Left an Open Marriage
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
A strict religious upbringing, an older husband, and an open marriage she never expected. This week’s caller talks with Gethard about how she got there and how she’s finally building a life that actually feels like hers.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody who got a little too emotional during this one. |
| 0:08.1 | It's Beautiful Anonymous, one hour, one phone call, no names, no holds barred. |
| 0:16.9 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:19.9 | I think it'll be more fun, and I'll get to know you, and you'll get to know me. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:28.0 | If you're not into an intro, I get it. |
| 0:32.6 | I want to skip about seven minutes ahead. |
| 0:34.5 | That'll put you right toward the beginning of the phone call. |
| 0:36.6 | Enjoy the call. |
| 0:40.1 | Hi, everybody. My name's Chris Getherd. Thanks so much for tuning in to another episode of |
| 0:45.0 | Beautiful Anonymous, show where we look at the human condition. One anonymous phone call at a time, |
| 0:50.1 | I feel so lucky to be your host. It's a joy to be here. I have to thank everybody who supported |
| 0:55.9 | my mental health 24 hour long marathon show. I am recording this before it happened, so I have no |
| 1:02.3 | idea if the show was a success or a disaster. It's Wednesday. We're doing it on Saturday night. |
| 1:09.2 | Thus far, it feels like a looming disaster, but maybe it will |
| 1:13.0 | turn around and it will go well. I'm speaking in the past. You're living in the future. Who knows? |
| 1:18.4 | Also have to say continued thanks to everybody who's been buying up the beautiful anonymous |
| 1:24.3 | magazines at chris gettherd.bigartel.com. |
| 1:28.0 | The colored ones are flying to the point where every time I go to the post office with another |
| 1:33.9 | pile of them, the guy there is like, you said you were done. I'm like, we were done sending out |
| 1:38.0 | the ones to the people from the podcast. Now these are just nice people buying them up. |
| 1:42.5 | So again, thanks so much. |
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