July 4, 2024 • 9 mins
What a gift a friend is. Once the heat (and hurt) has subsided, you might just find a friend is far better than the fling it would have been. ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
My favorite radio moments here to share with you on
our daily podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hey it's Delilah.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Have you ever been in a relationship where you wanted
so much more? You wanted to love and to be loved.
You wanted to be the one. You wanted dreams to
come true, you wanted fireworks, but you, my friend, were
put in the friend zone.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Has that ever happened to you?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, hopefully, prayerfully, as the years go on, you will
be able to realize what a gift a true friend,
a faithful friend can be, even if it didn't turn
out the way you had hoped. I'm old enough to
tell you some of my best friends are people that
(01:03):
I wanted more from, but I was stuck in the
friend zone. And now I am so grateful for those friendships.
And just a moment, we're going to talk with a
young man who it sounds like is in the friend zone,
but he's starting to recognize and realize what a gift
that friendship is. Hi, James, Welcome to the Delilah Show.
(01:29):
What can I do to make your night a little
more joyful?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Hi? I am calling to request a song for my
best friend. Not long ago, I was going through a
lot and she was there for me, which is no surprise.
She's always been there for me before and whatever I
feel like life gets to be too much, she always
tells me to see the light when I'm going through
(01:53):
a lot of dark stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What is her name and what song can we play
for this light in your dark?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Her name is Patty, and I was wondering if you
could play I'm with You by Evel Levine.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
All right, tell me about your relationship with Patty.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
We've known each other since high school and we've been
on and off, you know, through the years, but we've
still remained best friends despite not being together right now.
And I just think through everything, I mean, it just
shows how great a person she is. You know, she's
been able to, you know, stay true to herself and
(02:35):
to our friendship, you know, despite various things that have
happened in our lives. And it just means the world
to me that she's always been able to be there
for me.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So the kind of person you can count on no
matter what.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, exactly, it sounds like the fact.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That she is a faithful friend means everything. Yes, And
how many years ago were you in high school? Year
did you graduate?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Graduated in twenty ten, which is pretty hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So it's been a little minute and you've you've still
managed to remain good friends.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yes, yes, it's it's hard to believe. It's been so long.
But even though it has been a while, it still
feels like the first time I saw her every time
I'm with her.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So what does it sound to me, James, Like you
love her more than just a good friend? Like I
got a lot of guys that are my friends, but
my voice doesn't turn all warm and reminiscy when I
talk about them.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, you're right, I've felt that way about her for
a long time and she knows that.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
But it's not reciprocated.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I mean it has been at times, but right now
we're we're you know, we're just content with being best friends.
And I just look at it, you know, as as
a as a bit, you know, as just as ale,
and you know, whatever happens from here on out, I
(04:04):
know it's meant to happen.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Have you told her that you still, like.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Get all joyful just thinking about her and picturing her smile?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Does she know this.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, she knows, okay, but she's not at a place
in life where that's what she wants or she just
doesn't feel the same way.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, and you know, I understand where she's coming from.
And and you know, right now, you know, we're at
a place where we both are more comfortable with our
relationship as it stands. And you know, if things do
happen in the future, then that's great, But if not,
then I know that, you know, she's one of the
(04:49):
people in my life that'll always be in my life.
So I'm I'm content with that.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Let me play that song for you. Thank you for calling.
Good luck.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Thank you very much, Delilah.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Hi, good evening.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Who is this, Hi, Delilah, This is Melissa. Hi.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What can I do for you? Alyssa, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Maybe you could just play a song for me to
make me feel better, because I know you're so good
at that.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Okay, tell me what kind of feel bad you have,
and then I can determine if a song's going to
help at all.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Well, I just kind of ended a relationship with someone
I've been with for quite a.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
While, defined quite a while months, years.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
A couple of years. Things we're just not working out
because my family and his family just were really against
the relationship and it was just tearing our families apart
for us to be together.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
How old are you? I'm twenty How old is he?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
He's twenty two?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, So why did your families not like each other?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Because last year we broke up because we decided that
it would be better for us to try to, you know,
figure out our lives on our owns before we try
to work, you know, get back together, because it was
just interfering with our careers and everything. We were just young, working,
you know, having so much fun and not concentrating on
anything that you really need to be concentrating on. So
(06:16):
my parents just had just bad feelings, bad and they
stopped respecting him because he broke up with me after
he made all these promises to me and all this,
and they just didn't understand the whole situation. And so
we were talking and just decided not to see each other anymore.
And he still want to be friends, and I just
can't be friends with somebody that I have such strong
(06:36):
feeling for, and it just, you know, we're just not talking,
and I don't know if I still want to talk
to him, or if I'm just going to want to
talk to him like later.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, how about giving yourself a little break right now? Yeah? Yeah,
so figure out how to let your heart heal. Yeah,
let God worry about the future. You just take care
of you today. And if taking care of you means
you can't be.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Friends right now, cause I don't know how anyone could
be friends right away with somebody that they're stupid in
love with.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, that's just like, what.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Do you mean you want to be friends? I want
to kiss your face and love you. Give yourself permission
to do what you gotta do.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Thank you, good luck?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Thanks, Hi Joanna. This is Delilah. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Hi, Delilah. I was wondering if I could get you
to play some sort of song for me.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Who are you thinking of? Tell me who's on your
heart and I'll try to find some sort of song.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Actually, it's a man that I dated for four years
and we recently broke up. Like I want to mend
things and be back with him. It's hard to just
you know, talk to him and see him and not
you know, have different feelings or have that attraction, and.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So you're trying to just be friends even though you're
stupid in love with him.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
That's exactly correct.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
How's that working out for It's not. No, no, it's not.
I understand that. How old are you kids.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
I'm going to be thirty in a month, so.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You're not really kids.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
No, And he's forty one and you're.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Ready to settle down and have a family, Yes I am.
And you want to be married and you want kids.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
And that is the problems. And I'm just stupidly in
love with.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Him because he's fun and he's funny, and he's sexy,
and he's cute, and he makes you laugh and.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
He does he does.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
He's my very best friend.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Oh I hate it when that happens.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
And he's the one you want to talk to when
your heart is hurting, even though he's the one hurting
your heart.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yep, I hate that.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I know. And I listen to your show and there's
times I'd put it on and make him listen. He's like,
you love this lady, don't you. I'm like, she's perfect.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh no, I'm not perfect. I'm as messed up as
you are. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I have
a sweet voice on the radio. Let me find a song.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
You hang in there.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'll share more with you each weekday on a It's
Delilah
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Dul
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
My favorite radio moments here to share with you on
our daily podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hey it's Delilah.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Have you ever been in a relationship where you wanted
so much more? You wanted to love and to be loved.
You wanted to be the one. You wanted dreams to
come true, you wanted fireworks, but you, my friend, were
put in the friend zone.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Has that ever happened to you?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, hopefully, prayerfully, as the years go on, you will
be able to realize what a gift a true friend,
a faithful friend can be, even if it didn't turn
out the way you had hoped. I'm old enough to
tell you some of my best friends are people that
(01:03):
I wanted more from, but I was stuck in the
friend zone. And now I am so grateful for those friendships.
And just a moment, we're going to talk with a
young man who it sounds like is in the friend zone,
but he's starting to recognize and realize what a gift
that friendship is. Hi, James, Welcome to the Delilah Show.
(01:29):
What can I do to make your night a little
more joyful?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Hi? I am calling to request a song for my
best friend. Not long ago, I was going through a
lot and she was there for me, which is no surprise.
She's always been there for me before and whatever I
feel like life gets to be too much, she always
tells me to see the light when I'm going through
(01:53):
a lot of dark stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What is her name and what song can we play
for this light in your dark?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Her name is Patty, and I was wondering if you
could play I'm with You by Evel Levine.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
All right, tell me about your relationship with Patty.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
We've known each other since high school and we've been
on and off, you know, through the years, but we've
still remained best friends despite not being together right now.
And I just think through everything, I mean, it just
shows how great a person she is. You know, she's
been able to, you know, stay true to herself and
(02:35):
to our friendship, you know, despite various things that have
happened in our lives. And it just means the world
to me that she's always been able to be there
for me.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So the kind of person you can count on no
matter what.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, exactly, it sounds like the fact.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That she is a faithful friend means everything. Yes, And
how many years ago were you in high school? Year
did you graduate?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Graduated in twenty ten, which is pretty hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So it's been a little minute and you've you've still
managed to remain good friends.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yes, yes, it's it's hard to believe. It's been so long.
But even though it has been a while, it still
feels like the first time I saw her every time
I'm with her.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So what does it sound to me, James, Like you
love her more than just a good friend? Like I
got a lot of guys that are my friends, but
my voice doesn't turn all warm and reminiscy when I
talk about them.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, you're right, I've felt that way about her for
a long time and she knows that.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
But it's not reciprocated.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I mean it has been at times, but right now
we're we're you know, we're just content with being best friends.
And I just look at it, you know, as as
a as a bit, you know, as just as ale,
and you know, whatever happens from here on out, I
(04:04):
know it's meant to happen.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Have you told her that you still, like.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Get all joyful just thinking about her and picturing her smile?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Does she know this.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, she knows, okay, but she's not at a place
in life where that's what she wants or she just
doesn't feel the same way.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, and you know, I understand where she's coming from.
And and you know, right now, you know, we're at
a place where we both are more comfortable with our
relationship as it stands. And you know, if things do
happen in the future, then that's great, But if not,
then I know that, you know, she's one of the
(04:49):
people in my life that'll always be in my life.
So I'm I'm content with that.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Let me play that song for you. Thank you for calling.
Good luck.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Thank you very much, Delilah.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Hi, good evening.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Who is this, Hi, Delilah, This is Melissa. Hi.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What can I do for you? Alyssa, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Maybe you could just play a song for me to
make me feel better, because I know you're so good
at that.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Okay, tell me what kind of feel bad you have,
and then I can determine if a song's going to
help at all.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Well, I just kind of ended a relationship with someone
I've been with for quite a.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
While, defined quite a while months, years.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
A couple of years. Things we're just not working out
because my family and his family just were really against
the relationship and it was just tearing our families apart
for us to be together.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
How old are you? I'm twenty How old is he?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
He's twenty two?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, So why did your families not like each other?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Because last year we broke up because we decided that
it would be better for us to try to, you know,
figure out our lives on our owns before we try
to work, you know, get back together, because it was
just interfering with our careers and everything. We were just young, working,
you know, having so much fun and not concentrating on
anything that you really need to be concentrating on. So
(06:16):
my parents just had just bad feelings, bad and they
stopped respecting him because he broke up with me after
he made all these promises to me and all this,
and they just didn't understand the whole situation. And so
we were talking and just decided not to see each other anymore.
And he still want to be friends, and I just
can't be friends with somebody that I have such strong
(06:36):
feeling for, and it just, you know, we're just not talking,
and I don't know if I still want to talk
to him, or if I'm just going to want to
talk to him like later.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, how about giving yourself a little break right now? Yeah? Yeah,
so figure out how to let your heart heal. Yeah,
let God worry about the future. You just take care
of you today. And if taking care of you means
you can't be.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Friends right now, cause I don't know how anyone could
be friends right away with somebody that they're stupid in
love with.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, that's just like, what.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Do you mean you want to be friends? I want
to kiss your face and love you. Give yourself permission
to do what you gotta do.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Thank you, good luck?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Thanks, Hi Joanna. This is Delilah. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Hi, Delilah. I was wondering if I could get you
to play some sort of song for me.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Who are you thinking of? Tell me who's on your
heart and I'll try to find some sort of song.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Actually, it's a man that I dated for four years
and we recently broke up. Like I want to mend
things and be back with him. It's hard to just
you know, talk to him and see him and not
you know, have different feelings or have that attraction, and.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So you're trying to just be friends even though you're
stupid in love with him.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
That's exactly correct.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
How's that working out for It's not. No, no, it's not.
I understand that. How old are you kids.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
I'm going to be thirty in a month, so.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You're not really kids.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
No, And he's forty one and you're.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Ready to settle down and have a family, Yes I am.
And you want to be married and you want kids.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
And that is the problems. And I'm just stupidly in
love with.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Him because he's fun and he's funny, and he's sexy,
and he's cute, and he makes you laugh and.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
He does he does.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
He's my very best friend.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Oh I hate it when that happens.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
And he's the one you want to talk to when
your heart is hurting, even though he's the one hurting
your heart.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yep, I hate that.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I know. And I listen to your show and there's
times I'd put it on and make him listen. He's like,
you love this lady, don't you. I'm like, she's perfect.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh no, I'm not perfect. I'm as messed up as
you are. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I have
a sweet voice on the radio. Let me find a song.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
You hang in there.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'll share more with you each weekday on a It's
Delilah
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Dul
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