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Speaker 1: say something about Genius Arethah. It premiered last night. Cynthia

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Speaker 1: Like Shirley was saying earlier. It's good. Though. I watched

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Speaker 1: her last night. Go sit the favorite singer Aretha. Yes, remember, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Genius Aretha. Eight episodes, m yeah, eight episodes. Time. All right,

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Speaker 1: It is the Strawberry Letter. Thank you, nephew. Subject am

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Speaker 1: I in an open relationship? Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm a

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Speaker 1: thirty six year old married woman and my husband just

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Speaker 1: turned forty, So we went on a weekend getaway to

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Speaker 1: were drinking and eating and having a good time, just

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Speaker 1: the four of us. The guys went down to the

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Speaker 1: I found him asleep on the couch and a girl

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Speaker 1: was lying under him, almost hidden by his body. I

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Speaker 1: I was out of it. He said he enjoyed himself,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't go all the way with any of

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Speaker 1: the women. He said he fooled around with the other

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Speaker 1: wife that came with us, and her husband didn't care

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Speaker 1: because they've always had an open marriage. Before we got married,

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Speaker 1: my husband and I had a manage twap, but that

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Speaker 1: was eight years ago. Now I feel guilty since I

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Speaker 1: allowed this to happen before. I don't talk to the

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Speaker 1: couple we went to Vegas with anymore, but my husband

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Speaker 1: is still friendly with them. Am I in an open marriage?

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Speaker 1: Please help? Well, honestly, no, you're not in an open marriage.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're in an open relationship. I think

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Speaker 1: can't say it's because of what happened eight years ago.

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Speaker 1: Don't even let him try that one, because things change,

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Speaker 1: people change, And if you guys, you know, I haven't

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Speaker 1: I would say that that part of the marriage is over,

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Speaker 1: or the relationship is over. But maybe it's not with him.

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Speaker 1: was premeditated. I'll say that maybe the excessive alcohol is

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Speaker 1: you're mad, you're upset, you feel disrespected, and by all means,

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Speaker 1: if you're against open marriages and swinging and nagtois now

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Speaker 1: He just can't assume, you know, just because you all

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Speaker 1: better than that, and that's where I falled him. I

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Speaker 1: I don't know what letter you read. The question is

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Speaker 1: just ain't no marriage. Am I in an open relationship? No, ma'am,

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Speaker 1: you in a wide open, wide open relationship. Everything in him,

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Speaker 1: We got that hotel room, were drinking and eating, having

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Speaker 1: I'm Vegas man. I've been going to Vegas. One of

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Speaker 1: my favorite places. When I was running and I left

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Speaker 1: the nightlife that is Vegas, cigars, drinking and women. Well

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Speaker 1: at first two of Steve's response coming up in twenty

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Speaker 1: All right, come on, Steve, Let's recap today's Strawberry letter

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Speaker 1: question and subject. Am I in and open relationship? Am

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Speaker 1: I in a open relationship? Lady? You in a wide

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Speaker 1: open relationship? You and your marriage is so open it

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Speaker 1: won't even have a dough on it. Normal This thing

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Speaker 1: with an opening, matter of fact, is really just a

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Speaker 1: you can come and go as you please. Yes, you

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Speaker 1: downstairs for a nightcap. Didn't y'all say y'all was upstairs drinking.

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Speaker 1: Y'all was just upstairs drinking. We're going downstairs for a nightcap.

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Speaker 1: Ain't saying nothing about gamblet, which is the main attraction

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Speaker 1: that you could blame the alcohol for some of this? Well,

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Speaker 1: First of all, I wroke up around three am and

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Speaker 1: you can't be drunk. You have to talk her into

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Speaker 1: I shook her first and then him what I no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: wake up first. But anyway, that shit. Uh. They both

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Speaker 1: had their clothes on. But I demanded some answers. What see,

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Speaker 1: But he talked a woman into this. She came upstairs.

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Speaker 1: But I, but you was passed out drunk. Now this

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Speaker 1: What they all had a sex party? And he tried

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Speaker 1: care because they've always had an open marriage. What stop

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Speaker 1: blaming this on alcohol. These are conscious, consensual decisions that's

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Speaker 1: made by six adults. Before we got married. My husband,

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Speaker 1: I in an open relationship? Please help? Yes, you are

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Speaker 1: your reaction. Your reaction to this whole thing is to

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Speaker 1: He knows what the other couple was because he didn't

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