All right, my friend, welcome to the show. How are you doing today?

I'm doing pretty good. I'm happy to be on. Nice. I'm just recovering from a bit of a cold,

hence the voice cracks and grogly, you know, groggy voice. So hopefully don't mind that.

Tell me a little bit about why you signed up and what you would like to work on or

address in this conversation with me today.

Yeah, signed up.

I've been a long time listener.

I like the work that you do.

And the way you handle yourself and handle things and

I'd like a little bit of, I guess, guidance on situations. I'm going to, I'm set to get married

here pretty soon. And my fiance and I are both pretty into doing self-development work, and we are catching ourselves in these

argument cycles. Nothing too crazy, but just trying to really figure out the best way to

handle it before we officially tie the knot. We both come from not really the healthiest backgrounds

of childhood.

Each had single parents growing up need a single mom, her single dad.

And so we have just kind of a, we recognize we have kind of an opposite upbringing in that sense.

And then just trying to, trying to understand our patterns and where they come from.

And the best way to get over them, I'm speaking for myself. You're like, understand how I can how I can best overcome some of my

yeah, some of my ingrained patterns that tend to get in the way. Okay. Interesting dynamic.

You grew up with a single mom. She grew up with a single dad.

Maybe a little bit less common. Tell me a little bit about the patterns that you find are

emerging both in the relationship and then some of the patterns that you find that are happening

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