Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Hope you're winding down the week. Feeling good. We got the weekend coming. You know, for some people, the weekend isn't the weekend. For multitude of reasons, some people work through the weekend or their weekends are full of what mine tend to be full of at times. Laundry, cleaning, got the kids, got other people at home working. So anyway, we're going to focus on self-care,

joy, pleasure. You can always find moments to build that in, right? There's so many different ways to do that. We've talked about that, build that in. Got a great show plan for you, though. We're going to do a little bit of some COVID update as to, well, what now? How's it impact things? And then later in the show, do a little couples therapy. That's right, talking about some couples issues, including how everything that's going on is affecting people's libido.

I want to start with some

interesting things. Again, another article looking at how we have thought that maybe there'd be a

baby boom. But we're calling it basically from boom to bust because lockdown has still not led to

more babies. Why? Well, you know, come on. All that's going on is not

making people think that they should expand their family or not necessarily interested in intimacy.

People are focused on other things, financially insecure or worried about other. I mean,

it's an interesting time. I understand why people are not like, ah, I feel so romanticized. I feel like I want to expand my family right now, take on more love, but also more complication and stress. So not surprised. Um, also, sorry, there's, there's so much going on this past week. I'm trying to figure out what I want to bump into next. You know, we've got, I didn't really want to talk about this. I posted a few different things on my social media

about it. We got the sheriff who has some, some data coming out about he himself might

be a big old racist in terms of the Atlanta violence at, you three how many was I don't know the exact

number but it was Asian immigrant sex workers and you know again people people trying to

sling around that sex addiction term we've talked about it a multiple of times I have

posted my articles about this and it's in my books but a sex section does not an

accepted diagnosis all the mental health organizations,

including the diagnostic manual itself, which determines what's a real diagnosis does not include

sex addiction. It was rejected. It's been rejected by American Psychological Association,

psychiatric association, and more importantly, ASECT, who is the governing body of sex therapy.

They've all rejected. The only people that use it

are the people that are perpetuating and making money off of writing books and training individuals

as sex addiction therapists. So that's why I always tell people see a certified sex therapist,

CST, not sex addiction therapist. They're not trained in sex therapy. Um, but they're using that again as a

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