Speaker 1: Hey, there, I do Part two.
Speaker 2: It's your real life single divorce guy, mister Wright, and
Speaker 2: I'm back because we've gotten so many calls.
Speaker 1: Into our hotline, and if you have any.
Speaker 2: Questions, you can always call us at eight four four
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Speaker 2: comment leave a. Question but we've gotten a lot of
Speaker 2: incoming voicemails asking for some.
Speaker 1: Advice so Today i'm going.
Speaker 2: To dive in and give you an honest perspective from
Speaker 2: a single male divorce.
Speaker 1: Guy And i'll give you my perspective on.
Speaker 2: Things all, right then let's quit wasting time and dive
Speaker 2: right into our first.
Speaker 1: VOICEMAIL i have a.
Speaker 3: QUESTION i got married about a year ago and everything's
Speaker 3: so one. Great my husband has a really good best
Speaker 3: friend from childhood that's a, female and they hang out
Speaker 3: one on one a lot, alone AND i feel, like
Speaker 3: ever since we got, married it's kind of. INAPPROPRIATE i love,
Speaker 3: her BUT i also have always had this feeling that
Speaker 3: she has feelings for my, husband but nothing's ever been acted.
Speaker 3: On they, say, SO i don't know what are your thoughts?
Speaker 4: Here thank you so, Much so.
Speaker 2: This is a really good, question AND i guess the
Speaker 2: first thing is was that relationship there when you started?
Speaker 2: Dating so did you kind of know what you're getting yourself?
Speaker 2: Into and you, know was this relationship present when you
Speaker 2: started dating and falling in? Love and then did it
Speaker 2: then't get you, know uncomfortable for you because you, know
Speaker 2: you guys started falling in. Love SO i think that's
Speaker 2: the real question because if that relationship was there, beforehand
Speaker 2: that's probably something that you probably should have taken notice.
Speaker 2: Of BUT i can totally understand and you know the
Speaker 2: way that it feels when you see somebody else with
Speaker 2: your significant, other whether that's a girl or a, guy
Speaker 2: whatever the case may, be it can be uncomfortable and
Speaker 2: that's one of those things can start to fester and get,
Speaker 2: complicated and if you don't talk about, it it can get.
Speaker 2: Worse so, YES i think that you know that your
Speaker 2: old friendships do and should change and respect the new,
Speaker 2: relationship especially when it's dealing with. Love but you have
Speaker 2: to be honest about. It you have to be able
Speaker 2: to talk about that with your you, know with your significant.
Speaker 2: Other tell them it makes you. Uncomfortable maybe they, can you,
Speaker 2: know convince you that it's nothing to be uncomfortable, about
Speaker 2: or maybe they don't even know that you're uncomfortable about.
Speaker 2: It but you, know at this part especially we're talking
Speaker 2: chapter two later on in, life, communication openness is, Everything
Speaker 2: so talk about, it all?
Speaker 1: Right what do you?
Speaker 2: Think we go into our next voicemail and start to
Speaker 2: listen a little bit about talking about dating after.
Speaker 1: Divorce, Hi so.
Speaker 5: WHAT i want to know is when did you feel
Speaker 5: comfortable dating again after? DIVORCE i feel, like you, KNOW
Speaker 5: i put so much emotion and so much everything into
Speaker 5: my marriage and then you, know the divorce is a
Speaker 5: whole other. Thing SO i don't know IF i feel
Speaker 5: comfortable dating, yet but curious from a guy's, perspective when
Speaker 5: did you feel comfortable dating? Again all?
Speaker 2: Right SO i was married for almost two, decades so you,
Speaker 2: know getting back out and dating was complicated, because you,
Speaker 2: know feeling that kind of nervousness about being across the
Speaker 2: table from one other. Person it's awkward and it's, tough
Speaker 2: especially when you haven't done it for a long. Time
Speaker 2: and part of me couldn't help but seeing my ex
Speaker 2: across the, table and you, know so it took a.
Speaker 2: While and the way THAT i kind of got used
Speaker 2: to it was going out with a group of people
Speaker 2: and trying to kind of break the eye slowly in
Speaker 2: a group. Setting that WHEN i did feel uncomfortable AND
Speaker 2: i DID i promise YOU i did feel, UNCOMFORTABLE i
Speaker 2: could kind of back off a little. Bit you can't
Speaker 2: back off when you're on a one in one, date
Speaker 2: but you're just another person because it's just you, know
Speaker 2: obviously it's a lot more. Difficult so for, me it
Speaker 2: was a little bit like dipping my toe in the
Speaker 2: water and then getting more comfortable and then slowly over.
Speaker 2: Time AND i DON'T i can't say it's six weeks
Speaker 2: or six. Months it's whatever feels natural to. You but
Speaker 2: the more that you get out, there the more you
Speaker 2: put yourself back in those social, situations those group, dates you,
Speaker 2: know those sort of. SETTINGS i think it does get,
Speaker 2: easier but there's no. Formula it doesn't get easy, immediately
Speaker 2: and you just have to kind of feel your way
Speaker 2: through and do it feels right to. You but that first,
Speaker 2: date no matter when it, is is gonna feel. Awkward expect,
Speaker 2: that get used to, it get ready for. It but
Speaker 2: it gets. Better all, Right it's time for our next
Speaker 2: voicemail coming in from another.
Speaker 6: Listener i'm dating someone who is divorced AND i feel
Speaker 6: like he's constantly comparing you to his ex. Wife is this?
Speaker 6: Normal did you ever do? This how DO i not
Speaker 6: take this? Personally or SHOULD i consider it a red?
Speaker 2: Flag, now this is a very touchy, subject especially if
Speaker 2: you know you haven't been married before and, you're you,
Speaker 2: know dating somebody that's newly, divorced because there's going to
Speaker 2: naturally be this inclination to compare and to contrast and
Speaker 2: to complain it about an x and to compare to
Speaker 2: an Ex AND i don't think it's a red. Flag
Speaker 2: but here's another situation which you just need to communicate
Speaker 2: that it's making you feel a little uncomfortable because you
Speaker 2: know this other person that you're dating that's been married,
Speaker 2: before that might be all that they know for a long,
Speaker 2: time and so that's what they're comparing you to to
Speaker 2: something that is known to, them that is comfortable to
Speaker 2: them and ultimately was uncomfortable to them and didn't work.
Speaker 2: Out so the compare can be both positive and. Negative
Speaker 2: it could be comparisons for the things that that person
Speaker 2: found in somebody that found attractive in, Somebody but on
Speaker 2: the other, side that could also be comparing and identifying
Speaker 2: some of the things that they didn't like about that.
Speaker 2: Person SO i think that if it's making it, uncomfortable
Speaker 2: if it's obvious enough that you're noticing, IT i think
Speaker 2: it's time to say something and remind that. Person, hey
Speaker 2: you're not dating your ex. Anymore you're dating. Me it's
Speaker 2: okay to you, know to have learned from your past,
Speaker 2: relationships but at some point you have to move on
Speaker 2: and be the best version of you you can be for.
Speaker 2: Me so talk about, It communicate about. It if it
Speaker 2: makes you feel, uncomfortable let that person. Know all, right
Speaker 2: we have another voicemail coming in from a, listener so
Speaker 2: let's roll that.
Speaker 1: Voicemail.
Speaker 7: Hi my name Is julie And i'm recently divorced and
Speaker 7: starting to date. AGAIN i have this hot new neighbor
Speaker 7: who moved in across the street meems to be. Single
Speaker 7: SHOULD i even attempt to date.
Speaker 5: Someone who lives so close to? Me could this end up?
Speaker 7: Backfiring could you please let me know what you THINK
Speaker 7: i should?
Speaker 8: Do thank you so.
Speaker 1: Much dating the.
Speaker 2: Neighbor the likelihood of this working out is very very.
Speaker 2: Small the likelyhood of this blowing up very very. High
Speaker 2: the likelihood of this open ending up on some reality,
Speaker 2: show very very, High so be very very. Cautious the
Speaker 2: old adage you don't want to poop where you, Sleep
Speaker 2: and this old adage or this new ad, is you
Speaker 2: don't want to date where you sleep because in the
Speaker 2: event that it doesn't work, out which it you, know
Speaker 2: if you look.
Speaker 1: At the, odds it probably. Won't then from now on
Speaker 1: you're going to have.
Speaker 2: That person watching who goes in and out of your
Speaker 2: house and in and out of your driveway or in
Speaker 2: and out of your parking garage. Forever and you, know,
Speaker 2: again if it's if it's meant to, be it's meant to.
Speaker 2: Be but that's What i'd be a little bit worried.
Speaker 2: ABOUT i wouldn't force that. One i'd maybe take a.
Speaker 2: Pass SO i think you're talking about being too close for.
Speaker 2: COMFORT i think it's any time that you might open
Speaker 2: your door and see that person that you tried to
Speaker 2: date it didn't.
Speaker 1: Work, out that would make me. Nervous that should make you.
Speaker 2: Nervous SO i think that you, know if the person
Speaker 2: lives down the street or across, town or near your
Speaker 2: coffee shop or place of business or whatever, else that's.
Speaker 2: Fine that's totally fine because you might run into, them
Speaker 2: you might, not but it's going to be kind of an.
Speaker 2: Accident but you, know if you're living in an apartment
Speaker 2: building and that person is right across.
Speaker 1: The, hall just could get, Awkward so get ready for.
Speaker 2: It SO i don't think that there's a there's a
Speaker 2: rule for, this except for maybe make it far enough
Speaker 2: away that you, know.
Speaker 1: If you run into, them it's an, accident not an.
Speaker 2: Eventuality SO i think this is a little bit like
Speaker 2: dating a, coworker which in the H R Human resources
Speaker 2: File Binder rule number, one no dating in the office because,
Speaker 2: inevitably when it goes, wrong or if it goes, wrong
Speaker 2: it blows, up and it blows up. Huge and you,
Speaker 2: know just like you're walking into an office every day
Speaker 2: and seeing that same, person if you live across the
Speaker 2: street or next door in close proximity to that, person.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be kind of the same.
Speaker 2: Thing so, yeah office, romance you, know apartment building, romance
Speaker 2: across the street. Romance it's very, Convenient make no, mistake
Speaker 2: it's very very convenient to you, know for a you,
Speaker 2: know for a romantic affair with somebody that lives close
Speaker 2: by to.
Speaker 1: You but just think of the.
Speaker 2: Repercussions think of how awkward that's going to be the
Speaker 2: next time you show, up you, know at your at
Speaker 2: your the door to your house and you've got somebody else,
Speaker 2: there and that ex, lover THAT x romance pops.
Speaker 1: Up across and and sees. You just trust, me.
Speaker 2: Be. CAREFUL i am speaking a little bit from experience
Speaker 2: WHEN i was a younger. MAN i had an office
Speaker 2: romance WHEN i first job out of, college and it
Speaker 2: lasted about two and a half. DATES i won't get
Speaker 2: into the half, date but it didn't last an entire third.
Speaker 2: Date and you, know Come monday, morning there we were
Speaker 2: in the same, office meeting at the water, cooler showing
Speaker 2: showing up and, leaving you, know from. Work and we
Speaker 2: were okay with. It but it could have been. Awkward
Speaker 2: it could have been. Awkward it was a little, bit
Speaker 2: but it could have been. Worse don't make it.
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Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 1: Afternoon take it.
Speaker 11: Away, Hi, SO i am recently. Divorced it was finalized
Speaker 11: last week and it's been a long time.
Speaker 12: Coming i'm ready to.
Speaker 11: Date my question for you, is As i'm, dating as
Speaker 11: someone asked why my marriage, ended DO i give the,
Speaker 11: raw real reason or a polished version to not scare them.
Speaker 11: AWAY i can't shame the two why we got, divorced
Speaker 11: but it's because of, him not. Me SO i feel
Speaker 11: LIKE i can tell him the, truth BUT i don't
Speaker 11: want to give him too much info on our first.
Speaker 1: Date what do you?
Speaker 6: Think let me?
Speaker 12: Know thank?
Speaker 2: You SO i will say that all of my, Advice
Speaker 2: my most important piece of advice for chapter two, relationships
Speaker 2: especially when they're young and raw and, vulnerable is to be,
Speaker 2: honest is to be open and be. Honest but having said,
Speaker 2: that you don't have to go into the gory. DETAILS
Speaker 2: i think that you should be honest whether you, know
Speaker 2: if you've got hurt coming out of a relationship and
Speaker 2: that makes you extra vulnerable or extra, raw you should
Speaker 2: share that with. Somebody you should talk about you know
Speaker 2: what your past relationship history is and reasons why you
Speaker 2: might be apprehensive about getting into. Something SO i think that,
Speaker 2: yes be, honest BUT i don't think that you have
Speaker 2: to go diving into it right on the first, date
Speaker 2: before you know this is someone you're going to see
Speaker 2: for a, second, third or, fourth or fifth or forever.
Speaker 2: Date but as you start moving, THROUGH i do think
Speaker 2: that you want to be as clear and open and
Speaker 2: honest as you possibly, can especially as you move through
Speaker 2: a relationship and it starts to develop more and.
Speaker 1: More you owe it to that. Person that person owes
Speaker 1: it to you as.
Speaker 2: Well if you have scar tissue from an, incident from
Speaker 2: a from something that broke up your previous, relationship you
Speaker 2: need to make sure that other person knows it so
Speaker 2: they don't inadvertently walk into something that they just didn't
Speaker 2: know about that they didn't they weren't clear on and you,
Speaker 2: know you hope that every divorce, has you, know a
Speaker 2: story that that they just grew, apart a story about
Speaker 2: them wanting different. Things but there are the occasions when
Speaker 2: someone just gets. Hurt the other person, hurt that person
Speaker 2: cheated on, them lied to, them you, know all of,
Speaker 2: those all of those those damaging things that can cause a.
Speaker 2: Divorce and if that's happened to, you you're you're gonna
Speaker 2: be carrying some of that. Resentment you're gonna be carrying
Speaker 2: some of that, hurt and it's gonna take a while
Speaker 2: to get, through and you're gonna need that person that
Speaker 2: you're dating to help you get through that over. Time
Speaker 2: and if you're not, sharing that other person doesn't know
Speaker 2: what they're dealing. With they don't know how to be,
Speaker 2: sensitive they don't know how to be, helpful and, ultimately
Speaker 2: you're keeping something from. Them so, yes and, no be,
Speaker 2: honest be. Open you don't have to start off right
Speaker 2: away with all of the delicate, details but you, know
Speaker 2: if you want to let somebody, in you have to
Speaker 2: let them know what they're getting. Into all, right we've
Speaker 2: got another voicemail coming, in so let's take a.
Speaker 13: Listen, hey, GUYS i have a quick question for you
Speaker 13: being a little. Help my ex wife AND i split
Speaker 13: about three years, ago and now she's saying a much
Speaker 13: younger guy who's now her. BOYFRIEND i don't know IF
Speaker 13: i need to be friends with him so he can
Speaker 13: be around my son a, lot or if this is
Speaker 13: something THAT i should just push off to the side.
Speaker 1: And let happen.
Speaker 13: Organically seeing if you guys THINK i should go get
Speaker 13: a drink with, him go, golfing OR i don't, know
Speaker 13: just you, know have a. Chat we really appreciate your.
Speaker 12: Insight.
Speaker 2: Thanks, well this is a great question and a great
Speaker 2: perspective in especially in this chapter, two because there is
Speaker 2: a you, know a large likelihood that you are going
Speaker 2: to find somebody that has, kids and you're also going
Speaker 2: to find that your ex is going to date somebody
Speaker 2: that has, kids and somebody's maybe dating your ex with
Speaker 2: whom you have, kids and that delicate balance about when
Speaker 2: not only to introduce the new love of your life
Speaker 2: to your, kids also when is it time to introduce
Speaker 2: the love of your life to the you, know the
Speaker 2: father or mother of your. Children AND i think it's
Speaker 2: it's a really case dependent because of, course when you
Speaker 2: sit back and think about. It you want to, have you,
Speaker 2: know a very modern family type of relationship where you
Speaker 2: have the ex and then you know husband or wife
Speaker 2: and new love and you are all you know, together co,
Speaker 2: parenting working, together balancing all these things. Out but a
Speaker 2: lot of times there are complications to. It there might
Speaker 2: be some, resentment there might be some, hurt and a
Speaker 2: lot of, times unfortunately that children are can play kind
Speaker 2: of pawns in this, game and which is incredibly. Unfortunate
Speaker 2: SO i think it's important to be willing to meet
Speaker 2: your ex spouse's new. Relationship don't be too, eager, though
Speaker 2: because you know you want to make sure that that
Speaker 2: person is going to be sticking. Around you want it to. Happen, yes,
Speaker 2: organically you don't want to force the, issue you don't
Speaker 2: want to make it. Uncomfortable but you got to know
Speaker 2: that there is going to be somebody else in your
Speaker 2: child's life at some. Point but at what point do
Speaker 2: you want to then invest yourself and your time and
Speaker 2: your energy to meeting that. Person SO i don't think
Speaker 2: it's something that has to happen right out of the.
Speaker 2: GATE i don't think it has to happen even. Soon
Speaker 2: BUT i think you want to understand who that person
Speaker 2: is obviously to you, know be careful of the welfare
Speaker 2: of your, child but you want to you, know you
Speaker 2: want to know what kind of people are going to
Speaker 2: be around your.
Speaker 1: Kid do you need to be friends with? Them do
Speaker 1: you need a golf with? THEM i don't think.
Speaker 2: So BUT i think that you want to make sure
Speaker 2: that you're aware of who is around your. Child who
Speaker 2: could be you, know that next person that's filling in
Speaker 2: some sort of a paternal or maternal, role and but
Speaker 2: just don't force. IT i, think let it happen organically
Speaker 2: to a certain, degree but be. Vigilant it is your
Speaker 2: responsibility as a parent to make sure that your child
Speaker 2: and your child's welfare is taken care.
Speaker 8: Of mister, right tell me, personally would you want your
Speaker 8: ex and your new significant other to be hanging out
Speaker 8: without you?
Speaker 1: Involved so this is SOMETHING i.
Speaker 2: HAVE i have, kids and my AND i have a
Speaker 2: very good, relationship and we've talked about this. Before what
Speaker 2: is the right time to start introducing or being around
Speaker 2: a new. Relationship AND i think that you, know we
Speaker 2: both agree that it has to be somebody that's invested
Speaker 2: because you don't want your, kids you, know having a
Speaker 2: revolving door of new, relationships of people coming in and
Speaker 2: out because they're not going to know when to invest
Speaker 2: themselves in that. Person so it is heartbreaking to think
Speaker 2: at any point that my kids would be around a
Speaker 2: new father, figure a new. Influence you, know it.
Speaker 1: Does it is probably the most difficult.
Speaker 2: Thing for me when considering my, divorce the idea that
Speaker 2: there's going to be somebody else throwing a baseball with my,
Speaker 2: child that's going to be having an experience, travel you,
Speaker 2: know even something as simple as you know as a
Speaker 2: dinner When i'm not there is the. Heart this thing
Speaker 2: about being divorced is being away from your kids at,
Speaker 2: All but then supplement in somebody.
Speaker 1: Else is there when you're not. There so.
Speaker 2: You, know in a perfect, world you know you would
Speaker 2: you would always be able to be around your, Children
Speaker 2: but divorce, doesn't you, know, permit that doesn't allow. That
Speaker 2: it and it's it's part of the evolution of moving
Speaker 2: on and the only way that you can make it
Speaker 2: any easier is by feeling good and comfortable with whoever
Speaker 2: it is that your ex is with and hopefully getting
Speaker 2: to know, them maybe not, personally but through reputation through their.
Speaker 1: History through their.
Speaker 2: Path you, know all those sorts of things can hopefully
Speaker 2: build enough confidence to make you feel. Comfortable i'll never
Speaker 2: be one hundred percent, COMFORTABLE i can tell you, that
Speaker 2: but for the sake of the kids and the sake
Speaker 2: of your your ex and moving, on.
Speaker 1: You have to come to grips with. It you have
Speaker 1: to find some piece in.
Speaker 2: It and the way That i've found piece in it
Speaker 2: is is hopefully knowing who that person, is what their character,
Speaker 2: is and and feeling comfortable enough to let that part
Speaker 2: go a little. BIT i mean, today so after spending you,
Speaker 2: know five days with my boys down at the, beach you,
Speaker 2: KNOW i turned the back, over you, know to to my.
Speaker 2: Ex and that's even that in and of itself is
Speaker 2: really really. Difficult and you, think, oh it's you get a.
Speaker 2: Break you've been single datting for for a week and
Speaker 2: now you get, to you, know get a.
Speaker 1: Break it's, LIKE i don't want to.
Speaker 2: Break and you, know it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 2: release OF i don't, know. Responsibility it's a release of,
Speaker 2: LIKE i don't. Know it's a very very difficult, thing
Speaker 2: and you know it has to happen at some. Point
Speaker 2: there there's an eventuality to, it but it doesn't make
Speaker 2: it any.
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Speaker 12: Voicemail my name Is, Sarah i'm a single mom and
Speaker 12: trying to date. THAT i keep meeting guys who are single.
Speaker 12: Dads they don't have good relationships with their ex yis
Speaker 12: who are the mother of their. Kids my question is
Speaker 12: it up to me as the new girlfriend to help
Speaker 12: them bridge that?
Speaker 1: Gap, yeah this is a difficult.
Speaker 2: Question and when you enter into a, relationship and let's
Speaker 2: let's take a step back here even before talking, about you,
Speaker 2: know their relationship and helping, them when you're getting into
Speaker 2: a new relationship with someone and they have been, divorced
Speaker 2: there is a natural kind of i don't, know like
Speaker 2: a caution flag that goes up if they don't have
Speaker 2: a good relationship with their. Ex why don't they have
Speaker 2: a good relationship with their? Ex it is it really
Speaker 2: all the other person's? Fault is it all the ex's?
Speaker 2: Fault is? It do they carry none of the? Responsibility
Speaker 2: so right away that makes me a little bit, nervous
Speaker 2: AND i will have some red flags start to poke
Speaker 2: up a little.
Speaker 1: Bit and you, know you want someone that you.
Speaker 2: Know in a perfect, WORLD i think that has a
Speaker 2: decent enough relationship with their ex to be able to co,
Speaker 2: parent to be able to put the child, first And
Speaker 2: i've heard horror stories where again that the child is
Speaker 2: kind of a pawn in this game and they're, used
Speaker 2: as you, know as a weapon against the other co. Parent,
Speaker 2: now whether that's with, scheduling whether that's with drop offs or,
Speaker 2: pickups you, know or giving permission to do things or,
Speaker 2: helicopter all these different, things and it's it's it's really
Speaker 2: it's a tragedy for the child and for you, know
Speaker 2: for the. Family so now you're the question That sarah
Speaker 2: had was really about what's her responsibility, it you, know
Speaker 2: should she be trying to step in and help out
Speaker 2: and give advice and. Counsel, well, YEAH i thinks as a,
Speaker 2: partner as you, know if you're dating or you, know
Speaker 2: in a, relationship you're always wanting to, give you, know.
Speaker 2: Advice but this can be a very very touchy. Subject
Speaker 2: how someone parents their, child how someone disciplines their, child
Speaker 2: how someone co parents is very very, personal AND i
Speaker 2: would be cautious about trying to step in too much
Speaker 2: and giving your.
Speaker 1: Opinion, now you want to be, supportive.
Speaker 2: You want to give you, know as much you, know
Speaker 2: guidance and counsel as you, can but just be careful
Speaker 2: about not being seen as meddling too much because you
Speaker 2: know that that relationship that created that child and ultimately
Speaker 2: ended in a, divorce it has, history it has scar,
Speaker 2: tissue it has you, know it has a lot of you,
Speaker 2: know a lot of history that you may not be familiar,
Speaker 2: with and to wade into it, unknowingly even with the best,
Speaker 2: intentions even because you just want to, help you might
Speaker 2: end up really making it.
Speaker 1: Worse and this is A this.
Speaker 2: Is one of those times when you almost have to
Speaker 2: kind of sit this one out until you're asked to step,
Speaker 2: in WHICH i know can be so difficult when all
Speaker 2: you want to do is.
Speaker 1: Help, okay that was.
Speaker 2: A great question and we're now to our final voicemail
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 5: Day SO i just.
Speaker 4: Started dating a guy and he's pretty off the, grid
Speaker 4: like he doesn't have An instagram and he's just more
Speaker 4: of a private. Person but he's weird about his.
Speaker 5: Phone like we'll be driving.
Speaker 4: And i'll like be asking him for his phone password
Speaker 4: to put on some music or, whatever and he gave
Speaker 4: it to. Me later he mentioned that he had switched
Speaker 4: his phone.
Speaker 6: Password like SHOULD i be?
Speaker 5: Concerned why is.
Speaker 4: He being so weird and secretive about his?
Speaker 2: Phone and this is a really really great question and
Speaker 2: a really good comment and a really interesting, perspective which
Speaker 2: is the.
Speaker 1: Phone the. Phone the phone has become such.
Speaker 2: A huge part of our, lives and mostly our dating
Speaker 2: lives and our relationship. Lives and once upon a, time
Speaker 2: you know someone who used to hide a diary under
Speaker 2: the bed or something like, That but now all your
Speaker 2: secrets are held inside of a. Phone who you're talking,
Speaker 2: to what you're looking, at who you, know what pictures
Speaker 2: do you? Like all these all this stuff that is
Speaker 2: really very very personal is hidden in this. Phone and
Speaker 2: the expectation is this is just you know that that's.
Speaker 2: Mine it's my private. SPACE i am the only one
Speaker 2: that gets to know what goes on in my. Phone
Speaker 2: but as you get in a, relationship of course you're
Speaker 2: gonna have someone's gonna have questions about. It what are
Speaker 2: you looking? At who are you talking? To are you
Speaker 2: talking to you an ex? Girlfriend you?
Speaker 1: Know are you you?
Speaker 2: Know are you carrying on multiple? Relationships and it's almost
Speaker 2: impossible not to be suspicious if someone's not willing to share.
Speaker 2: That nowhere where does it become an invasion of privacy
Speaker 2: versus where does it become you're just right to know
Speaker 2: what the other person's, doing who they're talking, to and
Speaker 2: where they've. Been AND i you, Know i'll, say, Like
Speaker 2: I'M i think that hiding a phone is hiding a.
Speaker 2: Secret that's my personal. Perspective if someone isn't willing to
Speaker 2: share with you what they're looking at and who they're talking,
Speaker 2: to they're probably hiding. Something you, know unless they're you,
Speaker 2: know a CIAgent and more or they have the nuclear,
Speaker 2: codes there probably isn't something important enough that they should
Speaker 2: be hiding from their significant.
Speaker 1: Other.
Speaker 2: NOW i get it if you're in the early stages
Speaker 2: of dating and you're just kind of getting to know each,
Speaker 2: other and you should probably think there's probably a high
Speaker 2: likelihood that there are other people in his life or
Speaker 2: her life that they haven't let go. Of but if
Speaker 2: you've been dating for a, while if you are moving
Speaker 2: on to those next logical steps of a relationship of
Speaker 2: moving in together or committing the rest of your lives, together,
Speaker 2: yeah you should know the password to their. Phone you
Speaker 2: should know who they're talking, to you should know where
Speaker 2: they've been that you, know if you're suspicious about, that you,
Speaker 2: know it's just a matter of time before that relationship ends.
Speaker 1: Up dissolving and falls.
Speaker 2: Apart so, Yeah i'd be suspicious if a phone is
Speaker 2: so important that they're unwilling to share a password and
Speaker 2: let you know what they've been up.
Speaker 1: To, well thanks for all those.
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