Death, Sex & Money - Sugar Babies Cost Me $8,000 And My Marriage
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đď¸ 4 March 2020
âąď¸ 32 minutes
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Summary
A listener talks about why he thought hiring sex workers could save his marriageâ âwhile also knowing it could destroy it.Â
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| 0:00.0 | If I could do it all over again, I think that, you know, I would try and have the conversation before doing anything to say, like, this is, you know, I'm really wanting to cheat and we need to talk about this and we need to manage this. |
| 0:20.1 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:23.2 | I want to pay you $10,000 to kill me. |
| 0:25.8 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:29.6 | How's the sex? |
| 0:30.4 | How is the sex? |
| 0:31.6 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:33.5 | Cash? |
| 0:34.4 | No problem. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm on a sale. |
| 0:39.9 | We got an email in our inbox a few months ago. |
| 0:43.4 | The subject line was, |
| 0:44.8 | Sugar Babies cost me $8,000 and my marriage. |
| 0:48.9 | It's really embarrassing, I think. |
| 0:50.9 | It's not socially acceptable. |
| 0:55.0 | This is Ethan. That's not his real name. |
| 0:58.0 | He sent us that email about how he used the website seeking arrangement to hire so-called sugar babies, |
| 1:05.0 | younger, attractive women, to go on dates with him and have sex with him, all while he was married. |
| 1:10.0 | When he wrote us, he'd already confessed to his wife. |
| 1:13.3 | His marriage was ending. |
| 1:15.0 | And Ethan said he couldn't really talk about it with anyone in his life. |
| 1:19.5 | I've lost most of our mutual friends. |
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