Radha Agrawal

And can I sort of be honest and vulnerable with that person and share, hey, listen...

um, this is how I'm feeling right now in this relationship.

And, um, it's not working for me or I'm, I'm really, you know, sort of wanting to spend time with, you know, sort of more positive forces.

I'm, I'm going through pregnancy right now.

And, um, I don't necessarily, um, I just want to spend just some more time connecting, uh, with, with the joy in my life, you know, and, and things like that, right.

Being more honest and vulnerable and have had those conversations, um,

And it's wonderful.

Either it becomes a mirror for that person to say, oh, wow, I realize I'm not showing up the way you want me to.

Or they say, okay, I totally understand.

And let's reconnect after you give birth.

So I think that there's that honesty piece there that we forget.

We end up just ghosting our people in our lives.

We end up running away or we end up shit talking.

And it ends up being a very negative experience.

But

You know, saying sort of, this isn't the time to spend time with somebody right now because I want to level up with my community members is the best thing you can do for yourself and for your friend too because they will begin to see how they're showing up.

And hopefully they'll go on the journey of self-exploration too.

That's right.

That takes courage and vulnerability on all of our ends, but it doesn't create resentment on the other side that leads to negative storytelling and hurt and all other sort of, you know, larger issues.

So that's the first step.