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S2 E14 We Did This To Ourselves — What are we afraid of

Charlene Condu Season 2 Episode 14

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Why does it seem so easy for men to build connection… while women can sit in the same room, week after week, and still feel alone?

In this episode of Me Again, God, Charlene shares a simple, everyday story that reveals something deeper—something we don’t like to admit out loud. It’s not that we don’t want connection. We do. We crave it. But somewhere between wanting it and starting it… something breaks down.

This isn’t about personality. It’s not about being introverted or extroverted. And it’s definitely not about opportunity.

It’s about the moment we choose to stay in our seats instead of stepping out.

If you’ve ever walked away from a room full of people feeling unseen, disconnected, or just… off—this episode is for you.

Because maybe the problem isn’t that connection is hard.

Maybe it’s that we’ve stopped starting.

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SPEAKER_01

It's me again. God. Faith and went fly. I knew your name. I knew your word, but I wasn't living in there.

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Hi, I'm Charlene Condue, and this is Me Again God. I want to tell you a little story about Jason. A while back, he got an invite to hang out with a group of guys. Nothing formal, no structure, no agenda, just hey, we're getting together. You should come. And I remember thinking, that's cool. Good for him. He needs that. Guys need other guys. So he goes. And when he comes back, he's lit up. I mean, talking fast, smiling already halfway into inside jokes. I don't understand. After just one night. One. He's telling me about these guys like they've known each other for years. What they talked about, what they laughed about, what they're doing next week. Next week. I'm like, there's already a next week. And then a couple days later, his phone's blowing up. Group chat. Like, of course there's a group chat. They're sending memes, making plans, giving each other a hard time. I'm just sitting there watching this unfold. Like, how? How does this happen so fast? Now, let me tell you what I've experienced. Me as a woman, I walk into a room full of other women. Everyone looks put together, polite, friendly enough, but also guarded. You sit down, maybe you smile at the person next to you, maybe you don't. There's a moment, right at the beginning, where something could happen. A conversation, a connection, but it doesn't. So everyone just stays where they are. Time passes, you're in the same space, doing the same thing, sitting near the same people week after week, and somehow you still don't know each other. And I remember thinking, what is the difference here? Because it's not opportunity, it's not availability, and it's definitely not desire. We want connection just as much, if not more. So what is it? I started thinking about how that first night probably went for Jason. It wasn't deep. It wasn't perfect. It was probably something like, what do you like to do? I don't know. Mess around with cars. Yeah. Same. Boom. Done. Friends. Or maybe something like, I go to the gym on Tuesdays. Cool. I'm going with you. That's it. No overthinking, no analyzing, no wondering how it came across. Just start. And somewhere along the way, we as women stop doing that. We wait for the perfect moment, the perfect person, the perfect connection. And in the meantime, we sit in rooms full of people just like us and leave alone. So I have to ask you, what are we so afraid of? Because it's not that we don't want connection. We do. We have established that. We just don't start it. And that gap between wanting it and actually doing something about it. That's where the loneliness lives. So next week we're gonna talk about why, the real reasons, the ones we don't say out loud, because once we see it clearly, we can finally start doing something different. Ladies, this is important. We need each other. We need to lean on one another. It is that support system that's gonna give us the strength we need. Until next time.

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I've been walking in circles in a noise I couldn't escape. The chaos got so loud in my head, I couldn't hear a word you said. I thought I was strong doing it on my own, but here I am again.