Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing? I hope you getting through the week well.

I hope you are focusing on tons of self-care, joy, pleasure, rest. Strange time, holidays are

coming. So for some of us, that's very soothing because we're thinking, yes, rest, time off,

time with people and places and things we care about for others. The anxiety spikes.

Got a great show plan for you though. We got a lot to talk about DMs always open. So if you got a DM for us,

drop in the DMs on our Loveline IG page. I wanted to start off the show talking about a topic that's important, a little heavy.

It's going to be talking about, I guess, essentially it's emotional abuse, toxic forms of relationality. One of the big buzzwords is toxic monogamy. We've talked

about that before, but this is definitely something that we need to circle back to. I was looking

at an article, and it was just talking about some of the things that have been normalized. And I thought,

let's hit that on the show, because I'm hearing a lot of that coming into my office with clients that are stepping into new relationships and I'm hearing

a lot of really bad relational behavior become normalized. We hear that and see that out in culture

around our friends, but there are some things that are just not okay. And there are some things that are

red flags versus deal breakers. Let's actually just start off the show by talking about that

distinction. More and more, I'm seeing that as a really important barometer, but more importantly,

we have to understand how to use it. I see a lot of these pop cultural, pop psychological terms like deal breakers, red flags, great concepts when used correctly and when very well understood because I think that they can help us assess the quality of a relationship or a partner and the behaviors, but they can also be weaponized and used

problematically against ourselves and others and are often very misunderstood. So for those that

have sat through this, you know, discussion before, stick around. There's a lot to learn.

And I think it's also something that maybe you want to be thoughtful about taking to your friends

and family members and helping correct them a little bit because we don't want to keep ourselves in the wrong

relationships and we don't want to keep ourselves out of potentially awesome relationships for the

wrong reasons and I tell you over and over and over and I hear myself saying this to my friends

and my single family members and

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