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BE GRATEFUL FOR CHANGE IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Welcome, my friend. Welcome to Have a Little
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Speaker 1: Faith with Delilah. I love doing this podcast because my
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Speaker 1: faith in my Lord is the cornerstone of everything. It's
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Speaker 1: why I do what I do on and off the air.
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Speaker 1: It's what governs my decisions. It's what keeps me from
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Speaker 1: making really bad choices that I used to make all
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Speaker 1: the time. It's why I do what I do every
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Speaker 1: single day because of my belief in a higher power,
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Speaker 1: a higher power that loves me, that chooses me, that
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Speaker 1: chooses to have an intimate, loving, committed, eternal relationship with me.
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Speaker 1: And I love sharing my faith with you because the
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Speaker 1: peace that it brings me, the peace of mind that
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Speaker 1: it brings me, there is no way to describe it.
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Speaker 1: There's no way to explain it, but I do want
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Speaker 1: to share it. There's something sacred about when seasons change.
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Speaker 1: We see it all around us. Right now, the turning
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Speaker 1: of the leaves, the shifting of the light, the quiet
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Speaker 1: arrival of fall and soon winter is Nature reminds us
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Speaker 1: that nothing stays the same forever. There's a time to bloom,
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Speaker 1: a time to release, a time to rest, and a
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Speaker 1: time to begin again. The same could be said for us.
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Speaker 1: We have seasons of our life. There are seasons when
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Speaker 1: our lives seem to be opening, expanding, and seasons when
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Speaker 1: we're asked to let go of what we thought we
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Speaker 1: so desperately needed. Seasons of uncertainty, seasons of healing, seasons
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Speaker 1: of becoming. Sometimes change arrives gently and sometimes it rearranges
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Speaker 1: everything we thought we knew, especially about ourself. But what
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Speaker 1: if we could meet every season, not just the beautiful ones,
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Speaker 1: but every season with gratitude? What if we could be
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Speaker 1: grateful for the endings as well as the beginnings? for
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Speaker 1: the lessons as well as the blessings, and even for
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Speaker 1: the moments that we just don't understand. This podcast is
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Speaker 1: a space to slow down. I invite you to notice
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Speaker 1: the changes happening both within you and around you. I
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Speaker 1: invite you to explore the spiritual shifts that shape who
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Speaker 1: you are becoming. I invite you to honor what it
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Speaker 1: is you're letting go of, what you're releasing out And
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Speaker 1: to practice faith and especially gratitude for the journey itself.
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Speaker 1: Gratitude for everything. Every season has something to teach us.
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Speaker 1: And I love this season of gratitude. So wherever you
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Speaker 1: find yourself today, in a season of growth, a season
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Speaker 1: of transition, of waiting, of healing, or like the trees
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Speaker 1: outside my window, a season of letting go. I ask
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Speaker 1: you to take a breath, to meet the moment, and
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Speaker 1: to trust that there is beauty here too. Welcome, my friend,
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Speaker 1: to this season of change. I'm so grateful that you're here.
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Speaker 1: I am mostly grateful for people who are brave enough
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Speaker 1: to share their vulnerability. The first caller I want to
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Speaker 1: share in this podcast is Ron. I was incredibly touched
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Speaker 1: by his honesty, his transparency, and vulnerability in It's not
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Speaker 1: easy to acknowledge the hurt we sometimes cause to others,
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Speaker 1: but he was more than willing to be honest, to
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Speaker 1: own it. Let's let Ron share his story right now. Ron,
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Speaker 1: welcome to Have a Little Faith with Delilah. How can
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Speaker 1: I help you tonight?
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Speaker 2: Well, I was just listening and you wanted to hear
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Speaker 2: somebody's story, so I have one for you.
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Speaker 1: Tell me your story. Tell me a story I haven't
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Speaker 1: heard before.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: The story is a man who was unfaithful myself. So
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Speaker 2: my beautiful wife, who I met around 20 years ago,
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Speaker 2: who was a widow and I took on the Brady Bunch.
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Speaker 2: I was a single father of three kids. She had
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Speaker 2: her own two. And about four years ago, I found
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Speaker 2: myself in an affair. I'm a chef and that kind
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Speaker 2: of job, a lot of long hours. lot of, um,
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Speaker 2: you know, temptation around in the, in the food business where,
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Speaker 2: you know, there's, uh, it's, um, it's very demanding and
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Speaker 2: you're not home too often and you start to meet, um,
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Speaker 2: the opposite sex who gives you the attention you're not
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Speaker 2: getting at that time. And that's how I found myself, um,
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Speaker 2: straying away from my beautiful, faithful wife. And, uh, I
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Speaker 2: actually fell deep for this woman that I thought was
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Speaker 2: going to be my future. And I actually, at one point,
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Speaker 2: decided that I was going to leave my wife and
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Speaker 2: I was going to set a new future with this
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Speaker 2: woman who said everything, did everything that I thought I
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Speaker 2: needed and I was missing in my life. And my
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Speaker 2: wife didn't want to let me go. She stood by me.
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Speaker 2: She's straight from Poland. She's an old school woman who... said,
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Speaker 2: you don't know what you're doing. I don't want to
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Speaker 2: see you go down this wrong path where honestly, if
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Speaker 2: the shoe was on the other foot, I would have
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Speaker 2: said goodbye in a heartbeat.
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Speaker 3: But she stood by me and I said, no, this
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Speaker 3: is what I want, honey. I'm leaving.
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Speaker 2: I went to this other woman that I thought I
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Speaker 2: had a future with and said, I just left my wife.
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Speaker 3: So, you know, we can make plans now.
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Speaker 2: About three days later, after she blocked her phone for
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Speaker 2: a couple of days, I have the cops at my
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Speaker 2: doorstep with a restraining order. That being said, too embarrassed
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Speaker 2: to go back to my home and face my family
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Speaker 2: and everything I had just done to everybody. I was
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Speaker 2: crashing at a friend's house, brother's house, wherever I can
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Speaker 2: find a place to lay my head. And she had
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Speaker 2: started calling me again.
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Speaker 3: At the clear blue, I started meeting her.
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Speaker 2: Then she went through her thing where she didn't answer
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Speaker 2: no more and stopped talking to me once again. And
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Speaker 2: she had called the cops and said, I filed a
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Speaker 2: restraining order.
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Speaker 3: I sat four days in a jail.
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Speaker 2: Cell thinking about my life, thinking about my beautiful wife
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Speaker 2: that I didn't deserve.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know how long I was going.
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Speaker 2: To sit there. And I went before the judge and
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Speaker 2: apparently my wife had hired a lawyer to get me
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Speaker 2: out of that jail cell.
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Speaker 3: That being said, I've woken up at my age. I'm
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Speaker 3: a 50 year old man.
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Speaker 2: And I guess some guys never grow up and some
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Speaker 2: guys grow up too late in life, which I think
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Speaker 2: is my case. And I opened my eyes and I
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Speaker 2: saw that the woman who was there for me the
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Speaker 2: whole time that might not have said all the right words,
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Speaker 2: might not have called me bestie every day and said
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Speaker 2: that we were going to have a beautiful life together
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Speaker 2: and made me feel warm butterflies every day. I thought
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Speaker 2: that's what I was missing was a woman that never
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Speaker 2: let me go, was there.
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Speaker 3: By my side when she shouldn't have.
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Speaker 2: I just want to tell her that I don't deserve
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Speaker 2: her and I never will.
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Speaker 3: And it took me so many years to actually become
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Speaker 3: a man. And I know that.
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Speaker 2: But I will spend whatever I have left to prove
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Speaker 2: to her that I'm not that man that put her
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Speaker 2: through everything.
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Speaker 3: Not no more.
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Speaker 2: And I just want to warn the other guys out
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Speaker 2: there who's thinking the grass is greener on the other
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Speaker 2: side and they're getting a little too comfortable in their
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Speaker 2: relationship because it's there and it's too familiar and they're
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Speaker 2: looking for that excitement. That excitement is not exactly what
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Speaker 2: you think it is. And I just want to say
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Speaker 2: to my wife, I love her.
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Speaker 1: Can I say something? Yes. It's not just guys.
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Speaker 3: Well, I found that out.
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Speaker 1: We're all human. We are all subject to temptation. Different
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Speaker 1: people tempted by different things. But we're all tempted to
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Speaker 1: do things that we know that we should not. But
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Speaker 1: it's so delicious.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: As a chef, you know how delicious it is when
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Speaker 1: the cream and the sugar come together and it melts perfectly.
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Speaker 1: That sin, that heartbreak is so tempting. What you experienced,
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Speaker 1: there's actually a technical term for it. It's called limerence,
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Speaker 1: that intoxicating high that we get, and I use the
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Speaker 1: term we, because when we get that intoxicating high of
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Speaker 1: falling in love, of feeling loved, of feeling cherished, of
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Speaker 1: feeling understood, of being one, there's explosions going off in
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Speaker 1: our mind and our heart. And sometimes, you know, the
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Speaker 1: body follows and you just can't sleep and you can't
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Speaker 1: eat and your hair grows faster and your nails grow
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Speaker 1: longer and you lose weight and you Feel like you
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Speaker 1: could leap tall buildings. It's called limerence. The woman I
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Speaker 1: am named after, the biblical queen of temptation, Delilah in
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Speaker 1: the Bible, Samson experienced limerence. And just like you, she
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Speaker 1: tricked him and he fell for it. Three times he
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Speaker 1: fell for the foolishness. Just like you did. She called
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Speaker 1: the cops. She gets a restraining order and you go
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Speaker 1: right back, right back to the danger.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Because you were addicted to the high of her attention.
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Speaker 3: And everything I built my life on, everything I stood
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Speaker 3: for was gone.
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Speaker 1: I am not judging you. I'm not judging you because
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Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how many times I've destroyed my life.
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Speaker 1: or come close to destroying my life because of the
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Speaker 1: same thing, because of that intoxicating high of attention.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: What I lived for, for a long time.
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Speaker 2: And it was so selfish because I had someone out
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Speaker 2: there that was living for me. And I couldn't even
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Speaker 2: open my eyes wide enough to see that. Because I
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Speaker 2: was so concerned about the way I felt and the
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Speaker 2: way this person made me feel. But at the end
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Speaker 2: of the day, when I said, sweetheart, I'm free, it's
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Speaker 2: you and me forever. What are you talking about? That's
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Speaker 2: when the police were called. And I was sitting in
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Speaker 2: a cell, like many people in the Bible, thinking about,
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Speaker 2: I threw my life away for this. This is what
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Speaker 2: I decided. My children looked at me sideways. My family
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Speaker 2: looked at me sideways. I talked about people that were
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Speaker 2: like me. And then stories like King David, you mentioned
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Speaker 2: the Bible started coming through my mind. And I said
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Speaker 2: to myself, Ron, this isn't the end. This isn't what's
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Speaker 2: going to define you. If you let it, it will
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Speaker 2: define you. And yes, I still have to go to
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Speaker 2: battle with my kids sometimes with people I know.
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Speaker 3: But you did this, Ron. This is, you know, who
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Speaker 3: are you to talk anything? Remember what you just did? Remember?
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Speaker 2: So I'm not going to let this person, this situation, yes,
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Speaker 2: my decisions in life define the rest of my life.
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Speaker 2: I want to be the godly man, the good man,
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Speaker 2: that yes, he slipped. Like David did, like many people did,
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Speaker 2: he slipped, he fell for the fruit, but he opened
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Speaker 2: his eyes and thank God not too late because if
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Speaker 2: I didn't have the kind of woman I did, my wife,
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Speaker 2: it would have been too late. And I see it
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Speaker 2: in this business and I see guys doing it every day.
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Speaker 2: And like you said, women doing it every day. And
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Speaker 2: I just think to myself, there's nothing worth more than peace.
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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you can have all
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Speaker 2: the lusts, you can have all the feelings, you can
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Speaker 2: call each other besties like we did all day long.
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Speaker 3: I can't wait to see you tomorrow. Let me sneak
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Speaker 3: a phone call. Oh, I miss you, baby. I love you. Okay,
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Speaker 3: we'll talk tomorrow. That's all the way we're making each
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Speaker 3: other feel.
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Speaker 2: That's not actuality because actuality is the person who's there
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Speaker 2: for you when you're sitting in the jail cell. The
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Speaker 2: person is there for you when you're in the gutter
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Speaker 2: and you look up and they're standing there and they're like,
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Speaker 2: I've been waiting this whole time.
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Speaker 3: I was fortunate enough to have what I didn't deserve.
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Speaker 1: I am so proud of you. Thank you for calling.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for being transparent. Thank you for owning your behavior.
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Speaker 4: And I.
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Speaker 1: Just, I wish I could give you a big hug.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate it a lot.
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Speaker 2: I really do. I listen to you every night. And
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Speaker 2: me and my wife has listened to you every night
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Speaker 2: since we got together. And that's why I'm hoping she's
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Speaker 2: with her grandkid right now, babysitting. And I'm hoping she's
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Speaker 2: got the radio on because I just always wanted to
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Speaker 2: tell her this, but I guess I never had the
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Speaker 2: guts to say it to her face. I don't deserve you,
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Speaker 2: but thank you for never giving up. Only one other
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Speaker 2: person did that for me in my life, and that
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Speaker 2: was God.
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Speaker 3: Amen.
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Speaker 2: Thank God.
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Speaker 1: I'll give my love to your wife. You have a
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Speaker 1: good night.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Delilah.
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Speaker 1: Up next, we have Sarah. Sarah's calling to share her
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Speaker 1: gratitude for a woman who stepped into her life after
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Speaker 1: she lost her mom at a very young age. Let's
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Speaker 1: have Sarah share this story of gratitude in her own words. Sarah,
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Speaker 1: welcome to Have a Little Faith with Delilah. Who are
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Speaker 1: you thinking about tonight?
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Speaker 5: I have a special friend that I've been thinking about
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Speaker 5: and would like to show how much.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate her.
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Speaker 1: What is your friend's name? Janice. And is this like
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Speaker 1: a friend from high school, a friend from college, a
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Speaker 1: friend from work, a friend? How do you know Janice?
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Speaker 5: Well, she was my mentor when I was young. I
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Speaker 5: lost my mom when I was 12. And ever since then,
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Speaker 5: she's been kind of like a second mom, take me
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Speaker 5: out on the farm and stuff with her and make
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Speaker 5: trips to see her grandkids and different things like that.
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Speaker 5: She goes to my same church.
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Speaker 1: What a sweet blessing from God above.
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Speaker 3: Yes, she is.
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Speaker 1: And what do you want to tell her via the airwaves?
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Speaker 1: What's the message to Janice's heart tonight?
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Speaker 5: I don't know what I would do without you. And
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Speaker 5: I love you dearly, and I always will appreciate everything
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Speaker 5: you've ever done. Her and her whole family, too. Her
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Speaker 5: family's always been good to me, like they adopted me.
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Speaker 1: Are you going to be spending the holidays with them?
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Speaker 5: I have spent some holidays with them and I've seen them. Actually,
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Speaker 5: I spent some time with her earlier today.
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Speaker 1: What's your favorite thing to do with your second mom, Janice? Like,
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Speaker 1: do you like to go thrifting? Do you like to
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Speaker 1: go have a cup of tea? What do you like
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Speaker 1: to do most?
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Speaker 5: We like to go look at stores, go shopping for
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Speaker 5: the kids and stuff. And then some, and I also
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Speaker 5: enjoyed when they were younger, her grandkids, I used to
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Speaker 5: love going out there and keeping them entertained for her
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Speaker 5: and just having dinner at her house and just all
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Speaker 5: kinds of fun stuff.
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Speaker 1: Just being a part of the fam.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I will play a sweet song to let her know
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Speaker 1: that she is your inspiration.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for calling.
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Speaker 5: And I also thank you because you've been there for
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Speaker 5: me since I was little. Like I've listened to you
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Speaker 5: since I was Very little, all the way through my life. Like,
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Speaker 5: I loved your radio show all my life.
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Speaker 1: Well, I will be here to keep you company and
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Speaker 1: to just add another layer of goodness. I'm sorry you
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Speaker 1: lost your mama, but I'm glad we can be there
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Speaker 1: for you.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Sarah, I'm so grateful that God brought this mentor, this woman,
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Speaker 1: into your life. I wish more people would understand the
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Speaker 1: power they have to change lives the direction of a
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Speaker 1: young person's life. Thank you for sharing this beautiful story
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Speaker 1: of love and gratitude.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Next is Tyler. Tyler's having some difficulty accepting boundaries from
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Speaker 1: his best friend. Tyler, go ahead and tell us your
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Speaker 1: story in your own words. Welcome to Have a Little Faith.
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Speaker 1: What's on your mind tonight?
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Speaker 3: I am okay, Delilah.
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Speaker 4: I'm kind of in my feelings tonight.
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Speaker 1: You had to pause there. You're like, am I okay?
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Speaker 1: I'm not really okay, but I really don't want to
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Speaker 1: admit that I'm not okay. So what's going on and
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Speaker 1: how can I help elevate your feelings?
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Speaker 6: Well, my best friend has been here now with me
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Speaker 6: for about a month and a half.
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Speaker 4: I just moved into this house after like three months
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Speaker 4: of being here.
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Speaker 6: And he has now had to leave back to Arkansas
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Speaker 6: for a week. And I just feel like since he's
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Speaker 6: been gone, our friendship doesn't feel the same now. Like,
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Speaker 6: I don't get responded to. It just feels the reason
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Speaker 6: he left is kind of disingenuine. It just doesn't feel honest. And,
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Speaker 6: you know, I miss my best friend a lot. And
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Speaker 6: I just don't know how to deal with it. And
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Speaker 6: I don't know really how to outwardly ask him, like,
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Speaker 6: Where is our friendship at anymore?
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Speaker 7: Don't.
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Speaker 6: Don't.
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Speaker 1: Because all that's going to do is push him further away.
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Speaker 1: If he's pulling back, chasing that, pursuing that, questioning that,
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Speaker 1: is only going to make him pull back further, harder, faster.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 3: I just really miss my best friend. And I have
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Speaker 3: separation anxiety.
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Speaker 1: And that's probably why he's pulling back, because nobody likes
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Speaker 1: being in a clingy friendship. There is nothing that makes
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Speaker 1: me more uncomfortable than being in a friendship with somebody
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Speaker 1: who's clingy and needy.
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: But guess what I am in a relationship?
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Speaker 3: Clingy and needy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it.
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Speaker 3: I get it.
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Speaker 1: Because when you have anxious attachments, which is what you're
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Speaker 1: describing that you have, you need reassurance. You need to
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Speaker 1: know that you're okay. You need to know you're loved.
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Speaker 1: You need to know everything's okay. Just reassure me. But
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Speaker 1: anxious attachments don't last. Because nobody can take the clinginess.
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Speaker 1: It's hard when you've got that attachment style. But what
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Speaker 1: you're going to have to do, Tyler, is find a
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Speaker 1: way to heal your heart. You and I, our responsibility
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Speaker 1: is to heal our hearts so that we're not needy
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Speaker 1: or clingy or anxious, anxiously attached to our friends. And
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Speaker 1: we think, well, we'll stop being anxiously attached when they
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Speaker 1: reassure us. That's not the way it works. We need
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Speaker 1: to be not anxiously attached always.
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Speaker 6: That's where I'm having a hard time finding my balance
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Speaker 6: at is where do I say, you know what? Our
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Speaker 6: friendship is strong enough that I shouldn't have to overthink our,
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Speaker 6: you know, it's been like five years.
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Speaker 4: I shouldn't have to overthink anything. And I think that's
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Speaker 4: like my biggest issue is being an overthinker.
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Speaker 1: No, your biggest issue is you are anxiously attached. You
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Speaker 1: have abandonment issues. You were hurt as a child. The
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Speaker 1: people that you wanted to trust, you couldn't trust. The
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Speaker 1: people that you needed to depend on, you couldn't. And
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Speaker 1: so now as an adult, you have anxious attachments. You
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Speaker 1: have insecure, anxious attachments. Your biggest problem is not that
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Speaker 1: you're an overthinker. Your biggest problem is you're an overfeeler.
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Speaker 1: And the only way to get past that is to
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Speaker 1: talk to somebody. But God can when I sincerely say,
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Speaker 1: I need help in this area. Look up anxious attachment
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Speaker 1: disorders and find somebody that you can counsel with and
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Speaker 1: talk through these things. Tyler, you're young. Don't wait as
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Speaker 1: long as I did. The information is out there that
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Speaker 1: can help you heal your heart.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to look into that.
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Speaker 6: I think that would be a good thing for me
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Speaker 6: to look into instead of how to cope with like
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Speaker 6: overthinking or how to deal with overthinking. I think the
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Speaker 6: anxious attachment issue will be something to definitely look into.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And most of us who have anxious attachment disorders always
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Speaker 1: attach to people who are dismissive avoidance. We fall for
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Speaker 1: people who are not emotionally available time and time again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's a cycle that is not, is not good to
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Speaker 1: keep repeating. It's a cycle I know all too well.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: You are lovely. Go heal your heart. Go ask the
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Speaker 1: one who created your heart to heal your heart. Tyler,
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Speaker 1: if you have any idea how much honesty and humility
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Speaker 1: help others, you would give yourself a big pat on
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Speaker 1: the back. I'm grateful you shared this story. Please know,
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Speaker 1: if you lean on your faith, you will figure out
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Speaker 1: the difference between anxiety and the truth. God bless you,
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Speaker 1: young man.
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Delilah. You have a great night.
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Speaker 1: The last call I'm going to share with you in
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Speaker 1: this podcast exemplifies gratitude. It's from a young woman named
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Speaker 1: Alyssa who wants to honor her mama, who also happens
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Speaker 1: to be her very best friend. Alyssa, welcome aboard, my friend.
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Speaker 1: What can I do for you on this autumn night?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I just wanted to dedicate a song to my mom, Leslie.
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Speaker 7: When I was younger, she would always listen to Delilah
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Speaker 7: with me in her room and we would just listen
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Speaker 7: to all the songs and all the stories and just
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Speaker 7: had great memories. She was a very young mom when
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Speaker 7: she had me and she just did such an amazing
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Speaker 7: job and her and I are just best friends now.
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Speaker 7: So I wanted to Just tell her how much I
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Speaker 7: love her with a song.
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Speaker 1: I can help do that now that you're all grown up.
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Speaker 1: How old are you?
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Speaker 7: I'm 27.
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Speaker 1: And do you still talk to mom every day?
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Speaker 7: Every single day we call each other after work and
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Speaker 7: debrief about the day and first ones to call each
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Speaker 7: other when we just want to go out and run
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Speaker 7: errands together. So just love her so much and always
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Speaker 7: enjoy her company.
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Speaker 1: And you live close. How wonderful is that?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, three minutes down the road, so can't get any
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Speaker 7: closer than that.
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Speaker 1: Ah, I wish my daughter lived three minutes down the road.
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Speaker 1: I miss her so much. Yeah. I call her in
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Speaker 1: the morning or she calls me and then we call
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Speaker 1: each other in the afternoon and then we call each
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Speaker 1: other before we go to bed.
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Speaker 7: Yep, she knows everything about me and it's just such
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Speaker 7: a sweet mother-daughter relationship and I hope one day to...
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Speaker 7: to have kids of my own and exemplify that.
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Speaker 1: You are a very blessed young woman. And I love
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Speaker 1: the fact that you recognize that.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I am definitely blessed. And thank you so much
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Speaker 7: for taking my call, Delilah, and just letting me share
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Speaker 7: how much I cherish and love my mom.
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Speaker 1: I can hear it in your voice. I can hear
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Speaker 1: it in the smile in your voice.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Alyssa, you are so very young, but so very wise.
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Speaker 1: It's rare in these days to hear from someone so
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Speaker 1: young who completely and totally focuses on the gifts and
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Speaker 1: the blessings. May God continue to keep you and your
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Speaker 1: sweet mama close. Thank you for sharing your story.
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Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Delilah.
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Speaker 3: God bless you as well. Have a great night.
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Speaker 1: As we wrap up today's episode, I want to leave
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Speaker 1: you with one simple but powerful reminder. Gratitude has the
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Speaker 1: ability to change the way we see our lives. Even
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Speaker 1: when things don't go as planned, taking a moment to
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Speaker 1: recognize the good around us can bring us a little
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Speaker 1: more peace, a little perspective, and happiness. Gratitude doesn't have
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Speaker 1: to be about grand gestures or life-changing moments. It's not
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Speaker 1: about the trips to Disneyland. It's found in the kindness
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Speaker 1: of a friend, a supportive family member, a small act
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Speaker 1: of generosity, or simply having another day to learn and grow.
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Speaker 1: And the more we practice having an attitude of gratitude,
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Speaker 1: the more we begin to notice the little things that
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Speaker 1: make life special. I want to give a heartfelt thank
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Speaker 1: you to our callers today, Ron, Sarah, Tyler, and Alyssa.
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Speaker 1: for taking the time to share your thoughts, your perspectives,
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Speaker 1: for being vulnerable. Your contributions made this conversation meaningful, and
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Speaker 1: I am grateful. And to all of our listeners, thank
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Speaker 1: you for tuning in and spending a part of your
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Speaker 1: day with us as you go about your week and
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Speaker 1: the weeks ahead. I encourage you to take a few
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Speaker 1: moments every day to think about one or two things
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Speaker 1: you're grateful for. I invite people to write it down.
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Speaker 1: Write a list every day of three things you're grateful for.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you reach out to someone in your life who's
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Speaker 1: made a difference and say, thank you. I'm grateful for you.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Gratitude doesn't change everything about our circumstances,
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Speaker 1: but it can change our heart and our mind and
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Speaker 1: how we experience things. Until next time, keep looking for
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Speaker 1: the good, keep appreciating the people around you, and keep
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Speaker 1: making room for gratitude and faith in your everyday life.
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Speaker 1: And do me a favor, take some time out of
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Speaker 1: your autumn schedule to slow down and love someone.