Yes

... going after meeting, hopefully, their life partner, if that's where they wanted to go.

And for me- It was cleaning out my parents' house.

It was packing up my childhood home.

It was writing speeches for their funerals, picking out the dress that I would wear at their services, and it made me feel quite othered.

And unlike you, when you were talking, I was thinking, "Well, is that how I felt back then? I don't think so." When you were talking about you're not sure of the moment when you decided to write and put it out there, for me, I do remember the exact moment.

I was really railing against the mothers in my life who weren't my mother, and I wanted to carve out space with my own voice of what it felt for me to now navigate my 20s without my mom, and I didn't want the mother of my boyfriend to claim that spot, even though completely well-intentioned.

But on the individual level, what do we do about that? H- how do we begin to tackle an issue that is so big, it's categorized as an epidemic?