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Speaker 1: Wow, we are back, Thelma and Louise still slaying in

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Speaker 1: the dating world. Not I'm still single? Are you still

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Speaker 1: had a bunch of shitty dates? Did you? But super

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Speaker 1: flattered that the audience spoke and responded and had more

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Speaker 1: it's relevant and I guess we're approachable and easy to

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Speaker 1: talk to, so maybe that will bode well for future

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Speaker 1: dates for us. What do you think, Thelma, bring it on? Great, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's go, let's let's do let's do some more questions.

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Speaker 1: I love this stuff. I mean I love to not

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Speaker 1: be in the position of always asking the questions because,

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Speaker 1: as you know, I sit on dates now on my

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Speaker 1: like an interrogation. One of my dates called the rapid Fire.

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Speaker 1: That was not a compliment.

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Speaker 2: I know it's the truth, though I don't even know did.

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Speaker 1: He call me the next day? Maybe he didn't.

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Speaker 1: Anyways, I think Easton here has questions for us. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, his name alone is so hot. So Easton,

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Speaker 3: I am a married man.

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Speaker 2: We don't do married.

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Speaker 1: That's a red flag. When you go on a date

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Speaker 1: with somebody and you go, why did your marriage break up?

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Speaker 1: And they say they cheat? It it's like once a cheat,

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Speaker 2: Or I don't mean to interrupt again, but I also

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Speaker 2: think one a red flag for me is when somebody

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Speaker 2: when I'm on a date and someone speaks very disparagingly.

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Speaker 1: Well, look at Dingong who I dated, and then look

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think we have really good relationships with our

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Speaker 1: I think it's disgusting when they do that. And you're right,

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, in the nursing home together. I

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Speaker 2: still think you might be in the nursing home together. Yes.

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Speaker 1: Anyways, Okay, what do you got for us? What do

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Speaker 3: You know, this is a question that just popped into

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Speaker 3: And now we're gonna we're gonna take things to the map.

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Speaker 3: Here is the dating seemed really bad in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: I'm on receive and I look like I'm open to

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Speaker 1: Well, you still have a kid at home, I mean

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, how many times have we had this conversation.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the thought of sharing a bed, a closet,

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Speaker 1: Great answer, thank you, I try. You're a smart cookie, Thoma,

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Speaker 2: I mean, who needs a boyfriend when your friends compliment you?

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Speaker 1: It's the prep that's fun. One thing I wanted to

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Speaker 1: I love that Gwyneth Paltrow movie. Right, this is an

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Speaker 2: And we can't control what is isn't going to happen

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Speaker 1: And I know our attitude.

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Speaker 2: We're just cheesy, but it's so true.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little woo woo. You know, me and my crystals.

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Speaker 3: Do you do you charge them up in the moonlight?

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Speaker 1: I think you have to do it for what works

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm going to operate spiritually in a

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Speaker 3: So there's so much importance on a first eight. What

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not to sound like I'm not interesting, but I

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Speaker 2: you know. It's like, I don't know about you, like

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Speaker 2: And we all know, we've all been in restaurants where

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Speaker 1: Think people like people up right, Like I just think

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Speaker 1: Then he asked when I got up, he kind of

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Speaker 2: Like I'm a girl's girl.

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Speaker 1: me too. Recycle. We have to recycle men.

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Speaker 2: We think that that's a business idea. How are we

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Speaker 1: Matchmaking is hard. I tried to be a matchmaker for

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Speaker 3: Here's a scenario for you. You're you're casually you see

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Speaker 3: Do you bring that up to them? Do you pretend

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Speaker 2: I don't think that that bothers me unless I feel

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Speaker 1: Do you think you have to have a conversation to

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Speaker 2: Well, I think either romantically things start happening and then

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Speaker 2: a friend from the airport and was coming back from

436
00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,760
Speaker 2: LAX and went to where what's the old AOC whatever

437
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,359
Speaker 2: tavern or something, and I walk and they have communal

438
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 2: bathrooms and he is literally at the bar in the

439
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 2: same first date outfit, I guess, same first date outfit.

440
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,879
Speaker 2: Then he wore with me, same spot. And then the

441
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,160
Speaker 2: worst was I was in the bathroom and he came

442
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,880
Speaker 2: into the communal bathrooms. Obviously he didn't know I was there,

443
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:30,880
Speaker 2: and it was really awkward.

444
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 1: Wait, I don't know the story. Would you say this

445
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,680
Speaker 1: is your worst dating story. We didn't even talk about,

446
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 1: like what's your worst dating story? Something.

447
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 2: I had broken up with him, so it's not like

448
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,400
Speaker 2: he broke up with me and the next worse than heartbreak.

449
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 2: But I mean, who knows, Maybe he had it set up.

450
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 2: I don't know, But the point was I broke up

451
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 2: with them, and then I mean it was so awkward

452
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:48,639
Speaker 2: and then he was like, hey, how are you? And

453
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 2: then he and then he texted me the next day

454
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 2: and was like, oh, I hope that was not I

455
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,280
Speaker 2: was just like, just move on.

456
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,240
Speaker 1: What is your worst dating story?

457
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 2: I don't know what. I don't feel like I've had

458
00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 2: any horrific I mean, do you have one?

459
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 1: I had a weird I had a really weird one.

460
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,439
Speaker 1: I mean I haven't ever gone had a scary, like

461
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 1: dangerous one, but I had an interesting thing happened. So

462
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,879
Speaker 1: it was a brief. So during the pandemic, because it

463
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 1: was harder, I was like, you know what, my friends

464
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,240
Speaker 1: and I were like, let's just do these apps for fun,

465
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,240
Speaker 1: Like we made it like fun, right. So I talked

466
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: a couple of times to this guy and he lived

467
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,120
Speaker 1: on the East Coast. He's like, I want to fly

468
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 1: out and meet you. And that was stressful for me

469
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,640
Speaker 1: because then you're like, oh, he's flying all the way

470
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 1: out to meet me, Like it's not just a drink,

471
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 1: like at least have to sit with dinner and then

472
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 1: and he's like, and I'd love to know that we're

473
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 1: going to have lunch the next day and we're going

474
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 1: to do this. I go, let's just start with the

475
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 1: first date. So we meet for a first day and

476
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,119
Speaker 1: you know, and he's staying at a hotel and so

477
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 1: we meet at the bar and weet it just have

478
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 1: dinner there or whatever, and you know, I was like,

479
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 1: in my head, I was like, I'm definitely gon have

480
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 1: lunch with him tomorrow. It's like the right thing to do.

481
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: But I wasn't like I was not into it. But

482
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,439
Speaker 1: he was nice, and you know, he was you know,

483
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,199
Speaker 1: he had a good core value system and we were

484
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 1: aligned down a lot of things. So I was like, okay,

485
00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: you know whatever. So the next day we're at the lunch.

486
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 1: So now this is now probably you know, ninety minutes

487
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: total of learning meeting him and talking to him, and

488
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 1: he says, oh, I just was diagnosed with can't They

489
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: just found a tumor and they have to buy upstate

490
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 1: and they think it's lung cancer, which was like talked

491
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 1: about it's like a heavy a heavy first date, right,

492
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 1: And I was like, WHOA, okay, fine, And it just

493
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 1: felt I actually didn't know if it was true or

494
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: not true, Like it was just it was really strange.

495
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 1: He's liked, can we go in to dinner tonight? And

496
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: I said, oh, I have plants whatever, Okay, cut you.

497
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: So he goes back to the East Coast and he's

498
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,639
Speaker 1: texting me, and then he texted me He's like, great news,

499
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:51,119
Speaker 1: false alarm. I'm totally fine. Check your email. And he

500
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: had sent me airline tickets for Saint Bart's to go

501
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: on a trip with him for ten days. And I

502
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 1: was like, I barely knew this guy, and you're so weird.

503
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 2: I mean, you're such a private person, like and it

504
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 2: made me so uncomfortable and I was like, oh gosh, no, no, no, no, no, no,

505
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 2: like I don't know you, like I didn't even know

506
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 2: if it's going to about a second, and I'm hardly

507
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 2: going to stay in a hotel.

508
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,919
Speaker 1: And I felt really uncomfortable, and I felt like it

509
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: was super forward and slightly aggressive, and so I was like, okay, fine,

510
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: that's fine, but can I come to LA again? And

511
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: I thought I just didn't. There was something about it

512
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: that seemed a little too fast to It didn't feel authentic.

513
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: It felt weird. It was rushing, you know, and that

514
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,199
Speaker 1: was it. I mean, I'm sure I would have liked

515
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: to have gone to Saint Barts, but with somebody that,

516
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: you know, I really am would have been into me. Yeah, totally.

517
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: Dating is hard.

518
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 3: Dating is so hard. It's so hard. Here's this might

519
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 3: be a this is a deeper question, Uh do you

520
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 3: have do you believe you have to be fully healed

521
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 3: from your previous lover in order to love someone new

522
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 3: to have that capacity again?

523
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: I mean, look, we've all had our hearts broken where

524
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 1: you just want to, like right away go out with

525
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,360
Speaker 1: somebody else. And for me and my personal experience when

526
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: I have been heartbroken or really really really hurt, I

527
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 1: am not able to switch gears that quickly, like I

528
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: have to be totally healed to be open to meet

529
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,400
Speaker 1: somebody else. Like it's I've tried it. It's just too

530
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: hard for me. I feel breakups very intensely, and I

531
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 1: think it's really important to you know, to almost kind

532
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: of shut that door and then move on to the next.

533
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: So for me, I'm not one who can overlap to

534
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: try to move on.

535
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you're asking more from like

536
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 2: a time perspective or is it the first person after

537
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 2: a breakup, because I think it could be the first person,

538
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 2: but maybe you know you can't expedite the time on

539
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 2: feeling and healing.

540
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 3: Do you think, is it like a set you know

541
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 3: they said on I think it was on Friends, one

542
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 3: of those sitcoms. They said, like, you take the time

543
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,679
Speaker 3: of the relationship and what cut in half, and that's

544
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 3: the time it takes to get over it. Do you

545
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 3: believe that? Is it a time thing or I think

546
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 3: it has.

547
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: To do with the intensity of it. And like I

548
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: dated a guy for two and a half months and

549
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 1: he dubbed me, and I swear to god, I think

550
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: it took me a year to get over him. And

551
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: my friends are like, what is wrong with you?

552
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 2: He was not even a great guy.

553
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: I mean, she's none of that. But I know and

554
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: I think that that falls under the category of, you know,

555
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,199
Speaker 1: something in his childhood wounds, emotional baggage in mind. It

556
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: was like this like imprinting right, and it was it

557
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,719
Speaker 1: just I don't know, I could not recover from that.

558
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: And then there have been people I've dated for a

559
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: year and a year and a half and it's like

560
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: I don't even look back, like it just didn't trigger

561
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 1: me in that way. So I don't think it's so

562
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: much time for healing. I think it's like, what was

563
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:50,679
Speaker 1: it that struck such a chord? With you that you

564
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: have to get over it. It's more about like what

565
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 1: work do I need to do within myself, you know?

566
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: And I feel like every relationship I've had, I'm making

567
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: healthier choices and I'm learning like I like this from

568
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: this person, this from this person to help build the

569
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 1: toolbox of what's going to be you know, the perfect,

570
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: the perfect thing for me. But I don't think it's time.

571
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: I think it has to do with something with your wound,

572
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: your emotional baggage.

573
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 2: For me, I agree, And I think also on making

574
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 2: healthier choices, I feel like I'm getting much better at

575
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 2: course correcting or communicating earlier so that something doesn't either

576
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: become a bigger problem as I continue on in a

577
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 2: relationship and has a chance to potentially, you know what

578
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 2: I mean, kind of rectify itself because I'm doing a

579
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 2: better job of communicating. And I think dialogue is so important.

580
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 2: That's a total tangent.

581
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: And communication is really important and vulnerability. That's something I've

582
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: had to learn is have really uncomfortable conversations instead of

583
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: shut down.

584
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 3: Okay, this will be our last question. We're in the

585
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 3: holiday season here. Do you think it's a red flag

586
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 3: if a guy and suspend the holidays with his family

587
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 3: instead of being with yours.

588
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: Well, this is really interesting because a friend of mine's

589
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: daughter who's thirty, has been dating this guy for about

590
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: a year. And my friend called me and said, do

591
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: you think it's weird that she's not invited on the

592
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: You know, she went last year on the family trip

593
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: with them, and this year they haven't brought it up here.

594
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: Do you think that's a red flag? And I said,

595
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: I do for her, right, because they're you know, at

596
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: a year end, you thinks potentially starting their life together.

597
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 1: I think for us when people have children or maybe

598
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: like a regular plan that they've always doe. I think,

599
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 1: as long as you're kind of communicating, maybe why like, hey,

600
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: like it would be so fun to do something together

601
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: this vacation. But you know, we just started dating recently,

602
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: and I'd already had this plan or I had, you know,

603
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: committed to doing this. But you know, it's nothing more

604
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: than a function of of you know that, right. It's

605
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: not a deeper message of like I'm just not that

606
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: into you. But we can all read the tea leaves

607
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,479
Speaker 1: and read the room and know if somebody's into us

608
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: or not or wants to be that and where there's

609
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: a will, there's a way, you know, somebody could fly

610
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: home to be home for New Year's Eve if they

611
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: really want to see somebody.

612
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 2: And I think that's back to like the post divorce

613
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 2: where life is a little messier and complicated, and when

614
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 2: it comes to the holidays, I think kind of what

615
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 2: you're saying, Louise is if you communicate on what why

616
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 2: the reason for not wanting to be there, I think

617
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 2: it's totally fair because post like, I prioritize my family

618
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 2: holidays with my immediate family. And I mean I dated

619
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 2: somebody for several years and we would do Christmas the

620
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 2: three days prior to my family, you know, I remember, Yeah,

621
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 2: and then I would essentially kick him out and be like, Okay,

622
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 2: my family's here now. That really hurt his feelings, Yeah

623
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,479
Speaker 2: I did. But I aren't going to change your routine,

624
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 2: which is a happy routine. Yeah. So I guess I'm

625
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 2: on the flip side of that question. But yeah, I

626
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 2: mean that's how I feel. It's important to me.

627
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: But if you are really I mean I also think

628
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: like sometimes we don't make changes because we don't want

629
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: to make the changes. Like it's like there's a will,

630
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: there's way if you really wanted him to be a

631
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: part of it, you know what I'm saying, Like you

632
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: could have made changes, you just didn't want to, And

633
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: that's okay too.

634
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 2: But I also think I have it all. I think

635
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 2: you can have your cake and eat it too. And

636
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 2: I think if you guys, do you know, a week

637
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 2: with each other and then a week with families for

638
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 2: various reasons, like, I think that that can work. So

639
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 2: I think it's I don't think you can generalize, and

640
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 2: I think all situations, no, I.

641
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: Agree, But I also think friends no friends like you.

642
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: When I'm getting somebody and I'm like, look warm on it,

643
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, it's great. You're like yeah, you look

644
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: like you're really excited, but no, it's amazing.

645
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 4: This is it.

646
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: This is really great, and you're like okay. And then

647
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: when I'm like, yeah, we're done, and she's like, no surprise.

648
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for weeks for her. I was at dinner,

649
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I and then I know we have

650
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: to go. I've been dating somebody and it was it

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Speaker 1: was good.

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Speaker 4: Like it was. It was good.

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Speaker 1: It was nice and fun and it was good and

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Speaker 1: it fell under the category of like I had a

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Speaker 1: big life. It was a part of my life. And

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Speaker 1: I was at a dinner with a bunch of a

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Speaker 1: bunch of girls and in front of mine sat down

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Speaker 1: and she was like glowing and she said, the fucking

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Speaker 1: my boyfriend, I'm so in love. And I was like

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Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, I don't know that way, why don't

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Speaker 1: I feel that way? And my other friend looks at me,

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Speaker 1: she goes, you're dating somebody, right, I go yeah, She goes,

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Speaker 1: why don't you sound like that? And I was like

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Speaker 1: and it was like like getting hit over the head.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because I knew what I

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Speaker 1: felt on the inside, but when a friend can see

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Speaker 1: it and can like call it out, it's sometimes hard

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Speaker 1: to hear because the truth, you know, the truth deep

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Speaker 1: down that voice we have that little inner voice in

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Speaker 1: our heart and mind.

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Speaker 3: M hm, Well, this has been so much fun. Thank

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Speaker 3: you guys for letting me be part of the action here.

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Speaker 3: I feel like we j all just went on our

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Speaker 3: first date.

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Speaker 1: Would we get a second date?

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Speaker 3: Yes? I was going to say, I would call you

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Speaker 3: both back the same time.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Easton, such a cutie.

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Speaker 3: Well, thanks for your vulnerability thanks for being so honest.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Here well, fun to talk to you.

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