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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Comedian and writer Dan Perlman (Flatbush Misdemeanors) joins Erica Spera this week to talk all about going to couples therapy, regular therapy, what makes a good therapist, switching to an open relationship, why you should be the "bad guy", if mysterious women are more attractive, and much more. The end of the episode features an exclusive Patreon Preview.
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0:00.0 | fully sincere. I think if you're just doing it to like try to like push some lines or whatever, |
0:04.4 | or you're just doing it because you're afraid to break up with the person, you just really |
0:08.7 | have to be okay with being the bad guy in a relationship if you want to end it. I think that's |
0:13.9 | where everybody gets into trouble is they're in a relationship and they're afraid to be the bad |
0:18.4 | guy for like five seconds and be like, I don't want to be in this thing anymore. |
0:21.4 | So instead, they'll just like, well, what if we just have sex with other people on Thursdays? |
0:26.8 | You know what I mean? |
0:27.5 | They're just coming up with these weird things. |
0:28.8 | It's like just like let them go and let them hate you for a second. |
0:33.0 | And then that's less shitty than like just making it a fucking nightmare for months and months or years or whatever, you know, just let it let it go. |
0:42.8 | We have a new podcast role. |
0:43.9 | Be the bad guy. |
0:45.1 | Yes, I think that's... |
0:45.9 | Bad person, bad woman, bad guy. |
0:47.7 | Yes. |
0:48.0 | And if you're the bad guy for five minutes, which I've had to be, you know, and it sucks to just be like, |
0:54.4 | I don't want this to be a thing anymore. |
0:55.9 | That sucks to do, especially if you like the person and care about the person. |
0:58.7 | But that's so much better than what I think a lot of people do, |
1:02.4 | which is they'll just act like everything's fine and the other person can tell it's not. |
1:06.3 | And then they, you know, either will just act like, oh, no, I'm okay. And that's when people start doing shitty stuff like cheating and fucking around because |
1:13.6 | they're afraid to just like really address like, hey, I really don't want this to be a thing. |
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