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Speaker 1: You're listening to a new segment, Dear Chelsea.

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Speaker 2: Call it Couple's Counseling with Chelsea, where we do couples

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Speaker 2: counseling on all sorts of variations of friends, lovers, families.

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Speaker 2: I'm here with my friends Jenny Mullen and Jason Biggs,

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Speaker 2: and we are going to do some couples counseling. Welcome

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Speaker 2: to my office. Okay, guys, on our last session together,

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Speaker 2: I think we've made a lot of progress on our

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Speaker 2: last session, healed. I want to address the ex girlfriend factor,

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Speaker 2: and I would like to recap that because that I

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Speaker 2: think required a lot of patience and acceptance I think

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Speaker 2: from Jason, because he could have really been like, this

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Speaker 2: woman is unstable, you know what I mean, This woman's crazy,

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Speaker 2: or any of the things you could attribute to somebody

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Speaker 2: who would be that interested in his ex girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so we were on a vacation.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this on your podcast when we went

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Speaker 2: on a vacation together French Polynesia scuba diving trip and

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Speaker 2: you brought Jason's ex girlfriend's kaftan and you wore it.

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Speaker 1: I think I even at one point when you'urinated on it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what happened to that cap town.

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Speaker 2: Someone someone got urinated on and something got urinated on

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Speaker 2: on that trip.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about Jason.

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Speaker 2: How did that when you found out Jenny was obsessed

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Speaker 2: with your ex girlfriend?

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Speaker 1: How did that make you feel? Like? Did you think,

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Speaker 1: whoaa who this might be problematic or you.

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Speaker 2: Already were so head over heels with her that you

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Speaker 2: thought this is adorable.

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Speaker 3: Not the ladder, Not the ladder kills Rachel.

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Speaker 4: But there was a sense of I think it actually

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Speaker 4: was sort of somewhere in the middle in so far

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Speaker 4: as definitely struck me as weird and uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: Can you just kind of recap when it came about briefly.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's it's so blurry, and here's I

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Speaker 3: can just give you a broad stroke on it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, I mean the thing that I'll get into

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Speaker 4: is that it it wasn't just once and and so

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Speaker 4: my feelings changed over time. When I when I thought it,

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Speaker 4: when we was like, okay, this needs to be done

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Speaker 4: and I don't like it. And then it happened again.

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Speaker 4: That's where it like, Okay, it's no longer adorable. I

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Speaker 4: get that you're a story seeker. I get that you're

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Speaker 4: anything goes Jenny. You're wild and crazy, you're funny, you're hilarious, impulsive,

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Speaker 4: all the things that I do find attractive about her

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Speaker 4: to an extent, and this went too far.

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Speaker 5: The things he used to find attractive about me, or

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Speaker 5: now the heated about me.

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Speaker 1: That's par for the course. That's what happens in every real.

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Speaker 4: And it's not entirely true. Maybe I still love you

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Speaker 4: for those things. There just needs to be. When I

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Speaker 4: felt like I wasn't being heard, it was like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: this was cute, this is funny, it's it's crazy, yes,

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Speaker 4: but like, okay, now we move on. Right now, we're done.

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Speaker 4: And then when I learned that not just once, but

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Speaker 4: not just twice, but that multiple times it wasn't done,

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Speaker 4: then I then it. Then you dip into territory where

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Speaker 4: it's like, oh, you're deceiving me, but let me.

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Speaker 3: Like give people. Yeah, don't know, let me just give

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Speaker 3: you quickly. Okay.

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Speaker 5: So basically Jason had dated somebody prior to me that

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Speaker 5: wasn't over him when we got together, and this person

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Speaker 5: was doing things, making episodes about Jason breaking up with her,

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Speaker 5: engaging with the family. The sister would cry to me

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Speaker 5: about missing her. There was all this shit and I

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Speaker 5: was like, this is fucking fascinating to me, Like who

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Speaker 5: is this girl?

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Speaker 3: You're making me love her?

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Speaker 5: Like I want to know everything, and it was all

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Speaker 5: these weird fucking facts. It was like, you know, I'm

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Speaker 5: not gonna like expose things whatever right now because a

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Speaker 5: couple of therapy I've agreed to not really talk about her,

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Speaker 5: but like it'd be like things that this were incongruous

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Speaker 5: to like what I did know. You know, it's like

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Speaker 5: she traveled and was like a shirt but for a while,

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Speaker 5: and then she did this, and you know, it was

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Speaker 5: like she went to law school, like all these random things.

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Speaker 5: She was married, she was and so it became like

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Speaker 5: the most the Doseki's man, she was like the most

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Speaker 3: I'm like, this is fucking crazy.

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Speaker 5: And she's still in love with Jason and now she

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Speaker 5: was like commenting on my IMDb. So for me, I

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Speaker 5: was like, oh my god, I'm with this famous guy.

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Speaker 5: I'm invisible.

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Speaker 3: I'm twenty eight years old.

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Speaker 5: I feel so cute and like I'm fucking invisible everywhere

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Speaker 5: I go because people are like, can you hold my

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Speaker 3: Take a picture?

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Speaker 5: With Jason Biggs, and I have one fan in the

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Speaker 5: world and it's the Josekis guy. So I'm like, fuck,

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Speaker 5: I want to make myself like perfect for her. I

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Speaker 5: want to know everything about her. I want to curate

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Speaker 5: my online profile so that she's obsessed as obsessed with

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Speaker 5: me and stays obsessed with me. But like when Jason

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Speaker 5: I kept dating and she sort of moved on, I was.

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Speaker 3: Like, wait, we need her back, like I need my

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Speaker 3: fan back.

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Speaker 5: So that's when I the table flipped and I started

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Speaker 5: stalking her.

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Speaker 3: Does that make sense?

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Speaker 1: Anybody doesn't know. It doesn't.

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Speaker 2: But the stocking went on for some period right of time,

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Speaker 2: and then it became problematic for Jason because you were

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Speaker 2: lying to him about didn't you arrange to meet her?

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Speaker 5: And so when I was hiking Running Canyon with her

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Speaker 5: behind Jason's back, I was regifting her things of hers

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Speaker 5: that I'd find around the house, like as a way

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Speaker 5: to like lure her into like a real life friendship.

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Speaker 5: I might have set her up on a date with

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Speaker 5: my acting coach and then gone on the date with them.

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Speaker 3: A lot of things happened, right, but you know how

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Speaker 3: it ended.

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Speaker 5: No, I think you should tell us how so like

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Speaker 5: it was because she was my Moby Dick and I

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Speaker 5: was a app And guess where it ended?

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Speaker 3: Main Street in Nantucket.

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Speaker 5: Like is that's the ship, writes itself, Like, how can

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Speaker 5: I not as a writer like I am in fucking May,

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Speaker 5: I'm on main Street in Nantucket, on those cobblestone streets.

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Speaker 3: I'm a she is fucking moby and we are face

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Speaker 3: to face. It is like made for.

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Speaker 1: And what happened?

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Speaker 3: Memoir like sitting in my lap, grant for it?

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Speaker 2: And this was this was after how many how much

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Speaker 2: time of spending with her like the.

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Speaker 3: Course of I would say eight years. But it had ended.

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Speaker 5: It had ended, but it was just such a f

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Speaker 5: the coup de gras, It was just fucking phenomenal.

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Speaker 4: It had ended, but you hadn't stopped writing about her.

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Speaker 4: She was still a subject for your books. And well

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Speaker 4: did she understand? Did she understand she was a subject

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Speaker 4: of your books? Or she didn't make the connection? I

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Speaker 4: told her necessary.

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Speaker 5: I just like it's such great fodder, and like it's

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Speaker 5: so fucking funny and random. And to be honest, the

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Speaker 5: reason I leaned so hard into it is because of

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Speaker 5: the reaction I was getting online my Twitter personality or

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Speaker 5: like persona became that of like this crazy wife who's

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Speaker 5: obsessed with her husband's ex girlfriend. Unfortunately, all of Jason's

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Speaker 5: ex girlfriends thought I was talking about them. So now

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Speaker 5: I've burnt a lot of bridges on accident. We were

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Speaker 5: friends with many of them, and now they don't speak

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Speaker 5: to us because they all thought I was talking about that,

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Speaker 5: which she.

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Speaker 3: Was a tweet about. It wasn't just like the memoirs.

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Speaker 4: There was regular tweets about like like.

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Speaker 5: When you write a joke, it's like, it's not necessarily real,

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Speaker 5: you're just fucking It can be. It could be based

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Speaker 5: on something, it could be based on something a friended.

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Speaker 5: It's just a fucking joke. It's not real. But unfortunately

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Speaker 5: for me, a lot of people took it at face value.

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Speaker 1: So do you feel well?

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Speaker 2: First of all, what happened on main Street in Nantucket?

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Speaker 2: What was the interest? Didn't speak to me?

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Speaker 1: Oh she did.

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Speaker 3: Spoke to Jason. My son ran straight into her arms,

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Speaker 3: into her arms and said, Mommy, did.

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Speaker 1: You say hello?

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Speaker 3: I did you try spoke to her sister? I smiled,

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Speaker 3: I must thank you. The parents were there. It was

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Speaker 3: so bad, It was so bad.

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Speaker 5: It was so bad, and now my sister and her

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Speaker 5: sister are like really good friends and they go to

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Speaker 5: the same school and it's.

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Speaker 3: The whole thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh right, yes, yes, yes, I heard that. So now

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Speaker 2: what have you learned from that lesson? If anything have you?

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Speaker 2: Was it a lesson or so?

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Speaker 3: I wrote her like a crazy because it's.

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Speaker 2: Almost like you could never ever even not that you

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Speaker 2: would have an affair, but like, it's so scared girl.

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Speaker 5: And I need to sleep with her and make her

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Speaker 5: let me wear the Jason because I'm not competitive, that's

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Speaker 5: what would happen. But no, I've written her several Amen's letters,

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Speaker 5: and I'm just like, listen, I am so sorry, like

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Speaker 5: the woman that the girl that I was, is not

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Speaker 5: Like I let myself just get so seduced by the

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Speaker 5: because I was addicted to the plot, you know, I

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Speaker 2: It's so interesting because I'm hearing this, I'm listening to this,

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Speaker 2: and I'm thinking about my own personal experience with exes,

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Speaker 2: you know, from like a young age to my reaction

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Speaker 2: to exes as to when I'm older and like now

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Speaker 2: in my present day moment, like I don't want to

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Speaker 2: know anything about exes. I don't care, I'm not interested,

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Speaker 2: I don't even want to. The less information the better.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be thinking about them. But I

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Speaker 2: do remember like dating someone when I was in my twenties,

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Speaker 2: and when he went to England for a week, I

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Speaker 2: went through everything in his apartment, every photo album, every

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Speaker 2: piece of paper, just to find his past that he

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Speaker 2: had before he met me. So there was no reason

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Speaker 2: for me to have any sense of feelings of invidiousness

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Speaker 2: or you know, any of that. But I remember he

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Speaker 2: came home from that trip to England and I was

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Speaker 2: in a rage that he had even had a pack

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Speaker 2: that he had met a girl before we dated, Like

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Speaker 2: what was he thinking dating someone who was pretty before

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Speaker 2: he met me? You know, like so irrational and so unreasonable,

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Speaker 2: And his reaction to my behavior made me realize I

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Speaker 2: could never do.

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Speaker 3: That day of this.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know exactly my British boyfriend when I

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Speaker 2: was like young, young, yeah, yeah, but I remember being like,

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Speaker 2: you know, just the overwhelming need for more information, like.

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Speaker 1: I need more, I need more.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to look and find everything, and it's like,

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Speaker 2: and it's so irrational, right, Like it's so irrational that

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh. Once I saw his reaction, I

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Speaker 2: was like, I can't do that if I want him

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Speaker 2: to stay with me.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's the Yeah, it's the need, it's the mine.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't jealousy. It was like, I want there is a need.

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Speaker 3: I feel like there's some overlap.

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Speaker 4: Perhaps I don't know, there's that thing you're describing, which

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Speaker 4: feels like that sort of youthful naivete in thinking that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was probably a turn on for you and

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Speaker 3: He could. It's those it's giving Chelsea therapy.

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Speaker 4: I had feelings about it, not about whether or not

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Speaker 4: This is what I'm doing and it's my Instagram and

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Speaker 5: But why would I would say just to pat us

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Speaker 5: I'm in no way enmeshed in his sobriety, whether he's

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Speaker 5: That was really that has been Jason's journey entirely.

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Speaker 3: That's very true. That is true.

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Speaker 2: That is true when you bring that up, because I

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Speaker 3: No, I was never like were you drinking or should

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Speaker 3: I was like, this is your journey, not my journey. No,

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Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know, I don't think I should pat

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Speaker 5: I tried to do that. It's just right well, whatever reason,

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Speaker 4: I also think the fact that you weren't aware of it,

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Speaker 5: I don't worry about you the way that I feel

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, no, I hear you. Okay. Well, on that note,

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Speaker 2: Do you have some parting words for couples out there

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Speaker 1: What would your one piece of advice be for each

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Speaker 5: I would say, honestly, to be able to listen, you know,

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Speaker 5: they're talking about themselves, they're not talking about you, and

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Speaker 5: that it is so hard to keep your ego and

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Speaker 2: Even when they're telling you you're a piece of shit,

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Speaker 2: it's still about them, it's still about them. Still always

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Speaker 2: good advice, that's good advice, And that's an unactualized person

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Speaker 5: Yes, and they're telling you, I feel like shit. I

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Speaker 2: Of control, scared or insecure or unsure of the relationship healthy. Okay,

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Speaker 2: y well, I think in celebration of this time together,

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Speaker 2: you guys should either do anal tonight yes, or do

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Speaker 2: it this afternoon?

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Speaker 3: How about right now?

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is an appropriate place for that.

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Speaker 3: Why there's no pillows right It.

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Speaker 1: Will make you feel like you're at home.

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Speaker 3: Could be fun for you. I'll fuck it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for being here, Thanks for sharing.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Chelsea.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you can check out Jenny Mullen substack The

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Speaker 2: Best Friend Experience and her new side hustle The Shirts

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Speaker 2: Off My Back, where you can buy fabulous vintage clothes.

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Speaker 1: And you can also check.

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Speaker 2: Out Jenny and Jason co hosting Dinner in a Movie

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Speaker 2: on TBS. Okay, So upcoming shows that I have you, guys,

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