Monica Lewinsky

So there was this constant change.

And I like it.

I like it that way.

And sometimes I think you like the thing you're familiar with, not necessarily because it serves or suits your nervous system.

Yeah, enter my dating.

Enter your dating life, which I would really love to talk about too at some point.

That's for later.

We grew up in a time where anxiety was not a word.

That's right.

And it was, you could express emotion.

You could cry because you were upset because you didn't get something or you skin your knee or whatever.

But there was just, language didn't exist anymore.

For those certain kinds of things.

And then also, I think our parents didn't have, there was no, you know, it was like, oh, you didn't win, you didn't win, you know, that kind of thing.

And not saying they were neglectful at all, but it was just not part of the parental process.

vernacular my mom was 22 when she had me 24 when she had my sister so she was just ill-equipped she just wasn't even a person yet so like on a lot of when you talk about forgiveness and things like i think about this a lot with my mom who you know i love very dearly and who is i i have enormous respect for and i cannot believe that she like picked up floor from florida

in this incredibly conservative community and with conservative parents and picked up and moved to New York to be a writer.

At 27, had a three-year-old and a five-year-old or whatever the math is on that.

Don't ask me.

She picked up and moved to New York and started a life there.