Hello and welcome. My name is Mary and I'm the host of Prologs, a lifestyle podcast where each

episode is like a digital journal entry

detailing whatever it is I'm going through in life at the moment. I talk about my journey

with mental health, relationships, wellness, beauty, personal development, and more. So join me

every Monday morning for a reminder that we're all still figuring out life for the first time,

and you are still in the beginning of your personal story.

Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of Prologs.

Thank you for your patience on the audio-only episode last week. I really want to do only video for season two. You guys know I talked about video episodes like every week in season one.

And I'm so happy to have found a studio where I can do video. But I'm sorry for the audio

only last week. I was so deathly ill. I am not deathly, but gravely ill this week. I'm just kidding.

I do feel still just so under the weather. My sinus infection has not gone away. I think if it

lasts through the weekend until maybe Monday the day you're listening to this, I need to go to the doctor.

And I hate going to the doctor because I'm definitely a let's soldier on, let's push through type of person.

I never went to the doctor growing up because my parents are such hippies.

So for me to go to the doctor is stuff, I also like have to keep reminding myself that health care is free in this country and then I'm not going to pay anything. I don't pay anything for my prescriptions and I don't pay anything for a GP visit. And if I had to go to A&E, which is accidents and

emergency, the UK version of the ER, I wouldn't pay anything for that either. But I forget that. So I don't

go to the doctor because I'm just assuming it's going to be expensive and I forget. If this continues on, I'm going to have to go to the doctor on Monday because it's been two weeks and my quality of life has been low, okay?

Real low. Productivity, zero. I'm like everyone is sick right now because every time I post it, I'm sick, my DMs are just full of girls just going through it.

So at least we're all in this together. Today's a fun episode. So my five year anniversary was yesterday.

The day that I'm filming this, it was yesterday. The day you're listening to this, I just had my

five year anniversary last week. And Valentine's Day is this week when you're listening to this.

So I thought it was the perfect time for a relationship themed episode. And because you all know,

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