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Erica, welcome to the program. Hi, can you hear me? Yes ma'am.

I wasn't calling with a problem. I actually was just telling you how much I appreciate listening

to your show and how I'm really nervous. And how much I learned from it, either from hearing

people's stories of all mistakes they've made in their marriage or hearing about people talk about.

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm getting so emotional. You're doing great. That's what I'm doing.

Just making me realize how lucky I am to have a kind of husband that I have.

Oh, sorry. Yeah, I'm just affirming that how good it is that I'm a stay-at-home mom.

Sometimes it can, I know that that's the right thing to do, but sometimes it can feel like that.

It's not. I don't know, I guess because it's uncommon nowadays.

So anyway, every time you talk about stay-at-home moms and how you should treat your husband

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