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Happy dating detectives Monday, but I don't know how happy you're going to be after hearing the rest of this episode from last week. Hannah, will you please recap last week?

Yeah. I know. I'm sad. No, it's just such a bummer of a story. If you have not heard, please go back and listen to last week's part one episode. Laura is our guest, and she's been through it. She is so awesome,

though, and I love the way she was so gracious and brave to share this story. So part two is going to get

heavy. Part one involves Laura, an independent woman who had

never been married, never had kids, loves to travel alone, has had a series of relationships,

all of which she said weren't great. She has a history of being ghosted, a history of just

anytime she ruffled feathers, people would leave her. And that was in the back

of her head as she met Ramon. So she goes on vacation by herself, which she did every year and loved

it, and meets a resort worker. He was like the head of entertainment. He was like the emcee of the

talent show. You know what I mean? And this is someone that despite going through all of that still was so kind and she wanted,

she was a people pleaser, like wanted to, you know. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Very nice.

So he flirted with her and she was just trying to be nice. You know, you've all been there.

It's hard to, it's hard to not be a people pleaser in this world. So they end up hooking up on the

vacation and she surprises herself by actually being into him despite his like Polly D.

hair. And then they start a long distance relationship, him back at this country,

she goes back home to Canada. So they're in two different

countries. And he guilts her into giving him money for various things, like new shoes, a new

Apple Watch. She obviously makes more than him. She knows that. She's nine years older than him.

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