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And y', all, let me just say I know I'm a little late posting this episode, but I really wanted to talk about a black rom com. Let's call a spade a spade. So this is a light episode, and I really hope you guys enjoy it. And even though it was just meant to be an easy watch and something to make you feel good, I want to talk about what Yumi and Tuscany taught me about love, because there are a little bit of, you know, some gems. There are some gems sprinkled out through there. But before we get all the way into our episode, let's go ahead and jump into our affirmation of the week. This week's affirmation is I deserve a love that feels safe. Let's go ahead and drop in, y'. All. I deserve a love that feels safe. I deserve a love that feels safe. I deserve a love that feels safe. I deserve a love that feels safe. I deserve a love that feels safe. Let's say it one last time together. I deserve a love that feels safe. Y', all. Y', all, y'. All. I just love this affirmation. I mean, granted, I pick all the affirmations for all of the episodes, but I really love this affirmation because it talks about not just love itself, but one that feels safe to you. Because a lot of times we can get into situations where our mind is like, yeah, this is a good situation for you, but our body doesn't feel it. And I really think it's important to listen to our body and listen to our intuition and listen to our gut when it comes to love as well. Because just because the love this. This relationship that you have with a person doesn't feel horrible or it doesn't feel bad doesn't mean it's the relationship for you. And I think it's very important for us to, ooh, look at the sun coming out. I think it's very important for us to really get into a position where we know what our body needs, we know what our heart needs, and we know what type of love we want. The first thing that Yumi and Tuscany taught me about love. Actually, let me back up you. Me in Tuscany was a movie made by Will Packer. Let me pull it up, because I don't want to lie to y' all about anything because I'm just going off of what I know about the movie. Let's see. Okay. Yeah. So you, Me in Tuscany is a rom com that came out a little while ago, and it stars Halle Bailey and Reggae Jean Page. And. And basically what happens is Anna, who is Halle's character, she is a very impulsive person, and she. She starts the movie off as, like, a house sitter. And she always immerses herself into her client's life. She be wearing their clothes. She be acting like this is her life. She does, like, luxury house sitting. And the movie opens, and one of her clients find her wearing her clothes and all that stuff and fires her. So she takes that opportunity of her not having a job to go to Italy. In a nutshell, I don't want to tell you all of the parts. She takes the opportunity to go to Italy because at a bar, the night that she gets let go, she meets this guy who is from Italy and says he has a home there, but he never. He's never there. So she decides to pop up in Italy and, I guess live in this man's house. So I think this movie and it was also produced by Will Packer. One thing about me, I'm a support a black rom com. I'm a support a black movie. Stop. Let me back up. I'm a supporter black movie. But when I say I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie in theaters, y', all, I had such a good time. I really hope you guys watch it. I've seen a lot of discourse about it not being a good rom com or about it being portraying the worst parts of American tourism. And that's coming from a lot of people that, one, are not black, I've noticed. And two, that don't actually know what a rom com is because they're like, oh, I saw it coming. And the story didn't have any depth. Baby, tell me a rom com that actually does have a lot of depth. I'll wait. Because that's what a rom com is. It's a romantic comedy. It's something to make you feel good, something to make you laugh, something to sprinkle in a little bit of love in there, right? You want the happy ending. So I thoroughly enjoy watching it. But the first thing that this movie taught me about love is love should feel like a soft place to land. And I say this because love that's meant for you won't have you constantly questioning it, right? So I get to this place because in the movie, um, Anna, go. What's the guy's name? I gotta. I don't even remember the character's name, y'. All. I'm calling these people by their real name. Hold on. So Anna goes to stay in Mateo's house. Mateo is never in town. He has, like, left his family to do other stuff. And she goes to stay at his house and his mama and grandma pop up. Long story short, Anna, in her typical fashion, has went through the man's stuff and she found a wedding ring, and she put the ring on. So she just walking around the house washing clothes, got the ring on, and the mama and grandma see her and like, girl, what are you doing in this house? And before she could say anything, the mom is like, oh, my gosh, are you marrying my son? So this girl says, yes. So long story short, Mateo eventually comes to Italy and was like, what are you doing? We got to tell my parents the truth. And because it's a rom com, you already know, as soon as they try to tell what's going on, the family is just super excited because Mateo was like the black sheep of the family. He was always doing the wrong thing and all of this type of stuff. So he loved the fact that his family was praising him and actually thought that he was doing good stuff with his life, right? So Halle's character, Anna, starts to say, well, we actually have something to tell you. And he is like, girl, no, we not about to tell them. So they have to pretend that they are engaged about to be married. So they start planning the wedding and all of this type of stuff. And the whole time I keep saying Halle, y'. All. If I call her Halle, just know Anna, whatever. The whole time, Halle's character and Rege Jean's character are going back and forth, tit for tat, like they are. A love hate relationship is building there. And the one thing that I noticed throughout the entire movie, Anna is supposed to be marrying Mateo, but he's always nowhere to be found. And Rege Jean's character is always. What's his character's name? Rege Jean's character's name is Michael. Michael is always coming to the rescue, right? So I say that love should always feel like a soft place to land, because throughout the movie, Anna just continuously lands in Michael's hands, his arms, every single time. He's always there to help. He's always making sure that she is good. And I just love that. I think a lot of times in relationships we can think that that roller coaster of emotion, we can. We can normalize that emotional roller coaster as passion, when in fact it's not. And all it does is disrupt your nervous system and keep you in a fight or flight stage. And that's not really the type of love that I want. I do want a love that it's easy for me to land into. And before I even know It. I'm already in it. My guard is down, my heart is open. And I am open to wherever this relationship leads. And that's definitely what this relationship, in my eyes, this is what I got from it. It didn't feel chaotic. It felt very calm. Especially as Black women, we have been conditioned to associate struggle with if it's hard or if there's so many obstacles. It's like, okay, yeah, I definitely need to stick with this, because this is just how the cookie crumbles. And I will say, for me, there is this unfamiliarity of peace in relationships. As I even think about my past relationships, I can't say that I was truly at peace in them. And it's very unfamiliar to me. And I really love to know what that feels like. When I first started dating my last boyfriend, it did feel peaceful at the beginning, but it wasn't really. I can't say that it was actually peace, because it was still new, you know, My heart did feel at rest with him and at ease with him. But as we continued to be in the relationship, things started presenting themselves where I was like, oh, wait, is this a relationship for me, or am I doing something too much? I started questioning myself. Not in a bad way, but in a typical way that you do if you want to figure out if you are compatible with someone or if you need to change things in that sort of way. But it was happening every single day, if that makes sense. But I think the biggest thing is that this movie gives ease. Not boring and not flat, but it's just very grounded. And you just saw these two characters continually come together. And even when at the end of the movie. Because as all romantic comedies go, the lie has to come out or the truth has to come out from the lie. After she said they're not together, Reggae Jean's character still wanted to be with her. He did not care about all of that. It was very grounded in reality. I think that happens a lot in the real world. We don't tell people that all the time, but I think a lot of times we do have those situations where we're not chosen at first. But then when the opportunity does present itself, we do go back and say, you know what? I actually want to be with this person. Okay, y'. All. Do you ever look at your bank account and feel like you're doing everything right, but you're still losing money to fees? Like little charges here and there that just don't really make sense? Okay, I've been there. And before I continue, let me just say this, it's 2026, and every institution out there needs to do away with those fees as a whole. But I digress on that. But Chime, y'. 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That's talkiatry.com affirmations to get matched in minutes. The second thing that this movie taught me is that you do not have to become someone else to be loved. And I think this is so huge, especially for me in my 20s, I was very impressionable when it came to a relationship. And, you know, a lot of times people will say, you become your partner in relationships, the longer you're together. Like, y' all are basically like twins, or, you know, y' all finish. You finish each other's sentences. You end up doing the same things. And all of that type of stuff. I would start, especially as the type of person I am, I would start taking on my partner's interests, and I would do those over my own interests. And this is parallel in the movie because Anna is not performing for love, right? She. She came, she had this lie that she. And this is why she's in Italy and all of this stuff. But she did not try to become somebody else, even though. Because she has no family. I didn't mention that. But her mom passed away, and she doesn't really have any family. So that was the drawing factor that kept her in Italy. And she loved being around Matteo's family. But she didn't say, oh, you know what? I'm gonna. We're gonna make this work. Because Matteo was like, you know what? I think we actually should get married. And Anna was like, nicka, what? We not about to get married. What are you talking about? This is all a lie. We about to tell your family this. I'm not about to marry you. I don't know you. And I love that she did that versus it even being an inner conflict. Like, there was no inner conflict in the movie because you don't have to become somebody else for love. And even though this would not have been love on her part, it would have been acceptance. And on the flip side of that, even as she is starting to fall in love with Michael, maybe not saying anything about it, she is still herself. She's still her New York self, and she still acts very American, which, granted, we don't get into much of her backstory and inner life in the movie, but she's still seemingly very much so herself in the movie. She doesn't perform for love. She stays herself while navigating this entire experience. And I think that's a contrast that we don't have or that. Let me speak for me. That I don't have. There's a lot of times where I feel like I need to adjust who I am or how I am or I over give or I over explain to be chosen. And she was just up there like, boy. Because Michael owns a winery, a vineyard, she was like, boy, this wine is okay. I mean, I'm gonna drink this wine, but okay, whoa, you got a whole vineyard in Italy. Okay, all right. And not in a way where it's like, you need. She's trying to humble him, but okay, all right. I'm not about to overact. I'm not about to, you know, make it seem like I'm this big wine person or anything like that. And I really did appreciate that. I think it's because the right love does not require performance. It recognizes you as you are. You can come as you are. And that's really what I'm trying to look for in. In my life as well, y'. All. I think the biggest takeaway is that the right love gives you more room to be you, not less room. And I think the more that I. In my 20s, and, you know, I'm in my early 30s, so for the majority of my 20s, I would shrink in a relationship versus grow in my relationship. And that is something that I am yearning for in my next relationship. I want to make sure that I am growing with this person. Not just growing with them, as in becoming the same person, but also growing my interests as well, making sure that I'm filling my cup with my personal interest. Because at the end of the day, and I hear people say this all the time, don't forget that you're two separate individuals. Because a lot of people make their whole identity being in a relationship, and that becomes a thing when you don't make sure that you are still your own person. You don't have your own friends, you don't have your own hobbies. You don't have your own favorite things to do. And when you. I think it's the biggest thing is, like, make sure that you keep your hobbies and interests so that you and your partner have something to talk about at night. You know, like, you have to make sure that you're still doing the things that you love to do, because next time you look up, you gonna be 30 years in this relationship and be like, dang, I stopped doing archery 15 years ago. Where did all that time go? You know, I think it's very important to make sure that you're doing that. And I think for me, that has come from the feeling that I need to earn love. And I felt like that for a very long time. That is attached to childhood trauma, attachment styles, all of that sort of thing. I think it's very important to make sure that I get out of that trying to earn love. So, yeah, you do not have to become someone else to be loved. The third thing that Yume and Tuscany taught me about love is love is also about choosing yourself in real time. It's not about waiting. It's about discernment. It's about discerning whether this situation is something that I should lean into or something that I should fall back from. And I think a big part of discernment comes with your relationship with God. That is a me thing. And I think discernment comes. It comes easier the more you flex that muscle. Right. So I think we should talk about the idea that every connection isn't necessarily meant to last. You could either be a lesson or a blessing in somebody's life. And some people could just be in your life for a season. And even if it feels good in the moment, it doesn't mean that you're going to have this partnership, this relationship with this person in this capacity forever. So I think it's about choosing what aligns with your future and not just your feelings right now, because. Let's take a look at Anna. So after Ana told the family, hey, me and Matteo are actually not getting married, she packed her bags and she was going home. Mind you, she already liked Michael at the time. And she left. She picked up and left. The family went to the bus stop, and I think the bus. The bus stop was far away because she had to get a taxi or a car to take her. And it took them a minute to get to the house. So the bus stop was Far away. And the family went out there and said, we see how you act around Michael. You need to go get your man. And she was like, I can't go get my man. I have to get back to my life in New York, all this type of stuff. So she was putting herself first. And she was also being mindful. Michael, don't wanna be with me. Cause I'm lying. I've been lying. I've been lying this entire time. So once they planted that seed in her, she's like, you know what? Let me go and get my man. So she goes to find Michael, and he's at his vineyard, all of this type of stuff, and voila. As romantic comedies do, they confess their love for each other and then they, you know, fall back. And I love that Michael didn't pressure her. But also, honestly, now that I think about it, Michael should have came to the bus stop, not the family. But you never know what's going through anybody's head. He's probably like, okay, I'm gonna let her get back to her life. This is not what she came here for. She came here to just, you know, because she mentioned that she had a ticket to Italy because she was supposed to go with her mom. So Michael knew that, hey, maybe this girl was just here for that. She don't want to be with me. All this stuff, I'm going to just call it what it is. We had a great time, whatever. And I think that's also the annoying part about rom coms. They always add a little bit of in there, like this type of scenario. But I think we can learn from it because, yeah, it's about choosing yourself in real time. Love isn't just about being chosen. It's about choosing wisely and also choosing people who choose you back. So it's not just all in one person's hands. Yes, confess your love. But hey, if Michael or if Anna wouldn't have wanted to be with the other person, let's just go ahead, buy our business, right? Attraction is not enough, especially in the long haul, because attraction fades. Beauty fades. And making decisions that honor your future and not just your feeling in the moment, set you up for success in the long run. It's very important to take into consideration what you got going on in your life. Ella ain't really had nothing to get back to in New York. She didn't. She lost a job. She didn't have nowhere to stay, all of this stuff. So her heart and mind was open to being with this guy. And I really want to Know what they did after? Because they did not share that in the movie. But I want to know, where did they go? Did they stay in Italy? Did they go back to the United States? What did they do? What did they do? But with all that being said, I think the biggest takeaway for me that I was thinking about after watching this is. And I wish I would have had this question in my head in my 20s. Just because I can have this love, does that mean that I should keep it? I think that's so important because that's where your discernment comes into play. You really have to stack up. Okay, is this something that I should be pursuing? Is this something that, that I'm not supposed to pursue? And I think that goes hand in hand with you and your intuition, your discernment and your relationship with God. But at the end of the day, reminding myself it's about choosing myself in real time and not sacrificing my entire life just for love, because that's just going to end in resentment at the end of the day. Watching you, me in Tuscany really reminded me that I. I don't want to love just for the sake of being in love. And even when I say that, I'm like, well, will it really be love if it's just for the sake of being in love? I don't know. I think there's levels to love and I think making sure that I am discerning the situation versus going full force because your girl like to go full force. I really, I fall head first into a relationship not real quick because I haven't really been in that many relationships, but I have always been very passive in my dating life. If a guy likes me, I give him a chance. And if he wants to be my boyfriend, I say yes. I've only said no to a guy once. Granted, I don't want a hundred guys asking me to be their girlfriend. And it being a no either, I don't want to, you know, present myself in that way either. But even if I have been in situations where there is this guy that has asked me to be his girlfriend out of the blue, and I'm like, okay, I mean, I guess I should since you want me to be. I don't want to be passive in my love life anymore. I want the kind of love that feels peaceful. I want the kind of love that lets me show up fully as my crazy, zany extra self. And the kind that. The kind of love that aligns with the life that I am intentionally building for myself right now. And I think my homework is to make sure that I keep up with that. Because if I can't answer the question, well, what do you want out of life? Or how do you see yourself in relationship in 5, 10 years? Then I can't really open myself up to a relationship. I feel like I need to have all of that locked in and not in the sense of, oh, I want a house, I want two kids. I'm not talking about the frivolous things. I'm talking about things, oh, I would love to be in a equally yoked, God fearing relationship. I want to be with a man who is God fearing. I want to be with a man who knows how to lead, you know, those sorts of things. That is what I want to make sure that I have loctite. I want to be with a man who doesn't have a problem taking sabbatical in Italy for a year to two years, because that's something that Tyra really wants to do. I need to be upfront about those things because I'm about to be 32, y'. All. I can't put my. I can't push my stuff to the side for that much longer because I'm trying to have some kids, okay? My mom on them is ready for some grandkids, and I am not even halfway there. But at this point in my life, love isn't just something that I am hoping for. It is something that I am being extra selective about. And Yume and Tuscany just had me thinking about love in a slightly different, more creative and interesting way. Uh oh. Y', all, you know what time it is. It is time for our fun closing segment. And today's closing segment is recommendation of the day. Yay. Yay. This is where I give y' all some of the things that I have been loving recently. And I have three for you today. The first one, well, actually, I'm gonna do this one as since we talking about movies today, things that I have been watching that I want to recommend to y'. All. The first one up. I. I don't know how I forgot about this show, but I forgot about this show for a little while. And then I was like, I need to keep watching this show. School Spirits on Amazon Prime. So good. It's about this girl who gets body snatched. She's in high school. She gets body snatched in season one, and she spends the next season trying to figure out how she's gonna get back into her body. Now there's a lot of twists and turns, and it's more of a suspenseful thriller. It gets a little scary by season three, but it's not like, scary like, ah, turn this off. It's like, ooh, this is a little spooky, but I love it. I think the writing is really good and the storyline kept me very engaged. So school spirits on Amazon Prime. The second one. This is on Hulu. I think it's just on Hulu. It's not on Disney, but I have Hulu and Disney, so I can watch Hulu through Disney since Disney bought Hulu. But, y', all, if you watch the Handmaid's Tale, you gotta watch the Testaments. It is so trippy watching this show because there has been a lot of time that has passed since Handmaid's Tale came out. So it just feels very. The timeline feels accurate of all of this stuff. So if you don't know what the Handmaid's Tale is, it's this dystopian world where the United States falls and women ain't having no babies no more. There's a huge infertility crisis. So these people who are supposed to be Christians. And let me say this, I cannot stand how they portray Christians in stuff like this because they always make them super weird. And I'm Christian and I'm not weird. But there's these Christians who want to make their own country called Gilead. And they take all of the women that are still having babies and they enslave them and make them handmaids, and they have sex with the husbands to make babies for those families. Yeah, we gonna leave it at that. That's how it happens. So one of the Handmaids, she's the main character. Her name is June Osbourne, and she's played by Emily Osment. And I absolutely freaking love her. I think she is such a dope actress. She just basically wants. She gets out of. Her goal is to get out of Gilead, but she has a child that was taken into Gilead as well. Now she eventually gets out. By the end of the season, she gets out of Gilead, but she has to leave her daughter Hannah there. The Testaments picks up 15 years later when Hannah is old enough to be married off, y'. All. It's good so far. I have been hooked. New episodes come out every Wednesday, and I have been so hooked on this show. It is. It's just so trippy and so crazy. I just. I just love it. I love it, love it, love it. Um, and then the third show is. Here's the third show. If you have not seen it, it's Been out. Beauty in Black. Fun fact. I be hate watching this show. I'm not even gonna lie. But let me tell you why I be hate watching it. I be hate watching this show because I auditioned for it. I auditioned for this show and I did not get cast. But you know what? It's okay because God has what is for me is for me what God has for me. No. No man can take away. So I was like, you know what? Okay, cool. But it has three seasons. 2. Am I tripping? Three seasons? I don't know. It has a couple of seasons. And it basically. It's just crazy. It's a crazy show and there's so much going on, but it's basically about this family who is very well off and they have a hair company, and it just takes you through all of their lives, all of the crazy things that they're doing. And underneath it all, there's a lot of bad things happening. There is human trafficking going on, and the owner of the company ends up marrying one of the girls that has been trafficked. So we watch all of that unfold. I think it's a crazy show, and I like watching stuff that takes me away from reality. So all three of these shows are not, like, very based on reality, which I love. When I'm watching tv, suspend my disbelief as much as you can, because I want to get away. I love shows like this. So we have my three recommendations are School Spirits on Amazon prime, then we have the Testaments on Hulu Disney, and then we have Beauty and Black, which plays on Netflix. All right, y'. All, I hope you enjoyed this episode. I know lately I have not been posting as much as I should have, and I'm really trying to find my groove. I'm really trying to figure out what I want to talk about on the show. I really want to bring guests on the show. I'm not even going to hold you, y'. All. It's just a lot of logistical things that I have to take into consideration. But I hope you enjoyed this episode. And if you are watching on YouTube, please make sure you give this video a like. And if you're not already subscribed to the channel, make sure you hit that big red subscribe button down below and turn your notifications on so you can get all the alerts anytime we post any new episodes. And if you're listening on your favorite listening platform, please make sure you rate the podcast and review the podcast. Our reviews help so, so, so, so, so, so much. And in the comments, if you're watching on YouTube. 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