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Speaker 1: One of our readers to our yachte column, Brenda. She

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Speaker 2: Look, if you want to check out on Monday, we

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Speaker 2: go through all of our advice what we thought about

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Speaker 2: what Brenda should do dealing with a flirty, handsy ex

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Speaker 2: wife who's also the grandma of her step grandchildren. So

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Speaker 2: she doesn't have a problem with the kids, she has

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Speaker 2: a problem with the ex wife, and so we gave

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Speaker 2: our advice if you want to check out that podcast

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Speaker 2: if you hadn't heard that episode. But this one is

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Speaker 2: fun because this is what the readers, This is what

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Speaker 2: you the listeners wrote in to comment on Brenda's situation

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Speaker 2: and give her advice, and.

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Speaker 1: I'll remind her what the situation was. Brenda did write

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Speaker 1: into us Amy and TJ. My husband has grandchildren from

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Speaker 1: a previous marriage, which isn't a problem. However, their grandmother, Betty,

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Speaker 1: the ex wife, is always around. I've told him I

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Speaker 1: I can tolerate that, but not every time we get

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Speaker 1: invited somewhere. For example, last weekend, we were at a

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Speaker 1: her ex in laws. Why is she there? And every

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Speaker 1: time they meet, Betty is hugging and kissing on my husband.

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Speaker 1: She can't just say hi and move along. I've asked

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Speaker 1: like he doesn't know what that means. I told him,

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Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable going to our next event if she'll

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Speaker 1: what do I do? Signed Brenda? Our advice was, Brenda,

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Speaker 1: you got to have a conversation. This is a respect issue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a respect issue. And so William C said this,

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Speaker 2: if Betty is being invited by his family to parties

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Speaker 2: can and cannot invite unless you're willing to accept the fallout.

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Speaker 2: You can set boundaries with your husband, William C. That

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Speaker 2: is exactly what you and I told Brenda.

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Speaker 1: Why did you start with that one? Like that's the

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Speaker 2: Right? I thought that was good, it was sensible, It

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Speaker 1: But you know, what's something key in there is that

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Speaker 1: That was a big part of everything we discussed. She's

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Speaker 1: probably been in that family decades, right, so if they

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Speaker 1: invite her, okay, then I always told you there were

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Speaker 1: two separate issues the X. Her being there is one thing.

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Speaker 1: Her touchy fee lee kissy is another thing.

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Speaker 2: Right, and that's where the husband can set a boundary

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent all right. Veronica wrote in and said this,

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Speaker 2: Some people are just very hands on, no matter who

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Speaker 2: it is, and some women can be deliberately trouble making

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Speaker 2: other women. Veronica, I said the same thing. Those two

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Speaker 2: facts seem to be apparent in this situation. Unfortunately, the

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Speaker 2: good for his ego, so he will not easily give

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Speaker 2: really with your girl then too, when it annoys the

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Speaker 2: he then feels a little guilty because he knows what

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Speaker 2: nasty state of affairs for the wife. A strong woman

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Speaker 2: might be able to counter this with some targeted barbes

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Speaker 2: Stop going to places miss Nasty will be. Cultivate new

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Speaker 1: Okay, I had a lot to say with the last part.

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Speaker 1: Stop going to places where the ex will be. Can

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Speaker 1: you do that? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Well, then you want to make where right, and then

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Speaker 1: I would like to know how old Veronica is. Veronica

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Speaker 2: Jason wrote in with this comment, I am friendly with

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Speaker 2: my ex wife. We were together twenty years, divorced for fifteen.

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Speaker 2: She is invited to all my family functions and I

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Speaker 2: to hers. We greet with a hug and a peck,

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Speaker 2: same as I greet my kids and my female friends.

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Speaker 2: My ex and I have never been intimate since divorcing.

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Speaker 2: It is clear we will never be back together. She

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Speaker 2: has brought partners to these gatherings, as have I. New

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Speaker 2: wife is insecure. While I respect her initial feelings, she

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Speaker 1: Okay. What I didn't hear from him in his scenario

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Speaker 2: I'm not dates are different.

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Speaker 1: That's totally different mindset. That's a good point was bringing

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Speaker 1: And you can have a great relationship with your ex

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Speaker 1: and you could hug a kiss and be friendly when

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you know we've said this before,

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Speaker 2: but this is about respect because different people feel differently,

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Speaker 2: and so you have to give her at least that acknowledgment.

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Speaker 2: She can work on feeling less insecure, she can work

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Speaker 2: on tolerating more, but he also needs to work on

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Speaker 2: a sign of love if you if you don't really

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Speaker 1: I hate to sign this as a matter of her

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Speaker 1: is not just insecurity. Well you can't handle No, I

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Speaker 2: No, that's tough.

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Speaker 1: Call me in.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a problem for most people. I think

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to step into Brenda's shoes and imagine what

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Speaker 2: that would be like. Okay, next, we have Coco Mike

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Speaker 2: thirty five years Oh, Coco Mile, sorry, thirty five years

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Speaker 2: into a marriage. Here, this is what Coco Miles says

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Speaker 2: to Brenda. You married a man with grandchildren. Asking him

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Speaker 2: to stop seeing them is ridiculously immature and selfish, and

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Speaker 2: for you not to go, you will become Grandpa's crazy

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Speaker 2: I see it happen all the time. The ex still

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Speaker 2: hugs and fusses over him, does she hug and fuss

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Speaker 2: over you. Maybe that's just how she is. Brenda didn't

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Speaker 2: Coco Miles says the I don't see it as the

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Speaker 2: I agree with you. I would lay down some ground

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Speaker 2: I would consider leave.

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Speaker 1: This is from a woman, right, I can't.

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Speaker 2: Tell Coco Mile, it seems like it's a woman because

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Speaker 1: You said something there at the bottom that got my

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Speaker 1: tension this I does. She also hug and fuss over you.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's just how she is. We're trying to break down.

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Speaker 1: We don't know enough about this. It's one thing if

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Speaker 2: But she said he doesn't move on. She doesn't move on,

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Speaker 2: she's lingers, she stays kiss. That's fine.

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Speaker 1: I would even say, for his sake, cut that out

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Speaker 1: the world, but even something that minor, that's not necessary.

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Speaker 1: Even a little hug, a half hug.

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Speaker 1: The side hug in front of your wife.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And I think you could lay down that ground

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Speaker 1: That ground rule with the relationship is that the woman

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Speaker 2: And that is why At the end, our reader tells

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Speaker 2: Brenda that she should consider leaving. Oh my goodness, all right,

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Speaker 2: So this one made me laugh so hard. Matt wrote

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Speaker 2: this in Yeah, I don't get this thing. My wife

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Speaker 2: and I are both from good old fashioned, destroyed marriages,

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Speaker 2: and our parents still can't be in the same room

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Speaker 2: who are all still friends, hanging out with their exes,

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Speaker 2: sitting together at kids' sporting events. I know divorce people

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Speaker 2: who babysit each other's kids from the new marriages. It's

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Speaker 2: This modern divorce leaves me feeling like these people didn't

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Speaker 2: try hard enough to make it work.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that, Matt. I like that, Like it's

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Speaker 1: not it was a little funny, but it was. I

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Speaker 1: think he nailed the way. A lot of people think

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Speaker 1: not okay, it's not how.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he prefers it when people who are divorce can't

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Speaker 2: because that's what's familiar to him. He knows how that

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Speaker 1: We've seen some scenarios like that before, where the exes

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Speaker 1: and things and people get along. I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: what we're talking about here, is that we're not just

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Speaker 1: talking about getting along and being a part of a family.

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Speaker 1: This is specific to not just her being there, but

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Speaker 2: Correct, yes, it's and it's how she acts when she's there,

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Speaker 2: and the fact that she's always there, like she doesn't

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Speaker 2: it's annoying to her that every time his family has anything,

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Speaker 1: Okay, we got a couple more to give you here.

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Speaker 1: From one was from a guy who said that Brenda,

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Speaker 1: you should only be taking advice from men on this one,

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Speaker 1: and then another from a lady who told me and

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Speaker 1: Roebock that we gave Brenda some bad advice.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to this edition of Amy and TJ, where

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Speaker 2: we are reading our reader's comments, their advice, Your advice

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Speaker 2: to Brenda, who wants to know what she's supposed to

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Speaker 2: do with her husband's ex wife, whose flirty, clingy kisses him,

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Speaker 2: hugged all over him, and is always at every single event,

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Speaker 2: even though it's not even her family anymore. So Nina

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Speaker 2: two point zero came at us when she left her comment,

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Speaker 2: and we'll read it because she told us, Wow, bad advice.

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Speaker 2: The advice should have been grow up. They are divorced

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Speaker 2: and he married you. They were a family once. Get

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Speaker 2: over it. I have a great relationship with X, and

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Speaker 2: yes I'm at family parties and he's at mine. We

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Speaker 2: Nina thinks that Brenda needs to grow up and get

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Speaker 2: over it.

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Speaker 1: I like, and this is where and I'm no, I

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Speaker 1: always appreciate everybody writing in and this is where we

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Speaker 1: try to do better with our discussions and in us

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Speaker 1: giving people advice. The first thing you have to start

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Speaker 1: with is not judge. Don't judge her for the how

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Speaker 1: she feels and what she's going through. And this one

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Speaker 1: just feels judgy. To tell somebody just grow up. It

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Speaker 1: sounds so simple, and I've had to back off sometimes

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Speaker 1: you have to have the confidence to just go it's

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Speaker 1: okay to just da da da, And you say, you

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Speaker 1: say it like it's so simple, but just some people

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Speaker 1: working to do that. Yes, what the solution is simple,

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Speaker 1: doing it is still hard. And to tell tell somebody

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Speaker 1: has gone through, Brenda, with this marriage and even accepting

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Speaker 1: the whole family, and it's been a lot, and tell

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Speaker 1: her just grow up seems a little dismissed, seems.

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Speaker 2: A little judging, and just because you have a great

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Speaker 2: same for everybody. There are so many unique specific things

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Speaker 2: you have to honor how you feel, and maybe you

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Speaker 2: sit with yourself and you ask yourself, why am I

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Speaker 2: and is and not feel threatened by it? But if

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Speaker 2: the answer is no, every time I see it, this

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Speaker 2: reasonable reaction. You know, we don't know what she's seen

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure we're now I've seen

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Speaker 1: X situations be good before. Our guy, doctor Gardier, he

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Speaker 1: and everybody's hanging out. That's great, that is great, great, great,

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Speaker 1: this is something else. This is something else when you're

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Speaker 1: talking about not just the family mingling together. The ex

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Speaker 1: husband is allowing it.

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Speaker 2: Agree.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I'm trying to keep the focus on

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Speaker 1: what we should be solving it.

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Speaker 2: All right, Paul writes in this is our last comment,

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Speaker 2: and Paul is very confident in his response. He says,

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Speaker 2: this is an instance where you need a guy's advice, Brenda.

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Speaker 2: The solution here is risky, brutal, but simple. Without saying anything.

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Speaker 2: Start inviting one of your ex boyfriends to gatherings. Make

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Speaker 2: sure he knows it's an ex. Gauge his reaction the

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Speaker 2: second time it happens, not the first time. If he's Nonchalantabou,

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Speaker 2: I hate to break it to you, but very likely

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Speaker 2: he has something on the side, or he may even

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Speaker 2: be dealing with his X on the side. Either that

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Speaker 2: or he is socially inept. Neither case is a win

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Speaker 2: for you. Any man worth staying with is also able

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Speaker 2: to tolerate direct confrontation on deal breaker issues. This is

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Speaker 2: not high school, this is your life, So confront him

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Speaker 2: directly when your heart feels stilled enough to take a hit.

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Speaker 2: If that scares you, you've already answered your own question.

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Speaker 1: Like it, you like it. I wouldn't have is that

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Speaker 1: some of that are at the top. I wasn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: on board with.

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Speaker 2: What I inviting one of your ex boyfriends.

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Speaker 1: That's hilarious, that's kind of funny. But it's very difficult

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Speaker 1: to put somebody in that scenario. To you, how often

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Speaker 1: folks said in an argument, reverse the roles.

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Speaker 2: Oftentimes the best response is a direct question with and

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Speaker 2: then you just have to be prepared for the answer.

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Speaker 2: You might not like it, but at least you'll have one.

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Speaker 1: Don't force them, don't scold them, don't ultimate it. Just

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Speaker 1: ask a question, we get an answer, and then we'll

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Speaker 1: have something to go on.

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Speaker 2: I like that, But I liked our readers' comments were very,

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Speaker 2: very colorful, and we always appreciate reading them. We always

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Speaker 2: appreciate you listening, so please check out the column Yahoo

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Speaker 2: Life section ask Amy and TJ. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 2: we want to thank you for listening to us. I'm

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Speaker 2: Amy Robach alongside my partner TJ. Holmes. Have a great day, everybody,