Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? I hope you've been getting through the day.

All right. Got a great show plan for you. Time to kind of settle in, focus on ourselves.

Hopefully I'll entertain you a little bit, drop some clinical gems on you.

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Lovelin IG page, opening the show talking about long distance, long-distance relationships.

So this is going to be a conversation about a multitude of things, what's important in building

intimacy, how to use technology in a pro-social way, but also it's going to be essentially

us exploring ways to really move into

relationship for those that are single. So I'm going to hit all those goals, hopefully,

check, check, check. I guess let me open by saying if we're looking for relationality,

let's not be anxious or necessarily always look for simplicity. Always trying to coach and support clients

and friends and loved ones in giving themselves the best shot. I think, you know, when we enter dating,

I think we focus too much on comfort and we have a present bias. We just think about how things are now, right?

Like, what do we want now?

But we have to think long term because sometimes, well, not sometimes, dating is about

long term goal.

You know, dating is this process to decide if and when we can be in a relationship with

someone, right?

So dating is not a commitment.

Dating is seeing if we are compatible and healthy as a couple to

move into commitment. And I want to just hold space for a long distance. Long distance shouldn't be

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