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Speaker 1: Apologee Production.

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Speaker 2: I need your advice.

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Speaker 1: Are you okay? What happened?

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Speaker 2: Promise it won't be too much.

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Speaker 1: Bring it in.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to our Bestie segment. This is the place for you.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Welcome back to another episode of She Rises.

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Speaker 2: Today's going to look a little different.

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday. This is our first time we've uploaded for

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday, first Tuesday episode. Welcome to four times a week,

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Speaker 1: She Rises. Being in your ears and we could be

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Speaker 1: more excited.

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Speaker 2: We're going to be more excited.

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Speaker 1: Guys.

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Speaker 3: This is our Bestie segment. Bestie advice from us and yours. Truly,

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Speaker 3: we have wanted to do this. We've gotten so many

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Speaker 3: messages from you guys in our anonymous obmission and it's

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Speaker 3: all been advice on different things that you guys are

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Speaker 3: struggling with and things that you're really needing like bestie,

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Speaker 3: big sister kind of advice for so you ask can

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Speaker 3: we listen?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So it kind of was born through Africa Friday segment.

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Speaker 1: You found a lot of the submissions that were coming

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Speaker 1: through were not so much the freaky stories. It was

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Speaker 1: more help me. Yeah, what do you guys think of this?

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Speaker 1: I don't have friends, I can talk to I want

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Speaker 1: a different perspective. Am I blind? Am I clouded? Can

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Speaker 1: you let me know what you guys would do in

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Speaker 1: this situation? It was a lot of advice. And we're

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Speaker 1: in trackies. We always want you guys to feel like

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Speaker 1: you're sitting on the couch with us. And this is

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Speaker 1: the kind of advice that if we were in this situation,

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Speaker 1: this is what we would tell each other. We're not

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Speaker 1: claiming that we're qualified psychologists or that you shouldn't do

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Speaker 1: as we say. Take it with a grain of salt.

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Speaker 1: It's as if we were talking to each other. This

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Speaker 1: is how we would help each other and what we

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Speaker 1: It's like your best the advice. Yeah, so his Today's

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Speaker 3: Day's first episode for the best the Advice is a

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Speaker 3: really big story. So let's get into it, shall we.

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Speaker 3: The love of my life has genital herpes, think provide

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Speaker 3: a man prioritizes self development, CEO and one one hundred

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Speaker 3: percent sure of me in our future. He's beautiful to

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Speaker 3: wasn't for his soul. He disclosed he had it before

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Speaker 3: we were intimate, and told me he had unintentionally transmitted

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Speaker 3: it to his ex whilst on anti virals. She knew

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Speaker 3: the risks and wanted to stop wearing condoms. We had

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Speaker 3: been together for two and a half years now and

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Speaker 3: planning marriage and kids, but in order for me to

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Speaker 3: use a condom at my request every time. I absolutely

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Speaker 3: hate it and it kills the spontaneity, but I never

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Speaker 3: want to get herpes. His outbreaks are mild and a

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Speaker 3: few red spots on the tip of his knob. They

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Speaker 3: way worse. Obviously, this thought runs through my mind that

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Speaker 3: I'd be ashamed if we broke up also to disclose

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Speaker 3: something so stigmatized, and that also shows up uniquely for everyone.

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Speaker 3: But the root of me not wanting it is more

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Speaker 3: about my health and comfort. He will take antivirals every day,

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Speaker 3: we just use condoms forever? Breaking up isn't an option.

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Speaker 3: This man is my soul, my a king in every way.

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Speaker 3: We already discussed options for kids, and we agreed he

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Speaker 3: can come into a funnel to avoid contact. Lol. This

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Speaker 3: feels scary to even say anonymously. It's not something I

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Speaker 3: to share his info. It's such a hush topic. Would

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Speaker 3: antiviral so you wouldn't get symptoms to be with the man?

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Speaker 3: Or would you wear a condom every time?

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Speaker 1: Wow? Thank you firstly for being so open and vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: And I'm so sorry that you don't have anyone to

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Speaker 3: So stigmatized, so stigmatize heavy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean straight away. My first response is like,

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Speaker 1: not define him at all, And you guys have a

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Speaker 1: beautiful relationship Like that's an easy answer for me. You

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Speaker 3: And if it's something that you know that breaking up

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Speaker 2: It's exploring the options.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it's condoms right now, and then it's antivirals later,

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Speaker 3: or it's antivirals now and then you you know, after

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Speaker 3: then having that conversation again around Okay, do we get

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Speaker 2: Do we keep the antivirals?

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Speaker 3: Like, there's so many things that you guys can consider

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Speaker 3: within that based on your level of comfort, of course, yeah,

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Speaker 3: but also as well, I know there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: But it's also it doesn't change who you are.

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Speaker 3: No, like, think about who you are as a person

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Speaker 3: day to day. Does it change who he is? No?

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Speaker 3: Does it change how much he matters to you? Does

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Speaker 3: Because the reality of it is, if it doesn't change

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Speaker 1: No, it doesn't. And even if you were to get it,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's uncomfortable. It's not going to change your guys' relationship. No, No,

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Speaker 1: still who you are. It's like when someone gets a

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Speaker 1: could sal. Yeah, why is that not stigmatized? Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: not even a conversation. It's like, oh, I've got a

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Speaker 1: that he is. So I would be staying one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: That wouldn't even be a consideration for me.

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Speaker 3: And I think the question as well was like, would

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Speaker 1: I don't know. For me, it feels a bit disconnecting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it desensitizes things and it does.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say that antivirals would probably be the direction.

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Speaker 3: But if I'm thinking like long term, it me personally,

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Speaker 1: No, definitely not. And like wholesals on the lips, they

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Speaker 1: are bought out via stress, Yeah, by not getting enough sleep,

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Speaker 1: by too much sugar, by not taking care of yourself.

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Speaker 1: Like you can also really focus on your health as

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Speaker 1: well to limit the breakouts, which I'm sure he does

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's doing all of that as well. I

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Speaker 1: You be surprised. Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for bringing this in here, And I just

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Speaker 3: want you to know if you ever need any additional support,

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Speaker 3: just send us the DM because I know, like it

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Speaker 3: can be super isolating to go through something alone.

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Speaker 1: And I can stay in the volt I know you

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Speaker 1: And I understand you might want to tell close people

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Speaker 2: He gave you the option.

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Speaker 1: He just sounds like a fucking incredible man. Honestly, I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I would too, you know what, Like the love,

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Speaker 3: I think it's really rare these days to find really

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Speaker 3: The pool is smaller of like the quality of men

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Speaker 3: something like this. Being able to overcome this would be

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Speaker 3: something that would bring you guys so much closer together.

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Speaker 1: You've literally got what most girls are dreaming about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you do.

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Speaker 1: Like everything you've mentioned, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Like tick tick tick tick that most of us and

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Speaker 3: you know what as well as it like, you know,

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Speaker 3: is it genuinely something about the relationship where you're like, oh,

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Speaker 3: there's something rocky here or is it just the stigma

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Speaker 3: and just the all?

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Speaker 2: But if people found out, what would they think?

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Speaker 1: And the fear of the discomfidence unknown for you, I

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Speaker 1: that and the emotions that would go through processing that

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Speaker 1: you had that, because it is something that you can't

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Speaker 1: get rid of. So I totally understand that fear but

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Speaker 1: there's just so much more in this for you that's

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Speaker 1: so much more.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful that overrides that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think this is one of those

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Speaker 3: I didn't choose the man of my dreams because of

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Speaker 2: I agree.

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Speaker 1: I really hope that helps you need to wed love

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Speaker 1: on you so hard, on you a lot for sure.

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Speaker 1: And your man, we love him so epic.

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Speaker 2: He sounds amazing.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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