You + Me= Us
Podcast Description:
Sharon and Evan have been married for 16 years and are sitting down to share their honest, real-life views on marriage. From the highs to the challenges, they dive into what it truly means to build a life together. Grab a glass of your favorite wine, sit back, and enjoy the conversation with two imperfect—but happily married—people keeping it real.
You + Me= Us
Should Your Partner Have A BFF Of The Opposite Sex???
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In this episode, Evan and Sharon dive into some thought-provoking and real-life relationship topics that spark conversation and challenge perspectives.
They kick things off by asking: Is it okay for your partner to have a best friend of the opposite sex? The discussion gets layered as they explore boundaries, trust, respect, and how different relationship dynamics can shape what’s acceptable. Is it harmless—or a slippery slope?
Next, they tackle a hot-button topic: If a man is making $700,000 a year, should his wife still have to work? Evan and Sharon break down the idea of financial roles in modern relationships, touching on independence, purpose, lifestyle expectations, and whether working is about money—or something deeper.
To wrap things up, they bring it to the present with: What is dating like in 2026? From social media influence to shifting expectations and communication styles, they reflect on how dating has evolved and what people are really looking for in today’s world.
As always, Evan and Sharon keep it real, relatable, and honest—giving listeners plenty to think about and talk about with their own partners.
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SPEAKER_04Why would you do that?
SPEAKER_13Because I just wanted to hit the record skill. That's all. That's a classic thing to do.
SPEAKER_04Oh, all right.
SPEAKER_13But uh, how y'all doing out there? Y'all know it's 7 30 on a Thursday night, and it is perfect time for you to sit back, grab your glass or wine, grab whatever you got going on to help you relax and unwind and chill from your long day, and turn your YouTube on, turn your Facebook on, and watch you plus me equals us. I was about to say, you gotta say your part. I can't say the whole thing by myself because it is the uses. Y'all are tuned in to episode number what? Which episode is this?
SPEAKER_05Is this episode number five?
SPEAKER_13No, this is six.
SPEAKER_05This is six.
SPEAKER_13Yes, this is six.
SPEAKER_05Wow. I guess time flies when you're having fun, huh?
SPEAKER_13All the time.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Wow, six.
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SPEAKER_05That's pretty awesome.
SPEAKER_13It's been congratulations. Hey, thanks. This is a milestone, I guess.
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SPEAKER_13Wait till 100. Then what you gonna do? 100. 98, 99, 100. All you uh Eddie Murphy fans out there know where that's from. If you don't, let me help you. Now he professor, when he's doing the steps, trying to play it off because he walked away from Jada Pinkett. Okay, yes.
SPEAKER_05You go no, we're not there yet.
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SPEAKER_05Not going into that yet.
SPEAKER_02All right.
SPEAKER_05That'll be a whole tangent. What what uh so how was your day? Let's let's do let's just start the show off how we normally start the show off.
SPEAKER_13All right. My day was good. It went pretty fast, and uh now we're here doing the show. All right, so how'd your day go?
SPEAKER_05My day was good. My day was good, didn't do much, which is always a good thing. Didn't do much, but here we are, episode six of the Uses. Wow, yeah, okay, all right.
SPEAKER_13Well, y'all know what time it is. We got that. I was about to say weekend groove, but it's not the weekend, but it's leading it's Friday, it's Friday Eve. It is Friday Eve, Friday Eve. That's always a good thing to be an Eve on anything, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve. You always have fun with that. So we might as well have fun on uh Friday Eve. We got that jam or a couple jams to help y'all unwind. I picked this one out myself.
SPEAKER_04Oh boy, pretty happy about this one.
SPEAKER_13Oh boy, it is a classic one, too, a very classic one. I don't know, would you consider that clean the house music, or that's just chill music?
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna say it's chill music, but I remember it from an episode of Martin.
SPEAKER_13Oh, yeah, it's definitely a classic episode of Martin. Yeah, and once you hear it, yes, you already gonna know.
SPEAKER_05That's all I envision when I hear it.
SPEAKER_13So let's see here.
SPEAKER_06The way I used to be, and the cold way I used to act. Oh, yeah. But more than that, I think of how you change me with your hands and sensitivity. Remember what I used to them and leave them.
SPEAKER_10That's what I used to do.
SPEAKER_12Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_10Use an abuse thing. It was hey before the play is yours what you know about that, Ari. That was my claim to fail.
SPEAKER_13Now, now that y'all heard what that was, would y'all consider that clean house music? Or is that chill music? Get yourself ready to go out for a date music, or is that just enjoy music music?
SPEAKER_05I I'm gonna say that's kind of like getting the mood music.
SPEAKER_11What mood you talking about?
SPEAKER_05Is this P Rated or PG? No, this is grown folk.
SPEAKER_11This is Aura.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, well, you know what mood I'm talking about. Oh, as he was telling you about the past, what he used to do, yeah, and how she made him change his ways for the good, for the good, good, for the great.
SPEAKER_11I was about to say for the slippery.
SPEAKER_13Hey, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Okay, all right.
SPEAKER_13You gotta enjoy the slippery.
SPEAKER_05See, already said all of the above music. I can see I can see that.
SPEAKER_13You may be right, dude.
SPEAKER_05I can definitely see that. I definitely can see that.
SPEAKER_13Girl, you showing your uh age. Which one you want?
SPEAKER_09Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_05There you go, no following directions already.
SPEAKER_13Well, you can't find it. That means it's not there. No, but I just want y'all to see how music could put you in the mood. Wait, what now?
SPEAKER_05I thought this was PG. I did too.
SPEAKER_13Girl, this ain't PG. Ain't no cheering watching this. If they is, they old enough, they understand.
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SPEAKER_13Yeah, this is another one here, y'all should know.
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SPEAKER_13This is for all you sharing people, aka the light skins. This is light skinned nation music right here.
SPEAKER_05He's talking that stuff out too.
SPEAKER_13This whole family was light-skinned with the Byron hair.
SPEAKER_03I think of you. Hey, for quite a while. Every day and every night, my every thought is you. You think you do? Seems so satisfying to me. I must confess.
SPEAKER_04Now, this is cleaning the house.
SPEAKER_13Oh, I know. Every Saturday, I still hear.
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SPEAKER_13The light is in the air if y'all sitting at home. I can't see you, but I trust and believe you're doing it.
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SPEAKER_13So hopefully, we got y'all up and ready and making sure y'all paying attention now. Your feet should be up on your ottoman with your favorite beverage. Or like last week, we had a cousin on here talking about greenery.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah. Goodness gracious. Where's David?
SPEAKER_13Where is he at today?
SPEAKER_05I don't know. The chat was going uh last week. I was I was enjoying it. We also gave some homework to the chat last week.
SPEAKER_13Did give y'all some homework. So, chat, if you remember your homework, which I know all of you.
SPEAKER_05I went to some more people getting in the chat.
SPEAKER_13Oh, okay. I mean, I'll just reiterate. But one thing I do want to reiterate since we do have a couple people here already, go to that Facebook page, you plus me equals us, follow it, subscribe to it, because in a couple weeks we want to switch to that page and do the live from so we can go ahead and make it all the way official. It's official now, but it'll be even most official. Go to that YouTube, type in that search bar, Coachy Gang for all seasons, and every single one of these episodes will come up, and this live right here will be seen on that. So all you got to do is subscribe to that YouTube channel, cost you nothing. All you gotta do is hit the button. Then you can also download this podcast and listen to it in the car, listen to it at the house, or listen to the parts that you forgot, wherever, in your uh phone, your phones, uh whatever, on the go. Spotify, Apple Podcasts. Hit that download button. Also cost you support is free. It is, yeah. Free for free.com. Well now we got out the oh whoa. Now that we got all that out the way.
SPEAKER_04I love that this is live and it's so organic.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, no, I don't care. I love it. Y'all act like you don't get tongue tied out there. You get tongue tied. But now that we got all that the way, you want to wait a little longer or you want to go on into the crux?
SPEAKER_05Um yeah, we can just we can get it, we can get a crack-lackin'.
SPEAKER_13Okay. Well, the first topic we got here is should the person of the opposite sex be a friend in the marriage?
SPEAKER_05No, that's not what we said.
SPEAKER_13I always do that on purpose, just so you can get involved.
SPEAKER_05So, because you go ahead and say it. No, is it okay to have a friendship of the opposite sex while you're in a relationship? Yeah, said it totally.
SPEAKER_13I wanted to because that's what gets you involved. You always love correcting me, so I might as well I live for it. I know, might as well make your money doing it.
SPEAKER_05I live for it. So, yeah, this we this is something that was actually brought to once again, it wasn't in the Sana, uh, but this was something that was actually uh brought to me today um by a young lady who is actually um in a relationship, serious, that they live together. Um, and she kind of just asked me, like, Do you think it's okay that my significant other has a best friend that is a girl that they're constantly texting? Um, there's times where um she the friend asks, like, hey, do you want to hang out? Just you and I? My uh my mouth almost hit the floor. And I was like, Absolutely not. Yeah, absolutely not. Like, what what is and this is just my opinion. Like, I don't care if you've known this person since birth, I'm the only friend you need in Jesus.
SPEAKER_13That's that's those are the two friends I have. Yeah, true friend indeed. Amen. J C.
SPEAKER_05So I kind of want to know. Um, like I said, Elkie. Elkie be okay. Elkie, I'll need you to think about it next time, okay? Well, Elkie, can you go say why? I want to know why. Because, like I said, I for me, you don't need no other friends outside of this situation besides me, as far as females go. I just feel like a single female. What what what purpose does that serve?
SPEAKER_13Uh, I don't think it serves any purpose, but it was just, I guess in that situation, you said they were cool for years. And I don't know, maybe they're comfortable with doing that.
SPEAKER_05Was I actually found a clip um that we can play here um right now that kind of it kind of I found it and it kind of explains it as well, some other some other people's thoughts on it.
SPEAKER_01Number one. Number one, no friends of the opposite sex, right? And I mean like friends you hang out with, do stuff with, talk to on a regular basis in a committed relationship.
SPEAKER_00When you start confiding in those friends about your relationship, right? I mean, you really shouldn't even do that with your own family, right? Because you could poison the well there too.
SPEAKER_08Exactly.
SPEAKER_00But especially with friends of the opposite sex where you start talking about your relationship, spending time with people, confiding in them, right?
SPEAKER_01So as a as a man, it would be inappropriate for me being in a relationship with you to have a girl that I'm texting on a regular basis as a friend, or that I go and hang out with, watch a movie, go to dinner, right? These things they sound so ridiculous, but so many people do those things and they think it's okay, and they're like, Oh, well, I trust my partner. And believe me, guys can't be trusted.
SPEAKER_00It doesn't take a lot to tempt a guy.
SPEAKER_05That he said something that I was like, wow, when he was like, guys aren't to be trusted. That's not every man. No, I'm gonna I'm gonna say that now. That's not every man. Um, but I just want to give somebody, you know, some of your thoughts on what they talked about in the video. Um, let's start with you though. What did you think when she was um when what she said, the what the young lady said?
SPEAKER_13Well, I'm not even tripping on what she said. It was when he said go to the movies with each other and stuff like that. Uh that now that is outrageous. That's a date. Yeah, that's literally a date. I don't see why that'll be a good idea. I don't care how long you've been friends, and I don't care what your history is. I'm not about to go to no movies when she's not there. Literally, if it's not the kids or her, I'm not about to go to the movies with another woman or my mom, of course.
SPEAKER_05But or go anywhere for that matter with someone that is not your significant other, or like you said, somebody that's close in your family, but also the texting, the texting constantly and the talking on the phone constantly. Like, what is it that needs to be said? Nothing, in my opinion, nothing. And that goes for uh a female having a uh a male friend. Yeah, there's nothing that I want to talk to you about in private that you can't say in front of my husband. But also, I wouldn't have a male friend of that. But I just thought that was something, like I said, it was brought to me today. Um, and then I found that clip and I was like, wow, so this is this is really like a thing.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, the phones be listening too at the same time. Oh, but yeah, no, I'm not about to.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, LK, I agree. His partner um should be his BFF at his partner should be his BFF as a girl. Yes, I totally agree. Like, and I feel like single women that want to be friend of married man, like you got a motive already. Or if you if you've already been friends with that guy and you see that he's in a in a committed relationship, at that moment you'll be like, okay, this season of our friendship, you don't have to end the friendship. You can be associates where hey, I see you out, hey, how you doing? Whatever, whatever, but it is it's no longer let me call you, let me call ask you advice. That that dies.
SPEAKER_13No, I don't think you should be on the phone every day text and call and all that anyway, with another person of the opposite sex. No, I totally agree with you, but I know it's people out there that don't agree with us, just like on every other topic. So if y'all out there, y'all disagree with us, tell us why and like give us your side of the story so we can just understand or try to understand where you're coming from. Not gonna sway the opinion, but just want to be you know, hear both sides of the fence just to see if anybody out there has experienced anything like that. And if you did, what did you do with that situation? How did it end up at the end? And while you were going through it, what happened to your relationship or marriage or whatever when you were going through that?
SPEAKER_05What advice would you give somebody that comes into a situation and they have uh a best friend, a best friend of the opposite sex? Like when you're doing that conversation with both parties, like, hey, BFF, I met this girl I'm serious about, or hey girl, I'm serious about, I have this BFF. Like, do you bring that to the table immediately? So both parties, like, how would you how would you do that?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, well, you uh you kind of have to. You gotta communicate with it, or you just it's gonna be a bigger problem because something is gonna happen where and at that point the BFF feelings should not even be a thought, but you should definitely communicate with your partner or whoever you're involved with at the time about like, yeah, hey, we've been cool for forever. We you know, laugh and joke, like I can't even say we go out because you shouldn't be like going. Well, if you were single at that time, yeah, you can go out whatever, whatever, and kick it and chill, but you definitely should let your partner know about that. But it should be shut down after that, especially just the solo going out. Now, just like you said earlier, if you happen to be somewhere at the same time with your partner and you see that person, like, oh hey, what's up?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, at that point, at that point, you're an associate, like high and biders, no ill will, but you I mean, at this point, whatever we had is that was considered a friendship, it has to be over because put it where, like, okay, say I had a uh a male best friend, and I'm like, you know what? Me and him, he gonna go with me going back to an episode of Martin. Um, what was it? The Animal Crackers. Um I can't think of his name, but they went shoe shopping and all that stuff together. Like, put yourself in those shoes. Like, you I you would be like, What the hell?
SPEAKER_13Like, yeah, animal crackers. Uh dang, what was his name? I don't remember his name.
SPEAKER_05I don't remember his name. If anybody knows his name, I know this is kind of like off topic. Not really. No, it's not off topic. The guy that Gina was um her best friend that went shoe shopping with her. I can't think of it. Begin with an M. I can't think of his name.
SPEAKER_13Definitely begin with an M. But anyway, yeah, that was weird for him to go with her or shoe shopping, especially. I mean, it don't matter how much I hate shopping, and I do hate shopping, I hate it. It's just too long, it's too long of a process, especially with the woman. Y'all go to every store, y'all look around, see something, don't pick it up, but then you go to another store and then be like, No, I'm gonna just go back and get that. Well, we were just there, so you should have just did that. But anyway, yeah, no, I don't like that at all. You shouldn't be with him doing all that stuff. Yeah, was it Marshall? No, it wasn't Marshall.
SPEAKER_05No, we'll watch the episode tonight, but whatever. Um, but no, like I said, I just I just think that when that was brought to me, I like my mouth like hit the floor. I'm not gonna go into detail exactly what she said, but I just think it's it's a no for me. It's an absolute no.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, no, it shouldn't reach that. Well, not reach, it shouldn't be at that BFF stage anymore. It should just be, hey, what's up? Yeah, all right. I'll let you.
SPEAKER_05Because to me, like at the B, and I I remember like obviously having male friends before you, even though there's no before you. Um, okay. You have to stop saying that. There's no before you, but but it was okay. Um, but just like I feel like if you spend so much time with someone of the opposite sex, eventually somebody's gonna get feelings like you're with this person all the time, they're your friend, you're telling all your darkest, deepest secrets to this person.
SPEAKER_13Like Jesus or Wallace, you are so right, Wallace.
SPEAKER_05Wallace. Oh my god, way to come in clutch, Wallace.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, sorry, I interrupted. My brain was going crazy.
SPEAKER_05Thank you. Yeah, that we're still gonna watch that episode tonight. Wallace. Wow.
SPEAKER_13Um, that's what you do, right, Martin? Uh yeah, hey, what's up? Sorry.
SPEAKER_05And that's when Angry Man was sitting in the yeah, in the chair reading all the magazines.
SPEAKER_13Don't touch my magazines. I mean, you just gonna read all of them? I am no, sorry. That'll go too far. You will, you will.
SPEAKER_05No, that was good. We we had something else we wanted to talk about too.
SPEAKER_13Well, you was done with that one that fast.
SPEAKER_05I mean, I to me, I like Ari said, shut it down immediately. It ain't nothing else to really. I mean, where do you go from there?
SPEAKER_13Uh nowhere, I guess.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, nowhere.
SPEAKER_13So this one is a little uh a little different. I don't know how a lot of people are gonna feel about this one.
SPEAKER_05So, that right there?
SPEAKER_13Yes.
SPEAKER_05I mean, because it you can't really put a number on it, but okay, I'll let you.
SPEAKER_13Oh, it's just a particular story that I read that was sent to me by Ricky Peasy, the great Ricky Peasy. What up, Ricky Peasy? He sent me an article saying that uh high-income husband, low-income wife. Should a wife work if the husband makes $700,000 a year? High income husband, low-income wife, should the wife work if the husband makes over $700,000.
SPEAKER_05And the answer to that is no. If you're making $700,000 a year, what do I need to work for?
SPEAKER_13Look at PZ. Psy up in this thing. What up, PZ? He said, yep.
SPEAKER_05No, what so here's my thing. What do so and I'm not saying like not work, like I can't, and you everybody that knows me knows I'm very like old-fashioned. If I'm turning to the house and the children, that's a job within itself. So I mean, what kind of lifestyle are we living if $700,000 a year is not enough?
SPEAKER_02Tariffs.
SPEAKER_05I need some help with this one. Um wow. What do you think?
SPEAKER_13Well, I mean, it's not that you have to work, just like Peanut just said right here, if she wants to. If she wants to work, yeah, absolutely. But I'm not gonna really be on her head like that because we should be at a point where we're budgeting. Everything right. We got everything we need and we live in the right way. So it should be enough for us to get by. But in other people's cases, they may just want more. So that doesn't mean you have to get a job that makes the same amount as him. But the article also said that she brought in an extra thousand dollars a month. She's majority stay-at-home mom and wife.
SPEAKER_05She takes care of the kids and make the food every night, breakfast, lunch, and dinner because $700,000 a year, bringing an extra thousand dollars in a month. That's I mean, that's her spending money. That's her getting her nails and hair done and it's gone.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, but she also said that he supplies all of that for her, and she just adds that to the account. She just adds her extra thousand to the account.
SPEAKER_05I guess. I don't know. You listen, I'm going to work.
SPEAKER_13Okay. So does that mean that time is gonna be an issue then? Does that mean that? Because what if he's making that $700,000 and he has to work all day, every day? Is it okay for the woman to complain about the time that she's not getting?
SPEAKER_05She shouldn't complain about it. If if you know where he is and you know it, and sure enough, I know that's not a real thing. I was about to say, you're gonna have yeah, you're gonna have issues like I ain't seen you, blah, blah, blah. But take that in consideration. Like, he, if you know he's always at work, I mean, it just the time you get is the time you get. Yeah, and make the best of it. You got that, you making $700,000 a year vacations are a must, I feel that way. That's the yeah, that that's a must. But I mean, that's where women kind of get under my skin. If he's doing all that and you get to stay at home, shut your mouth.
SPEAKER_13But you know, that's just well, that's just me. It's women out there that is gonna put up a whole hootin' hollering fight. What they used to call it, a hootin' nanny. She's gonna put up a big old huge hootin' nanny, and then next thing you know, now that's when the other problems start coming out because of that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, because other going back to the BFFs, BFFs is in the background watching, like he makes this much money and this type of complaining. Come on now.
SPEAKER_13Once again, that sounds logical to us, yeah. But y'all already know it's people out there, the women out there, or even if it's the other way around, the men that's at home, because it is some women that take care of their men too.
SPEAKER_05Sorry, I'm laughing at Elkies.
SPEAKER_13Wow, I mean, I you are outrageous, ma'am. You are about to be banned. I know that's right.
SPEAKER_05I don't want to hear nothing about spending either. But if he's making that much money, I ain't going to work, and I'm gonna make sure I'm gonna keep doing the same thing. You're gonna come home, you ain't gonna need for nothing. You ain't gonna need for nothing.
SPEAKER_13So, in that particular article, it kept going, and it said that he approached her saying, like, so you're just not gonna do anything, so you're just gonna be at home all the time while I'm out here busting my ass and you not doing anything. He's I understand you got to take care of the kids. I understand you cook the food, but you don't think that you need to work more.
SPEAKER_05So, why was this conversation not had, in my opinion? Why was it not had in the beginning? I don't know. Like, might have been this is something you can't just bring upon. Like, if when we sign up for this, and it clearly you making this money either before we're married or right when we get married, that is when that conversation needs to be had. Like, listen, I'm gonna be working all the time. This is a mind I'm making, but I would like you to contribute to for a lifestyle that we want.
SPEAKER_13That might have happened at the beginning, but the switch up but the switch ups that you know it happens. Yeah, certain people they feelings get all involved and they feel like, okay, well, you said you need me to do this, but we're fine, we're living good. We don't want for nothing, I don't need for nothing. Neither do you, so why do I gotta work? I'm telling you, it can go both ways really, really fast. Shit always rolls downhill. So once that ball gets going, you know, other problems, like I said before, other problems will come out. Then it goes to the well, who why you gotta be at work that long? Who you seeing at work? Who are you?
SPEAKER_05She just is thanking heaven if that's how she if that's how she is, because once again, he already having a stressful day at work. If you're making that much, I'm pretty sure you're doing something that's requiring you to just I don't I don't know.
SPEAKER_13You could have traveled a lot, you could have yeah, which which okay.
SPEAKER_05So now who wants to hear you making all this money, your life. I'm I'm making this money to provide a lifestyle for you and the children. And I gotta come home and still hear you. You complain?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_05No, thank you. Uh that part right there, I'll never, I'll never understand. Shut your mouth.
SPEAKER_13I mean, I'm pretty sure a lot of people out there agree, but it's still the we go back to that 50-50 thing. So at that point, is that even 50-50? What do you mean with him doing all the working and making and paying all the bills and she doing the homework? That's the 50-50. I mean, there's that 60-40, or is that 40-60?
SPEAKER_05I mean, but you can't really compare the two, but you can't compare the two because uh once again, that goes back, I think, to episode, I don't even know what episode that was, where I believe in gender roles. Right? So I feel that women just like I said, no offense to other women, but I'm very old-fashioned. I believe like I go to work just like he goes to work, he's the breadwinner, but I still make sure when he comes home that there are things that have to be attended to cooking, cleaning, making sure I keep myself a certain way for you. Um so saying 50-50, I want to say 90-10. Okay. And here's another old-fashioned, he's an old-fashioned fool, ain't he?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, peasy. 9010.
SPEAKER_059010. Okay. So according to him, the kids better bathe themselves, cook their own food, and I don't know. Uh he can on my nerves.
SPEAKER_13What you talking about, Ash. That kind of money, the woman's job primarily is to take care of the thank you.
SPEAKER_05Thank you. And keep her almost cussed, keep her mouth closed. Girl, it's rated R. Right. Keep her mouth closed and do what she's supposed to do. I'm sorry, like you come home, I have on red pumps every night. With dinner in my hand, like, come on. Like, it's it's it's not that much.
SPEAKER_13Which dinner are we talking about?
SPEAKER_05All right.
SPEAKER_13Oh, okay. Now, now the red pumps, or you can have them cheetah boots that you used to have.
SPEAKER_05Okay, you now you out here telling the business.
SPEAKER_13Hey, y'all, it's these boots that she used to have. Y'all remember boots from Dora? I used to call them boots all the time.
SPEAKER_05They weren't from what?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, wasn't it the character called boots? And on Dora.
SPEAKER_05He wore like rain boots.
SPEAKER_13These were rain boots. See, here you go, interrupting what I'm saying. You ain't even letting me get the story out. So I used to start calling her boots when she wore them boots. Boy, them boots used to stay on okay certain times.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, oh my V boots, all right, to the break of dawn.
SPEAKER_11Y'all understand?
SPEAKER_04Oh boy, all right. We're here. Not pussy.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, there we go. Yeah, Ash. Hey, you are true in more ways than one. Puss and boots, god dog, girl. Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_05Oh wow.
SPEAKER_13Hey, I appreciate that, Ash. Oh wow, you understand, and a red lipstick.
SPEAKER_05Yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_11Hey, what up, Flim? While you're over there hollering.
SPEAKER_04Oh my gosh, y'all can't believe you just said that.
SPEAKER_13That was Ashley's fault.
SPEAKER_11She brought up the pussy boots.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so you did.
SPEAKER_13Um, she's sitting the cheerleader outfit. You going to jail. Okay.
SPEAKER_05No, I'm serious. If you do it making all that money, uh listen, I'm pulling out all the all the stuff out the bag. Like, who you want me to be today?
SPEAKER_11Puss and boots.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, right. I don't even know how we got here. I don't know how we got here.
SPEAKER_13Because we were talking about doing what you need to do to keep the uh right. Ashley said that uh you should be taking care of the husband. Yes, and then you said with the pumps, then I switched it to the boots. Every time I come home and see them boots, all I say is bruh.
SPEAKER_04Bruh.
SPEAKER_13What? Because you know uh the office, they them camera angles and they be making them faces. I see them boots. Bruh. Okay.
SPEAKER_05All right. Um, okay.
SPEAKER_13Sorry, I gotta show this comment right here.
SPEAKER_04Boot flammy.
SPEAKER_13Yes, you already know that's what's going on.
SPEAKER_05Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_13I didn't I didn't totally lost track of what we were even uh no, we were talking about the uh the money and the wife and stuff. But do you think that's uh a lifestyle worth living? Because you know how money gets involved and feelings get involved, and then sometimes it pushes a lot of couples away from each other if they're not grounded right. And basically that's what that sounds like to me, that they probably wasn't grounded right from the beginning. So that can put a whole bunch of strain and stuff on the relationship.
SPEAKER_05I already know, Ash. I already know.
SPEAKER_08Put up boots.
SPEAKER_04Oh my God, I can't, I can't.
SPEAKER_13You know, do you think uh they were grounded the right way if it got all the way to this point? Because if, like you said at the beginning, that conversation was had, it should have been the foundation of that right there, letting each other know, expect out of each other. And you know what? Did we have that conversation? I don't think we had that conversation. We did we sit down and tell each other, nah, I expect this out of you. And uh no, so was that conversation had just because of a money situation, you think?
SPEAKER_05I don't I don't know. I honestly I don't I don't know. I don't know, but like I said, if he's making that amount of money, she better keep her mouth closed. But if he wants her to contribute, that's the thing, like he wants her to contribute like you have to read that to me again financially, just only a thousand dollars a month.
SPEAKER_13No, no, that is what she contributes. She said, I contribute one thousand per month, and he contributes six thousand to our joint account to pay the bills and any extras like trips and going out. He pays all of that. But in that joint account, he puts the six thousand and she adds a thousand per month.
SPEAKER_05Hey, I I I don't know.
SPEAKER_13But that's what she was saying. Her first question was my husband feels like I don't contribute enough to our home income and he wants me to make more money. He feels it's unfair that he pays 90% of our bills and covers the extra that comes up. He asks, What am I providing for him to return and pray and pay when I don't cook or anything like that? When he doesn't cook or anything like that. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_05So my question would be like, What are her spending habits?
SPEAKER_13That's a good question.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. So if he's if he's making that amount of money and he wants her to contribute, what what are literally what are her spending habits? Is she spending the money before it can even hit the bank account?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, that's what it sounds like. If you felt like he had to have that conversation, that might be the you might hit the nail on the head with that one. We figured it out. We sure did. So it do you think that's healthy though for a relationship for it to reach that stage?
SPEAKER_05No, because I feel like most divorces end over what money money or cheating. And the whole cheating goes back to having the best friend of the opposite sex. It's a no.
SPEAKER_13BFF and CFF.
SPEAKER_05CFF.
SPEAKER_13Yeah. I don't know what it stands for. I just said it. Just flowed and you messed up the flow.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, okay. All right, all right. Well, what I did, we we did have homework for the chat lab. We we kind of said in the beginning of the show weren't people in the chat um on what they wanted to talk about.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, so Ash, since you're here, Elkie, Ari, and whoever is listening and watching, do y'all have any questions or do you have a topic that we need to broach or that we need to discuss?
SPEAKER_05The floor is open. Because what we talked about earlier, for those that are just joining us, we the first topic we discussed was is it okay to have a best friend in a relationship of the opposite sex? I said hail to the no. He said hail to the no. Majority of the chat said hail to the actually, all the chat said hail to the no.
SPEAKER_13Ashley literally said those words.
SPEAKER_05Hell no.
SPEAKER_13All we're missing is all caps, right? That's all we're missing. But and Elkie, your question you get on there last week. I can't answer that stuff because I am not dating in 2026. I thought all week how I was gonna answer that because she was the first one to turn in her homework on the time. That's how I know you was an over-the-top student. You tried to do it too. But I don't know how to answer that because I had hell, I don't remember the year I was still dating. I can't put a number on the year.
SPEAKER_05Well, we started dating again for the second time in 2005. Said said it too.
SPEAKER_13Hell no, yeah, Flem.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, smart man, smart man.
SPEAKER_13Hold it down, smart man.
SPEAKER_05Um, but yeah, dating and and uh okay was asking dating in 2026. From what I hear, is totally different out here. Is hell, like the whole swiping left, swiping right, like whatever happened to just going and getting a phone number and writing it down on a piece of paper.
SPEAKER_13Uh, and you know what? You just said something that uh made something come to my mind. We was at the gym one Saturday, and it was a mixed crowd, and it was the young kids that I trained, and we was just getting done wrapping up, and the older ladies was coming in for their class after us, and they heard the kids talking about damners no more. They get Instagram pages so they can DM the chick. So they said they don't want to get their numbers, they want to get their Instagram pages to see who they're friends with in order to see if they're gonna be able to talk to them or not. That's where we're at. What that makes no sense to me whatsoever. And they was trying to like make me understand what they were saying, and they was trying to let the ladies understand what they were saying. Have no clue why that makes sense to them. So if it's somebody on there that you don't like them to be friends with, would you not DM her back?
SPEAKER_05I can't even process that. Like, and clearly, like Ash was saying, she got a lot of people coming up to her lately that are having issues with dating. It's a weird world now.
SPEAKER_13No, it's horrible.
SPEAKER_05Like, I don't understand. So, so you would get somebody instead of getting a phone number, you get an Instagram, yeah.
SPEAKER_13And then to determine if you want to date that person or talk to that person, even talk to that person because they have to see their friend list and see if it's for one, anybody that they're already talking to, if it's a friend on there that they already talking to, they won't reply to the girl because the other girl is on there. And I was like, Well, that's uh pretty horrible. I don't think you're gonna like why what is the point of that?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I agree with my cousin Tony. We're not in the street, so we we won't understand that. Like, I can't, like it's too much, and then like when when nowadays I hear that when you're let me get this right, when you're talking to someone, you're talking to like multiple like people. Yeah, that's you're not like back in the day when we we would say, like, oh, I'm talking to you, like that's exclusive, like I'm only talking to you. No, the see oh, for girls, it was and that's what I was about to say.
SPEAKER_13Oh, y'all was out here nasty, no, you know, y'all that's the woman thing. If y'all talking, that's not a relationship, so you're still technically single, so I can talk to 10 people. But if we that's if we put that exclusive tag on there, it's no more talking to other people.
SPEAKER_05So when do you when do you so as a guy, when do you say, like, okay, this is exclusive? If you're talking to like, because in a girl's mind, if we talking, we talk, I'm only talking to you, I'm not out here entertaining everybody else.
SPEAKER_13And the key phrase in that sentence was in a girl's mind. That's right.
SPEAKER_05So, when does a guy determine, like, okay, we not talking no more? We are exclusive.
SPEAKER_13So, to go back to our days when we asked you, will you go with me? That's when we not talking no more. If we don't say, Will you go with me? We still talking.
SPEAKER_05You never asked me, Would you go with me? Maybe when we were 16, but yeah, as grown-ups, when we got back together, you never said, Would you go with me? Because I would have ran in the other direction if you would have said that.
SPEAKER_13Hey, if you would have ran and missed all this loving, that would have been on you. No, you would have missed the boots. No, that would have been your decision. Anyway, I'm not about to ask at 20 something years old, will you go with me?
SPEAKER_05Okay, anyway. But no, so like I yeah, I just have to like like cousin Pina said, like, these streets is new. I I couldn't imagine, like, so I gotta go through your social media, look at your friend list, see if I know somebody, and I'm like, nope, no, that person. And that literally nowadays on social media, you don't even have to like really know a person. You can be like, Oh befriend them. Yeah, I saw this person or I like whatever. Like, so that just that's just weird. Um, check it.
SPEAKER_13Flem said, check the yes note box, right?
SPEAKER_05Pass a note, passing notes, uh, and take it back to that.
SPEAKER_13And that's how you know we go together. If you check, if you check that yes box, we are an item, and I can't talk to nobody no more. It's really that simple. I need my readers.
SPEAKER_05What are LK say?
SPEAKER_13This generation, there's nothing no one on earth can do to change these kids.
SPEAKER_05It's really not, and it and it's it's sad because it's like remember back in the day, like going to the mall, like kids don't do that anymore. So, like going to the mall, me and my girls would literally pre-write out our numbers.
SPEAKER_13All these damn miles is closed.
SPEAKER_05Well, yeah, but even just going anywhere, you know. I know we would like pre-write our numbers out, have them in your pocket, so like, you know what I'm saying? You you you literally gave out your number to who you actually had a conversation with, yeah, not to who, like, I I don't know that and and they also added in you gotta do some kind of like search to see if that's a burner account or not.
SPEAKER_12A burner account, yeah.
SPEAKER_13They fake Instagram because sometimes the girl, if they really not interested into you, they'll send you to their burner account. It's just too much work. Okay, I agree.
SPEAKER_05Who got time to watch a fucking I mean oop a friend's list? Uh oh.
SPEAKER_13I hit the button too late.
SPEAKER_05You said who got time to yes, yeah, yes. Um, I agree. That's how that's how annoyed I get with this generation because I don't understand it. Like at that point, are you liking me for me? Or are you liking who I know?
SPEAKER_13That one status. You know, all these youngsters is about some status. They can give two damns about who you are. I mean, how you are inside, it's what you can do for them and who are you in public. So they can say, Oh, yeah, that's my boyfriend.
SPEAKER_08Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_13Oh, okay. Hey, and they did say that though, P. They did say that.
SPEAKER_05But if they if that's a but remember back in the day, it was like, well, I guess you didn't find out till you brought you the girl around your homeboys or your homegirls, like, oh damn, I smashed or whatever. But but even still, you really can't tell that from looking at a friend's list on Instagram.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, no, but it's uh, and I said that too. And I said the old school uh term. I was like, oh, so you checking to see if she a runner or not. They was like, What? I was like, so you checking to see if they're if they're a runner or not. It was like, oh no, she don't run track. I said, Oh my god, you people are totally stupid.
SPEAKER_05What would be their um what would be their term for that?
SPEAKER_13Uh they really didn't say a term. Oh I don't know. Ain't no telling with them because they I I be trying to tell her, y'all. Y'all gotta understand. I work with kids all day, every day, pretty much all year. I don't know how you the stuff that they say in the thing. Matter of fact, today this is the greatest example. Is it dealing with the topic? Uh Uh no, well yeah, because how off and like just weird these kids are. So working out today, training a high school kid, he comes to me and asks about because he had a cramp in his top two abdominal muscles. So I said, Oh man, you must be not drinking enough water or something. Something's going on where your top two abs are cramping up. He was like, No. I said, my abdominal muscles. I said, Yeah, your abs. He said, Wait a minute. So you mean to tell me that abs is sure for abdominal muscles? Oh. I said, you know what? This session is over. I no longer want to look at you or talk to you for the rest of the day. Please. And thank you. Go home right now.
SPEAKER_05Oh wow. Well, that just sums up. Yeah. They're looking through the friend list. They they they yeah. And that's the problem. They don't talk to one another anymore.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they don't.
SPEAKER_05Like, talk, like walk up to a girl. My name is, I don't even remember how it actually happens. Like, you don't walk up and say, Hey, my name is, or you know, saying, like, it's or hey, how you doing?
SPEAKER_13That's that's a conversation starter. When you walk up to somebody, think about when you were 16.
SPEAKER_05Were you really saying, like, hey, how you doing?
SPEAKER_13Or would you just like oh no, and I was 16, I didn't care. I just say, Hey, what up?
SPEAKER_05Or let me, yeah, let me holler at you.
SPEAKER_13Hey, hey, uh, what's your name? Let me holler at you right quick. Something like that, but I'm not, yeah, no. At 15 or 16, I I'm not being nice. I'm a jerk, I'm a teenage boy. I'm just horny. That's pretty much it. So, hey, do what you can with that. What would she say? One day Aiden said, What now? One day Aiden said something that 15, 16-year-old saying, and before I knew it, I told him to get the away from me.
SPEAKER_04And it'll take you there.
SPEAKER_13It'll take you there.
SPEAKER_04It'll take you there.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, no, that that's exactly what we're saying, P. They be texting because they don't like that face-to-face rejection. That's how soft they are.
SPEAKER_05But it's a part of life, like it is a part of life. You know how many times, like, I've had to tell a dude, like, I'm and and you we uh I did it nicely. Like, no, I'm sorry, I'm not interested, or whatever. It happens, it happens, but it's it's just the way of the world.
SPEAKER_13Like, it's the way of the world, these kids now say they're talking to somebody because they friends on TikTok. No, for real. Seriously, are you serious? Yeah, that's that's how they define stuff. See, as you know, you got the teenagers up in the house.
SPEAKER_05I am so like out of the loop. Like, we uh we have a bonus shower. We're we have my nephew, he's 16, and he be trying to like get me hip, and it just I can't, it's like a whole nother language to me. And matter of fact, you know what, you're right. He even said something about the whole burner um Instagram. Like, you gotta make sure you when you're talking to somebody, if you're at a football game or something and you're interested in somebody, you give them your fake Instagram or TikTok.
SPEAKER_13Kevin Durant.
SPEAKER_05But what is that doing? So, like, are there real pictures of you or is it catfishing? Like, I don't get it.
SPEAKER_13It's probably like one or two posts or something. Or well, actually, nowadays kids really don't post on their Instagram, they just heavy on the stories. We have a 17-year-old and he's a ladies' man.
SPEAKER_05Oh, so he he oh he works on the radio at night for lovers only now.
SPEAKER_13I'm talking about the movie Ladies' Man. Oh, but no, like on the on their real account, they don't post like post posts, it's just straight story. They'll have 17 stories and then no post.
SPEAKER_05So I have a question for you. So, do you feel that the generation uh well, obviously our generation is we're we're old now, but the whole like I don't want to say courting because that makes me sound old. It's all of that word, is all of that like out of the window as far as like this generation?
SPEAKER_13Like, do you feel that you could teach, like, say our nephew, do you think that he would be receptive to you discussing with him, like, okay, this is how you kind of like I don't want to say woo a woman, but like no, not having that conversation with him because he's gonna be considered a weirdo because these girls don't know what that is.
SPEAKER_05Because nobody can so girls nowadays, no, no, I shouldn't say a court, that's that's daily.
SPEAKER_13I mean, yeah, nobody does what we do anymore. So I try to teach him how that would make him the oddball if he tried to do it how we did it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that's just crazy because it's like like Peanut said, they're just scared of rejection, yeah. And that's really sad because it happens.
SPEAKER_13I mean, we know that, but if you never experienced that, you don't know that it happens. You I say this all the time, you're trying to think as a 44 44-year-old woman.
SPEAKER_05Because you know, because how we got on this topic was dating in 2026. So it's actually adults that that's where I was getting. Are there actually adults that are doing the same thing as these kids, or are adults that are our age that are in the dating pool, are they actually going out and meeting people? Or is it like the Tinder or actually what is it called?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, Tinder, or it's something else. There's so many other ones.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, the slide right or slide left thing. Is that what people are doing versus like going out and and meeting people?
SPEAKER_13I think it's a mixture of both, honestly, because I do know people our age that be on the internet looking for people like that, and then they also go out and see if they can find somebody while they're out. So I think it's a mixture of both, just because that's the way of the world now, and it just may be convenient for you to sit on the couch or sit down and look at it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but then you don't know what you're doing. Now it's a thing called catfish. I don't know if that was a thing when we were coming up, but where you would be thinking you online talking to one person and you talking to a totally different person, yeah, and that's a disadvantage of the internet, yeah. No, thank you. Old school for me, old school for me, whatever, old school for me, all of social media is okay. I agree with that. All of social media is a dating app. I can agree with that, yeah.
SPEAKER_13No, for real.
SPEAKER_05I can agree with that, but it's not like we we got um older people on here, which I like because like we all are kind of confused, and and you know, one we gotta get a young person on here as a guest to kind of explain to us if we do, it's gonna be a language barrier.
SPEAKER_13I I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna need a translator. And they sentences gonna be just like this, yeah. Cause like, I mean, like I like like I don't like I don't know how to explain it. And that's the whole conversation, and then they have nothing else to say until you ask them another question, and then when you ask them that question, they're gonna be like, Wait, what what you mean? So that I don't I don't I don't think that's a good idea at all. Well, but I do think that we can uh oh yeah, Flem said, don't forget, bruh. Oh my god, that's their thing to say, man.
SPEAKER_05Yes, I'm telling you, but also I'm laughing because that's what you said going back to the first comment. I mean, the first thing about the boots, bruh.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, bruh. Uh because it's the camera angle from the office, and you gotta say that when you do it, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Well, you know what time it is.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, it's definitely that time. We appreciate y'all for watching, logging in, giving us the comments. Chat was absolutely fire today. Fire fi. He just liked pushing buttons. I love pushing buttons, and you know what? That's what I do, yeah. But uh, we do need y'all to do some more homework, and we do need more topics for next week. Don't worry, we will have our own topics, but just like how we went on like a 15-20-minute tangent on these young people. Hey, crap. Y'all gotta understand the origin of the cry. Uh it's way too late to go into it because that's another 20-minute tangent. But Flem, I'm gonna hit it early next week.
SPEAKER_05Yes, y'all gotta come on, yes, come on. Okay, the whole puss and booths thing got me too. That was that was great. That was absolutely great.
SPEAKER_13That was your wife, Flynn. Your wife did all that.
SPEAKER_05Absolutely great. Well, yeah, this was week six. That's that's crazy. Week six. Once again, we do appreciate all the feedback. Um it's been great. Like, I honestly like and the fact that we could just be ourselves on here.
SPEAKER_13I'm myself everywhere I go. Okay, all the time. I need to know the name of them boots. Ain't nobody telling you the damn name of them boots. I got you, girl. I got you.
SPEAKER_05No, I got you. I got you.
SPEAKER_13What are you crazy?
SPEAKER_05He was just out here putting all my business out. But like we said, um, send us some in it in the is it a DM or something you could send, or how do we how do they get in touch with us?
SPEAKER_13You can email us at EACurry1 at gmail.com, or you can just go ahead and hit the messenger, you know, the Facebook Messenger. Type in either my name or Sharon's name, or you can go just like I told you to the you plus me equals us page and hit that messenger and tell us anything you want to talk about, give us a subject and everything.
SPEAKER_05Cousin Antonio, he hit it already.
SPEAKER_13Um talk about how long does an attitude oh oh oh hey, we hit that uh a couple weeks ago because and I have no problem going back there.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that's that's gonna be no, I don't give a damn. Yeah, that'll be the we can definitely open with that. So uh cousin, I'm gonna need you to tune in promptly at 7:30 because you know I I'm gonna kick that one off. Okay, I'm gonna kick that one off. But once again, guys, we thank you all so much um for the support. This is like something that we've been always wanting to do because anybody that knows us know we are so passionate about marriage, we talk about it so much. Um, but yeah, this was this was week number six in the books.
SPEAKER_13So uh next week is week number seven, my favorite number.
SPEAKER_05Number of completion.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, that don't mean we're done, but I'm just saying seven is the number of completion. But we have completed this episode, so I appreciate y'all. Don't forget to go ahead on that YouTube channel and watch this and like and subscribe and share it to others. Go ahead, tell your uncle, your cousins, your mama, them, your grandmama. We want people 60 and over on here because they can teach us so yeah, they can hit us in the comments and say something about the old school. Yeah, we need to learn that and pass it down to the chair. So, you know, tell everybody 7:30, Thursdays. We appreciate y'all. We love y'all.
SPEAKER_05See you next week.
SPEAKER_09Peace.