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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: advice on relationships, on dating, work, sex, parenting, and more.

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Speaker 1: one right here, right now. Thank you. Buggle up and

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Speaker 1: hold on tight. We got it for you here. It

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Speaker 1: is the Strawberry Letter, all right. A subject my husband

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Speaker 1: has got to have it. Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm newly

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Speaker 1: married and my husband and me. My husband told me

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Speaker 1: that he was a freak when we started dating. He

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Speaker 1: is loving and supportive, a hard working family man, and

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Speaker 1: a great father, but he is constantly stressing me out

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Speaker 1: over sex. He's an awesome lover, but I can't seem

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Speaker 1: to keep up with his sex drive lately. I guess

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Speaker 1: I'm in an open marriage because I'm sure he's having

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Speaker 1: sex outside of our marriage. I knew his sex drive

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Speaker 1: was off the charts, but I thought I could handle him.

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Speaker 1: When I asked him if he was cheating with other

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Speaker 1: men and women, he told me he wasn't, But he

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Speaker 1: into our sex life. I consider myself to be an

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Speaker 1: open person, but I only want to be freaky with

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Speaker 1: my husband. We had a couple of experiences with swinging,

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Speaker 1: but it didn't go as I thought it would because

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Speaker 1: I was not attracted to anyone in the room. My

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Speaker 1: lack of interest in my husband's lifestyle has caused heated

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Speaker 1: arguments with us, and I feel that sex is going

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Speaker 1: to be our downfall. How can we have the perfect

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Speaker 1: marriage but he is too freaky for me? I love him,

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Speaker 1: we have a great time together, but I can't give

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Speaker 1: him what he wants. Should I just agree to experiment

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Speaker 1: do I pack up and let him be free and alone?

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Speaker 1: Or should we seek counseling? We are not easily yoked sexually.

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Speaker 1: Please tell me what to do? Wow, we are not

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Speaker 1: equally sexually? Yeah? Yeah, well, you know that's an issue

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Speaker 1: if if you're not equally yoked sexually, especially with a

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Speaker 1: husband like this. You say he's really freaky. He likes

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Speaker 1: to do freaky things. You like to do freaky things too,

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Speaker 1: but only with your husband, And you know, I'm just

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Speaker 1: your husband is getting everything he wants in this marriage.

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Speaker 1: You're getting nothing. You're the one that's unhappy. You're just

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Speaker 1: going along with the program. Whatever he says to do.

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Speaker 1: You just go along with it, and you don't even

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Speaker 1: want to, but you know that's what you're doing. And listen,

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Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a perfect marriage. You shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be uncomfortable in your marriage when you don't want to

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Speaker 1: do things. You didn't want to do the swinging thing.

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Speaker 1: You went there, but when you saw that the people

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Speaker 1: weren't attractive, you didn't want to do that. You know,

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Speaker 1: so you think that your your husband is way too

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Speaker 1: much for you, that this is a problem in your marriage.

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Speaker 1: And guess what, you're exactly right. If you're looking again,

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Speaker 1: if you're looking for a perfect marriage, no such thing exists.

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Speaker 1: Is he too freaky for you? Only you can determine that.

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Speaker 1: You're the one that's writing the letter. You're the one

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Speaker 1: that's not liking what's going on in the marriage. You

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Speaker 1: you're the one that's saying you can't keep up with

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Speaker 1: it with him, So maybe he is too freaky for you.

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Speaker 1: You love him, you have a great time together, all

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Speaker 1: of that, but you can't give him what he wants

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Speaker 1: and it seems like you know, according to the letter,

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Speaker 1: he wants it all the time, and not just with you,

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Speaker 1: with others as well. So the question should you just

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Speaker 1: Why would you do that? Why would you do that

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Speaker 1: You don't want to to be an onlook or a bystander,

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Speaker 1: you want to get something out of it as well.

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Speaker 1: It here that that's not happening. Um, should you pack

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Speaker 1: You can determine that if if if you can't handle

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Speaker 1: it and he keeps cheating on you, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't see what choice you have in that matter. Should

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Speaker 1: So you you've got a lot of soul searching to do.

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Speaker 1: This marriage isn't working for you sexually, it's just not.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are more things to marriage than sex,

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Speaker 1: And if you guys, if he's cheating and you don't

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Speaker 1: like it. Then you know, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: You tell me, I don't know, Steve, what he ain't

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Speaker 1: got this? Right here, it's your turn, Steve, my husband

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Speaker 1: not to have it. But this he you, lady, you

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Speaker 1: don't understand what's happening. Hell, he got to have it.

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Speaker 1: He told you for y'all gotten marriage. Tom a freak.

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Speaker 1: He could never have told you to the extent that

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Speaker 1: his freakingness was. Can't get to this boarding took it

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Speaker 1: to a whole another level. He's a good father, good provide,

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Speaker 1: a good husband, but you can't kill He's an awesome lover. Hell,

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Speaker 1: he do it all the time. Anything you do all

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Speaker 1: the time, you're gonna be good. If people blink off

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Speaker 1: all the time. You do get kind of good at golf.

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Speaker 1: Now you say you think here would kill me. You

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Speaker 1: said you're assuming that you're in an open marriage because

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Speaker 1: he must be having sex outside your marriage. You say

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Speaker 1: that you know this, You already know he having sex

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Speaker 1: outside your marriage when he ain't winning you about it

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Speaker 1: and he ain't home what you think he is? You

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Speaker 1: already no. Then you asked him, did he want to

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Speaker 1: cheat with other men and women? What? Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: this is a little bit moding, just sexually active? You

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Speaker 1: asked him, did he cheat with other men and women?

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Speaker 1: All right, hold that thought, Steve, hold it, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: gotta hold it right now. He come number five please,

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Speaker 1: I'm waiting for it. Well, I'm part two of Steve's

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Speaker 1: response to Today's Strawberry Letter, coming up at twenty three

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Speaker 1: minutes after the hour. My husband has got to have it.

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Speaker 1: We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening,

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Speaker 1: all right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: My husband has got to have it. This lady is

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Speaker 1: married to she hadn't been off way more than she

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Speaker 1: get to. The man told he free. He's awesome love,

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Speaker 1: he's great father, great husband, all like this here. But

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Speaker 1: he is on hull back about this sex. Hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: what you're doing now? What you're doing now? You ain't

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Speaker 1: doing nothing? Now what you're doing? Why are you over

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Speaker 1: What you're doing now? Why are you taking a shower

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Speaker 1: without me? What you're doing you're laying in the bed

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Speaker 1: while you got your back to me. Your mother, won't

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Speaker 1: it what you're doing right now? When you girl? Right now? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I see you being an over packing that dishwashing. You

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Speaker 1: talk about packing boy, boy, she needed a break. I

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Speaker 1: getting them groceries off that car. Now I bought some

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Speaker 1: of these here groceries. Boy, shete he ain't giving it though.

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Speaker 1: So didn't you assumes that you're in an open marriage

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Speaker 1: because you think he's having sex outside the marriage? He

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Speaker 1: said no, But then you asked him was he having

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Speaker 1: got to have? He just wanted from anybody, So this

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Speaker 1: ain't just he just doing. He just wanted for anybody.

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Speaker 1: He just freaking way man. Lady, you didn't bid off

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Speaker 1: something right here. So then after you asked him, did

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Speaker 1: he want to bring men and women into the relationship?

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Speaker 1: He said no. Then he turned around and said no.

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Speaker 1: You asked him, was he cheating with men and women?

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Speaker 1: He said no. Then he turns around and ask you

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Speaker 1: could he bring others into y'all's sex life? You didn't

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Speaker 1: comment on that, But then I don't know what you did.

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Speaker 1: And then you turn around and said you participate him

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Speaker 1: with him once and you went to a swingers club,

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Speaker 1: but you weren't attracted to anybody in the room, in

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Speaker 1: beat big Buck or Buck was in now y'all was

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Speaker 1: walking around the here. Ain't got no parents or draws,

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Speaker 1: just walking around naked from the waist down with some

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Speaker 1: got one out there he brought naked from the waist down.

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Speaker 1: He got on chet shoes and some black sock. But

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Speaker 1: swingers club. I'm not attracted to any of them. Buck

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Speaker 1: standing straight up, going, I'm attracted to everybody in here.

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Speaker 1: Look at him, all hell, look at him? Oh, oh,

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Speaker 1: here she come? Oh he already? Hey man, what's that?

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Speaker 1: What's girl? Hey boy? What you're doing? Lady? So you're

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Speaker 1: in the swing a club just sitting down now, Now

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Speaker 1: that's what you need to understand. You are married to

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Speaker 1: a manhole. Oh you don't worried? All right? Married manhole?

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Speaker 1: You notice? Yeah, you're grown shovel, he said. Don't stop him,

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Speaker 1: asked y'all when I started this, See if you say

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Speaker 1: it's different when you say it about me, double standards.

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Speaker 1: Let's change that. Okay, Well, let me change your name.

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Speaker 1: This is for radio there. You're married to a mayhoe. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's called mayhoe. Mayhole. He can sounds like mayo, sounds

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Speaker 1: like may I hold your hand, sounds like mayhoe. You're

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Speaker 1: married to a mayhoe. This man right here, pick up anything?

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Speaker 1: Then you said, should I let him go be free

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Speaker 1: and let him live his life alone? Oh, let me

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Speaker 1: tell you something that you might free him, But he

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Speaker 1: damn sure ain't gonna be alone. Big Buck is in

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Speaker 1: that Swingers club with the drip shoes on every night. Now,

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Speaker 1: he didn't coming home that membership, you know, that membership

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Speaker 1: life membership down at the Swings. This is crazy. Now

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Speaker 1: you sent up talking about should I just watch him

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Speaker 1: have sex? What? Yeah? Why would you do that? Have

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Speaker 1: you lowered yourself to the point where you want him

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Speaker 1: so bad you just watch him having sex with anybody

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Speaker 1: lost your mind? And this ain't about counseling. This man

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Speaker 1: don't need counseling. He needs to get put out. He

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Speaker 1: need get put out. And you need to go somewhere

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Speaker 1: with your life and stop experimenting with stuff you don't

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Speaker 1: really want to do, just to make a man happy.

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Speaker 1: Find your happiness somewhere, Find somebody that just won't you.

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Speaker 1: He won't every damn body but dress shoes on this

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Speaker 1: sure shoes and some black sock, all right. See folkst

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