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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
are in, like, my mom, I agree, like, I feel like my mom's kind of everywhere now.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
And I like to think that, you know, she has the answers now to all the questions that she had, you know?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
The idea, somebody said to me once, like, they were like, oh, you know, I think your mom's watching over you.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
And I, I mean, I love the sentiment behind that because what they're trying to say is, like, she's still here.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like, she's still here and, you know, she's still in this, you know?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
But, like, I don't,
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
I don't know that I like want her watching me, you know, like I masturbate.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
I don't really want her to be, you know, like there's some things that I'm like, all right, wait a minute.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like when is mom around?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
And is there someplace I could be where she doesn't see it?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Because that feels weird, you know?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
But I understand what people mean when they say like, yeah, I think that, you know, there is a, like when we die, I think we become something eternal.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
And I think we, you know, become, I think in our absence,
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
sometimes we're easier to see.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
And that's a really cool thing.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
And I think, again, there's a lot to learn about love in that.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Because I think when the person you love is there, it's really easy to forget they're there.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
And then when they go away for a little while,
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
You're like, oh, you know, the silence is loud.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
You know, like the scent of them not being here, like you just get used to the scent of things.