Amelia Lester

I'm a bit of a lazy boy.

And I want to pour one out especially for people who are dating listening to this advice because I think dating is the hardest place to navigate these very complicated dynamics around TMI and overshare because it's the only time in your life where you're just kind of expected to meet someone who you've never met before.

And then start talking about your family dynamics and presumably like your romantic history and your deepest, darkest fears and aspirations for the future.

And then guess what?

You may be rejected for sharing all of that.

I think the thing that I found most challenging about my years of dating was that you have a lot of regret about sharing too much.

You know, that feeling you get, it's almost like a hangover.

In fact, it's often coinciding with a hangover.

Interestingly, maybe there's a correlation there where you feel like you've given too much to this stranger and you feel really icky about it.

That's so interesting.

I think that's true.

I think that why we can't look away from this is because the promise that those influences were made was that they would be in the Middle East, but they actually could have been anywhere.

They weren't really in the Middle East.

They were kind of in this...

Disneyland version in the desert of the Middle East.

So one reel I saw from one of these influencers proudly said, she was probably saying that after two years in Dubai, she didn't know anything about Ramadan and its rituals.

Now, nor do I, by the way, but I think the issue is that if you've been living for two years in the United Arab Emirates, you should probably know something about Ramadan.

But that was part of the appeal.

They didn't have to know

anything.