Hey you guys, welcome to Heal Survive and Thrive. You guys, I'm excited for this week's episode because I know we just had Valentine's Day and it's like such a weird holiday. I feel like, I don't know, unless you're single and you had like the Galentine's Day, it's just such a couple's holiday and I really just don't understand why. But for all my singles out there, let's talk about dating because I know that there are just times where it just absolutely sucks.

I feel like when I was single for four years, four years, I went on dates, but I just had those

moments where I was like, I'm so over this and I got off all the apps. And then like two months

later, I popped back on and it was just like this like back and forth I got off all the apps. And then like two months later, I pop back on.

And it was just like this like back and forth game for like a little bit. And I want so many people

get frustrated with dating. And I get it. But I want to, I want to kind of break this down because

I realized something about myself, which I don't think is going to be that far off from you guys

as well. But when I was dating and I just didn't always have, I don't know, I feel like there

were times where I didn't always have the best time doing it because I just didn't like the

whole getting to know a person. I just was like, oh, I want to already be like comfortable

with them.

And I realized that I don't really play games.

So I'm kind of just very comfortable in myself, in my skin.

I always have been.

I like quality, not quantity.

I like to just get there fast and not play these, like, ridiculous games that some people play.

So, but I also knew I was coming off of a traumatic relationship, divorce situation,

and I had some stuff and some baggage and some wounds that I knew I saw had to deal with.

And I just, the whole mixed

messages, the whole I'll call and then I don't, the whole like just back and forth game or

texting or messaging someone online and getting like super excited and then meeting them in person

and be like, okay, there's absolutely no chemistry here, so that's not going to work.

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