Good evening, everybody. How are you all doing? Welcome to the show. Got a great show plan for you.

You got some DMs. Bam, drop them in the DMs on our Lovelin IG page. And we got your answers.

We got your topics. So always open. Whatever you're wondering about, drop them in there.

Going to open the show talking about it was actually a headline I saw, Huffington Post.

Excuse me. It said, what it could mean if you're letting friendships slip away during covid and i thought what an interesting opening topic um gonna talk about a lot of things

tonight but i thought that was one to hit because covid's really shaking things up uh during, y'all remember I was saying a lot about

checking in on people, checking on three people a day, where I was kind of framing it differently

saying, reach out to three people a day. Why? Well, you want to stay connected. And also I want

others to know that there are people out there to connect with that are thinking about them.

So it's a combination.

Just quickly, just quick side comment.

Remember that we are working on looking out for ourselves and looking out for others.

And that's why I'm always trying to kind of do that, you know, reciprocated acknowledgement of,

hey, I'm here. I'm someone you can talk to.

Because I think what's happened is during the pandemic, people got tired, people got burnout, people

got busy, and people started to drift. But sometimes it's not that they're drifting. It's that they

don't have the energy or ability to reach out. I saw, I wish I had saved it. I saw a, I guess it was a meme. I don't

know if it was a tweet or a meme or something that was going around. And it was talking about,

you know, the, the expected normal length of time that someone should feel okay waiting for

in terms of response from like a text. And they're like, you know, three hours, four hours.

If you can't get

back to someone in that amount of time, then that's a sign that blah, blah, blah. And a lot of people

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