Jess Ekstrom

Yeah.

like you know you have nothing to do now but and you know when like you have the stability of when like enjoy it but I could totally see how the limbo can drive you crazy so how are you managing that like what do you does it make you like want to frantically find someone or are you taking the time

I mean, it's literally if we're going off of the dating thing, you know, there's literally the term the honeymoon phase.

I mean, you're in this period where it's like, oh, this is so great.

And then it's, you know, supposed to fizzle.

And I think that that is a completely normal reaction to like any kind of achievement, relationship, any kind of good experience.

is not going to last forever.

And that's why things are good.

If it was anything that's constant becomes white noise.

And so the reason why there's ebbs and flows is like, because we're not supposed to like live life at a volume 10 all the time or else it wouldn't feel that way.

But I think that like,

When it comes to that, like, letdown, it's actually there's science behind it.

It's called the post-achievement letdown.

And they studied this with Olympic athletes, like, after the Olympics, just this huge...

like emotional crash.

I mean, Michael Phelps has been forthcoming about it.

Simone Biles has been forthcoming about it.

And it's when we put so much weight on one thing, like Olympics, a wedding, this presentation, and then it's done or it's gone, or it didn't play the way that we thought it would.

And it's like, but we played this so many times in our head.

And so that's why it's just these, I think it's just being cautious about having