Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Welcome to the show. We got a great show plan for you.

Going to be helping you figure out how to know whether or not you might have met your match, been fallen in love.

But again, as always, this applies to things that are outside of the romantic domain,

because some of y'all are married and happy relationships, but we're using the entry point of

what it feels like on a date. But again, this applies to friendships, family members. I really like

these decision-making rubrics where we kind of run ourselves through these things. Why? Because we're

always thinking about mental health first. It doesn't matter how cool they are, how hot they are,

or what life we might have built with them. Our mental health comes

first. But before we get into that, just a loving reminder. I want us all to keep checking in on

those around us, you know, your quiet friend. Check in on them. You might the only person that did.

You know how heartbreaking it is to pick up your phone after many hours having gone by and no one

has reached out. And also to the people

that you think are very high functioning and might not need it. Often they do. I had a really profound

experience of my own where I was checking in on a friend of mine. It was one of those like,

you know, called them. What? Telephone calls. I know. It still happens. I have some friends where if I were to call them,

they're like, what are you doing? Why are you calling me? Is there an emergency? Use text like a normal

person. And I'm like, well, not only am I not normal. I'm not trying to be normal. And I like intimacy.

There's nothing wrong with texting. I have some friends where our entire relationship between times we maybe see each other or between, you know, deeper phone calls is just texting. I'm glad we have it because I would

probably then just go longer periods of time without really connecting. Textings, it's easy and that can

be a good thing. I don't want the entire relationship for some of these people to be dependent on just

texting only. But, you know, maybe we have people in our lives where we don't want to get any closer

than just a little bit of texting.

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