Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. We've got a great show plan for you. As always,

uh, going to be talking about all the different ways that we can harm other people via

dating, sex, love, and romance. I know. It's great stuff. Um, I track all of these new terms,

neologisms is what we call it, new words.

And, you know, within romance, sex, and dating, and I used to talk about them a lot more

because I was horrified and also I found it very humorous.

We had talked about orbiting, paper clipping, breadcrumbing, all the different ways that

we are not honest with

ourselves or with other people. And it harms, you know? We had bread crumbing, which meant

instead of just saying to someone, I'm not that interested, or you want something more than I want,

or maybe this is something I don't want to be a part of, you know, we just kind of throw a little bit at them every now and then, kind of keeping

them on the line.

We like having someone there.

We know they like us or want more, but we don't.

Breadcrumb, you know.

It's also a way that people can exit a relationship is they slowly just give a little bit

less, but just enough.

And we really do that to protect ourselves. We think

we're doing it to protect someone else. We don't want to hurt them. But that is painful. They're

confused. I work with those clients. I have friends that are like that. What do you think this means?

Are they still interested? Of course, the answer is always, go ask them. I want to live in a part of creating a world where people can say, hey, we're not talking as often, or you know, your energy is different? Is everything okay? Are you still interested? But ideally,

the person in that dynamic, that's aware that something has shifted. I wish they would

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