Hey, welcome to you had me at Black. I'm Martina Abrahams.

This week's story comes from Carl, who after ending his engagement and recovering from her surgery on the back of his head

finally started taking black women's advice.

Before we get into this week's story, I wanted to remind you of our upcoming kickback in

Houston on December 2nd. We'll be at Lion Heart Studios, so come hang out with us. There'll be stories. We're doing a live recording of our

podcast. Plus, there'll be music and drinks and beautiful people. So do not sleep on getting your ticket. Early Bird tickets have already sold out and you can go to

you had me at black.com slash live H.TX to get yours. And if you are not in the Houston area and you know somebody in the

Houston area, put them on. Then them a link to the podcast. Send them a link to

the link to they buy some tickets. Tell them to check us out, come meet the team.

We really are so excited for our first show in the South.

And finally, stick around after the story for a special pre-Black Friday offer for all of the

girlfriends out there.

All righty, let's get to Carl's story. Here's what happened.

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So this is about how black women saved my life.

In May of 2015, me and my girlfriend at the time,

that was our third year of being in a relationship and it's late. It's like

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