After spending the last few weeks talking about the harder parts of love, this week is about play.

We are making room for the stories, quirks, inside jokes, bad dates, unexpected attractions, and small moments that make our relationships memorable. Love can ask a lot of us, but it can also be strange, funny, ridiculous, and deeply fun.

This week, we are letting ourselves enjoy that part.

Love Series 8: The Ways We Learn to Love

Love does not begin with our first relationship. It is shaped by the families we come from, the friendships we choose, the roles we inherit, and the patterns we carry with us.

This series invites us to look more closely at how those experiences show up in our relationships now. Together, we will explore chosen family, gender roles, parental wounds, the difference between safety and boredom, and what it means to accept someone without enabling behavior that causes harm.

There will be space for honesty, reflection, connection, and, as always, a little bit of fun along the way.

Week One: Chosen Family and Love for Friends

Week Two: Gender Roles in Relationships

Week Three: Mommy/Daddy Issues

Week Four: How to Make Healthy Relationships More Exciting

Week Five: Enabling Bad Habits vs. Accepting People for Who They Are

Week Six: Fun Week!!

We’ll meet Mondays and Tuesdays for one hour, for six weeks. Please only join if you can commit to at least the first three weeks.

Seats are limited, so reserve your spot while you can.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

— Maya Angelou