37. Choosing What You Need And Not What You Want
Give It To Me Straight
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Relationships come down to balancing your own wants and needs with what’s in the best interest of you and your partner. Things begin to get tricky when the differences between those two are paper thin. So, how do you make the right choice when the differences aren’t always apparent? In this episode, Jon and Alex answer listener questions about becoming a mom and wanting a career change, why one friend can’t seem to lock down a long-term partner, the trials of an unplanned and unconventional pregnancy, and how to deal with a neighbor’s disturbing habit of calling you at the wrong time.
(0:00) Intro
(16:51) Our Listeners Give Their Advice
(21:47) Does My Partner Miss His Hoe Phase?
(27:18) It’s Me Or The Dog
(31:50) I’m A New Mom And Want A Career Change
(35:55) Should You Expect Help When Planning Your Wedding?
(37:55) So You Want Another Threesome
(41:25) Let’s Talk About Wifey Material
(47:02) A Very Unplanned Pregnancy
(52:51) Everything In Moderation
(58:02) Not Your Typical Butt Dial
(1:07:45) Icks
(1:16:55) Listener Review
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| 0:00.0 | It's not like getting off, but like a sexual intercourse. |
| 0:06.4 | John's like, yeah, get like flick that click girl. |
| 0:09.0 | Like no, there's other like benefits I'm'm sure it's probably also just like |
| 0:13.6 | connect you know you don't fucking know you're not the health care professional |
| 0:17.4 | And welcome back to give it to me straight I'm |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Alex and I am John and where your gracious gracious gracious |
| 0:28.0 | gracious |
| 0:30.9 | When do we even start doing that? I don't know sometimes like I feel like we have something we do in the beginning and then we forget to do it. |
| 0:36.5 | Like what? I guess somebody told me like we stopped doing gracious gracious host. I think that was only like once we did it. Or the more passion more |
| 0:44.1 | energy. That's a new thing. More passion more energy more |
| 0:47.4 | passion more energy. I still don't think that's how it goes. And communication. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah we stopped doing communication for a long time but we're going to bring it back today. |
| 0:56.0 | Well we'll just throw it around you know just like randomly. Just like throw you off like you never know when we're going to say it's just |
| 1:01.5 | it's just it's not one of those things that you could just plan right |
| 1:04.1 | it just happens when it happens you never know we might be on we might be off you know it's just like every |
| 1:09.6 | every podcast episode you know you never know you know. You never know. So you never know. |
| 1:16.1 | We're so deep. You never know what version of us you're going to get. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm definitely a mystery. Like you never know. Such a mystery. That's why you're so attracted to me. Yeah, I like can never tell when you're |
| 1:26.8 | going to be in a bad mood. It's crazy. So John, how is your weekend? My weekend. |
| 1:33.1 | Well, I had a Boys Trip in Houston. |
| 1:36.7 | So you can't say that I never do anything nice for you |
| 1:38.8 | also because I drove you to the airport |
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