Good evening, everybody. How are you all doing? Got a great show plan for you. We're going to be

talking about the psychology of dating. What does that mean? Well, talk about the ins and outs,

but more importantly, we're going to be troubleshooting and helping you better understand

how to get into relationships, why maybe the way you're thinking about them, also the way

you're using the apps, might be getting in the way of the larger relational

goals you have. And of course, along the way, you're going to learn a lot of things for those

that are already married or in a relationship, things to think about, things to circle back to

center and prioritize. Got to tell you, we are relational creatures. It is okay to be single.

It is okay to want to be single. It is okay to be wanting to go from relationship to singledom. But we have to still acknowledge we are relational

beings. And when I say relational, I don't mean romantic or sexual. I just mean that we are

social. And every song is about relationships and love and dating, every movie, every book,

most conversations, we see every mental health issue somehow borne out of or interrupting

and getting in the way of.

We are just wired that way, right?

Our brains are social organs separated only by our skin, right?

We have empathy, mirror neurons.

It's an important process.

So a lot of people have been

trained culturally in the way we script things to really believe that the goals of adulthood

are relationally centered. Yes, we talk about education. Yes, we talk about career. But a lot of

our deeper, more personal goals are about getting in a relationship,

cohabitating, getting married, having a child, a home ownership, all sorts of things.

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