Emma Chamberlain

Okay, now my brain is starting to melt out of my ears.

We need to reel it in, reel it in.

Getting back on track, what I was saying was the whole point of dating and romance is that it's vulnerable.

It's romantic, hence the word romance.

It's deeply powerful.

You feel it in a really deep, profound way.

it's exciting it's kind of drug-like like all of this is what makes it so awesome you know and so to me the idea of approaching all this stuff that's normally so emotive if you will so profound so powerful whatever to like approach it with a stoicism or detachment

seems kind of unfortunate to me, you know?

Like, to just not care.

It's like, but the whole point is that you care.

The whole point, the reason why you're pursuing this person is because you care about them in a different, perhaps deeper way than you normally feel about most people.

So it didn't make sense to me.

But then, upon clicking on the YouTube video about detachment and love, I was like, oh, it's a little different.

Listen, I'm not going to take a place of authority here because we all know Emma doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about.

I'm just... I'm a student of life just like the rest of y'all, okay?

I don't know what's going on.

And by the way, you probably don't either.

But it does kind of seem to me that...

the technical definition of detachment is like not be, it's not being used properly in these conversations about dating today.

Like people who are on the internet talking about being detached in love are,