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Speaker 1: It is the Straw Marry letter, subject living with three

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Speaker 1: other women might be cool? Oh, I might have to

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Speaker 1: let you read. Is Steve here, Stephen Shirley. I'm a

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Speaker 1: thank you. That was wild. Haydn miss that one? Yeah, right, Hey,

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Speaker 1: do I miss that one? Now? No, I'm not one

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Speaker 1: of those women in the letter, but I am thinking

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Speaker 1: that the letter writer might be onto something. After years

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Speaker 1: of dating and being discouraged, I am willing to try anything.

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Speaker 1: I've tried dating apps and I represented myself respectively, respectfully,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't get any positive of responses from men.

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Speaker 1: I've even taken Uncle Steve's advice in the ninety day rule,

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Speaker 1: and guys just leave before the waiting period is over

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Speaker 1: because there are women that will give it up sooner.

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Speaker 1: So the most surprising trend is that I've been noticing

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Speaker 1: that I've been noticing as men and women who are polyamorous.

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Speaker 1: also know a few couples polyamorous. I also know a

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Speaker 1: few couples that enjoy swinging with other couples. I've been

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Speaker 1: have children. He said that children, the kids would benefit

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Speaker 1: submit to a man that has multiple women. We talked

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Speaker 1: about a lot of other reasons this could work. I

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Speaker 1: would love to get your opinions on this. At thirty

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Speaker 1: forever or settle for the new trend? Please advise? Okay,

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Speaker 1: who says, just at thirty six years old, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: Should you settle? That is never a good idea. Never

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Speaker 1: settling is never a good idea. Don't do it. Don't settle,

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Speaker 1: Please don't settle. I mean you know this isn't right,

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Speaker 1: or you wouldn't even be writing in to us. Okay,

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Speaker 1: who besides the man is really going to benefit from

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Speaker 1: the setup like this? I mean the man is going

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Speaker 1: to benefit certainly, not you. What is in this for you?

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Speaker 1: You have not made your case in this letter as

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Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. Oh yeah, he's gonna make it

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Speaker 1: sound like this, big one, big happy love, paradise, beautiful, big,

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Speaker 1: just loving on everybody. Family, That's what he's trying to

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Speaker 1: make You're gonna be treated like a queen. The kids

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Speaker 1: they do this? Don't don't believe the hype. I just

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Speaker 1: think this is not what you want. It's not living

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Speaker 1: your best life. Settling is not living your best life

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Speaker 1: it's not cute. I just say, don't give this, don't

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Speaker 1: give this man another thought. I mean, you're willing to

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Speaker 1: I want to live with all four women. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: the second time, and he don't know how he gonna

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Speaker 1: happy to you? Now? They all live happy together. Do

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Speaker 1: might be cool? Yeah, you think it is? This lady

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Speaker 1: ninety day rule. But all the men you've been dating

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Speaker 1: that's true, that can happen, but that just means they

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Speaker 1: See you, single black female with no kids. You never

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Speaker 1: live with nobody before. It's an adjustment to live with

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Speaker 1: and check into a group home. Wow, hey, y'all got

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Speaker 1: try one of them places. Okay, So stop this foolishness

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Speaker 1: This ain't hb oh, you ain't white. You can't go this.

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Speaker 1: I tell you this. You gotta be nuts. Yeah, Lord

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Speaker 1: of Cress, no one do that. White people tell you this?

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Speaker 1: to get out of it? Nothing? Yeah, we are not

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Speaker 1: We talked about a lot of other reasons this could work.

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Speaker 1: I would love to get your opinion where you got

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Speaker 1: it at thirty six old? Should Should I be okay

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Speaker 1: with being single forever? Like Sherley said, why you got

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Speaker 1: You keep setting girl? Stop stop stop. You need to

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Speaker 1: some one on one counsel, prayer meeting. Yeah, you need

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Speaker 1: somebody to touch you. Mega church, you need a small church.

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Speaker 1: Will falling away? I'm talking about what they just gather

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