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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, it's your other host for I Do Part two,

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Speaker 1: Jana Kramer. I'm jumping in. I love tearing Elizabeth's story.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited for her. But we have someone else

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Speaker 1: that we're going to have on. She's a listener of

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Speaker 1: I Do Part two and she's actually really good friends

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Speaker 1: with Elizabeth, so I'm really excited to get her on.

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Speaker 1: But first I want to play you Rebecca's voice memo

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Speaker 1: that she's sent in to be on the show. Let's

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Speaker 1: give it a listen him.

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Speaker 2: My name is Rebecca. I listened to your podcast and

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Speaker 2: I would be interested in participating. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, hey, short and sweet, and she just is

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Speaker 1: like ready to get into it. So let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Let's get Rebecca on and let's help her find some love.

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Speaker 2: Hey, how are you. I'm good.

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be talking to you. We just

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Speaker 1: listened to your voice memo and I loved it because

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Speaker 1: it was like, hey, I listened to the show. I

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Speaker 1: want to be on, Like, let's do this. It was

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Speaker 1: just like very to the point, very like very direct,

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Speaker 1: and I'm here for that. So we had the first

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Speaker 1: part of the show, we had your girlfriend Elizabeth on,

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Speaker 1: and obviously she was from the Bachelor too, And then

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Speaker 1: I was reading your stuff and you were you were

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Speaker 1: also on the Bachelor, you were on Brad season. How

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Speaker 1: did you guys meet because you were on different seasons.

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Speaker 2: So after you get off the show, you're part of

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Speaker 2: this like crazy bachelor family, right, and you get invited

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Speaker 2: to all the events. And so I was invited to

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Speaker 2: a charity event and it was like a clean up

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Speaker 2: the beach in Venice kind of a thing, and so

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Speaker 2: we were both at that same event together.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and then it was just like fast friends or.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I act actually saw Elizabeth walking down the

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Speaker 2: beach and I was like, oh gosh, not this girl.

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Speaker 2: She was like so caddy on the show, and she

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Speaker 2: just was portrayed really bad. And she knows as I've

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Speaker 2: told her this, and I was like, oh, don't pair

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Speaker 2: me with her. And then we were paired together. But

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Speaker 2: she's amazing. She's not who they portrayed on the show,

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Speaker 2: and she's such a sweetheart. We've been best friends for

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Speaker 2: fourteen years. We've been through everything together. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: been amazing to have her in my life. I'm so

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Speaker 2: glad we were paired.

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Speaker 1: Together, right, I know, it's interesting God's little interventions. So

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Speaker 1: you you got sent home the first night? Is that

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Speaker 1: what I read on Brad's I did what? Okay? What

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Speaker 1: was that like? What was that feeling like? And then

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Speaker 1: also why do you think you were sent home on

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Speaker 1: the first night? Is there something where is this a

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Speaker 1: thing in your dating world where you're like, maybe I

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Speaker 1: didn't put forth more effort or what do you think

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Speaker 2: So going on the first night is a little deflating

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Speaker 2: because there's so much work up to it that you

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Speaker 2: spend months talking to producers and just like them prepping

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Speaker 2: you get there and it's night one and you're so

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Speaker 2: excited meeting all the girls, Like everyone was super nice.

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Speaker 2: I really wanted to stay for that. I liked the

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Speaker 2: pressure that I was fielding. I wasn't looking to be

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Speaker 2: on a reality TV show. I just felt like this

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Speaker 2: was God's funny plan to like introduce me to my husband,

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Speaker 2: Like Okay, cool, I'm going to go on some show.

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Speaker 2: And I feel like maybe I wasn't reality TV enough

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Speaker 2: for them, Like the producers kind of wanted me do

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Speaker 2: a little bit more like chasing around. I was the

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Speaker 2: first person in Bachelor history to kiss the guy right

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Speaker 2: out of the limo, and I feel like it was

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Speaker 2: then like, Okay, now I want you to go find

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Speaker 2: Like I want to be authentic to who I am

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Speaker 2: kind of feel like that's why I went home because

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Speaker 2: I wasn't kind of doing what they wanted me to do.

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Speaker 2: But it was a fun experience, all right.

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Speaker 1: So post a Bachelor, then you ended up. How long

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Speaker 1: were you married for with your with your husband who.

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Speaker 2: Was with my ex first seven years? Well we were

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Speaker 2: married for seven years.

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Speaker 1: Seven years, Okay. When I was reading your breakdown, I

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Speaker 1: for a little over a year, then you broke up.

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Speaker 1: then you guys reconciled. What why did you guys break up?

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Speaker 2: In the beginning, I just had this intuition. I just

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Speaker 2: I was so lost. I didn't I was broke down.

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Speaker 2: My self esteem was completely gone. I felt like, this

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Speaker 2: I want to be married and have kids, and this

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Speaker 2: And then I found out two days later that I

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Speaker 1: This is I mean truly the same kind of story too.

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Speaker 1: I was thirty, I really wanted to have kids, and

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Speaker 1: so it was that. But I had just found out

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Speaker 1: we only dated for gosh, like a month before I

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Speaker 1: And if that wasn't the biggest red flag ever, but

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Speaker 1: I really, truly I was like, well, I'm thirty, I

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Speaker 1: make mistakes, and lord, I've made a million. And so

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Speaker 1: I tried to kind of talk my way through his stuff,

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Speaker 1: but then, you know, same with you. You married for

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Speaker 1: seven years, ex husband had ten plus affairs, And I

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Speaker 1: reading my own story? Because I mean what I know

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Speaker 2: Like? Now? I he had to actually just come back.

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Speaker 2: He's a fireman. He plays bagpipes, and he was at

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Speaker 2: a bagpipe event for several days and then came home

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Speaker 2: and that night his phone was laying on his chest

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Speaker 2: I never felt that way before. I would have never

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Speaker 1: How many years into the marriage was that?

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Speaker 2: This was a year? One year I got pregnant just

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Speaker 2: But he swore it was never in person, it was

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Speaker 1: My eyes lies lies, liesless.

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Speaker 2: And then a year later he took me to a

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Speaker 2: I just sat there counting, like, oh my gosh, how

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Speaker 2: said for five years trying to fix the marriage, because

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Speaker 2: of course, if I could be perfect, and I could

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Speaker 2: would choose me. I always chose him, and I found

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Speaker 2: oh gosh, I lost track of how many people I

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's one extreme or the other. I

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Speaker 1: bragging right dude? You know, like, that's not something to

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Speaker 2: Totally. I didn't. And I actually told our friend, like,

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Speaker 2: but he's not gonna. Why would he admit that? Would

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Speaker 2: you admit that it makes you look bad? And then

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Speaker 2: I guess he's admitting it.

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Speaker 1: Did he ever come out to say that he was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So after he admitted to the affairs, he started

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Speaker 2: going to a sex addict therapist, and he had all

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Speaker 2: of it's you know, blamed on the upbringing and daddy

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Speaker 2: It was always someone else's fault as to why that

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry you had to go through that, because

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Speaker 1: I mean, it is the worst, worst pain possible, especially

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Speaker 1: I definitely get it's it's so hard and for the

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Speaker 1: Rebecca out?

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Speaker 1: why what happened? Would you? Did you? Did you do that?

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Speaker 1: Like I have to know every and that's that's like

436
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Speaker 1: maybe my toxic trade. I don't know, but I just like,

437
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Speaker 1: let's get to it because I don't want to waste

438
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Speaker 1: my time. I've got two kids at home, Like, I'm

439
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Speaker 1: not wasting not wasting any time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how soon do you, like do you introduce your

441
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Speaker 2: kids to? Like I feel like when you have feelings

442
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Speaker 2: for someone, like I don't want to fall in love

443
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Speaker 2: with someone, and then like introduce some of my kids

444
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Speaker 2: and my kids and that person don't chibe and I'm like, sorry,

445
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Speaker 2: see you, what do you do with that?

446
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Speaker 1: I I kind of always did like the three month rule.

447
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was, and so I only

448
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: introduced them to you know, so an X and then

449
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Speaker 1: my now husband, but I was yeah, three months is

450
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Speaker 1: kind of what I was, but my ex and I

451
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Speaker 1: kind of agreed to. But it's more, it's hard because

452
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Speaker 1: when you're in your forties, I feel like things just

453
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Speaker 1: move faster anyways, at least for me it did, because

454
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Speaker 1: it's like you just cut the bullshit and you go

455
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Speaker 1: straight too. All right, what does this look like? And

456
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Speaker 1: because you have to be I feel like you have

457
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Speaker 1: to cut the bullshit when you've got kids.

458
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, dating with a purpose. I'm not just dating

459
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Speaker 2: for fun, Like I'm dating exactly to meet someone longer.

460
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Speaker 1: We're not on tender you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So my kids are so much older. They're you know,

462
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Speaker 3: twenty four and twenty six, and so they're the ones

463
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Speaker 3: that when we're out, they're like, Mommy, he's good looking, Mommy,

464
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Speaker 3: he looks like something that you would like. And so

465
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Speaker 3: it's weird because like they're with me, and I'm like, no, no,

466
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Speaker 3: you're not supposed to be like out here with me

467
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 3: in the jungle. You guys are supposed to be like

468
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 3: forging your own path, like leave me alone. But it's

469
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Speaker 3: been really sweet to see them. But when they were younger,

470
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,439
Speaker 3: like you know, I mean, I you know, work with

471
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 3: a lot of different men and people, and you know,

472
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 3: they never even thought for one minute like if I

473
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,199
Speaker 3: was dating someone and less until like they came to

474
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Speaker 3: like dinner, like we would have like a dinner and

475
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Speaker 3: be like, oh, like you know, which want to all

476
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 3: have fun. And but I never like made like an

477
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Speaker 3: actual introduction until you know, I was, I was, you know,

478
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Speaker 3: really considering being with them and I and you know,

479
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Speaker 3: even with my last relationship, you know, he had kids

480
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Speaker 3: and I just was like, hold off on the kids.

481
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Speaker 3: Let's you know, I'm not you know, Barbie let's just

482
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Speaker 3: keep everything. Like, you know, I'm not the fun friend

483
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 3: over here. Like all the kids, you know, when they're younger,

484
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, she hare a babysit. I'm like, no, no, not.

485
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Speaker 2: She could be.

486
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Speaker 3: One guy went on a date with for Halloween and

487
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Speaker 3: I was bam bam and his little daughter was like,

488
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Speaker 3: my babysitter is here.

489
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Speaker 2: Oh no no, no, no no no. I'm not the

490
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Speaker 2: baby hitter. So that means another question, Like, so everyone

491
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 2: parents so differently, Like I diated this guy, So the

492
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Speaker 2: guy that I was in a relationship with, like, we

493
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Speaker 2: parented very different. It's like when is it okay like

494
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Speaker 2: or is it okay to like step in and be like, hey,

495
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Speaker 2: something's got to change here, like in order to mingle

496
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Speaker 2: two families together, right in order to have like he

497
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Speaker 2: has kids, I have kids, and we're gonna parent and

498
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Speaker 2: be married. Like when do you start like disciplining someone

499
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Speaker 2: else's kids or having a say in how they parent

500
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Speaker 2: or I mean both ways. I'm not a perfect parent.

501
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 2: None of us are perfect. Your parent were winging it,

502
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Speaker 2: but like you get involved.

503
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Speaker 1: I feel like my my husband did a good a

504
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Speaker 1: good job with that where he it took him. I mean,

505
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Speaker 1: he's just now is because because I've asked him too,

506
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Speaker 1: because I'm like, I can't always be because the kids

507
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: are with me seventy percent of the time, with us

508
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Speaker 1: seventy percent of the time, so they're only at their

509
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,719
Speaker 1: dads like eight days a month, and so it's like

510
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Speaker 1: for us, it's like, I'm like, I can't be the

511
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Speaker 1: only person that is disciplining the kids because then they're

512
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Speaker 1: not going to even want to be here because if

513
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Speaker 1: I'm always like guys, guys, guys and riding them all

514
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Speaker 1: the time. So it's like, Alan, I really need you

515
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Speaker 1: to step in and like when you hear Julia or Jace,

516
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Speaker 1: you know, start to mouth off or do something. And

517
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Speaker 1: they're really good kids, so it's not like that a lot,

518
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Speaker 1: but still I'm like I need, like I need that

519
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Speaker 1: support so that I'm not the only parent doing that.

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Speaker 1: And so he's like, yeah, now that you know we're

521
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Speaker 1: married and you know, but it's not a mom still

522
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Speaker 1: has that like at the end of the day, we're

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Speaker 1: still the ones that are like, guys, stop it or

524
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Speaker 1: let's go or you know. But I think it's just

525
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Speaker 1: in time, you'll know, they'll and they'll know and you'll

526
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Speaker 1: know when the right time is to be like, hey,

527
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Speaker 1: doesn't fly here, or we don't do that or so

528
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Speaker 1: I think it's it's I don't think there's like a

529
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Speaker 1: time per se. But I think it's just more of

530
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Speaker 1: like a I don't think it's I don't think the

531
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Speaker 1: guys should come right in and start disciplining the second

532
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Speaker 1: they move into the house or start being run your kids.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously that wouldn't be cool because then they're

534
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: not gonna like the guy. But I think it's just

535
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Speaker 1: it's a it's a gradual thing.

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Speaker 3: I guess, like when my kids were younger, you know,

537
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Speaker 3: we also just to give them a framework. I used

538
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Speaker 3: to like always say, like Ben's Simons have rules. We

539
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 3: do s things in a certain way. And so then

540
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 3: my kids would then say, Ben Simons have rules, this

541
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Speaker 3: is what we do. So it was interesting because like

542
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Speaker 3: it was the different dynamic my kids were saying, this

543
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 3: is how we do things. This is our framework. Basically,

544
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Speaker 3: like you either come on board with that or we're

545
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 3: not gonna I guess they're like, you have to meet

546
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Speaker 3: my kids. I mean, oh my god, I'm back at two.

547
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I can't wait for you to meet them.

548
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 3: They're such great kids. But I've been so lucky that

549
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 3: they were so just solid, just very especially living in

550
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Speaker 3: New York. I mean, I think that raising kids in

551
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 3: New York is just like very very difficult, and I

552
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Speaker 3: was just really proud to raise them and to have

553
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Speaker 3: them be who they are. But you know, they I

554
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 3: kept instilling in them like Ben Simones have rules, and

555
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 3: I would say that around my acts as kids, like

556
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 3: Ben Simones have rules and this is what we do

557
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 3: and this is how we do things. That's not like

558
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 3: their rules. That's like here's our framework. If you guys

559
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 3: want to come and play in our sandbox, like, this

560
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 3: is what we do.

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Speaker 2: So that's what I did.

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Speaker 3: But I think it's always like yes that like you

563
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 3: don't know until you're in it, do you know what

564
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 3: I mean? Like you might feel really loving, you might

565
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 3: be like, oh my god, this person needs you know,

566
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Speaker 3: like you know, we're nurturing and we want.

567
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Speaker 2: You know, the best for the kids.

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Speaker 3: And but sometimes you know, the fathers they really do know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, sometimes they're really good about parenting kids, and

570
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 3: sometimes they're like, oh, these are the rules, and like

571
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 3: you don't even have kids, you don't know what the rules,

572
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Speaker 3: You don't know what you're talking about. Just enjoy, Just

573
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Speaker 3: enjoy the family and have fun and like eat the cookies.

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Speaker 1: And go home. Yeah, and I think, you know, to

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Speaker 1: not get ahead of ourselves either where it's like let's

576
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Speaker 1: just baby, not baby, step it in, but let's just

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Speaker 1: you know, the first step is getting you to iHeart

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Speaker 1: jingle ball, and then after that it's finding connecting you

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Speaker 1: with someone that a deserves your love and that is

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Speaker 1: worthy of your love and that will protect your heart

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Speaker 1: and all this because you know, like you said, and

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Speaker 1: I agree to not every not every man is like

583
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Speaker 1: our ex and so you know that's the mission is

584
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Speaker 1: to go to go, you know, find to find the

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Speaker 1: love that we all deserve because they are out there

586
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Speaker 1: and maybe we just you know, we were looking at

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Speaker 1: the signs and we didn't really pay attention to them

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Speaker 1: as we should. But now we are paying attention, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that's what's important now is we

590
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Speaker 1: have a better set of eyes on things.

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Speaker 3: Nice and we're you and I are in it together, Rebecca.

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Speaker 3: So it's like anytime you're like, oh my god, that

593
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Speaker 3: reminds me of something like I'm here for you. So

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Speaker 3: you know we can talk about talk about talk through.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to be a good sounding board

596
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Speaker 3: for you because we're like on the same level and

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Speaker 3: you know we're both going through it together. So you

598
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Speaker 3: know what, I'm going to need you too. I'm going

599
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Speaker 3: to be like, wait a minute, what do we do here?

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Speaker 3: What happened?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be so so fun. So along

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Speaker 2: Awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys. All right, we'll see you soon.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Bye, And my husband can help us also be a wingman,

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