Zerk

Just hang in there.

I promise you.

But I needed to really spend two years not searching for anything.

And I still went on dates, don't get me wrong, but not

committing or opening myself up to like, hey, I'm ready for a relationship because I was not a person that I think was ready truly to have something like that.

I think that there is a very real danger of relationships consuming the entirety of who you are.

And maybe romantization has something at play with it because when you meet somebody and you're like, I'm going to build a life with this person, I'm going to be in love with this person.

You spend so much of your time like going into that standard and like, you know, hitting the quotas of like, all right, I need this many kisses.

I need this many oversized teddy bears on Valentine's day.

I need to lock in on like making sure that she gets flowers every Friday, whatever kind of stuff like that.

But yeah,

I think the best relationships are the ones that are simple.

Not easy.

Easy, I think, is a... It's a dangerous game.

Because just because something is easy does not mean it will work.

Because relationships are not easy.

They're challenging.

They're very, very challenging.

But if they are simple and your conversation and your communication is simple and you are both honest, I think it can be done with relative ease.

Doesn't mean that they're easy.