Social Media Advice - 05.22.25

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• Anonymous writes... "This holiday weekend road trip with my long-distance girlfriend has turned into a drama. She lives about a ninehour drive away, and we agreed that a nice romantic spot near the middle is the way to go. Instead of meeting in the middle, though, my girlfriend now wants me to fly there, drive us to the spot, drive us back, and then I would fly back. That feels like such a waste of time and money, especially when I did look at the route and realized it was actually 45-minutes closer to her than it is to me. I would love to see her, but I don’t know that wasting the time at the airport and flying, and the upwards of $2,000 it would cost for last-minute flight makes the least bit of sense. She says it has to be that way, or the weekend won’t happen. How big of a deal is this?"

 

• TJ on Steve Harvey FM writes… "About a year ago, I quietly took time off from school to figure things out. I didn’t drop out, I just hit pause to rethink where I was headed. But I never told my parents. They still think I’m attending classes, and I’ve kept up the act because I didn’t want to disappoint them. Now I’ve found a completely new path that I’m excited about, but I know I’ll need their support to go for it. Do I come clean about the Thurs. 5-22-25 time off or just present them with the new plan and skip the part where I’ve been faking it for nearly a year?"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Steve, this is from TK and he says
this holiday weekend road trip with his long distance girlfriend
has turned into a drama. He says she lives about
nine hours away. That's a nine hour drive away, and
they both agreed that a nice romantic spot near the
middle is the way to go instead of meeting in

(00:20):
the middle. Though, my girlfriend now wants me to fly there,
drive us to the spot, drive us back, and then
I would fly back. That feels like such a waste
of time and money. Yeah, especially when I did look
at the route and I realized it was actually forty
five minutes closer to her than it is to me.

(00:41):
I would love to see her, but I don't know
that wasting the time at the airport and flying and
upwards of two thousand dollars they would cost for the
last minute flight makes the least bit of sense. She said,
it has to be that way or the weekend won't happen.
How big of a deal is this, that's what he came.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Well, bruh, the deal is up to you. How big
is it is it? See, you all had a plan, right,
she changed the plan. So now instead of y'all driving
meeting halfway four four and a half hours of peace.
The plan is you fly there, pick up, then y'all

(01:19):
drive the four hours, then you drive her back, and
then you get on the plane and you fly back.
Now that could be a way. She's trying to say,
I could spend more time with you because we get
a road trip and all that out of it. But
you think it's a waste of money. So I can't
tell you that it's not. You know, I can't tell

(01:39):
you that it's not a waste of money. You just look, man,
we all pay for our relationships. I've done way more
than that, so I'm not But you have to determine
what's worth it. Everything has a cost to it. You
just have to determine this the cost is worth it. Now,
this is the chicken, your dream, and y'all have talked

(02:01):
it out, and you think it's worth it, you can
do it. But if you don't think it's worth it,
it's nothing I could say that make you think it's
worth it.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
And maybe you just don't want to go through all that.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
And you thought y'all had a plan which will cost
each one of you four and a half hours there
and four and a half hours.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Back and that was the play grand. But now listen
to me, man, I want you to think about this.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's nine hours of your day gone and time with
her over the weekend nine hours total, four and a
half there, four and a half back, so it's nine
and a half hours. That nine hour drive is probably
an hour twenty flight and then you there.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
But that two grand in your world could be a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
So you don't want to do it, you shouldn't do it.
But then she said, if you don't do it like that,
then it ain't no weekend now. Now is she being
fair about that? I don't think so. I don't think
she's been fair about it at all. I think she's
being rather demanding and wants to put the on this
on you. And if you don't want it all on

(03:08):
you, you don't have to. This might not be the chick
for you anytime you were the person that won't compromise.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
You know that's top.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Long distance relationships are hard anyway, you know that's all
I have?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
What?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
What or what?

Speaker 4 (03:24):
It's not hard? She gotta figure out how fine is she?
Is she Delta fine or spirit fan? This to determine
what airline were getting on that this might not be
worth the two thousands, but it might be worth a
three hundred. You gotta figureut how fine she is. We
ain't got hot argued about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I

(03:46):
ain't gonna put I'm gonna pay two fallacy, but I
might if this a want to get away?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Is this is a Southwest?

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Is Southwestern?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I want to get away?

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:54):
It might be a ninety nine dollar weekend. We just
ain't have to go. This could be a FaceTime, a
whole FaceTime weekend. Man, Please two thousands. I know the copy.
I paid the two thousand, see my wife. I did

(04:14):
that because.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I had to.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, beautiful, for sure, this is not.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
That it might matter be here. This might be a
horse and carriage. You might just catch a ride with
the Amish.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
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