Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. Got a great show plan for you. In the second hour,

we're going to be talking about pornography and our relationship to all of that, but I thought

we'd open the show with something a little more family friendly, but also is important.

Hope you guys are getting through the day, getting through the week. I guess I should say that

first. Let's connect before we correct. We're not going to correct. Well,

we're going to correct our thinking. It's always a goal on this show. But it's also a little

bit of a reminder of that tip when you know, you're needing to have a difficult conversation with

your child, your friend, your family member, your partner. Connect first. Don't come in hot.

We're connecting and then we're correcting. We want someone to feel safe.

Build that, build that.

I mean, it's something we naturally do anyway in a lot of context.

You know, if someone gets on the phone, we don't just say, okay, so blah, blah, blah, blah.

Usually we're like, hey, how are you?

It's good to hear from you.

And then we kind of segue in, You know, it's the pleasant trees. Um,

the thing that a lot of introverts actually hate the pleasant trees. How's your week? Oh,

no, it's fine. I was sure. It's fine. All right. Let's get to it. But, you know, we naturally have that

understanding that we've just, you know, there's someone before us. And we went from a one person system to a two person system and we try to transition

in really important and that's part of what some relationships are suffering from is that disconnection

because you're not focusing on those important transitional moments. So before we get into

tips for people who get depressed in the summer, also known as seasonal effective,

which is very confusing because a lot of people think seasonal effective disorders, what happens

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