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Speaker 1: This is Amy and TJ Love Stories and Sonya, Richard

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Speaker 1: Ross and Aaron Ross joining us. Now, before we get going,

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Speaker 1: let's just get this out of the way. University of

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Speaker 1: Texas and the two of US, University of Georgia, University

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Speaker 1: of Arkansas. Let's just try to get this. Let's just

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Speaker 1: get through this over everybody.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's all good here. It's just friendly competition.

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Speaker 1: So God, it's good to see you. And let's start. Yes,

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Speaker 1: right off the top. And I guess this is kind

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Speaker 1: of a This is the one that tripped a lot

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Speaker 1: of folks up, so we change it a little bit

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Speaker 1: this year. So put it this way in five words

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Speaker 1: or less, and I'll start with you, Sonya, describe your relationship.

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Speaker 3: Ooh, that's a really good one.

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Speaker 4: I'm happy that we didn't watch other ones so this

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Speaker 4: would be so authentsake, you know, you're not like prepared.

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Speaker 4: But in five words unless which is very hard for

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Speaker 4: me teaching because I like to do, but I would

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Speaker 4: say our relationship is the most loving, like joyous place

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Speaker 4: of growth.

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Speaker 5: That's mine life.

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Speaker 4: For me, you know, like for us. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if that's five words, but that's what comes to mind.

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Speaker 1: Loving, joyous, place of growth.

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Speaker 2: That was five nailed it not shocking all right? Eron

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Speaker 2: how about you?

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Speaker 5: I would she stole my growth?

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Speaker 6: So now I got back, I would say our relationship

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Speaker 6: is exciting.

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Speaker 5: Damn. I want to use growth. Growth is is.

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Speaker 6: I think growth is the main thing, especially with us

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Speaker 6: together for so long. So exciting growth and a roller coaster, Guys,

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Speaker 6: roller coasters are exciting.

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Speaker 5: They are.

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Speaker 7: They can be scary too, though, both and you hope

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Speaker 7: it doesn't go off the tracks.

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Speaker 1: Now, that's a lot of stuff we could do with

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Speaker 1: roller coasters here.

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Speaker 8: But that's honest. I appreciate that. No, but that is true.

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Speaker 2: And I think when people hear that, all jokes aside,

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Speaker 2: it makes the rest of us mortals feel like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: we're not alone. Roller Coaster rides are a part of

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Speaker 2: most relationships, even solid ones, even time tested ones.

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Speaker 8: I'm curious who said I love you first?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Definitely mean and early too.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 4: My husband and I met at utube and in college

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Speaker 4: freshman year of college two thousand and three, and we

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Speaker 4: were both were both on athletic scholarships. We both hadn't

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Speaker 4: we didn't know each other before. So I'm with my

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Speaker 4: sister and he walks into the CAFs and I'm like, ooh,

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Speaker 4: he is point.

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Speaker 3: Who is that?

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Speaker 4: You know? So I call him over and he introduced himself,

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Speaker 4: and you know, we kind of go on our first

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Speaker 4: DAIDA a week or so later, and I want to say,

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Speaker 4: probably in the first month or so.

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Speaker 3: We're on a call and I'm like, I love you.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow Bold, yeah, oh yeah, I listen.

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Speaker 3: I know what I want.

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Speaker 4: Amy. I don't really play around. It's like, look, I

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Speaker 4: saw him. I was like, that's my husband, He's the one.

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Speaker 3: Let's do this.

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Speaker 1: Aaron, what was your reaction immediately? And then how long? Okay,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, Aaron, what was your reaction immediately? And then

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Speaker 1: how long before you said I love you?

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Speaker 5: I'll come back to my reaction. Okay, all right.

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Speaker 6: So to give you some context, so I saw her

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Speaker 6: like a year previous to when the time that she's

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Speaker 6: she just actually met yeah, sorry to track meet. And

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Speaker 6: of course I didn't want to approach. I wanted wanted

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Speaker 6: her to focus on what she was doing. So that

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Speaker 6: following year, I get back to campus, I'm asking my teammates, Hey,

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Speaker 5: Know this this girl.

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Speaker 6: I'm trying to figure out where she's at, who she is,

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Speaker 6: and then they actually told me that she had a boyfriend.

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Speaker 5: So I was like, ah, so I kind of fell back.

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Speaker 6: But then this actual time right here that she's talking about,

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Speaker 6: when she saw me coming to the cafeteria, I'm an athlete,

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Speaker 6: so coaches always told me to make sure.

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Speaker 5: You put yourself in position and make places. She got me.

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Speaker 5: I put myself in position.

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Speaker 3: But to get to exactly, you haven't flotten.

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Speaker 5: Whole year, she didn't even know. So she went for

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Speaker 6: But to answer your question, when she said it, it

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Speaker 6: definitely caught me off of surprise. And I have a

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Speaker 6: sweet mate, a roommate, sweet mate, and I said I

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Speaker 6: his room like, oh man, I just told him, girl,

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Speaker 6: I love broth.

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Speaker 8: So you regretted it for that because it was so soon.

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Speaker 5: So I was like, am I supposed to say this

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Speaker 5: this early? But of course I always head over heels

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Speaker 5: for but that love you were and it was it's serious.

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Speaker 5: We've been together ever since.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all said I love you very quickly and maybe

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Speaker 2: shockingly so for Aaron, how long were you engaged before

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Speaker 2: you decided to get married? Maybe I should ask how

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Speaker 2: long until you got engaged and then how long until

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Speaker 2: you got married?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we were together for seven.

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Speaker 6: Years ten, two thousand and three and two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 4: We got married in twenty ten, but you're proposed in

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Speaker 4: eight So we're together for five years and then engaged

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Speaker 4: for two years. So we got married seven years after meeting.

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Speaker 4: So five years into our relationship he proposed, and then

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Speaker 4: two years that.

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Speaker 3: We got married.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you've been married. Now how many years.

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Speaker 5: Married? Since? Ten?

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Speaker 3: Sixteen years?

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Speaker 2: This year?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So tell me this What was the best year? Aaron?

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Speaker 1: I'll start with you, what was the best year of

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Speaker 1: your marriage so far? Or if you can't give me

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Speaker 1: a specific year, tell me what was the best stretch

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Speaker 1: of your marriage so far? Those early years, some middle

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Speaker 1: years or lately where we are.

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Speaker 6: Now, it's two during our career, so of course twenty

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Speaker 6: ten through two thousand and sixteen, it felt.

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Speaker 5: Like a fairy tale when kids yet nothing, nothing that happened.

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Speaker 3: We ain't had no kid yet.

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Speaker 5: Part part that middle part we had our son in

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Speaker 5: seventeen through twenty two after roller.

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Speaker 6: Coaster Wow, and then probably I will say now I

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Speaker 6: would say our best year has been these last two

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Speaker 6: because of the brot.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and it sounds like you agree with that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say like in the beginning, even before

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Speaker 4: this honeymoon for years, like people. It was like seven

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Speaker 4: eight years of just you know, relationship and marital bliss.

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Speaker 4: And I think a large part of that too, was

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Speaker 4: because we were also living in our dreams. Like Ross

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Speaker 4: competing in the Olympics. I think that we had enough

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Speaker 4: space in our relationshiphere we you know, we were traveling,

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Speaker 4: so when we saw each other was always like we

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Speaker 4: just wanted to be loving, you know.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't like we were each other.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we went like fighting because we weren't in the

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Speaker 4: same house all the time. I think we really appreciate

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Speaker 4: our times together. So, yeah, we had a really nice

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Speaker 4: stretch of a like literally like honeymoon bliss. And like

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Speaker 4: Ross said, we had that tough period when we had

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Speaker 4: of changes, you know what I mean, like not no

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Speaker 4: longer competing in our sport, like the loss of that,

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Speaker 4: which feels like a death of something, you know, because

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Speaker 4: we have been doing it since I was I saw

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Speaker 4: say those first ten years.

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Speaker 3: And now these last like two.

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Speaker 2: That is so interesting because one of the questions is

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Speaker 2: did you have a honeymoon period and if so, how

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Speaker 2: long did it last?

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Speaker 8: Would you say, and I would you attribute.

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Speaker 2: Part of the fact that your honeymoon period lasted for

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Speaker 2: so long and sounds like it was near down perfect.

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Speaker 2: How much time were you actually spending together. Do you

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Speaker 2: think having the time apart and having that time to

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Speaker 2: be together to support each other, but to also have

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Speaker 2: your individual needs being met outside of the partner had

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Speaker 2: a huge part of that honeymoon period.

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Speaker 4: I think that I think the space is one thing

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Speaker 4: that people in relationships don't give enough kind of respect

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Speaker 4: to how important that is. I think that people get

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Speaker 4: each other all at once, and that's hard. It's hard

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Speaker 4: when you transit from single life or whatever your life

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Speaker 4: And so I think for us, yes, there was this

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Speaker 4: that I think played into it. And then you know,

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Speaker 4: lot of really amazing factors. I think that made it

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Speaker 4: an extended, extended period.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the key to being happy is being a

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Speaker 1: part as much as you can early on. Got it.

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Speaker 5: It's just actually it was the gift and the curse.

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Speaker 6: That was the gift in the beginning, but then the

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Speaker 6: curse came came when we had to stay and figure

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Speaker 5: We had we were just in the house of twenty

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Speaker 6: So it was just it was like the of most

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Speaker 6: people's relationship to where you're trying to I don't like

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Speaker 3: So it was just so many things that we had

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Speaker 6: Yeah, refigure out that we used to let each other

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Speaker 6: each other, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, Aaron. That takes us to another question we do have,

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Speaker 1: But tell us what is the longest stretch or period

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Speaker 1: of time that you all have been apart from each

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Speaker 1: other or actually living apart even from each other. What

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Speaker 1: was the longest stretches you all had to deal with

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Speaker 1: in your relationship.

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Speaker 6: I would say it's not so much living apart because

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Speaker 6: football season and track season it kind of its opposite.

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Speaker 6: So and my off season is her season, so I

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Speaker 6: would go where she's at, So it wasn't an extended

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Speaker 6: amount of time, but she would be gone maybe a week.

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Speaker 3: Two weeks, sometimes Olympics three weeks.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we say the longest TJ was probably a month,

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Speaker 4: like from like where I would be for the Olympics,

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Speaker 4: we would go to training camp and then I'd be gone,

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Speaker 3: I would say the longest was a month, but.

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Speaker 5: That happened quite off yeah, throughout the year.

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Speaker 5: For sure.

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Speaker 2: I so appreciate Sonya that vulnerability and that honesty because

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Speaker 8: Who you are and you've accomplished what you've accomplished.

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Speaker 2: But I think so many people resonate with that, where

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Speaker 4: even think at that time we actually said it.

447
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,800
Speaker 5: I think she never told me. She might have told

448
00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:58,879
Speaker 5: a friend or something.

449
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:00,320
Speaker 2: Him.

450
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,320
Speaker 8: That's fair, that's fair question.

451
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 2: To me.

452
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 4: I think we kept that promise to each other, even

453
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,600
Speaker 4: at our lowest and never say but we felt it, definitely,

454
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 4: we felt it. We can feel like this really might

455
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 4: not make it another year, but we never said it.

456
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 1: How often big or small do you fight?

457
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm, we've been with those. The time here that

458
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,919
Speaker 5: we were talking about it was a lot. But currently

459
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 5: currently we've been in that honeymoon phase again. Now it's

460
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 5: more it's more of a discussion and a debate rather

461
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 5: than an argument.

462
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,880
Speaker 1: That's good to hear. And that's what you're talking about, right, Aaron,

463
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 1: that's growth. All right, Let's stick to the house for

464
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,480
Speaker 1: a second. Let's go with a few chores around the house,

465
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 1: some of the basic things, cooking, cleaning, laundry. Let's just

466
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 1: start with who does most of the cooking in the house.

467
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,159
Speaker 1: I do, all right, I don't think. Yeah, Aaron's not

468
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: not even nodding the head on that one. That's uh,

469
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,600
Speaker 1: that's probably the case. Is anyone to sign a lot too?

470
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,159
Speaker 3: So my husband will order my husband. She's not a

471
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 3: Jesus a lot. But whenever we cook, which is not

472
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,440
Speaker 3: that much. I don't want I come getting too much credit.

473
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 7: Okay, now we want to qualify it because I asked

474
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 7: her and you just said me. And when someone does cook,

475
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 7: it's right. That's an honest about who cleans?

476
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 4: We both, yeah, but my husband's more of the clean freak,

477
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 4: so he's the one. Like when he cleans, I got

478
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 4: to move everything out of the way because he might

479
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 4: throw me away.

480
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, no, that.

481
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 8: And what about laundry.

482
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 6: She won't let me do the laundry. She would do

483
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Speaker 6: the laundry, and I'm a better folder. She she does

484
00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 6: the laundry well, and I fold fold.

485
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Speaker 3: You'll put the colors with the whites.

486
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, look this everything, I got it, you know,

487
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 1: on behalf of all guys everywhere. Does it really matter?

488
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 8: Yes, it absolutely does. The white turned gray or pink?

489
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 3: It does it?

490
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 1: Though they do?

491
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 8: Yes, it matters, it mattered.

492
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: Okay, thanks, okay, fun, Actually we just played dumb, so

493
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:21,680
Speaker 1: y'all keep doing it.

494
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 2: You're such because you know I'm a better folder than

495
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 2: he is of the clothes, so therefore I actually like

496
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 2: folding clothes, though I fully honest, I get a sense

497
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 2: of accomplishment sadly from that.

498
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Speaker 1: And you know what, and Sonya too, since Sonya you

499
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 1: were being honest, we will be honest. We do wash

500
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: and fold here in New York, like we have we

501
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,679
Speaker 1: we send it out anyway, nobody does. Somebody else does

502
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 1: our launder.

503
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 8: That's a new thing though. It's because we don't have

504
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 8: a washer and dryer in this apartment. Otherwise we would

505
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 8: absolutely do it.

506
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: It's a long store. We'll get back to you. Let's

507
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,400
Speaker 1: stick with this in the house for a second. We're

508
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: talking about fighting. You all don't. Don't do the fighting

509
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: as much now, But what do you think about the idea?

510
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 1: Did you all ever go to bed angry? Some couple

511
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: say you absolutely should, shouldn't. Some therapists say, hell, yeah,

512
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 1: it's okay. To where do you all fall in now?

513
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 6: We definitely did. I think it's good now, but we

514
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 6: definitely I would. I would go to my little boom

515
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 6: boom room and get away. Yeah, and I'll sleep down there.

516
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 6: Some nights when it felt like we weren't just couldn't agree,

517
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 6: or even it wasn't even about agreeing. It was more

518
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 6: about us leaving a conversation feeling like.

519
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 5: We weren't heard. Yeah, both both ways. So I think

520
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 5: that's what it was. Frustrated both of us, like you're

521
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 5: not hearing what I'm saying.

522
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's I think it's unrealistic to say

523
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 4: never go to bed angry, Like that's just it's I

524
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 4: think it's impossible. If you've been with somebody for twenty

525
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 4: plus years, there's just no way you're going to be

526
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 4: like every night, if there's something happened, we're gonna make

527
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 4: up tonight and go to bed happy. It's just it's

528
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 4: a nice goal to set. It's a nice you know,

529
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 4: it's a nice thing to try to achieve. But I

530
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 4: think it's unrealistic to say that every night you're gonna

531
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 4: go to bed happy. I think that, and I think

532
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 4: sometimes you need that time, Like sometimes the day runs

533
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 4: out and you need I just need a moment.

534
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 3: Maybe tomorrow we can address the issue.

535
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 6: So yeah, And it's not to cut you off with it,

536
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 6: but it's been a few times where I went down

537
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 6: to the boom boom room and had a chance to

538
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 6: kind of decompress, and I might have came back up

539
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 6: and were like, oh damn, I was tripping baby, my bad.

540
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's so good to hear. I know, I

541
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 2: don't want to harp on the two years that were tough.

542
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:39,879
Speaker 1: And I'm curious.

543
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 2: I'm curious how you got out of it. How did

544
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,679
Speaker 2: you get out of it? How did you stop that cycle?

545
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 3: Oh man, good, good question. I think you know, first

546
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 3: of all, we are praying couple, so we will pray.

547
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 4: We're actually fasting right now, so we praying fast so

548
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 4: you know, we keep God in the center of our marriage.

549
00:25:59,080 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 3: So that's number one.

550
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 4: And I think that through a lot of those tough times,

551
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 4: prayer has really helped us, you know. And we'll be

552
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,439
Speaker 4: mad now, grab his hand and just start praying. Now,

553
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 4: how are you gonna imagine why she.

554
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 3: Get mad at me? I'm praying for you, you know.

555
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 4: So I think prayer and then once again communication like

556
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 4: my husband and I I think that has been the

557
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 4: beauty of our marriage. Like we say the hard things,

558
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 4: you know, we we communicate to a fault. So I

559
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 4: think that that is what really helped us, was like

560
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 4: just really trying to communicate and get to a good

561
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 4: place of you know, like and then and.

562
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 3: Then and then change behavior.

563
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 4: Let's let's give, let's give a little recognition to that

564
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 4: as well. Like you know, if you're in a relationship

565
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 4: and your partner is asking for something and it's something

566
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 4: that is valid, and you want to stay in that situation,

567
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 4: and you gotta have change behavior. So I think for me,

568
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 4: when I talk about those two years of us not

569
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 4: being on the same page, there was change behavior.

570
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 3: Like I was like, you know what, like I do,

571
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 3: I do.

572
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 4: Respect what you're saying. I do want to honor my

573
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 4: family in this way, and I may change. So that

574
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 4: also helps to bring back the joy and the love

575
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 4: to relationship is when you change, you know.

576
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: I love that.

577
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 2: I think everyone wants to know, and I'm sure everyone

578
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: asks folks like you who have made it through the

579
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 2: tough times life's roller coaster and looking back now, what

580
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 2: relationship advice would you give other couples, So, someone who's

581
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 2: considering marriage, someone who's considering taking that next step in

582
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 2: their relationship.

583
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 8: When you think about the mistakes couples make, the mistakes.

584
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 2: Even you've made, what would be your best advice for

585
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 2: a happy relationship.

586
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 5: I go back to growth.

587
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,200
Speaker 6: Be willing to grow with your partner and understand the

588
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 6: growth that he or she, what journey they're on. Because

589
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 6: if you're like for us, we've been together for twenty years.

590
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 6: And I've said this before, it's felt like I've been

591
00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 6: married to four different women. I've had to learn and

592
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 6: relearn and relearn my wife and try to mold who

593
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 6: I've become because I'm also growing in a way as well,

594
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 6: so trying to just relearn and fall in love with

595
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 6: each other again. And then I think, like I mentioned before,

596
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 6: the most important thing for me to give advice for

597
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 6: is basically to attack the problem sometimes. I know as athletes,

598
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 6: you always you're almost triggered to win, and if you're

599
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 6: not winning, you're losing. There's no great So we've we've

600
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 6: kind of learned to let's win and attack the problem together.

601
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 5: And I think that's the best advice that I.

602
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: Can give married the four different signs, which one was

603
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: your favorite? Ok So I'm kidding, Aaron, do not answer

604
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: that question. Just playing, just playing here, Okay, just kidding

605
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: you all. I want to ask about friendship. People say

606
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: it all the time, married to my best friend, and

607
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: that you hear that kind of stuff. Where does friendship

608
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: play in you all's relationship? What was the friendship even

609
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 1: before you started dating or did it not really develop

610
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: until you started an actual romantic relationship.

611
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you gotta be friends. You have to

612
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 3: be friends.

613
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 4: You have to actually like the person that you're doing

614
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 4: life with. So I think friendship is extremely important. I

615
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 4: remember when we went to marriage counseling before we got married,

616
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 4: or pastor required that we do marriage counseling, and he

617
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 4: said one of the key things he said was that

618
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 4: she has to be a friend because everything else eventually

619
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 4: will fall off, right, Like, yes, you know you're gonna

620
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 4: romance to the death of it, but eventually even that

621
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 4: will fade, right like all those things. So friendship is

622
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 4: really important. So for us, No, we didn't have a

623
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 4: friendship prior to us dating. You know, we met in

624
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 4: college and our intentions were to kind of be boyfriend

625
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 4: girlfrienm the very beginning. But boy, did we build a

626
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 4: beautiful friendship along the way. Like we laughed together. I

627
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 4: could be with Ross, just me and Ross all the time.

628
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 4: I don't have to, you know, be with anybody else

629
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,479
Speaker 4: because we get each other. We laugh together like we're friends.

630
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 4: So I certainly think that that is extremely important that

631
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 4: the person that you choose to marry should be someone

632
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 4: that you like that you have a great friendship with

633
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 4: and you know, because that's what's going to help you

634
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 4: to stand the test of time. It's like, how much

635
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 4: do you actually really like this person?

636
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 5: You know, like it's rough.

637
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 2: What compromises maybe even sacrifices have you each had to

638
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 2: make to make the relationship work.

639
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 4: That's a good question. I mean, that's a good question. No,

640
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 4: no one has ever asked us that. That's a really

641
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 4: good question. You want to go first, Bade, Yeah, No,

642
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 4: that's that's a really good question. I think that because

643
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 4: because the reality is like I'm not I don't like

644
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 4: the world's words sacrifice someone I could always feel as negative.

645
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 4: But it's like you're making this investment right, something that

646
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 4: you may not want to do because you want to.

647
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 4: Like in sports, I'm not sacrificing my time. I'm investing

648
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 4: my time because I want to be great, and so

649
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 4: I like to to keep that same lens on for

650
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 4: a relationship. But sometimes it does feel like sacrifice because

651
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 4: you are giving up something that's important to you to

652
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 4: make this other person happy.

653
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 3: So I think that we've sacrificed a lot, you know,

654
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 3: like through our relationship.

655
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 4: Like even I can think about for my husband, like

656
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 4: he when he would have his off season where he

657
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 4: should be training with the team because I was in season,

658
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 4: he would come and be with me, And there was

659
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 4: there was something lost there right, like he could have

660
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 4: gotten become a better athlete himself or built more team camaraderie,

661
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 4: but he chose to come be with me. That that

662
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 4: was always a major sacrifice, you know, and vice versa.

663
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 4: I would go do my off season training in New

664
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Speaker 4: York it was freezing cold instead of being in Texas

665
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 4: training with my teammates because I'm wanted to spend that

666
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 4: time with him. So I think if we were to

667
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 4: really think about our relationship throughout the years, there were

668
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 4: tons of times we were both making sacrifices. My husband

669
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 4: started our chauffeur company in Texas, so we talked about

670
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 4: that time when he retired and figured out what he

671
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 4: wants to do next, and we started a show for

672
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 4: company and it was doing really well. And then I

673
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 4: got an opportunity to come to Atlanta for a job,

674
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 4: and my husband left Texas, left the business and came

675
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 4: to Atlanta for us for me to pursue that opportunity.

676
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 4: So I just think there's this constant sacrificing and you know,

677
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 4: giving to your partner, whether it's for them to live

678
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 4: their dream or for them.

679
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 3: To be happy.

680
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 4: That's always happening in a relationship, and I think the

681
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 4: important thing to do is to just make sure that

682
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 4: it feels balanced because at some point in a relationship,

683
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 4: if it starts to feel like it's too heavy on

684
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 4: one person, then that person is going to start to

685
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 4: harbor resentment. And so you know, for me, I try

686
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 4: to be really mindful like my husband, I think he's

687
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 4: going to be. I'm saying it on national platform like

688
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 4: the head coach of the University of Texas one day,

689
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 4: because I think he's like an amazing coach, but because

690
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 4: of life sacrifices, he hasn't finished, like, you know, all

691
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 4: the things that he needs to do to be able

692
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 4: to do that. So I'm like, okay, babe, it's your turn,

693
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 4: Like what are we going to do for you to

694
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 4: get starting on your coaching journey?

695
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 3: And you know, do your thing.

696
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 4: So I think that we're all constantly making sacrifices for relationship,

697
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 4: but you got to check in with your partner and

698
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 4: make sure it's not too heavy.

699
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 3: On one side.

700
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Speaker 1: Good and she gave you time to think of a

701
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: really good answer rather than answered like ten of them.

702
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: The last few things before we let you all go

703
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: back to this is I forgot that we moved it

704
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: too far down. Money. How do you want handle money

705
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: in the house. There's always a thing with couples, joint accounts,

706
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: separate accounts. How does it work with you guys?

707
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 6: We have all three have my account, her account, and

708
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 6: then we have a joint account. But I do most

709
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 6: of them managing the money.

710
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 3: I'm a yellow girl. So thank God for rosscause, oh.

711
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 6: Wow, I'm.

712
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: That's balance. That's good.

713
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: I like that.

714
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 4: I like thank God for balance because we would be

715
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 4: all the street somewhere. It wasn't about to say, you know,

716
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 4: we're trying to live to we're like eightie, right.

717
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: I love that.

718
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 8: Do you all find that you have to work at

719
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 8: keeping the spark alive?

720
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 2: I know that there was that instant attraction we talked

721
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,919
Speaker 2: about or you referenced, and we all know that, yes,

722
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 2: that that attraction can ebb and flow based on where

723
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 2: you are in your relationship. Do you actually make an

724
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 2: effort to keep the spark alive?

725
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 5: Yes?

726
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 6: I think that's very important. This is actually happy. She

727
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 6: doesn't even know this yet, but this has happened to

728
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 6: me maybe the last two years. So I used to

729
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 6: always come up with cool little ideas for a birthday

730
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 6: or Valentine's or whatever little special occasion. And I would

731
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 6: come up with cool little little things and it would

732
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 6: keep the spark going. But with us being together for

733
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 6: so I've ran out of ideas. So the last last year,

734
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 6: I said, Mabe, what do you want? And that's the

735
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 6: first time that's ever happened coming from me. And she

736
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 6: didn't have an idea.

737
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 5: So I just kind of didn't do much like like

738
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 5: what she's used to and it was an issue. So

739
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 5: and she said she didn't want none.

740
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Speaker 8: T j oh, never believe a woman when she says

741
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 8: she doesn't want anything.

742
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 3: I never believe it doesn't want anything.

743
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: You know better, you didn't fall that he did.

744
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 6: Good hope after positive enough in the bank to get

745
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 6: you off never So I was completely wrong on that one.

746
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 6: So this year, I'm starting early and I'm asking and

747
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 6: she gave me the same answer.

748
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 5: So I went to jet chat chat GPT.

749
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 2: This is.

750
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Speaker 4: But I mean, my jaws are hurting, But yes, Amy,

751
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 4: I do think you got to be strategic and even

752
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 4: for me, like as a mom, Like you know, I

753
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 4: make an effort to like get my nails done, get

754
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 4: my hair done, all of those things because I don't

755
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 4: want to just like completely fall off.

756
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 3: I think that for a man, I obviously know.

757
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 4: That, you know, like attraction is not just the hearts right, Yes, yes,

758
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 4: we're like all all this stuff too, So you know,

759
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 4: like I do try to make an effort to like

760
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 4: keep up with all of those things.

761
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 3: Like I know the things that he likes, so I

762
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 3: try to you know, do those things. And and then now,

763
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 3: so we do have two under two.

764
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 4: Well we just he just turned to so we have

765
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 4: a two year old a six month old, So like

766
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 4: in the trenches again like trenches trenches of parenting. But

767
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 4: you know, we still try to make time for each other,

768
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 4: and we have lots of plans for like when the

769
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 4: babies get a little bit older, to like really start

770
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 4: to do stuff again just us.

771
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 3: So yeah, we try to be intentional. I think it's very.

772
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: Important to be what are your feelings on date nights

773
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: and that, and do you all do them have set

774
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: date nights?

775
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 3: We don't have set date nights, I think largely in

776
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 3: part because of where our lives are right now is

777
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 3: just not it's hard for us.

778
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 4: We say we want to do stuff, but then we

779
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 4: don't want to leave our kids, so nobody like we

780
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 4: always want to have our kids.

781
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 3: It makes us both happy.

782
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 4: So what we do, what we try to do is

783
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 4: like we're cooking together, so like I'll find a recipe

784
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 4: and we'll do something like that together and that satisfies us.

785
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 3: Or like my husband loves movies.

786
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 4: I'm not a big movie person or TV person, but

787
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 4: we'll you know, put the best together down early and

788
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 4: watch something together and that feels like bonding time. Like

789
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 4: that's what we're fasting right now. So that's like feels

790
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 4: like once again, like just us doing something, just the

791
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 4: two of us. So it's like we try to do

792
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 4: things like that that we're both into. You know, one

793
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 4: person might bring to the other person will do it

794
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 4: together and it feels like just our special thing. But

795
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 4: we're not like hardcore on like Sturtaday night at seven o'clock,

796
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 4: drop everything you're doing.

797
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: I'm just curious. What are you all watching together? You

798
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: all have a show or something in particular you all

799
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: are following right now. We're always curious because we watch

800
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:45,479
Speaker 1: so much stuff together.

801
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 4: Well, my husband is like, like, my husband loves YouTube

802
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 4: and like, so we're always watching stuff that we can

803
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 4: learn from. So we're like watching a series or movies

804
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 4: right now, but it's like whatever's going on in the world,

805
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 4: Like we want to understand more about what's going on,

806
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 4: like you know, and my husband loves like black history,

807
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 4: so we're always like watching documentaries on like our history.

808
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 3: So not really exciting stuff, but we do it together nonetheless.

809
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: O black history.

810
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 8: Wait what did you wait? I didn't hear that. Wait,

811
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 8: we didn't hear that.

812
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: What did you just say?

813
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 3: And help and help and help?

814
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: Wait?

815
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm curious.

816
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 2: I'm curious on you if you could get your husband

817
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 2: to watch anything with you, like a movie, a show,

818
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 2: a series, what would it be.

819
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 4: So, you know, I'm a realiz, like I love, like

820
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 4: married to medicine, all that kind of stuff. So like

821
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 4: I'll you know, beg him to like watch stuff like

822
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 4: that with me. But I'm also really busy too, so

823
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 4: I'm not I'm not tripping right.

824
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 3: Now, Like I don't have much time.

825
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 4: I'm trying to grow a business, grow this family, so

826
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 4: I'm really not too you know picky on that kind

827
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,720
Speaker 4: of stuff. But yeah, I like my married to medicines

828
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 4: and all those kind of shows.

829
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: Robot just made me think of something else. You both

830
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 1: of you answer this, if you could get your partner

831
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: to do something thing with you that you know your

832
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: partner doesn't like. Right, it's not she doesn't usually like

833
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: to go to I don't know, a hockey match, or

834
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't usually like to go to whatever.

835
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 2: What is?

836
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: Is there one thing you wish that you could get

837
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: them on board with doing?

838
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 2: For me?

839
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:19,879
Speaker 5: I think you know this one.

840
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 8: Oh, skydiving. We've discussed this as well.

841
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 3: Really have you done it before?

842
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 8: Neither one of us have.

843
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: Done it before. I made the same face you just

844
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: made when every time she brings it up.

845
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 2: I want to go skydiving. I want to go I

846
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 2: want to do a lot of that stuff that he's

847
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 2: not that into.

848
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 4: He did it, He's done it, and it was amazing.

849
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 4: Like I was like, oh my gosh, I want to

850
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 4: do this, and then I was like, hell, no, I

851
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 4: should do this.

852
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,720
Speaker 5: It's gonna take you to another level.

853
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: So tell you what do you want him to do?

854
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 3: I think for me it would be more.

855
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,399
Speaker 4: I mean it's just like simple stuff like I wish

856
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 4: my husband would like to go shopping, like I love,

857
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,359
Speaker 4: like buying stuff for the family, clothes like around the house,

858
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 4: and he's just never into that stuff. So yeah, simple

859
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 4: simple girl stuff like come with stop shoppings together, shops

860
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 4: have girlfriends.

861
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. He wants her to

862
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: jump out a plane and she will. Let's go shopping,

863
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: Let's go to TJ Max.

864
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,760
Speaker 3: So different, simple stuff, simple stuff.

865
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 8: Oh my goodness, y'all are amazing. What is next for you?

866
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 8: Do you all have any couple goals for twenty twenty six?

867
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 2: Yeah?

868
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 4: I mean so my husband and I have done everything

869
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 4: together and now we're doing a business together. So like

870
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 4: we have built this pajama brand coordinates, you know, just

871
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 4: the two of us like growing this brand, and it's

872
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 4: been amazing to do it together because I feel like

873
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 4: in the areas that I'm weak, he's strong. So it's

874
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 4: been this amazing balance. And so as far as not

875
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 4: relationship goal, say necessarily, but just as like our you know,

876
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 4: as us as a couple, like continue to figure ot

877
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 4: how we can grow this business. We want it to

878
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 4: be like a family business and be like a legacy business.

879
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 4: So that would be I think one of my primary

880
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 4: goals for twenty twenty six, and then I think, like

881
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 4: relationship wise, just staying in this space of like honeymooning

882
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 4: and growth and you know.

883
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 3: Like just this pure love that we have for to

884
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 3: the right now. We really just want to stay in

885
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 3: that space.

886
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 4: Ah ha ha.

887
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 3: Don't you even dare?

888
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 8: You got three boys? You got three boys?

889
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 2: Right?

890
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 3: And Amy? Do you know who selects the gender of

891
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 3: these children?

892
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 5: God?

893
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 8: Yes he does.

894
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 3: So he had three chances to get a girl.

895
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: You have struck out, so it's okay, done, But skydiving

896
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,439
Speaker 1: or another baby? Tell me signinga sky diving or another baby?

897
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: Which one I diving?

898
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 3: WHOA, Okay, I'm jumping out. I get that.

899
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:57,240
Speaker 8: It's funny.

900
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 2: My brother and his wife same thing. He wanted a girl,

901
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 2: ended up with three boys. He wanted to keep going.

902
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 2: She's like, no, because we'll just end up with the fourth.

903
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 8: So no, thank you. I totally get that.

904
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: Guys, this was absolutely awesome. And this is why every

905
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: single couple we talked to last year we finished and

906
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: we felt better as a couple, or we grew as

907
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: a couple after we talked to every single couple because

908
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: we didn't fill alone. You all go into some of

909
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: the same stuff we're going through, and you all are

910
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: just a delight. It's good to see people doing so

911
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: well who have gone through hell and you know it's

912
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. We've been through our hell plenty in

913
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 1: life and made a bunch of screw ups, but we

914
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: found each other and here we are and we're happy

915
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: and we're so glad to be able to talk to

916
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: you too. Really we need to. We would love to

917
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: catch up with you all in Atlanta. We come down

918
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: there quite a bit, so we love to catch up

919
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: with you.

920
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 3: Love to love love that.

921
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 4: Thank you guys for having us like this is a treat, Yeah,

922
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 4: because we haven't had like a relationship kind of in

923
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 4: a long time.

924
00:42:58,520 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is really fun.

925
00:42:59,360 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 3: Thanks for thinking.

926
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 2: I guarantee you anyone who is listening right now feels

927
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 2: better about their relationship, feels more hopeful. It is. I mean,

928
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 2: I know it's hard to talk about the tough times,

929
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 2: but that actually is so helpful to hear. Y'all went

930
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 2: through two years of hell and look at you now,

931
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,439
Speaker 2: So congratulations on all your.

932
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 8: Success, on your beautiful family that's gonna stay. Three boys,

933
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 8: a family of a family of five.

934
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 4: I mean, you want to.

935
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 8: The growth is going to be spiritual, not physical.

936
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 2: Sonya, Richards Ross, Aaron Ross, thank y'all so much and

937
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 2: happy Valentine's Day by

938
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Speaker 3: The way, Thank you to you, thank you guys.