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We asked for doing a series of episodes Leave and Cleave,

based on Genesis 224 in the King James.

You leave your family, and they become your extended

family so you can cleave pursue connect with your spouse to start your new family so here's

kind of where we've covered so far um here's my bad penmanship again.

On the one side is in meshment, and maybe you explain that while I write the next word.

Everything is still connected to your extended family, even though you're newly married.

You have financial dependence or emotional dependence or

spiritual dependence or there's just some strings attached still and you can't fully leave and cleave.

Then cut off. There's full full independence you've kind of just

wipe the slate clean and you want nothing more to do with them

which in the last one we discussed good and bad versions of cut off

and then I have terrible

blemanship on a whiteboard. Yeah. It's hard to write on a whiteboard.

It's yeah. No, I appreciate you supporting me emotionally. And

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