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Speaker 1: Jay Junior the nephew, Oh lord, all right, here we go. Subject.

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Speaker 1: My vows are weighing heavy on me. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I've been married for sixteen years and my wife and

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Speaker 1: divorce six years ago because of her infidelity. She cheated

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Speaker 1: After all of that, I found out that she had

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Speaker 1: So I am stuck because she has no source of

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Speaker 1: know what it would look like if I left her. Now.

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Speaker 1: We have a son and a daughter, and they are

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Speaker 1: I have told her repeatedly that I am not happy,

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Speaker 1: by taking care of her. As soon as she feels better,

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Speaker 1: to keep dealing with this. What do you think? Am

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Speaker 1: Please help? Wow is a lot. This is a lot

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Speaker 1: leave this unfaithful marriage? No? Absolutely not um, And if

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Speaker 1: and still calls her his wife after she's cheated on him.

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Speaker 1: Women do it all the time, or they do it

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Speaker 1: is sick. That's the problem. And the vows do say

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Speaker 1: in sickness and in health. But where was this illness

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Speaker 1: when she was cheating? Well, I don't understand she cheated

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Speaker 1: But this is no way to live. You know, you

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Speaker 1: So that's that's the recap of the letter, h Junior.

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Speaker 1: What do you say? What did Jay say? Jay? And

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Speaker 1: respond show we are ready. No, if Jay was sick ass,

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Speaker 1: what hell going on with your wife? Yeah, you're too healthy.

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Speaker 1: She's not gonna help him, though certainly he too healthy.

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Speaker 1: tell me my my vows are weighing me down. Sixteen

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Speaker 1: Is he being selfish? The most important thing that needs

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Speaker 1: got five million dollars life insurance. Let her leave here.

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Speaker 1: Every time she go down, she come up with another man.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, get you some life insurance.

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Speaker 1: just saying yeah, oh look, this woman is susceptible to diseases.

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Speaker 1: We know that. We wait, wait if she's dying, never

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna cordially let you leave here, but

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Speaker 1: a mother and sure they losing a cheat. He can't keep.

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