E999 Ask Nick - Cheating Parents
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
4 • 24.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Our first caller is having feelings for her eff buddy of 15 years. Our second caller can't make her non-boyfriend her boyfriend because he has a mullet. And, our third caller is wondering if her unconventional family is affecting her relationships?
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Timestamps:
(00:00) - Intro
(00:13) - Caller One
(31:03) - Caller Two
(1:11:13) - Caller Three
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| 0:00.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:14.8 | Hi, it's going well. |
| 0:16.4 | My name is Blair. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm 31 and I have feelings for my buddy of 15 years. Oh, boy. Um, 15 years. |
| 0:25.6 | Yes. How long have you had feelings? Definitely since the beginning. I was a sophomore in high |
| 0:33.4 | school when we first met and he was a senior and I mean I definitely just had a really big crush |
| 0:39.0 | on him from the beginning and that is how I guess I lost my virginity to him and it was always very |
| 0:46.4 | casual from the start but and I guess when I say feelings like it was like a crush like an infatuation |
| 0:53.1 | have you dated other people in between? |
| 0:55.7 | Yes, yes. I've had two like serious long term, three year relationships in between. |
| 1:03.0 | And then a variety of shorter ones. And then are you like always going back to him in between type of thing? |
| 1:10.1 | Yes. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.9 | And it's kind of he's in the same boat. It's like whenever he goes through a breakup, he'll reach out to me and then we'll go on a date or meet up and have like a nice 12 hours together, maybe 24 hours. |
| 1:25.8 | And then we go our separate ways. And then, yeah, and then we, I guess, |
| 1:32.5 | time passes and we start dating other people. Have you ever told them that you have feelings? |
| 1:37.8 | Yeah. The last time, I guess I did. And maybe I did in high school. I don't remember. It was so |
| 1:42.8 | long ago, obviously. Yeah, high school doesn't count. Have you told them recently? Have you, like, in the past, |
| 1:47.9 | I don't know, three years, two years, five years? Yeah, yeah, let's say not the past two or three, |
| 1:53.3 | but in the past five, yes. So I was moving across the country about four years ago. And when we were both, you know, |
| 2:04.2 | in the same city, I was getting ready to move. He was like, we should see each other before you |
| 2:08.8 | leave. And we were both single, obviously. So we kind of went on a string of dates. Like it was our |
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