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So I wrote, Hello Stefan, I am
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in my early 20s with a Catholic
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background and was a virgin when I
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met my future husband who
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had a chaotic sexual pass
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with toxic women. I need your
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help to better understand myself.
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His sexual pass is bothering me
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often when I think about it
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or when he is telling me
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about it. I would then imagine
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it. The same results with
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not wanting to show my
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husband affection and happiness would
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change. And then I feel content
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for him even though he did
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those things before me and treats
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me good loving and with
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great respect besides one story
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with a woman. Those imaginations hurt
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a lot and I will have
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thoughts like I'm not special and
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only a number. I know that
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I'm compared to some excess and
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also do it by myself when
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I got to know his friends
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and also his female friend
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denied to me that they
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were friends with benefits and
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once later he told me the
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truth without repent and seriousness
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I was very hard he
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then said that I would have been
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better no that it would have been
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better not to tell the truth
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because then he wouldn't have such
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problems with which still
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wounds me This showed me that
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he doesn't have the virtues of
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honesty and repentance, but then other
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times he has. He then wanted
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to invite his from her wedding,
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the imagination, lack of respect and
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the shame of his want led
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to many arguments and almost
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breaking of our engagement. This
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story that felt like he doesn't
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love me, I'm not the number
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one, he doesn't respect and honor
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me and my family. My husband
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now has a lightly depression,
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a depressing face, where he
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isn't showing much sexual desire,
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but I want to have sex
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heat. just doesn't feel like it.
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Yesterday he said that one of
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the reasons is that I'm too
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much sexually available. In the past,
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he needed to earn sex from
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his partner's heart or it was
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scarce and not like with me.
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Sometimes it feels like he would
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want to change my character and
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my thinking like he wouldn't like
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or love me. It would be
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nice if I could talk to
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you, Stefan, do I have unrealistic
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views? And do I exaggerate and
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take things to serious? I'm thankful
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for all things I learned from
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you and hope you can help
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me. Well I appreciate that. That's
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a tough, it's a tough situation.
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I really, I sympathize with you
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enormously and maybe you can tell
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me a little bit about the
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history of your relationship with your
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husband. The history
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of our relationship,
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I mean, we
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met last year
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in February, got
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engaged very quickly,
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I think it
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would have been
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after two months,
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and then in
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September we got
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married. Yes, I'm
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in my early
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20s and he's
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in his early
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30s. Oh, okay.
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And did you
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meet through church
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or some other
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place? We met
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in real life.
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No, not in
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church. Okay. And
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what was it
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that drew you
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to him? Oh,
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he was very
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muscular. Yes, it
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was a funny
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guy and... people
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respected him a lot
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and yes, he seemed
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very nice to shed
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and was funny and
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to joking. Yes. Okay,
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and how tall is
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he? Okay, and would
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you say that he's
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very good looking to
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you? And he is
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overweight. Ah, okay. So
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when we met, I
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wasn't interested in any
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sexual way, I just
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was bored and was
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sitting there and thought,
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hey, this seems like
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a funny guy or
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maybe. Yes, because yeah,
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maybe I just, yeah,
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I just was bored
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and thought I could
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talk to him. And
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yes, I mean, his
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character is very attractive,
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but his overweight, I
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mean, he has a
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pretty face, but his,
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but the overweight stuff
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was a very big
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issue at the beginning
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for me. Yes. You're
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not overweight. Is that
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right? No, I'm not.
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Okay. So you said
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that people respect him
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and when I ask
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these questions, I'm not
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doubting you, I just
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want to make sure
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I understand what you
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mean. So what is
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it that people respect
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about your husband? Where
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he works, he
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has much to
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say. and he
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can organize things
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very well and
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is, oh wait,
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yes I mean
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he can also
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organize things very
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well. His speeches
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are very great
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and he makes
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very good events.
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So he's a kind
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of public figure and
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he works very hard.
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And he's also very
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passionate about his job.
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So yeah, that's the
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things that people respect.
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Okay, I appreciate that.
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And how long did
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it take after you
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met? Because you had
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hesitations because of the
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weight and maybe the
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age difference, but how
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long did it take
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after you met that
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you began to find
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him sexually attractive? I
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mean, it was so
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that the first time
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where we met, I
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told him that the
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overweight thing is... But
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it's a big issue
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for me and he
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said, I mean, we
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can just meet for
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a date and see
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how it goes. Maybe
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we like each other.
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Maybe not. And I
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would say that after
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the first date and
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a couple of calls
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about what's here and
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a couple of calls.
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Yeah, it wasn't as
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much, it wasn't a
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big issue for me
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anymore. And how overweight,
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sorry, how overweight? Is
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he? I mean he
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weighs 100 and over
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100 kilos for his
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type of figure. He
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could lose 30 kilograms.
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Oh, okay. So gosh,
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what is that? I
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always get kilometers to
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miles and pounds. Is
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it 2.2 kilograms? So
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he's like 220 pounds,
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so he's like 220
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pounds, something like that.
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I think one pound
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is half a kilogram.
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Or isn't it? I
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don't know. Yeah, one
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kilogram is 2.2 pounds.
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I actually did have
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that right. Okay. So,
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so he's, if he's
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100 kilograms, he's 220
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pounds. Yes, he's 130
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kilograms. Yes. Oh, gosh.
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Okay. He would lose
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30 kilograms, everything would
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be all right because
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he is, I mean
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he is, the shoulders
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are very, how would
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you say? He's almost
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300 pounds. Yes. And
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he's not tall? No,
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but very muscular. And
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muscular, hang on, so
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is he heavy because
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he's muscular? muscular but
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has also belly fat
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and but also he
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has oh wow yeah
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I would just broad
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chill so he's big
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bone yes he's got
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some muscles and he's
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fat okay okay I
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just I got it
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I got it okay
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All right, so you
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went on a couple
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of dates and you
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found yourself was it
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what was it that
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you found particularly positive
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or about him? Oh,
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his character. I could,
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yeah, I mean, we
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could talk very easily.
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It was a lot
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of fun and also
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politically we are on
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the same side and
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also when it comes
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to our future plans,
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it was also very
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similar. almost the same
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I would say and
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yes I mean he's
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a smart man his
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jokes are very great
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and he was very
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mature and yeah I
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mean a lot of
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things just fit I
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mean you can't dress
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very well as intelligent
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and yeah you can
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talk very good with
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him Now,
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these are all nice
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attributes, but they're not
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quite the same as
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morals. Oh, you asked
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about morals. Okay, it
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can be very, okay.
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And so after we
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laid it and I
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got to know him,
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I also saw what
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moral values he had
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and he was... What's...
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Sorry, I lost a lot.
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No, listen, it's no problem,
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take your time. I mean,
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it's tough stuff to talk
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about for sure, and I
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sympathize. So, also, I know
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the language barrier is a
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challenge, but I admire anyone
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who speaks another language, so
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you can take your time
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on that as well. Okay.
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I mean, he was very...
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What more of a
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value that he has?
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He was at that
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time, I thought, honest,
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I mean with 98%
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of the time, he
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is honest, helpful, also
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loving, and sympathy. Yes.
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He says, yeah, I
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would say that's the
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things. Okay, so honesty
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and sympathy? Yes, sympathy,
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but also not all
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the time, maybe also
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only in 98% of
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the time. Well, I
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mean, honesty is good,
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but one of the
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problems you have is
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that he's been honest
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about his dating history,
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right? Yes, so
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the honesty, sorry, the honesty
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shows a certain lack of
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empathy. Yeah, in a kind
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of way, you are right.
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It was so that when
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we dated, example, I asked
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him how high is your
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body count. And he said
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that it was only six
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and after engagement. told me
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the truth and it was
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a little bit higher. And
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I'm very, what's the word?
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I don't need to. So
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hang on, so sorry, you
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said that his character was
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that he was honest. Oh,
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and I'm also a very
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curious character and I will
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ask a lot of questions.
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All right, hang on, hang
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on. Sorry, so you said
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that his, one of his
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qualities was that he was
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honest. But he lied about
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his body count. Yes, I
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know. I know, so that's
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my problem. I... Well, no,
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but he lied before you
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got married. Yes. Okay, so...
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Before we got engaged and
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so on. Sorry, was it
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after you got engaged, right?
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Oh, it was so that
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before our engagement I knew
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that the number was higher,
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but he didn't want to
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tell me. And after we
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got engaged and after a
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party... He told me when
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he was drunk. Yeah, I
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mean, he didn't want to
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make a bad impression on
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me and scare me off.
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So, I mean, yeah, I
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mean, if a person... So,
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sorry, sorry to interrupt, how
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long into the relationship? after
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you started dating, or more
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than just the first couple
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of dates, like after you
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started becoming actually romantically interested
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in him, how long did
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you first begin to know
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that his body count was
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higher than he had said?
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Must have been one and
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one month and maybe two
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weeks. Oh, so like six
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weeks, right. Yeah,
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probably. Okay, so six weeks
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into dating him, you find
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out that he lies about,
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I mean, these are very
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important things, right? Yes. Okay,
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so once you found out
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that he was lying, why
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did you continue? And this
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doesn't, I don't mean this
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to be critical, I'm genuinely
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curious, like why, if he's
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liar, if he's bearing false
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witness, right? Is he also
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Catholic, is he Christian? I
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mean, he studied religion
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and wanted to become
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a... present so on
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but in a no
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not really oh so
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no wait he's not
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religious he's interested I
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mean he was interested
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in that but he's
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not the type of
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religious person and goes
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to church and praise
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Okay, sorry, let's just,
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I need things to
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be a little simpler,
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please. Okay, so no.
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Okay, is he religious?
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Um, he, no. Okay,
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that's, I'm not trying
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to corner you, but
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it can't be that
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complicated a question. Yeah,
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right, you're right. Okay,
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so he's, when, when
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did you find out
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that he wasn't religious?
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The very beginning. You need
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to know that I'm
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also not very religious. I
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mean, I come from
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a Catholic background, but I
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may be going only
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once in a month to
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church. So... Well, but
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you believe in God, I
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assume, and you are a
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Christian, but you don't attend
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church that much, or is
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there another way that
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you would put it? Yes.
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That's right. Okay, so
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you're religious but not very
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institutional, not much institution.
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Yes. But does he believe
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in God? Or Jesus,
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does he believe in salvation,
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does he believe in prayer,
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these sorts of things?
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It's maybe 50-50. I mean
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if he would ask
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him if that is God
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I think he would
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ask So you were, yes.
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You don't know? Okay,
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how long have you known
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him overall? One year, almost
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one year. So you've known
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him for a year and
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you've not asked him
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if he believes in God?
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I asked him that,
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I mean, it's religion. and
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he is it's a
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little bit complicated. I think
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he's not, no it's
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not, I mean he may
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not give a clear answer
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but it's not that
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complicated. Yeah he's giving not
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the answers is a
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thing by, with him. Well
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I mean but complicated
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and confusing answers are usually
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a sign of manipulation.
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Okay. I mean for simple,
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for simple things that I
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do you believe in God?
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I mean, do you believe in
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a higher power that is immortal
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and all knowing? That's not super
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complicated, right? I mean, it may
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take different forms, maybe you have
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slightly different perceptions of how it
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manifests or so on, but do
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you believe in God is not
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that complicated? I mean, I think
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he would answer this question with
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a yes, and then he would
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also say that maybe yes, but
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he's not very sure of that.
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Well, no, but you can't say,
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yes, I believe in God, and
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I'm not very sure of it.
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Right? Yes. I mean, if someone
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would ask me this question, I
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would easily say yes. Sure. Now,
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you could say, I'm an agnostic,
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which is, I don't have an
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opinion on the existence of God.
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But I'm not sure what position
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he takes. Like, what is his
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actual position? Yeah.
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Mixed, mixed I
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would say. But,
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hmm. Okay, that's
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fine. I was
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just wondering, so
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how long, sorry,
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remind me, how
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long did you
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guys know each
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other before you
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got married? six
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and a half
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months. Okay. And
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do you know
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why did you
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want to get
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married more quickly
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or did he
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want to get
20:38
married more quickly
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or how did
20:42
that go? We
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both wanted to
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get married quickly.
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And why is
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that? Yes. I
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mean, yeah, I
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mean, I wanted.
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I mean, we
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both. loved each
21:02
other and he
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wanted to have
21:06
a husband. We
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had a, yeah,
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I mean, he
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just, he had
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a history with
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not very committed
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relationships and one
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relationship that went
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on. six years
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without any real
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commitment and he
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just wanted to
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make. Yes, how
21:35
would you say?
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I mean, it
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was so that
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why should we
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waste time or
21:46
play marriage if
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we could just
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get married? Well,
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I mean, but you know
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the reason why it's sometimes
21:58
worth waiting a little bit.
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because you have to get
22:03
to know the person better.
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Because people can put up
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a false front, right? They
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can pretend to be one
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way and they're actually not
22:16
that way. Yes, and... And
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this guy had red flags
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because if he's very charming
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and very funny and still
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single in his early 30s,
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that's a warning flag. And
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also if he's had a
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six-year relationship without any commitment
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and he's had a high
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body count... That's another red
22:41
flag, right? Yeah. So it
22:43
would be to try and
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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,
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and to know
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that my mother
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is very Catholic
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and my father
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not, and... Sorry,
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your mother is
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very Catholic and
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your father is
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not Catholic? Yes.
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Then she's not
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very Catholic. I
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mean... who's not
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Catholic, then you
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can't be very
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Catholic. It was
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so that she
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got carefully later
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in life when
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one of my
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brothers was born.
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So when they
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met and started
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dating they were
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both, I would
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say... Yeah,
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on the paper Catholics
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bad. but
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nothing more. And why
24:03
did your brother, sorry,
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why did your mother
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become more Catholic when
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your brother was born?
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Because she had a
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hard time giving birth
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to him and yeah,
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but at the end
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it worked because the
24:23
first, this was a
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half-third birth. Her two
24:28
first births were with
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a C-section. and she
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wanted to give birth
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like a normal woman
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and it was very
24:39
hard but at the
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end it worked with
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my brothers that was
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the reason I'm sorry
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she became Catholic or
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she became more Catholic
24:52
because she had natural
24:54
childbirth I mean I
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would say what does
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that mean I don't
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know what that means
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and maybe not Catholic
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but she started believing
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in God because yeah
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she would say that
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he helped him give
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birth to yeah to
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my brother okay all
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right so she became
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more religious because God
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helped her give birth
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yes okay and your
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father did not become
25:30
more religious is that
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right no my father
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will maybe only go
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once a year once
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a year at Christmas
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to the church, but
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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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