Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex
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Speaker 1: You know who. We are, two little girls running through
Speaker 1: the forest.
Speaker 2: I have forest, being Macquarie part the forest greater New
Speaker 2: South Wales? Is it greater? Let's not talk about it.
Speaker 1: It's not great, That's all I'll say. I have a
Speaker 1: love line. Someone is sent in a dilemma and I'm
Speaker 1: going to read it. My boyfriend and I have been
Speaker 1: having some issues. Say say less. We have been together
Speaker 1: for two years now and before that. I love to
Speaker 1: swipe on the apps and some adult sleepovers. No judgment.
Speaker 1: You were giving a look of judgment.
Speaker 2: I felt it just it was hard to process. But
Speaker 2: I understand what's being said.
Speaker 1: Virgin, there's actually nothing wrong with being virgin. You don't
Speaker 1: believe that, No I do.
Speaker 2: You voice went up three octaves.
Speaker 1: There's something wrong with no I.
Speaker 2: I'm actually serious, and that's why you can't maintain our content.
Speaker 2: Your eyes are going this way.
Speaker 1: You're making it a joke. It's fine to be a virgin. Okay.
Speaker 1: We were out of the shops recently together and we
Speaker 1: ran into one of my old friends with benefits The
Speaker 1: problem was we had really good chemistry and it was
Speaker 1: visibly obvious to my partner. I love that it bothered
Speaker 1: him so much that when we got home, he made
Speaker 1: me unfollow every guy on Instagram that wasn't him or
Speaker 1: one of his friends. Did he take it too far?
Speaker 2: Should I unfollow the friends as well? Babes, hasn't stopped
Speaker 2: us before? Ah, Look, I love a love line. They're
Speaker 2: getting really good these days. It is unfortunate that the
Speaker 2: relationship problems of the world are only getting worse with time,
Speaker 2: but great for our content.
Speaker 1: Look, I gotta say, on the surface, it's giving emotional manipulation. However,
Speaker 1: on the surface though, just on the saze excavate. I think, like,
Speaker 1: for example, this is a very hetero example. Give it
Speaker 1: to us, a babe.
Speaker 2: We don't need the caveat.
Speaker 1: That proof is in the pudding love. I remember, like
Speaker 1: back in the heyday of Instagram, when was that? I
Speaker 1: want to know for sure for our own personal bank balances. No,
Speaker 1: I think back in the heyday of Instagram, like twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen, if you saw a guy or started seeing
Speaker 1: a guy and he was following bikini models, you'd have
Speaker 1: a wig out and then if you saw him liking
Speaker 1: other women's photos, and it's not like women that he's
Speaker 1: friends with. It's people who are like celebrities in scantily
Speaker 1: clad outfits and he's liking them. You'd be like, this
Speaker 1: is a problem that I need to bring up. However,
Speaker 1: is you not me specifically? I know whereas you know,
Speaker 1: and I thought that's quite normal, but then this one
Speaker 1: is like a level up from that. But it's also
Speaker 1: harder to enforce because it's like, again, it's quite manipulative.
Speaker 1: But I can see that. I think I think the
Speaker 1: GF as much as it's not on you, I think
Speaker 1: if I'm giving serious advice, I think you need to
Speaker 1: reassure him that there's nothing going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because for your partner at the moment, I think
Speaker 2: he's doing a lot of misplaced micromanaging. His issue isn't
Speaker 2: that you are interacting with man? Is that the way
Speaker 2: you interacted with this one, it raised a couple of
Speaker 2: red flags for him. He's a wait a second, I'm
Speaker 2: seeing you. I'm seeing like life in your face. I'm
Speaker 2: seeing blood rush to your cheeks. I'm seeing enthusiasm and
Speaker 2: that's worrying me. So if you can take that energy
Speaker 2: and apply it to him. Perhaps he'll feel less, I
Speaker 2: don't know, maniacal about who you're following. It's not about Instagram.
Speaker 2: Leave Zuckerberg out of this. Number one, that's our king
Speaker 2: number two. I think it's always a good idea to
Speaker 2: validate someone's insecurities in a practical way. And so let's
Speaker 2: not make it about Instagram. Let's go to the source, okay,
Speaker 2: and then unpack it through there.
Speaker 1: I totally agree, Yeah, go to the source. Never. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If someone like clearly on the surface it sounds like
Speaker 1: he's trying to control you, but if he will listen
Speaker 1: to you as you explain why it's not about Instagram,
Speaker 1: then you can both have a happy medium.
Speaker 2: I think this reminds me we've got to talk about
Speaker 2: the difference between flirting and banter, because I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm not sure. I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's obvious love, I've seen some things. Nah, you've
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