E947 Ask Nick - I Have A Crush On My Husband's Best Friend
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
4 • 24.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Our first caller wants help dealing with our monster mother in law? Our second caller has a crush on her husband’s best friend. And, our third caller needs help navigating dating someone who just got out of a relationship.
“You’re focusing too much on s*x and that’s making him very defensive."
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Timestamps:
(00:00) - Intro
(00:13) - Caller One
(28:50) - Caller Two
(01:06:52) - Caller Three
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| 0:00.0 | You're crazy. |
| 0:02.9 | How's it going? |
| 0:15.0 | Good. How are you? |
| 0:16.1 | Good. What's your name? |
| 0:16.8 | My name's Ellie, and I'm 28 years old. |
| 0:18.9 | How can I help, Ellie? |
| 0:19.5 | So my mother-in-law, soon-to-be mother-in-law, is a monster, and I just do not know how to deal with her and, like, protecting my peace, basically. |
| 0:29.0 | Gotcha. |
| 0:29.5 | So you're not, she's technically not your mother-in-law yet. |
| 0:32.8 | Not yet. |
| 0:33.6 | We are getting married April 4th, 2027, so we're, like, kind of far out, but we're getting married um april 4th 2027 so we're like kind of far out but we're getting there |
| 0:41.7 | okay all right what makes her a monster-in-law so when i first originally met her when i was like |
| 0:49.1 | still dating my fiance so he's my boyfriend at the time, she was great. Like, we were really close. |
| 0:54.9 | Like, everything was fine. We had like casual conversations, everything. You know, I was invited to a lot of |
| 1:00.3 | holidays and stuff like that. But then basically, once I got the ring on my finger, everything went |
| 1:05.3 | downhill so fast. What was the first thing you noticed that changed? One of the things definitely that I noticed changed is when my fiance, he has a daughter from a previous relationship. |
| 1:17.0 | So when I got introduced to her and we started becoming close, that's when I kind of started to notice a change that it like, I don't know if she felt like |
| 1:27.8 | I was replacing her in his daughter's life or whatnot because she still has a great |
| 1:33.2 | relationship with her. It's just like I thought she would be happy that I was coming in as like |
| 1:37.6 | a second mother figure to this child and she just was not happy about it whatsoever. |
| 1:43.1 | And that is like your read on the situation or was something said specifically that made it very clear that she wasn't happy? |
| 1:50.4 | She definitely said some things. |
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