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Speaker 1: This is the Fitz and Whipper with Cape Ritchie podcast.

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Speaker 2: What would you do if this was you? My parents

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Speaker 2: keep inviting my ex to dinner unannounced. So they were together,

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Speaker 2: happily married, everything was going really well. All of a

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Speaker 2: sudden she lost interest.

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Speaker 1: And it's not all of a sudden. It's never all

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Speaker 1: of a sudd.

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Speaker 2: Come for him.

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Speaker 1: It was, Oh, she just woke up one day in

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Speaker 1: a mood.

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Speaker 3: Divorce.

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Speaker 2: Really yeah, it hadn't been the winding that happened for

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Speaker 2: the ten years prior to nothing to do with it

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Speaker 2: at all anyway, So they've decided to separate the family,

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Speaker 2: though right her family are so in love with her

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Speaker 2: now ex husband that they continue to spend time with

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Speaker 2: him and tactically try to get them back together by

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Speaker 2: inviting him around for dinner unannounced. So she comes through

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Speaker 2: the door, Good to be back at the family home. Mom,

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Speaker 2: dad here, I am, Oh, Steve, you're here? What do

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Speaker 2: you do?

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Speaker 3: I always feel it creepy when parents stay close to

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Speaker 3: ex's I always found that really creepy. And I can

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Speaker 3: understand if you want to catch up with them maybe

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Speaker 3: outside of your world, that's totally fine, but don't bring

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Speaker 3: them back into your world weird.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it quite a lot happens if you're

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Speaker 1: the girl. Sorry, I haven't warmed up yet. If you're

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Speaker 1: the son, right, and they think that that girl that

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Speaker 1: you've been with is the best thing that ever happened

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Speaker 1: to you. You know, you finally moved out of home,

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Speaker 1: you learn how to wash your own clothes. She was

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Speaker 1: just doing that, and you just think, oh no, what

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Speaker 1: is my son, who was hopeless before? What's he going

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Speaker 1: to do without?

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Speaker 2: So I need somebody to continue this replaced role.

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Speaker 3: Because can I ask you, Kate, over the years with

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Speaker 3: your partners, I love, what was the approval rating from

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Speaker 3: your mother and father? Was it always hard to impress

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Speaker 3: your mum and dad when you brought a new man home,

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Speaker 3: or was there was there a couple that that were

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Speaker 3: really keen on or was it always hard to get

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Speaker 3: it over the line?

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Speaker 1: No comment?

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's anyone ever good enough for a kid,

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Speaker 2: do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: I know this is the thing. They either just love

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Speaker 1: that you have a partner, or no one is ever

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Speaker 1: going to be good enough for their son or their daughter.

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Speaker 1: That's usually the way it works, that way, is.

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Speaker 3: The way John, John always there was a few that

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Speaker 3: John really liked.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't there not really?

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Speaker 3: He said she would be it. She'd be really good

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Speaker 3: for you. Tom. You can step in.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. You can both step out right now,

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Speaker 2: because do you know who my dad loves is my wife, Lisa.

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Speaker 2: I thought you were going to see me and Kate Richie,

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Speaker 2: my work wife.

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Speaker 1: I don't say that I hate that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Because I need my desk cleaned up.

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Speaker 1: I did clean the office. I did clean I did

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Speaker 1: clean the off at the end of last year because

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Speaker 1: I realized I've joined the show after twelve years and

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Speaker 1: no one has cleaned the office.

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Speaker 2: So you clean the office, and now you supply snacks

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Speaker 2: to the office, and you also do cakes on a Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes I leave then wear a skirt, sits in

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