The Bird Show

Hey Jenny, we're going to call you Jenny.

What's going on?

I got to pick up your phone first. Hey, Jenny. Hi. Hi. How are you? Fine. We've been trying to get to your call for a week and a half. I'm sorry, it's taking us so long. It's all right. All right. So what's going on now with this boyfriend that you got? Well, we kind of had a conversation about it yesterday.

And, well, he said he loves me.

He tells me that, you know, he doesn't want to lose me.

But if I continue to smoking, then he doesn't want to have a future with me.

How long have you been smoking?

Well, I kind of started when I was young when I was around 13, so, and I'm, like, about to be 20 this year.

So you've been smoking for seven years?

You've been going out with this guy for how long?

Four and a half years.

Four and a half years.

And when did he tell you that he wants you to stop smoking? It's been like this for a couple years, but this year is to the point where he can't take it anymore. Okay. So he's saying you smoke too much. He doesn't like to be around the smoke when he's around you. That he's got that smell on his clothes. It's a disgusting,

disgusting habit. And if you don't stop smoking, he is gone, right?

Yeah, it's just the fact that the culture that we come from, he doesn't want his family

to know that I smoke. And I tell him what I do outside the house, I do not bring it home. So I don't see what's the problem. And, I mean, I don't drink or anything or anything else. All I do is smoke. So, I mean, if I want to quit, he should let me quit on my own and not just, you know, try to tell me I need to do it now and give

me ultimate. I'm saying that if I don't quit, he's going to leave me.

What culture are we talking about?

Because we're from an Asian culture, so it's kind of a whole respect for elderly people.

Okay.

I think Jen Habie would probably say this, or can say it or attest.

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