Q&A! Changing Names, Revealing FWB History, Sharing Secrets, & "Timing" Truths

Dear Shandy

Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine

Tv & Film, Relationships, Society & Culture, After Shows

4.9 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

It's Q&A time! We're back, answering YOUR burning questions! If your FWB relationship is firmly in the past, should you still tell your current partner about it? How important is it to have a social life outside of one's relationship? And how reasonable an excuse is "bad timing"? Come join us in our living room for the Shandy take!

Q1: My Partner Wants To Replace Our Planned Couple Getaway With Yet Another Annual Family Visit—Am I Being Difficult?

Q2: My Boyfriend And I Are In A Healthy Long-term Relationship But We Both Don't Have Any Close Friends—Is This Normal?

Q3: Should I Tell My New Partner About My Former Friend Group FWB?

Q4: My Boyfriend Insists That I Should Change My Name If We Get Married But I Love My Name—Thoughts?

Q5: My Ex And I Ended On Bad Terms And I Want To Tell My Story But It Involves Sharing A Secret Of His—Right Or Wrong?

Q6: The Guy I've Been Hooking Up With Blames "Timing" For Us Not Making It Official—Is This BS?

Referenced book (with the pie chart):

Breakup Bootcamp by Amy Chan - https://amzn.to/3xiCCDf

Sharleen's blog post about not changing her name:

http://www.alltheprettypandas.com/blog/2016/to-change-or-not-to-change

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Whether he's banging in spirit or in practice,
0:04.0	he is banging something.
0:05.4	He's in the banging department outside of you.
0:08.6	["Dear Shandy"]
0:14.0	Welcome back to Dear Shandy, listeners.
0:16.4	Hello, Andy.
0:17.8	Well, that is a fun outfit.
0:21.3	I mean, that is fun, that outfit.
0:25.0	That may be the most fun outfit I've ever seen you wear.
0:27.5	Really? This is the most fun.
0:28.6	And you've worn a lot of fun outfits.
0:30.5	Is this the most fun?
0:31.8	It's not necessarily the craziest.
0:33.4	That is, as the girls would say, a fun outfit.
0:37.8	I'm okay with that.
0:39.1	Yeah.
0:39.6	I mean, anyone who looks at that and says that's not fun
0:42.2	doesn't understand anything about life in general.
0:46.2	It's cute and a day.
0:47.7	Yes.
0:48.7	And we have some questions to get to.
0:50.3	A lot of questions.
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