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Speaker 1: Oop, you're humping hope you're unhappy. We're back with another

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Speaker 1: question of some shit we probably have not the right

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Speaker 1: answer to, but here we go.

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Speaker 4: Baby were bringing it right here. And this is a

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Speaker 4: very interesting question as we've been talking so much about

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Speaker 4: relationships and all those. Her main question, and I'll get

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Speaker 4: into her short description. Hear about it, but she said,

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Speaker 4: how do I show my man that I actually haven't

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Speaker 4: outgrown him? I love this show, longtime patron and listener.

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Speaker 4: My husband has started getting in his head about me

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Speaker 4: leaving him. We've been together ten years since college, and

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Speaker 4: of course things have changed. I've lost close to two

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Speaker 4: but these two things.

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Speaker 1: That was for the way he lost That was no

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Speaker 4: He's my best friend, but there's these two things have

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Speaker 4: him irrationally paranoid and it's getting frustrating. We have two

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Speaker 4: kids together and I think he's amazing, but this paranoia

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Speaker 4: that I'm gonna leave him for someone better is driving

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Speaker 4: me crazy. How do I show my man I haven't

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Speaker 4: outgrown him? This is great because we talk about change

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Speaker 4: in so many different ways, and so for this to

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Speaker 4: be not only a physical change, clearly which we all

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Speaker 4: experience with age, but a financial change in the best

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Speaker 4: possible way, this is interesting. So I'm gonna throw it

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Speaker 4: to you all first. But how do you think she

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Speaker 4: should show up or reassure her man that she's here

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Speaker 4: and not looking for someone.

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Speaker 1: I don't want the boys to answer this person. Then

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Speaker 1: maybe we I don't really know what to say on

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Speaker 1: how a man the fragility of this, How would.

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Speaker 4: You feel if you're a woman changed her looks drastically

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Speaker 1: We got to guess that's cool. But how does she

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Speaker 4: By the way, he said, he's become paranoid and he's expressing.

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Speaker 1: Uh, she said, getting fine and rich?

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Speaker 4: She said, he's his paranoid is showing and he thinks,

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Speaker 4: which I assume he said, I'm going to quote unquote

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Speaker 5: Now we're gonna say drastic, like capital all draft, like,

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Speaker 4: She lost two hundred pounds, kudos to you. But then also,

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Speaker 4: I know what he is, I know who it is.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, so those are two drastic changes that maybe

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Speaker 1: And they've known each other for ten years. I think

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Speaker 5: No, okay, that's the thing. It's like, one, let's go

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Speaker 1: are just like WHOA. She says something on a podcast

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Speaker 1: But the rot with you, Ed is literally validating them

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Speaker 1: what you said. That's the thing.

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Speaker 5: I don't think it's because I think change in general,

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Speaker 5: it doesn't mean that she has to be bigger too, smaller.

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Speaker 5: It could be smaller, bigger, doesn't matter. It could be

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Speaker 5: It's the point is that now you don't feel like

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Speaker 5: their quality has improved to them. Yeah, because someone could

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Speaker 4: It's funny because we put this onus on like the

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Speaker 4: fat woman quote unquote being more subservient or doing whatever.

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Speaker 1: Because of their own goddamn insecurities.

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Speaker 4: Not what these quote unquote fat or ugly women will

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Speaker 4: do because they're insecure or down and need to settle. Well,

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Speaker 4: it's the fact that men show up and get something

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Speaker 5: And I'm gonna be the way, by the way, so

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Speaker 5: even mentioning that on the show. It could be that

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Speaker 5: The fact is that I feel like sometimes certain men

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Speaker 5: are not going to change. I like my girl who

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Speaker 5: she is now, and you're gonna change on me. You

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Speaker 5: know what, You're gonna make more money, you gotta feel

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Speaker 5: happier about yourself now, and you like this.

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Speaker 1: Is kind of hypothetical.

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Speaker 4: And everyone or even Wheezy y'all like thick brawl it

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Speaker 4: for you. You like thick, voluptuous women. You like a

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Speaker 4: big stocku man during your relationship. They choose because they

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Speaker 4: want to feel better for their own reasons.

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Speaker 1: They lose weight.

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Speaker 4: She now becomes a thin, very in shape track runner,

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Speaker 1: You know, just just thin, lean man, because that's what

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Speaker 1: Could you as a partner then say you changed what

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to stay here anymore.

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Speaker 4: I know she's leaning into the paranoia, but I'm wondering, too,

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Speaker 1: That's not what I like? Because I do think you

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Speaker 1: I mean, but what do you want to wear? Styles?

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Speaker 1: I like? Wouldn't I wouldn't wear I wouldn't cut my hair,

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Speaker 1: shit is crazy? Like, shouldn't we be complimenting each other? Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's a little different. But when it comes to appearance.

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Speaker 1: For example, if your man hated you wearing cargoes, that's

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Speaker 1: a style you love. It looks cute on you. But

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Speaker 5: Pants, Oh, you gotta get over it, or that's such

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Speaker 4: And if he goes and yes, and we talked about it,

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Speaker 1: He said, I didn't even know you own that.

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Speaker 4: I said, sorry that I just like a suid with you, babe,

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Speaker 4: Like I'll bring the fuck maybe I'll bring the sun dress.

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Speaker 1: But I wear what I want to wear when I

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Speaker 1: want to wear it. Yeah, I guess if you meet

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Speaker 1: I think style.

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Speaker 4: I do physical appearance in money, I do think physical experience.

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Speaker 1: If it's not for health, like if I got a BBL,

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Speaker 1: my nigga would probably leave me.

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Speaker 5: I'm not a lot. It's okay now now, I like

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Speaker 5: how you said that, right, I will subscribe to the

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Speaker 5: however she is. I will be toxic in the sense

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Speaker 1: To make you more beautiful.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: I can't subspect. I love that.

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Speaker 1: You can literally take him on dates.

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Speaker 4: Gift him every week, tell him every man morning that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I also don't think anything you could do.

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Speaker 5: That's kind of my thing.

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Speaker 1: Right, It's like, that's why I even want it. Just

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Speaker 5: It could be different equations and different variables, right, it's

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Speaker 1: To work smaller. Like I would almost bet my life

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Speaker 4: It's interesting because it reminds me of like the very

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Speaker 4: You could put a dress on to go hang out

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Speaker 4: terms of this man's your husband's projection of damn, you

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Speaker 4: don't lost this weight, Maybe you're gonna get the attention

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Speaker 1: Yes, I think that's true. I think it's just that

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Speaker 1: I'm really speaking to that fit thing. I think there's

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Speaker 5: But that's an interesting aspect too, right, can maybe we

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Speaker 4: Eating lifestyle doesn't bring about the paranoia or insecurities that

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Speaker 5: I think it's healthier.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: Let's say if me and my girl both me eaters.

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Speaker 4: A woman living a healthier life and being vegan isn't

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Speaker 4: It's physical change. Yeah, there's physical change. And the fact that,

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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, though, I think being that

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Speaker 1: the talk for myself. We've been married a minute. Fuck no, nigga,

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Speaker 4: And if he was raised like Wolf, I can understand

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Speaker 1: Be as a man now doesn't align with this emotion.

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Speaker 1: Whe you think Wolf don't feel about white.

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Speaker 4: But I'm saying, as a provider and protector Wolf, your

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I take it a step further. I don't

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Speaker 6: as long as I don't feel different from the position

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Speaker 6: I feel most comfortable being in. You know, I don't

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Speaker 6: I want to provide a point that I think it's

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Speaker 6: very possible that somebody could go through their life being overweight, right,

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Speaker 6: They got people giving him certain looks, they got people

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. I think that's very possible. I absolutely

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't feel emasculated through money. I think we as

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Speaker 1: I have someone in my life that makes a lot

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Speaker 1: I've seen him make this. He's very masculine, like I've

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Speaker 1: But like, yeah, I agree, we don't know what you

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Speaker 4: I would say, hopefully get your husband in therapy as

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Speaker 1: That is incredible and amazing.

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Speaker 4: So we hope that your marriage can get over this hump, honestly,

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