The dreaded dot-dot-dot-dot-facetime date.

Oh my god, my biggest fear.

I have stress dreams about this. Hey guys welcome back to thick and thin with me Katie Biladi and before I get

started I just want to give a huge shout out to the real MVP aka this really large black ice coffee that I have in my hand right now that I just got from Duncan Donuts. I am not sponsored by Duncan Donuts.

Wish I was. I'm not, but I made a pilgrimage to my local Duncan in the car with my

mask on, hand sanitizer ready, the whole nine yards, and got my hands on a black ice coffee that I just so needed today.

It was one of those mornings where I was just like, I don't know how I'm going to make it

through this day.

And this coffee cured me. And like I not sponsored but this is just a huge

component of this episode today because your favorite hopeless romantic aka me is

struggling over here with the concept of what is dating, what is romance going to look like after

COVID or even as we're still going through it but it's kind of subsided hopefully in the really warm

summer months as many people are saying anyway so we're going to talk about that

today and some other things like email anxiety which is a real thing that I

experience and others do as well and basically just

wrapped into a nice bow we're doing a dear Katie episode I asked you all to ask me

questions and I'm going to keep them fully anonymous we're going to really dive in I'm going to keep them fully anonymous. We're going to really dive in.

I'm going to share my thoughts on all the things, all the things that you guys are concerned

about. I'm just going to sit here and give my two cents. I might not be right, but this comes from the heart. So that's all that matters, right?

Anyway, so we're going to dive into this episode. I just wanted to first give some kudos to my coffee because that is what's getting me through this day.

Not every day is easy. I've mentioned that and I just want to reiterate that some days

require some extra coffee, some extra courage. And today is one of those days for me.

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