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Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back for another episode of seeing other people.

Today's episode is so awesome. I'm going to try and keep this intro short and sweet, but I do want to kind of emphasize one thing that I recently posted on Instagram and TikTok and really seemed to resonate with you guys.

I just posted like a standard random video of me and Jay Colning Hans and walking that he probably saw and was like,

when did she take this? That is so creepy. But I wrote, when you're so used to getting your

heartbroken that you spend so much time of your new relationship waiting for the other shoe to drop.

And then suddenly it's a year and a half later and he's moving in and everything is perfect. The other shoe didn't fall. It's not always going to. Sometimes things actually do work. Not everyone is going to hurt you. And some people are going to be everything you want and more. And a lot of you commented and reached out saying this was what you needed to hear and, you know, that you're happy,

a lot of other people said you're happy that it happened for me, but you don't think it's

going to happen for you. And I wanted to read this again and kind of just bring it to everyone's

attention because, listen, for the longest time, I did not think that it was going to happen

for me. I thought everybody else apparently is deserving

of love except for me. I thought, what is wrong with me? I thought, why is it so easy for people

to feel like they can hurt me and that they want to hurt me? I thought, why can't I find what I'm looking for? And I understand how hard it is.

I understand how frustrating it is to feel these things and how it, you know, sometimes really

tears us down and makes us think that we're not worthy of love

and that, you know, we're not good enough. And we're going to talk a lot about self-love and

self-worth during this episode, which is also why I thought this was a perfect way to start it off.

But I promise you, you're going to be okay and you are deserving of love. And yeah, you might get

knocked down 50 times. It might not work out with 50 people, but it might work out with the 51st

person. All it takes is one. And I really did spend probably the first six to nine months of my relationship with Jake

waiting for the other shoe to drop. I kept thinking like, everything's going great. Like,

when is something going to go wrong? Or there's no way things are actually this good and this

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