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Hi, my name is Sagary.

I am from D.C. and I'm here to talk about my tumultuous relationships in the past and how I am navigating dating now in my early 30s.

You're in the right place. It's like this is exactly where you should be to talk about all of

in good company. Okay. When you look back at your dating experiences over, let's say, like the past 10 years,

like if you had to choose one word to define it, what word would you use?

I'm going to say chaotic.

Like, incredibly chaotic.

I was just making decisions with no guidance whatsoever and like was had a very, very strong intuition and like got reaction to a lot of things, but was so bad at listening to it.

So I would a lot of times make decisions based on what other people would tell me to do

or what I thought society wanted me to do, but never really based on what I truly,

truly wanted to do.

Would you say you're now in a place where you listen to your gut, you listen to the voice in your head?

Yes, I'm very good at listening to my gut now, which means a lot of times connections get cut.

May, like, I guess from the outside perspective, get cut short, but I never regret the decisions that I make

to cut things off. Like, they feel like the right decisions when I make them.

Which is incredible and how it should feel. Okay. I want to hear how we got from chaos to feeling

really confident in the decisions that you're making. Where does your journey begin? Where do you want to

start? We can start with my, like the very first serious relationship that I had in my early 20s.

That was a relationship that was a roller coaster in terms of just where it was going physically.

Like I started dating this guy that I met off of Tinder was my first serious relationship. I, like, we had no mutual friends. I knew nothing

about him except that he was like a resident physician at a hospital that was nearby, like,

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