1 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 1: Okay, so how are you? I am doing really well. 2 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 2: How are you doing? 3 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: I'm great? 4 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 3: And for those listening, this is Sarah Hensley, who we've 5 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 3: talked to before, and her specialty is attachment theories. Yeah, 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 3: since I knew you were coming on, I thought of 7 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 3: just some like topics in relationships to just throw out 8 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 3: that I've talked about on social media. You've probably heard 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 3: me talk about and I'm sure you have an opinion 10 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 3: about it. 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: So the first one is breadcrumb guy. 12 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, bread crumbing cool. 13 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 3: So breadcrumb guy. And of course I talk from my 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 3: own experience, but it's crazy to me the people that 15 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 3: reach out to me about it. So yes, thousands bat 16 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 3: millions of people reaching I mean I thought, like thousands 17 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: of you reach out to me who are hearing it, 18 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 3: validating it, Like I just say something that just like 19 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 3: jumps off the page to me, but like no one's 20 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 3: ever said it before specifically this. 21 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: Way, and then like and then I'll have like. 22 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 3: Celebrities that you guys all know text me and be like, 23 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 3: oh my god, like freaking out. 24 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: So let me expla exactly what I said was. 25 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 3: People always talk about like young guys at these like 26 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 3: bro types or like the finance guy who's like an 27 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 3: idiot and I've been through that phase, or I've dated 28 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:36,559 Speaker 3: that guy, I've converted that guy, and like that guy 29 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 3: texts or wants a booty call with some girls, or 30 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 3: like last minute plans and just like juvenile. So there's 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 3: like there are different brands of men, and that is one, 32 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 3: but like the breadcrumb guy, which can be a younger guy. 33 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 3: But what I was specifically speaking about was that one 34 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 3: might think that a man in their fifties would be 35 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 3: at like a life maturity relationship level where they would 36 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 3: be more sort of consistent and reliable. And this is 37 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 3: a blanket theory, but my perspective has been that many 38 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 3: men have been married for decades they get divorced or separated. 39 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 3: This is also like stereotypes and setting women back, but 40 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 3: in their lives, the women have handled a lot in 41 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 3: the house and the kids and the sports uniforms and 42 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 3: the pick up and drop off, and these guys are divorced. 43 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: They're used to being in a relationship. 44 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 3: They now have more money, they've got their cars, they're 45 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 3: like working, they know how to do that part, and 46 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: they've like lost this sort of ability to try or 47 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 3: engage or emotionally interact. They don't seem emotionally intelligent, and 48 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 3: so they are often breadcrumb guy, Like they think like 49 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 3: they're gonna get involved with you. 50 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: They are somewhat of a catch. 51 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 3: They've got some money and they're just going to text 52 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 3: you and like that's going to be enough. And then 53 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 3: because they're quote unquote working, they can sort of like 54 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 3: disappear and that you're going to just like take these 55 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 3: scraps and we as women are older and wiser and 56 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 3: hopefully have some financial independence, and we're like, what are 57 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 3: you talking about. 58 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: We'd rather be alone. 59 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, what do we. 60 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: Need that for? You're like a freaking caveman. 61 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. 62 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 4: I think I think the decade of like the guy 63 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 4: in his fifties is probably more of the dismissive avoidant 64 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 4: man whose wife finally was like, you're out of here 65 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 4: because our kids are grown and I can't be in 66 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 4: a loveless marriage anymore. So they kind of had this 67 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 4: pattern for a while in their marriage where they were 68 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 4: emotionally unavailable and did what we call deactivating, which is 69 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 4: just kind of go into their internal shell. And they 70 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 4: think now that they're single, dismissal avoidance, really view themselves 71 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 4: as like I just had an incompatible partner. They really 72 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 4: have a really hard time self reflecting on their own behavior, 73 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 4: and so then they get out of these marriages. They're 74 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 4: in their fifties, you know, their kids are grown, and 75 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 4: then they just toss out these breadcrumbs and they think 76 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 4: people are going to like fall over themselves to catch them, 77 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 4: and that is not what they're finding. And a lot 78 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 4: of them come to me and they're like, why can't 79 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 4: I find somebody that wants to date me? And I'm like, well, 80 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 4: let's talk about your dating strategy. Let's talk about your 81 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 4: level of comfort with your own emotions. And they look 82 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 4: at me with a blank stare like what are you 83 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 4: talking about my comfort level with my own emotions? And 84 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 4: I'm like, do you feel your feelings? Can you differentiate 85 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 4: your emotions more than like happy, sad, angry? And they're 86 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 4: like no, like I know, and I'm like okay, and 87 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 4: I'm not okay, Like that's the level of emotional intelligence 88 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 4: of that breadcrumb guy. And so he doesn't really get it, 89 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 4: like he doesn't understand why the breadcrumbs aren't enough, because 90 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 4: in his world, that's what he gave his wife for 91 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 4: so long was just these bread crumbs, and breadcrumbing can 92 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 4: really be a bad thing for somebody who has more 93 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 4: attachment insnxiety because the inconsistent reinforcement of like sometimes you 94 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 4: get something from them and then other times they're a 95 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 4: ghost or they don't put in much effort. It creates 96 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 4: a lot of anxiety for those who have more attachment 97 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 4: insecurity based and anxiety, and so it can be this 98 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 4: really up and down roller coaster for those folks who 99 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 4: sort of latch onto whatever they can get in these breadcrumbs, 100 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,119 Speaker 4: and then they end up getting their heartbroken because dude 101 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 4: just can't He just can't commit. He just is thinking, no, 102 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 4: I got to live my best life. I gotta like 103 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 4: find the one. My wife wasn't the one, And really, yeah, 104 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 4: lamor is that he's probably not compatible with literally anybody 105 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 4: because so emotionally unavailable and he doesn't realize it right. 106 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 3: And even if someone self reflects, it's hard to constantly 107 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 3: do that because you're in your own mind and your 108 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 3: own feeling. Meaning when you feel sad or you have anxiety, 109 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 3: you feel that feeling, you're not really thinking about the 110 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 3: fact that what it really means underneath or like why 111 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 3: it is it's hard to like constantly label yourself because 112 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 3: you're inside your own heart mind and you know so. 113 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 3: And also I think that person, I think that person 114 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 3: often puts their entire body and life into work. And 115 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,119 Speaker 3: if there is no work, or if work doesn't exist 116 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 3: as an outlet for that person, then they're in a 117 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 3: really bad space because they don't have the relationship to 118 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,799 Speaker 3: rely on and they don't have that easy other crutch 119 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 3: or the kids, as it's been stated that person like 120 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 3: invests more in their kids. If they don't have all that, like, 121 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 3: they really can only look inside. 122 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: And that's that's. 123 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 4: Grim, right, it is, and dismissive avoidance. Especially the most 124 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 4: unavailable emotionally type of person, they use work as a 125 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 4: strategy to stay suppressed in their emotions. Like actually, you know, 126 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 4: diving into work and staying distracted is what keeps them 127 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 4: disconnected from their emotions, and so they have to have 128 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 4: something to disconnect themselves because they've never learned how to 129 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 4: process emotion or to be in good relationship to self, 130 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 4: and so they use work. I always say das are 131 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 4: always workaholics or hobby aholics a lot of the time, 132 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 4: and it's because pouring their energy into that thing is 133 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 4: what keeps them distracted from their own inner world that 134 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 4: they don't know how to connect with. And if you 135 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 4: can't connect with your own inner world, you're going to 136 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 4: struggle to connect with somebody else's emotions and inner world. 137 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 3: I also think that person is often in relationships that 138 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,559 Speaker 3: don't require a lot of maintenance, but that also makes 139 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 3: them like go lower because then you somehow know that 140 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 3: like you're taking the path of least resistance. 141 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. 142 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean they definitely take advantage of the more 143 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 4: anxious types who will sort of self abandon and drop 144 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 4: their boundaries and like throw their needs under the bus. Doormats, Yes, dormats, 145 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 4: very much so. And it's really it's really sad because 146 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 4: those individuals are just they're trapped by that intermittent reinf enforcement. 147 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 4: And that is actually the concept behind all of addiction. 148 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 4: Like everything that is addictive has intermittent reinforcement. Like drugs, 149 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 4: you get high and then you're low, and so when 150 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 4: you're high, the need is met. When you get off 151 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 4: the drug, it's not meant gambling. You bet your money, 152 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 4: you win, the need is met, you feel great. You 153 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 4: bet your money, you lose. Making you have anxiety about 154 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 4: losing that money and wanting to bet again. So when 155 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 4: breadcrumbing happens, it is that intermittent reinforcement that is always 156 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 4: going to create anxiety and addiction to those that are 157 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 4: very susceptible to that. 158 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: It's a hit, you take it. 159 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:36,719 Speaker 2: Right, Yeah? 160 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, what about the. 161 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 3: Love bomber? So for me, there are a couple things 162 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 3: that I've experienced. Now I have ticket seven months without dating, 163 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 3: and for me, I mean I've heard people say it 164 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 3: does wonders to be celibate for a year or really 165 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 3: too it can only be like a cleanse, which is good, 166 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 3: like you start reintroducing things back in and you see 167 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 3: how it works. But for me, you know how, once 168 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 3: you're quote I don't believe in like being good or bad. 169 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 3: But once let's say you are in a cleanser, you 170 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 3: don't eat sugar or you're not drinking, like, you get excited. 171 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 3: You get days under your belt and you're excited. It 172 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 3: feels like that about not dating, and at what at 173 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 3: some point you're just like I just reached a point 174 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 3: where when someone says, well just go, you never know, 175 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 3: you might have fun, I'm like, no, the guy doesn't 176 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 3: live in a place where we're like, no, there's no 177 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 3: having fun. I won't find that fun if the guy 178 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,079 Speaker 3: at this age is not a guy that I'm going 179 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 3: to want based on like he lives in Milwaukee and 180 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 3: I'm not going to visit him there or like something fundamentally, 181 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 3: he's a Jehovah's witnet like whatever the thing is, Like 182 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 3: he has six kids. 183 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 1: Someone had. 184 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 3: A guy who's a billionaire has five kids. I'm not 185 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 3: going to be in a relationship with I'm with five kids. 186 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 3: I don't care if they're three or seventy five years old. 187 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 3: I don't want to deal with a man that has 188 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 3: to deal with five kids. I'm allowed, right, it's my life. 189 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 3: I'm allowed to not want to deal with I don't. 190 00:09:58,440 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 3: I don't want to have to date a guy who 191 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 3: was blue Eye. If I don't want to, my choice totally. 192 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 3: So it's like almost on like so strict. Now so 193 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 3: strict because I haven't had dairy and let's say seven 194 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 3: months or like I have, but I'm in like a man, 195 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 3: so I'm not introducing it unless it's really worth it. Okay, 196 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 3: So I was thinking about the love bomb guys because 197 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 3: there are different guys that have come and like, I 198 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 3: think they're aware of this with me. They've either heard 199 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 3: me say it publicly or they aware and it's almost 200 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 3: like a challenge to them. And so they want to 201 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 3: convince me based on things that I've said on social media, 202 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 3: which is a massive red flag. By the way, do 203 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 3: not communicate to me via. But they want to convince 204 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 3: me of what they are, Like I'm not I'm really mature, 205 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 3: and I'm really drama free and I'm really this and 206 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 3: I'm like, but I like you, I'm not interested. 207 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: I'm out of try. So I've told people. 208 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 3: Like in a nice way, and then one guy was like, really, 209 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 3: I promise you'll be happy you've met me, Like, honestly, 210 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,559 Speaker 3: you need to be a little more relaxed, like I 211 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 3: don't know you, I don't need to be anything, and 212 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:01,719 Speaker 3: that like assaulting me emotionally. 213 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think from following you now for 214 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 4: a while, I can tell that you have a great 215 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 4: relationship to yourself, and that's really important, Like you have 216 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 4: to love who you are. You have to know who 217 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 4: you are, you have to know what you want, and 218 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 4: you have to be unapologetic about that because authenticity is 219 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 4: the most regulating thing to the human nervous system. And 220 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 4: so if you are introducing yourself to someone and you 221 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 4: know off the bat it's not going to be authentic 222 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 4: because they don't have really what you're looking for. There's 223 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 4: some circumstance or like you said, where they live or 224 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 4: where they are in their life. What's the point because 225 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 4: obviously you have a good relationship to self because you're like, 226 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 4: I'd rather just be in relationship to myself doing the 227 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 4: things that I enjoy doing, you know, and not waste 228 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 4: my time on these people where you might get attached 229 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 4: or something and then there's this bake incompatibility that you 230 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 4: would then be stuck trying to navigate through. 231 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 2: And that's just not worth it. 232 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 4: And that's really what securely attached people can do that 233 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 4: insecurely attached people can't do, is you know, say this 234 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 4: is who I am. I'm unapologetic about it, this is 235 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 4: what I want, and I'm not going to take anything 236 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 4: less right. If you are coming at me trying to 237 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 4: convince me of who you are, I kind of see 238 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 4: that as a red flag. Like people that are that 239 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 4: are deeply know that they are good people and that 240 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 4: they have something really good to offer, don't need to 241 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 4: convince you of that right up front. They are comfortable 242 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 4: and confident enough to know that when you do go 243 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 4: on a date with me, you're going to see these 244 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 4: good qualities. I don't have to brag about myself. I 245 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 4: don't have to, you know, put myself under this spotlight 246 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:33,959 Speaker 4: to try to show you that I'm awesome. 247 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 2: That screams red flags to me. 248 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,679 Speaker 3: And that's a little addictive too, like no, no, no, 249 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 3: just get it, get in here. Once you're here, you're 250 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 3: gonna like me. And like I get being pursued. Being 251 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 3: pursued is different than what we're talking about. I like 252 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 3: you saying I would write a chapter in a book 253 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 3: called what's the point. It's called like I don't like 254 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 3: when there's something about First of all, I'm not one 255 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 3: who likes city things. I don't like to do, and 256 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 3: I don't like to be shackled and trapped and don't know, 257 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 3: like so it's like, why don't you get the whatever 258 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,559 Speaker 3: I'm getting that It's like I don't want it because 259 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 3: I don't want that because I want steak and not chickens. 260 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 3: So it doesn't matter, like why I don't have to 261 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 3: explain to you? And I also so it's like, what's 262 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 3: the point? 263 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: Is great? Right? 264 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 3: You could this could be a gorgeous hiking vacation in 265 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 3: the Red Rocks. I don't want to hike. I don't 266 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 3: like hiking. I want to be by a beach. I 267 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 3: want to ski, I want to hang glide. I don't 268 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 3: want to So there's no point And it might be 269 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 3: like you maybe try it, you might like it, Like 270 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 3: I don't want to like it because the guy doesn't 271 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 3: live where I want to live and I don't want problems. 272 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: At this age, it's different than when you're twenty five. 273 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 4: Right, And so why not spend the time doing what 274 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 4: you want to do with people you want to be around, 275 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 4: instead of setting up the situation that you know eventually 276 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 4: you're gonna have to navigate something about it that you 277 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,199 Speaker 4: really don't like, and then there's feelings potentially mixed in 278 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 4: why go there? 279 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 3: And I think it's different at a different age too, 280 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 3: which is also what's the point. If you're in college, 281 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 3: I'm just having fun, Great, then go out with seventy 282 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 3: five guys. Great, you're just having fun, that's your goal. 283 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 3: I think it's important for us to know what our 284 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 3: goals are, like they could change but you we get like, 285 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 3: you get diverted and you get in the wrong car, yeah, 286 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 3: because it looked shiny and you got in, and now 287 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 3: you're driving so far you don't know where the hell 288 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 3: you even are and when you started and what you 289 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 3: wanted because you've convinced yourself, like you get you go 290 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 3: on the day with the wrong person, you think he's hot, 291 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 3: You have good sex, you get hooked in set. Twelve 292 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 3: months later, once the beer goggles are off, you're like, 293 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 3: fuck and I knew this. 294 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:44,119 Speaker 4: But like it's the great narcissist and like it's horrible, 295 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 4: And then you are You're like, how in the heck 296 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 4: did I get here? I mean, that's my entire first marriage, honestly, Yeah, 297 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 4: entire first marriage. 298 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 299 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: You know, I've just. 300 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 4: Wrapped up in the looks and and the you know, 301 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 4: just fast pace of his life, and I got kind 302 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 4: of who dud And there was so many red flags 303 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 4: that I ignored because I was already attached. And of course 304 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 4: I had a lot of insecurities back then that I 305 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 4: don't have now. But it's just I tell people, like, 306 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 4: the best relationship you're going to have is the relationship 307 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 4: to yourself and secure people have this good relationship to 308 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 4: self where if they start dating somebody and they see 309 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 4: these red flags, they're like, okay, well, you know, I'm 310 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 4: okay facing detachment because I'm going to walk back into 311 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 4: this good relationship that I have with myself and I'm 312 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 4: okay with that. Whereas insecure people, especially with those with 313 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 4: attachment anxiety, they just don't know how to really be 314 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 4: happy in relationship to self, in their aloneness and a 315 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 4: life that they are in total control of and that 316 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 4: they have built. And that's why that journey to become 317 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 4: securely attached is so important, because it allows you to 318 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 4: detach when you see those types of red flags, like 319 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 4: if you did get whodued by the love bombing, you know, 320 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 4: and you start to realize that the mask is falling 321 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:59,239 Speaker 4: off and they're verbally abusive or there they start breadcrumbing 322 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 4: you out of the blue, or you know, they lie 323 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 4: to you or you know, cheat on you or whatever. 324 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 4: Secure people are going to go that is really yuck, 325 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 4: Like I don't want anything more to do with that. 326 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 4: The pain that you're causing me. This isn't worth it. 327 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 3: It doesn't even have to be that, though there could 328 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 3: be someone who's just so desperately love bombing, and you 329 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 3: become their entire identity. I've seen that a lot too, 330 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 3: Like I've had this where I'm a person's everything, and 331 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 3: like I have to fulfill all their needs because I'm 332 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 3: enough for them. But like, I didn't sign up to 333 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 3: be like the yin and the yang is every single 334 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 3: second of every day. I didn't want to be like 335 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 3: Batman and Robin, Like I want to have my own 336 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 3: life too. 337 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 4: Sure, I mean the goal is definitely interdependence, and what 338 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 4: you're describing is more codependence. 339 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 3: Right. 340 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 4: Someone was like you, no, you kind of complete me, 341 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 4: and like I'm not okay if you're not okay, And 342 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 4: you know, I don't see myself in any other way 343 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 4: without you in the picture. Like I don't have my 344 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 4: own hobbies, I don't have things that I like to 345 00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 4: do on my own. You know, we're not okay if 346 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 4: we spend one night apart for it, right right, right, right? 347 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 4: Like that that's not healthy. That's not interdependence. Interdependence is both. 348 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 4: You know, we have a good relationship, but we also 349 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 4: have independence in all life outside of each other that 350 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 4: is fruitful and that we enjoy and we're not just 351 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 4: completely consumed with each other and it's our identity that 352 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 4: you are my partner. 353 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 2: So I totally agree with that. 354 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 3: Another thing is that I've found my people and honesty 355 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:33,679 Speaker 3: and being able to say, like everybody doesn't have to 356 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 3: want to be in a relationship. Like there's this thing 357 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 3: with women and it seems like more traditional values right 358 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 3: to be like, oh, you're going to end up alone? 359 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: Okay, then what happened? What do we like? 360 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 3: I look at Jennifer Anison. She's on the cover of 361 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 3: Vanity I look at Jennifer Anison. She's on the cover 362 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,679 Speaker 3: of Vanity Fair magazine. Now she's been in many relationships. 363 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 3: People talk about Jennifer Lopez like the Jennifer is Like, 364 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 3: let's pretend that people are so saying, oh, this is 365 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 3: why they're alone or they can't hold a man or whatever. 366 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:09,360 Speaker 3: Like I don't know how these women feel, but if 367 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 3: they haven't been happy in their relationships and they haven't worked, 368 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 3: then being alone is better. If they're not being abused 369 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 3: in a relationship or unhappy in a relationship, or cheating 370 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 3: on or being cheated on, Like being alone is better. 371 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 3: Like for so long people have gotten away with just 372 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 3: safe saying these throwaway comments like that, like, oh, she's 373 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 3: gonna end up alone. Yeah, she might because she might 374 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 3: a want to be and I have found someone good 375 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 3: enough and see it doesn't want to give away her time, 376 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,880 Speaker 3: her money, her vagina whatever. 377 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: Like I am. I would like to meet someone. I 378 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: would like to. 379 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 3: Not date in the way that I have where I 380 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 3: always settle in some way, get really close, I get 381 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,120 Speaker 3: like eighty percent there, and I know I'm only eighty 382 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 3: percent there, and I don't go all the way. This 383 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 3: is the first time that I I've really held back 384 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 3: and held the horse back in the stall because I'm like, nope, 385 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 3: that's why it's been seven months. I'm not too picky. 386 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,919 Speaker 3: It's none of that. I'm doing it or I'm not, 387 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 3: and I'm okay. I understand the consequences. I may not 388 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 3: find it and then I'll be alone. Some people are like, well, 389 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 3: I need to be supported, or I need to have sex, 390 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 3: or I need to live with someone, or I need 391 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 3: to marry some illegally, whatever their reasons are, and they 392 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 3: know the deal. But for me, I'm in my negotiation. 393 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 3: I'm getting what i want or I'm being alone. I 394 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,200 Speaker 3: am my big girl. I know the consequences. I bet you, 395 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 3: Jennifer and Aison knows the consequences too, absolutely, I bet you. 396 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: I bet you. 397 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 3: Jennifer Lopez knows the consequences too. She has money, she 398 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 3: has kids. She may not want to be alone, but 399 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,199 Speaker 3: she may be being alone because she's not gonna you know, 400 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 3: she doesn't want to be unhappy or whatever. 401 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 1: But I hate that. 402 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 4: I can even imine the additional pressure of being famous 403 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 4: and having your everybody scrutinizing you. You know, it's hard 404 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,360 Speaker 4: enough to date, like just being a normal person, let 405 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 4: alone everybody commenting on it, everybody maybe publishing you know, 406 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 4: stories that aren't even really true about It's. 407 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 1: Not harder, though, I'll tell you why it's not harder. 408 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 1: It's not. 409 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 3: It's a different, Okay, being in a cul de sac 410 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 3: in a small town and being alone and your whole 411 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 3: town is divided and you didn't get the divorced people, 412 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 3: or the husband makes the money and belongs to the club, 413 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 3: and you don't like that is sounds way more. It's 414 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 3: more like the Gilded Age the show right now, where 415 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 3: like your entire world is small and everyone knows, like 416 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,400 Speaker 3: for us, we get to hide behind being famous and 417 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 3: doing amazing things, and we chose a career and all 418 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 3: that stuff. 419 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's good. It's scrutinized, but it's not worse. 420 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: It's just different. 421 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 2: That's interesting, that's really interesting. 422 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 4: I guess that just shows that, you know, the whole 423 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 4: process is hard, no matter where you're from or what 424 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 4: you're doing with your life, because relationships are difficult. 425 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 2: I mean, they are not They're not easy. 426 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 4: They require a lot of work, and like I said, 427 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 4: it just it just goes to show that, you know, 428 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 4: when you really do become secure, you're not willing to settle. 429 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 4: You're just not willing to settle. You're not willing to 430 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 4: make these, you know, giant compromises in your life just 431 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 4: to have somebody around. 432 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 3: No and even me having to give an explanation or 433 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 3: if Jennifer Anderson gives an explanation an article or whatever 434 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 3: the truth is, they're like, yeah, no kidding, Like what 435 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 3: do you think this is like a secret club that 436 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 3: no one realizes. We don't want to we don't want 437 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 3: we don't want a man. We're not bitter, we're not ugly, 438 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 3: we're not poor, and we have people that want to 439 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 3: be with us. 440 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: We don't want it. I don't want it. I had 441 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: a woman that I know. 442 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 3: Who's attractive and smart and has some money, like nothing crazy, 443 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 3: but like as attractive as any other person and smart 444 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 3: and interesting, and she was like, I don't want to even. 445 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: Fucking messing with my piece. I've been through it. I 446 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: don't want it, like she doesn't want it. 447 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 3: Like a certain age, and then a lot of women 448 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 3: are like, oh, that's called menopause, which is funny too, 449 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 3: like and that doesn't mean you're defective either. You just 450 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 3: may be like no, cause there is a thing that 451 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 3: happens at a certain age where forgetting your by you're 452 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 3: just like, I don't really care. I don't care if 453 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 3: people think I just want to laugh. I want to 454 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 3: be with my kids. I want to be with my cats, 455 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 3: I want to be with my dogs. 456 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: I want to be alone. 457 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 3: I want to take a walk, I want to take 458 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 3: a bath. I want to use my vibrator. I want 459 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 3: to eat bombonds. I want to do what I will. 460 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: I don't men are fucking annoying, like and irritating. 461 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 2: I do. I get it. 462 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 4: It's one of those people like the pendulum can swing 463 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 4: too far either way, like if you have to have 464 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 4: them or you're just like, no, I'm never open to 465 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 4: the possibility ever again in my entire life, no matter. 466 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 4: If it falls in my lap, then you know, then 467 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 4: I think you might there might be some avoidance. But 468 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 4: when you're just like, Okay, yeah it sums, then it's 469 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 4: and it's right and it's a good fit and it 470 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 4: falls into place for me, then then so be it. 471 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 2: But if it doesn't, but. 472 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 1: You let's go back. 473 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 3: You said there could be some avoidance. But the difference 474 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 3: is that's not hurting anybody else. It's a one man band, right, 475 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 3: You're right exactly. 476 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: So it's an avoidant maybe. You know. 477 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 3: For me, one of the reasons I want to be 478 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,880 Speaker 3: in relationship is for my daughter. I want that unit, 479 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 3: I want that family, I want that tradition. I want 480 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 3: that for her. She's not crying or craving it. She's 481 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 3: an amazing life. It's something that I would like for her, 482 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 3: and I think it would be enhance her life. But 483 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 3: she is a wonderful life. But like, it's not what 484 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 3: you're So if you have a situation where you really 485 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 3: with like a partner for your kid, like a man 486 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 3: for your son, or some tradition, that's maybe the avoidance 487 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 3: could be hurting someone, but like, yeah, most part, it's 488 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,679 Speaker 3: not really like it's really your own right choosing. 489 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's when people that are really avoidant but that 490 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 4: they don't know that they're avoidant, and then they go 491 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 4: and they try to have these really intimate relationships and 492 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 4: a lot of dismissive avoidance actually do love bomb in 493 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 4: the beginning, like that's the only time that they feel 494 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,120 Speaker 4: safe enough to connect. So they show up as this 495 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 4: person that's extremely interested and extremely you know, affectionate and attentive, 496 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 4: and then they rope people in and they do tend 497 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 4: to attract people who have more attachment anxiety, and then 498 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 4: they just flip that switch and they go into their 499 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 4: avoidance and they deactivate and they pull away, and it's 500 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 4: so painful for the person on the other end because 501 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 4: it's just like doctor Juckell and mister Hyde, like you 502 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 4: came in as one person and then just like in 503 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 4: no time, you became someone I don't even recognize, who 504 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 4: is just this distant kind of ghost. And that's when 505 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 4: it's hurtful. But it's totally fine to be like, you 506 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 4: know what, I don't want it right now, so I'm 507 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 4: gonna I'm not going to pursue something that I don't 508 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 4: want and then you end up hurting that person that's 509 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 4: not good, or you end up coming into a crossroads 510 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,199 Speaker 4: where you saw that there was this incompatibility that had 511 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 4: always been there, but now you actually really have to 512 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 4: face it because it got real and now there's attachment 513 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 4: and there's feelings involved, and it becomes this huge deal. 514 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 4: So it's yeah, being alone is not hurting anybody. It's 515 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 4: not hurting anything. 516 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 3: Now, once you realize that you've been in a relationship 517 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 3: with dismissive avoidant, you detach and then they come and 518 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 3: play their games and you really just don't care. That's 519 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 3: been my experience. Like on once you've assigned the animal, 520 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 3: like once you realize like it's like a black cat 521 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 3: or it's a scorpion or whatever, like you're like, oh, 522 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,880 Speaker 3: it's so clear, and you definitely don't have the same 523 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 3: unless you're just like an absolutely addictive person and then 524 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 3: you have your own issues like yourself. 525 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 1: Savage. 526 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 2: A lot of those people. 527 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 4: I see a lot of those anxious people that are 528 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 4: with the dismissive avoidance, and a lot of them, you know, 529 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 4: they don't know what they don't know, so they're they're 530 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 4: married to these men. 531 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: Wow, that's scary. 532 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 4: You've been like starved for any kind of affection or 533 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 4: emotion from their partner for like two decades, and they 534 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 4: have kids, and they have finances and maybe a lot 535 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 4: of these women they don't have their own money. 536 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 2: I mean. 537 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,640 Speaker 4: One of the things my mom, and I'm so grateful 538 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 4: she did this. She sat me down one day when 539 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 4: I think I was like seventeen, and she was like, listen, 540 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:58,880 Speaker 4: She's like, you're going to college next year. I don't 541 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 4: know if you'll meet somebody. I don't know when you'll 542 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 4: find the guy that you want to meet. But I'm 543 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 4: going to tell you one thing, and this is the 544 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 4: only piece of relationship advice I can really give. You 545 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 4: have your own money, Like whatever you do, oh god God, 546 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 4: have your own money, because you do not want to 547 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 4: end up with someone who is horrible to you and 548 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 4: then you're financially dependent upon them, and that is another 549 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 4: means of control. And that is exactly what happened in 550 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 4: my marriage. I needed to get out, and thank god 551 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 4: I had a really good job. 552 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 3: What happens if you have to move to take care 553 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 3: of your parents and your husband changes his mind or 554 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 3: he has a nervous breakdown, like be smart. It could 555 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 3: be anything you want, but not at the cost of 556 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 3: having no freedom. 557 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 4: Yeah know, the risks is what I would say. I 558 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 4: would be like, really know the risks because everybody goes 559 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 4: into marriage thinking, like nobody goes in and they're like, 560 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 4: you know what, I think I'm probably gonna end up 561 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 4: divorced with this marriage. Like nobody does that. Everybody thinks, 562 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 4: you know, this is the one, We're gonna make it. 563 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,439 Speaker 4: You know, we can work through anything. But the thing 564 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 4: of it is is people change. Like there's actually a 565 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 4: psychological theory about how we believe we are the person 566 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 4: that we are now is who are always going to 567 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 4: be And that's not true. Like they've actually done studies 568 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 4: and show just how dramatically people change over the decades. 569 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 4: And so you're not going to be the person in 570 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 4: ten years that you are right now. I mean, maybe 571 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,120 Speaker 4: there are some core things about you, but the kind 572 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 4: of music you listen to, or what you like, or 573 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 4: your routines or your habits or you might get into 574 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 4: different hobbies. There are lots of things that are going 575 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 4: to change about you over the course of your lifespan 576 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 4: and you just can't count on someone else's behavior always 577 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 4: being what it is right now, like someone might but 578 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 4: I and then they're not. 579 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 3: But I think that young girls all would never believe 580 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 3: not it's not going to happen to me. I don't 581 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 3: think that people would really hear that and digest that 582 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 3: that are young. Only people our age and of institutional 583 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 3: knowledge believe that. 584 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 1: I think someone young can digest. 585 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 3: Somebody gets sick, somebody, you know, somebody's diagnosed with you know, 586 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 3: anxiety or depression or is byle or something like something 587 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 3: like drastic that could happen. Somebody gets in an accident, 588 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 3: somebody is a professional or an athlete and they get hurt, 589 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 3: Like what would actually happen if if the situations change? 590 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, worst stories I've seen and. 591 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so anyway, I don't even know. 592 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 3: It's just no the risks, don't take the risks, don't 593 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 3: take the risks, have a side, hustle, whatever it is. 594 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 4: I mean, I'm so glad my mom told me that 595 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,920 Speaker 4: and like burned it into my brain. And I mean 596 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 4: my parents did not have a good marriage, but I 597 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,440 Speaker 4: mean she did, you know, instill that in me, And 598 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 4: it was a lifesaver. It was the reason I could 599 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 4: get out from something that was really, really bad. 600 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 3: And then the last thing is kind of related to 601 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 3: what we were saying before. I was talking about being 602 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 3: too pick you're too picky for who for you? 603 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: For what? Like? 604 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 3: Am I gonna go to a restaurant and I'm too bad? 605 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 3: I want to eat what I want to eat. I'd 606 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 3: rather not eat than eat something bad. So isn't it 607 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 3: my body my choice? Too picky? 608 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 2: I don't even understand what that means. I don't know. Okay, 609 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 2: picky thing. I think that's knowing what you want. 610 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 4: And you know, you posted this this post and you're like, 611 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 4: I have seen people like have great fashion and then 612 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,239 Speaker 4: like move up and be on these magazines. And she's like, 613 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 4: I could have had, you know, be styled any way 614 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 4: I want. And you show this bathing suit that was 615 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 4: like vac mode, like that basing bathing suit. Oh yeah, 616 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 4: that is so freaking authentic and just embodying your authenticity 617 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 4: of like I am who I am, I know what 618 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 4: I want. 619 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 2: I'm not going to settle for anything less. 620 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 4: I don't give a crap if anybody doesn't like my 621 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 4: bathing suit, because I love my bathing suit, Like I 622 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 4: love this, I love this sparkly jacket. I love whatever 623 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 4: it is. Right, I'm not just going to just bend 624 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 4: the knee to whatever society thinks that I should want 625 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 4: or like. And I think the same thing applies to relationships, 626 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 4: Like you don't have to bend the knee and just 627 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 4: you know, date some guy just so you can be 628 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 4: seen dating or just so that you seem like you're, 629 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 4: you know, a good catch. No, you're just like I 630 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 4: know who I am and I don't need to prove 631 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 4: it to anybody. If the right thing comes my way, okay, 632 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 4: but but if not, I'm not just going to be 633 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 4: totally I'm going to go on the state just so 634 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 4: I can I can feel like worthy, right or flex 635 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 4: to whoever's watching. 636 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, she's referring to this cheesy bathing suit that has 637 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 3: smiley faced and rainbow and puffy letters. And it was 638 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 3: so stupid, but like I was so attracted to it 639 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 3: because it just reminds me of my childhood and growing 640 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 3: up in Florida. And it was totally cheesy, but like 641 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 3: I have a cheesy side. 642 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: I like it. 643 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 3: Like I'm aware that I'm not going to like go 644 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 3: to the met Gala because of it, but like, I 645 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 3: don't give a shit. 646 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: I love the bathing suit the same way. 647 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 3: That like people are like, wait, you're really rich, what 648 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 3: are you doing on jet Blue? What do you mean 649 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 3: when I'm doing jet Blue? I'm doing what I want 650 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 3: to do. I'm doing It's the airport's forty minutes from 651 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 3: my house. 652 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: I'm doing. My daughter and I are there. 653 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 3: I'm not spending fifty thousand dollars and having two pilots 654 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 3: and a giant plane and all this gasoline in this waste, 655 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 3: even though I can, I'm not going to do that. 656 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: I don't want to alone. 657 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 2: I love that your nervous system is probably very healthy. 658 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, the times it was inauthenticity, like not being who 659 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 4: you are and caring so much about what everybody thinks. 660 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 4: It's so disregulating. It's so disregulating, and I can only imagine. 661 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 4: There are so many people, not famous people definitely, but 662 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 4: famous people that they're oh of that, yes, you know 663 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 4: who they feel like they have to be. 664 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 3: Oh my god, you have to watch Gilded Age. If 665 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 3: you haven't, you need to watch it. It's on my list. 666 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 3: I'm obsessed. And it's all about literally nothing matters if 667 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 3: no one else saw it. The society determines everything. It's horrendous. Yeah, 668 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 3: it's really crazy, so awesome. All right, well this was amazing. 669 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 3: I love having your own. I could talk forever and 670 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 3: ever and ever. 671 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 2: Thank you so much. 672 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 1: Does you want to walk to the utterm