5921 MY HUSBAND KEEPS NUDES OF HIS EX! Freedomain Call In

5921 MY HUSBAND KEEPS NUDES OF HIS EX! Freedomain Call In

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0:00

So I wrote, Hello Stefan, I am

0:02

in my early 20s with a Catholic

0:04

background and was a virgin when I

0:06

met my future husband who

0:08

had a chaotic sexual pass

0:10

with toxic women. I need your

0:13

help to better understand myself.

0:15

His sexual pass is bothering me

0:17

often when I think about it

0:19

or when he is telling me

0:21

about it. I would then imagine

0:23

it. The same results with

0:25

not wanting to show my

0:28

husband affection and happiness would

0:30

change. And then I feel content

0:32

for him even though he did

0:34

those things before me and treats

0:36

me good loving and with

0:39

great respect besides one story

0:41

with a woman. Those imaginations hurt

0:43

a lot and I will have

0:45

thoughts like I'm not special and

0:48

only a number. I know that

0:50

I'm compared to some excess and

0:52

also do it by myself when

0:54

I got to know his friends

0:56

and also his female friend

0:58

denied to me that they

1:00

were friends with benefits and

1:02

once later he told me the

1:05

truth without repent and seriousness

1:07

I was very hard he

1:09

then said that I would have been

1:11

better no that it would have been

1:13

better not to tell the truth

1:16

because then he wouldn't have such

1:18

problems with which still

1:20

wounds me This showed me that

1:22

he doesn't have the virtues of

1:25

honesty and repentance, but then other

1:27

times he has. He then wanted

1:29

to invite his from her wedding,

1:32

the imagination, lack of respect and

1:34

the shame of his want led

1:36

to many arguments and almost

1:39

breaking of our engagement. This

1:41

story that felt like he doesn't

1:44

love me, I'm not the number

1:46

one, he doesn't respect and honor

1:48

me and my family. My husband

1:50

now has a lightly depression,

1:53

a depressing face, where he

1:55

isn't showing much sexual desire,

1:57

but I want to have sex

1:59

heat. just doesn't feel like it.

2:02

Yesterday he said that one of

2:04

the reasons is that I'm too

2:06

much sexually available. In the past,

2:09

he needed to earn sex from

2:11

his partner's heart or it was

2:13

scarce and not like with me.

2:16

Sometimes it feels like he would

2:18

want to change my character and

2:20

my thinking like he wouldn't like

2:23

or love me. It would be

2:25

nice if I could talk to

2:28

you, Stefan, do I have unrealistic

2:30

views? And do I exaggerate and

2:32

take things to serious? I'm thankful

2:35

for all things I learned from

2:37

you and hope you can help

2:39

me. Well I appreciate that. That's

2:42

a tough, it's a tough situation.

2:44

I really, I sympathize with you

2:47

enormously and maybe you can tell

2:49

me a little bit about the

2:51

history of your relationship with your

2:54

husband. The history

2:56

of our relationship,

2:58

I mean, we

3:00

met last year

3:03

in February, got

3:05

engaged very quickly,

3:07

I think it

3:09

would have been

3:11

after two months,

3:13

and then in

3:16

September we got

3:18

married. Yes, I'm

3:20

in my early

3:22

20s and he's

3:24

in his early

3:26

30s. Oh, okay.

3:28

And did you

3:31

meet through church

3:33

or some other

3:35

place? We met

3:37

in real life.

3:39

No, not in

3:41

church. Okay. And

3:44

what was it

3:46

that drew you

3:48

to him? Oh,

3:50

he was very

3:52

muscular. Yes, it

3:54

was a funny

3:56

guy and... people

4:00

respected him a lot

4:03

and yes, he seemed

4:05

very nice to shed

4:08

and was funny and

4:11

to joking. Yes. Okay,

4:13

and how tall is

4:16

he? Okay, and would

4:19

you say that he's

4:21

very good looking to

4:24

you? And he is

4:26

overweight. Ah, okay. So

4:29

when we met, I

4:32

wasn't interested in any

4:34

sexual way, I just

4:37

was bored and was

4:39

sitting there and thought,

4:42

hey, this seems like

4:45

a funny guy or

4:47

maybe. Yes, because yeah,

4:50

maybe I just, yeah,

4:53

I just was bored

4:55

and thought I could

4:58

talk to him. And

5:00

yes, I mean, his

5:03

character is very attractive,

5:06

but his overweight, I

5:08

mean, he has a

5:11

pretty face, but his,

5:14

but the overweight stuff

5:16

was a very big

5:19

issue at the beginning

5:21

for me. Yes. You're

5:24

not overweight. Is that

5:27

right? No, I'm not.

5:29

Okay. So you said

5:32

that people respect him

5:35

and when I ask

5:37

these questions, I'm not

5:40

doubting you, I just

5:42

want to make sure

5:45

I understand what you

5:48

mean. So what is

5:50

it that people respect

5:53

about your husband? Where

5:56

he works, he

5:59

has much to

6:01

say. and he

6:03

can organize things

6:06

very well and

6:08

is, oh wait,

6:11

yes I mean

6:13

he can also

6:16

organize things very

6:18

well. His speeches

6:20

are very great

6:23

and he makes

6:25

very good events.

6:29

So he's a kind

6:31

of public figure and

6:33

he works very hard.

6:35

And he's also very

6:38

passionate about his job.

6:40

So yeah, that's the

6:42

things that people respect.

6:44

Okay, I appreciate that.

6:47

And how long did

6:49

it take after you

6:51

met? Because you had

6:53

hesitations because of the

6:56

weight and maybe the

6:58

age difference, but how

7:00

long did it take

7:02

after you met that

7:05

you began to find

7:07

him sexually attractive? I

7:09

mean, it was so

7:11

that the first time

7:14

where we met, I

7:16

told him that the

7:18

overweight thing is... But

7:20

it's a big issue

7:23

for me and he

7:25

said, I mean, we

7:27

can just meet for

7:29

a date and see

7:32

how it goes. Maybe

7:34

we like each other.

7:36

Maybe not. And I

7:38

would say that after

7:41

the first date and

7:43

a couple of calls

7:45

about what's here and

7:47

a couple of calls.

7:51

Yeah, it wasn't as

7:53

much, it wasn't a

7:55

big issue for me

7:57

anymore. And how overweight,

8:00

sorry, how overweight? Is

8:02

he? I mean he

8:04

weighs 100 and over

8:07

100 kilos for his

8:09

type of figure. He

8:11

could lose 30 kilograms.

8:14

Oh, okay. So gosh,

8:16

what is that? I

8:18

always get kilometers to

8:20

miles and pounds. Is

8:23

it 2.2 kilograms? So

8:25

he's like 220 pounds,

8:27

so he's like 220

8:30

pounds, something like that.

8:32

I think one pound

8:34

is half a kilogram.

8:36

Or isn't it? I

8:39

don't know. Yeah, one

8:41

kilogram is 2.2 pounds.

8:43

I actually did have

8:46

that right. Okay. So,

8:48

so he's, if he's

8:50

100 kilograms, he's 220

8:53

pounds. Yes, he's 130

8:55

kilograms. Yes. Oh, gosh.

8:57

Okay. He would lose

8:59

30 kilograms, everything would

9:02

be all right because

9:04

he is, I mean

9:06

he is, the shoulders

9:09

are very, how would

9:11

you say? He's almost

9:13

300 pounds. Yes. And

9:16

he's not tall? No,

9:18

but very muscular. And

9:20

muscular, hang on, so

9:22

is he heavy because

9:25

he's muscular? muscular but

9:27

has also belly fat

9:29

and but also he

9:32

has oh wow yeah

9:34

I would just broad

9:36

chill so he's big

9:38

bone yes he's got

9:41

some muscles and he's

9:43

fat okay okay I

9:45

just I got it

9:48

I got it okay

9:51

All right, so you

9:53

went on a couple

9:55

of dates and you

9:57

found yourself was it

10:00

what was it that

10:02

you found particularly positive

10:04

or about him? Oh,

10:06

his character. I could,

10:08

yeah, I mean, we

10:10

could talk very easily.

10:12

It was a lot

10:15

of fun and also

10:17

politically we are on

10:19

the same side and

10:21

also when it comes

10:23

to our future plans,

10:25

it was also very

10:27

similar. almost the same

10:30

I would say and

10:32

yes I mean he's

10:34

a smart man his

10:36

jokes are very great

10:38

and he was very

10:40

mature and yeah I

10:42

mean a lot of

10:44

things just fit I

10:47

mean you can't dress

10:49

very well as intelligent

10:51

and yeah you can

10:53

talk very good with

10:55

him Now,

10:59

these are all nice

11:01

attributes, but they're not

11:04

quite the same as

11:06

morals. Oh, you asked

11:09

about morals. Okay, it

11:11

can be very, okay.

11:14

And so after we

11:16

laid it and I

11:19

got to know him,

11:21

I also saw what

11:24

moral values he had

11:26

and he was... What's...

11:30

Sorry, I lost a lot.

11:32

No, listen, it's no problem,

11:35

take your time. I mean,

11:37

it's tough stuff to talk

11:40

about for sure, and I

11:42

sympathize. So, also, I know

11:45

the language barrier is a

11:47

challenge, but I admire anyone

11:49

who speaks another language, so

11:52

you can take your time

11:54

on that as well. Okay.

11:57

I mean, he was very...

12:00

What more of a

12:03

value that he has?

12:05

He was at that

12:08

time, I thought, honest,

12:11

I mean with 98%

12:13

of the time, he

12:16

is honest, helpful, also

12:18

loving, and sympathy. Yes.

12:21

He says, yeah, I

12:23

would say that's the

12:26

things. Okay, so honesty

12:29

and sympathy? Yes, sympathy,

12:31

but also not all

12:34

the time, maybe also

12:36

only in 98% of

12:39

the time. Well, I

12:41

mean, honesty is good,

12:44

but one of the

12:46

problems you have is

12:49

that he's been honest

12:52

about his dating history,

12:54

right? Yes, so

12:56

the honesty, sorry, the honesty

12:59

shows a certain lack of

13:01

empathy. Yeah, in a kind

13:04

of way, you are right.

13:06

It was so that when

13:08

we dated, example, I asked

13:11

him how high is your

13:13

body count. And he said

13:16

that it was only six

13:18

and after engagement. told me

13:20

the truth and it was

13:23

a little bit higher. And

13:25

I'm very, what's the word?

13:28

I don't need to. So

13:30

hang on, so sorry, you

13:33

said that his character was

13:35

that he was honest. Oh,

13:37

and I'm also a very

13:40

curious character and I will

13:42

ask a lot of questions.

13:45

All right, hang on, hang

13:47

on. Sorry, so you said

13:50

that his, one of his

13:52

qualities was that he was

13:54

honest. But he lied about

13:57

his body count. Yes, I

13:59

know. I know, so that's

14:02

my problem. I... Well, no,

14:04

but he lied before you

14:06

got married. Yes. Okay, so...

14:09

Before we got engaged and

14:11

so on. Sorry, was it

14:14

after you got engaged, right?

14:16

Oh, it was so that

14:19

before our engagement I knew

14:21

that the number was higher,

14:23

but he didn't want to

14:26

tell me. And after we

14:28

got engaged and after a

14:31

party... He told me when

14:33

he was drunk. Yeah, I

14:36

mean, he didn't want to

14:38

make a bad impression on

14:40

me and scare me off.

14:43

So, I mean, yeah, I

14:45

mean, if a person... So,

14:48

sorry, sorry to interrupt, how

14:50

long into the relationship? after

14:52

you started dating, or more

14:55

than just the first couple

14:57

of dates, like after you

15:00

started becoming actually romantically interested

15:02

in him, how long did

15:05

you first begin to know

15:07

that his body count was

15:09

higher than he had said?

15:12

Must have been one and

15:14

one month and maybe two

15:17

weeks. Oh, so like six

15:19

weeks, right. Yeah,

15:21

probably. Okay, so six weeks

15:23

into dating him, you find

15:25

out that he lies about,

15:27

I mean, these are very

15:29

important things, right? Yes. Okay,

15:32

so once you found out

15:34

that he was lying, why

15:36

did you continue? And this

15:38

doesn't, I don't mean this

15:40

to be critical, I'm genuinely

15:42

curious, like why, if he's

15:44

liar, if he's bearing false

15:46

witness, right? Is he also

15:48

Catholic, is he Christian? I

15:51

mean, he studied religion

15:54

and wanted to become

15:56

a... present so on

15:59

but in a no

16:01

not really oh so

16:03

no wait he's not

16:06

religious he's interested I

16:08

mean he was interested

16:11

in that but he's

16:13

not the type of

16:15

religious person and goes

16:18

to church and praise

16:20

Okay, sorry, let's just,

16:23

I need things to

16:25

be a little simpler,

16:27

please. Okay, so no.

16:30

Okay, is he religious?

16:32

Um, he, no. Okay,

16:35

that's, I'm not trying

16:37

to corner you, but

16:39

it can't be that

16:42

complicated a question. Yeah,

16:44

right, you're right. Okay,

16:47

so he's, when, when

16:49

did you find out

16:51

that he wasn't religious?

16:56

The very beginning. You need

16:59

to know that I'm

17:01

also not very religious. I

17:03

mean, I come from

17:05

a Catholic background, but I

17:08

may be going only

17:10

once in a month to

17:12

church. So... Well, but

17:14

you believe in God, I

17:17

assume, and you are a

17:19

Christian, but you don't attend

17:22

church that much, or is

17:24

there another way that

17:26

you would put it? Yes.

17:29

That's right. Okay, so

17:31

you're religious but not very

17:33

institutional, not much institution.

17:35

Yes. But does he believe

17:38

in God? Or Jesus,

17:40

does he believe in salvation,

17:42

does he believe in prayer,

17:45

these sorts of things?

17:47

It's maybe 50-50. I mean

17:49

if he would ask

17:51

him if that is God

17:54

I think he would

17:56

ask So you were, yes.

17:58

You don't know? Okay,

18:00

how long have you known

18:03

him overall? One year, almost

18:05

one year. So you've known

18:08

him for a year and

18:10

you've not asked him

18:12

if he believes in God?

18:15

I asked him that,

18:17

I mean, it's religion. and

18:19

he is it's a

18:21

little bit complicated. I think

18:24

he's not, no it's

18:26

not, I mean he may

18:28

not give a clear answer

18:31

but it's not that

18:33

complicated. Yeah he's giving not

18:35

the answers is a

18:37

thing by, with him. Well

18:40

I mean but complicated

18:42

and confusing answers are usually

18:44

a sign of manipulation.

18:46

Okay. I mean for simple,

18:49

for simple things that I

18:51

do you believe in God?

18:55

I mean, do you believe in

18:57

a higher power that is immortal

18:59

and all knowing? That's not super

19:02

complicated, right? I mean, it may

19:04

take different forms, maybe you have

19:07

slightly different perceptions of how it

19:09

manifests or so on, but do

19:11

you believe in God is not

19:14

that complicated? I mean, I think

19:16

he would answer this question with

19:18

a yes, and then he would

19:21

also say that maybe yes, but

19:23

he's not very sure of that.

19:26

Well, no, but you can't say,

19:28

yes, I believe in God, and

19:30

I'm not very sure of it.

19:33

Right? Yes. I mean, if someone

19:35

would ask me this question, I

19:38

would easily say yes. Sure. Now,

19:40

you could say, I'm an agnostic,

19:42

which is, I don't have an

19:45

opinion on the existence of God.

19:47

But I'm not sure what position

19:49

he takes. Like, what is his

19:52

actual position? Yeah.

19:56

Mixed, mixed I

19:58

would say. But,

20:00

hmm. Okay, that's

20:03

fine. I was

20:05

just wondering, so

20:07

how long, sorry,

20:09

remind me, how

20:11

long did you

20:14

guys know each

20:16

other before you

20:18

got married? six

20:20

and a half

20:22

months. Okay. And

20:25

do you know

20:27

why did you

20:29

want to get

20:31

married more quickly

20:33

or did he

20:36

want to get

20:38

married more quickly

20:40

or how did

20:42

that go? We

20:44

both wanted to

20:47

get married quickly.

20:49

And why is

20:51

that? Yes. I

20:53

mean, yeah, I

20:55

mean, I wanted.

20:58

I mean, we

21:00

both. loved each

21:02

other and he

21:04

wanted to have

21:06

a husband. We

21:09

had a, yeah,

21:11

I mean, he

21:13

just, he had

21:15

a history with

21:17

not very committed

21:19

relationships and one

21:22

relationship that went

21:24

on. six years

21:26

without any real

21:28

commitment and he

21:30

just wanted to

21:33

make. Yes, how

21:35

would you say?

21:37

I mean, it

21:39

was so that

21:41

why should we

21:44

waste time or

21:46

play marriage if

21:48

we could just

21:50

get married? Well,

21:53

I mean, but you know

21:56

the reason why it's sometimes

21:58

worth waiting a little bit.

22:01

because you have to get

22:03

to know the person better.

22:06

Because people can put up

22:08

a false front, right? They

22:11

can pretend to be one

22:13

way and they're actually not

22:16

that way. Yes, and... And

22:18

this guy had red flags

22:21

because if he's very charming

22:23

and very funny and still

22:26

single in his early 30s,

22:28

that's a warning flag. And

22:31

also if he's had a

22:33

six-year relationship without any commitment

22:36

and he's had a high

22:38

body count... That's another red

22:41

flag, right? Yeah. So it

22:43

would be to try and

22:46

figure out what his character

22:48

was, what his personality was,

22:51

rather than what he presented

22:53

himself as, if that makes

22:56

sense. Hmm. Yeah. So,

23:00

and to know

23:02

that my mother

23:04

is very Catholic

23:07

and my father

23:09

not, and... Sorry,

23:11

your mother is

23:13

very Catholic and

23:16

your father is

23:18

not Catholic? Yes.

23:20

Then she's not

23:22

very Catholic. I

23:25

mean... who's not

23:27

Catholic, then you

23:29

can't be very

23:31

Catholic. It was

23:34

so that she

23:36

got carefully later

23:38

in life when

23:40

one of my

23:43

brothers was born.

23:45

So when they

23:47

met and started

23:49

dating they were

23:52

both, I would

23:54

say... Yeah,

23:56

on the paper Catholics

23:58

bad. but

24:01

nothing more. And why

24:03

did your brother, sorry,

24:05

why did your mother

24:07

become more Catholic when

24:10

your brother was born?

24:12

Because she had a

24:14

hard time giving birth

24:16

to him and yeah,

24:19

but at the end

24:21

it worked because the

24:23

first, this was a

24:25

half-third birth. Her two

24:28

first births were with

24:30

a C-section. and she

24:32

wanted to give birth

24:34

like a normal woman

24:36

and it was very

24:39

hard but at the

24:41

end it worked with

24:43

my brothers that was

24:45

the reason I'm sorry

24:48

she became Catholic or

24:50

she became more Catholic

24:52

because she had natural

24:54

childbirth I mean I

24:56

would say what does

24:59

that mean I don't

25:01

know what that means

25:03

and maybe not Catholic

25:05

but she started believing

25:08

in God because yeah

25:10

she would say that

25:12

he helped him give

25:14

birth to yeah to

25:17

my brother okay all

25:19

right so she became

25:21

more religious because God

25:23

helped her give birth

25:25

yes okay and your

25:28

father did not become

25:30

more religious is that

25:32

right no my father

25:34

will maybe only go

25:37

once a year once

25:39

a year at Christmas

25:41

to the church, but

25:43

nothing more. Right. I

25:46

mean, yes. He... If

25:48

I would ask him

25:50

if there is God,

25:52

I think he would

25:54

also answer if yes,

25:57

but he never read...

25:59

I mean... I mean

26:01

he was never so

26:03

much interested. in religion

26:06

that he would read

26:08

the Bible or something

26:10

like this? Sorry, he

26:12

was or wasn't so

26:14

much interested in religion?

26:17

He wasn't so much.

26:19

Okay, so he wouldn't

26:21

read the Bible or

26:23

anything? No. Okay. And

26:26

so your mother became

26:28

much more Catholic, your

26:30

father remains agnostic, like

26:32

he doesn't really have

26:35

much of an opinion,

26:37

but he'll go once

26:39

a year? Yeah. So

26:41

what did they think

26:43

of, I'm going to

26:46

call him Dieter, your

26:48

husband? Okay. So what

26:50

did they think of

26:52

Dieter when you were

26:55

dating him? Okay, when

26:57

I was dating him,

26:59

I mean, when I

27:01

was dating him, I

27:03

told my parents very

27:06

much of our dates.

27:08

And they had, oh

27:10

yeah, I think the

27:12

only thing that my

27:15

mother had to criticize

27:17

was that he is

27:19

an only child. And

27:21

I think my father

27:24

criticized nothing. Yeah. No,

27:27

more. I have six

27:30

siblings. Six siblings. Okay,

27:32

and where are you

27:35

in the birth order?

27:37

I'm the oldest. Okay,

27:40

and how many girls

27:42

are there? Five. Five

27:45

girls, wow, okay. All

27:47

right. So, would your

27:50

parents say, especially because

27:52

you're a young woman?

27:55

Do you think your

27:57

parents would agree with

28:00

the statement that it

28:02

is important? for parents

28:04

to do some sort

28:07

of review or vetting.

28:09

They would do some

28:11

sort of vetting on

28:14

who's coming into the

28:16

family through marriage. I

28:18

mean, I think they

28:21

would answer with yes,

28:23

but when I introduced

28:25

my future husband, to

28:28

them. I will tell

28:30

you, I will tell

28:32

you how my mother

28:35

was in that evening.

28:37

She wasn't really there.

28:39

She was in the

28:42

kitchen and not really

28:44

sitting by the table

28:46

and asking deta questions

28:48

or anything. I mean,

28:51

I would say she...

28:53

You would also say

28:55

that she ignored him

28:58

most of the time

29:00

and my father was

29:02

sitting at the table

29:05

and they were talking

29:07

about politics and joking

29:09

and but there wasn't

29:12

there were no questions

29:14

like who are your

29:16

parents or what do

29:19

you? What do you

29:21

want with our daughter

29:23

or how do you

29:26

think your future will

29:28

look like? There wasn't

29:30

nothing like that and

29:33

I let her talk

29:35

with my mother, I

29:37

criticize my mother about

29:40

that because I thought

29:42

that she doesn't care

29:44

about me when she

29:47

isn't curious about the

29:49

man that I bring

29:51

to the home. to

29:53

introduce them. To introduce

29:56

them. Yeah. So that

29:58

was it. Okay, and

30:00

I suppose if you're

30:03

the oldest and still

30:05

in your early 20s,

30:07

there's not much that

30:10

your brothers would do

30:12

to vet this guy.

30:14

No. No, I have

30:17

the oldest brother 16

30:19

years old. So, no.

30:21

And what about grandparents?

30:24

Oh, they live in

30:26

another country and... Also,

30:28

we're on so much

30:31

curious, I mean my

30:33

grand, I have only

30:35

two grandpas. One grandma

30:38

is artistic, the other

30:40

is very Catholic and

30:42

she only asks, yeah,

30:45

is he Catholic? No,

30:47

he isn't Catholic, he's,

30:49

he was a Protestant

30:52

and isn't anymore. On

30:54

the paper, a protestant.

30:56

This was a big

30:58

deal for her because

31:01

how are you going

31:03

to raise the kids

31:05

in which in which

31:08

religious direction? Yeah, nothing

31:10

wrong. Also, my uncle

31:12

didn't ask such questions

31:15

like you would probably

31:17

ask when your daughter

31:19

would bring a guy

31:22

home. Yeah,

31:25

well I'm certainly sorry

31:27

for that. And what

31:30

happened when you meant

31:33

to meet his family?

31:35

Dieter's family. Oh, yeah,

31:38

that's another story. I

31:40

met his father, I

31:43

think one month after

31:46

we started dating. Yeah,

31:48

he wasn't curious. He

31:51

just asked what I'm

31:54

doing. and how Yeah,

31:56

and maybe how much

31:59

siblings I have and

32:01

what are my parents

32:04

do. And that was

32:07

it. And his mother,

32:09

for example, who lives

32:12

nearby only 20 minutes,

32:14

it takes only 20

32:17

minutes with the car,

32:20

she, I got to

32:22

know her only two

32:25

days before the wedding.

32:27

My husband would say

32:30

that the reason for

32:33

this wasn't only her

32:35

fault, it was also

32:38

my fault because I

32:41

had a lot of

32:43

time and yeah, and

32:46

I mean, there were

32:48

other dates that he

32:51

chose with his mother

32:54

to, yeah. that I

32:56

could meet her, but

32:59

very spontaneously, it didn't

33:01

work out. So at

33:04

the end, I got

33:07

to know her two

33:09

days before the wedding.

33:12

I would say, yeah,

33:15

his parents don't really

33:17

care what he's doing

33:20

in life. Okay. And

33:22

why didn't you call

33:25

me? You

33:30

know, I thought about

33:32

calling you when this

33:35

thing with this one

33:37

female friend, when I

33:39

got to know the

33:42

truth, I thought about

33:44

calling you. Sorry, you

33:46

mean the truth about

33:49

calling you? Sorry, you

33:51

mean the truth about

33:53

his friend who he

33:55

slept with who he

33:58

wanted to the wedding?

34:00

Yes. I thought about

34:02

calling you, but probably

34:05

at the end of

34:07

the day I thought

34:09

that maybe I exaggerating

34:12

and yeah, and take

34:14

this too serious. Okay.

34:16

All right. So when

34:18

after, when did you

34:21

first begin to notice

34:23

real problems in the

34:25

relationship? Yeah,

34:28

I would say when

34:30

I realized that he

34:32

wasn't honest when I,

34:34

yeah, when I, when

34:37

he told me the

34:39

truth about this friends

34:41

with benefits woman. Oh,

34:44

that was before, so

34:46

that was before you

34:48

got married, right? Yes.

34:50

This must have been

34:53

one, maybe three weeks

34:55

after we got engaged.

34:57

Okay, so tell me

34:59

a little bit about

35:02

what happened. I mean,

35:04

I've got the general

35:06

outline, but more details.

35:09

Yes, I mean, it

35:11

was so that I

35:13

met her two times

35:15

because I was, before

35:18

I was told the

35:20

truth. And when I

35:22

first met her, I

35:24

was told, yeah, this

35:27

is, can I give

35:29

her a name? Let's

35:31

just give another name.

35:34

Okay, I will call

35:36

her Emma. Emma, okay,

35:38

good. Yeah, Emma. So,

35:40

the first time when

35:43

I met Emma, we

35:45

were sitting on the

35:47

sofa and I tried.

35:49

to talk to her

35:52

but she was very

35:54

yeah she how would

35:56

you say a person

35:59

who doesn't like to

36:01

talk. I need the

36:03

word. Oh, represent or

36:05

shy or something like

36:08

that. Yes, shy. Yes,

36:10

I mean, she was

36:12

very shy and after

36:14

a while, maybe after

36:17

one hour, so I

36:19

asked her if she

36:21

and Dieta, if they

36:24

had... in the past

36:26

sex and both of

36:28

them denied that. Yeah

36:30

and then I saw

36:33

her a second time

36:35

and blah blah blah

36:37

and yes three weeks

36:39

after we got engaged

36:42

I and Stita we

36:44

went to a funeral

36:46

and funerals in Germany.

36:49

They are like an

36:51

event where people at

36:53

the event where people

36:55

attend. eat and drink

36:58

a lot. And yeah,

37:00

my house, yeah, instead

37:02

I've heard that I'm,

37:04

yeah, that I could,

37:07

yeah, that this truth

37:09

wouldn't be a problem

37:11

to me. And he

37:14

just, yeah, I mean,

37:16

we were outside. He

37:18

had, I think his

37:20

beer in his hand

37:23

and just. Oh yeah,

37:25

we were talking with

37:27

two other friends and

37:29

we had the topic

37:32

about sex and friends

37:34

with benefits and blah

37:36

blah. And I then

37:39

asked him again if

37:41

he really had any

37:43

sex with a friend

37:45

with Emma, right? Not

37:48

especially with Emma, just

37:50

for curious as friends

37:52

as a whole. Yeah,

37:54

just friends as a

37:57

whole. Yeah, just that.

37:59

Yeah, and he just

38:01

looks at me with

38:04

the beyond the hand

38:06

and. says to me,

38:08

yeah, what do you

38:10

think with whom I

38:13

had sex with? Yeah,

38:15

with Emma and I

38:17

just saw and yeah,

38:19

I was watching him

38:22

and realized that he

38:24

wasn't honest. Right, okay.

38:26

And what happened after

38:29

that? I

38:32

made a very big

38:34

scene. I mean, what

38:37

do you mean? A

38:39

very big scene. It

38:41

was a new topic

38:43

between me and him

38:45

and on the funeral,

38:48

between those two other

38:50

friends. I mean, I

38:52

didn't want it to

38:54

make... too much of

38:56

a scene because of

38:59

the funeral because the

39:01

friend's mother died and

39:03

but yeah there was

39:05

a lot of discussion

39:07

and it didn't end

39:10

it by that day.

39:12

Okay and so tell

39:14

me a little bit

39:16

more about the scene

39:18

in more detail. I

39:21

was very disappointed of

39:23

Dieter and I was

39:25

very disappointed of Dieter

39:27

and I was very

39:29

disappointed of Dieter and

39:32

told him why. Why?

39:34

Yeah, I mean, I

39:36

was very disappointed of

39:38

Dieter. was... How could

39:40

you say, very shocked?

39:43

And yeah, I mean,

39:45

I was shocked that

39:47

I was so much

39:49

belied because... Well, because

39:51

Emma also was going

39:54

to come to your

39:56

wedding, right? Yes, this

39:58

was another point later

40:00

on in that conversation,

40:02

I said, but this

40:05

woman will never come

40:07

to our wedding and...

40:09

he said yes she

40:11

will and then it

40:13

wasn't oh sorry sorry

40:15

let me just that's

40:18

a big that's a

40:20

big thing so after

40:22

he admitted that he

40:24

lied to you about

40:26

having sex with him

40:29

he admitted that he

40:31

lied he just I

40:33

mean he could also

40:35

there was no repentance

40:37

now I need to

40:40

tell you the truth

40:42

allied in the past

40:44

oh I said my

40:46

name oh sorry I'll

40:48

I'll take it up

40:51

okay sorry I mean

40:53

he could have show

40:55

a little bit of

40:57

repentance and yeah, say

40:59

sorry and yeah, I'm

41:02

so sorry I lied

41:04

to you in the

41:06

past, I want to

41:08

tell you the truth

41:10

and so on, but

41:13

there was just, yeah,

41:15

what do you think,

41:17

with whom I slept,

41:19

yeah, with Emma? You

41:21

know, there was no...

41:25

No repentance. Okay.

41:28

No apology. Got

41:30

it. Okay. All

41:32

right. And yeah,

41:34

then... So sorry,

41:36

did you talk

41:38

to any friends

41:41

or family about

41:43

Dieter's lying and

41:45

his lack of

41:47

repentant? Yes. Yes,

41:49

I talked to...

41:51

to almost all

41:54

of my friends

41:56

and to his

41:58

friends. And

42:00

later on, I mean,

42:02

then after a couple

42:05

of months, yeah, no,

42:07

maybe one month before

42:09

the wedding, I, no,

42:12

no, somewhere in the

42:14

summer I told it

42:16

to my mother and

42:19

she only said, yeah,

42:21

no, that's not going

42:23

to happen. This woman

42:26

can't count to the

42:28

wedding. And month before

42:30

the wedding, I told

42:33

it also to my

42:35

father, because I had

42:37

a fight with Dieter

42:40

and I'm about that

42:42

topic. And I was

42:44

very hurt and cried

42:47

and my father saw

42:49

that and he then

42:51

asked, and he then

42:54

asked, yeah, what's wrong.

42:57

Yeah, what happened and

42:59

I just couldn't hold

43:02

it. Anyone told him

43:05

the truth? No. And

43:07

my father said, then

43:10

maybe don't marry him.

43:12

Okay. And what did

43:15

your mother say anything?

43:18

No, I mean, she

43:20

would just say, yeah.

43:23

How can he think

43:26

about something he gets

43:28

like this? It's not

43:31

going to happen. Okay.

43:34

So your mother said

43:36

don't marry him as

43:39

well? No. My father

43:42

was it. Your father?

43:44

And sorry, my mother

43:47

heard, what did your

43:50

mother say? Didn't give

43:52

me any advice. She

43:55

just said you know

43:58

this woman can't come

44:00

to the wedding. Right.

44:03

That it's, yeah, no.

44:06

There is no logical

44:08

explanation, only emotional, only

44:11

emotional arguments, emotional reasons,

44:14

because yeah, maybe some

44:16

other people don't have

44:19

a problem when a

44:22

former sexual. partner of

44:24

the husband comes to

44:27

the wedding, but I

44:30

have, but she didn't

44:32

care about that. Right,

44:35

okay. Okay, got it.

44:38

So, is it fair

44:40

to say that most

44:43

people understood what you

44:45

were upset about and

44:48

at least some people,

44:51

including your father said,

44:53

maybe it's better not

44:56

to marry him? It

45:00

was only my father,

45:02

my father, who had

45:05

this opinion. Yeah, I

45:07

mean, my husband would

45:10

say, yeah, don't be

45:12

so stiff. It's normal.

45:14

It's normal that people

45:17

in their friends cycle,

45:19

that they are, for

45:22

example. friends who have...

45:24

yeah that's... yeah that's...

45:27

I mean he's a

45:29

German and he would

45:32

say that yeah in

45:34

Germany it's normal that

45:37

friends have sex with

45:39

friends and they they...

45:42

and then after a

45:44

while they're not together

45:47

and then they have

45:49

sex with another friend

45:52

and such things. I'm

45:54

not a German. Sorry.

45:59

not a German?

46:01

No. No, I'm

46:03

not. Okay. All right.

46:06

And so did

46:08

you consider not

46:10

marrying him? Yes.

46:12

And yes, we

46:14

considered it. And after

46:17

we had, I

46:19

mean, when we

46:21

had a fight.

46:23

I would say

46:25

we both are

46:27

able to say things

46:29

that we both

46:31

regret at the

46:33

end or don't

46:35

really mean it

46:37

or don't really mean

46:40

it. One month

46:42

before we got

46:44

married, we had

46:46

a fight about

46:48

the phone and Dieter

46:51

said that yeah,

46:53

maybe we should

46:55

just... don't

46:57

get married very often engagement

46:59

because I just couldn't because

47:02

I just wanted to accept

47:04

the that this woman because

47:06

I just wouldn't accept this

47:08

woman on our wedding but

47:10

well but your issue sorry

47:12

your issue was that he

47:14

lied wasn't it mostly yeah

47:16

most yeah I mean, and

47:18

sorry to interrupt, but then

47:20

your issue became that he

47:22

showed no regret for his

47:24

lying and he wouldn't even

47:27

admit that he lied, right?

47:29

Yes, he would just say,

47:31

yeah, it wasn't lying because

47:33

I just didn't tell you

47:35

that, but that's not true

47:37

because I asked both of

47:39

them on the sofa and

47:41

I first met her. if

47:43

they had sex with each

47:45

other. No, no, but sorry,

47:47

and it doesn't matter, lying

47:49

by omission is the worst

47:51

form. lying because it doesn't

47:54

leave any marks. Yes I

47:56

mean if you just I

47:58

mean like sorry let me

48:00

just be clear let me

48:02

let me be clear about

48:04

this you can't have a

48:06

relationship with someone who works

48:08

on what could be called

48:10

technicalities so if somebody ever

48:12

says well technically I didn't

48:14

actually lie to you directly

48:16

because I never is like

48:19

that is not the spirit

48:21

of honesty that is somebody

48:23

who can make any excuse

48:25

and call any bad action,

48:27

anything they want, right? Yes.

48:29

Okay, got it. Yes. Okay.

48:31

And... All right, so he

48:33

lied about it, and then

48:35

he would not admit that

48:37

he lied. He did not

48:39

have any conscience or any

48:41

negative feelings. He didn't feel

48:43

guilty or he didn't express

48:46

any guilt or remorse or

48:48

anything like that. Those were

48:50

the major issues, right? Yes.

48:52

So why, why, how was

48:54

this resolved? I mean, why

48:56

did you get married? It,

48:58

I mean, at the end,

49:00

he just accepted that this

49:02

woman wouldn't come to the

49:04

wedding. No, but that wasn't

49:06

the issue. It wasn't the

49:08

issue was not whether she

49:11

came or not. That wasn't

49:13

the issue was not whether

49:15

she came or not. That

49:17

wasn't the issue. So that

49:19

doesn't that doesn't resolve anything.

49:21

And I'm sure he said

49:23

something like fine if it's

49:25

so important for you I

49:27

I won't bring him if

49:29

the you know it was

49:31

fine you know as opposed

49:33

to I did something wrong

49:35

and this is bad for

49:38

the engagement. You're right. So

49:40

the issue wasn't whether she

49:42

comes or not. The issue

49:44

was that he lied and

49:46

then he lied about lying

49:48

and he showed no remorse

49:50

and he insulted you for

49:52

being too. rural or provincial

49:54

or non-German to not be

49:56

as sophisticated. and wonderful as

49:58

all these people who apparently

50:00

just sleep together as you

50:03

and I might shake hands.

50:05

Yes. So he was very

50:07

dismissive or he put you

50:09

down as far as I

50:11

can understand it saying, hey

50:13

this is what all the

50:15

Germans do if you don't

50:17

understand it's because you're not

50:19

sophisticated or... I'm sorry? Yeah,

50:21

he would say it's normal

50:23

and average and what's your

50:25

problem everybody does that? Yes,

50:28

so that's a lie too.

50:31

It's normal in Germany. It's

50:33

also normal in Germany that

50:36

your parents are not curious

50:38

with whom you are together.

50:41

And he would say that

50:43

my expectations that a family

50:46

should show curious curiosity in

50:48

who you are bringing. But

50:51

that's unrealistic and he would

50:53

say, yeah, your family also

50:56

didn't do that. Well, he

50:58

was kind of right about

51:01

that, wasn't he? He was

51:03

right, yeah. Right, okay. All

51:06

right, so you have this

51:08

big fight and then how

51:11

was it resolved? He just

51:13

didn't want to accept it

51:16

and has said, yeah, you

51:18

don't really know her good

51:21

enough. Meet her a third

51:23

time and try to get

51:26

to know her, maybe you

51:28

would like her. So... No,

51:31

but that's nothing to... That's

51:33

not the issue at all,

51:36

right? Yeah. Now expecting you

51:38

to be friends, expecting you,

51:41

his fiancé or wife, to

51:43

be friends with a woman

51:46

he slept with a woman

51:48

he slept with is insane.

51:52

Maybe not friends,

51:54

but accept, yeah,

51:56

I don't, yeah,

51:58

I mean, I

52:01

know, it's insane.

52:03

a lover to

52:05

have an ex-lover

52:08

at your wedding

52:10

is insane. I

52:12

couldn't give him

52:14

any rational reasons

52:17

why really only

52:19

emotional only emotional

52:21

and yeah only

52:24

emotional subjective reasons.

52:26

Well The

52:28

objective reason, the objective reason

52:30

is that you want people

52:32

in your life, when you

52:35

get married, you want people

52:37

in your life who can

52:39

be objective about your marriage,

52:42

and ex-lovers, people you've had

52:44

sex with, can't be objective

52:46

about your marriage. They can't

52:48

give you good advice because

52:51

they are too bound up

52:53

through sexual activity in at

52:55

least one person. in the

52:58

marriage, so they can't be

53:00

objective. It's a conflict of

53:02

interest to have friends around

53:04

who you've slept with when

53:07

you get married. And having

53:09

ex-girlfriends at a wedding is

53:11

repulsive. It's psycho, it's horrible.

53:13

It's an insult to you.

53:16

It's not... Yeah, I know

53:18

that and he... Yeah, I

53:20

mean... I'm sorry, something's gone

53:23

on with an audio, sorry,

53:25

something's not quite right with

53:27

your audio, it seems to

53:29

be quite muffled. Okay. Because

53:32

he's starting a new life

53:34

of monogamy and... Yes. You

53:36

can't have previous sexual partners

53:39

as part of your new

53:41

marriage. Yes, especially if it

53:43

was only a person... I

53:45

mean, wasn't... It wasn't even

53:48

a relationship or something like

53:50

that. It was only to

53:52

have sex with. Well, you

53:55

don't know. You don't know

53:57

what it was because they're

53:59

lying. Yes. Right? So why

54:01

on earth would you know

54:04

anything? I wouldn't believe anything

54:06

that people say with regards

54:08

to this. And here's the

54:11

other thing. So let's say

54:13

that you didn't have a

54:15

crystal clear logical reason as

54:17

to why you didn't want

54:20

the woman he'd had sex

54:22

with at your wedding. Right?

54:24

Let's say you didn't have

54:26

a good objective reason, right?

54:29

So what? So what? A

54:31

friend of mine got married

54:33

and he had a lovely

54:36

four-poster bed that he'd had

54:38

for some years. And his

54:40

fiancé said, I'm not sleeping

54:42

in that bed because you've

54:45

had other women in that

54:47

bed because you've had other

54:49

women in that bed in

54:52

that bed because you've had

54:54

other women in that bed

54:56

in that bed. Now,

54:59

is that totally rational? I don't

55:01

know, but it doesn't really matter.

55:04

Because if she's not comfortable, and

55:06

this is what I said to

55:08

him, I said, look, if your

55:11

wife is not comfortable, then ditch

55:13

the bed. Don't have the bed.

55:15

Yes, and I want you to

55:17

watch you. Sorry, there's something going

55:20

on. I'm sorry, your audio is

55:22

bad again. I don't know what's

55:24

going on, but we're going to

55:27

have to fix it. Yeah, because

55:29

I can hear. Just stupid, stick

55:31

with that. Okay, good. Yeah, so

55:34

it doesn't matter if you don't

55:36

have some big objective rational reason

55:38

as to why, he should still

55:41

say, well, if it's really important

55:43

to you, of course my friend

55:45

won't be there, because you are

55:48

his sole loyalty now. You are

55:50

the loyalty that beats everything else.

55:52

So if you don't want a

55:55

woman he's had sex with at

55:57

your wedding, his loyalty is to

55:59

you, not to his friend. Because

56:02

if he says, well my loyalty

56:04

is to my friend who I

56:06

had sex with, not... to you,

56:09

who's going to be my bride,

56:11

my wife, the mother of my

56:13

children, and so on, then his

56:16

priorities are all wrong. You should

56:18

be his very highest priority. And

56:20

therefore, if you don't want something,

56:23

then he should say, okay, we

56:25

won't do it. Yeah. I mean,

56:27

then he would ask me, okay.

56:30

But I want her to be

56:33

at that wedding because she was

56:35

one of the few people. That

56:37

was there for me when I

56:39

had a very bad time. Not

56:42

in my family was there for

56:44

me. So... Okay, so then I

56:46

would say to him, I would

56:48

say to him, but I'm your

56:51

fiancé, I'm going to be your

56:53

wife, I'm the one who's there

56:55

for you now, and you cannot

56:57

have a woman you had sex

57:00

with at her wedding. You can't

57:02

do it. You can't do it.

57:04

That's all in the past. How

57:07

would you like it if I

57:09

had, you know, a man I'd

57:11

had sex with at the wedding?

57:13

Now he of course, but then

57:16

say, oh I'm fine with it,

57:18

I don't care, blah blah blah,

57:20

right? And that's kind of, that's

57:22

kind of creepy too, but no,

57:25

your loyalty is to me. You

57:27

know, you gave up the right

57:29

to have her at her wedding

57:31

when you slept with her. you

57:34

are supposed to be devoted to

57:36

me and you can't have women

57:38

you previously had sex with at

57:40

a wedding because it's a new

57:43

start it's we've become one flesh

57:45

and your loyalty is to me

57:47

now not to previous sexual partners

57:50

yes okay so he said did

57:52

he say that she said that

57:54

she that Emma wouldn't come to

57:56

the wedding One

58:00

month before our wedding,

58:02

he just had no

58:05

energy for this conflict

58:07

and just said, yeah,

58:09

okay, she doesn't come.

58:12

And one day before

58:14

he said that also

58:16

Emma communicated to me

58:19

that she is fine

58:21

with that. because I

58:23

was more or less.

58:26

Yeah, I mean, it

58:28

has said, yeah, you

58:30

need to get to

58:32

know her better. Sorry,

58:35

audio is bad again.

58:37

Are you moving away

58:39

from the phone or

58:42

are you walking around

58:44

or are you walking

58:46

around or is there

58:49

something else that's using

58:51

your internet because... Okay,

58:53

so she decided, Amber

58:55

decided not to come

58:58

and... Dieter

59:00

said she wasn't going

59:02

to come, but nobody addressed

59:04

your actual issues. They

59:06

just kind of gave way

59:09

to you because it bothered

59:11

you, but grudgingly. Is that

59:14

right? I mean, I

59:16

addressed this issue to Dieter.

59:18

It seemed like he

59:20

didn't care about that in

59:23

a couple of weeks ago.

59:25

He said to me that,

59:28

yeah, I know, you

59:30

want an apology because what

59:32

I did and you

59:34

will get it when you

59:37

are not going to,

59:39

when you are not going

59:41

to ask me all the

59:44

time for it, but now

59:46

I'm not willing to

59:48

give it to you. I'm

59:51

sorry I didn't understand

59:53

that so Dieter said he

59:55

was not going to

59:57

apologize for wanting Emma at

1:00:00

the wedding, is that right?

1:00:03

No, not for wanting her

1:00:05

at the wedding, for

1:00:07

lying to me that they

1:00:10

had sex. Oh, so

1:00:12

he said he wasn't going

1:00:14

to apologize to lying to

1:00:17

you about having sex. Right.

1:00:19

Okay. Right. So why

1:00:21

did you get married? Did

1:00:31

you pray on this?

1:00:33

Did you ask any

1:00:35

priest or anyone? I

1:00:37

mean you didn't ask

1:00:40

me, although you were

1:00:42

still, you were listening

1:00:44

to me at this

1:00:46

point, right? But yes.

1:00:48

Did you, did you

1:00:50

pray? Did you ask

1:00:52

God for guidance? What

1:00:54

did you get out

1:00:56

of that? And what

1:00:58

did God say to

1:01:00

you? I mean, nothing.

1:01:02

Okay. So your father

1:01:05

said maybe you shouldn't

1:01:07

get married. He's a

1:01:09

liar. He blames you.

1:01:11

He puts you down.

1:01:13

He won't take responsibility.

1:01:15

He lied to you

1:01:17

about having sex with

1:01:19

Emma. He also lied

1:01:21

to you about his

1:01:23

body count and he

1:01:25

refused to admit any

1:01:27

kind of fault. and

1:01:30

refused to apologize and

1:01:32

basically said that your

1:01:34

preferences which are to

1:01:36

me perfectly rational were

1:01:38

just kind of ill-informed

1:01:41

or prejudicial or just

1:01:43

the result of not

1:01:45

understanding all of the

1:01:47

glories of German culture.

1:01:49

Yeah. So what was,

1:01:51

help me, anti's fat,

1:01:53

anti short. Okay. So

1:01:55

what was it that

1:01:57

had you move forward?

1:02:00

What was so amazing

1:02:02

about this guy that

1:02:04

even though he's behaving

1:02:06

like a real turret

1:02:08

head, what was it

1:02:10

that was so compelling

1:02:12

about this guy that

1:02:14

you wanted to move

1:02:16

forward? I mean, when

1:02:18

we hadn't this argument

1:02:21

about this smart topic,

1:02:23

then we had no

1:02:25

conflict. Yeah, I mean,

1:02:27

spending time. I mean,

1:02:29

yeah, I mean, we

1:02:31

didn't fight. And... But

1:02:33

you don't know how

1:02:35

much you were, you

1:02:37

were not fighting because

1:02:39

he was lying. He

1:02:42

wants the same things

1:02:44

out of life. A

1:02:46

family, children. Yeah, and...

1:02:48

No, but he's not

1:02:50

moral. I know. And

1:02:52

you've listened to me,

1:02:54

right? I mean, I

1:02:56

don't know if you've

1:02:58

listened to me, right?

1:03:01

I mean, I don't

1:03:03

know if you agree

1:03:05

with me or not,

1:03:07

but when you said

1:03:09

you loved him. Because

1:03:11

I'm not saying he's

1:03:13

some evil guy, but

1:03:15

for especially for a

1:03:17

guy in his 30s,

1:03:19

you should know a

1:03:22

heck of a lot

1:03:24

better about how to

1:03:26

be a good man

1:03:28

than lying and gas

1:03:30

lighting and manipulating and

1:03:32

putting someone down who

1:03:34

challenges you and so

1:03:36

on, right? That's bad.

1:03:38

That's very bad behavior,

1:03:40

right? Right. So if

1:03:43

love is our involuntary

1:03:45

response to virtue, if

1:03:47

we're virtuous, you can't

1:03:49

love someone. And of

1:03:51

course we can love

1:03:53

people who make mistakes.

1:03:55

We all make mistakes

1:03:57

and we all can

1:03:59

do things that are

1:04:02

a bit mean from

1:04:04

time to time and

1:04:06

we can get called

1:04:08

out on that and

1:04:10

we can be honorable

1:04:12

about our responses. But

1:04:14

he didn't do any

1:04:16

of that. He's smug

1:04:18

and superior, insulting, and

1:04:20

false and doesn't take

1:04:23

responsibility for lying. These

1:04:25

are all very bad

1:04:27

signs. So maybe you

1:04:29

got along with him because you

1:04:31

didn't contradict him or you didn't

1:04:34

catch him in lies. Yeah. Okay.

1:04:36

So why did you marry him?

1:04:38

Why didn't you say, listen, we

1:04:40

need a little bit more time

1:04:43

because I'm kind of shaken by

1:04:45

this lying thing and the fact

1:04:47

that you won't admit that you're

1:04:49

lying, this makes me nervous, I'm

1:04:52

scared because... If you are someone

1:04:54

who doesn't have a commitment to

1:04:56

telling the truth and in fact

1:04:58

just lies about lying, I'm concerned

1:05:01

for our children. Because marriage isn't

1:05:03

about you, right? Marriage isn't about

1:05:05

you and marriage isn't about Dieter.

1:05:08

Marriage is about your children. And

1:05:10

it doesn't so much matter what

1:05:12

you like or you find comfortable

1:05:14

or Dieter makes you laugh. It

1:05:17

matters, one thing really and one

1:05:19

thing only matters in a marriage.

1:05:21

Which is what kind of father

1:05:23

is he going to be? Because

1:05:26

you're choosing, you could choose to

1:05:28

eat all you want and if

1:05:30

you don't want to have kids,

1:05:32

that's your, you know, that doesn't

1:05:35

really matter. But you're talking about

1:05:37

wanting to have kids, which means

1:05:39

the only thing that really matters

1:05:42

is how good a father he's

1:05:44

going to be a good father

1:05:46

based upon how he was treating

1:05:48

you in this conflict. They

1:05:52

only hunt this conflict

1:05:55

now. Okay, so why

1:05:57

did you? you get

1:06:00

married so quickly when

1:06:02

you had a huge

1:06:05

army of red flags

1:06:07

before the wedding, even

1:06:10

before the engagement? Why

1:06:12

did you move forward

1:06:15

so quickly? One reason,

1:06:17

one of the reasons

1:06:20

why I, yeah, went

1:06:22

along with the wedding

1:06:24

was because I, um,

1:06:27

I mean, when I

1:06:29

met him, I was

1:06:32

a virgin after, yeah,

1:06:34

I mean, when I

1:06:37

met him, I was

1:06:39

a virgin, after, yeah,

1:06:42

I mean, a couple

1:06:44

of weeks after we

1:06:47

got engaged. We had

1:06:49

first time sex. We

1:06:52

had first time sex.

1:06:54

And I mean, I

1:06:56

thought that if I

1:06:59

already, I mean, this

1:07:01

was one of the

1:07:04

reasons why I wanted

1:07:06

to go on. I

1:07:09

wanted to marry him.

1:07:11

You wanted to marry

1:07:14

him. You wanted to

1:07:16

marry him because you'd

1:07:19

had sex with him.

1:07:21

It was one of

1:07:24

the reasons. I'm just

1:07:26

asking, I don't know,

1:07:28

one of the reasons

1:07:31

it might be the

1:07:33

10th most important reason,

1:07:36

but what a, what

1:07:38

is, was it an

1:07:41

important reason? Sorry, I

1:07:43

mean, yeah, this was

1:07:46

an important reason. And

1:07:48

why did you choose,

1:07:51

why did you choose

1:07:53

to have sex before

1:07:56

marriage? I

1:08:00

mean, to be honest,

1:08:02

I didn't want it.

1:08:04

He wanted it very

1:08:07

badly and I mean,

1:08:09

even while we were

1:08:11

dating and so on.

1:08:13

But I said that

1:08:15

I wanted to wage.

1:08:18

Yeah, but she was

1:08:20

very pushy and... So

1:08:22

you wanted to wait

1:08:24

and he knew of

1:08:26

course that it was

1:08:29

very important to you

1:08:31

to wait until you

1:08:33

were married, right? Yeah.

1:08:35

So isn't that extremely

1:08:37

disrespectful to you? To

1:08:40

know that you're a

1:08:42

virgin, to know that

1:08:44

you want to wait

1:08:46

until you get married

1:08:48

and to be very

1:08:51

pushy to have sex.

1:08:53

Yeah. Was that not

1:08:55

a very big red

1:08:57

flag for you? Yes,

1:09:02

it was. So why

1:09:05

do you think you

1:09:07

did it? And it's

1:09:09

not a big criticism

1:09:11

thing, I'm genuinely curious,

1:09:13

I mean if you've

1:09:15

waited that long, why

1:09:18

not just wait another

1:09:20

couple of weeks? You

1:09:22

mean a couple of

1:09:24

months? Sorry, a couple

1:09:26

of months, yeah. Well,

1:09:28

no, but the question

1:09:30

is why you made

1:09:33

the decision at the

1:09:35

time. Did you did

1:09:37

you fear that he

1:09:39

would break up with

1:09:41

you or I mean,

1:09:43

how insistent was he?

1:09:46

Oh, okay, so So

1:09:48

he was very pushy

1:09:50

and I think that

1:09:52

one thing that he

1:09:54

said lead to saying

1:09:56

yes to me and

1:09:58

was that He said

1:10:01

that, okay, when you

1:10:03

don't want to,

1:10:05

okay, so I need to

1:10:08

organize my

1:10:10

mind. He said that,

1:10:12

okay, so I need to

1:10:15

organize my mind. He

1:10:17

said that, okay, when

1:10:20

you don't want

1:10:22

to have sex with

1:10:24

me, until marriage

1:10:27

and this woman.

1:10:29

take a little

1:10:31

couple months

1:10:33

or so, maybe

1:10:36

I need to try

1:10:38

to touch a woman

1:10:40

for sex. Okay,

1:10:43

sorry, your audio

1:10:45

is bad again,

1:10:48

but what I

1:10:50

think I understood

1:10:52

was he said

1:10:54

to you, if we

1:10:57

can't have sex. Yeah,

1:11:01

that's... I need to

1:11:03

find this somewhere else

1:11:05

when you're not

1:11:07

willing to give it to

1:11:09

me. Okay, so he said

1:11:11

he was going to break

1:11:13

up with you or cheat on

1:11:16

you if you didn't give

1:11:18

him sex. Not break

1:11:20

up, just find somewhere

1:11:23

else. Well, no, that's

1:11:25

cheating on you. You're

1:11:27

right. I mean, and would you,

1:11:29

I mean, let's say he did

1:11:32

go and have sex with another

1:11:34

woman or other women, let's

1:11:37

say that he did do that,

1:11:39

would you have broken up

1:11:41

with him? Okay, so that's

1:11:43

what I mean. So he said, give

1:11:45

me sex or I'm going to

1:11:48

have sex with other women

1:11:50

or another woman, and that

1:11:52

will be the end of

1:11:55

our relationship. And

1:11:57

now that it will be the end of our

1:11:59

relation. relationship just

1:12:01

it would be necessary to

1:12:04

the point when I am be willing

1:12:06

to give it to him. I'm

1:12:08

sorry I'm having trouble following

1:12:11

what you're saying the audio

1:12:13

is quite bad so just

1:12:15

try that again we'll hope

1:12:17

it will clear up. So no

1:12:20

he didn't say that he wanted

1:12:22

to break up with me.

1:12:24

No no I get that the

1:12:26

consequence would be... that he would

1:12:28

break that your relationship would end

1:12:31

because if he sleeps with someone

1:12:33

else you'll break up with him right

1:12:35

because he's cheated on you. Yes. So

1:12:37

the consequence of him sleeping I get

1:12:39

he didn't say it will be over but

1:12:42

it would be over because if he

1:12:44

slept with another woman then you would

1:12:46

break up with him if I understand

1:12:48

this correctly. Yes. Okay so he threatened

1:12:51

you with the end of the relationship

1:12:53

the end of the engagement and

1:12:55

really not getting married. Unless

1:12:57

you gave him sex. Yes.

1:13:00

Okay. And this also was

1:13:02

not a red flag enough

1:13:05

to put the brakes on

1:13:07

or to end the relationship,

1:13:10

is that right? No. I

1:13:12

let it happen. I didn't

1:13:15

regret it. Well, you didn't

1:13:17

just let it happen.

1:13:19

I mean, you didn't

1:13:21

just let it happen. I

1:13:23

mean, you said yes, right.

1:13:26

So you chose to have

1:13:28

sex with him to

1:13:30

keep him? To keep the

1:13:33

relationship from

1:13:36

ending? Okay. Do

1:13:38

you think that he

1:13:40

is... You said that

1:13:42

his sex drive is

1:13:44

lower now. Do you

1:13:47

think that he's getting

1:13:49

sex outside the

1:13:51

marriage at the

1:13:54

moment? No. And why do

1:13:56

you think that? I mean, he's so desperate for

1:13:58

sex, he's kind of half threatening you. to

1:14:00

get sex while you were engaged,

1:14:02

but now you say he doesn't

1:14:04

really pursue sex much with you

1:14:06

at all because he's got this

1:14:08

nonsense about needing to fight for

1:14:10

it or pursue it or hunt

1:14:13

for it or something like that.

1:14:15

So if his sex drive was

1:14:17

so high that he's half bullying

1:14:19

you to have sex before marriage

1:14:21

against your morals and wishes. And

1:14:24

now he's not really

1:14:26

pursuing sex much with

1:14:28

you at all. Why

1:14:31

would you think he's

1:14:33

not getting it from

1:14:35

outside the marriage? I'm

1:14:37

not saying he is.

1:14:40

I'm just, how do

1:14:42

you know for sure?

1:14:44

I mean, I know

1:14:47

it because lately, not

1:14:49

because lately, I mean,

1:14:51

since a couple months,

1:14:53

he's working from home

1:14:56

and then... don't really

1:14:58

have a lot of

1:15:00

contact with, yeah, don't

1:15:02

really go to other

1:15:05

people. I mean, I

1:15:07

talked with them and

1:15:09

thought that and she

1:15:12

knows that it's an

1:15:14

issue for me and

1:15:16

I mean, the last

1:15:18

three months were a

1:15:21

little bit hard on

1:15:23

him and she had

1:15:25

a very depressing phase

1:15:28

and yeah then he's

1:15:30

also now happy with

1:15:32

his body and yes

1:15:34

have you ever talked

1:15:37

sorry have you ever

1:15:39

talked to him about

1:15:41

I assume it made

1:15:43

you quite upset that

1:15:46

he was very aggressive

1:15:48

about wanting sex before

1:15:50

marriage yes I talked

1:15:53

with him about that

1:15:55

about about And yeah,

1:15:57

apologize for it. Yes.

1:16:01

Oh, okay. Okay. And

1:16:03

what is your, sorry,

1:16:05

what is your sexual

1:16:07

frequency at the moment?

1:16:10

Is it once a

1:16:12

month, once a week,

1:16:14

or more or less?

1:16:16

I mean, it's, you

1:16:19

know, maybe if, you

1:16:21

know, um, if we

1:16:23

have a, four day,

1:16:25

but, um, yeah. I

1:16:28

mean, for a young

1:16:30

couple, well, the woman

1:16:32

is, yeah, I would

1:16:34

say chasing the man

1:16:37

and the man is,

1:16:39

um, most of the

1:16:41

time saying, uh, no,

1:16:43

I don't want, because

1:16:46

of this and that.

1:16:48

Um, yeah, you don't,

1:16:50

you, sorry. Yeah. Good

1:16:52

about that. Right, right.

1:16:55

I sympathize with that.

1:16:57

Was he, you said

1:16:59

that he's quite successful,

1:17:01

is he wealthy? Is

1:17:03

that another factor in

1:17:06

what makes him suitable

1:17:08

as a husband? Also,

1:17:10

yeah. Okay, so he's

1:17:12

wealthy and of course

1:17:15

if you were to

1:17:17

date a man your

1:17:19

own age, you wouldn't

1:17:21

have access to that

1:17:24

kind of money, right?

1:17:26

I mean, I also

1:17:28

take it... And so

1:17:30

was the money, I

1:17:33

mean if your husband

1:17:35

had been poor, and

1:17:37

were students. Yes, but

1:17:39

you didn't marry him,

1:17:42

you didn't marry him

1:17:44

in six months, right?

1:17:46

No. And so was

1:17:48

the money, I mean,

1:17:51

if your husband had

1:17:53

been poor, would he

1:17:55

have been much less

1:17:57

attractive? to you. If

1:18:01

you would have been

1:18:03

poor, I mean, he

1:18:05

is not wealthy in

1:18:07

the way. You probably

1:18:10

think, I mean, he

1:18:12

earns very good, but

1:18:14

wealth is something different

1:18:16

than he earns. Yeah,

1:18:18

four times the average

1:18:20

income. Yeah, so that's

1:18:22

well. I mean, so

1:18:24

in America, the average

1:18:26

income, you know, if

1:18:28

it's $40,000, somebody making

1:18:30

$160,000 a year, it's

1:18:32

wealthy. Yes. Okay. All

1:18:34

right. And how is

1:18:36

your marriage in terms

1:18:38

of conversation? Are you

1:18:40

guys having enjoyable conversations?

1:18:42

Does he still make

1:18:44

you laugh? Are you

1:18:46

having pleasant chats? Are

1:18:48

you having pleasant chats?

1:18:50

conversation about things. Yes.

1:18:53

And that's still continuing?

1:18:55

Yes, it does. Yes.

1:18:57

Okay, so financially he's

1:18:59

doing well, your conversations

1:19:01

are great, he's still

1:19:03

making you laugh, it's

1:19:05

just the sexual sexuality

1:19:07

that's the issue, is

1:19:09

that right? Not only,

1:19:11

I mean... I know

1:19:13

about his sexual past

1:19:15

and it's often sometimes

1:19:17

boring me and I

1:19:19

mean sometimes he will...

1:19:21

Yes, but sorry, but

1:19:23

you wanted an older

1:19:25

man and an older

1:19:27

man who's very successful.

1:19:29

Well my dear older

1:19:31

men who are very

1:19:33

successful are generally high

1:19:36

testosterone which means high

1:19:38

sex drive. If you

1:19:40

didn't want a man

1:19:42

with a sexual past,

1:19:44

you could have dated

1:19:46

someone your own age

1:19:48

who wouldn't have had

1:19:50

that sexual past. Yeah,

1:19:52

you said it was

1:19:54

a little higher. You

1:19:56

can't have everything in

1:19:58

life. Everything is a

1:20:00

trade-off. If you want

1:20:02

an older man who's

1:20:04

wealthy, he's going to

1:20:06

have a sexual past.

1:20:08

And his body count

1:20:10

of six in his

1:20:12

early 30s is not

1:20:14

terrible. You said it

1:20:17

was a little higher.

1:20:19

Four times higher. Oh,

1:20:21

so it's 24. So

1:20:23

it's 24. And you

1:20:25

found out about the

1:20:27

24 before you got

1:20:29

married, right? And was

1:20:31

it before you got

1:20:33

engaged? Our engagement. Oh,

1:20:35

it was at your

1:20:37

engagement. Okay. So you

1:20:39

knew that about your

1:20:41

husband and you chose

1:20:43

to marry him, right?

1:20:45

Yes. So you can't,

1:20:47

after you marry, unless

1:20:49

you're just going to

1:20:51

divorce, you can't, choose

1:20:53

what you have chosen.

1:20:56

Now I can sell the car

1:20:58

if I want and I can

1:21:01

get a car that has a

1:21:03

fixed roof. If I buy a

1:21:05

convertible car, can I then say

1:21:08

after I buy it, I don't

1:21:10

want a convertible car? No. Right.

1:21:12

Now I can sell the car

1:21:15

if I want and I can

1:21:17

get a car that has a

1:21:19

fixed roof. But I can't really

1:21:22

turn the convertible car into a

1:21:24

fixed. roof car. Like once I've,

1:21:26

especially if I've had the chance

1:21:29

to test drive the car for

1:21:31

six months as you did with

1:21:33

your husband, right? So you chose

1:21:35

a guy who's very confident, who's

1:21:38

very aggressive, who's very successful, and

1:21:40

who's older, and that is going

1:21:42

to come with a high sex

1:21:45

drive. It's a lot of partners,

1:21:47

but that's who you chose. And

1:21:49

you knew all of this before

1:21:52

you married him, and you said,

1:21:54

I do. So

1:21:56

I'm trying to

1:21:58

understand why it's

1:22:01

bothering you now,

1:22:03

but it didn't

1:22:05

bother you before

1:22:07

you got married

1:22:10

enough for you

1:22:12

to even slow

1:22:14

things down. Jean.

1:22:16

Um, I said

1:22:18

bothering me now.

1:22:21

Um, I mean.

1:22:28

Why wasn't it bothering me

1:22:30

before we got married? Well

1:22:32

no, it was bothering you,

1:22:34

hang on, it was bothering

1:22:36

you before you got married,

1:22:39

but you still stood up

1:22:41

and say, hang on, but

1:22:43

you still stood up and

1:22:45

said, I do. Yes. So

1:22:47

it wasn't bothering you enough

1:22:49

even to slow down and

1:22:51

say, let's take another couple

1:22:53

of months of being engaged.

1:22:56

Right, you got married in what,

1:22:58

six, six and a half months

1:23:00

after you first started dating? That's

1:23:02

very fast, obviously, right? And so

1:23:04

it didn't bother you enough even

1:23:06

to slow down the courtship. So

1:23:08

again, I'm not saying you're wrong,

1:23:11

I'm just trying to understand why

1:23:13

it bothers you now when you

1:23:15

knew about it for months before

1:23:17

you got married. I'm not saying

1:23:19

you're wrong to be bothered, I

1:23:21

just trying to understand. I

1:23:28

mean, I don't

1:23:30

know him longer.

1:23:33

I know at

1:23:36

the time. I

1:23:38

mean, I got

1:23:41

to know more

1:23:44

and more and

1:23:47

more. And I

1:23:49

mean, I mean,

1:23:52

at the beginning.

1:23:56

It all started only

1:23:58

with a number. Then

1:24:01

with one picture, another picture,

1:24:04

your story, the story, and

1:24:06

more information. Okay, has, did

1:24:08

the number go up after

1:24:10

you got married? No. Okay,

1:24:12

so this is what I'm

1:24:15

saying. You knew all of

1:24:17

this before you got married?

1:24:19

Yes. Right? Now, if you

1:24:21

chose a guy who was

1:24:23

younger or less successful or

1:24:26

less aggressive, you'd be complaining

1:24:28

probably about not having any

1:24:30

money. That's right. And if

1:24:32

I'm wanting to be a

1:24:34

traditional housewife, take care of

1:24:37

the kids, I need a

1:24:39

man of resources. If you

1:24:41

don't want to grow with

1:24:43

a man, right? Like if

1:24:45

you dated, you're in your

1:24:48

early 20s, right? Yes. So

1:24:50

you took, so hang on,

1:24:52

so you took a shortcut,

1:24:54

which is to say, you'd

1:24:56

have to wait for years,

1:24:59

and then he would get

1:25:01

out of school, he'd try

1:25:03

to get a job, and

1:25:05

then he might have to

1:25:07

bounce around to a couple

1:25:10

of jobs before he found

1:25:12

something that really fit, and

1:25:14

then he'd have to start

1:25:16

growing his income, and so

1:25:18

you took a shortcut, which

1:25:21

is to say... I want

1:25:23

an older man, a man

1:25:25

10 years older than me,

1:25:27

who's very aggressive and very

1:25:29

successful and wealthy. And that

1:25:32

man comes with a past.

1:25:34

A man your own age

1:25:36

doesn't come with much of

1:25:38

a past, but you also

1:25:40

he doesn't come with much

1:25:43

of an income. And you

1:25:45

chose, and I'm not saying

1:25:47

you chose him just for

1:25:49

his money, right? I get

1:25:51

that he's charming and funny

1:25:54

and all that good conversationalist.

1:25:57

So, you decided. to choose

1:25:59

a man for in part

1:26:01

for his money and his

1:26:03

success and his age comes

1:26:05

with a history. I mean

1:26:07

it just does and now

1:26:09

24 is I don't know

1:26:11

what what the hookup culture

1:26:13

is like these days 24

1:26:15

seems high to me but

1:26:17

you know I'm I'm an

1:26:19

old guy right so that's

1:26:22

that's a different I have

1:26:24

a different metric but you

1:26:26

know I mean You knew

1:26:28

that he was a player,

1:26:30

you know, I don't know

1:26:32

if this is the same

1:26:34

in... Yes, I knew that.

1:26:36

Yeah, you knew he was

1:26:38

a player, you knew he

1:26:40

was good with the ladies,

1:26:42

you knew that he was

1:26:44

charming, you knew that he

1:26:46

was the life of the

1:26:48

party, and so on. So

1:26:50

you knew that he'd slept

1:26:52

with women before. So help

1:26:54

me understand, and I'm not

1:26:57

disagreeing with you, I just

1:26:59

trying to understand, do you

1:27:01

think you get all the

1:27:03

money and success and success

1:27:05

and age that he has

1:27:07

at no cost? date younger

1:27:09

guys, right? Yeah, I mean

1:27:11

everything comes of the cost.

1:27:13

I'm sorry? Everything comes with

1:27:15

the cost. Well, there's costs

1:27:17

and benefits. Yeah, and if

1:27:19

all you do is look

1:27:21

at the costs and not

1:27:23

the benefits, then you'll just

1:27:25

make yourself miserable. Yeah, you're

1:27:27

right. Like

1:27:30

when I was younger, I didn't

1:27:32

know exactly what I wanted to

1:27:34

do with my life, now I

1:27:36

do. However, I'm a little creaky

1:27:38

because I'm in my late 50s,

1:27:40

right? So there's pluses and minuses,

1:27:42

to both being young and to

1:27:44

being older. Now if all I

1:27:47

do is I say, ah, you

1:27:49

know, I was I was much

1:27:51

more physically resilient and flexible when

1:27:53

I was younger and this sucks,

1:27:55

right? Then I can just look

1:27:57

at the negatives, or I can

1:27:59

say... Well, I've, I've trained, now

1:28:01

at least I know what I'm

1:28:03

going to be doing with my

1:28:06

life for the rest of my

1:28:08

life, which is a great... comfort

1:28:10

and I know who I'm going

1:28:12

to be spending it with which

1:28:14

is my wife and and all

1:28:16

of that right and so I'm

1:28:18

trying to get you to see

1:28:20

that if you chose a younger

1:28:22

guy you'd be frustrated at being

1:28:25

broke and you'd have to work

1:28:27

for years probably before you had

1:28:29

kids now with this guy you

1:28:31

can have kids if you want

1:28:33

sooner but he comes with a

1:28:35

past that's right and I want

1:28:37

to have kids early okay and

1:28:39

if I would choose a student

1:28:41

I would have probably wait I

1:28:44

don't know five years to well

1:28:46

you might or or you just

1:28:48

have to be you have to

1:28:50

be content with raising your kids

1:28:52

in a very low money environment

1:28:54

right okay so does that help

1:28:56

a little bit with his past

1:28:58

yes it does yeah I think

1:29:00

I made yeah In a sense,

1:29:03

and I'm not trying to say

1:29:05

this is just financial, but in

1:29:07

a sense, you're being well paid

1:29:09

for him having a past. And

1:29:11

if all you do is look

1:29:13

at the cost, but not the

1:29:15

pay, that's going to be a

1:29:17

problem for you. And for him,

1:29:19

right? Yeah. I should be more

1:29:22

thankful for the benefits that he

1:29:24

brings. Well, you have to weigh

1:29:26

the benefits, right? I

1:29:28

mean, I can say, gee,

1:29:30

I wish I'd met my

1:29:32

wife when I was much

1:29:34

younger, but at the same

1:29:36

time, I was not really

1:29:38

a great boyfriend when I

1:29:40

was younger in some ways,

1:29:43

right? So, there was cost,

1:29:45

there's benefits to meeting her

1:29:47

later in life, and there

1:29:49

are negatives to meeting her

1:29:51

late in the life, which

1:29:53

is I get to spend

1:29:55

less time with her, but

1:29:57

there are positives in that

1:29:59

I was more constituted for

1:30:01

a mature relationship. So, so,

1:30:03

yeah, I just want to

1:30:05

give you those. Those cost

1:30:08

benefits because if all you

1:30:10

do is look at the

1:30:12

cost you will always have

1:30:14

a reason to complaint. Now

1:30:16

his sexual past is it

1:30:18

like a rising unbidden in

1:30:20

your mind is it like

1:30:22

haunting you is it torturing

1:30:24

you I mean how is

1:30:26

it occurring for you his

1:30:28

sexual past? I mean different

1:30:30

because sometimes I I mean,

1:30:33

once I found some things

1:30:35

of another woman in their

1:30:37

apartment, then I have, I

1:30:39

mean, then I will imagine

1:30:41

things that you told me

1:30:43

that happened and... Okay, so

1:30:45

sorry, what did he tell

1:30:47

you that happened? I mean,

1:30:49

is it I dated a

1:30:51

girl or was it like

1:30:53

graphic details? No,

1:30:56

I mean, for example,

1:30:58

I mean, when he

1:31:00

told me the stuff

1:31:02

about Emma or about

1:31:04

some other women, I

1:31:06

would just imagine how

1:31:09

those things happened in

1:31:11

the apartment. I mean,

1:31:13

I will, for example,

1:31:15

I don't know, make

1:31:17

the laundry look at

1:31:19

the bed and... Maybe

1:31:22

have a bad day

1:31:24

and... Oh, you picture

1:31:26

him with the other

1:31:28

women on the bed?

1:31:30

Is that right? Yeah,

1:31:32

yeah. Well, why don't

1:31:35

you guys move? I

1:31:37

mean, it's not fresh?

1:31:39

I don't know if

1:31:41

only in your apartment

1:31:43

would fix that... Well,

1:31:45

it would help. Are

1:31:48

you sleeping in the

1:31:50

bed in which he

1:31:52

slept with other women?

1:31:56

Yes. Well, at least get

1:31:58

a new bed. But

1:32:02

yeah I don't know I

1:32:05

mean I was a virgin

1:32:07

when I met and sex

1:32:09

was always a very special

1:32:12

thing for me and I

1:32:14

don't know sometimes I would

1:32:16

just I would just think

1:32:19

yeah the same thing why

1:32:21

we had any sex that

1:32:23

you are doing with me

1:32:26

right now you did with

1:32:28

every other woman and yes

1:32:30

but you have to listen.

1:32:33

You married a guy with

1:32:35

a sexual history, you have

1:32:37

to discipline yourself about that.

1:32:40

Okay. I mean, this is

1:32:42

that, it is a matter

1:32:44

of discipline, which is you

1:32:47

have to push that stuff

1:32:49

out of your mind. I

1:32:51

mean, it's going to, it's

1:32:54

going to, I mean, it's

1:32:56

already harming your marriage, right?

1:32:58

It's very hard if you

1:33:01

know that in the garage

1:33:03

is a two meter big

1:33:05

picture of his ex and

1:33:08

a calendar with 12 naked

1:33:10

photos of her phone. Yeah,

1:33:12

so he's got naked photos

1:33:15

of his ex in his

1:33:17

garage. I mean, this is

1:33:19

stuff that he is, this

1:33:22

is staff that was laying

1:33:24

a couple of years. Some

1:33:26

were in the apartment and

1:33:29

I mean, okay, sorry. I

1:33:31

don't want to I don't

1:33:33

need a long story. I

1:33:36

just want to make sure

1:33:38

I understood this correctly. He's

1:33:40

got naked pictures of his

1:33:43

ex in his garage. Yes.

1:33:45

Okay, well, throw that shit

1:33:47

out. He doesn't want it.

1:33:50

He doesn't want to throw

1:33:52

it out? Yes. Okay, he's

1:33:54

got to throw it out.

1:33:57

But he doesn't want it.

1:33:59

And then I say, yeah,

1:34:01

I want to send him.

1:34:04

A search of territory. Pea

1:34:06

around the bed. if you

1:34:08

have to I don't care.

1:34:11

But you can't you can't

1:34:13

have naked pictures of X's

1:34:15

around. Come on. Yeah I

1:34:18

mean I will never go

1:34:20

to the garage because it

1:34:22

wasn't a cellar but I

1:34:25

oh yeah I I've yeah

1:34:27

it was so that I've

1:34:29

thrown it out but he

1:34:32

found it and then Put

1:34:34

it in the garage. I'm

1:34:36

sorry, do they not have

1:34:39

matches in Germany anymore? What

1:34:41

do you mean? Fire! Fire!

1:34:43

Burn it! Get a barrel!

1:34:46

Set fire to it, barbecue

1:34:48

it! I, you know, it's

1:34:50

something visible from space if

1:34:53

you have to. It's going

1:34:55

to be pretty tough to

1:34:57

put it together from ashes,

1:35:00

isn't it? You know, I

1:35:02

thought about that... But I

1:35:04

mean, it would be out

1:35:07

of rage and I mean,

1:35:09

it's one of the sins

1:35:11

to act ragefully, attack us.

1:35:14

Well, you know, I mean,

1:35:16

isn't it also a sin

1:35:18

to have sex before marriage,

1:35:21

you managed to get past

1:35:23

that one, right? Okay,

1:35:25

so I mean, is he like

1:35:28

a sex addict or something or

1:35:30

why do you think he's keeping,

1:35:32

I mean it's very disrespectful to

1:35:35

you in my opinion to keep

1:35:37

naked pictures of his ex around?

1:35:39

Yes. So is he like a

1:35:42

sex addict or what do you

1:35:44

think is going on? I mean,

1:35:46

there's a, if you would ask

1:35:49

people on the street they would

1:35:51

say, yeah, those are the good

1:35:54

made pictures. But there's still the

1:35:56

X on the big shows and

1:35:58

I know that. I

1:36:01

mean he will say

1:36:03

yeah they are pretty

1:36:05

I will not throw

1:36:07

them out. Okay. All

1:36:10

right so I'm not

1:36:12

sure what to say

1:36:14

about that other than

1:36:16

it's kind of incomprehensible

1:36:19

to me but maybe

1:36:21

this is a new

1:36:23

generation right? Okay and

1:36:25

is there anything else

1:36:27

that is about his

1:36:30

past that is triggering

1:36:32

responses in you? Nothing

1:36:34

else. No. Okay. No.

1:36:36

And so why do

1:36:39

you think that... Sorry.

1:36:41

One thing, but I

1:36:43

mean, I talked with

1:36:45

Dieter about that. I

1:36:47

mean, I knew, for

1:36:50

example, that he was

1:36:52

very crazy about his

1:36:54

ex and... At the

1:36:56

beginning of us, when

1:36:58

we started to have

1:37:01

sex, I thought that

1:37:03

I would be the

1:37:05

one that would hide.

1:37:07

But yes, I was

1:37:10

the end of the

1:37:12

one that was chasing

1:37:14

the man and I

1:37:16

just didn't. I just

1:37:18

thought that with this

1:37:21

this was weird because

1:37:23

with his ex he

1:37:25

was very crazy with

1:37:27

her and so on

1:37:30

and sorry how do

1:37:32

you know he was

1:37:34

crazy this is the

1:37:36

six-year relationship how do

1:37:38

you know that he

1:37:41

was crazy with her

1:37:43

because he told it

1:37:45

and because he told

1:37:47

me oh dear wait

1:37:49

is he telling you

1:37:52

details about his sex

1:37:54

life with his exes

1:37:56

yes I mean

1:37:59

he I

1:38:01

mean, he told me

1:38:03

that he was doing

1:38:06

it because we are,

1:38:08

I mean, yes, he

1:38:11

would go to details

1:38:13

and you, yeah, and

1:38:16

it's then easy to

1:38:18

imagine some things and

1:38:21

feel and don't feel

1:38:23

very important and so

1:38:26

so hang on and

1:38:28

you don't have to

1:38:31

get into graphic detail

1:38:33

but he would tell

1:38:36

you like the types

1:38:38

of sex they had

1:38:41

the frequency of sex

1:38:43

they had and so

1:38:46

on no it wasn't

1:38:48

no not in this

1:38:51

direction it would be

1:38:53

more that we were

1:38:56

talking or like

1:38:58

what was going what were

1:39:00

they problems in the in

1:39:03

the relationships their relationship and

1:39:05

then he would say that's

1:39:08

yeah then he would just

1:39:10

say that they had I

1:39:12

don't know the time where

1:39:15

they had a lot of

1:39:17

very crazy sex and I

1:39:20

was sent just because I

1:39:22

didn't had that I He

1:39:24

and his ex had a

1:39:27

lot of crazy sex. Do

1:39:29

you know what he means

1:39:31

by that? I mean, I

1:39:34

mean, without sex and with

1:39:36

me it was not so.

1:39:39

I mean, he was working

1:39:41

a lot, was then tired

1:39:43

and I was the one

1:39:46

chasing him and, well, okay,

1:39:48

so he just talked about

1:39:51

sexual frequently, I still don't

1:39:53

know what... Crazy sex means,

1:39:55

but that doesn't maybe matter

1:39:58

that much Okay, so he

1:40:00

wouldn't, I mean, he wouldn't

1:40:03

explain to me how exactly

1:40:05

they would do it. I

1:40:07

mean, she was. What does

1:40:10

crazy sex mean? Does that

1:40:12

mean sex at a straight

1:40:14

jacket? Does that mean sex

1:40:17

with a duck mask gone?

1:40:19

Like I don't even know

1:40:22

what that means. No, just,

1:40:24

I would say normal, but

1:40:26

not boring sex. Yeah,

1:40:29

I don't know how to

1:40:32

explain it. All right, so

1:40:34

he just meant, crazy, he,

1:40:36

sorry, so crazy, he just,

1:40:38

crazy, he just meant a

1:40:40

lot, frequency. Yes. Okay, so

1:40:43

she was, sorry, go ahead.

1:40:45

And she was borderline, so

1:40:47

maybe this will. Oh, borderline

1:40:49

personality disorder? Yes. Okay, was

1:40:51

she diagnosed? Sorry, was she

1:40:53

diagnosed or did he just

1:40:56

call her that? You

1:40:58

know, his therapist said that,

1:41:00

yeah, Dieter, I think, your

1:41:02

partner. Yeah, it's borderline. And

1:41:04

so he was with her

1:41:07

for six years? Yes, but

1:41:09

they... Hang on, hang on,

1:41:11

hang on, hang on, hang

1:41:13

on, hang on, let me

1:41:15

get a word in here.

1:41:17

So, when did you find

1:41:20

out that Dieter had dated

1:41:22

a crazy woman for six

1:41:24

years? Was it before you

1:41:26

got married? Yes.

1:41:29

My God. I mean,

1:41:31

you'd never had any

1:41:34

idea. Maybe we should

1:41:36

slow things down. You're

1:41:39

about his. Crazy X?

1:41:41

Well, no, no, see,

1:41:44

there's no such thing

1:41:46

as a crazy X.

1:41:49

They're both crazy. I

1:41:51

mean, he would call

1:41:54

her crazy. No, no,

1:41:56

he was there for

1:41:59

six years. He was

1:42:01

also crazy. Yes. I

1:42:04

still married him. Yes,

1:42:06

you did. as you

1:42:09

can be, plus 10

1:42:11

being as happy as

1:42:14

you can be, what

1:42:16

is your general experience

1:42:19

of the marriage at

1:42:21

the moment, minus 10

1:42:24

to plus 10? I

1:42:26

mean average? I don't

1:42:29

know what average means,

1:42:31

that doesn't fit into

1:42:34

that category. Minus 10,

1:42:37

and in general, minus

1:42:39

10 to plus 10.

1:42:42

Minus 10 being the

1:42:44

most miserable you can

1:42:47

be, plus 10 being

1:42:49

the happiest you can

1:42:52

be, what is your

1:42:54

general experience of the

1:42:57

marriage? At the

1:42:59

moment. At the moment, I

1:43:01

would say maybe a free

1:43:04

from minus 10 to plus

1:43:06

10. Okay, so you're positive.

1:43:09

Yeah, zero is neutral. So

1:43:11

you're positive, but you're not

1:43:14

as happy as you could

1:43:16

be. You're positive about the

1:43:19

marriage, but you're not happy

1:43:21

as you could be. There

1:43:24

are phases when we don't

1:43:26

fight or when we don't

1:43:28

have arguments. It's very good.

1:43:31

But when we will have

1:43:33

a face, why for example,

1:43:36

would tell him that I'm

1:43:38

still very hurt that he

1:43:41

lies to me about Emma.

1:43:43

Sorry, you said lies, but

1:43:46

you meant in the past,

1:43:48

like he lied to you

1:43:51

in the past or does

1:43:53

he still like you about

1:43:56

Emma? I

1:44:00

mean, he will not regret

1:44:03

this or give me an

1:44:05

apology. Okay, so just to

1:44:07

be clear, just to be

1:44:10

clear, you're not that upset

1:44:12

that he lied, you're upset

1:44:14

that he's still, he's still

1:44:17

lying because he's not admitting

1:44:19

fault, right? Yes. Okay, so

1:44:21

it's not the past. Because

1:44:24

I wanted desperate. No, I

1:44:26

get that. But you knew

1:44:28

that before you married him,

1:44:31

so you have to accept

1:44:33

it now, that this is

1:44:36

just who he is. Wanting

1:44:38

someone to be different after

1:44:40

you get married to them

1:44:43

is pointless. Right. Any chance

1:44:45

for change can only occur

1:44:47

before you get married. Once

1:44:50

you say I do, you

1:44:52

are saying to the person.

1:44:54

I love you. You're perfect,

1:44:57

don't change. So this is

1:44:59

a marriage thing. You cannot,

1:45:01

if he was like this

1:45:04

before you got married and

1:45:06

you said I do, there's

1:45:08

absolutely no point trying to

1:45:11

change him now. It's just

1:45:13

going to make both of

1:45:16

you miserable. This is who

1:45:18

he is. He will sometimes

1:45:20

lie and he'll gaslight and

1:45:23

he won't take responsibility and

1:45:25

that's who the brother is.

1:45:29

You either live with that

1:45:31

or you don't. But desperately

1:45:33

hoping for it to change,

1:45:35

being continually upset that it

1:45:37

isn't changing, will wreck the

1:45:39

marriage. Yeah, you're right. You

1:45:42

said not like a buffet.

1:45:44

You know, you go to

1:45:46

a big buffet and you

1:45:48

can just have a few

1:45:50

things and you can put

1:45:53

some stuff back. That's not,

1:45:55

when you get married, you

1:45:57

take the whole thing. What's

1:45:59

in all? Good, bad, indifferent,

1:46:01

you take the whole person.

1:46:03

And wanting him to change,

1:46:06

and being upset and frustrated

1:46:08

and angry, that he is

1:46:10

what you chose, is not

1:46:12

going to work. It's not

1:46:14

productive. Now, whether you stay

1:46:16

married to him or not,

1:46:19

that's another question. But you

1:46:21

cannot stay married to him,

1:46:23

desperate for him to change

1:46:25

and frustrated at who he

1:46:27

is. Yes.

1:46:30

Did this make sense? Yes, I

1:46:32

know. He's not a buffet where

1:46:34

I should just pick the best

1:46:37

stuff and leave the beds. Well,

1:46:39

no, but the buffet was only

1:46:41

a partially good example because you're

1:46:44

actually really angry. Like if you

1:46:46

go to a buffet at a

1:46:48

Chinese restaurant and you get really

1:46:51

angry that there isn't pizza, that

1:46:53

doesn't make much sense, right? Yeah,

1:46:56

no. If you want a pizza,

1:46:58

you go to an Italian buffet,

1:47:00

right? Yes. So you went to

1:47:02

a Chinese buffet, you went to

1:47:04

a Dieter buffet. And there's stuff

1:47:06

there that you're not super happy

1:47:08

about, but you chose him. And

1:47:10

nobody forced you to choose him.

1:47:12

And you did get some warnings,

1:47:14

at least from your father, and

1:47:16

you chose not to call me,

1:47:18

which would have been free. So

1:47:20

you chose him. And

1:47:23

to choose him and then continually

1:47:25

choose him is breaking your

1:47:27

vow of marriage. It's a form

1:47:29

of infidelity. It is a

1:47:31

form of cheating. To be discontented

1:47:34

with what you chose. You would

1:47:36

also do the same with

1:47:38

me. Yeah, I understand your point.

1:47:41

Well, yes, of course. And

1:47:43

there are things about you that

1:47:45

he would like to change. And

1:47:48

it doesn't matter because that's

1:47:50

who you chose. You

1:47:54

know, when I buy

1:47:56

a computer for work.

1:48:00

I mean, there are computers that

1:48:02

are thousands and thousands and thousands

1:48:04

of euros, right? And they do

1:48:06

just about everything under the sun.

1:48:09

And I don't choose them because

1:48:11

I can't spend that much. It

1:48:13

hurts my soul to spend that

1:48:16

much on a computer. It offends

1:48:18

my Irish ancestry and I'm half

1:48:20

German too, right? So I will

1:48:23

choose a cheaper computer because I

1:48:25

don't want to spend more. But

1:48:27

that means I get a computer.

1:48:30

that is not as fast and

1:48:32

doesn't have as many features. Is

1:48:34

that fair to say? Yes. Right.

1:48:37

So I've chosen that and I've

1:48:39

saved money. Now if I choose

1:48:41

a computer that's cheaper so that

1:48:43

I could save money, does it

1:48:46

make much sense to be really

1:48:48

angry that the computer is not

1:48:50

super fast? No. No, because I've

1:48:53

got the money in my pocket,

1:48:55

right? Is he a perfect guy,

1:48:57

Deater? No. Are you a perfect

1:49:00

woman? No. Am I a perfect

1:49:02

guy? No. We're all flawed in

1:49:04

some ways, and you know, some

1:49:07

of us are working to improve,

1:49:09

and maybe he's on that continuum

1:49:11

as well. But you chose a

1:49:14

guy who was established, successful, wealthy,

1:49:16

aggressive. I don't agree with his

1:49:18

aggression in personal relationships, but, you

1:49:20

know, I imagine, well, no, we

1:49:23

were probably about as successful in

1:49:25

our early 30s, but okay, so...

1:49:27

You chose a guy who has

1:49:30

some great stuff about him and

1:49:32

he's got some floors. And you

1:49:34

have some great stuff about you

1:49:37

and you have some floors. Now

1:49:39

he chose a woman who's 10

1:49:41

years younger and relatively inexperienced, right?

1:49:44

I don't just mean sexually, but

1:49:46

in life as a whole, right?

1:49:48

He's done a lot with his

1:49:51

10 years, right? Yes. So there

1:49:53

are times when he's frustrated. Because

1:49:55

your perspective is limited, because you're

1:49:57

so young, right? Yes. and he

1:50:00

wants to change that. Right, well,

1:50:02

that's retarded. Because he can't change

1:50:04

that because you're in your early

1:50:07

20s. If he wanted somebody more

1:50:09

experienced, he would have to choose

1:50:11

somebody older. But if he chose

1:50:14

someone older, he sure as hell

1:50:16

wouldn't be able to half bully

1:50:18

them into having sex and he

1:50:21

wouldn't be able to push them

1:50:23

around, so he chose someone who

1:50:25

was younger. And

1:50:27

he gets some benefits from that

1:50:30

and there are some drawbacks from

1:50:32

that. You chose somebody who's older

1:50:34

and wealthier and there's some benefits

1:50:36

to that and there are some

1:50:39

drawbacks to that. That's true with

1:50:41

everyone and everything. Now I'm not

1:50:43

saying everyone and everything is the

1:50:45

same. I don't agree with his

1:50:47

aggression. In fact, I think it's

1:50:50

bad, really bad. In particularly in

1:50:52

sexual matters, I don't agree with

1:50:54

the gas lighting. I don't agree

1:50:56

with the not taking responsibility. But

1:50:59

whatever he's been doing, it has

1:51:01

given him a very high income.

1:51:03

and great professional success. And that

1:51:05

gives you some advantages in terms

1:51:08

of having children younger. But you

1:51:10

cannot look at him and want

1:51:12

him to change. You must accept

1:51:14

him as he is because you've

1:51:16

already made that commitment. You've already

1:51:19

said, I love you, we'll be

1:51:21

together forever, better, sickness health, whatever

1:51:23

your vows were. That is your

1:51:25

commitment. And you can't carve and

1:51:28

slice him up into the good

1:51:30

and the bad like he's a

1:51:32

buffet. That that you've already chose,

1:51:34

you've already ordered, right? You've taste,

1:51:37

you've taste tested the menu for

1:51:39

six months and then you ordered

1:51:41

the meal. There's no point throwing

1:51:43

it against the wall or saying

1:51:45

I hate this part and not

1:51:48

that part. Yeah, you're right. I'm

1:51:56

not in time just personally

1:51:58

I'm not entirely convinced that

1:52:00

this is a great to

1:52:02

bring kids into at the

1:52:04

moment? No. I mean, I'm

1:52:06

only hearing your side of

1:52:08

things, of course, right? But,

1:52:10

you know, if he wants

1:52:13

to talk to me, he's

1:52:15

certainly welcome to. But... You

1:52:17

want? Yeah, he has issues

1:52:19

with self- ownership. He has

1:52:21

issues with responsibility. He has

1:52:23

issues with gas lighting, and

1:52:25

he has issues with boundaries

1:52:27

with boundaries. Do you know

1:52:30

if he's done any kind

1:52:32

of talk therapy or counseling

1:52:34

in his life? Yes he

1:52:36

did. He did, okay, maybe

1:52:38

after his breakup at the

1:52:40

borderline or something? Before and

1:52:42

why the breakup and after

1:52:44

the breakup? Okay, well that's

1:52:46

something, but it doesn't seem

1:52:49

to have given him more

1:52:51

healthy boundaries. Do not. Do

1:52:54

not listen to him, and I'm not

1:52:56

saying that he would now, but do

1:52:58

not listen to him about his sexuality

1:53:00

and his past. Just, it's a close

1:53:03

topic to say to him, I don't

1:53:05

want to hear another word about it,

1:53:07

I don't want to hear another thing

1:53:09

about it, I don't want to hear

1:53:11

another thing about it, I'm working on

1:53:14

getting those images out of my mind,

1:53:16

and I really want you to get

1:53:18

rid of the naked pictures of your

1:53:20

ex. Now, I'm a married woman, this

1:53:22

is my house now. I

1:53:26

didn't throw them out

1:53:29

because you were asking

1:53:31

it in a... and

1:53:33

aggressive tone. I mean,

1:53:35

you. have asked. Okay,

1:53:37

hang on, hang on,

1:53:39

hang on. Okay, so

1:53:41

hang on, so then

1:53:43

if I were you,

1:53:45

I would say, you

1:53:47

know you've been very

1:53:49

aggressive in this relationship

1:53:51

too, right? Like you

1:53:53

really don't want to

1:53:55

be starting to throw

1:53:57

these stones, right? Do

1:53:59

you remember how aggressive

1:54:01

you were? Wanting to

1:54:03

have sex before marriage?

1:54:05

You've half had me

1:54:07

up against the wall

1:54:09

for sex before marriage.

1:54:11

And then you're like,

1:54:13

well your tone was

1:54:15

a little aggressive, like

1:54:18

you've got to be

1:54:20

kidding me, bro. Like

1:54:22

that's really, that's really

1:54:24

precious. Yeah, you're right.

1:54:26

And now then he

1:54:28

would say, oh yes,

1:54:30

but you disapprove of

1:54:32

that aggression, and therefore

1:54:34

I'm disapproving of this

1:54:36

aggression. You'd say, because

1:54:38

he's probably slippery that

1:54:40

way, right? Yeah, he's,

1:54:42

um... Yes, he can

1:54:44

use words very... Right,

1:54:46

right. So then I

1:54:48

would say, okay, so

1:54:50

you're aggressive into your

1:54:52

early 30s, and you

1:54:54

thought that was fine,

1:54:56

so you can give

1:54:58

me 10 years of

1:55:00

aggression, and then you

1:55:02

can start to say

1:55:04

that I should pull

1:55:07

back on it. But

1:55:09

you can't say in

1:55:11

your early 30s, you're

1:55:13

very aggressive, right? So

1:55:15

I do think that

1:55:17

you guys do need

1:55:19

to work on clearer

1:55:21

communication and I do

1:55:23

think that What bothers

1:55:25

you about the X

1:55:27

is the fact that

1:55:29

he continues to lie

1:55:31

about it But that's

1:55:33

who you chose that

1:55:35

you chose him so

1:55:37

saying I think the

1:55:39

only thing that you

1:55:41

can do in a

1:55:43

marriage right is you

1:55:45

can act better yourself

1:55:47

and hope that he

1:55:49

follows but you cannot

1:55:51

try to change him

1:55:57

Okay, yeah, right? You can. only

1:55:59

act better yourself and hope that

1:56:01

he follows. You cannot just change,

1:56:03

you cannot get frustrated mad at

1:56:05

the other person and try to

1:56:07

change him. You know, if you

1:56:09

were both overweight, you can't nag

1:56:11

him to lose weight. All you

1:56:14

can do is eat well and

1:56:16

exercise yourself and then hope that

1:56:18

he follows. That's all you can

1:56:20

do. You can try and lead

1:56:22

by example in a marriage, but

1:56:24

you cannot work to change the

1:56:26

other person. Yes.

1:56:30

Yeah, you're right. And the

1:56:33

other thing too is that

1:56:35

would you, would you change

1:56:37

his personality, let's say that

1:56:39

you were to make him

1:56:42

less aggressive, right? If you,

1:56:44

would you accept him to

1:56:46

go back to the average

1:56:48

salary? In other words, would

1:56:51

you accept a 75% pay

1:56:53

cut in his income in

1:56:55

order for him to be

1:56:58

less aggressive? Well,

1:57:00

that's important, right? Then if

1:57:02

you look at the aggression

1:57:04

outside of his success, then

1:57:07

it's just a negative. If

1:57:09

you look at the aggression

1:57:11

as bound up within his

1:57:13

success, then you can understand

1:57:16

the complexity, right? Yeah, I

1:57:18

thought this way. I mean,

1:57:20

I always knew that he

1:57:22

was, I mean, like an

1:57:24

alpha male. Yeah. Well, he

1:57:27

works. Yeah. Well, he works.

1:57:29

Yeah, I mean, other men

1:57:31

in my life, well, I

1:57:33

knew that they were interested

1:57:36

in me, but they just

1:57:38

were too afraid to ask

1:57:40

me, for example, out. I

1:57:42

mean, I found it very

1:57:44

attractive that my husband wasn't

1:57:47

afraid of that, and I

1:57:49

mean, when we dated, he

1:57:51

dated, he showed I mean

1:57:53

he was just like an

1:57:56

alpha and well but he's

1:57:58

he's not he's not a

1:58:00

true alpha because a true

1:58:02

alpha would never date a

1:58:04

borderline because alphas don't like

1:58:07

being helpless and borderlines will

1:58:09

make you helpless because they're

1:58:11

so random so I mean

1:58:13

I get that he's assertive

1:58:16

at working and aggressive at

1:58:18

working but the alpha stuff

1:58:20

he's got he's got a

1:58:22

soft underbelly he's got some

1:58:24

weaknesses he's got a soft

1:58:27

underbelly he's got some weaknesses

1:58:29

Nonetheless, the fact that he

1:58:31

is just so certain of

1:58:33

things, that he's hard to

1:58:36

change his mind, well that's

1:58:38

part of why the income

1:58:40

is there. So if you

1:58:42

look around and you see

1:58:44

the income flowing in, there's

1:58:47

going to be certain personality

1:58:49

traits that are going to

1:58:51

come along with that, right?

1:58:53

And that's what you signed

1:58:56

up for. That having been

1:58:58

said, I still would have

1:59:00

concerns about how he would

1:59:02

be as a father. And

1:59:04

also if you're having, you've

1:59:07

been married how long now?

1:59:09

Um, oh, three months. You've

1:59:11

been married three months and

1:59:13

you're already having sexual problems,

1:59:16

right? I mean, for me,

1:59:18

those are problems and I

1:59:20

mean, yeah, lightly. I'm sorry?

1:59:22

Yeah, it's lightly, it's a

1:59:24

light sexual problem. I mean,

1:59:27

what you mean by light

1:59:29

sexual problems? I mean, it's

1:59:31

not an emergency where married

1:59:33

couple sleeps only once a

1:59:36

month. Yeah, once a year

1:59:38

or once a month. Okay,

1:59:40

I get all of that

1:59:42

for sure. I get all

1:59:44

of that, but it was

1:59:47

important enough to call me

1:59:49

when you didn't even call

1:59:51

me before you got married.

1:59:53

Yes. I think

1:59:56

it might have been helpful

1:59:58

but you know we what

2:00:00

we can with the conversations

2:00:02

that we have. So I

2:00:04

think, yeah, I also think

2:00:06

this is why I was

2:00:08

sort of talking earlier about

2:00:10

infidelity that if he's not,

2:00:12

you said you're having sex

2:00:14

every four days, is that

2:00:16

right? Yeah, four or five

2:00:18

and I mean, I'm the

2:00:20

one that's initiating it and

2:00:22

sure. often I hear no

2:00:24

I don't want and yeah

2:00:26

that's that's you know for

2:00:28

a guy with an attractive

2:00:30

young bride that seems especially

2:00:32

if he's being kind of

2:00:34

sex mad in the past

2:00:36

just he may not be

2:00:38

used to a stable and

2:00:40

relatively healthy relationship so he

2:00:42

might be just realigning his

2:00:45

sexuality I mean if he

2:00:47

was having sex with the

2:00:49

borderline for six years that's

2:00:51

that's going to be some

2:00:53

crazy stuff and he just

2:00:55

may not be used to

2:00:57

be used to a more

2:00:59

healthy and natural sexual relationship

2:01:01

and maybe that's just changing

2:01:03

for him. Yeah I'm probably

2:01:05

I mean he would say

2:01:07

yeah but also in the

2:01:09

past with this borderline I

2:01:11

had also faces where I

2:01:13

didn't want to have sex

2:01:15

and I mean he will

2:01:17

say that yeah he feels

2:01:19

not well enough he doesn't

2:01:21

like his body he wants

2:01:23

to lose weight he wants

2:01:25

to lose weight and He's

2:01:27

tired and such things. Well,

2:01:29

do you think how happy

2:01:31

if you had to guess,

2:01:34

and we'll just close up

2:01:36

here, because I know it's

2:01:38

late for us both, but

2:01:40

if you had to guess

2:01:42

where he was in the

2:01:44

minus 10 to plus 10

2:01:46

marriage happiness, where do you

2:01:48

think his number is at

2:01:50

the moment, three months into

2:01:52

the marriage? Um.

2:01:57

Oh. I would say,

2:01:59

I mean, yeah, maybe

2:02:01

five. Yeah, he would

2:02:04

say five. So he's

2:02:06

happy, but just not

2:02:09

super happy. Yes, because

2:02:11

he will say that

2:02:13

I sometimes can be.

2:02:16

that I sometimes can

2:02:18

have a lot of

2:02:20

temper and when I'm

2:02:23

angry I can also

2:02:25

say some very bad

2:02:28

things. What if you,

2:02:30

sorry, what if you,

2:02:32

what if you said

2:02:35

to him? I mean,

2:02:37

two weeks ago we

2:02:40

had a very big

2:02:42

fight and both of

2:02:44

us. No, no, no,

2:02:47

no. What, hang on,

2:02:49

what if you said

2:02:52

to him? Yeah,

2:02:55

I said to

2:02:58

him that's... Maybe

2:03:00

I should divorce

2:03:03

you. What? You

2:03:05

threatened him with

2:03:08

divorce? Two and

2:03:10

a half months

2:03:12

into the marriage?

2:03:15

I mean... No,

2:03:17

no, no, no,

2:03:20

no. You cannot

2:03:22

be doing that.

2:03:26

He also did the same

2:03:28

thing. So you hang on,

2:03:30

hang on. You guys were

2:03:32

married two, two and a

2:03:35

half months and you're both

2:03:37

threatening divorce. You know the

2:03:39

reason for this was because...

2:03:41

No, I don't care what

2:03:44

the reason was. It's absolutely

2:03:46

irrelevant what the reason was.

2:03:48

Yeah, I mean if you

2:03:50

marry someone and you have

2:03:53

to deal that divorce is

2:03:55

not an option and you

2:03:57

don't even make a... Oh

2:03:59

yeah, I'll tell you close

2:04:02

things. Marriage. Sorry, why are

2:04:04

you talking about taking half

2:04:06

of the stuff of the

2:04:08

men? Sorry, why are you

2:04:11

talking about the men? Yeah.

2:04:13

Sorry, why are you talking

2:04:15

about taking half of his

2:04:17

stuff? No, not, I'm talking

2:04:20

about that. I asked you

2:04:22

how. This word is an

2:04:24

English term. Oh, so alimony

2:04:26

or child, well it wouldn't

2:04:29

be child support, but I

2:04:31

know, but you would, I'm

2:04:33

no lawyer obviously, but my

2:04:36

understanding is that you would

2:04:38

only get half of the

2:04:40

assets accumulated over the course

2:04:42

of the marriage, not the

2:04:45

stuff he had before. No,

2:04:47

I, no, it's, um, no,

2:04:49

how, how do you call

2:04:51

those agreements, uh, Oh yeah,

2:04:54

and I mean in this

2:04:56

fight he said also that

2:04:58

he really regrets, not, he

2:05:00

really regrets it that he

2:05:03

didn't do it with me.

2:05:05

Oh so in the, you

2:05:07

threatened to divorce him, he

2:05:09

threatened to divorce you, and

2:05:12

then he said he really

2:05:14

regretted not getting a prenup

2:05:16

to protect his assets. Yes,

2:05:18

that's why I'm wondering about

2:05:21

that. This is a disaster!

2:05:23

This is a complete catastrophe.

2:05:25

It's not a lot of

2:05:27

time, you know, it's only

2:05:30

in those faces, well, we

2:05:32

have a disagreement. Okay, it's

2:05:34

this way, look, I'm not

2:05:36

going to waste my time.

2:05:39

If you think the marriage

2:05:41

is going fine, when you're

2:05:43

both threatening divorce, basically a

2:05:45

month, two and a half

2:05:48

months into the marriage and

2:05:50

he's saying... Gee, I wish

2:05:52

I'd kept myself legally protected

2:05:55

against you taking half my

2:05:57

stuff. If you say, well

2:05:59

that's not all the time,

2:06:01

then I guess I'll wish

2:06:04

you the best, but because

2:06:06

if you're just going to

2:06:08

minimize it, then maybe I'm

2:06:10

completely mistaken and the marriage

2:06:13

is fine or this is

2:06:15

a good marriage for you

2:06:17

and I don't want to

2:06:19

mess with that. So if

2:06:22

you're going to say, well

2:06:24

it's not all the time,

2:06:26

then the marriage I guess

2:06:28

isn't that bad. I'm sorry?

2:06:31

I don't want to minimize

2:06:33

it. No, you just did.

2:06:35

So you do. I mean,

2:06:37

if you had a friend

2:06:40

who just married a guy

2:06:42

really quickly and there were

2:06:44

divorce threats weeks into the

2:06:46

marriage and legal threats in

2:06:49

a sense. You would be

2:06:51

very concerned. Would you think

2:06:53

that that's something worth continuing?

2:06:55

No. Maybe

2:07:00

it was just an

2:07:02

error. I would be.

2:07:04

Yeah, my father said

2:07:07

the same thing. What

2:07:09

did your father say?

2:07:11

He said it was

2:07:13

a mistake to get

2:07:15

married? I mean, he

2:07:18

said that maybe it

2:07:20

was a mistake and...

2:07:22

and leaving it is

2:07:24

now easier than in

2:07:27

20 years with five

2:07:29

kids. Well, that's

2:07:31

certainly true. Yeah, that's

2:07:33

certainly true. I mean,

2:07:36

if the marriage continues

2:07:38

in this way, would

2:07:40

you want to stay

2:07:42

married? No, I would

2:07:45

like to have an

2:07:47

honest husband. No, that's

2:07:49

not what I asked.

2:07:51

If the marriage continues

2:07:54

in this way, do

2:07:56

you want to stay

2:07:58

married? How

2:08:00

is it going to change

2:08:02

so that it does not

2:08:05

continue in this way? I

2:08:07

should control my tone and

2:08:10

the things that I say.

2:08:12

I mean, did your parents

2:08:14

fight in this kind of

2:08:17

way? No. When they have

2:08:19

an disagreement, they will just

2:08:22

both leave the room. Okay,

2:08:24

so you don't know how

2:08:26

to resolve conflicts in a

2:08:29

marriage, right? Because your parents

2:08:31

didn't do it, they just

2:08:34

left the room, right? Yes.

2:08:36

Okay. So how are you

2:08:39

going to learn how to

2:08:41

resolve conflicts in a marriage?

2:08:43

If your parents didn't teach

2:08:46

you, and it certainly sounds

2:08:48

like his parents didn't teach

2:08:51

him. No, they didn't. How

2:08:53

are you going to? How

2:08:57

are you going to

2:08:59

learn how to do

2:09:02

that? I don't know

2:09:04

if you've read my

2:09:07

book real-time relationships. No,

2:09:10

I didn't. Maybe. Might

2:09:12

be worth it. Yes.

2:09:15

And have you guys

2:09:17

thought about any couples

2:09:20

counseling? I mean... No,

2:09:22

not couples counseling, but

2:09:25

for example... In

2:09:27

the Catholic Church, before

2:09:30

you get married, there

2:09:32

are lectures on marriage,

2:09:34

how a marriage, what's

2:09:37

a marriage, and how

2:09:39

you should act in

2:09:42

a marriage, and what's

2:09:44

the reason for it,

2:09:46

and why do we

2:09:49

want to get married,

2:09:51

and so on, and

2:09:54

if it didn't. At

2:09:56

first he didn't want

2:09:58

to do it with

2:10:01

me. because he thought,

2:10:03

yeah, we don't need

2:10:06

this step and this

2:10:08

will not help with

2:10:11

our problems. And I

2:10:13

said, yeah, I would

2:10:15

like to do this

2:10:18

with you because it

2:10:20

will not hurt and

2:10:23

it could help and

2:10:25

it would be nice

2:10:27

if you would do

2:10:30

it for me. But

2:10:32

he said very arrogant

2:10:35

that no, he doesn't.

2:10:37

What else have you

2:10:39

called him? Have you

2:10:42

called him? Have you

2:10:44

called him names? I

2:10:47

called him names, maybe

2:10:49

a little bit. Yes,

2:10:51

sometimes. Okay, listen, I

2:10:54

mean, it's it's a

2:10:56

late, it's a late

2:10:59

night for me. So

2:11:01

if you want to

2:11:03

just keep not answering

2:11:06

questions, I'm not sure

2:11:08

how we can continue.

2:11:11

Have you called him

2:11:13

names? Yes, I. Okay,

2:11:15

what names if you

2:11:18

called him? I mean,

2:11:20

how how would you

2:11:23

translate a homeless drinking

2:11:25

person on a street?

2:11:27

Oh, a bum in

2:11:30

English. I said that

2:11:32

sometimes to him. Yes.

2:11:35

Okay, so you're a

2:11:37

drunken homeless guy, anything

2:11:39

else? No. Okay. And

2:11:42

has he called, has

2:11:44

he called your names?

2:11:47

Yes, he had called

2:11:49

me a bum and

2:11:51

a couple of times

2:11:54

stupid and loser. And

2:11:58

it's what. happen when

2:12:01

we have an argument

2:12:03

it often ends with

2:12:05

I mean he will

2:12:08

attack I will attack

2:12:10

with both and we'll

2:12:12

get louder and louder

2:12:15

and when we both

2:12:17

are very angry we

2:12:19

will say things that

2:12:21

we will later regret.

2:12:24

And do you think

2:12:26

that this would be

2:12:28

a healthy environment for

2:12:31

children to be raised

2:12:33

in? No. Okay, so

2:12:35

you can't have kids,

2:12:38

right? At the moment.

2:12:40

Do not get pregnant?

2:12:42

Is that reasonable advice?

2:12:44

Yes. Okay. So do

2:12:47

you think he would

2:12:49

go to couples counseling?

2:12:59

I think he would

2:13:01

say, no, you should

2:13:04

go see a therapist.

2:13:06

Okay, and would you

2:13:09

go and see a

2:13:11

therapist? Yes, I would.

2:13:14

Okay. So I think

2:13:16

that would be a

2:13:18

good idea. Yes. You

2:13:21

can't call your spouse

2:13:23

names. You can't. You

2:13:26

can't threaten with divorce.

2:13:28

You can't have legal

2:13:31

threats. I mean, why

2:13:33

did he talk about

2:13:36

the prenup? Was it

2:13:38

because you said, well,

2:13:41

I can just leave

2:13:43

and take half your

2:13:46

stuff? He said that

2:13:48

because, yeah, I would

2:13:51

have known that you

2:13:53

will make such scenes

2:13:56

and, yeah, and... Yeah,

2:13:58

such big emotional scenes

2:14:01

with a lot of

2:14:03

yelling. and so on,

2:14:05

I would have made

2:14:08

a pre-nup because I

2:14:10

don't want you, because

2:14:13

I don't want you

2:14:15

to take the half

2:14:18

of the stuff in

2:14:20

the future. Yeah. I

2:14:23

mean, is this really

2:14:25

sustainable? Could you ask

2:14:28

this again? Is

2:14:31

this really sustainable?

2:14:33

This marriage. I

2:14:36

mean, if I

2:14:38

wouldn't fight with

2:14:41

so much, then

2:14:44

if I would

2:14:46

correct more diplomatic,

2:14:49

then yes. Okay.

2:14:51

then I will

2:14:54

get frustrated and...

2:14:56

it's... it's... Not

2:14:59

often, and yeah

2:15:01

my husband is,

2:15:04

it's not, I

2:15:06

mean, logic reasons,

2:15:09

here they don't

2:15:11

often count. He

2:15:14

will, he wants

2:15:16

the ways to

2:15:19

be his way,

2:15:22

what the things

2:15:24

to be, like

2:15:27

he wants it

2:15:29

to me. Okay,

2:15:32

so he wants

2:15:34

it to me.

2:15:37

Okay, so he

2:15:39

wants things to

2:15:42

be. Yes, and

2:15:44

when I say

2:15:47

yeah, but there's

2:15:49

this logical reason

2:15:52

blah blah blah

2:15:54

and then this

2:15:57

logical reason he

2:16:00

will just say

2:16:02

yeah but I

2:16:05

but I'm the

2:16:07

but I'm earning

2:16:10

the money and

2:16:12

I should decide.

2:16:15

Sorry is it

2:16:17

about finance financial

2:16:20

things? I mean

2:16:22

it was about

2:16:25

our church wedding

2:16:28

Oh, so you wanted things

2:16:30

for the wedding, but he

2:16:33

was paying. It's very weird

2:16:35

because, you know, we are

2:16:37

only legally, we are married

2:16:39

before the state, but we

2:16:42

didn't have the wedding in

2:16:44

a church. And this very

2:16:46

big fights in the last

2:16:48

two weeks, it was about

2:16:51

the church wedding. because he

2:16:53

wants a very big party

2:16:55

and he wants a very

2:16:57

big party and I don't

2:17:00

care about it because I

2:17:02

want to save money. But

2:17:04

you have no money, right?

2:17:06

I mean, we are young

2:17:09

and we should save money.

2:17:11

No, no, you personally have

2:17:13

no money, right? No, he

2:17:15

pays for it. Okay, so

2:17:18

you have no money, so

2:17:20

you are telling a man

2:17:22

in his 30s what to

2:17:24

do with his paycheck. Yeah,

2:17:30

I'm his wife. No, no,

2:17:32

hang on, but you're a

2:17:35

Christian, right? Yes. So who's

2:17:37

the head of the household?

2:17:39

He said the same thing.

2:17:41

No, no, I mean, I'm

2:17:43

not trying to take his

2:17:46

side. I'm just trying to

2:17:48

understand what your perception is

2:17:50

of Christianity, of Catholicism. Yeah,

2:17:52

the man is the head

2:17:54

of the household, right? So

2:17:57

you can make suggestions, but

2:17:59

as far as I understand

2:18:01

it in the approach that

2:18:03

you would. take as a

2:18:05

Christian he would have the

2:18:07

final say. I'm sorry if

2:18:10

I have that wrong but

2:18:12

that was my understanding of

2:18:14

it. Yes it's yes it

2:18:16

was written so in the

2:18:18

Bible. Okay so why are

2:18:21

you fighting? Because I'm afraid

2:18:23

that because In the past,

2:18:25

he made some not very

2:18:27

rational financial decisions and I'm...

2:18:29

No, no, no, there's no,

2:18:32

hang on, hang on, hang

2:18:34

on. Is there something in

2:18:36

the Bible that says the

2:18:38

man is the head of

2:18:40

the household unless he's made

2:18:43

mistakes in the past? No.

2:18:45

Okay, so you can't put

2:18:47

in things in the Bible

2:18:49

that aren't there. You can't

2:18:51

make up your own Christianity,

2:18:54

can you? I mean, the

2:18:56

brother has four times the

2:18:58

national income. He's four times

2:19:00

the average national income, right?

2:19:02

So he's really successful. In

2:19:04

his early 30s, and the

2:19:07

national income includes people, men

2:19:09

who were in their 40s,

2:19:11

50s, and 60s, who are

2:19:13

making a lot more. So

2:19:15

he's doing very well. I

2:19:18

betcha he's got, he's probably

2:19:20

got eight times the average

2:19:22

salary of men in his

2:19:24

early 30s in their early

2:19:26

30s, all right? So he's

2:19:29

very successful financially, is that

2:19:31

fair to say fair to

2:19:33

say? Yes. So he has

2:19:35

some idea what he's doing,

2:19:37

right? So I think I

2:19:40

start to, I think I'm

2:19:42

starting to understand that he

2:19:44

doesn't feel respected by his

2:19:46

wife when she is telling

2:19:48

a financially successful man. Okay,

2:19:52

well hang on, so how financially

2:19:54

successful have you been? I'm not.

2:19:56

So you don't know what he's

2:19:58

gone through and you don't know

2:20:00

how he's achieved his success. And

2:20:03

this doesn't mean that you can't

2:20:05

have opinions, it doesn't mean that

2:20:07

you can't make suggestions, but you

2:20:09

should do them with humility because

2:20:11

he's 10 years older and very

2:20:14

successful. That makes sense. Again, unless

2:20:16

I'm misunderstanding something. Now listen, if,

2:20:18

if, hang on, hang on. And

2:20:20

it goes both ways, right? So

2:20:22

if you, let's say that you

2:20:24

stay married, you have a couple

2:20:27

of kids, and you're running the

2:20:29

household, right? Now, if you're running

2:20:31

the household and you say, we

2:20:33

need this, this, and this for

2:20:35

the household, then he would defer

2:20:37

to you because you're running the

2:20:40

household and you have that expertise,

2:20:42

right? I hope so. No, but

2:20:44

that's the way it would work,

2:20:46

right? So in a marriage, my

2:20:48

wife has things that she's an

2:20:50

expert at, and she's an expert

2:20:53

at, and she just tells me,

2:20:55

what it is, and I'm what

2:20:57

it is, and I say, and

2:20:59

I say, and I say, and

2:21:01

I say, and I say, And

2:21:04

then there is things that I

2:21:06

have expertise in, and I say

2:21:08

what it is, and that's how

2:21:10

it goes. We don't really argue

2:21:12

with each other, because there's not

2:21:14

much point in that, right? Because

2:21:17

what's the point? That would be

2:21:19

like having a company where everybody

2:21:21

does everyone else's job. Like, there

2:21:23

has to be a division of

2:21:25

labor, right? So he's good at

2:21:27

handling, at making and handling money.

2:21:30

And you're young, so you're not

2:21:32

good at much yet. And you

2:21:34

don't mean to be insulting, but

2:21:36

it's just a factor of age,

2:21:38

right? You're obviously very intelligent and

2:21:40

very capable, but you just don't

2:21:43

have much experience, right? That's right.

2:21:45

I don't have enough. I don't

2:21:47

have experience making a lot of

2:21:49

money. I only have experience. Oh,

2:21:51

hang on. It's not just making

2:21:54

money. It's understanding money. So you're

2:21:56

like somebody just coming into medical

2:21:58

school trying to lecture a surgeon

2:22:00

with 10 years experience. You're just

2:22:02

not going to have any credibility

2:22:04

credibility. Right. Okay. Yes. You have

2:22:07

to get good at something. Yeah,

2:22:09

you have to get. good at

2:22:11

something in order to have credibility.

2:22:13

My husband would also say, I

2:22:15

mean he would criticize me that

2:22:17

I would lecture, I am young

2:22:20

and I shouldn't, that I shouldn't

2:22:22

have to write to lecture people

2:22:24

about their stuff. Well I mean

2:22:26

there's some truth in that of

2:22:28

course right, but he also chose

2:22:30

a younger person and It's quite

2:22:33

common, and listen, I was young

2:22:35

too, so I understand this, it's

2:22:37

quite common that young people overestimate

2:22:39

their own knowledge and abilities because

2:22:41

they haven't run up against a

2:22:44

huge number of life's difficulties. Right,

2:22:46

so it's like when you're watching

2:22:48

sports and you just think, oh,

2:22:50

just do this, or just like,

2:22:52

it's because you're not on the

2:22:54

field, right? Yeah, it's, yeah. Your

2:22:57

husband having been very successful

2:23:00

is looking at you lecturing

2:23:02

him about money and like

2:23:04

I'm you can't just make

2:23:07

up credibility right? What should

2:23:09

I do to have credibility?

2:23:11

Well if you want to

2:23:14

have credibility then you need

2:23:16

to study money you need

2:23:18

to understand money you need

2:23:21

to understand his finances and

2:23:23

you need to have him

2:23:25

tell you about how he

2:23:28

makes his money and his

2:23:30

finances and you just need

2:23:32

to be be trained to

2:23:35

be to learn. And you've

2:23:37

never run a you've never

2:23:39

run a household budget before

2:23:42

right? A household budget not

2:23:44

being those I have a

2:23:46

lot of knowledge about how

2:23:49

to run a household and

2:23:51

know how to save money.

2:23:53

Well, but why does he

2:23:56

need to save money? I'm

2:24:01

not saying he doesn't, I just

2:24:04

don't know why he does. I

2:24:06

mean, yeah, because we're young and

2:24:08

if we want to buy in

2:24:10

the future a house or be

2:24:13

financially on the safe side, it

2:24:15

would be wise to save. No,

2:24:17

but his income is just going

2:24:19

to keep going up. What are

2:24:22

you talking about? Yeah, I hope.

2:24:24

Well, I mean, hope, I mean,

2:24:26

we hope we don't get hit

2:24:29

by an asteroid or wake up

2:24:31

with a giant tumor in our

2:24:33

head. Okay, we hope, we hope,

2:24:35

right? But I mean, he's got,

2:24:38

he's been in the workforce. Hang

2:24:40

on, he's been in the workforce

2:24:42

like 10 years, and he's making

2:24:44

four times the national average, probably

2:24:47

eight times the national average for

2:24:49

people in his age range. So

2:24:51

he's just going to keep making

2:24:54

more money. I mean, men skill

2:24:56

and women skill, but we talk

2:24:58

about your husband, his skill in

2:25:00

the workforce is only going to

2:25:03

work force is only going to

2:25:05

increase is only going to increase

2:25:07

is only going to increase. Right,

2:25:09

his contacts are going to increase,

2:25:12

his skills are going to increase,

2:25:14

his salary is going to increase.

2:25:16

Why does he need to save

2:25:18

money? Yeah, because I mean, by

2:25:21

the time he's 40, he's probably

2:25:23

going to be making a quarter

2:25:25

of a million or half a

2:25:28

million dollars a year. So, but

2:25:30

you have anxiety, but that's no

2:25:32

reason to tell him what to

2:25:34

do with his money. Okay. Like,

2:25:37

did you grow up poor? No,

2:25:39

no, not poor, but my parents

2:25:41

were, yeah, they saved always money

2:25:43

and I mean, my father, my

2:25:46

parents were, yeah, they saved always

2:25:48

money and I mean, my father,

2:25:50

my parents could afford. Yeah,

2:25:53

my father was the only,

2:25:55

was the owner for the

2:25:57

family and my mother was...

2:25:59

Hang on, how much money

2:26:01

did your father make? I

2:26:03

assume it's less than your

2:26:05

husband now. Yes, it's less.

2:26:07

Okay, so you grew up

2:26:09

with a whole ton of

2:26:12

kids, right? Six siblings, you

2:26:14

grew up with a whole

2:26:16

ton of kids, a stay-at-home

2:26:18

mom, and a father who

2:26:20

wasn't making much money. I

2:26:22

mean, it was more, maybe,

2:26:24

yeah, three times the average.

2:26:26

Yes, but seven children. Yes.

2:26:30

Do you have seven

2:26:32

children with your husband?

2:26:34

No, I have zero.

2:26:36

Right. So don't start,

2:26:38

don't marry a guy

2:26:40

and immediately start telling

2:26:42

him he can't spend

2:26:44

much money. Hmm. That's

2:26:46

not fun for him?

2:26:48

No, it's, you know,

2:26:50

it's a little bit

2:26:52

confusing because he asks

2:26:54

me, yeah, we need

2:26:56

to... Have an over

2:26:58

we need to have

2:27:00

an overview where our

2:27:02

money is going because

2:27:04

I feel that we

2:27:06

spend a lot So

2:27:08

sorry what he says

2:27:10

we spend a lot.

2:27:12

What does that mean?

2:27:14

Does that mean you

2:27:16

and and he both

2:27:18

spend a lot? I

2:27:20

would say he spends

2:27:22

a lot I mean

2:27:24

I spend money only

2:27:26

on buying food and

2:27:28

Wait, so where's he

2:27:30

spending his money if

2:27:32

you're not spending it

2:27:34

together? Where's he spending

2:27:36

his money? I mean,

2:27:38

you buy, you have

2:27:40

some things for the

2:27:42

car, the car needs,

2:27:44

the car is broke,

2:27:46

you need to repair

2:27:48

it, and then... Okay,

2:27:50

so hang on, so

2:27:52

that's nothing to do

2:27:54

with saving money because

2:27:56

that's an essential, right?

2:27:58

You have to have

2:28:00

a car and it

2:28:02

has to work and

2:28:04

it has to be

2:28:06

safe, right? Okay, so...

2:28:08

Okay, so he goes.

2:28:10

on soccer games or

2:28:12

play? Yes, soccer or

2:28:14

he buys some computer

2:28:16

games or he... Okay,

2:28:18

computer games are very

2:28:20

cheap relative to his

2:28:22

income. Yeah, okay, or

2:28:24

he visits France with

2:28:26

his friend. Sorry, sorry,

2:28:29

so since you got married, how many

2:28:31

times has he gone to France with

2:28:33

his friends? Um, zero times. Okay, so,

2:28:35

so you're not making any sense here,

2:28:38

right? You're saying he spends money on

2:28:40

what? Computer games, which are very cheap.

2:28:42

Computer games are one of the cheapest

2:28:45

forms of entertainment. Because you pay like,

2:28:47

you know, 40 euros or 30 euros

2:28:49

or whatever it is, and you can

2:28:51

get 100 hours of entertainment. It's way

2:28:54

cheaper than going to a movie. It's

2:28:56

way cheaper than just about any other

2:28:58

form of entertainment. Right? So don't begrudge

2:29:00

the guy his computer games, because that's

2:29:03

about as cheap as entertainment gets. Fixing

2:29:05

cars? Well, you've got to fix your

2:29:07

car. And he hasn't gone. You say,

2:29:10

well, that spends money going to France.

2:29:12

Well, how many times has he gone

2:29:14

to France since you got married? Zero.

2:29:16

Yes. So it sounds to me like

2:29:19

you're starting off as a bit of

2:29:21

a nag. You're

2:29:23

not learning about his finances, you're

2:29:26

not learning about his preferences, you're

2:29:28

not trying to understand him, you're

2:29:31

just telling him like a Karen,

2:29:33

like a scold, spend less, we

2:29:35

gotta save. No wonder he's... Sex

2:29:38

drivers go into the toilet. Don't

2:29:40

mom him. Don't mother him. Don't

2:29:42

whack you figure out him. Don't

2:29:45

tell him what he's got to

2:29:47

do with his money when you're

2:29:50

a couple of weeks into the

2:29:52

marriage. Yeah, when you

2:29:54

say it is way, I mean,

2:29:57

she also said so. Yeah, it

2:29:59

feels like you are my mom.

2:30:01

Right, so don't do that. And

2:30:03

listen, as the oldest sibling to

2:30:06

a bunch of younger siblings, obviously

2:30:08

by definition, you're going to have

2:30:10

a lot of mom in you,

2:30:13

right? Yeah. And there's nothing wrong.

2:30:15

There's nothing wrong with that. It's

2:30:17

great to have a lot of

2:30:19

mom in you. You just can't

2:30:22

put it on your husband. Because

2:30:24

he's going to feel small and

2:30:26

he's going to feel like a

2:30:29

naughty little boy. and he's going

2:30:31

to lose sexual desire for you

2:30:33

because if you mom your husband

2:30:35

he won't want to have sex

2:30:38

with you unless he's really fucking

2:30:40

weird and he's not okay right

2:30:42

so you cannot mom your husband

2:30:44

you cannot nag him you cannot

2:30:47

do that or you will kill

2:30:49

his sex drive because he doesn't

2:30:51

want to have sex with his

2:30:54

age Yes.

2:30:59

Don't barge

2:31:02

in and

2:31:04

try and

2:31:07

change his

2:31:09

life. To

2:31:12

suit your

2:31:14

preferences when

2:31:17

you don't

2:31:19

know what's

2:31:22

going on.

2:31:24

Okay. Just,

2:31:28

okay, so I should trust him

2:31:30

when it comes to finances and

2:31:32

let him do his way. The

2:31:34

decision, okay, first of all, he's

2:31:37

very good with money because he's

2:31:39

making a lot of it. Now,

2:31:41

just people who make a lot

2:31:44

of money who were single spend

2:31:46

some money? Yeah, they do. Well,

2:31:48

of course, what's the point of

2:31:50

making all that money if you

2:31:53

don't spend it? What is he?

2:31:55

Howard Hughes had to shuffle around

2:31:57

with Klex boxes on his feet

2:32:00

because he's too nervous to buy

2:32:02

shoes worth a billion dollars like

2:32:04

that? The purpose of making that

2:32:06

money is to spend it. So

2:32:09

yes, he's probably quite a spender,

2:32:11

because he was single. Now he's

2:32:13

going to have to adjust to

2:32:16

married life and he's going to

2:32:18

have to adjust at some point

2:32:20

maybe to becoming a father and

2:32:23

he's a smart guy, his spending

2:32:25

will change, right? But you're coming

2:32:27

into him when he's been a

2:32:29

bachelor for 15 years. Yeah, and

2:32:32

I just expect him to, I

2:32:34

mean, to act like a... Like

2:32:36

a man with a couple of

2:32:39

kids. Well, or a brokey, right,

2:32:41

yeah. He's proud of the money

2:32:43

he's making and he's making good,

2:32:45

he's making great money. And now

2:32:48

he's got a woman coming in

2:32:50

nagging him about his spending. Like

2:32:52

within a couple of weeks of

2:32:55

getting married. Jesus, are you trying

2:32:57

to drive over his boner? You

2:33:00

mean, yeah, maybe I worry too much?

2:33:02

Well, I mean, you're allowed to worry,

2:33:04

of course. You're a woman, you're supposed

2:33:07

to worry, there's nothing wrong with that,

2:33:09

but don't think that he's got to

2:33:11

fix your worrying by changing his behavior.

2:33:13

Worrying is something you talk about. I

2:33:16

feel nervous, you know, I'm not used

2:33:18

to this, you know, I grew up

2:33:20

in a situation of scarcity and there's

2:33:23

all this money and I don't know

2:33:25

how to... You can worry about it.

2:33:27

You can worry about it. If

2:33:30

you say you have to change your

2:33:32

spending because I'm anxious, therefore you have

2:33:34

to change your behavior, it will just

2:33:36

become more and more and more controlling

2:33:39

and you'll get angry at him because

2:33:41

your anxiety is internally generated. Right, so

2:33:43

if you say you have to change

2:33:45

your spending because I'm anxious, even if

2:33:48

it does change your spending, you'll just

2:33:50

be anxious about something else. and then

2:33:52

your demand he changed that and now

2:33:54

you gotta do this and oh you

2:33:57

looked at that woman and you know

2:33:59

you You dress too, you should shave

2:34:01

more, I don't like your color, like

2:34:03

there'd just be something, right? Because

2:34:05

your anxiety is generated internally, and

2:34:07

if he surrenders to the idea

2:34:10

that he has to change his

2:34:12

behavior to manage your anxiety,

2:34:14

he will end up a slave, because it

2:34:16

will never be enough. It's like censorship,

2:34:18

it's never enough. It never solves

2:34:20

the problem. It just gets more

2:34:22

and more and more and more. So

2:34:25

you've got to deal with your anxiety

2:34:27

as your issue. But demanding that your

2:34:29

partner change his behavior, so

2:34:31

that he can somehow manage

2:34:33

your anxiety, men will fight

2:34:35

that to the death. We really will.

2:34:38

Because we know it will never end.

2:34:40

It will just get more and more

2:34:42

and we'll get more and

2:34:44

more controlled and then we'll

2:34:46

just get resentful and we'll

2:34:48

feel emasculated and we'll lose

2:34:50

our sex drive. Like we will fight

2:34:52

that to the nail. Sorry, go ahead.

2:34:54

I'm starting to understand.

2:34:58

I think I need

2:35:01

a little bit

2:35:03

of help. So,

2:35:05

um, I mean, I'm

2:35:08

not, I mean, I'm,

2:35:10

I mean, I'm, I

2:35:12

mean, I'm his wife

2:35:15

and if I see

2:35:17

that my

2:35:19

husband is doing

2:35:22

things that I'll

2:35:24

ease me a little

2:35:27

bit. Then, shouldn't

2:35:30

I say something? Sure,

2:35:33

absolutely. You can

2:35:35

say, I'm bothered. But

2:35:37

you can't say, I'm

2:35:40

bothered, therefore you

2:35:42

have to change. Yeah,

2:35:44

I mean, I said that,

2:35:46

yeah, I'm bothered, because

2:35:49

of this and that.

2:35:51

So here's my idea,

2:35:54

let's do that. Yeah,

2:35:56

so you're trying to get him to

2:35:59

change so that you aren't don't feel

2:36:01

bothered. I mean he would

2:36:03

say yeah you want things.

2:36:05

Let me let me ask

2:36:07

you this. So four four

2:36:10

I don't know four and

2:36:12

a half years ago I

2:36:14

was deplatformed right? Yes. Okay

2:36:16

so I was deplatformed because

2:36:18

what I was saying was

2:36:20

bothering people and rather than

2:36:22

them dealing with being bothered

2:36:25

they had to eliminate me.

2:36:27

I had to change my

2:36:29

behavior or the people who

2:36:31

hosted me had to change

2:36:33

their behavior like I had

2:36:35

to my show had to

2:36:37

be radically changed because people

2:36:40

were upset right yes rather

2:36:42

than saying gee what staff

2:36:44

is saying it's really upsetting

2:36:46

to me I need to

2:36:48

deal with that but it's

2:36:50

not incumbent upon staff to

2:36:52

change right so rather than

2:36:55

be mature they demanded that

2:36:57

the world change to

2:36:59

manage their anxiety, that other people

2:37:01

have to change to manage your

2:37:03

own internal states. It's very childish.

2:37:06

Well, yeah, it's certainly, it's not

2:37:08

healthy and it never ends. This

2:37:10

is why principles are so important,

2:37:13

like it would just keep, because

2:37:15

you'll be mad and frustrated. So

2:37:17

it will just never end. And

2:37:19

this is why men, we generally

2:37:22

tend to resist this or put

2:37:24

our foot down at the very

2:37:26

beginning, because we sense, this is

2:37:29

why men tend to be more

2:37:31

free speech than women, because we

2:37:33

know that censorship, once you give

2:37:35

that principle away, it will never

2:37:38

end. And it hasn't ended. It

2:37:40

generally, I mean, with the absence

2:37:42

of the exception of Elon buying,

2:37:45

buying Twitter, it doesn't end. It

2:37:47

just continues more and more and

2:37:49

more. And you can see this

2:37:52

happening in England now, right. they're

2:37:54

losing their free speech because people

2:37:56

are upset and apparently the only

2:37:58

way to deal with people being

2:38:01

upset is not to say suck

2:38:03

it up but to control other

2:38:05

people forcefully and that just never

2:38:08

ends and so the idea that

2:38:10

you're upset and therefore your partner

2:38:12

has to change so in my

2:38:14

book real-time relationships you should definitely

2:38:17

read this it's free free domain.com/books

2:38:19

but you can you absolutely should

2:38:21

say something but you shouldn't say

2:38:24

that he should change Because

2:38:30

it's not his job to manage your

2:38:32

anxiety. It's not his job to change

2:38:34

everything he does to manage your upset

2:38:37

or your anxiety. It's your job to

2:38:39

manage your anxiety because you're a grown-ass

2:38:41

adult and you are responsible for your

2:38:44

feelings. And it's not his job to

2:38:46

be your nanny to manage or like

2:38:48

when you're a baby, your parents have

2:38:51

to manage your feelings because you can't

2:38:53

do anything for yourself, right? So you're

2:38:55

a baby and you're hungry, your parents

2:38:58

have to give you food. So you

2:39:00

cry and your parents give you

2:39:02

food, right? So that's because you can't

2:39:04

do anything. But you're an adult. You

2:39:07

can do everything for yourself. You

2:39:09

can think for yourself, you can reason

2:39:11

for yourself, you can manage your own

2:39:13

emotions. Do not turn him into some

2:39:16

father when you're a toddler, do not

2:39:18

turn him into some father when

2:39:20

you're a toddler and he's got to

2:39:22

manage all of your moves. You know,

2:39:25

toddlers get really upset, but as you

2:39:27

get older. you have to manage your

2:39:29

own emotions and you can't be

2:39:31

a baby, you can't be a toddler.

2:39:34

I mean you can, but it will

2:39:36

kill romance and sexuality between you and

2:39:38

your husband. Yeah, I understand. So, and

2:39:41

yeah, so if he's spending money

2:39:43

and you say, oh man, I feel

2:39:45

I'm really feeling anxious about this money

2:39:47

spent. Now what you think is, I

2:39:50

feel really anxious about this money spent.

2:39:52

Now what you think is, I

2:39:54

feel really anxious about you spending money.

2:39:56

Therefore, you shouldn't spend that money. Yes,

2:39:59

I will think so. Yeah, and that's,

2:40:01

I understand that, that's, you know, deficiencies

2:40:03

in how you were raised and

2:40:05

all of that, but saying, I feel

2:40:08

really anxious about this money spent is

2:40:10

an interesting topic. Oh, tell me, like,

2:40:12

when did you hit this feeling or

2:40:15

does it remind you of anything

2:40:17

in the past, right? With no, like,

2:40:19

if I were your husband and you

2:40:21

said, geez, you're spending, you're spending

2:40:23

money, I feel really anxious, I feel

2:40:26

like, Doesn't remind you of anything in

2:40:28

the past? You know, all of those

2:40:30

good questions, you can have great conversations

2:40:33

out of that, right? Yes, and

2:40:35

he will give me many a lot

2:40:37

of reasons why we can afford it.

2:40:39

Well, no, see, but that's justifying it,

2:40:42

and that's not right either. Because then

2:40:44

he's trying to calm your anxiety

2:40:46

by saying, no, no, no, we can

2:40:48

afford it. But the interesting thing is

2:40:51

not the money spent, it's your anxiety.

2:40:54

So, you know, if I were

2:40:56

your husband and say, oh, tell

2:40:58

me more, but I would, and

2:41:00

then if you say, well, I

2:41:02

need you to stop spending, I'd

2:41:05

say, well, no, that's not the

2:41:07

answer. Like, no, no, well, let's

2:41:09

try and get to the root

2:41:11

of why you feel anxious. Let's

2:41:13

try and understand why you feel

2:41:15

anxious. It's very interesting. I'm, you

2:41:17

know, I love you, I care

2:41:19

about you, I want to talk

2:41:21

about it for days. I'm doing

2:41:23

when he is giving me some

2:41:25

concerns or comments and I will

2:41:27

just say, yeah, don't worry, we

2:41:29

have here good reasons why you

2:41:31

shouldn't worry. And I'm not, yeah,

2:41:33

empathetic or curious, yeah, tell me

2:41:35

more why you're feeling the way

2:41:37

you're feeling. Yeah, what triggered it,

2:41:39

what happened, does it remind you

2:41:41

if anything else? Did you dream

2:41:43

about it? Have you been in

2:41:46

this situation before? And you can

2:41:48

say, well, how did your parents

2:41:50

handle anxiety? I mean, your mother

2:41:52

gets anxious. How does your father

2:41:54

handle it? Like, you know, just

2:41:56

it's just very interesting. It's a

2:41:58

very interesting topic. It's a fascinating

2:42:00

topic to learn more about your

2:42:02

partner. But the last thing you

2:42:04

want to do is start changing

2:42:06

your behavior in some weird attempt

2:42:08

to try and manage other people's

2:42:10

anxieties because then you just don't

2:42:12

learn about them. You just end

2:42:14

up feeling controlled by them and

2:42:16

resentful, if that makes sense. Yes,

2:42:18

yes, yeah. All right, we've had

2:42:20

a long old chat. Is there

2:42:22

anything else that you wanted to

2:42:25

you wanted to mention? I can't

2:42:27

even imagine what time it is

2:42:29

where you are here, but it's

2:42:31

late for me. It's also late

2:42:33

for me though. Yeah, this conversation

2:42:35

was very helpful and thanks a

2:42:37

lot, Stefan. You are very welcome.

2:42:39

Listen, I certainly wish you the

2:42:41

best. I would definitely try and

2:42:43

get some talk therapy in. If

2:42:45

your husband wants to do it

2:42:47

too, I think that would be

2:42:49

great, but even if he doesn't,

2:42:51

I think it would be a

2:42:53

really, really good thing to do.

2:42:55

My book. You should check out

2:42:57

again it's free at free domain.com/books

2:42:59

and listen my friend I really

2:43:01

appreciate the call and I hope

2:43:03

that you'll keep me posted about

2:43:06

how things are going. Yes I

2:43:08

yes I will. Sorry was there

2:43:10

something else you you had something

2:43:12

else I think was floating around

2:43:14

at your head just as we

2:43:16

close off? No no I just

2:43:18

said that I will. Okay I

2:43:20

appreciate that. Thank you for a

2:43:22

great conversation and all my best

2:43:24

to you both. Thanks a lot.

2:43:26

Bye. Bye bye.

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