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Welcome to a very special episode of Ask Nick. It's Ask Mark L. Walberg.

You know him from Temptation Island, and I know many of you are very big fans of Mark, and he is,

as you know, if you watch the show, very excellent at giving some perspective and relationship advice.

And I asked him if you want to come on and help us with some calls. And so here he is.

I was honored that you called. I think you do a great job and I'm down to give my perspective and see if we can't help some people. Well, I know you guys want to get right to the call, so let's just do that. But before we do, if you have any questions yourself that you want to get answered, email us at Ask Nick at theVileFiles.com. and maybe we'll get a chance to help you out as well.

With that being said, let's get to our first caller. email us at Ask Nick at the VialFiles.com and maybe we'll get a chance to help you out as well.

With that being said, let's get to our first caller. How's it going? Hey, Nick. My name's Danny. I'm 40 years old. I recently hooked up with my longtime friend and I want to know if I'm still in the friend zone. Okay. Well, to start things off, Can you just kind of tell us about this Fred and this relationship?

Sure, sure.

So we met in our senior year of high school. Okay. Well, to start things off, can you just kind of tell us about this Fred and this relationship?

Sure, sure. So we met in our senior year of high school. He actually moved from out of town, out of state, into my hometown. I met him through my best friend at the time, female friend. And they met through, you know, back at that time, there was aOL chat rooms so they were talking and they met up uh she asked me to meet them and i thought nothing of it and once i saw them obviously teenage butterflies cute but we always hung out in group settings we were never really alone, you know, obviously chemistry, but we always hung out in group settings. We were never really alone, you know,

obviously chemistry, but just never dated, never thought about that, always seemed platonic.

Then towards the end of senior year, there was a moment where he came over to my house and he wanted to hook up, but then he actually stopped it, like, before getting naked,

I guess you could call it. And I was kind of like, wait, what happened there? Like, what was,

what's going on? But honestly, then time just passed. You know, we graduated high school.

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