Barely Prepared

True Love ; Espres-pisode One

Barely Prepared Season 1 Episode 9

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What's it do? This is RTK coming to you very prepared.

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Hello, hello.

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Hi, hottie latte. How are y'all feeling? I'm feeling good. I'm feeling hot, hot, hot, like a hot latte. I thought that's right. Well, we well, we feel it. Look, I'm a drizzle little mocha.

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Oh, you know I'm a caramel drizzle girl.

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I thought that's right.

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Drizzle me. Um, anyway, so how you feeling today?

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Drank. Drank. All my life I had to fight. Like you know what? It's Friday, five o'clock. Monday is gonna be a good day.

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I know that's right. Monday. Yeah. What's happening Monday? Oh, I know, oh no, I forgot, I forgot. You should.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, I feel like it might be a little hell because we're uh Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but but hey, it's gonna be nice.

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For real.

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For real.

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And we back.

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Back and better.

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All right, so today's topic of discussion is going to be does true love exist? We're not gonna do this.

SPEAKER_02

I feel like I feel like it depends on which personality you ask it, okay?

SPEAKER_01

I I need the main personality to come to the front.

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Check me out, check me out, check me out.

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Oh my gosh.

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So you know how like you could be married once and something tragic happens and then you fall in love again, right? Yeah, yeah. I feel like if you end up doing multiple marriages, those are multiple quote unquote true love. Because if you think about it, if you think about it, why would you marry somebody that's not your true love?

SPEAKER_01

People do it all the time. Yeah, I mean, but for money, they gotta get that money for money, but that's different for a lifestyle, or we we talked about the celebrities, sometimes they marry somebody because they elevate them to a higher level. So not everybody, okay, true love, not everybody marries their true love. Some people are willing to risk not ever meeting their true love to just be like, okay, well, I want comfortability. So let me let me get with this person who I'm comfortable with, even though I don't love them, and they probably don't love me, but you know that's not your true love, but you're doing it because you're comfortable, you're doing it because you're financially stable, you do it because you know, if somebody forced you, parents, you could have family influence. What do you think about arranged marriages? Sometimes they don't marry their true love, they marry status, they marry for arrangement. So we're talking about true love. We're not talking about all the other stuff, just true love.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02

So the question in my head, right, besides for like arranged marriages, like that, because that's a whole different ballgame, right? Right. But in my head, because I already have a certain way of thinking when it comes to marriage, but marriage is so like low-key sacred. So it's just like exactly if you're gonna treat it as such, why not be with your true love? Why be comfortable?

SPEAKER_01

It's sacred to some. Marriage is sacred to some, not to all.

SPEAKER_03

Facts.

SPEAKER_01

So, but from your personal opinion, without all the outside factors, with you saying marriage is sacred, and you should marry your true love, then I feel like you're saying that true love doesn't exist. Ooh, you a love a girl.

SPEAKER_02

Barf, barf, barf, barf. I don't think I'm a lover girl. I just think that don't bite it. In the event, in the event that, you know, I do get married for my partner. If that's something like my partner strongly, like has a strong desire for, you know, that is gonna be my true love.

unknown

Okay then.

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You know what I'm saying? Like I'm not doing that for nobody.

SPEAKER_01

Okay then.

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Just anybody.

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Okay then.

SPEAKER_02

And then disgusting, yuck. But um, yeah, I definitely do think that true love does exist. Um I think that it sucks that everybody cutter has like these blinders on and feel like they have to choose comfortable, or feel like they have to choose their high school sweetheart, or feel like they have to choose A B C D X Y Z other than their true love, because that does suck. There's so many people in this world that you know, like won't give you what you need and what you want, and of course we all want to be rich, right? But if money wasn't a factor, I think a lot of us would be with our true loves. Yeah. For sure. Um and I also feel like with the human need of, you know, physical touch, you know, mingling between other humans, like the human reaction or interactions, I feel like um you also have to like true love and friendship. You have true love in all these other areas, and I think that also shows too.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, most definitely. Yeah, cool. So, from my opinion, I would say love a girl. You know, I know, you know I don't, you know, you know what I'm thinking. Yeah. True love does not exist. Girl, I know you lie. Boo, tomato, tomato, tomato, tomato. Onion, onion.

SPEAKER_02

Girl, no, you lied. I know you lied because as much as you be all in like your lover girl phases and stuff like that, like That's how I know it's not real. Girl boom. Girl boo.

SPEAKER_01

That's how I know it's not real.

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Because you be watching K dramas.

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It's real on K dramas.

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And and and princess movies. It's real on princess movies. And stuff like that. But you know what? That does actually come true for like certain people.

SPEAKER_01

It does, and I love that for them.

SPEAKER_02

I think it's really just because the male species, they're just declining in their efforts.

SPEAKER_01

It's all in hormones. But what? Alright. So for true love to exist, yes, I think true love exists. I seen it. You seen it. I seen it growing up. How do you know I seen it? Because you always talk about it. What? Your parents. I don't do them like that.

SPEAKER_02

Keep it going. Okay. I'm trying to figure out what example you're talking about. Because okay.

SPEAKER_01

Your parents are cute. Have you seen them all cuddled up on the couch?

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Barf. Barf, barf, barf like that.

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But you know, true love does exist. I've seen it with my parents, like, growing up, like true love. Being there for each other through things. And I know. I just wish I was lucky enough to have true love.

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How do you know you haven't had it?

SPEAKER_01

Because love is patient. Love is kind. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That's it. Love is patient. Love is kind. Love don't lie. Love don't not answer your phone calls. Love don't leave you on red and not answer your text messages.

SPEAKER_00

Like you know.

SPEAKER_02

I feel like this is daggers. I feel like this is daggers. Because what? Okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01

You know what I'm saying? Like, true love, like, and I do believe in the theory that a man has to love you more than you love him. Because when you when we love, we love it. Everything we have. That's why you see these women that gain 30, 40 pounds. They too busy worried about what they mean. If they okay, if they ate, if they you know what I'm saying? Like we give these men the world and they give us crumbs. Yeah. You know? So when a man loves you, it don't have to be your birthday for you to get flowers. It don't have to be Valentine's Day for you to get a ring. It don't have to be, you know what I'm saying? It don't have to be a holiday because when they love their mama They don't need a holiday to show their mama love. Yeah. But when a man truly loves you, it's it doesn't take a holiday. It doesn't take, you know, sacrifice. They're gonna sacrifice for you. You know, it don't take you giving all of you 'cause they want when a man loves you, they want you to have some for yourself.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You know. But you have these men I hear all they do is like take, take, take, take, take, take, take and you have nothing left for yourself. And you would think they would give you part of them, but they don't. And I feel like men, they always have like a a backup plan. Like a backup lady. Yeah, they do. You know, like, oh, if this don't work out, then I can just go be with this person. Yeah, they do. So they treat you just like whatever. We'll just go with the flow. Yeah. If you're happy, I'm happy. If you're not happy, okay. Yeah. What are we doing?

SPEAKER_02

And you know what's crazy? I was watching, you know that uh conversation talk show. Um which one? Fudge nips. I forget names. That's my problem. I forget names. What? Some of the things he said. Oh my god. But it was like this controversy of like these panel of people going from city to city talking about like love and relationships.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like three women and two guys talking about each other. I don't know their names and stuff. But I've seen their clips on TikTok and Instagram and Facebook.

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So I was watching this one clip, and this woman was just like, How do you know? Um, or like, when do you give a guy that gives me uh a hundred percent a chance versus your husband who gives you twenty percent?

SPEAKER_01

You give the guy that gives you a hundred percent.

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But they had valid questions. They were like, just because he's giving you a hundred percent right now, how do you know he's not gonna switch up down the line? You know what I'm saying? And that's true.

SPEAKER_01

That's true.

SPEAKER_02

So, like, in the event that happens, like, and she is battling between feeling, I don't know, affection less, like, I don't know her emotions, you know what I'm saying? But like, how do you distinguish like lust from true love?

SPEAKER_01

Right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, most definitely. Um I look at it the same way with women who have kids with men who think they're all high and mighty because they had kids with their husband. Baby, anytime that man can make you a single mom too.

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No.

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You can be a single mom too at any time. Facts at my baby. So like I don't ever do the judgment thing on that part, like, and just because this woman's married and this woman's not, like you may be happy as heck with your boyfriend, and this woman that's married could be darn near about to kill herself because this man is not beating her knees, he's not doing anything like he could be beating her, you know what I'm saying? I I hate when people be like, oh I got a ring, so I'm all that don't mean nothing. That don't mean shit. Nothing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

And that's why I don't want to.

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Yeah. I I ain't ever thought a ring made me better than anybody. Yeah. And I don't I ain't I ain't never needed a ring for validation. Yeah. Like, if you make me happy, we locked in. Yeah, we locked in. If you locked in, that's enough. Yeah. If you can't make me happy, then what are we doing? Why are we married?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Like, especially even during the darkest days, it's not even about like, oh, like what you could do for me during my darkest days. It's just support. Like, fucking support me. Support me in the ways of showing up every day. Hey baby, how you feeling? You know what I'm saying? And um, I also feel like uh when it comes to like true love, like it's not just about like their needs. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's like yes, we put ourselves first, but at the end of the day, like I know I'ma put you right first in the half too. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. In true love, I feel like I put you first, but you put me first. Yeah, when I start losing myself, you come in and you like help me find myself. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, I don't know. It's but I just think true love exists and I love I love to see it. You won't ever see it on social media. Ever. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't ever look at these couples and go, oh my god, what happened with them? I don't ever do that.

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Yeah.

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Even though I thought the Scots were the cutest thing ever. I thought they were so cute, but not ever one time was I ever like, I wanna be like that. I just thought, what a beautiful black couple with these beautiful black kids, living the beautiful black dream, success, love, health, wealth, like they was doing it. Yeah. And then the man had to man, you know? I know. So that's that's the sucky part. And luckily she's a beautiful woman. I'm pretty sure her her her her men line is long as heck. Hell yeah. You know what I'm saying? Not all of us is that lucky. But whenever she's ready to move on, I know there's plenty. They've already had tryouts had all she gotta do is think what. Yeah. But you know, for us normal people, it's just accepting and hoping that the person you love loves you back just as much as you love them.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

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And it sucks finding out that they don't.

SPEAKER_02

I know, it's so heartbreaking. Don't start crying. But yeah. So I'll tell you the moment kind of like where I thought I was in a true love moment. Don't tell me about this. But like, hell hell. Okay, so okay, so this is back, what, 2019, I think? Mm-hmm. So 2019, I got in my like, I wouldn't say like first lock-in serious relationship. Like, we were serious it is. Like, I moved in with him.

SPEAKER_03

Ooh.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, we were that serious. Wow. And but also during this time, I was going through a very, very, very dark episode. Like, losing myself. I don't know who I am, who I wanna be, you know what I'm saying? And I just turned 21 too. And so we were good, we were happy, stuff like that. But like, I don't know, like, I just feel like um, in a sense, like we were just two different people. Like, yes, in that moment, I loved that person so much, like with every bone in my being. And like I've I tried, that's when I was cooking for real. Like, I was cooking, making pork cheese, all types of shit. And um, and uh it comes to find out I've I had like I would say kind of like this jealousy thing going on with his job. So like you're working too much. I worked two jobs at one point, and it's just like, damn, like when we do spend time together, it's just like you on your game, I'm in the bedroom type deal. You know what I'm saying? Or it'd be like, oh hey babe, like I just got off at 11 p.m. but I'm gonna go with my coworkers to like this co-worker party. And I'm like, nigga. And so one day I literally asked him, I was just like, How come you don't invite me to go around your quote unquote coworker friends?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, why?

SPEAKER_02

He was talking to one of the bitches. Yeah. So I was just like, okay. I was just like, you need to stop talking to her after work hours. You know what I'm saying? And go with the then ago. Um I was pretending to be asleep because I know I wasn't motherfucking crazy. He kept denying the allegations. No, babe, it was just a co-wicker daddy. It was just a co-wicker daddy. Hello. Hello. But I thought he was my true love. I loved him with everything. Loved him with everything. I'm sorry. I know. I know. So then after I caught him real good, real fucking good, um, I remember this one time I was pretending to be asleep, and he was laying in the living room floor talking to the girl. And in the same house? Yes, girl. And I had got up and I was just like, babe, are you coming to bed? And he was just like, hold on, my girl's coming.

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The disrespect and to say my girl coming, so she knows about me? Yeah. Yeah.

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It was at this moment that he knew.

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I don't know. I my brain be at capacity, so I don't know how things played out, but I just know I left and took everything. I bought him when the Tentil Switch, I took that shit.

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I know that's right.

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He bought me some glass, cute little glass tupperware. I took that shit too. I love it.

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That's right.

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Because these are funny.

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Yeah.

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Oh me, yeah, but at least what you can give me. Yeah. And after that, um, I did end up going back to him. And I asked him, did they flick? He said, yeah. Another person got her pregnant and came and like apologized to me while we were broken up. And I was just like, it's okay. Like, what are you gonna do? You know what I'm saying? Like, that's your life. And he was just like, I was just so sad in the moment. Nigga, I don't give a fuck. Do you see me pregnant? Right. You know what I'm saying? And so right after that, that's when I met my baby daddy. We broke up again. And then I met my baby daddy.

SPEAKER_01

It's his fault when we in this situation.

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Okay. But um, yeah. I and it's so crazy because I still have dreams about him. It's like really crazy.

SPEAKER_01

Do you think y'all was together in the past? Like, not like the past life still. I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

You feel like a like do you still feel like he's your true love? No. No. Why am I true love genuine?

unknown

My girl.

SPEAKER_02

And then on top of that, like, he could have had. If he really played this out well, he could have had him a threesome. A motherfucking threesome if he wanted to. Because if he would have invited me to like these coworker parties and stuff, and I like fucked with her. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I was feeling her. You know what I'm saying? He could have had him a good time.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

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He tried to.

SPEAKER_01

That's a fucking business. This is the thing. I mean, feeling me. Y'all want to do all this lying and sneaking and freaking and creeping with honey? If you just keep it real with most women, you sit them down and you say, hey, I want to be with you. I want to be in a real relationship with you. I want you, da da da da da with me and you. But I also kind of want to go do this too. But I know women will be like, oh, okay, cool. But you have to be cool with her doing her own thing. And that's where men get the fucking in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They be like, oh, well, hold on. You gonna go do no, no, you can only do this with me. Now well then, okay then, and you can only do it with me.

SPEAKER_02

But this ain't no one way street.

SPEAKER_01

Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, if I have to be understanding to your side quest, you need to be understanding to mine. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

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And that's where they like I was in a situation with a guy, all he had to do is keep it a honey. Yeah. And I've been like, oh, okay, cool. Like, you you wanna do something on the side, that's fine. Like, just don't bring no drama to me. And we should be able to do it.

SPEAKER_02

And we're good, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

As long as she knows her place, we're good.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I a thousand percent agree. Now am I gonna mess around?

SPEAKER_01

Like, I'm gonna do what you do, we ain't doing all that. But you know, but I feel like even in a marriage, like if that's the type of ground rules y'all laid out, okay, cool. If not, like I I This is what scares me with men. I don't like people who portray to be one thing and then behind closed doors or something else. Yeah. I do not like that.

SPEAKER_02

And that's why I think like the definition of dating should be changed. Like, it shouldn't be dating as in like me and you are talking and we're locked in already. No. Talk to multiple people, date multiple people. Who gives a willy wonky funk? Fuck. I mean because Okay, because at the end of the day, like when we're in our like late teens, early twenties, we really don't know ourselves. We really don't fucking know ourselves. How are we supposed to get to know ourselves when we're so caught up and wanting this true love partnership and it falls fucking apart?

unknown

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02

You know what I'm saying? So explore. Have fun. You know what I'm saying? True if that's your true love person, he's going to or she is going to fucking accept that. Exactly. At the end of the day.

SPEAKER_01

Exactly. And just remember, true love does not cheat, true love does not lie, true love does not like other bitches' pictures on Instagram. True love doesn't have DMs and bitches on TikTok. True love don't do all that shit. Mm-mm. You know what I'm saying? True love is honest. Facts. It's kind facts.

SPEAKER_02

I feel like I'm in a ceremony.

unknown

No way.

SPEAKER_01

And that's my that's one of my biggest fears. It's either I've already met my true love and know it!

SPEAKER_03

Mm-hmm.

unknown

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

Or I haven't met them yet.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. So which one do you think it is? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Oh I hope I ain't met them yet.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

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Because if I met them and they slip through my fingers, I'm gonna be so sad.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I don't think I've met mine yet. Well, yeah, you know, you've been.

SPEAKER_01

I don't think I've met mine yet.

SPEAKER_02

But I don't think you've met yours yet either, honestly.

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And don't let your husband stop you from finding a soulmate.

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Period? Oh for real. Cause there's way too many people who are unhappy. Unhappy.

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Remember, ladies.

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And if you need to turn that nigga or wife or whatever into your roommate, do that shit. Cause at the end of the day, I know it's hard out here for a pimp in this economy. But at the end of the day, and you know what? I fucking hate when motherfuckers be lying about their feelings. My motherfucking peppy.

SPEAKER_01

I hate that shit.

SPEAKER_02

True love won't lie about their damn feelings. Not at all. At all. Not at all. Cause what you mean? You gonna propose to me and you don't think I'm the one at the altar. But you gotta say that. You got me fucked up. Just in general, just fucking in general. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01

But like, that's fucked up. That is fucked up. That's fucked up. There's so many stories out here that are fucked up where men have married women.

SPEAKER_02

Or the ghosting.

SPEAKER_01

Ghosting.

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Like after a five-year relationship, just up and goes.

SPEAKER_01

I rather no that hurts, but I'd rather you just do that and leave me the fuck alone than us have to hate each other every day because you don't want to be here.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. But I feel like two people can also break up and be okay. Like, yeah. Yes, you did me dirty, but it is what it is. You got your room, I got my room at this point. We finna move into a two-bedroom apartment.

SPEAKER_01

Right, right. Uh, there was this podcast I listened to real quick. The woman married this guy. He proposed to her, everything like that. Come to find out.

SPEAKER_00

How many times did I walk in the apartment?

SPEAKER_02

Uh, he's been walking about like 20 times.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Don't say hi. You know where you are. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. My bad, a little intuition.

SPEAKER_01

And um, they were married, have married for like three years. During the first year of their marriage, he said, Well, I might as well just marry her since you won't marry me. Talking to his ex-girlfriend. I might as well just marry her because you won't marry me. That's what he told her. Oh my god. Got married to the the girlfriend, the current girlfriend. The ex-girlfriend married another guy. They he ended up cheating on her, some massage parlor, got caught up, he got arrested. So she ended up leaving him, went back to the ex-boyfriend who married to another woman and was like, I should have just married you, I should have been with you. So he started making moves to go back to be with the ex. Oh my god. And then she out of nowhere said, You know what? This is a mistake, I don't want to do this anymore. And then he ended up killing his wife because What the hell is that? That's why it's I think it's still ongoing, it's an ongoing case. Like that's how crazy it is.

SPEAKER_02

Like the male species.

SPEAKER_01

Why does it have to be like that? You don't want me? That's fine, then just be by yourself. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

The Lulu.

SPEAKER_01

I think he didn't want to divorce her because they have to split assets.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I mean, it was what it is. Shit. You could have been stacking. You got a private, what they be saying on a TV, private offshore account. Shit.

SPEAKER_01

So but the question was Does true love exist? Yes, it does. So yes, yes, the answer is yes, y'all. True love does exist. Hold out for your true love. Don't get caught up with somebody that you know you're not in love with, and that you know that you don't want to be with long term. Wasting their time, wasting your time. A thousand. Just just just hold out for your true love. Per. And you'll know. You'll know when you meet them, it'll be a feeling, it'll be a vibe. They will have the same neutral feelings for you. If they don't, then that's not your true love. Yeah. No matter how bad you want them. Fox. They don't want you. Per. Not true. Okay. Fake. The real one gonna feel it. Yeah. Okay. And have be open-minded.

SPEAKER_02

Fox.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Not too open.

SPEAKER_02

Be out for baby. Be out bad. No, that's how I like them. Anyways.

SPEAKER_01

Alright, y'all. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, well, we'll wrap it up there. Maybe we'll do a part two. We'll like a little custom star.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we did get a little bit of it.

SPEAKER_02

But I think when it comes to that topic, we just gotta get inside of a damn rabbit holes.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, there's so many rabbit holes in this mic. And we we could like it a lot more.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. But alright. Y'all have a great week, honey latte.