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Speaker 1: This show contains adult material and swearing.

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Speaker 2: You have been warned that man has a girlfriend and

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Speaker 2: he's out here at lunch time in a cafe giving

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Speaker 2: me like sex size.

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Speaker 1: So halfway through I was going.

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Speaker 3: He's like, oh god, her gag green is Zeremo Terrebo.

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Speaker 2: Around me?

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Speaker 1: I'm a savage. Are you bored of modern dating?

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Speaker 2: Meeting the same people from the same apps in the

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Speaker 2: same bar You've only chosen because it's close to your

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Speaker 2: house and you can make your usual quick getaway. It's

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Speaker 2: time to change the narrative on how we find love.

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Speaker 2: It's time to start looking for love in all the

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Speaker 2: wrong places. I'm going on a wild dating adventure, only

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Speaker 2: picking people who were the total opposite of my type.

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Speaker 2: And after twenty eight of these dates in two months,

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Speaker 2: will I find that special someone? Or well, this experiment

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Speaker 2: proved I should just give up on dating altogether.

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Speaker 1: It's time to find out.

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Speaker 2: I'm Grace Campbell and this is twenty eight dates later.

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Speaker 3: Grace, How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good? I'm looking forward to this week's date, but

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Speaker 3: I've been worried about how much you like some of

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Speaker 3: these guys.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing, like I'm I'm I'm gonna go on

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Speaker 2: dates and think Ross is going to hurt this guy.

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Speaker 3: No, and you know what, like.

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Speaker 1: She's going to fucking hate this guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm really turned on.

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Speaker 3: You know what. What's funny is we do actually have come.

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Speaker 3: I think we are very safe friends and that if

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Speaker 3: we went to a club we wouldn't be trying to

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Speaker 3: fight for the same guy.

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Speaker 1: As Yes, yeah, not at all, not all.

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Speaker 2: But also because you're in a relationship, so you can't

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Speaker 2: get with anyone, you can't even talk to them.

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Speaker 3: I can flourish first. There's nothing wrong with that.

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Speaker 1: No, I have a bit of healthy flirting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good, just to check in that.

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Speaker 1: He's so goddess it is.

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Speaker 3: I mean, no, I know it's important. So go on,

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Speaker 3: go on, tell me about who's up next.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I met Chris and it's about Chris with a

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Speaker 2: Why I presume maybe because he's Welsh.

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Speaker 3: Hi?

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Speaker 1: Hi, oh bye, how are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good?

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Speaker 4: Nice to meet you in So do you go by

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Speaker 4: she or day or hey?

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Speaker 3: Okay, what do you do?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 4: I work for a clothing company? Oh okay, I work

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Speaker 4: in the custoller and product relations.

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Speaker 5: So are you Polly yes, so I have a primary partner.

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Speaker 6: Okay, I'm obsessed with it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, we've been together for like fourteen fifteen months, sixteen.

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Speaker 4: We're going to say it is no.

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Speaker 5: You invented it very ahead of the car.

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Speaker 6: And you are twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: So when I came in, he asked me what my

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Speaker 1: pronouns were.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, Layton.

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Speaker 2: But so he let me tell you about him, right, okay,

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Speaker 2: because this is so interesting.

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Speaker 1: I found him on Field. Do you know about Field?

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Speaker 3: Tell me quickly?

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Speaker 1: Both.

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Speaker 3: Field.

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Speaker 2: It's like a sort of I used to think it

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Speaker 2: was like a kink based app and but it's basically

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Speaker 2: a lot it's like people in polyamorous relationships, Like you know,

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Speaker 2: it's a sort of like more open minded app and

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Speaker 2: like hinge. So like it's the kind of place that

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Speaker 2: you can, like I don't know, expect to like talk

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Speaker 2: to people who are like in open relationships or just

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Speaker 2: looking for slightly like off the beaten track concept, so

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Speaker 2: like very like out of my comfort zone. He is

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Speaker 2: in an open relationship. So he said he had a

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Speaker 2: primary van. I was really like as a concept jarbed me.

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Speaker 2: It was like I just kept thinking of like primary

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Speaker 2: I ask Cara was.

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Speaker 3: Its primary person male or female?

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Speaker 1: Female?

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Speaker 5: Okay?

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Speaker 2: And I think he said they started their relationship open.

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Speaker 2: And then I was like really interrogating it because I

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Speaker 2: am so interested in polyamous relationship. And he said that

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Speaker 2: was like, you can really.

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Speaker 4: Vary it however you want it to be, Like you

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Speaker 4: could have like I have a primary partner and I

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Speaker 4: date the people to what degree of intimacy I have

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Speaker 4: of these people, whether like we go on dates and stuff,

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Speaker 4: how That's quite interesting, Yeah, but like not necessarily like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds like a friend or like he was like,

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Speaker 2: you know, but people that I don't actually get with,

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Speaker 2: we just sort of like cuddle.

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Speaker 1: I was like, why, Like the thing that I kept

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Speaker 1: thinking is like.

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Speaker 3: That man needs a dog.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly one hundred percent, But also like what did

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Speaker 2: you just do that with your girlfriend. Yeah, Like that's

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Speaker 2: the kind of intimacy that if I was in the

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Speaker 2: open relationship, I think I'd be like, listen, you can

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Speaker 2: have like maybe sex when you're on holiday, but like

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Speaker 2: the concept of like lying and watching TV just sounds

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Speaker 2: way more intimate than anything else.

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Speaker 3: And I've known real skills required to just snuggling on

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Speaker 3: do it alone. Yeah, what did he look like?

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Speaker 2: He looks like he looked a bit like you know,

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Speaker 2: he did his Bible wasn't this, But he looks a

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Speaker 2: bit like Jack Grealish the football player.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and he wasn't political.

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Speaker 2: He didn't know who my dad was, which is actually

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Speaker 2: quite an dick if I'm honest, because that's my litmus test.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know who Alie the Gambler is and

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Speaker 2: you don't really know anything about politics, and then I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure if I fancy it.

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Speaker 3: And maybe you live in a little bit of a bubble.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: It's such like I always find it when people like,

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Speaker 2: I'm not very biscal It's such like I don't know

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Speaker 2: that it's not like such a privileged position to be in,

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Speaker 2: but it just it just makes me feel like, oh,

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Speaker 2: you've probably never voted, and therefore, like I don't respect

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Speaker 4: So what's it like having a dad as a politician?

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Speaker 4: Does he like ground it into you from Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think I am, but I think it just is

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Speaker 5: Was he Alisa Campbell?

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Speaker 6: No, you don't know you're not into politics?

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Speaker 3: I know that the recent guys.

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Speaker 5: But I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't pay too much because like they all lie. Basically,

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Speaker 4: you just have to pick up the most friendly liar.

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 2: But he was like he was like Tony Blair's like

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Speaker 2: director of communication, So his job was to literally like

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Speaker 2: a reputation for being quite like aggressive.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever watched The Thick of It?

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Speaker 2: It's a comedy and it was the main character, Malcolm Tucker,

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Speaker 2: who's played by Peter Caldi, was made was based on

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Speaker 6: But it's a comedy. Yeah, influence, Yeah, what's the different?

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Speaker 4: Being infamous kinda can be bad?

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Speaker 5: Oh really, I think.

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Speaker 4: So, don't quote.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear that guy?

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Speaker 2: The vibe of the date was like he wanted to

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Speaker 2: one of those people you know when you meet someone

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Speaker 2: like you're very intense.

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Speaker 1: He was like looking at me with that like intense look,

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Speaker 1: like he like, do you.

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Speaker 3: Know what I mean? You?

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Speaker 1: Which made you think that it's really.

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Speaker 2: Intense in a good way, Like that's why eye contacted

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Speaker 3: He brainwashed you basically one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: But the vibe was very I don't know if it's

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Speaker 2: because his eye called that was intense, but and this

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Speaker 2: is what kind of baffles me about open relationships is

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Speaker 2: at lunch time in a cafe giving me like sex size,

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Speaker 2: And that's like whoa, Like, how do you find the

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Speaker 2: energy to like upkeep these many like connections with people,

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Speaker 3: So did you ask him how many pregners his primary

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Speaker 2: He said, it's very equal because in they both sort

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Speaker 2: of are doing the same thing.

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Speaker 1: It's not like one of them is doing it more.

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Speaker 6: Is your primary your primary partner? Is it a woman?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Is she the same?

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Speaker 2: What do you mean?

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Speaker 6: Like, does she have the same thing? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so she has.

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Speaker 4: Other relationships to with both male and.

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Speaker 3: Females, right, Okay, Yeah, Like I I'm so happy that

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Speaker 3: it's equal on both sides, and like, obviously I love

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Speaker 3: him for someone tells me they're in an open relationship, like,

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Speaker 3: I want to know so much more, abud. I find

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Speaker 3: it's so fascinating and like whatever anyone's comfortable doing, that's

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Speaker 3: great for them. But I do think if I went

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Speaker 3: I have a primary partner and I've lost different partners,

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Speaker 3: I don't think I would actually be secure enough to

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Speaker 1: No, I see that. I completely agree with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the idea that I would date someone who is

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Speaker 2: in a relationship with someone else, I just that, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: like you said, it doesn't make me feel secure enough

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Speaker 2: and I would always be feeling like second best.

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't do it.

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Speaker 4: So the you're asked, two boyfriends, are you're also like

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Speaker 4: open to you have like multiple relationships?

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Speaker 6: No, I haven't ever before.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Basically, when I for a period when I was

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Speaker 2: breaking up with my ex, we were open, but.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't in a healthy way.

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Speaker 2: It was like in a last attempt to make the

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Speaker 2: relationship work. See, well, it was like I think we

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Speaker 6: We've broken up for a bit and then we were

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Speaker 6: like trying to get back together.

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Speaker 2: But I think neither of us all it's like recommit

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Speaker 2: to like let's be like opening.

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Speaker 5: But it was just the worst.

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Speaker 6: It's the worst we like to do that.

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Speaker 5: Would you have a day someone who's in a relationship, hm, hm.

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Speaker 3: Hm, don't even.

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Speaker 5: Don't even dignify this with.

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Speaker 3: You know what, stop pretending. I kind of think honestly,

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Speaker 3: if I was single now, I love what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: And so it's you know, where.

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying. I'm not a second fiddle? Was scenario

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Speaker 3: If you're in a monogamous relationship, you can't switch off

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Speaker 5: It's yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: But it's kind of cool that there are so many

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Speaker 5: I just don't know if it would actually work for me.

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Speaker 3: One of my friends is in a polyamorous relationship and

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Speaker 2: Always like, go you exactly, and sometimes it means that

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Speaker 2: the communication is way better than in a monogamous relationship.

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Speaker 3: Did his primary partner know who's going on a date

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's good.

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Speaker 3: That's good honesty.

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Speaker 2: And you know, like the good thing about polyamorous people

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Speaker 3: No, solid, solid, No.

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Speaker 4: The thing I like about it the most is like

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Speaker 6: So that's what really is appealing to me.

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Speaker 4: So whenever there's like a gray area, you notice it

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Speaker 4: right away and it feels sketchy and you're like, what

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Speaker 4: is like, I don't have this in my relationship with you, like,

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Speaker 4: and then you address it, so.

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Speaker 6: You get used to, really you get used to.

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Speaker 4: Having like really difficult open conversations like on a regular

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Speaker 4: because it doesn't work otherwise.

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Speaker 1: That's see.

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Speaker 2: That is basically the thing I find appealing about an

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Speaker 2: that we've basically agreed if you communicate what you're doing,

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Speaker 2: it's fine. Because in the past, my biggest issues have

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Speaker 2: been trust. And so that's why sometimes I think, oh

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Speaker 2: because then like you don't need to lie to me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But then also, are you have you just always

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Speaker 2: Yeah, You're You're definitely right, because I think certain relationships

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Speaker 2: from the get go, So then it doesn't need to

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Speaker 3: And can I just say so every relationship I've had

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Speaker 3: you know, like maybe like I was doing what a

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Speaker 3: gray area, whereas it's different than when you actually have

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Speaker 3: these really frank and open conversations, whereas actually, when you're

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Speaker 3: don't have to because there's nothing to worry about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, because I think you shouldn't be in an

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Speaker 2: open relationship just because you don't trust someone. Basically, it

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Speaker 2: shouldn't be like a last resort. It should be because

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Speaker 2: you want to do that.

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Speaker 3: You should be in an open relationship because you just

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Speaker 3: don't believe in monogamy and you want to have multiple partners,

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Speaker 3: and you're someone who possibly will never want to just

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Speaker 2: But do you know what I would love is to

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Speaker 2: meet his primary partner. Yeah, because I feel like now

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Speaker 2: that I've met him and got an idea of like

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Speaker 2: him on a day, I'd love to meet her and

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Speaker 2: sort of there are so many layers of like being polyamorous,

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Speaker 2: and it's so complicated. One of my really good friends

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Speaker 2: is in like a polyamorous relationship or like, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: there's so many different versions of like non monogamous relationships.

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Speaker 2: There's another phrase for the relationship she's in. But she

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Speaker 2: was like to me, she was like, you have to

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Speaker 2: have so much time to commit to it because the

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Speaker 2: level of communication that you have to have and the

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Speaker 2: conversations you have to have, like weekly check in with

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Speaker 2: each other talk about what's going on, is very time consuming.

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Speaker 2: It's like you're not always like arguing, but you're always

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Speaker 2: having these like really deep conversations and that I'm just like, God,

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Speaker 2: I just wanted like an easy live.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, I actually think how you've described

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Speaker 3: it there. The reason I could never ever be in

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Speaker 3: one is like I can hardly manage having one partner exactly,

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Speaker 3: and keeping on top of like fucking Valentine's Day and

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Speaker 3: actually just seeing each other and having time for each other.

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Speaker 2: That's what I mean, Like where do you find the time?

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Speaker 2: Where do these people find the time.

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Speaker 3: It's funny because I'm just picturing you and Jack rellis

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Speaker 3: jack Ja. Yeah, you know, I'm from I don't support

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Speaker 3: UK stactor him having crazy eye contact for you on

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Speaker 3: a couch summer having coffee is really unsettling.

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Speaker 1: No, I know.

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Speaker 2: And also my coffee they gave me soy milk instead

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Speaker 2: of oat milk, which I'm like very mildly allergic to.

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Speaker 1: So halfway through I was going because I was like

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Speaker 1: making mind bright really ed.

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Speaker 3: I was like, He's like, oh god, her gag reflects

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Speaker 3: is terrible, terrible. So you're having a nice time on

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Speaker 3: a day with me?

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Speaker 4: Do I have to say?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: You can be honest.

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Speaker 2: Give me feedback, Chris, what did you think of our day?

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Speaker 4: I think it went well, Like you're funny to talk to.

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Speaker 4: He gave me good eye contact, and that's good feedback.

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Speaker 4: It was easy to talk to you, and likewise, and

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Speaker 4: I'm going to come to your show so I get

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Speaker 4: to see you again in some capacity.

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Speaker 3: So I want to know would you go on a

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Speaker 3: second day with him? Like did you change numbers or

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Speaker 3: what we did?

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Speaker 2: This is a really funny right, So like afterwards I

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Speaker 2: was like, Okay, maybe, like I'll see him again because

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Speaker 2: it was a good day and like I said, like

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Speaker 2: there was written intense eye contacting going on, and then

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Speaker 2: I left and then he texted me, and then as

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Speaker 2: a few days afterwards, I was like, you know what, no,

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Speaker 2: because I thought about like what we were just talking about.

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Speaker 2: That whole concept just was overfilling my brain and kind

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Speaker 2: of stressing me out. And like I can definitely date

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Speaker 2: someone who's like shagging around, but someone who's in a

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Speaker 2: whole relationship with someone else, I'm just like, that's not

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Speaker 2: really where I'm at.

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Speaker 3: I get you, it's kind of hard knowing because if

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Speaker 3: you do develop feelings that you're a the side person.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then the other day someone was telling me that

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Speaker 2: she had a friend who had really pushed for an

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Speaker 2: love with someone else that he started seeing, but it

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Speaker 2: had been like her idea, and then he'd come back

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Speaker 2: and been like, I've developed feelings sin this girl, and

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Speaker 2: she was like that's okay, Like should we like meet her?

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Speaker 2: And then she met the girl and the girl was like, look,

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Speaker 2: it's fine, Like I'm not trying to steal your man.

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Speaker 2: We do have feelings for each other, but like I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't you guys stay together? And then he was like,

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Speaker 2: do you know what, No, like I'm in love with her.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's kind of nice that he fell in love

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Speaker 3: but also.

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Speaker 2: I know but it's like, yeah, that's what I would

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Speaker 2: be freaking out about the whole time. You're going on

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Speaker 2: a date with someone whole we're gonna fall in love

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Speaker 2: with them?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I find the whole cancel of really really interesting.

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Speaker 3: And as I said, like, I'm like, whatever makes someone

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Speaker 3: else happy in their relationship, I'm so happy for them.

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Speaker 3: Like I am just vanilla light monogamous bitch here, right,

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Speaker 3: But what I will say is, you know, I would

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Speaker 3: be afraid to do it for a number of reasons,

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Speaker 3: and one of them would be losing your partner. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: what if you fail for someone else?

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Speaker 2: I mean, and you have to be so secure and

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Speaker 2: you're like love for each other to think that there's

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Speaker 2: no chance that he's gonna like end up falling in

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Speaker 2: love with someone else, you have to be so secure.

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Speaker 3: Which, yeah, so it's no to Chris. Chris is gone,

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Speaker 3: I think, so I'm afraid. But Chris is not forgotten,

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Speaker 3: never forgotten. And he's got plenty of plenty He literally

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Speaker 3: has plenty of so many options, He's got a lot

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Speaker 3: of team players on that field.

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Speaker 5: So he's fine.

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Speaker 1: He's well, so many options. Obviously none of them are

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Speaker 1: as interesting as me.

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Speaker 3: But no, I would love to have like a family

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Speaker 3: tree of their relationship though I know.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's such a good idea. The thing

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Speaker 2: I'll say is he also he's every this is cyrn.

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Speaker 2: But he sent me a message after just being like,

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Speaker 2: let's go for another drink, and then I was like, yeah, sure,

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Speaker 2: and then I just decided not to do And then

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Speaker 2: the next week messaged me like, hey, like, I just

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Speaker 2: want to let you know my week's gotten really full now,

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Speaker 2: so like I haven't really got any time to see

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Speaker 2: you this week, but would love to get in sometime

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Speaker 2: next week.

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Speaker 1: Not even followed up with.

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Speaker 2: Like the first proposition of seeing you again, and now

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Speaker 2: you've gotten in touchdown me, you're so busy with so

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Speaker 2: many other dates.

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Speaker 3: That's like you know when you like have your monthly

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Speaker 3: wax appointment and then they mess you got Look, I

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Speaker 3: know you haven't booked in yet, but my week is

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Speaker 3: getting real full. It's like, listen, he's got a lot

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Speaker 3: of people to see.

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Speaker 2: I know, but it's very like I didn't ask, and

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Speaker 2: you're telling me how busy you are, but I didn't ask.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris gone.

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Speaker 1: Next time. On twenty eight dates Later.

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Speaker 2: There is nothing more ick to me than people referring

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Speaker 2: to themselves and as a conner sort of anything, but

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Speaker 2: mainly why.

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Speaker 1: Unless you're won number one in the world. Even then, Oh, girls,

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Speaker 1: you around for me. I'm a savage obout it.

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Speaker 3: They can help it.

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Speaker 1: For more from Novel, visit novel dot Audio.

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Speaker 2: The series is presented by me Grace Campbell with help

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Speaker 2: from Roz Pursu and Dan Whyde. The producer is Diggory Way.

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Speaker 2: The executive producer is Claire Broughton. Our editors are Mithilely

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Speaker 2: Raw and Max O'Brien. Production management from Sharie Houston and

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Speaker 2: Charlotte Wall. Willard Foxton is our creative director of Development.