Love on Layway (Guests: Matt West & Erika West)
Dear Future Wifey
Laterras R. Whitfield
5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Matt West felt a spark when he first laid eyes on Erika. Ironically, they were both in relationships at that time. So, their love was put on layaway for 18 years! In this inspiring episode of the Dear Future Wifey podcast, host Laterras R. Whitfield and Matt & Erika West discuss how faith, patience, and divine timing played pivotal roles in bringing them together. Through candid conversations, the Wests share the challenges they faced, the lessons they learned, and how surrendering to God's plan led them to a fulfilling partnership. Their story serves as a testament to the power of waiting on God's timing and the beauty that unfolds when you do.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to take time with this because it took time to get to this. This is covering an 18-year journey. |
| 0:07.0 | I think about it in that fashion. It makes me sad. The abuse. I could have missed all that. And I could have been right with my gift. The way that he loves me should be studied. |
| 0:15.7 | What was your first inclination when you saw her met? She's like absolutely stunning. I found out she had a boyfriend. |
| 0:21.7 | I thought he had a girlfriend. |
| 0:23.9 | She invited me to her house for Thanksgiving. |
| 0:26.5 | Everybody was saying, now that's the kind of guy. |
| 0:29.6 | You should be dating. |
| 0:30.7 | He's getting invited for Thanksgiving and your boyfriend wasn't there. |
| 0:33.6 | My family didn't really like him. |
| 0:35.4 | He wasn't really invited. |
| 0:37.0 | This relationship that you have with this guy, what happens with this relationship? He was in and out of jail. It's early in the morning and the police raid his cousin's apartment and we're both there. All I could see are flashlights, police officers with their guns drawn. We are detained in the house. So there was a whole side of him. |
| 0:55.4 | I didn't even know. How did your parents take to that occurrence? I was shipped to a military town |
| 1:01.6 | in Georgia called Hinesville to live with my uncle and my three boy cousins. During that time and |
| 1:07.9 | season of her life, what was going on in your life, Matt? I was working in LA as a psychologist. |
| 1:12.5 | I met a girl, and we hit it off instantly, and we ended up dating for six years, and we end up getting married, and then we had our daughter. |
| 1:21.3 | And so here you are feeling like this is it. |
| 1:23.8 | This is going to take me to death, do we part. |
| 1:25.9 | We're married. |
| 1:26.6 | What made you decide to find for divorce? |
| 1:29.1 | She started using substances. Those substances became a priority. And I never forget this day either. She called me and she said, hey, I'm at the notary. I'm just doing some paperwork. It's for Olivia's School. She was transitioning to kindergarten. So she's like, oh, I'm at the notary. |
| 1:44.7 | There's just some paperwork you need to sign off. I signed this document two or three months later. |
| 1:48.9 | I find out it was a whole agreement for me to pay child support, spouse's support. She put in there |
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