Got a great show plan for you. We're going to be talking about

bump but-da-bum ways that we harm and damage important relationships in our lives. But always a little

entertaining, I hope, dropping lots of gems along the way. And this is for all of us. We are relational

beings. That's why all of my work always tries to somehow address the relational elements of whatever the topic is or what's going on in our lives.

We were talking about how to get through the holidays with toxic people, how to give gifts that are mental health centered.

Our mental health is an assessment that we can make based on those that are around us, how we're

impacting them, how they're impacting us. And I've been doing this work for two decades, focusing

specifically on relationships and couples and eroticism. And we have so much unlearning to do and

relearning to do. And so I'm always hitting relational skills from different elements, different

entry points.

So even if you guys are loyal listeners to Loveline, I'll be talking about this in some new and

different ways.

But it's all about repetition.

I'm always trying to give people sound bites, things to hold on to.

A lot of us are a little, I think, too confident in our relational know-how or maybe

not even at all.

And I think we get in our own ways.

There's a lot of myths that go around that I think keep people trapped. And so these are things

to think about. So we're going to break down some of them. Hopefully these will be the things where

you're like, ah, but even if you already know these things, I hope we can go a little bit deeper

and really assess ourselves. The first one is this comes up all

the time about opposites. Opposites attract. Is there a problem if someone's too different from you?

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