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Speaker 1: Episode two. Thanks for listening wherever you're coming from. Grateful

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Speaker 1: Ask me anything. And you know, it's funny because I

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Speaker 1: in the past. First question, I haven't read these. I'm

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Speaker 1: Nate Smith. All right, cool, good, good way to start

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Speaker 1: Hey Granger, I'm a senior soon to be college graduate.

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Speaker 1: It's a good thing for her to be interested in

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Speaker 1: you back. So you take that and you walk that

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Speaker 1: path until you go, boom, there's sin. I'm in sin.

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Speaker 1: What could that be? A million things, Jeremy, It could

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Speaker 1: be a million things. One could be You're it's giving

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Speaker 1: you a sense of apathy towards the church. It's like,

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Speaker 1: when I'm with this girl, I don't care about church.

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Speaker 1: I don't care about God, I don't care about Bible.

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Speaker 1: It's creating apathy in me that I just don't care anymore.

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Speaker 1: I'm just too focused on worshiping the girl. She has

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Speaker 1: become an idol to me. Then you could realize in

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Speaker 1: your heart, like, whoah, too far, that's a problem. Is

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Speaker 1: it me or is it her? Or is it both?

436
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 1: I should I should fix this? Or does she draw

437
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:55,360
Speaker 1: you closer that happens? Or are you so wildly obsessed

438
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Speaker 1: with her that you you have to have sex with

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Speaker 1: her right now? Then you're in life her. At that point,

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00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 1: you either get married and fix it that way, or

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00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: you realize that I gotta pump the brakes. I have

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Speaker 1: a problem right here. Okay, that's two examples of a million.

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Speaker 1: But you walk this path until you realize there's a

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Speaker 1: sin there or this is this feels very godly in

445
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: what it is. Okay, don't overthink it. Don't overthink it.

446
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong where you graduate in college falling in

447
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: love with the girl and falling in love with God

448
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Speaker 1: all at the same time. It's a beautiful thing. There's

449
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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. Man. This next to you, guys,

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Speaker 1: you guys, in your questions. Here's the next one and

451
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Speaker 1: I love it. By the way, here's the next one.

452
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Speaker 1: Subject line says, where's the Godly men? Do you guys

453
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: put me to the test? You know that you put

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Speaker 1: me to the test every Monday. Hey Grangeer, First off,

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Speaker 1: thank you for sharing the gospel and shining some light

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Speaker 1: in this dark world that we live in. I could

457
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Speaker 1: truly see God working through you. Please don't never stop sharing.

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Speaker 1: My name is Casey. I'm twenty years old. I'm a

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Speaker 1: believer who has never been asked out or pursued by

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Speaker 1: a man. I trust God's timing, but it's getting very

461
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: discouraging nowadays trying to find someone who will chase God

462
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: with me. Any advice on staying positive during the season.

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Speaker 1: Love the podcast. God bless Casey. Thank you for emailing.

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Speaker 1: I don't have an easy answer. I wish I had

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Speaker 1: an easy fix for you. Some of these questions have

466
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Speaker 1: been easy. But for you, we'll say a couple things.

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Speaker 1: I'd say one, you're twenty. That's so young. There's no

468
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Speaker 1: need to rush this. I know it might feel like

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Speaker 1: it because you look on Instagram and you see all

470
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Speaker 1: these people happy, and they're getting married and they're just oh,

471
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: they're just so beautiful, and you don't have it, and

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Speaker 1: you've never had it, just wish that one guy would

473
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Speaker 1: ask you out, and you long for it, And so

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00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: that just perpetuates that. You watch social media and you

475
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: just scroll through and you go, there's another one, and

476
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: look she's got a beautiful ring on her left hand too.

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Speaker 1: Look there's another one from high school. She's gone, Now

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Speaker 1: what a cool guy makes a lot of money. But

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Speaker 1: then there's oll me. I just I don't know what

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Speaker 1: the future holds for me. I wish somebody would love me.

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Speaker 1: I wish somebody would be there and ask me out

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Speaker 1: and by me roses on Valentine's Day. And it becomes

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Speaker 1: almost an illness to walk that path in your mind.

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Speaker 1: In case you go down that road and you just

485
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Speaker 1: go further and further down, it's harder to come back.

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Speaker 1: But where I would go with this is that you

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Speaker 1: say you're a believer, right, what does that mean? What

488
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Speaker 1: does it mean to be a believer? It means the

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Speaker 1: Bible says you have been ransomed. Do you know what

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Speaker 1: that means? That means that once you were a prisoner

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Speaker 1: at once, once you were you were imprisoned and you

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Speaker 1: had no way out. In fact, the Bible says you

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Speaker 1: were dead in your trespasses, right dead, and you were

494
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Speaker 1: ransomed by what by the most precious resource in the universe,

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Speaker 1: the blood of the Son of God, for you to

496
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Speaker 1: be ransomed from your imprisonment to serve him for his glory.

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Speaker 1: That's what it means to be a believer. That's what

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Speaker 1: it means. Have you thought about it in that way?

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Speaker 1: You've thought about what that means for you, that you

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Speaker 1: are once dead, now alive, once blind, and now you see,

501
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Speaker 1: that's what it says about the prodigal son in those

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Speaker 1: exact words, you are ransomed by the blood of the

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Speaker 1: Son of God for his possession, to have his complete inheritance.

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Speaker 1: Once poor, once without everything, suddenly ransomed into the kingdom

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Speaker 1: with full inheritance, full possession of everything the king has

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Speaker 1: is yours. And in that, could you, knowing that fully

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Speaker 1: believing that as a believer, could you at that point say,

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Speaker 1: I just don't know. I'm so discouraged that I might

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Speaker 1: never find anybody. Listen, I know there's irony in saying that.

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Speaker 1: I know I understand what you're saying, because I'm human

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Speaker 1: to But I'm just saying, what if we truly believed,

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Speaker 1: if we truly understood what it means to be a believer,

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Speaker 1: ransomed once dead, once in prison forever, ransomed by a

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Speaker 1: king who gave us a full inheritance, ransom, by what cost,

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Speaker 1: by the blood of the son of God. What if

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Speaker 1: we truly wrapped our brains around what that means. I

517
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: think it would just set us free and we would

518
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Speaker 1: stop asking things like when are you gonna give me someone? God?

519
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: And we would say, God, how can I serve you?

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Speaker 1: I just want to serve you. I just want to

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Speaker 1: love you. I just want to pursue you. If you

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00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: provide me with good gifts, thank you, that will take them.

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Speaker 1: If you provide me with a man, thank you. If

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Speaker 1: you don't thank you, I will serve you anyway. What

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Speaker 1: if we could wrap our brains around that kind of mentality?

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00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: And I know it's hard, but how do you get there?

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Speaker 1: How do you get to be able to say something

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Speaker 1: like that? You've got to go back to the cross itself,

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Speaker 1: where the blood dropped. That's where it happened. So you

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Speaker 1: take all this burden and all this these questions, you

531
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Speaker 1: just put them right there at the foot of the cross,

532
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: and you say, here, here it is, this is the place,

533
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: this is the place. The blood failed, the blood of

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Speaker 1: my savior, the blood of my king who ransom me

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Speaker 1: out of the prison, out of death. What if we

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Speaker 1: really wrapped our heads around that. That don't I don't.

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Speaker 1: I could answer this question a million ways, but that

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00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: is the only one that is true. I've mentioned so,

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00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: I've mentioned several times that I'm about sixty five percent

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00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: right on this whole podcast. That question is one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent truth. Let's go another question here, subjectline being best

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Speaker 1: friends with a girl at fourteen. Hey, mister Smith, I

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Speaker 1: love your podcast. I'm fourteen. My name is Stephen, pronounced Stephen.

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Speaker 1: I'm from Pennsylvania. My question is how to stay friends

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Speaker 1: with a girl without becoming so close that we almost

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Speaker 1: look like we are dating, and how to deal with

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00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: assumptions about liking a girl I'm not allowed to date

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00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 1: until eighteen. Thank you? All right, buddy fourteen years old,

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00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,399
Speaker 1: your question is how to stay friends with a girl

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00:34:54,440 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: without being so close. That's Steven, You're asking the impossible.

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00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: I've kind of I've walked this path on this podcast,

552
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:10,720
Speaker 1: and people will argue me and they'll get so upset

553
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: with me, and they'll give me examples of how I'm wrong.

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00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: And maybe I am thirty five percent of time, but

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00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: people will give me examples of how this has worked.

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00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 1: And I promise you, guys, I've run through this down

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Speaker 1: in my mind. If I'm wrong, you could certainly tell me,

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00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: and I will certainly always be open for new teaching.

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00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: But guys and girls cannot be close besties. Guys and

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00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: girls cannot be best friends without being able to finish

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00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: this without one of the two at least starting to

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Speaker 1: have more feelings than just friends, starting to feel like

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Speaker 1: there's something more to this relationship than just friends. If

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Speaker 1: you say no, way, then you could be on the

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Speaker 1: other side of the relationship. You could be the other

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Speaker 1: one that doesn't have feelings. But if there's some kind

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Speaker 1: of chemistry enough to make two best friends, then one

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00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: of them is gonna at some point. It might take years,

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Speaker 1: it might take minutes. It's gonna say. If that person

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Speaker 1: ever asked me if there's more to it than just friends,

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Speaker 1: I would say yes in a heartbeat, because I'm connected.

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00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,919
Speaker 1: My heart is connected with this person. But I might

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Speaker 1: not ever admit it in the public because it would

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Speaker 1: be embarrassing, or as many people say, it might ruin

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Speaker 1: what we have, and I don't want to ruin this friendship,

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00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: so I'm never gonna say anything. But then it just

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00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: exists like this. It just doesn't work. This has been

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00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: proven over thousands of years. It just doesn't work. You

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00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: can't be best friends with someone in the opposite sex

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Speaker 1: without one of you having a feeling at some point,

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00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: without somebody at some point saying what if? What if

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00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: we were more than friends? So to answer your question,

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00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: how to stay friends with the girl without becoming so

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00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:26,280
Speaker 1: close we almost look like we're dating. You can't. You can't.

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Speaker 1: Let's grab one more here, Okay, I'm gonna scroll down.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go boom. Here. It is subject line blind

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Speaker 1: Sighting News Grado. My name's E twenty four years old.

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Speaker 1: I emailed before, but situations have changed. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what to think from here. My boyfriend of one and

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00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: a half years dating one and a half years of

591
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: trying to prior broke up with me this past June

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00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: due to feeling like the efforts I put into to

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00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 1: the relationship weren't reciprocated and no initiated effort from him

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00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: to make me feel loved and appreciated. However, he's my

595
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: best friend. Through and through, neither of us experienced a

596
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: connection that we share through many times. He reached out

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Speaker 1: to me, apologizing, saying he'd wait for me to give

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00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 1: us a try. We'd started easing back into things since then.

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00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: I told him I wanted to take it slow, but

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Speaker 1: being October and we were still aren't dating but basically

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00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: doing all the same things that a couple would do.

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00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: And I brought this up to him before. I'm reading

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00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: like this on purpose because this is what this email

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00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: looks like to me. I brought this up to him,

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00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 1: but he says that he doesn't want to rush me. Recently,

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00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: I found out he enlisted into the military without telling me,

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00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: and he didn't plan on telling me anytime soon. He

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00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: told me in a public setting around a bunch of people.

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00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 1: I was blindsided, but still encouraged him to follow his dream.

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Speaker 1: Am I wrong for being so upset over this? I

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00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: feel lied to and betrayed because this decision ultimately affects

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00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: me too. We've talked about starting our lives together here

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00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: within a year and now this Any advice would be welcome.

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00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 1: Thank you. Oh man E. I'm exhausted by just reading

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00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: this email. Let me tell you something. Everything in your

616
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: email is about you. It's just not about a love

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00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: that you have for him that's grounded in anything substantial.

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00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: Your love that you have for him is grounded in

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00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: the desire to be pleased by him, the desire for

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Speaker 1: him to fulfill your dreams and what it means to

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Speaker 1: be married. Your love is perpetuated by the desire for

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00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: him to fulfill a fantasy that you've always had for

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Speaker 1: someone that you love. This is Cinderella, and he is

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00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: your prince. And if if he does not meet the

625
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: standards of your prince that you have built in your mind,

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00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: you will revolt and you will cut him off. That

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00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: is not love. I'm exhausted by this email. I appreciate

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00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: you emailing me, and I want to give you the

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Speaker 1: best advice I can. And it would be doing a

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Speaker 1: disservice to you for me to say, oh, absolutely, he

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Speaker 1: he should have told you about joining the military. How

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Speaker 1: dare he to take you down this road of life

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Speaker 1: and not tell you about this bit. That is just

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Speaker 1: wrong and you're right to be upset. I would be

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Speaker 1: a bad friend to tell you that instead, I'm gonna say,

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Speaker 1: this is exhausting. It's just about you. You, you, you,

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Speaker 1: you pleasing you. You know, that's just not what love is.

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Speaker 1: I don't know this guy. I don't know if he's

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Speaker 1: right for you. I don't know if he's right for

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Speaker 1: your future at all. But I do know. If he's

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Speaker 1: joining the military and you're mad about it, when in

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Speaker 1: fact you should be happy for him, that's an indication

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Speaker 1: that this is not going to work. So with that

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Speaker 1: kind of data, with those data points that I have,

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Speaker 1: the limited number of data points I have, I say,

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Speaker 1: move on. It's time to break up. It's time to

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Speaker 1: move on, and it's time to start putting yourself second.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's so hard to do. Stop putting yourself ahead

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Speaker 1: of everybody you're dating and all your friends so that

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Speaker 1: they can meet your desires. That is battling the flesh

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Speaker 1: every day. I have to do it. I have to

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Speaker 1: do that. I think everyone listening has to do it.

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Speaker 1: Because we're humans. We battle ourselves, we battle our own desires.

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Speaker 1: We try to put ourselves ahead of everything, and it

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Speaker 1: just doesn't work that way. You are a bull and

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Speaker 1: a china closet right now, you're just breaking everything in

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Speaker 1: your overall desire to please yourself and everyone in your

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Speaker 1: kingdom needs to please you, and it just ends up

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Speaker 1: hurting everybody. I'm sorry if that message hurts you. I'm

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Speaker 1: just trying to be honest the best that I can.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it ends up being about sixty five percent of

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Speaker 1: the time. I love you, guys, I truly do, and

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Speaker 1: I'll see you next Monday. Thanks for joining me on

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Speaker 1: the Granger Smith Podcast. I appreciate all of you guys.

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