5. Interlude: Real Love 2

Shay Martin talks to her friend about finding true love.

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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Okay, let's let's move on to romantic love.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh, sexy, sexy love.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay, So have you ever been in love?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay talking about romantic love?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
No, No, I have never.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I have never been. I think there were moments where
I could have maybe gotten to a relationship and like
like develop it, but it never got to that point.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Why do you think that is?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I don't know, I I don't think. Yeah, I'm trying
to think of my life and I've never I've never
fallen in love before. I feel as though, you know,
I came out. I came out as being gay when
I was twenty nine years old. So that's a good
chunk of life, right, like twenty nine years. So I

(01:18):
almost missed, Like I feel like I've almost missed like
nine years of really developing a sense of like romantic relationships.
Like I wasn't able to allow myself to be in
those type relationships until twenty nine. So being like a
full fledged adult and being thrown into the dating scene
and thrown into you know, certain relationships here and there,

(01:39):
it's actually easier. It's actually easy for me to be single, yeah,
because I've been single my whole life, you know, So
it's It's almost as if like I've tried relationships out
and I'm like given love a chance, but also at
the same time, I'm like, I'm still okay being.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Single, like, you know, because I've been single for so long, right,
I don't know if that makes sense. Up, Okay, I
understand Okay, cool and I relate.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Okay, So what you're saying to cool mm hmmmmmm