Brittany Luce

We've got more coming up after the break.

You know, so much of what we discussed today are the ways that our fantasies for love and really our lifestyles in general, right, are really just financial fantasies.

Like that's kind of like what's undergirding all this.

I mean, you recently wrote a book about like having people over.

You like to host a lot.

I do.

There's social anxiety beneath that, right?

I can't have friends over because my place isn't nice enough or I don't have to cook.

Or I'll never meet the right guy if I'm not wearing the right thing.

Or I'll never be happy if I don't find a guy who...

you know, is making X amount of money or whatever.

I don't know.

I mean, I don't know.

Like, are those things like actually, are social anxieties or romantic anxieties?

Are those really just financial anxieties?

Is that like, is that like, are we at the end of the episode of Scooby-Doo and we're like ripping the mask off and it's just like financial anxieties?

Here we are again.

Like, is that kind of like what's,

What's kind of poisoning the well, I suppose, in a lot of our relationship anxiety, both for friendship and romance?

I wonder like,