00:00I've only been in two serious relationships.
00:04You have been in 10-ish relationships.
00:11For me, it's because I'm really thinking in my head,
00:15this is somebody that I could see myself marrying one day,
00:20which doesn't happen for me a lot.
00:23I guess I want to understand why the amount of relationships
00:28that you've had.
00:29I've always dated with the intention to marry.
00:33And so do whatever it takes to make it work.
00:38And if it doesn't work, it's not serving both of us,
00:41I want to be able to move forward.
00:46To me, I feel like, oh, OK, I know what I want.
00:50I know what I don't want.
00:51And the last two years were me figuring that out for myself.
00:56And there were people that were around
00:58over the last two years.
00:59But I was very adamant.
00:59I'm like, hey, I'm not going to be in a relationship again
01:03until I know that I'm the man that I want to be
01:05to be in a relationship.
01:07Because I want my next relationship to be my last.
01:10I'm not a serial dater.
01:11I happened to meet some really great women
01:13and invested myself.
01:16And they've invested themselves in relationships.
01:18And I think that's what dating is about.
01:20It's about figuring out who you're compatible with.
01:22And in order to really figure out who I am, what I want,
01:25what I don't want, so I can be the man that I want to be
01:29for my life.
01:31I guess on the flip of it is, right,
01:33so you've had fewer relationships than I have.
01:38That could be a concern in terms of, like,
01:40what does that look like in terms of us interacting,
01:43I think, is a legitimate concern?
01:47Um, I probably will be resting.
01:49Yeah.
01:50Like, it's been a while.
01:51Yeah.
01:52I think I have a lot of good qualities for a relationship.
01:57But I also take my time.
02:00That's why communication is just really big for me.
02:03Because, A, I want you to understand how I'm feeling.
02:07But I also want to understand, like, how you're feeling.
02:10So, like, if there's a moment where you're, like,
02:13you're not giving me enough, or you seem kind of closed off,
02:18like, it's okay to call me out on it.
02:19Sure.
02:21I'm hoping that once Karen sees who I truly am beyond paradise
02:25and see how I am during the workday,
02:27and that I'm the same person that I said I am when I married her,
02:30that she'll be fine.
02:32When I do think about myself at, like, the age of 26,
02:36and I was like, am I ready for marriage?
02:39The answer would have been no.
02:41Me being ready at 26.
02:43I think my entire life I've always been put in positions
02:47where I was the youngest,
02:48but, like, stepped up to whatever that is, right?
02:50And so, like, I'm a 26-year-old helping lead a school.
02:54We don't know a lot of 26-year-olds doing that.
02:55And I'm not saying that to, like, make myself seem, like,
02:58the greatest, because by far I'm not.
03:01But I'm in a position where I'm trusted to be able to do something
03:04and carry a lot of responsibility,
03:05I think that I'm going to treat our marriage the same exact way.
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