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We're bringing you something really special

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this week. Kelly Ripa finally

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has a podcast. Kelly is one

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of the most powerful voices in the media

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and has been a household name for more than two

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decades. You may know her from co-hosting

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the Live with Kelly and Ryan show every

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morning, but now you can get to know her in a

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way that you've never seen or heard

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before. The makeup is coming off

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and the script is being ditched. Kelly

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is launching a brand new podcast

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called Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly

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Ripa. This weekly podcast will transport

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you inside the unfiltered mind of Kelly

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Ripa. In each episode, Ripa will

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dive deep into her life and

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candidly discuss her marriage, family,

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career, and how she manages to juggle

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it all in the public eye. Kelly

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has said that some of her best conversations

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happened backstage in her dressing room, and

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now she's inviting us in. So

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now we have a special clip of Let's Talk Off

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Camera with with Kelly Ripa for you today. And

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it's all about her marriage with Mark

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Consuelos. And if you like what you're

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hearing, you can listen to Let's Talk Off Camera

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with Kelly Ripa on Apple, Stitcher, or

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wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Hey there, it's Kelly Ripa.

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You're probably used to seeing me on TV

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where I've hosted live for more than 20 years, but

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that's not all I've been up to. Behind

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the scenes, I've been working on a brand new

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show called Let's Talk Off Camera. It's

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a podcast. Yes, a

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podcast, where I get to sit down

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off camera in my PJs with

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friends, celebrities, and experts

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and share the behind the scenes conversations

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that you don't get on air. Here's

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a clip of one of my favorite interviews. And

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if you like it, go subscribe.

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This episode features a very

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special guest. This is a man that I've

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survived marriage with for over 26 years.

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He is my baby daddy, Mark

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Consuelos.

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People who get

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married between the ages of 20 and 25

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have a 44 to 60% chance of getting divorced.

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Wow, if you throw in the fact that

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we eloped and didn't tell

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anybody for a month, yeah, I

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mean how many of those marriages worked out? Zero

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percent. Zero, we're like, we're unicorns.

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Okay but now this is really scary.

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It's indicated that people over 50

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are more likely to get divorced now

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than any other time in history

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and that is us. Yeah we're

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in the 50s zone. Do you notice how I look

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at you accusatory? Yes.

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What are you planning? I'm look they

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call this a gray divorce by the way which I

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resent. Okay so I think that people

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in the 50s a few things

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happen right? So kids

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are out of the house for the most

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for most families around 50. And

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those little energy vampires they're out.

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You've distracted yourself. Yeah, and I think that the

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parents they make their kids Everything

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it's like though. It's the glue and the family

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they really invest so much in Their

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happiness through their children and

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then when the children move out of the house What

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are you left with

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but I think that we made

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time for ourselves We did we definitely

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took time for ourselves But I think

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it was one of the major things that I was

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thinking about is that we were gonna be in a big transition

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Okay,

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so here's the thing. I

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had been bringing up marriage

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counseling for about 10 to 15 years.

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Right. And you brought it up once

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and we went

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to marriage counseling. Right. So

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why does everything have to be your idea? No,

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I don't think

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that's fair. I was wondering when the right time

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was going to be for me to bring

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it up. I was a coward. I was scared. I was scared that

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you'd say no because I really thought we could like

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work on stuff. And so

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what did you want to work on the most? Oh, well,

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you know, like when the kids leave, I was,

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you know. I wanted to make sure, look, I'm a lifer. I want

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to be married forever. But I think

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that

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once the distraction leaves,

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you are left with the two people, you

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and me in a house. And wouldn't

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it be great to get past some

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of the things that we've been bumping up against for

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the past 26 years?

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Like what? Something specific. Like, yeah,

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I just had a better communicate. It's not something, nothing specific. It's

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kind of a general- We're bad, we're bad arguers. Bad

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arguers communicate better.

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Yeah, it's like we have ups and downs and everybody

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has ups and downs, but it's never just

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like even or flat. I

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was thinking like that's like a heartbeat, right?

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It's up and down. If you're flat lining, then

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it's probably

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dead. Right, right. Yeah,

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I agree with that.

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Although I do like when it's mellow

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and I don't like drama. I

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definitely, boring, I would go towards

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boring any day of the week.

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Are you saying I'm boring? No, but I don't

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need excitement. I don't need that kind of excitement.

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I don't need to have makeup. Makeup

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sex? Makeup sex. That's not, I'd

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rather not do that.

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Although it's fantastic. That is fun sex. Yeah,

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it's fantastic. Yeah, that is a good kind. It's a good kind to have.

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What do you think about, there are some

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people that are like serial, I

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don't know what to call them, serial divorcers

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or serial

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marriers. People who

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get divorced a lot. Like I'm looking at, You

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know when I was doing some research for this,

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Rupert Murdoch

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popped up. He's 91, he

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just got divorced for like the, it's

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fifth or sixth time. Jerry Hall, right? Yes.

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At what point do you quit?

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At what point do you say, you

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know, I'm either

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gonna get married and stay married until

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the end. What's my idea of like,

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if for some reason you went completely insane

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Decided to divorce me that

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would be it for me. I'm I'm I

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wouldn't get remarried You

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can't say that though. You're asking me

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a question. What if I died? What

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if you died? What if I died? Would you get remarried

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then? No.

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For what reason? Well, why not?

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I'm not going to have more kids. How do you know?

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Because I don't want more kids.

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I'll be an older

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dad.

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Do you know how many dads I know older

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than you that are just starting to have kids?

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Yeah. And those poor

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bastards have no idea.

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Because what happens next? You're talking about hip replacements,

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knee replacements, and

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they're gonna be that dad. Not that there's anything wrong

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with that dad, but I did it early,

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not by any, I didn't plan it that

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way, it just happened. We got really lucky, that's

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what we did. When we did it, it was way, I

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thought it was too early. We should have had like a good

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year or two years just to

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ourselves. But no, I think that I'm

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looking forward to being a grandfather.

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I'm really looking forward to that. That's

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about as much parenting as I want. Okay,

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well. Yeah. I mean, when

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I think about our kids,

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and our son is our age

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when we were first married,

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he's nowhere near ready to be married

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or have a kid. Right, do you think we were more grown

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up, more mature at

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his age, at 25? I think we

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were. Yeah, we were, yeah. But he's been living on his own,

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and you know, when the-

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I'm not saying it's not a mature, like he's a mature

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person, he can talk about things that I could never

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even process at his age. He is a very

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smart, sophisticated, raised

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in the city kind of kid. But

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on the flip side, he definitely

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is not like,

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we were in it. We

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were fully, fully

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married, living on our own, talking

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about mortgages. We

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got pregnant, what, five months after

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we got married? that, you know, looking

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back on it, it seemed insane. And you know, we,

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we, Lola took. four years

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after Michael was, you know, so I think

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that was like maybe God stepped in and

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said, I don't know if

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we want to like give these kids

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too much, too many plates to start juggling

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through the air and spinning. So here's my

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question to you. Do

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you have a deal breaker? Because I

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feel like I've tested you. Oh my gosh,

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I've never really thought about that. I want to know. That's

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why I want to know. Yeah, like, I don't know, like in this safe

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space. Like if you like

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murdered like a bunch of people

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and like you were a serial killer for like two years.

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Why

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does it go to a serial killer? Why can't

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it be like- Like if you were a serial killer, like it would

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take a lot. It would take a tremendous

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amount. Like if you were living this life

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and you were really, really not the person, like

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if I feared going to bed at night.

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What if you woke up one morning and found out

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I faked my own death? Oh, that

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you died and like all of a sudden- But it was

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fake. But it was fake. literally were not

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divorced because you just died. I just left you

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hanging there. Yeah, that could be... That's

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a deal breaker. Well, when I reemerge.

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I mean, it depends what your reasoning

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was. What's your deal breaker? What about if

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I cut you off sexually? Lack of innocence.

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Oh, okay. That's a good one. I

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think that could be a potential deal

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breaker. Really? I mean, unless you had

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some type of medical condition where

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like you lost the use of... Like menopause.

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But yeah, that's not happening.

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No, but when I went through menopause, There were

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days where I was like, can you please? Days. Those are

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days. I mean, months where I was like,

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can you please just give me a break? Yeah, but

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you didn't. I didn't give you a break. There's

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never been months unless I was like, you know,

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in another country. But

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yeah, if you just decided, it's like, yeah, we're not having

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sex anymore, I would probably have a problem with

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that. What was the hardest time

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for you in our marriage? Like

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what was the, what was in our marriage

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the one thing that stands out is like

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the time where you were like I

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don't know if I can do this anymore. Don't

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