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Are You Settling For Your Current Partner? · I Do, Part 2

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Speaker 1: Hey there are folks is July twenty ninth, and one
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Speaker 1: of our readers, listeners fans calls himself Chen. He wrote
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Speaker 1: into us asking for some relationship advice. You see, he
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Speaker 1: says he's been dating a woman and she loves him
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Speaker 1: more than he loves her, and he's asking should he
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Speaker 1: settle for this or should he dumper and start all over?
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Speaker 1: Robock and I had the same initial gut reaction to this,
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Speaker 1: which was did he just use the word settle? And
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Speaker 1: with that welcome to this relationship. Addition, this ask Amy
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Speaker 1: and TJ edition of Amy and TJ based on our
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Speaker 1: Yahoo column and this this question wrote, I think I
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Speaker 1: might be more torn on this one than any other
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Speaker 1: one we've received.
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Speaker 2: Really, so the title of this week's Yahoo column is
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Speaker 2: my girlfriend loves me more than I love her? Should
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Speaker 2: I settle at twenty seven?
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Speaker 3: Or move on?
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Speaker 2: And look, I think when you've lived enough life you
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Speaker 2: realize you don't have to settle.
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Speaker 3: But early on in my life I might not have.
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Speaker 2: Articulated that, but I think a lot of people feel
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Speaker 2: that way. They're afraid that they're going to miss out
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Speaker 2: on a relationship, on children, on a family, on just
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Speaker 2: being settled literally, and so they settle so that they
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Speaker 2: can be settled. And it's one of those A bird
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Speaker 2: in the hand is we know, they say better than
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Speaker 2: two in the bush or.
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Speaker 3: Something like that. But people always wonder is the grass greener?
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Speaker 3: Could I do better?
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Speaker 2: But if you're asking yourself those questions dot dot dot, can't.
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Speaker 1: They be legitimate questions? Can't you have a legitimate something
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Speaker 1: in you is thinking that there's something better out there?
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Speaker 1: Can that not be dangerous? And that's why I'm torn,
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Speaker 1: because no matter what we have, we always think we
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Speaker 1: got something better. You know, you can find something better.
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Speaker 1: And who knows what this woman is and how great?
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Speaker 1: And if he doesn't have butterflies in his stomach, then
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Speaker 1: that means he is settling. I don't know about all
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Speaker 1: of that, So I think it could be a good thing,
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Speaker 1: and it can absolutely be a bad thing. It can
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Speaker 1: bring you great joy and things on the other side,
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Speaker 1: and then called you to realize what you gave up
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Speaker 1: or missed out.
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Speaker 2: My mom always told me there's always going to be
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Speaker 2: someone better looking, someone smarter, someone richer, someone more interesting.
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Speaker 1: Keeps telling me that every time we discuss us.
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Speaker 3: But she told me this throughout my life.
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Speaker 2: That if you're always looking for someone who's got something
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Speaker 2: better to offer, you're never going to be satisfied. At
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Speaker 2: a certain point, you make your decision about what works
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Speaker 2: for you. And at the end of the day, this
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Speaker 2: doesn't sound exciting or passionate. I remember this really bothered me,
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Speaker 2: and we've talked about this, you and I, TJ.
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Speaker 3: My mom told me. Love is a decision. Love is
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Speaker 3: a choice.
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Speaker 2: It's not a feeling. Lust is a feeling. Being in
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Speaker 2: love might be a feeling, But ultimately, if you want
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Speaker 2: to be with someone and you want to have a
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Speaker 2: partner in life, and you want to have a teammate
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Speaker 2: and you want a family, you choose it. And you
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Speaker 2: have to choose through moments where it's tough and hard,
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Speaker 2: and yeah, it might be tempting to say what else
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Speaker 2: is out there?
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Speaker 3: And we've all thought that.
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Speaker 1: Of course, iddy want to hear that not but it's hard.
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Speaker 1: It's crap. Butterflies, you do it. Butterflies talk about a decision.
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Speaker 1: Love is a decision.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no.
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Speaker 1: Love leaves me all the flood. It makes me float
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Speaker 1: during the day. Love has me sending more text messages
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Speaker 1: than I probably should. Love. Yes, Love that's what love is.
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Speaker 1: Don't tell me every day I get up and I
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Speaker 1: have to make a conscious decision. Okay, I'm a love
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Speaker 1: of day.
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Speaker 2: I don't think every day you have to make that decision.
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Speaker 2: My dad to say that they've been married fifty plus
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Speaker 2: years though, so I get it. But the point being,
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Speaker 2: I think in moments you have to choose. In moments
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Speaker 2: you have to say not if you wake up every
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Speaker 2: day going, oh my god.
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Speaker 3: Do I have to be with this person? That's the
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Speaker 3: whole other issue.
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Speaker 1: You're saying it, bro, You're not saying it the right way.
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Speaker 1: You said just simply every day you're making a decision.
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Speaker 1: I want to be here and I want to be
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Speaker 1: with that person.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's not romantic, but I think that's realistic. And
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Speaker 3: I think we have this.
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Speaker 2: I think we have this idea, this Disney version idea
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Speaker 2: of what a relationship is and what love is right
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Speaker 2: off into the sunset. Yes, and you just always just
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Speaker 2: embrace each other with love excitement.
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Speaker 1: You're describing love?
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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly what?
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, here's the actual here's the actual question
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Speaker 2: that was written into us by Chin. I will read
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Speaker 2: the full one. It's a short one. So no, big
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Speaker 2: deal here, Amy and TJ. I realize I might sound
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Speaker 2: like a jerk.
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Speaker 3: But here's my question.
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Speaker 2: Should I be with someone who's really into me if
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Speaker 2: I don't want them as much back? Or should I
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Speaker 2: wait to find someone I'd really like to be with
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Speaker 2: but will have to work to win over. I'm a
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Speaker 2: twenty seven year old zoomer deciding whether to settle for
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Speaker 2: my current partner or start over and keep looking.
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Speaker 3: What should I do? China?
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Speaker 1: Does he sound like a jerk?
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Speaker 2: I think he sounds like he's honest, and I don't
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Speaker 2: think he's being a jerk. And I think people jump
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Speaker 2: to that very quickly, like how dare you? But if
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Speaker 2: everyone is truly honest with themselves, you've had that thought,
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Speaker 2: that thought has come into your mind. That is a
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Speaker 2: human thought. And I don't think we should fault people
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Speaker 2: for being honest.
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Speaker 1: How often do you have it?
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Speaker 2: I don't, look, I have had it plenty in my life,
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Speaker 2: throughout my life. No, No, it's I don't really No
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Speaker 2: hourly you missed it?
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Speaker 3: How about you? How about you?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: You know I've never been in relationship with thinking I
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Speaker 1: could do something better. It's only I take stock of
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Speaker 1: the current relationship I'll look at it and say I
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Speaker 1: don't want to be here, this isn't working or is
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Speaker 1: this going to work? But I'm not thinking I want
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Speaker 1: something better. I want somebody who's more like this or
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Speaker 1: more like that.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm thinking when you're making that decision whether or
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Speaker 2: not to propose, whether or not to move in, whether
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Speaker 2: or not you know that next step, I think that's
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Speaker 2: when people start questioning this.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, in those moments as well, breakups immediately follow.
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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, and that's a good points. My guess that's it.
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Speaker 1: But you should ask the question, can he have this
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Speaker 1: conversation with her? Or how do you have this conversation
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Speaker 1: with her? Because that's you can't have that conversation without
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Speaker 1: hurt feelings being the result.
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Speaker 2: Yes, but I think you have to have the conversation
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Speaker 2: or you have to break up. It's one or the other.
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Speaker 2: I don't think you just bury that because I think
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Speaker 2: you have to be able if you can't have an
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Speaker 2: honest conversation with your partner. And I know this is
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Speaker 2: a hard conversation and it's really really, really tough, but
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Speaker 2: to keep it to yourself and hope that your feelings
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Speaker 2: might grow. I think when you've been in enough long
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Speaker 2: term relationships like you and I have been, and a
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Speaker 2: lot of you listening are in. If early on you're
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Speaker 2: already feeling like you're settling, I believe it turns then
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Speaker 2: into resentment and full blown anger and depression later, because
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Speaker 2: it leads to negative things. If you're burying and suppressing
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Speaker 2: this notion that somehow and your things king you might
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Speaker 2: better early on in your relationship, that's when it's supposed
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Speaker 2: to be rainbows and butterflies and I can't wait to
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Speaker 2: be with this person. That spend the rest of my
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Speaker 2: life with this person.
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Speaker 1: He didn't suggest I'm overlooking. He didn't say how long
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Speaker 1: they might be together.
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Speaker 2: He didn't, but he was obviously he's twenty seven, and
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Speaker 2: he's obviously at a point where probably, if I had
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Speaker 2: to guess, she's thinking, hey, are you going to put
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Speaker 2: a ring on it? I want to have babies, I
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Speaker 2: want to like you know this is that's a time
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Speaker 2: in a lot of women's life. I know I was
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Speaker 2: in that boat right there. I mean, I don't want
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Speaker 2: to speak for all women. Certainly today's women are very
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Speaker 2: different than maybe my generation, but that is a point
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Speaker 2: in which you usually start to think, if you've been
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Speaker 2: with someone for a couple of years, hey, what's happening here?
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Speaker 2: Are we actually going to do this?
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Speaker 1: Are we wrong to size up relationships this way? Because
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Speaker 1: I have given advice before and I do believe it,
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Speaker 1: and people who have been at this point that I say,
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Speaker 1: why are you letting perfect to get in the way
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Speaker 1: of good? Because we do? And I think, if you
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Speaker 1: have your standard and it has to be this, this, this,
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Speaker 1: and this, knock yourself out. But sometimes there are unreasonable standards.
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Speaker 1: And if there is, he doesn't have one thing. Like
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Speaker 1: I've said before, I needed somebody who's six y two
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Speaker 1: and this dude's only five to nine, then I don't
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Speaker 1: want him. Fine, if that's for you, But are we
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Speaker 1: Is there a threat or a challenge sometime or a
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Speaker 1: danger in letting perfect get in the way of perfectly good?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely when you can. When you're too picky, yeah, you
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Speaker 2: run into problems. I actually was just seeing this the
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Speaker 2: other day. Gabby Bernstein, who I love and who's been
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Speaker 2: on the podcast. If you haven't listened to our podcast
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Speaker 2: with her, please check it out. She's amazing. But she
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Speaker 2: talked about how women. She was speaking mostly to women,
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Speaker 2: but men to you should put a list, maybe even
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Speaker 2: when you're in the dating world or when you're in
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Speaker 2: a relationship, of your non negotiables. But it should be
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Speaker 2: a short list. It shouldn't be he needs to be
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Speaker 2: six feet tall. He needs to be you know, tall,
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Speaker 2: dark and handsome. No, we're talking. He's kind, he's flexible,
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Speaker 2: he's deferential. Whatever it is that you need, he's even
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Speaker 2: if it's he can support me whatever it is you have.
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Speaker 2: And she said it shouldn't be more than like five things,
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Speaker 2: and it shouldn't be anything physical. But you can have
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Speaker 2: your non negotiables, and then you can have would like
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Speaker 2: to have, and the would like to have could be
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Speaker 2: some of those other attributes. But when you actually look
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Speaker 2: at your list, ask yourself, am I being reasonable?
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Speaker 3: And is this you know?
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Speaker 2: But really take hard steck and recognize you're not going
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Speaker 2: to get everything. No one's perfect. You're not perfect, No
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Speaker 2: relationship is perfect, and certainly the person you're with is
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Speaker 2: going to have flaws or things you don't like about them.
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Speaker 1: You're going to get into some of the comments that
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Speaker 1: we got from a lot of folks on the article
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Speaker 1: with this. I didn't give this advice at the time
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Speaker 1: when we did the article, but I'm thinking of it now.
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Speaker 1: This is the advice that we give get out of
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Speaker 1: that relationship today, not for you, but for her. It's
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Speaker 1: not wasting your time. If she is around the same
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Speaker 1: age and she is thinking about those things, your head
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Speaker 1: is already here. You actually owe her, or it would
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Speaker 1: be I know it seems mean to break up with her,
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Speaker 1: but you're being kind. I agree, not wasting another year
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Speaker 1: or two or whatever of our life. You stay with
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Speaker 1: another year, another two, then she got to get over
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Speaker 1: for another six months, another year.
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Speaker 2: Just go ahead, And I think sometimes people need permission
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Speaker 2: to leave. They feel bad, they know what's going to
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Speaker 2: hurt that person, but they're going to hurt them much
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Speaker 2: worse if they stay in and aren't honest with them.
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Speaker 1: So I didn't go through it again. It's been a theme.
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Speaker 1: So the comments, you're seeing a lot of guys.
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Speaker 3: Again, Yeah, really a lot of guys.
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Speaker 1: Because Yahoo has a big guy readership.
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Speaker 3: They certainly do.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the ask Amy and TJ edition of
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Speaker 2: our podcast where we go over our weekly Yahoo relationship
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Speaker 2: advice column, and we have a question that came to
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Speaker 2: us from a reader who was asking he's a twenty
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Speaker 2: seven year old zoomer, he says, and he's deciding whether
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Speaker 2: or not he should settle for his current partner or
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Speaker 2: start over and keep looking. He says, he understands or wait,
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Speaker 2: the way he sees it, she likes him or loves
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Speaker 2: him a lot more than he loves her. And the
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Speaker 2: comments were well plentiful, I should say that, and there
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Speaker 2: were a lot of folks who had some differing opinions.
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Speaker 2: We'll start with monk iman O seven. I don't know
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Speaker 2: monkeyman O seven. He says, this, Oh, this is very
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Speaker 2: much like what my mom said. Love is a choice.
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Speaker 2: Lust is a heart flutter. Don't confuse the two. It
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Speaker 2: is commitment and a willingness to let go of your
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Speaker 2: selfishness and self centeredness for the greater good of a
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Speaker 2: long term relationship. Sometimes it is also a spiritual journey
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Speaker 2: in learning to let go of resentments and see where
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Speaker 2: we need.
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Speaker 3: To grow through our choice to love our partner.
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Speaker 1: Okay, he makes it sound like love is all self
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Speaker 1: contained and that you're making a decision after you've already
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Speaker 1: come to a good place in your own life to
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Speaker 1: share that with someone. You're making a choice, and that's
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Speaker 1: I think that's fine ways some people see it, but
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Speaker 1: it's not romantic at all. It's not that fantasy I've
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Speaker 1: been seeing since I was a kid.
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Speaker 2: It can love be a heart flutter too. He said
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Speaker 2: love is a choice. Lust is a heart flutter.
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Speaker 1: But I think that's where we get messed up in
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Speaker 1: that we don't think we have the love because our
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Speaker 1: heart doesn't have the lust. And you can use lose
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Speaker 1: that lust and still have the love. But I think
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Speaker 1: we want to feel something. We want to feel excited
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Speaker 1: when we see our partner when we haven't talked to mowat,
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Speaker 1: when you phone buzzes and you look down and it's
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Speaker 1: that person you want.
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Speaker 2: To feel that do I feel like and maybe this
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Speaker 2: is the romantic in me. I do feel like both
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Speaker 2: can be the same. They won't always be present. You're
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Speaker 2: not always gonna feel lustful towards your partner twenty years
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Speaker 2: down the road, thirty years down the.
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Speaker 3: Road, but you still will feel that. It just won't be.
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Speaker 2: Maybe as strong and as fast and furious as it
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Speaker 2: was in the beginning, but it's still If it's completely gone,
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Speaker 2: if the flame is out, I think that's really tough
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Speaker 2: to manage that and to continue that choice.
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Speaker 3: It feels like a burden. I do feel like.
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Speaker 2: It's I think it's okay to believe and to know
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Speaker 2: that you can have both. Maybe not as strong as before,
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Speaker 2: but do you agree.
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Speaker 3: I think that that you can't have both. I think
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Speaker 3: you should.
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Speaker 2: Still be able to feel that desire and that lust
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Speaker 2: towards the person you love, even decades later. And I
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Speaker 2: think some people absolutely say that's true. Some people think
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Speaker 2: it's a fantasy.
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Speaker 1: Well, this apparently love is a fantasy according to this episode.
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Speaker 1: Can we get through this because this is really turning
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Speaker 1: me off?
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Speaker 3: Okay, we'll move on.
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Speaker 2: Next to Andrew's comment, he says, the question is do
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Speaker 2: you think too much of yourself? Have you tried loving
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Speaker 2: her the way she needs rather than just thinking about yourself?
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Speaker 2: Do you make a good pair? Do you compliment each
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Speaker 2: other when difficult decisions come? Will you be able to
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Speaker 2: come to an agreement? The reason why our society is
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Speaker 2: anxious and depressed is that they think too much about
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Speaker 2: what they think they need or deserve. This doesn't lead
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Speaker 2: to good mental health. Think about what you do well
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Speaker 2: and try to do it. Give your life for others.
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Speaker 2: Life is not easy. What you need is someone that
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Speaker 2: is stable and you can count on that person also
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Speaker 2: needs to count on you.
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Speaker 1: That was good and well thought out. But he makes
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Speaker 1: a good point where how do we find this balance
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Speaker 1: of Often times we're told we do need to focus
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Speaker 1: on ourselves, we shouldn't settle for less. I think that's
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Speaker 1: something that women, certainly, and the themes in recent years
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Speaker 1: has been there. So we are pounding into everybody's head
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Speaker 1: that if you settle for anything less, then you are
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Speaker 1: doing a disservice to yourself, that that's not taking care
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Speaker 1: of yourself. But love is supposed to be selfless. At
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Speaker 1: the same time, we're talking about you should be focused
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Speaker 1: on the other person, not you. So what do we
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Speaker 1: make of that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean well thought. I actually this one.
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Speaker 2: I've I had an AHA moment when I read his
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Speaker 2: Andrew's comment because I thought this was so interesting.
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Speaker 3: All the shows we watch.
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Speaker 2: How often do we hear I deserve better, you deserve better.
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Speaker 2: It's this whole concept of deserve and need. And he
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Speaker 2: does make a good point that our where our mental
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Speaker 2: health in this nation is not going the way in
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Speaker 2: the direction we wanted to. It's getting worse, it's not
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Speaker 2: getting better despite all the prescription pills available, all the
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Speaker 2: mental health centers open, all the hotlines, all the therapists,
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Speaker 2: people talk openly about it. Somehow we're not getting better,
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Speaker 2: and maybe it is this sole focus on ourselves and
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Speaker 2: our needs instead of focusing on others.
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Speaker 3: I've well done.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's move on now to elle Cat here.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, all of these comments, most of
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Speaker 2: them were really lengthy. People had a lot to say
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Speaker 2: about Chin's question. El Cat says this well for starters.
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Speaker 2: Number one, don't use someone and string them along and
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Speaker 2: keep them as a placeholder until something better comes along.
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Speaker 3: It's not nice. Number two.
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Speaker 2: The grass isn't always greener on the other side. Number three.
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Speaker 2: With my second point, you might end up breaking up
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Speaker 2: meeting someone new and then actually settling just to realize
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Speaker 2: one year or five years into the marriage that this
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Speaker 2: person isn't who you thought they were, or you're actually
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Speaker 2: not compatible. Sometimes that garner's resentment, which is a terrible feeling.
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Speaker 2: My advice is to break up with your girlfriend and
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Speaker 2: spare her wasted time in a relationship where she is
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Speaker 2: not valued or loved. Then stay single and work on
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Speaker 2: yourself and figure out who you are before making any
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Speaker 2: type of long term commitment such as marriage.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good advice. Twenty seven still figuring things out
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Speaker 1: in all likelihood, but he's probably not sure not you know.
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Speaker 1: I don't think someone older would have sent this question
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Speaker 1: in because they would have known who they are and
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Speaker 1: what they want and how they feel, and they would
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Speaker 1: also have enough relationship experience and know this thing going
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Speaker 1: in the right direction. I bet this very much has
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Speaker 1: to do with the age on this one. Not a
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Speaker 1: bad thing, but there's experience you still need to gain
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Speaker 1: at twenty seven years old.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we say this, we say this to chin
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Speaker 2: having both gotten married at twenty three.
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Speaker 3: Okay, and so we get it.
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Speaker 2: We at twenty three and even the next time around,
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Speaker 2: like it's just you're still.
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Speaker 3: Figuring out who you are.
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Speaker 2: So I thought that was great advice from el kat
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Speaker 2: Right John writes this, I hate the word settle when
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Speaker 2: it comes to romance. Are you looking at people as
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Speaker 2: commodities that you can upgrade? You either like someone and
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Speaker 2: are happy with who they are, or you're not. If
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Speaker 2: you're with someone for what they bring to the table,
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Speaker 2: then relationships are business decisions for you. Be upfront about
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Speaker 2: that fact when you're dating to properly align expectations when
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Speaker 2: I hear she likes me more than I like her.
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Speaker 2: Everybody expresses their affections differently. If the mismatch causes conflict
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Speaker 2: and can't be resolved, move on. But the question of
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Speaker 2: should I settle really indicates you no longer want to
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Speaker 2: be with your partner.
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Speaker 1: Now focusing on the word settle, and again, not to
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Speaker 1: insult chin, but it sounds like something from someone who
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Speaker 1: is insecure. It sounds like from someone who is unsure
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Speaker 1: of themselves because they're trying to measure in some way,
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Speaker 1: and you're making yourself feel better by saying someone doesn't
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Speaker 1: measure up. And it's always a dangerous thing for people
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Speaker 1: to do. The drum major instinct from MLK right, it's
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Speaker 1: one of the we always want to be special and
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Speaker 1: feel out front, and the way that most people do
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Speaker 1: it is you have to make somebody feel less than
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Speaker 1: You have to put somebody down first to make yourself
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Speaker 1: feel better. He's insulting her in this way. He's comparing
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Speaker 1: almost call and putting himself up on a pedestal like
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Speaker 1: I'm special and yeah she's crazy about me, but I
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Speaker 1: don't like her. It's a weird childish thing to do.
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Speaker 1: Almost again, not insulting Chin, but it just sounds familiar.
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Speaker 1: And whoever just wrote in kind of kind of made
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Speaker 1: that point for me that I hadn't considered.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because it does sound more like a business transaction
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Speaker 2: where you're comparing what you've got with what she's got,
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Speaker 2: with how she's feeling, with how you're feeling. But if
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Speaker 2: you're already going there and already doing that, and I
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Speaker 2: think everyone it sounds like from everyone that I read
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Speaker 2: putting in a comment, and certainly what our advice was,
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Speaker 2: I think it's pretty universal. At this point, Chin needs
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Speaker 2: to break up with his girlfriend and do it. Is
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Speaker 2: exactly for her sake one hundred percent, and the probably
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Speaker 2: the reason why he's staying is for his sake because
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Speaker 2: it feels safe and it feels comfortable. But Jin, we
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Speaker 2: think you need to move on and it's the best
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Speaker 2: thing you can do for your girlfriend and for yourself.
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