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Every time we've met, we've both been at crossroads, and those crossroads are professional crossroads, personal crossroads, etc. I'm in the phase season of life where I'm thinking about fatherhood and becoming a dad and how do you know? 31. So I'm right at that age and my partner's 31. So that's a, you know, a crossroad I'm at. So what are you going to do about it? I don't know. Well, what are you thinking about? I think I'm collecting evidence to form a perspective. That's bullshit. You have a perspective. You don't need evidence. You have all the evidence. You talk to you do this podcast every day of your life. You do know it. None of the talking on your podcast. You do all of the listening. That's nonsense. You have an opinion. You have a perspective. I'd like to know what that perspective is. Because you're at a crossroads where you said yourself, I'm questioning the priorities I made. Yeah. So that means you have a point of view. And I'm worrying that I'm bullshitting myself about why I'm working. What is the bullshit line you're giving yourself? Why are you working? What's the bullshit line? What's the bullshit answer to that? It's like the fisherman. It's like, and then I'll make more boats and then we'll make more boats. And then for what reason? To what end? Why is it important for you to keep having all those boats in the water? So I wonder whether it's about the end, or if it's about just the fun of the journey. That's kind of what I'm not sure. Is it about the end? Is it about, you know, being able to do even greater levels of freedom in the future, which sounds like bullshit, because I've got so much freedom now? Or is it life is just about the climb, not getting to the top and having this incredible view, but I just have to keep myself sufficiently challenged in my life. That's why I'm giving myself more responsibility, setting myself bigger goals, bigger challenges. Okay, so if that's the answer, then you wouldn't be at a crossroads. This wouldn't be a conversation. So here's the blunt question. Yeah, I think. What in your life is off? I think it's probably the balance of my romantic relationship. I feel like I'm deferring. I feel like I'm telling myself that I'll have a really focus in the way that I need to on my romantic relationship, which is also going to then become my family, especially this year. I've been doing that all year. I don't think that I'll have time for my relationship in three years when I sell a business or something. That's what I've been telling myself. And I think I feel that disconnection, not just in my romantic relationships, but I just feel that disconnection, because I've told myself now that I'll figure it out in three years. If it was a business problem, if you and I were talking about a business problem, and I was telling you about a business challenge I'm having, and if I said to you, you know what, whatever, I'll figure it out in three years, you would say no, you figured that out now, because that problem will not go away. So how are you giving yourself a different standard for your romantic relationship of something that is of utmost importance to you, the desire to start a family one day? Why the different standard, a lower standard for your personal relationship than your professional work?