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Speaker 1: Subject I want my husband to accept my male friend

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Speaker 1: here Stephen Shirley. In March of this year, my husband

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Speaker 1: and I separated and he moved out of the house.

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Speaker 1: During our separation, I started talking to a guy I

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Speaker 1: met at work. We started hanging out as friends, and

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Speaker 1: we ended up having sex. Eventually. My new friend was

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Speaker 1: aware of the problem to my husband and I were having,

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Speaker 1: and he was supportive. I recently told a friend that

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Speaker 1: my husband and I were trying to work things out

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Speaker 1: in our marriage, and he understood. We remained as friends

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Speaker 1: with benefits until my husband moved back in with me.

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Speaker 1: Now that my husband is back home, my friend and

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Speaker 1: I have not had sex and I no longer see

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Speaker 1: him in that way. We are just friends now and

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Speaker 1: he has a new girlfriend that he really likes. So

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Speaker 1: here's my problem. I'm tired of hiding my friendship with

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Speaker 1: this guy. He and I enjoy hanging out with each other,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to do it sacred anymore. I

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Speaker 1: find a text message or see him calling me, and

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Speaker 1: then suspect that I'm cheating on him. My question is

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Speaker 1: should I introduce my friend to my husband. I want

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Speaker 1: friend and I had a sexual relationship, but it was

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Speaker 1: when he and I were separated, so it shouldn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Or should I just keep it to myself. I could

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Speaker 1: just end the friendship, but this guy has become such

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Speaker 1: a big part of my life. What should I do? No? No, no, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you can't share this with your husband. You just can't.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you he's not going to take it like

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Speaker 1: you think he will, or um like you think he should.

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Speaker 1: Even um, it's not gonna matter. If you you were

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Speaker 1: separated from your husband during the time you have this

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Speaker 1: affair with this guy, is not gonna matter. Don't do this.

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Speaker 1: Even if this guy is only a friend to you.

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Speaker 1: Right now, your husband is gonna figure it out. He's

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Speaker 1: not gonna want to know about some quote unquote friend

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Speaker 1: you were having sex. It's just not gonna fly with him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta tell you, stay woke. This is

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Speaker 1: not a good look. If you want to get back

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Speaker 1: and stay with your husband, you're gonna have to learn

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Speaker 1: that you can't tell everything. You just can't tell everything.

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Speaker 1: You have to keep some things to yourself, and this

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Speaker 1: is definitely one of those things. No to your ex

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Speaker 1: boyfriends and your affair. No, Steve, my friend and I

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Speaker 1: had a sexual relationship, but it was when he and

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Speaker 1: I were separated, so it shouldn't matter what your lady, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let me this had to hitting the letter. I had

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Speaker 1: a sexual relationship, but it was when he and I

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Speaker 1: were separated, so it shouldn't matter what you did. You

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Speaker 1: read one more times? I didn't do with me like

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Speaker 1: I want to let me read a little bit, moldy.

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Speaker 1: I want to clear the air and tell my husband

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Speaker 1: that my friend and I had a sexual relationship, but

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Speaker 1: it was green here and I was separated, so it

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Speaker 1: shouldn't matter what along the pause I pick out it

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Speaker 1: was a longer sentence already. Yeah, I'm reading one more

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Speaker 1: effect My question is should I introduce my friend to

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Speaker 1: my husband. I want to clear the air and tell

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Speaker 1: my husband that my friend and I had a sexual relationship,

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Speaker 1: but it was print here and I was separated, so

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Speaker 1: it shouldn't matter what like a little tracking your voice

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Speaker 1: almost crack? Okay, you know the subject I want my

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Speaker 1: husband to accept my male friend. First of all, let

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Speaker 1: me just clear up this for you. Not many of us,

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Speaker 1: except our wives, having male friends. Not many of us.

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Speaker 1: The ore exceptions, but not many. But chars is deeper

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Speaker 1: than this. Though. In March of this year, you and

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Speaker 1: your hubs were separated, he moved out of the house,

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Speaker 1: him work. You ain't met him at work, he'd been there.

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Speaker 1: We started hanging out as friends, and we ended up

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Speaker 1: you know why you understood, because that's all he wanted

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Speaker 1: I want you to know how men are now once

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Speaker 1: he see you finding get back to your husband. Cool.

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Speaker 1: That's all I wanted anyway. So now I want you

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Speaker 1: to know who you're gonna risk your marriage over again

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Speaker 1: how that's the best we're gonna go in. Maybe we

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Speaker 1: my friend and I have had not not had sex,

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Speaker 1: and I don't no longer see him that way. We're

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Speaker 1: do it in secret anymore. What you want to do

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Speaker 1: it this secret? No more? Yeah, here and I enjoy

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Speaker 1: you find a text message? What? Or see him calling

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Speaker 1: me and suspect that I'm cheating on him? Look what

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Speaker 1: we'll be back with more of what people in hell want?

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Speaker 1: Ice water? You want your husband accept my male friend

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Speaker 1: that he don't know nothing about, though, See, so what

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Speaker 1: you're fit to do is interject some brand new news

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Speaker 1: to your husband while y'all were separated, you started having

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Speaker 1: sex with this dude here, your new friend. Then you

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Speaker 1: back together. He said they understood, but we remained a

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Speaker 1: Now my husband's back home, my friend and I've not

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Speaker 1: that's what it's supposed to be. This in sacred and done.

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Speaker 1: I don't want my husband to see me out with

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Speaker 1: Can um? Can J be the girl? Let's do it? Reenactment? Jay?

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Speaker 1: I want you to try to help. Can I get

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Speaker 1: help with a younger name because my name's okay, Sequida, Okayquita,

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Speaker 1: this got to be some young people don't only ask people. Quita.

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Speaker 1: You coming in the house to Terrel, and you fin

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Speaker 1: to tell me to rail that you're trying to find

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Speaker 1: seeing this man pick another name because my son, Terrel

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Speaker 1: was swear. Okay, okay, no, no, I'm telling you I

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Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen me. Ain'tybody talking about you? All right?

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Speaker 1: That's how we eat Dante Dante. Okay, all right, I'm Dante.

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Speaker 1: You should quet it quet What was happening? Nothing down tape? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you for a minute. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: There's a good thing. I wanta tell you something first.

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Speaker 1: Remember when I when we broke up, Remember that time

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Speaker 1: I know we went through some hard time. You ain't

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Speaker 1: gotta keep bringing all that up. How we Because I

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Speaker 1: It's going in here first, hold that thought because I

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Speaker 1: like when we were yeah, we broke out, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: want to talk to you about. Space ain't nothing to me, baby,

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Speaker 1: Space just time, time gone. You can't get it back.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were just going in this back room

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Speaker 1: here tell you, yeah, we could just see this. I'm

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Speaker 1: But that whole time I was thinking about you. How

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Speaker 1: can I say this? This is I'm trying to tell you, Well,

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Speaker 1: trying to focus. Remember now you customed me and told me,

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Speaker 1: you know I did remember all that. Okay, but how

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Speaker 1: how do I say these words? What had happened? Well? M,

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Speaker 1: you can't temn times I heard that. Pay good money

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Speaker 1: for it anyway. Um, um you there was a there

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Speaker 1: What what what? What? What? What? What? What? What you mean?

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Speaker 1: He m? He was on Well there, I had some

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Speaker 1: Who is he? Baby? He was he's a friend from

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Speaker 1: the job. And what he did the problem that I had,

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Speaker 1: he just kind of spanked it out of me. You know,

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Speaker 1: he just spanked it out. Was all gone. Hold wait

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Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait wait you met somebody down Joe

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Speaker 1: Joel spanking No, no, no, no, no, no, that ain't.

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Speaker 1: What I'm saying is I had problems. I was, and

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Speaker 1: you said he spanked it out you But what what

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Speaker 1: what what? What is that figure speech or something? What

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Speaker 1: that means? Well? He in other words, I was going

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Speaker 1: another man came in him? No he wasn't. No, okay,

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Speaker 1: but what step I mean you started having? You? What

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Speaker 1: kind of friend is this? Real good friend? And when

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Speaker 1: you say real good friend, sequeen, what as you mean?

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Speaker 1: I mean? I have problems? He was right where I

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Speaker 1: had heard all that. We all had problems. That's why

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Speaker 1: I just want you to know that we're not going

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Speaker 1: So that's who had happy. Que Let me tell you something.

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Speaker 1: text if you want I bet not seeing no damn text.

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Speaker 1: I bet I catch you on the phone with nobody.

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Speaker 1: You understand all right? Place to stay Instagram. That's your thoughts.

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