E931 Ask Nick - Should I Take Him Back?
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
4 • 24.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Our first caller is wondering how long to hold onto her boyfriend that’s lost his patience with her. Our second caller wants to get back with a guy who ghosted her. And, our third caller is in love with her best friend of 17 years.
“He’s wondering how much power he has over you."
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Timestamps:
(00:00) - Intro
(00:13) - Caller One
(36:56) - Caller Two
(55:25) - Caller Three
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:14.4 | Hi, my name is Paige. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm 30 years old and I'm just wondering how long I should hold onto my relationship with my |
| 0:22.1 | boyfriend who says he doesn't have enough patience to give me. |
| 0:25.9 | Okay. |
| 0:26.5 | Well, that's not a good to hear. |
| 0:28.4 | Why do you think he feels the way he does? |
| 0:31.2 | I think part of it is his past relationship. |
| 0:35.1 | He was together with his ex for like five years. And they ended up |
| 0:39.6 | having a pretty toxic relationship towards the end of it. They were both cheating on each other. |
| 0:45.6 | Definitely didn't have any trust. And I met him maybe like a couple months after some crazy stuff |
| 0:52.6 | went down with like him and his ex-girlfriend. |
| 0:55.3 | And then we kind of started dating. |
| 0:57.2 | And since then, when we've come up with issues, he has told me multiple times before. |
| 1:05.2 | I'll be like, I feel like you don't have any grace to give me. |
| 1:07.8 | And he's like, I don't. |
| 1:08.8 | Give me an example of a time where you were |
| 1:11.5 | hoping for some grace. I'm like, there's been a couple of a couple times, actually. The most |
| 1:16.8 | recent one, this is like one problem that we've been having recently is me wanting to go to Europe. |
| 1:23.5 | I booked a ticket. This is something that I've been planning for like a really long time. |
| 1:27.2 | It's something that I really wanted to do for like my 30th birthday. And so we had talked about it. |
| 1:32.5 | He said he was uncomfortable with me going alone because I was like, if I can't find anyone, |
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