Welcome to questions from the closet. I'm Charlie Bird and I'm Ben Shalati. Each episode we discuss the question that we commonly get asked as LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.

We are not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives.

Today's question is, should I stay single and sell a bit?

Ben and I are not terribly diverse and we share many opinions and life experiences.

For example, we are both currently single.

However, there are some pretty big differences.

For example, I have been single for a lot longer.

I don't know when your last date was, my last date was February 14, 2015.

2015. So that's over five years.

Yeah, it's been a long time.

He's a single man folks.

I gotta tell you though, I have never been hotter because no one is more attracted to someone than...

Wait, but...

He's hard to get as what he's trying to do.

I say, I'm unattainable and that makes you work.

So on our show we do our best to provide a variety of voices and perspectives, but today's episode is a little bit different and it's just going to be me and Ben.

Yeah, as Charlie and I were considering who to have on this episode, we kind of felt that a lot of people in the past have said that they like set a life plan for themselves, so this is what I'm going to do and

then end up changing that life course. We don't want to put someone in a position where

they're going to say well this is what my life is going to look like and this is what

I'm going to do and then change their mind but feel like they're kind of locked into that.

And we realized with all of our episodes that's possible, but we just felt like with this episode in particular,

we didn't want to put anyone in a position to have to say this is what my life is going to look like,

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