Why Friendship First Makes Marriage Last (w/ Jenna and Dontay of Love & Fly S*** Podcast)

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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you're listening to Cocktails Dirty Discussions with Kikia Medina Monroe.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Here.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Today's cocktail is called the Blushing Bride. And the ingredients
you need to make a bride blush one and a
half ounces of vodka, one ounce of strawberry pure or
muddled strawberries, a half ounce of lemon juice, and you're
gonna top it off with some rose prosecco, and you're
gonna garnish it with a strawberry slice on the rim.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
I thought you didn't like strawberries. And this is how
you're gonna make it.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
You're going to shake your vodka, your strawberry and your
lemon juice with the ice, strain it into a champagne
flute or a ray cup and top with some rose
prosecco and that will give it the pink for the
blushing bride.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
And that's a that's a blushing bride. This is tasty.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Thank you, welcome back to Cocktails Dirty Discuss. Since you guys,
I am Kiki said so or Kierra Walker, depending on
how you found me.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I know that's right, and I am Yonga in my row.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Hey, y'all, it feels like it's been a minute, it does,
even though it really hasn't been that long. It's been
like two weeks, oh for three weeks. Yeah, not that long.
And I don't like strawberries in my drinks, but this
is a strawberry leimonade. There's no like the muddle. I
can't do the muddle.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I can't do the muddle either. It feels like it's
not supposed to be in there.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, it's a texture thing. It starts to feel like
blood clots and all kind of other things. So anyway,
this week, you guys, we'll keep it short and Q
on the announcements because we do have a guess. But
I just wanted to remind you guys to make sure
to always check the description box of every episode. Everything
about our trips, the links to those, anything that we're promoting,

(01:49):
anything that we have going on, whether it's personally or together,
will be linked in the description box below. And if
I forget y'all, just send me a message and I
will send it.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, they will. Somebody was like, well, the trip. I'm
in the description. It's in there now.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I didn't have the link and I got it now,
and so we're gonna we're gonna have that in there.
I hope y'all have fun on your love a Girl
layover and uh if you're coming to Jamaica and all
that good stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, you guys. So this week we have a couple
of a very beautiful couple.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
You guys.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
We have Love and Fly Ship podcast. Jenna and Darnay.
How y'all doing, y'all look at love and y'all look fly?

Speaker 5 (02:26):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Lolah?

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Is that why that's the name of the podcast? Be
loving y'all, be looking fly?

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Like.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
I ain't calling myself fly, but the people say.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Thank you for having us.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
So quick backstory, me and Janey were both at Jenna
We're both at Chee Cheese's birthday party.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
And I saw her.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
She thought I was kiky Ah and I was like, no,
I'm Medina and I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Y'all. We were trying to get y'all on the show.
I was like, let's do it this. Can you come tuesday?
You know what? Yes, we can. Ch Cheese party was
so much fun. Yes, it was so cute.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I love a good girl's day.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I love a good girl's day.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
But I also loved that she was very strategic about
her birthday party. She had it at the spa that
her daughter just started working at. She's a licensed estetician
and she does brow. She was lashes, so she was
she like invited everybody to come, get shoot content and
get something done. So you can spread the words that
her daughter can make some money and stop using hers.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
How you set them up, how you set them.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Up for success?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
All right, y'all, So we are going to play a
quick game of I'm Curious to Know Keky and I
created this card game so that couples could get to
know each other because sometimes people struggle with speaking.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
So we're kind, we're trying to help them out.

Speaker 7 (03:43):
We don't struggle. But the game is gonna be fun,
So let's get into it.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
And it's a good check in even if you're in
a long term, established relationship, because sometimes, you know, your
mind changes, your mind gets open and you think lots
of different things. Okay, let's see, all right, I've got
the first one. What's something that you used in this
for both of you what's something that you used to
say you never be willing to try, but now you're curious.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Dang, I'm curious.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Interviewing could be like you never like to ketch up,
and now you're about to know what you're saying.

Speaker 8 (04:20):
That's still deep, though, I can't think mine. Mine will
be riding a motorcycle. Like I love motorcycles and like,
I like how cool they look.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
I want to sit on it and have me a
badass bike.

Speaker 8 (04:32):
But I'm scared really to get out here on the road,
be between calls because people can't drive.

Speaker 7 (04:39):
I know they can't drive you in the car, imagine
being in dang. Honestly, something that.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
I never really wanted to try, but now I'm curious. Shoot,
that is a good one. I really don't.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
I can't think of nothing. I'm like y'all all type
of person, like.

Speaker 7 (04:59):
You just do what you want to do when you
want to do it. And so I feel like a
lot of the things.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
That I've been wanting to do, I just we already
did a lot of stuff.

Speaker 7 (05:07):
But you know what, honestly, I never wanted to like
go camping, but because I was just like, why would
you want to be on the woods?

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Bears in the bugs and make a fire bears.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yes, and now that I got two little boys, you
kind of want to go.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
And nature always say nature does something to you, even
if you don't stay long, don't have a little camp night.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, I'm curious to know what do you consider cheating?
Change is anything?

Speaker 7 (05:34):
Were you or having any kind of emotional connection or
physical connection with another woman.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
As a cheating?

Speaker 8 (05:40):
Any type of any connection anywhere is physical.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, I love looking at each other, like.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
When you're talking about everything.

Speaker 7 (05:52):
Yeah, you're looking too long?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Husband or work?

Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, you ain't no work.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
It's funny because he talking about that in the episode
how like you you said it. You said that a
woman will beat and fell in love with her work husband.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
You see them all the time, you getting to know
that person. You see them more than you see your own.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
So no, we don't believe nobody else gets that title
except for me, and I would never ever, ever refer.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
To anybody else as my husband now with no kind of.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Prefix in front, prefix in front of it. It don't matter
what it is.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
You ever had one before? Before?

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Y'all?

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Work work life?

Speaker 8 (06:31):
No, you mean like like you mean young on your
pay days, like yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, time of your life while you're married.

Speaker 8 (06:40):
She wasn't no work wife, but you know how you
have your little flirt at work, stayed at work. Never yeah,
I probably never carried outside the work, but.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
It would have had been like when I had jobs
in my teen years and my colleges and stopped playing.

Speaker 8 (07:01):
I came up to you, check this out.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
We came to visit you one day.

Speaker 8 (07:07):
This was you was the Cabins direct You know what
I'm talking about, this old man bringing her dinner.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Every day, this man looking at us. I'm like, what
we do to that man? Come?

Speaker 7 (07:17):
So basically, I was the director of operations at a
location and he was the security guard, the nice kill
older like and he would come to every day and
bring me soul fool from these restaurants but they worked
with some perfume and he was so sweet and nice

(07:38):
to me. Though young coule house being late to working,
we had a good working relationship. My brother and my
This is back before we even lived in the same city.
My brother and Donay came into town and they met.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Me at my you know, in my building, and it's
so funny.

Speaker 7 (07:56):
As soon as they walked out of my office and
he was sitting at the elevator, you know, being a
security guard.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
He was like, yeah, I know he was.

Speaker 7 (08:06):
It's so it was so obvious that as soon as
we got into my brother and my and my husband
at the time, he was just My boyfriend was like,
I don't know what you got going on with that
old man.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
But he was mad with his sons.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
And it was just so funny because that old man,
I don't know if he brought me no more for
me that.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
To day, he might have said it ain't working, went
it ain't me.

Speaker 7 (08:27):
So yeah, that was funny. But he was not my
work husband. He was he was an employee.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
That's usually how the work husband's go, like somebody's employing. Okay,
next one. How important is sex in a relationship.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
It's very im worried.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
That's that's where the chemistry is like really tested. Like
I feel like, I feel like sex is a level
of intimacy that is required for the longevity of relationship.
Like there's different ways you could be intimate, but sex
is one of those things that is import in my opinion,
I think that's how you express like your passion and

(09:04):
you know your love, So it's important. That's how you
girl put it on me? I was dig with I'm
gonna do a lot of y'all. That's how it all began.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Did y'all wait until you got married to have sex?

Speaker 2 (09:24):
To marry somebody?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Good?

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Okay, this is my last one. I'm curious to know.
How do you approach trust in your relationship? Did you
start with it or did it have to be earned?

Speaker 7 (09:41):
See, this is the thing. I think trust has to
be earned. But I'm not gonna not trust you unless
you give me a reason too. It's hard to explain,
but it's like you go through this period of trying
to see like how a person move around, and then
you learn them and you're wanting to trust them, but
then you know, sometimes people do things to betray that trust,

(10:02):
and then they have to earn it all over again.
I feel like trust can be earned even if you
lose it. So for us, I've never ever, ever, ever
given him a reason not to trust me.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I really can say that, have I?

Speaker 5 (10:15):
And you gave me so many reasons.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
I keep it all real, like I'm just so.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I got too much pride to lie.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
I get it had to be life for death, gun
into my head or police or something you know what
I'm saying, Like, I'm not about to lie.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
I don't have a reason to, so I expect people
to do the same with me. But everybody is not
always like that.

Speaker 7 (10:32):
So I've learned that sometimes you got to get people
a little grace and you know a little bit of
I don't know, like forgive this, you know when they
portray that trust.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, so kind of like you start at aral neutral
ground and it's not that I fully trust you, but
I don't distrust you. So we gonna see which way
you moved in, Yeah, and what about you same.

Speaker 8 (10:55):
Thing, And it's just kind of like and then also
I kind of pay attention to how you move in
your own life, like things you care about with manity,
things like that. That's how I started to know what
level of trust it be Like she was always dope.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
She ain't give me no reason not to trust.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
That's right, Thank you, beautiful.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
All right, y'all, if y'all want to play, I'm curious
to know whether it's with a long time boo, somebody new,
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We're gonna move on to weird sex real quick, and
I have a short story to tell you guys, and
then we'll be talking more love and fly shit.

Speaker 9 (11:36):
You said a man is not a necessity. A man
is a luxury like dessert.

Speaker 7 (11:42):
Yeah, a man is absolutely not necessity.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Did you mean that to sound meaning better?

Speaker 10 (11:49):
Oh not at all.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
I adore dessert. I love man.

Speaker 7 (11:52):
I think men are the coolest, but you don't really
need them to live.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
All right. So this week's weird sex story is something
that happened at a wedding. So these are weird stories
that I find on the internet. Lately, people have been
sending them to me, So this is one that somebody sent.
They said a couple snuck away from a wedding reception
to handle to handle business in the bathroom. They thought

(12:21):
they locked the door, but nope. The bride's aunt walked in, gasped,
and then calmly washed her hands at the sink while
they scrambled to get dressed. She left and never said
a word to anyone, but at brunch the next day
she hugged them both, leaned in and whispered. At least
she looked like you were having fun. Now, obviously this
is the woman in the situation that wrote this in

(12:42):
like it wasn't her. She's the one that was having
sex at somebody's wedding and the bride's aunt walked in.
I would be so embarrassed.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's so embarrassed.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
But she seemed to understand. She's like, I get it.
Y'all was having a good time in the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Could you imagine how she she washed her hands. We're
right back out, But you know what, that's the signs
that that.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Was a good wedding. That was a good wedding. Everybody
was having fun. Somebody that it was an open.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Bar the whole The music is great, the people are great.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Was beautiful and fine. You had to just take one
of the grooms.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Nobody is wondering how this happened. Everybody it's like, oh,
this is beautiful. Love is in the air. I love
a wedding like that.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Wait, did y'all have a fun wedding?

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Girl?

Speaker 7 (13:25):
Wedding was always turned up? I mean so, first of all,
we got married in Miami. We had a destination wedding,
but we didn't want to go too far our way,
so we went to Miami. We only invited fifty people,
and we didn't invite like long lost cousins or aunties,
like we invite the people that were a part of
our relationship, like people that were currently a part of
our life, people that we knew supported our union.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
And we said no kids allowed.

Speaker 7 (13:47):
The only kids we had were like our close like nieces,
maybe flower girls. And I mean when I say it
was turned up, I mean by the end of the night,
everybody was drunk.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
It literally had to like put us out of them.
It was nice, it was.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
It was a super nice hotel in Miami. I mean
it was.

Speaker 7 (14:05):
It was so glam but by the end of the night,
we was all sitting on the shirts and tables the
men had the grooms.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Men all had their shirts and yeah, they had just.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
The best bottles open.

Speaker 7 (14:18):
Everybody was drunk off patron, patron. I don't know what
it was that everybody messed up.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
We had top liquor.

Speaker 7 (14:25):
So it was just a good time. It was the
most tart wading you've ever been to. And we wanted
it to be like that. We didn't want to just
like it was a proper wedding. It started out real
nice and glad, but then it end it kind.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Of yeah, yeah, that's kind of when I want I
don't want to girls.

Speaker 7 (14:41):
So we missed our flight the next morning to I
don't know why I was said that early morning's like
that was silly. I woke up so late drunk, miss
like honeymoon Jamaica. Yeah, it's a quick little flight teacher
making that we missed. We spent a whole another day
in Miami.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Yeah, yeah, was recovering.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
You need that. Okay, So y'all been married for eleven years.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
It'll be eleven years on September twenty seven. That's our Yeah,
that's early anniversary. Yeah, doesn't feel like eleven. So we've
known each other since we were fifteen.

Speaker 7 (15:14):
Yeah, whoa, So the years just feel I mean, it
just feels like I've known him all my life. So
eleven I don't really feel like eleven because we've knownedged
each other for so much longer than that. But as
far as like what we've accomplished in our marriage, yeah,
it does feel like eleven years. It feels like we've
been together for long enough to really build what, you know,
this amazing life.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
For us and our kids.

Speaker 7 (15:35):
So yeah, I think you know, when I hear people
that have been married for like twenty years, I'm like,
oh my gosh, it seems like so long.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
But I feel like once we get there, it'll.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
Still you know, yeah, they.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Won't feel like too long because we keep it so new.

Speaker 8 (15:50):
And fresh, like we kick it like, yeah, we really pottnerus,
like we husband and wife. Of course, yeah, like we pottnerus.
That's my best friend.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
So do you think you guys all knew that you
wanted to marry each other.

Speaker 8 (16:02):
No, hell no, I don't think I wanted to marry nobody.
Like man, I liked it. I mean, I definitely liked her.
Like when I was a young man, we ain't.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
She ain't.

Speaker 8 (16:10):
She wasn't my girlfriend when he was fifteen. But yeah,
you know, we playing around and stuff.

Speaker 7 (16:15):
But I'm saying that we did not play around. I
liked to, but he was he was outside. Yeah, he
was outside outside. So we didn't like hook up until
we were like twenty five. Yeah, and so from then
on it was a rap. We was like this and
we got married at twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, So no, we was not playing around.

Speaker 7 (16:34):
And I do feel like with us, even though we
had some growing pains as soon as we reconnected when
we were twenty five, it was like I knew he
was special.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
So in my mind, damn I could marry him.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
But he definitely wasn't ready right.

Speaker 7 (16:50):
Away, Like it took some years for him to you know,
become a one woman man and do what he was
supposed to do.

Speaker 8 (16:57):
And that's how like when we reconnected at twenty five, Yeah,
definitely there like that. I want her to be my wife.
I wanted her to be my wife for sure. That's
how I thought, even though I was, you know, had
to do something cleaning up in the house.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
When a man is going through that and you have
to do some cleaning up in the house, but you
know that you met someone that you want to be
your wife, Are you also nervous that you might lose her?

Speaker 8 (17:15):
Or y'all don't think, you know, like with a man
like you know what I'm saying, Well, with most men
like that, show thought about everything I could lose this,
So that feeling is already there.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
So that feeling is damn there normal.

Speaker 8 (17:28):
But I just I'm just trying to do everything I'm
doing not to lose it, you know what I mean,
Like not cleaning up quick as I can clean up.
But you know, of course, cleaning up with different women
it ain't it ain't easy process.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Because you.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Just some of them are just going to let you in.
You know that's true.

Speaker 8 (17:48):
They not just want to stop calling and harassing, and
so you can just not answer.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
You cannot answer. But you're talking about women, man.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Sometimes women can be a little bit cuckoo. I have
some friends who are like that. And it was a
book that I actually just read in my book club.
Women be crazy sometimes, and so you just never know.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
I do get by her being like no, I'm just
say like, by her never doing nothing ever to hurt me, never,
no type.

Speaker 8 (18:17):
I never had to even think about that kind of stuff.
So I definitely ain't never wanted to ever come to her,
you know what I mean. So keeping them away from um,
so that's a whole nother fight, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
So you gotta win that fight.

Speaker 8 (18:29):
You ain't gonna win those kind of fights you think
you can, But you came most.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I definitely got some phone calls.

Speaker 5 (18:34):
You know.

Speaker 8 (18:34):
You can't win no kind of fights. And if you
don't clean you got to try to just clean up.
And sometimes you don't clean up fast enough and you
you gotta you get popped.

Speaker 7 (18:43):
So the backstory is this, when we reconnected at twenty five,
I actually had a boyfriend and I had been with
that person for a couple of years. We up until
maybe about three months before me and they got reconnected.
I was we were living together, but my old my
previous job, they moved me from to another state. So
I was looking by my up at the time, and
I got reconnected with their name. Long story short, mutual

(19:04):
friends house in Saint Louis. We just was vibing and
I was like, damn, he is still fine.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
He's still amazed that got swag like he was reconnected
somebody and they're still fine.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, girl.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
And I was like, damn, souse.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
I had the biggest cruch on him in high school
and now he's used to be grown. I got a man,
but I didn't he see.

Speaker 7 (19:25):
I always say this, if you fould single on your
tax returns, you are single and true. Look live your
best life, figure out what you want. Don't be tied
down to one person. So they put a ring on it.
So long story short, We was just vibing one day.
Next thing you know, we're on the phone every day.
I dropped my ex literally completely dumped him within a month.
Didn't know Donne had no other situations. So I don't

(19:48):
agree that you can't cut people off. I cut this
man off and I have We have been together for
a couple of years. He was probably on the verge
of proposing. I would have said no, but it's still
like we were.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
It was deep. Yeah, was he Crazy's so crazy? The ex?
He wasn't crazy that you.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Could do it when people act like they might come
after you, you know what.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
You can cut people off. But I have seen firsthand.
I didn't do it, but I have seen some of
my homegirls do some real crazy stuff to the woman
and not the man. And I'm the one that's like,
you need to stop your issues with the man. This
other woman ain't got nothing to do with it. You lost,
she wins, Leave it alone. What you want somebody that
wants both of you for anyway? I want you for?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, like the man, if you just.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Want to be with one person. Now, when you cut
him off, how did he take it?

Speaker 3 (20:46):
He cried?

Speaker 7 (20:48):
No, I probably I've probably let him out a little
bit easier than like something.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Then what it could have been worse?

Speaker 7 (20:57):
Put it that way, I let him down easier than
what I what I could have pretty much. Instead of
saying like less completely ended, I was like, you know,
I moved, I moved.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
We got a listens between us. Maybe we just need
to take a break.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
He didn't know that break was yeah, but no.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
But but the ireny of that is me and him.

Speaker 7 (21:16):
I previously had a conversation about if somebody takes a break,
that means y'all broke up.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
So he knew what it meant.

Speaker 7 (21:21):
It was just the words came out of my mouth
and it kind of it was more gentle, but he
knew what it mean because we had already had this
conversation before because we were talking about a situation where
somebody else had that same exact let's take a break,
So he knew that mat we were broken up. And
I made it clear that this means we're broken up,
but it's not necessarily like have a nice life.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
But it really was kind of like.

Speaker 7 (21:43):
That because after that I was with Dnay and I
wasn't talking to him no more like you know, hey,
you know what, though I in my heart of hearts,
I wanted him to go find somebody who loved him
the way I love Dnay.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
I wanted him to.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
It.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Just imagine if somebody told you that I want you
to go find somebody that loves you the way that
I love this other woman.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Excuse me being.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
There was this guy that I used to love. We
called him six A on the show and when I
was really distraught when it was over and I didn't win, well,
I guess I did win, because that'd be crazy. But
he told me I was crying and I was so sad,
and he really took my face and he was like,
you're gonna be just fine.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
I was like, if you don't never goes out of sul,
You're gonna be just no.

Speaker 7 (22:32):
But I believe that people deserve to go be happy,
Like why there's somebody for you?

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Like you know what I'm saying, Yeah, did you say?

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He took one of my pillows. He was like, Dandy,
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Speaker 4 (26:30):
So do y'all have Can y'all think of a quality
or like a situation or it's just something that was like
the moment where you're like, oh, yeah, this is the
one I'm com fining moment.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
I can't think of a lot of moments, but I
think for me, this is I'm gonna be honest, I
was in love before we've had six because yeah, what
is it that you love so much about him?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
He will call me every morning seven o'clock in the morning.
Good morning baby.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
First of all, he was calling me baby. You got game.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
He was like, don't call me baby. I'm not your baby.
But he was just putting on me. You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
You know, yeah, you get those messages in the morning
and he.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Like thinking about all this, so you go back to
the message.

Speaker 7 (27:14):
So basically the way that we said I love you
is we used to talk every day all day.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
He called me literally like seven o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 7 (27:20):
We talked throughout the day and you know, you have
those conversations where you just like got butterflies and smiling
from cheek to cheek, your face hurt. One day, we
just had this conversation. I don't remember exactly what the
conversation was about, but I know that we had this
weird like moment of silence, and it's like we felt
the tension, like the chemistry over the phone and out
of nowhere. He said, I feel like I want to
tell you I love you, and I was like, I

(27:42):
feel the same way. It was like, oh my gosh,
she just went through my whole body and I was like,
I can't wait to see what that's like. So yeah,
that's when I knew that was the moment I knew
the next time we see each other it is going down.
This is the man I've been crushing on since I
was fifteen. When I see him, it's gonna.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Be one of them nights. And it was one of
them nights. It was. It was one of them nights.
It was one of the nights.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
I love them like you feel it the next day
when you're not even with them no more. You ever
have you feel it in your.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Body already had the feelings before the sec so the
sex is gonna take it out.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
There's nothing like chemistry. I'm not dating right now, so
I'm living through your stories. Speak speaking of single life
and married life.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Do do married people.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Ever secretly miss being single? Is there anything you ever
missed from single life?

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I definitely don't miss being single.

Speaker 7 (28:37):
The only thing that I could miss about being single
is like when you have a man and kids, like
there is no time to chill, Like there's always something
to do around the house. Back in my single life,
I could go to sleep at night and then clean
up the kitchen in the morning, when as a married woman,
I'm not leaving that kitchen dirty by make dinner. Because
I don't know him to see the kitchen dirty. So

(28:59):
you just have more respect, possibility, and you have somebody
holding you accountable. So that's probably, like literally in my head,
that's the first thing that pops in my mind. Like
when I was single, I could just you know, not
have to worry about taking care of the house.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
But no, I.

Speaker 7 (29:11):
Don't want to be by myself, like I don't want
to be without him, you know what I'm saying. And
the crazy thing is, I was not one of those
women that aspired to be married. Like I was one
of those women that aspired to have a good career
to eventually be a business owner, which is what we
are now. We're full time entrepreneurs. I never aspired to
have kids and all that, Like that was not what
I saw for myself. I went to college, I went
to grad school, I got an NBA.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
I was focused on me.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
So this life is not even what I necessarily planned out,
but it's it's beyond my wildest dream because of what
we have together.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
So it's him that.

Speaker 7 (29:43):
Makes me want to be married. It's not marriage in itself,
it's him. You like a married yes exactly, which is important?

Speaker 5 (29:50):
I said.

Speaker 8 (29:50):
I said the same thing, like cause I never thought
about just said out being married, like I just want
to be married.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
But once we got together, like I.

Speaker 8 (29:57):
Ain't think this not and you, but I'm saying I
just didn't never know, like you can meet one person
like that's my person, like that's my I understand that
when people be like that's my person, Like that's my person.
So I don't see shit else. You know, nobody make
me feel the way she makes me feel. The things
were able to do together, the things we have done together,
that's my dog.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
That's right. I love to hear that.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
I like hearing stories like that. And how y'all talk
about each other and each other now when y'all were single,
is there something that you can think of that you
thought was true about marriage when you were single, but
now that you are in the thick of marriage for many,
many years, that you realize that she was not true.

Speaker 8 (30:41):
Man, my shoes used to look cute on the ground
all over the place, take cute to shit.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Used to just pick that ship up that she kicked
out the different.

Speaker 7 (30:53):
He's saying, like before I'd be like, oh, I'll pick up,
I'll clean.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Up after you. Oh I love doing this.

Speaker 7 (30:58):
And I was like, you don't get them damn shoes
off that floor there. And that's because now I have
two more of him running around the house do the
exact same thing.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
So, yes, things are a little different.

Speaker 7 (31:11):
Like married life and bomby life will definitely cause you
to not have.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
That same attitude towards being of service to do it
times three.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Now, boy, do you think that when you when kids
came into the picture, there was a difference that you
guys saw, like obviously there would be a lot of times.
We talk about it on the show, but we don't
have kids and we're not married, but we talk about
how often to Yeah, like women change. You don't know
if you're gonna go through postpartum. You don't know if

(31:43):
you have a husband that's going to support and I
don't mean like financial, I mean like actually be there
and help you and deal with the hormonal changes and.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
What you might be going through.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Do you feel like you had that support or was
that one of your most difficult years when a baby
came into play, Because that's when I started seeing marriages
fall apart when the baby comes.

Speaker 7 (31:58):
So I definitely feel like he supported to the best
he could. I feel like a man will never understand
what it's like to birth of baby and postpartum, Like
postpartum is a real thing. First of all, when you
are a woman and you have a baby, your body,
your emotions, your whole mindset goes through so many changes
that you cannot control.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Like you see.

Speaker 7 (32:21):
Yourself differently in the mirror, you see yourself differently, as
far as like you're placing this world.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Now you have a whole human.

Speaker 7 (32:26):
Who you just are connected to that it's literally your
heart outside of your body. It's tough to change your mindset,
and the biological difference is like that you have from
a man.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
A man is never going to understand that there are
things that we.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
Can't control, just like as a woman, like certain times
of the month you get you mad for that reason
you can't even control it. They will never understand what
it's like to be in your head knowing I'm pissed off,
I can't control while I'm pissed off, I can't stop
being pissed off.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
It is just hormones.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
Now, when you have a baby, there are hormones that
give you this same emotional rollercoaster that you don't that
you cannot explain or control. So I feel like a
man can be supportive, but they're never gonna truly understand what.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
We go through.

Speaker 7 (33:12):
And for him, he was always there, you know, and
he was always there for the kids. But like I
was one of those, like I want to call him
helicopter moms, but like I breastcate both of my kids
for a whole year, so the baby was out up
under me.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Like by the time I had.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
A baby, I was a housewife. I wasn't working anymore,
you know. He was holding it down and I was
with the baby all the time. Then I realized how
much I need to do something outside of just being
a mom because I thought, oh, yeah, you have a baby.
I want to be able to be able to be
home with the baby all the time. I realized that, yeah,
this is good for the baby, but as a person
who's used to like having a life and having a career,

(33:50):
this is not necessarily endgame for me.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Like I am more out of what I'm doing.

Speaker 7 (33:55):
And so, yeah, I think I think men can be supporting,
but I also think that as a woman, you just
have to understand that there are gonna be some things
about your body that you just you can't even really
explain and you got to go through those feelings, go
through those emotions, and then just do your best to
give yourself grace.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (34:13):
That's what I had a problem with because I'm so
used to like doing everything the way I want to
do it and have a control over everything. But then
when you go through that and you have a kid,
you can't control everything. You got to learn to not
be so hard on yourself when things don't go the
way you plan them to go.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Did you have help, Like did you ever hire help,
like a nanny?

Speaker 7 (34:30):
Yeah, but see since we're here, like our parents are
in Saint Louis, our whole family is there, So I
didn't hire nanny for a couple of years. So it
was really just me and I didn't have you know,
most people got their mama coming over there, whatever the aunties.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
I have nobody, Yeah, I have no Yeah, it.

Speaker 7 (34:48):
Was really just me and him, Like, we don't have
any family here, everybody still in Saint Louis. So with
that being said, there's a lot that I had to
learn about making phone calls, like when.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
The baby does this, Oh my gosh, what am I
supposed to do?

Speaker 7 (34:59):
And you get freak out and you know, it's hard
when you don't have anybody physically there with you. And
it's so funny because like he used to like act
like he knew everything about baby.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
How did you read the book?

Speaker 8 (35:10):
No been around I'm the youngest youngest, but been around
my grandma, Mama's sister.

Speaker 7 (35:15):
You know, I swear I'd be like, oh my gosh,
baby did this, and he would have this explanation. I'm like,
how do you know how you and he would get
mad because I'm like questioning, so he would.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I'm the one that will overreact to stuff.

Speaker 7 (35:32):
He's the one like the thing he got the answers,
and I'm like, also the person that's very like, you
got to show me where you got this information.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
From your.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
Freaking she freaking out and asking all of it. I'm
trying to feel like, you got to do the baby?
What are you loan that just do it?

Speaker 1 (35:47):
This day?

Speaker 7 (35:47):
It happens if my son come and say mommymn telling
me her like, oh my gosh, let me see, are
you sure? He's like okay, the bathroom, rushing them.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
To the e R.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Was there ever a point where y'all were getting advice
from outside people, like maybe your family or your family,
y'all were.

Speaker 8 (36:14):
To say to a successful will, Will, I don't tell
you don't understand my woman for me to be talking
to you about it, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (36:22):
I ain't gonna ever just with.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
The parenting, the parents, the parenting, we'll get.

Speaker 5 (36:30):
Yeah, I thought you meant like getting invice.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
How you were saying your grandma, were you ever like?
She don't know?

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Well, I do have an in law section on her
because that also came.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
My graddy.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
She got three of us.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
I got to check somebody else. You can't cite this,
so call my own mom.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
She wouldn't take it now anyway.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
My sister she was, she was raising her, You raising her.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
You don't know for a fact. What do you guys think?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Some of the silent killers of marriage are like stuff
that can erode a relationship slowly, resentment, withholding, sex.

Speaker 8 (37:14):
I say communication, bad communication, communication, resentment, and sex.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, you don't think lack of appreciation. I think lack of.

Speaker 8 (37:23):
Show.

Speaker 7 (37:23):
It's ass Yeah, lack of appreciation. Everybody needs appreciation, and.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
I also think that you have to people also need
to know that in relationships you might experience the lack
of appreciation. But how do we communicate it and we
can and can we get better? Like you might not
know that the person isn't feeling appreciated, right, What do
you guys do to show appreciation to each other?

Speaker 7 (37:41):
I mean every day I'm telling them, dang, I appreciate
everything you do. You know I can't do what you do.
I tell them how fine years every day. I mean
it's just verbal communication every day. And then you know,
when it's Father's Day or birthday, it's always like a
small thoughtful thing because list have I already got everything.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
It's not about the big grand gestures.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
It's about the thoughtful things like you said you want
to go to the by five years ago to go
to your birthday, you know, Or you need a new
jewelry box.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Here's a customer jeurary box.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Like if those are small things, well.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
In a car, like socks.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
With my face on it, that's a small Dubai.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
The jewelry box is smaller than Dubai.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Custom sounded a little not because he got the good jewelry. Now,
so we go gifts, we do verbal Let me tell
you what I appreciate.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Was there ever a point where y'all felt like and
this is for either of you. You felt like you
were showing appreciation or showing love and the other person
didn't see it because maybe you didn't realize. Y'all are
showing each other but in different ways that you didn't notice.
So like maybe you do a bunch of acts of
service for him and he's buying you a bunch of gifts,
but you don't want gifts. You just want him to

(39:03):
take out the trash every day without a reminder or
something like that.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Did y'all ever have that going?

Speaker 5 (39:07):
Yeah? Sure, for sure?

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Never die.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
Yeah, yeah, I think we have.

Speaker 7 (39:15):
We share some of the same love languages, but there
are I think in his situation, the way he shows
love it is different from sometimes what I would want
him to show the love and the appreciation and I
but it's all about communication. Like nobody can fix something
that's wrong they don't know they're doing it right.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
So I will call it.

Speaker 7 (39:39):
Out like almost immediately if I feel like he doesn't
appreciate like I tell him, like when I get dressed,
when you see me, don't do nothing other than tell
me you look so good, Like look at me and
tell me you look so bad. Oh baby, look at
you looking out good? Don't wait five minutes, because then
I'm gonna feel like I didn't get the full effective
what I was trying to make you feel. So like

(39:59):
that an example of like for me, I want you
to appreciate me getting dressed for you because I'm doing
it for you at the end of the day, Like
I know I look good, but I want you to
say I look good. I want to feel like that's
coming from you. So like little things like that. I
feel like as a man, sometimes he might think it
in his head, but he don't say it out loud,
but I want to hear you say it, like I
want to know that this is how making you feel
when you see me.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
And you were, I feel like you are clearly you
clearly said that you were, Like, don't do it again?

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Do it again the.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Room?

Speaker 4 (40:29):
I need the eyes.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
Poking out if I missed the second she on me.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
I mean, I get it now.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Have I always talk about vowels and people say you
don't say vow y'all write them?

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yes, okay? And what's for better or for worse?

Speaker 7 (40:44):
In there not not verbatim, but okay, we wrote we
wrote off I have rolled, and I just like I
kind of just went off the heart, like straight off.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
The heart with it. Yeah, I wrote, I have rolled something.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
I'm just like, well, since you said something meant for
better or for worse, I'm always like we say for
better for worse in the vows the people say it,
and you don't really.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Know what the worst might be.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
And if you're going to actually stick around for the
rate of divorce, people are not sticking around for the
worst or the better. So do you guys feel you've
experienced any worse yet or something that could be a
worse And if you did, how did you check it?
How did you decide? Like, no, you know we're gonna
stick through this.

Speaker 7 (41:28):
Yeah, I mean the worst can always get worse. But yeah,
we've had challenges in our relationship for sure.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Do you guys tackle it with therapy or do y'all
have like a like a I don't know, like some
sort of guy that you guys have together to get
through the rough times? Because marriage is not what I'm
hearing again, I'm not married, but it seems.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Like it's more rough than it is.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
No, the people divorced.

Speaker 5 (41:59):
Reasons.

Speaker 8 (41:59):
That's that's like, this is my partner, like I can
really communicate with her, like even can take what she
say that I'm doing wrong and take it like I'm
not getting.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Mad about it. I'm like, okay, let me let me
correct that.

Speaker 8 (42:11):
You can even if I'll tell her like I gotta go,
I gotta correct that, you know what I mean. So
the fact that I care about not hurting her in
listening to what she said, can we correct each other like?

Speaker 5 (42:21):
So that's what I think.

Speaker 8 (42:23):
I think a lot of times people get married and
don't really know who they really married.

Speaker 7 (42:27):
You know, or they know, but they choose to overlook
the things that really should be deal brekers.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Like I think, when you get married.

Speaker 7 (42:36):
For the right reasons, it really makes a difference of
how long you're gonna last. And I think with us,
because we have this just undying love and affection and
appreciation and respect for each other, no matter what we
go through, we always know that we're always coming from
a good place and a place of support, in a
place of like I want the best for both of us, you.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (42:59):
So some people like you have relationship whole relationships where
people don't even really like each other, where people are
jealous of each other, like a man can be jealous
of a woman and vice versas. Yeah, that's crazy, right,
but that happens in relationships. But because we are a team,
and you know, my wins are his wins and vice versa,
like my losses are his losses. Like we feel like
we in this together and we approach everything as a team,

(43:21):
not like we in competition, or you know what I'm saying,
or like I don't appreciate his contribution to whatever we
got going on.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
So can y'all think of any like little things that
maybe couples who are dating or even people who just
aspire to be married overlook that are actually a really
big deal. Like y'all mentioned already, having good communication, telling
each other when is a problem. Don't be sitting on
it waiting forever. You speak up, right. What are some
things that people are doing that you think might be

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leading to them marrying somebody that they shouldn't have really married?

Speaker 1 (43:53):
A good question. Well, first of all, you know some
women get married for money.

Speaker 7 (43:57):
Well yeah, some men get married because the woman is
a trophy wife visually or whatever. I think that some
people get married because it's convenient or because they settle
and they don't want to keep on looking for.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
That right now their bucket list. Yeah, yeah, they want
to be married. They don't care who it is.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Yeah, what do you think.

Speaker 8 (44:21):
I think not marrying a friend you got there got
to be your pot in them, man, Like, if you're
feel to really marry somebody and be with them for
rather the rest of your life or for a long
amount of years and get to share in all these
things together, they got to be your friend first. Y'all
got to be real potless, get to really know each other.
I think if people spend more time doing that than
just trying to find things that look good together or

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make sense or whatever some of the reasons that people
do it, I think we'll have more successful marriages.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
How long did y'all date before y'all got married?

Speaker 7 (44:54):
So we reconnected when I was twenty five. We dated,
I mean he proposed when we were like I was
twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
We got married at twenty nine, Okay, so yeah about
three three?

Speaker 8 (45:05):
Yeah, Yeah, we was already friends, like I say, since
we was.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Yeah, yeah, you already had ap there. Y'all knew each other.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
Yeah, what are those babies?

Speaker 2 (45:17):
Nine and six? Two boys?

Speaker 5 (45:19):
Two boys? Guys?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Two and a half years work?

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Do you want more know.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
Very know, they give me busy girl.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
So, okay, y'all knew each other for a long time
and y'all were friends or y'all was Pottners, like.

Speaker 8 (45:40):
I remember, we will flirt with each other like when
we when I was seeing it, even as a young boy,
I will flirt with she a flirt back with me.

Speaker 5 (45:47):
But she wasn't trying.

Speaker 8 (45:49):
She wasn't trying to kick it with the kid like that.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
That was we had her standards.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
This girl he had none. So with that being said,
you know, I always saw him.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
And thought he was so fun.

Speaker 7 (46:07):
Never took it there until, like I said, we kind
of fell in love with conversations and then I was like, okay,
it's yours yours.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
So when y'all did get married, even though y'all knew
each other and have that rapport where there's still different
things that you learned about each other once you got married,
like you kind.

Speaker 7 (46:23):
Of like, oh, I didn't know you did that, even
when we lived together for about a year before you proposed.
I think I think you learned something about learn when
you're living with somebody.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Now, if like let's say, if you marry.

Speaker 7 (46:38):
Somebody and y'all finances aren't combined, you might learn a
lot about them and that way once you get married,
because then everything really becomes one in most cases. But
because even before we got married, we had bought a
condo together, we had already kind of combined our lives
to the point where.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
I don't think it was nothing more to learn.

Speaker 7 (46:57):
And I learn more about him when he became a dad,
because that was a whole different phase of life, and
I saw how good of a dad he is, and
I saw a different side of him, like a more sensitive,
you know, nurture inside of him.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
But I think I would.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
Encourage people to live together before they get married.

Speaker 7 (47:12):
I don't know how you get just move in with
somebody and they and be time sitting for life, and
then you find out they have all these bad habits
or just ways about them that you wouldn't have seen
if you were up close and personal. It's no way
I'm gonna marry somebody living with them first. How y'a
feel about that?

Speaker 4 (47:25):
I would prefer to live with someone first. Now how
early I live with them, I don't know. I think
definitely if we're engaged, if I don't already live with you,
I need to move in with you before we put
deposits down on this wedding. Otherwise we might end up
having a very expensive party and one of us won't
be there because I would be the runaway bride, and

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I mean a groom might be the runaway groom. I'm
not always the best person, so you just never know.
But yeah, I think you should. I do think that
living with somebody is very different, even like having roommates
over the years, like my friends that I had been
friends with for so long, once we lived together, it
was different. No, still my dog, I had one roommate

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like in my No, I have more than that. But
one roommate that I had for a long time here
in Atlanta, she doesn't live here anymore, but we're still
good friends. There were things that would annoy me, of course,
and I learned her better and it's like you can't
have that mask that you have with people sometimes, but
it was still worked out. So I can only imagine

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what that would be like if I really live with somebody,
and I'd be thinking about like little weird things I do,
like when I get gassy sometimes, and I might be
a little embarrassed, you know, But you gotta let it
all out. I'm just sing let out that because you
don't let us sit in your body and faster. Oh lord,
what do you think.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Medina about living together?

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Yeah, I think that if we're engaged or heading there,
then we could talk about living together. I think I've
experienced living with two boyfriends and I don't.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Want to do it again.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
It was almost like it's like we're just doing it
because it starts to feel like you are married.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
It starts to feel like we are.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Dedicated to each other, and then in the end, when
it turns out you're not, it's like, I don't know
that I would do with that again. It's just it's
happened too many times, and it's like, oh, let's learn
from our lessons.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
So if we.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Already know and there is a ring and we are engaged,
I'm totally fine with being like, Okay, the next step
is getting a place together, and yeah, I think that's
where I'm out.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
With that, because I mean, once they put the ring
on it, then I.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Feel like still happen.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
But of course, but it's like, okay, you have proposed.

Speaker 5 (49:38):
Now.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
I feel like the engagement period, you should know me
well enough you're ready to tie me down. So now
it's wedding planning season, and that's what the engagement period. Essentially,
we're just engaged to plan this wedding and stuff and
all the back and forth.

Speaker 8 (49:54):
The question for you all you so, how long it's
too long to be engaged?

Speaker 1 (49:59):
That's what I was about to say.

Speaker 7 (50:00):
It's should be waiting playing season. But some people be
engaged for like five or ten years.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
I think I am too old for that. If I
was in my twenties when I got engaged, and maybe
I can, five years still sound too long. That's too
long because waiting on is it the venue?

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Is it the finances? Is it that?

Speaker 4 (50:18):
Because it's like I need a specific reason as to
why we are waiting. I understand long engagements. When you
want this weekend, you want this thing and it's just
not available, so you got to plan out. But like,
what the fuck we do? Why did you propose to me?
Because I said, yes, I'm ready to go. We can
do it today and have a wedding later.

Speaker 7 (50:36):
But it's not always like that, Like some people say
yes and they don't even have any intention of starting
to plan the wedding.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Like some people just put a ring on your finger,
it's like a placeholder.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Like yet yeah, like like if you are dating someone
right now, you're having to beg your man to about
the marriage details.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
And if he's gonna marry you, don't you agree, it's
probably not it. Yeah, you don't want to.

Speaker 8 (51:01):
I agree a man he's gonna let you know, a
man gonna let that be known.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
If you want to marry, you wouldn't have to be guessing.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
And when are we doing this? And it wasn't it?

Speaker 4 (51:11):
Like you can't look for nothing because every man that
we have had on the show, they never give like
a thing. It's almost like a lot of times we
look for this thing we know if we do X,
Y and Z, he will propose like there's a playbook
to it, and it's no playbook to it. And that's
why we constantly encourage you guys to ask questions like

(51:31):
and I'm curious to know and other things like really
get to know the individual. You cannot rely on shows, entertainment, books, anything.
You gotta deal with that person because are you like
everybody else that he's seen before? Maybe, but probably not.
And you gotta take him the same way.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
And I also think that women and men, but really
women need to do like a better job of understanding
like what you're getting into when you're deciding to get married,
both parties honestly.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Because we don't.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I mean we're kind of talking about this before we
started recording, like you don't really there's no playbook to it.
But you also are just thinking. I just when I
hear them just be like, I just want to get married.
It's like, but do you know what it entails like partnership?
Like what are you expecting from a partner? And everyone
always assumes finances. I get that, let's assume the finances

(52:25):
are in order. There are so many other things that
go into play to make a good partner.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Are you family oriented?

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Are you going to try to connect people with their
family or do you want like togetherness? Are you gonna
raise kids? Are you gonna make time for the person
you love? Will you be there when they're sick? And
there are things that people don't The people don't think
about that, and I'm like, we gotta think about that.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
You gotta be a good partner, ma'am sir. You don't
just get to be rich and then be like, well
I paid for everything.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
That's not all that goes just because you paid for everything.
You don't have to help out as a father. You
don't have to make sure that you're girl as emotionally well.
And the woman also like if he's down back, you're
not just like you.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Need to be a man, a good on go leack no,
Like how do we care for each other? What does
the household look like?

Speaker 3 (53:10):
And so I say all that to say, I'll talk
a lot. What is a good partner to you? What
is a good partner for you? Like how did y'all
realize that in each other? Like I got a good partner.

Speaker 8 (53:21):
Okay, I'm gonna say, as a man, And that's why
I always tell a young man in the early days,
like you know, find your purpose, stay on and get
yourself together, you know, get yourself situated where you can
even be looking for a woman, because if you ain't
got nothing to take, not giver her. But if you
can't take care of her, you don't need to be
looking out here looking for women.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (53:41):
So I say that to say, then that way that
allow you. Now, let me see what I know about her,
Let me get to KnowI because I know what I
want in a woman. I know what kind of girl
I want, But you gotta be able to take care
of that kind of woman, that woman that you want.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
Different women come with different things.

Speaker 8 (53:57):
So the one that I want, I knew, like, okay,
let me get the know it is beautiful, fine, the color,
the skin color. I like, she think the way I
she think the way I wanted to think. She care
about the things that I care about, Like I knew
what I was looking for. So when I found her,
I knew I hit the jackpot. So that's I'm saying
that to say, like, start asking these questions, get to

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know that about that man or that woman, Like I'm
a I want to know, like, oh what.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
You care about this? What do you think about? How
many kids you want?

Speaker 8 (54:25):
Like what do you want to Where do you see
your life in five or ten years? Like I think
those kind of things. That's what that's that's what I think.
These questions need to start getting asked, that of just dating,
laying up the kids and to come and then now
you figure out this motherfucker crazy, you know what I'm saying,
Like you know.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Now it's like everyone's crazy. How do we not know this?
I'm not talking having fun?

Speaker 5 (54:52):
You was having fun you wasn't at.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Or making excuses for little things. Got to ask the
real yourself from other people. You might see it when
you don't see it, because you know how easy it
is when you do really like somebody. You don't always
see the little red flash when yellow flags is popping
up and other people see them. But if you're not
around nobody, how are you gonna know?

Speaker 5 (55:14):
And if you're not asking the questions, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
You definitely won't know.

Speaker 8 (55:17):
A lot of times people not asking the more questions
when they just met people, they just date't having fun.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
And sometimes it's asking the questions. I'll be asking a
lot of questions. But sometimes it's also like paying attention
to how somebody moves, like how do you handle certain things?
How do you How are you with your mother? How
are you with your siblings?

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Like? How are you with children?

Speaker 5 (55:39):
How?

Speaker 1 (55:40):
I know?

Speaker 3 (55:40):
One thing that's really important to me is like volunteering,
Like what do you do with your time when I'm
not around? Like what do you do to help people
that's not a woman? How do how are we spending
our time?

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Then like paying attention somebody related.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
To you, Yeah, somebody not even related to you, Like
do you help are you kind like those types of
things are really Like what.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
Was big for me is like her relationship with her father,
So her having a real man as a father.

Speaker 8 (56:03):
I knew she understand that she can she can handle
that kind of man, She can respect that kind of man.

Speaker 5 (56:08):
She know the value in that kind of man because
that's her dad. She see him. So when she coming across.

Speaker 8 (56:13):
A man that you know, moves similar or like it
is she understanding, you know?

Speaker 5 (56:19):
And that was that was big.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
And when you said she understands it, do you mean
like she understands like the traditional woman.

Speaker 5 (56:24):
Yeah, okay, yeah, like she understands like how that man
should be respected and taking care of And we're.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
Saying like she's gonna cook, she's gonna clean, we're taking
care of kids.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
I think that's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
I think sometimes now that's when we talk about the
traditions of like what a woman does and everybody doesn't
have to agree with it.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
I think it's like if that works in your relationship
and that's how you know he needs to be loved
and wants to be loved, do it.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
I want to make a plate.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
That's not negotiable.

Speaker 7 (56:54):
I didn't know that some women don't make the man plate,
like they just put the food on the stove and
then he got to get his school.

Speaker 5 (57:00):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
But one day I'm always always gonna make his plate.

Speaker 7 (57:10):
I've never not made his plate. I remember one day
it was at his mama house and his mama cook,
but I still made his plate. His brother was like, oh,
you got she a good woman, And I was thinking
to myself, like, really, like is that that big of it.
Another situation, we were at my our house when we
first bought our first condo. One of our family members

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who was married. They were there with their wife.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
They stayed with us over the weekend't make my plate.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
He talked to him after they love.

Speaker 7 (57:41):
He was like, man, the way you make donee play man.
She would never do that for me. And I'm like really,
And I'm like, I didn't even know that it was
a big deal. I didn't know a man really felt
like he needed that because it came to natural for
me to do it. But I didn't know some women
just really just flat out won't do it. I feel
like they don't have to, Like I'm gonna cook the food,

(58:01):
I'm gonna make the plate. I'm gonna clean up the
dishes out of that.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Why is it such a big Why does that matter
so much? The plate making, It's just like it's like
a respect thing.

Speaker 8 (58:09):
It's just I don't know how to explain it for us.
It's just like, yeah, not just like a can you
just feel like I guess, yeah, like the man she
cut her man.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Job, am I supposed to?

Speaker 5 (58:23):
Like?

Speaker 7 (58:23):
It's just like if I said, Okay, I want you
to take out the trash, but I'm gonna take it
out the trash can and then you're gonna take.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Out the bag.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
No, you're gonna do the whole.

Speaker 7 (58:31):
When I make the food, you should be able to
sit down and get your food.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
Nice.

Speaker 7 (58:36):
Nice, Come and get a spoon and put it onto
the plate yourself like that. That takes the That's part
of the experience. Yeah, Like if you go to a restaurant,
do you want to make your plate?

Speaker 2 (58:46):
I don't like buffets. I'm not about to go to
buffet and be having to.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
Get the food.

Speaker 7 (58:49):
It's more, you know, fun, when I can sit down
and have fun while somebody else is making my plate.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
It's a part of the experience. So he can't have.

Speaker 7 (58:57):
To do his job and I can't have to do mine,
But I I did not realize that some women just
don't naturally do that. But I saw my mama making
my daddy plate, you know what I'm saying. So I
do think it starts with what you experience as a
kid and what you see. But it's it's funny because
like some women, even though they might know now that
even though I didn't see my parents do this, this is

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where it should be done, they still like, I ain't
doing that, girl, Why not? What about all the stuff
he gotta do for you like you want to have.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
You want to wonder when that happens, is he doing it?
Is he doing?

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Because that's the other that's the flip side of it,
because a lot of times we see all of the
red pill convos online and the guys are saying all
the things that we should do. Now. To be clear,
I have no problem making a plate, cooking. I enjoy it.
And like you said, you don't want the plate looking ugly. Yes,
I done slaved over this meal and I enjoyed that slaving,

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but I want to I want it to all look nice.
It's just a part of the experience, like you said,
But sometimes I do wonder when people have these expectations
for someone to do something, how do you treat the person?
And maybe that's a moment for any man who's in
a situation where his woman doesn't do that. How are
you treating her? Do you show her respect? You want

(01:00:09):
her to treat you like a king? And this is
your girl? Do you treat her like a queen? Do
you show her respect? Do you show her appreciation? Are
you kind? Do you ever do any of those things?
So it's one thing when the man is doing that
and you just feel like this woman is so unappreciative,
borderline disrespectful if it's not already disrespectful. But the other

(01:00:30):
side is, hey, what are you doing right?

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
And it'll be also some way street how you said,
like the plate making, it makes a man feel like
a king. You feel like my woman takes care of me.
When you hear some of the conversations and these are
not internet conversations, I'll have these conversations at the gym
with men and hearing some of the young men talk
about I'm not holding every door and it's.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Like this a door.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
It's a small shit shit like that's the slightest thing.
But we don't even talk about pan bills and taking
care of financially.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
Opening a door, my nigga.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
Do you know how that small act?

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Do you know how that makes a woman feel when
you when you go out with a minute, he opens
every door and you've been not open one.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
That feel that is a small gesture.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Of like, wow, I feel like a I feel like
feel like I feel like you care about my safety.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
You here my well being, like you got me. You
might shoot a nigga, even if they.

Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
Are trash man, sometimes they will at least do that,
and that's how you get all bamboos, be digmatized. But
you know, yes, bamboozled and digmatize. I've been there too
many times. That's how the show started. But that is
a very good point. We agree like that classic acts.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
There's nothing wrong with making the plate, It's nothing wrong
with opening her door.

Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Like, I'm just like, where where are we?

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Heady? Like why is everybody so like I'm not doing that?

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
It's almost like people are trying to not do too
much or hurt somebody else before they get hurt. Everybody
is so afraid of being hurt because some people haven't
even been hurt yet. I promise you it's not that bad.
I mean, but should be fine. Come out of it.
Sometimes you look better, sometimes you don't, but you will
still be alive.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Yeah, it's just the small acts. I'm just I think
it's important to talk about those things because there is
nothing wrong with it. And I love when men talk
about it because the men folk right now, for real,
they need to hear it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
Well. I mean out here, my wife, my wife, it
ain't that I never want.

Speaker 8 (01:02:22):
I was so used to just you know, my own
time out her single moving around. I wouldn't. I wouldn't
open the door. So I wasn't used to it. But
my wife, she will. She taught me on, you know,
walk on this side of the street. She got me.

Speaker 7 (01:02:38):
See the thing is, if you know a man didn't
come from the type of household, yeah you understand how
you care about him.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
Yeah, that's another part of relationships.

Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
Sometimes you do have to have that. If you care
about somebody, you are gonna try. You're gonna teach them to.

Speaker 9 (01:02:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
I'd be like, why you need to walk on this
side open it?

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:02:59):
But it was and then I didn't want to do it.
I'm like, I'm just so used.

Speaker 7 (01:03:02):
To I didn't even know, and he would be five
steps ahead, and I was like, Bro, are you serious?

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Do you care where I am? Right now?

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
I could disappear?

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
She definitely was.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
I like, we have had long conversations about this.

Speaker 7 (01:03:21):
I remember one day he was at this concert, no
play or something, and it was it was set up.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
It set up like a symphony.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
How you got the levels where you sit at Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:03:32):
He was sitting on the closest to the outside, so
he got right on up and didn't turn around.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
This man has helped me down the steps.

Speaker 7 (01:03:39):
I was like, baby, are you serious? He walked so
fast that I literally lost in the crowd. I was
so that's an argument in the car.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
I say. I was like, are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
Bro?

Speaker 7 (01:03:52):
And this was early in our relationship, so I was
like really thinking to myself, do he not know no
better or he just don't care?

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Because that was I'm like, why would you leave me
like that to the point where I lose I'm tall,
I normally can see over everybody. I cannot find him.

Speaker 7 (01:04:07):
I literally was like, And it wasn't that I ays
thought something's gonna happen to me.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
He was more about the fact that he did that,
and he wasn't looking for me, but I'm.

Speaker 7 (01:04:15):
Looking for him, and so girl, it was. It's sometimes,
especially when you start that young. We were in our twenties,
we sometimes you have to be willing to teach a man.
You know how you want to be treated, and you're right.
So many women get caught up in this. He better
come already, like to.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
You're not even together?

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
Girl?

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Are you not even together?

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
I have this conversation with some girlfriends the other day.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Everybody was like, hey, I'm not gonna teach him, and
he need to come like this, and he didn't come
like a man. And then I just stopped the conversation.
I'm always playing the devil's advocate and everybody looking mad
after I talk, and so I was like, well, wait
a minute. I was like, now, let's tell you're talking
about he needs to come as a man. Are you
the full package as a woman?

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Are you like are you gonna like are you gonna
do the things that a man wants?

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
And everybody was like, well, no, let's think about this.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
Everybody's not gonna come in a perfect package. Somebody is
going to be lacking somewhere, and it might happen again,
if you stay together long enough, like we gotta be.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
You don't have to be fair, but look at yourself. Yeah.
I think that's where so many women kind of they
lose out.

Speaker 7 (01:05:23):
They might miss the blessing because they don't realize that
the man.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
That's in front of you has potential.

Speaker 7 (01:05:29):
And it doesn't have to be money, but it might
be the man has all the money in the world,
but he doesn't necessarily know how to treat you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
It don't mean that he can't get there. It just
means that maybe he's.

Speaker 7 (01:05:40):
Never had a woman like you to really show him,
or maybe he don't really know how to love like
some men just don't know how to love you how
to show them. And I feel like that's why for me,
the connection you have with somebody, to me, it should
be one of like chemistry and emotion, something you can't control.
It sounds like you can build on that. They have
all the other things you need as far as like

(01:06:00):
they match your fly, they match your hustle, they match
what you want out of life. Then you can y'all
can grow together, especially when you're young, like we got
together in our twenties and the man he is today
man and man that, oh that young boy couldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Funk with him?

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Why I ain't gone bro.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:06:22):
So like he get better with Tom. Like this man
is literally like fine white. I literally see him every
day and be like, oh my gosh, you're so fine,
Like you look so much better than you did. We
was younger, and back then I thought you couldn't get
no better.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
He said, have dress. I used to be like, Oh,
don't ever cut your dress. I would. I love these dress,
Like these dress so sexy?

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
You cut them pairs?

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
I was like, damn. Grow.

Speaker 7 (01:06:46):
You know, like when you have somebody who is constantly
evolving and growing, they motivate you to grow. So sometimes
you got to help them grow and then y'all can
grow together.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
You know, do you ever think that there's a point
where somebody might see potential But it's just like you're
dreaming of some of this potential versus what is really there.
Because sometimes we both know that men and women can
see something in somebody they like them for some reason,
but this is not a match. This person is not
going to change. What is something that you can say

(01:07:19):
to that, like how could somebody prevent that? Or what
are some things to look out for?

Speaker 8 (01:07:26):
You can't really prevent it. But once you identify, get
your inside of that, like you're gonna go quit playing
with yourself, you know what I mean? Don't get out
of there quick. It may hurt a little bit, but
get going because.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
What are some things like that? Though?

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
I think you can look at how somebody is going
about if they say they have a goal.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Sometimes I look at it if someone says if they
don't have no goal, if they don't have a goal, that's.

Speaker 8 (01:07:51):
Like it's small ship, like why you didn't pay your
call insurance? Like that type of ship is like don't
no cause, and I'm getting away for I've been paying.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Just sometimes have you ever been?

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
I know y'all ain't dated other people in a minute,
But when you're talking to somebody and they say that
there's something that they do, and then you when you
start getting to know them, you're like, I've never seen.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
You run in the morning you said every morning, or
you said you're just.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
You start looking exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
I never seen you run like or someone even have
real sneakers. Everything is them chucking and somebody I like.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Somebody's like I like to travel, as someone who truly
does like to travel. If I haven't seen you take
a trip in like a few months, whether it's for
work or.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
Just do you really like to travel with Ben? What
a doing? Let me see the passport.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
And it's not a judgment.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
It's just like, don't lie and trap somebody into something
and now you're mad when they're mad that you're not
who you said you was.

Speaker 8 (01:08:52):
Because a lot of people be just like when they
just meeting people something, and dudes do it to a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
Man, they try to, like in the beginning and like
with the girl, like thinking that's gonna make her like, no, bro,
be you Yeah, that shit gonna be hard faking like that.

Speaker 8 (01:09:06):
You gotta remember that's a lot of shit to remember, man.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
That's see.

Speaker 7 (01:09:11):
The thing is this, like just like there are red flags,
they are green flags, right, so you pay attention to
the science, both good and bad. A good example is remember, Okay,
so when we first reconnected, like I said earlier, we
were chilling over our mutual friends house, just having drinks.
At the time, I had a boyfriend, so I wasn't
trying to get him. When I saw him, I was like, oh,
he's still so fine, but you know, he was just
all having a good time. Blatonic friends like fo of us,

(01:09:34):
and we went through a whole bottle of liquor. And
I don't know why I volunteered, like I go to
the store and get some more liquor. He instantly pulled
out some money to give it to me, and I
was like, I don't need you to buy a bottle
of gray goose Like he was like here. I was
like na, and he was just like.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
I was like, keep your money, Like wait, is it
sixty dollars?

Speaker 7 (01:09:53):
I don't know what it was, but I was looking
at him like this man just offered to buy me
to pay for the liquor. That's twofold. So I went
and got liquor. Later I always talk about it. He
was impressed by the fact that I rejected his money.
I was impressed by the fact that he offered because
I had been around some fun boys who.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
Would have just been like girl, go getting yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
But he hadn't been around girls that have been like
giving me the money, yeah. Like so little things like that.

Speaker 7 (01:10:22):
We didn't even know later on that we both saw
that as like good, a good sign, but that was.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
Just who we are right.

Speaker 4 (01:10:29):
Yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
It was other men in the room. He the only
one that pulled out the money.

Speaker 7 (01:10:33):
And it's like all the other men knew he was
wanting gonna do it because he was always one pay
for everything. It was other women in the room. Nobody
else offered to pay for it. But I'm always that girl.
I'm the one always paying for everything. So that's the
roles that we have always had in our life. We've
always been He was that nigga, I was that chick. Like,
just to be honest with y'all, that's just the roles
we've always played. And so I feel like you got
to pick up on nose little signs.

Speaker 3 (01:10:55):
Yeah, I also think like another this is something that
a little sign that I picked up on other day,
I didn't. You know, sometimes as a woman you have
to bring certain things up to men, and when you
don't have to bring it up, it's kind of like, huh, okay,
well maybe maybe I could give you a shot. There's
a guy that is interested in me. Let's I'm gonna
call hi my man, because.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
He's a grown man. You ever you ever do what
a grown grown man? You'd be like, oh am, I
grown enough.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
Like it was a long time I ain't got old.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Yeah, yes, And we.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Don't live in the same state, and like, we've known
each other, but we we I never knew he was
interested in me and I was in a relationship, and
so he was like, I would love for you to
come out to my city. He already off the top
of his head, was like, and I'm gonna get your
own hotel room. I don't want you to feel like
you got to stay with me or you I need
to stay with you. And that was such a like

(01:11:39):
it was a breath of fresh air, because a lot
of the time sometimes it's a woman. You're like, Okay,
if I get my own room, is he gonna am
I are you gonna think?

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
I don't think you're a man that I didn't ask
you to get it? Should I ask you to get it?
If I actually to get it as a.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Rude because you find it was just it's just a
lot of thoughts in moving pieces, and I'm like, I
don't I really don't want to stay in the same
room as you. I wanted to just be like I
come and we see other, but we're not spending the
night together. And I was very clear on that, and
the fact that he has said it first, I was.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
Like, huh, huh, this is nice. This is so nice.

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
I think that if people understood that if you do
a little bit more before you get the girl, you
get so much more out of a person. Be kind
and care about and consider it and consider it. Like women,
even if you're not like a predator, we still have this.
If I don't know, you don't, women get uncomfortable. You
just don't know what to expect. And I just love

(01:12:30):
when a man knows that. And it's like, listen, whatever
makes you comfortable. That's attractive.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Yeah, that should be. That should be.

Speaker 8 (01:12:38):
Yeah, that's dope. Like you let him know he he
had this bit. That's a good dude. Yeah, that's a
good dude. This characters, You should pay attention character.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
That's character.

Speaker 7 (01:12:47):
Somebody don't show you that character, y'all you got to
be paying attention.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
Yeah, just like you got the red flag, you got
the green ones. They mean go.

Speaker 4 (01:12:56):
And just like y'all said earlier, like you've got to
pay attention to not only how they are with you you,
but how are they with anyone else. Because somebody can
be amazing to you. But then once you see them
around their friends, if they even got them friends, family,
co workers, business, anything like that. When you see people
in different environments, that's a really important part of life.

(01:13:18):
And that's something I have learned to pay a lot
more attention to. And I'm just very leery of anybody
who doesn't really have other people outside, Like if they
have a job, it's like your work people and whoever
you're dating, or if you don't have a job, and
maybe you're an entrepreneur, you're business partners and whoever you're dating,
if that's it, it's a red flag for me because like,

(01:13:40):
what else is going on unless you have kids or
like something else that should be taken because what do
you do all day? It seems like you terrorize women.
That's immediately where my mind goes. So, I mean, I
don't know. I probably I need to stop watching Dateline
before I go to bed. But I'm just saying y'all
should think about that too, like how are they with
the other people in their lives?

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
And consider that I was I was having a conversation
on Instagram the other day with myself.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
It was just a video and the people.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
Sometimes with some of the men it be the men folk.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
I'm sorry, and they were just going in like you know,
y'all make dang so hard. Shouldn't be a difficult Yes
it should, Yes, it should because you should.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Be getting to know someone.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
But what's difficult?

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
I just think people.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
I think some people just don't want to answer questions.
Some people don't want you to know who they are.
Some people don't want you to have any type of expectation,
any type of moral any type of anything for yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
And it's like, no, it should.

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
This is when you decide to get into like a
real relationship with somebody, and the aspiration is marriage. That
is such a huge adult step. We just talked about
it this whole episode. You don't know what you're gonna
go through with somebody, so try to get as much
information as you can beforehand.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
I just it should be a little bit difficult.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Yes, we should have fun, but if it starts to
get serious, I guess I'm just getting old. Now. It's
like I've been through the phase of like we fucking out,
and now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
It's like when you get you're like so much can
have been here. I'm just so thank you guy.

Speaker 4 (01:15:03):
Yeah, Like there are people that are trapped with things
that you just fucked one night.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
Master Child's father and grand forever.

Speaker 4 (01:15:12):
You can't get rid of them. It's just like, oh
my god.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Yeah, yeah, you need to.

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
Take it a little more seriously because I don't want
that to happen.

Speaker 7 (01:15:22):
You know what I mean? Yeah, about who you spend
your time with.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
I was I was listening to this podcast the other
day and the man talks about what makes a life rich,
and it had money was at the very end. It
wasn't one of the at the top of the thing.
Obviously you need money to live. But he talks about
how one of the most important things about a rich
life is your relationships. Who you spend the time, what
type of people are you spending your time with, And

(01:15:51):
look at those relationships and that'll tell you a lot
about where your life is headed, how you feel about yourself,
and just overall, like the aura that you exult.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Yeah, pay attention who you're around and dad, pay attention.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Yes, got you.

Speaker 4 (01:16:05):
I definitely will say at my lowest points in life
thus far, when I look back now that I'm on
the other side of it, most times, when it took
what I feel like was too long to get through it,
I did not have a lot of good people that
I was talking to. The good people who I was
still connected to or attached to, I had either distanced

(01:16:26):
myself from them or they had distanced themselves from me
because maybe of how I was acting. And it's just
so different when you were happy and everything and looking
at your circle versus when you are unhappy, stuck, stagnant,
any of those things is very different. Y'all got pay
attention now, attention.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Okay, we're gonna move on to Indecisive Diane, And when
we come back, we have some advice that are our
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(01:21:19):
time for the advice. If you have a question that
you would like to ask us on the show, make
sure you email us advice at cocktail spot dot com. Okay,
so this one says Heike Kia Medina. So I just
got married about eight months ago. We had a big,
beautiful wedding and honestly, my husband is amazing. He's thoughtful, funny,
and we rarely argue. The problem is I didn't expect
to feel single life fomo this soon. It's not that

(01:21:42):
I want to cheat or anything like that, but sometimes
when I see my single friends out traveling, brunching, and dating,
I feel like I jumped into the grown up married
lane too early. On top of that, some of my
friendships have shifted. My single girlfriends say I act married
now and don't invite me out as much, But my
husband's friends want us to double date all the time,
and I feel caught in between. I love my husband,

(01:22:04):
but sometimes I feel like I lost a little piece
of myself when I said I do My questions are
she got three? Is it normal? To feel like this
so soon into marriage. It's been eight months. How do
I balance wanting to be a good wife without feeling
like I've given up my single self? And should I
talk to my husband about it or keep it to
myself so he doesn't think I'm ungrateful? Please help? Before

(01:22:26):
I spiral signed blushing but confused.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
Bride, that's honest, said what do I do? What did
I do?

Speaker 8 (01:22:34):
That's honest? But yeah, she need to go to therapy.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
He said, we can't.

Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
We're not doing nothing.

Speaker 8 (01:22:44):
You already having even a feeling about something different than
your husband.

Speaker 5 (01:22:50):
It's eight months in, it's still fresh.

Speaker 8 (01:22:52):
You can't figure out between if you should be kicking
it with your girlfriends.

Speaker 5 (01:22:57):
You married.

Speaker 8 (01:22:58):
Now you're in a whole nother life. Now you got
to let them go. They're still your friends. But if
they're not doing things that you can do as a
married woman, which is not that much because they still single,
kicking it and brunching, you gotta you gotta let them go.
And if you ain't, if you already jumped the broom
and ain't figured that out, you're doing you go to therapy.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
We can't go to brunch.

Speaker 8 (01:23:19):
I'm saying, no, No, you can go to brunch, but
she said they brunching and kicking.

Speaker 5 (01:23:24):
Yeah, yeah, civilized run.

Speaker 1 (01:23:26):
You know what I'm saying. You can go with your
single friends, do whatever you want.

Speaker 8 (01:23:28):
But I'm saying if you can't understand that you marry
now and you can see the difference and you can't
really rock with them like that. I mean, that's even
for a man or woman. You gotta gotta kind of
cut that off a little bit because it's dangerous for
you to be out there, you know what I'm saying,
kicking it with your single friends brunching and drinking and
brushing out.

Speaker 4 (01:23:47):
Okay, it depends on the person though, Like if she's saying,
I'm not thinking about you, she missed her friends, I'm wondering,
girl should be you know, and that your friends are,
like you act so married. Now are are you a
reform ho and now you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
That?

Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
Or are you always talking about married stuff and like
putting your friends down for how they're acting when they're
not married, Because that's the other side that it could be.
You could be very condescending, self righteous even, and so
maybe you got to check your attitude. You getting invited out,
what's wrong with his friends because his friends said that
there's a double dates.

Speaker 1 (01:24:26):
She doesn't want to just go on double.

Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
Dates to.

Speaker 8 (01:24:30):
It's something else exciting on this side.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
Maybe y'all are having fun, Yeah, because why y'all ain't
doing shit.

Speaker 7 (01:24:40):
I would be honest, like, I'd rather hang out with
him to hang out with my friends any day, or
all of us together like what they may. That's why
I've heard a lot of married couples say that you
have to hang out with other married couples because, first
of all, honestly, I don't believe a married woman could
just be hanging out with a whole of single girls.
At some point, y'all going out, y'all gonna get that
attention of another group of guys. You shouldn't even be

(01:25:00):
in that room with them, in that circle, in that section,
whatever you want to call it. Them God start coming
over and flirting with everybody like it's just it's just disrespectful.
I feel like that's just if you're doing it all
the time. Now, if it's somebody's birthday, yeah, but if
it's like that is going out every weekend, No, That's
why a lot of I mean Burtwell fellas talk together
like a lot of married couples that we've talked.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
To on our podcast say they had to have.

Speaker 7 (01:25:22):
Discernment with who they have in their life, and most
of the time it's like minded people or couples that are.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
It goes back to the relationships.

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
I think that a lot of married people, if you're
not around other healthy married people, y'all all, everybody cheating,
the man cheating, you're not checking your friend because he
cheating them, Like it's like or what about.

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
The single people who are single but they respect y'all's union,
They respect the institute of marriage itself, and they're not
the wild friends? Are those? You still feel like, you.

Speaker 7 (01:25:55):
Know, you know how you have some girls that when
y'all go out, she gonna be on her whole shit.

Speaker 1 (01:25:59):
You know she's finna be smiling in all these guys' face.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
We don't need the uber x L on the way
back because she's not riding along with somebody else. We
already know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
You know what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
And do you ever think that was difficult? I feel
like men don't really care, but like for women, when
you have to transition into like like married life, and
it's kind of like you are you distance yourself a
little bit. Do you think that's hard or sad or
like any of your girlfriends or like girl, we haven't
seen you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
For me, it came natural.

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
It wasn't harder said, okay, it was like this.

Speaker 7 (01:26:32):
Man, like we didn't you know, we hadn't moved around,
like we're not we're not from We're not from Atlanta, Louis.
So this was my friend and I was doing all
the fun stuff before we got married. We was going
taking random trips to Miami, kicky, kicking hard.

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
We didn't really stop kicking it.

Speaker 7 (01:26:48):
Soil we have we had kids, is even in we
do get a chance to get away, like we go hard.

Speaker 1 (01:26:53):
So no, I would rather go.

Speaker 7 (01:26:54):
I'm like, and then when I go with him, I
ain't gotta think like.

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Yeah, talked about that a lot, like being able to
turn your brain off with you with the man. That's
the little thing that I wish.

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
I gotta.

Speaker 7 (01:27:10):
It ain't even about the money, just about the fact
I don't have to handle nothing. It's just like I
don't even to ask, like I'm just in a car,
Like I want to just be in a car ride
with a bunch of girls that I got to look
out for, and I'm that super overprotective friend, Like I'm
the one that's like.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
Like I'm watching everybody.

Speaker 7 (01:27:27):
I don't hand on a swivel, like that's my head
is on a swibow. I'm a leo, so I'm naturally
like protective.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
I'm that person. So when I'm with him, I don't
have to be that, Like I get to be a girl.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
I feel good to hear her say that bad.

Speaker 4 (01:27:39):
That's like, yeah, that's what I was trying to do.
I'm glad she's so.

Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
I love it. Okay, do we answer answer over questions?

Speaker 4 (01:27:49):
How do I balance wanting to be a good wife
without feeling like I've given up on my single self?
And should I talk?

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:27:55):
Should she talk to her husband about it?

Speaker 5 (01:27:57):
For sure?

Speaker 7 (01:27:58):
And what should she say exactly where she feels being
around the bus?

Speaker 5 (01:28:04):
He needs to know, he needs to know so he
can make his decision or so they can.

Speaker 1 (01:28:08):
Work on it, because maybe he's boring and he needed.

Speaker 4 (01:28:11):
But that's the decision relationship.

Speaker 5 (01:28:14):
Yeah problem, Well.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
Good luck girl. Write us back and let us know
how it goes. Hopefully in the end of this, y'all
start having fun, taking trips and doing the things whatever
it is you want to do go in the brunch.
Maybe your friends can come and you can send us
a cocktail next time.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
We hope it works out.

Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
Yeah, so again, if you guys want to ask us
a question, said fights at cocktailspot dot com. And now
it's time for us to move on to the cocktails.

Speaker 11 (01:28:39):
Uh but how do don't mean.

Speaker 6 (01:28:49):
You think.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
Is some cash and pace it?

Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
Once upon a time, not long ago, I was a pop.
If you have a cocktail that you maybe want us
to read on the show, make sure you send it
in cocktails at cocktailspot dot com. That's c O C
K T A l E. S all right, you guys,
do y'all have a cocktail for us today?

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
This is the story that you share, that is, you
can even share. You're a combined one. Maybe how he proposed?
Maybe y'all first date, maybe the last date? Maybe if
you'll ever read a threesome.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
Shoot and it doesn't have to.

Speaker 10 (01:29:42):
Be wild, embarrassing, romantic? Sweet sweet, I don't know what
I can say?

Speaker 5 (01:29:59):
You got, I follow your.

Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
Leag What y'all got much of a team?

Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
Y'all? She's like, no, no, it could be adventurous, sporadic, random.

Speaker 4 (01:30:16):
A good surprise that either one of you did for
the other. I love a good surprise story.

Speaker 8 (01:30:22):
Well, I say, when when you like one. My partner
came to town one time. It was my birthday. We're
finna go out, and my party was finna go out
and kick it hard for my birthday. Had clubs playing out,
all kinds of things. Just surprised me with a plane
tickets to New York to a Jay Z concert.

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
He was on the floor. Man.

Speaker 8 (01:30:45):
We hit some fine restaurants. I can't even think of
all the places we went. Strip clubs, fell Aslip, strip Club,
fell It was a good night.

Speaker 5 (01:30:56):
Man. That was probably one of the It was my birthday,
but that was my.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
Best like that was and she surprised you. He had
never even been in there.

Speaker 8 (01:31:07):
I had been Wow, didn't know I was going. Had
my partner were finished, go kick it? I had the
whole weekend playing what we's.

Speaker 5 (01:31:13):
Finna do it? She surprised me, baby, that was that
was big to me.

Speaker 4 (01:31:18):
That what your partner say.

Speaker 5 (01:31:21):
I told he gotta go home. I'm like, bro, I'm
going to New York in the morning.

Speaker 8 (01:31:24):
That ship he was finna do we ain't doing It's like,
damn go home, man, I.

Speaker 7 (01:31:31):
Can take so that brings me to what I can
think of. That was a super sweet, kind of surprised.
It was my birthday, this was this was before that though.

Speaker 5 (01:31:39):
Okay, he this is when we were We were.

Speaker 7 (01:31:43):
In Chicago, but he was out of town for like
a week or two before her birthday and he came
back in town on my birthday.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
And so you know, when it's when.

Speaker 7 (01:31:52):
They be going that long, the first thing you're gonna
do when he hit that doors, take them clothes off.

Speaker 1 (01:31:57):
It's time to get it on. You know.

Speaker 7 (01:31:58):
I was so excited to him, old baby, come here,
come here. And so you know, he's laying in the
bed and he was like, you didn't even know notice.
Oh he gave me a birthday present.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
It was a bag.

Speaker 7 (01:32:08):
He had bag and it was so cute, right, and
then we got to it. So we laying in the bed,
we kids sat hugging. He was like, you didn't even
notice my other birthday present?

Speaker 1 (01:32:15):
And I was like, what is it? And I looked
at him and I was like, what is it?

Speaker 7 (01:32:21):
And I just looked at him, and all of a sudden,
I noticed that he had gotten my name tatted on
his chin. Yeah, he's full fully covered from here on
to here, his arms everything, but all his other tattoos
are black.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
And my name was in red on his heart.

Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
You know it's real.

Speaker 7 (01:32:39):
Yeah, we're already married. No, we weren't even engage yet.
This was before we even got it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
Did you cry? I don't know, did I?

Speaker 7 (01:32:49):
I think I was just too happy. He definitely got
some extra hair that night. Yeah, even have to do that.
It was like so unexpected that we had never talked
about getting our names tattooed on each other. Sure enough,
after that, I went and got his name tattooed on me.
He got my name on his heart right here, but

(01:33:11):
I wouldn't have got like, are notwhere?

Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
And this is all before we got married in woww
story And you know we had some intad.

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
Y'all make people feel special on their birthday, like.

Speaker 4 (01:33:36):
You want to you want to sit by somebody, y'all
just keep cheesing at each other.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
And honestly, even.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
If somebody, if your person is like, you don't have
to do anything. If your man is like, you don't
have to give me do something.

Speaker 5 (01:33:46):
For the man.

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
If you need ideas, please slide on my dms. I
have a ton of them that I've done for several men.
Just I'll give you all the links and all the things.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
Y'all. Thank you so much for joining us.

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
It was so refreshing to have happy marriage smiling y'all
couldn't start looking at each other.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
Thank you so much for fake. Let everybody know where
they can keep up what.

Speaker 3 (01:34:08):
You got coming up, Instagram's websites. Anything you want to
plug right now?

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
Yes, so you can follow us on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
Minds is Jenna dot Nea.

Speaker 8 (01:34:15):
That's j e n n A dot n i A
and I'm stacks with a Z s mm.

Speaker 7 (01:34:21):
And also, of course follow our podcast Love and flas Ship,
where we talk all things love and flas shit.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
We tell you our love story.

Speaker 1 (01:34:28):
We got more stories, y'all.

Speaker 7 (01:34:29):
It's been a long time, and we've also interviewed a
lot of other couples and singles who share their love stories,
the ups, the downs, the good, the bad, the ugly.
And that Instagram is at Love and flash Ship without
the I YouTube Love and flash Everything is love and
Flashy TikTok Love and flash It without the eye.

Speaker 1 (01:34:47):
But thank y'all so much. Y'all have some amazing questions.

Speaker 5 (01:34:53):
Good question, Love is flad.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
We're gonna we're.

Speaker 7 (01:34:55):
Gonna reverse it, love and flash it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:59):
We're working on it, y'a.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
And yeah, we appreciate.

Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
We have some gifts for y'all, will give you. Got
anything else side Kiki, No, that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
I just want to make sure that you guys remember
check the description box because we do have other things
going on, but we didn't want to cut them off,
so it's in a description box. Click the link, don't
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Speaker 9 (01:35:28):
Goodbye, bye bye bye dot dot Brown relation

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