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you want to tell the story you tell the

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story I always tell the story so I was

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in the kitchen getting a drink and you

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came in with all these watches up your

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arm what like you're just you're so

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amazing and I don't know you don't

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really seem to know it that much I think

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uh best feature is our

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honesty as a um a genuine person uh a

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true a true friend your smile is

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probably the best thing my darling I've

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not got the best health um and he's

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stuck with me through all that Hospital

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admissions and things like that a lot of

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people wouldn't who in your opinion made

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the first move him I asked for his

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number as well and you asked for mine so

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yeah it was same ha welcome to a new

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episode of easy English so a few weeks

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ago we produced an episode about how

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people met and about their relationships

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to our surprise the video did quite well

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considering it was a positive subject

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but who doesn't love love huh so we

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thought we'd come back to Brighton and

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ask the same question all over again to

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new couples here we go how did you two

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get to meet each other well we met at a

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party we met at work yes you're not

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supposed to but you do we were working

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abroad in Greece we did a contract um

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with a family resort okay so we were

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entertainers there we met in the ship

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hotel in

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Brighton uh 49 years ago you went to

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college with my friend's brother and he

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came back to her house one night and um

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that was it really I was doing a lot of

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bike riding with my friend uh and he was

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meeting his M and her friends in Hyde

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Park okay he asked if I wanted to come

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along for a long ride um and I was up

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for that so we went to go and meet his

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Ms and her friends and lves was one of

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her friends and we were playing card

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games and we just hid it off straight

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away it was a friend's 40th birthday

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party and you worked with the guy didn't

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you and I came with a friend um who uh

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it was her husband's party as soon as I

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saw

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him well it was over a period of it was

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over a period of about a year that we

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really got to know one another but when

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we first trapped TI on one another we we

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um yeah yeah we first first sight 25

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years nearly so we were both part of the

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the evening entertainment car so we put

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on like shows and did like entertainment

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for the kids and stuff like that and uh

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we were on the same cost and that's it

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sort of went from there we were friends

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at first and then yeah it happened natur

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every time that's lovely yeah we met in

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barley in

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1988 um okay just like that on a holiday

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both of you traveling yeah uh I was

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working in the housekeeping Department

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and Dennis came there to work just

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temporary in the summer and we met after

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that day we spoke nearly every single

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day and went on a date to Q Gardens and

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yeah been married for nearly two years

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got two children wow um yeah that's it

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it was in North London I lived in Kent

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yeah uh so I came over to attend the

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party and met my hus well he's now my

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husband yeah it was really a cool time

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actually this is in 99 wasn't it yeah it

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was yeah and then we sort of got

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together in 2000 okay so but it was

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these the parties were legendary really

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weren't they they were pretty wild they

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were good fun so playing it down a bit

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yeah yeah yeah so yeah so we just we

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would just go out and about and every

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time he went along I'd make sure I was

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there and I think he was the

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same

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can I have more information as to like

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on the beach or in a bar or in a bar

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okay and then we spent three weeks

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together there so I was in the kitchen

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getting a drink and you came in with all

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these watches up your arm what he had

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all

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these it was really funny it was over

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thirsty years ago yeah digital watches

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were quite new um they were cheap they

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were only like a pound each okay and it

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was a bit of a joke he had all these

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watches up his arm just to

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impress yeah and so were you introduced

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to each other or is it just cuz you were

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working in close proximity we're opening

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the store together basically cuz we we

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uh the store we were to obviously wasn't

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there when we first obviously in our

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town where we live and um yeah basically

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she just uh well we just kind of met

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just join the bill so I think okay I got

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talking to her and then obviously um

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started going out after that so did you

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make the first move I believe so yeah he

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did yeah I think it was equal cuz I

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asked for his number as well and you

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asked for mine so okay yeah it was same

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same same and then can I ask who in your

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opinion made the first move him yeah it

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it was it was uh technically it was our

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mate Marta this would been absolutely

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nothing without her a setup yeah pretty

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much um she would ask me cuz we would

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have our the same day off together she

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would ask me individually like Al what

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do you think I'm like I don't know maybe

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apparently she did the same to you she

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did the same to me and Nicole had always

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said that if uh if she's into someone

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she'll happily just tell him and that

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put me off for the longest time and then

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Mar yeah Mar sort of good old Mar went

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in there and became a little Cupid yeah

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who would you say made the first move

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do you know possibly

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me is that right in your opinion I think

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so yes okay who would you say you made

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the first move going

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back I'd say she did what would you say

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with the eyes and I did with my feet

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probably a bit of both could you say

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what is the other person's best quality

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in your eyes oh my gosh you are very

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very understanding puts up with me I got

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lot and that's yeah

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oh I think his best quality is that he

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is always very positive and he always

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comes up with a solution when I'm like

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losing my head at something so yeah he's

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like the level-headed one that's good

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that's a nice one he's put up with a lot

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I've not got the best health um and he's

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stuck with me through all that Hospital

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admissions and things like that a lot of

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people wouldn't he's he saved with me

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through that and uh

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you've been really good haven't you

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really there's multiple um I'll let you

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go first Jay is really good he's very

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emotionally intelligent so he really

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like listens to me and like find having

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a bad day he really good at helping me

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lift up without feeling judged okay it's

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like very like I feel like we just

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connect on a really emotional level best

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qualities a good

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temper

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yeah yes she puts up with you yes shees

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do if you would mind Orica tell telling

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me what is Tony's Tony's best feature or

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best quality

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um gosh that's that's so many um he's

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got a great sense of humor is possibly

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one of the first and A really lovely

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smile and he's very caring and loving

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I'd say patience with him oh really

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patience

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kindness okay

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lovingness me definitely you're very

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caring most definitely yeah and he's

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he's gorgeous to look at as well bless

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got a lovely face that's one of the

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reasons why I your smile is probably the

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best thing my darling Arthur is very um

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he plans thing like today we we live in

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Kent but he planned this trip

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to Brighton because I said to him I we'd

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never seen Brighton Pavilion so he

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planned when I said it a couple of weeks

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ago he he just said oh we're going for a

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trip and it was a surprise complete

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surprise she's extremely loving and

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caring and well since she's become a

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mother I can see that that's

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really uh grown and flourished well she

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she's beautiful obviously so that's one

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good thing SM she's into stuff that you

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wouldn't normally

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fine most girls are into she's uh more

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geeky than anyone else really so it

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helps compliments my hobbies as well so

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that's nice again there are many but I

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think

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you're to like a benefit and a fault

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like you're really just so humble like

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you're just you're so amazing and I

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don't know you don't really seem to know

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it that much so yeah all all the great

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things you do you don't take that much

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credit for them I think I found Dennis

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at the time he had a good sense of humor

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and a hard worker and we like the same

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things we had a lot in common I think

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her best feature is our

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honesty as a um a genuine person uh a

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true a true friend what would you say is

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the secret to a successful relationship

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or marriage uh more

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communication give and take give and

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take

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communication uh putting up with uh each

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other's um no not eccentricities but

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things that one person likes that that

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the other doesn't particularly like but

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we'll go along with it because they know

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it would please the other person respect

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really isn't it patience respect

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patience yeah yeah you you say we don't

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tend to argue that much but say if you

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have any issues just talk about it

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together and uh yeah I think time alone

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as well to be honest having your

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own uh your own things that you do being

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your own person inide your own person

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having a bit of space as well having

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your own Hobbies what would you say is

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the secret if you know what I mean to

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maintain I you going to ask that

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maintaining or keeping a healthy

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relationship communication is

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communication listening to One Another

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listening sounds obvious does it it does

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yeah absolutely understand Len

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understanding them yeah um and just

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being there um not ignoring one

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another um if someone's had a bad day

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you know we do have them you listen to

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them and you talk we are very

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communication yeah communication is key

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we big on that okay but we are extremely

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set on supporting and nurturing each

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other and always encouraging each other

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to progress yeah I think having the same

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morals and core values oh absolutely is

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like the the foundation to a good

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relationship but but is that something

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you have to find out at the beginning

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like AB absolutely yeah okay and so you

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figured that out that that is like the

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foundation cuz if you don't have the

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same core values it will come to a time

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in your relationship where you're clash

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and that could be like the end of your

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relationship Jay again a cliche answer

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but I think compromise compromise is

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good realistically like you at the end

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of the day like you care for each other

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and you love each other very much but

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you still different people say

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communication but compromise I think

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it's right up there accepting that

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you're both individuals coming together

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you don't have to do everything together

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necessarily but you both communicate and

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exactly as long as you keep you build

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it's a relationship you're building

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something together it's not one-sided

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trust in each other yes I think so and

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uh family we've got four grown-up

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children seven grandchildren so you know

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that's kind of like a glue that sticks

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us all together I think

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trust is um and

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companionship really uh

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honesty if you got them three things

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we're not going to agree on everything

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yeah but you can agree to disagree

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without having to argue about it because

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if she agreed on everything then that's

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a bit strange so no we don't agree on

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everything but yeah we we we uh I think

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we have respect for each other yeah

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which is most important absolutely do

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you agree yes absolutely nice and we

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have a lot of fun together we do laugh a

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lot and we travel a lot still now and we

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got two Great sons so we're very

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fortunate thanks for watching this

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week's episode please let us know in the

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comments below what you thought of part

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two of this episode and also if you're

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in a relationship let us know how you

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two met and as always we'll see you next

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