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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like it's not the end of the world.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like it's really not the end of the world.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like, but we have sold people through popular media and like representation, which again, like rom-coms are like an equivalent of pornography, right?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
because it's like this idealized, stylized version of things and you don't have to see anybody clean up after, like it's just what it is.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
But the truth is like, come on, watch Titanic.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
If he didn't die in the end, Leonardo DiCaprio, sorry, it's a spoiler alert.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
You think six months later, she'd have been like, oh yeah, keep painting those French girls.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like do whatever you can.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
No, they would have started to have some things they got to figure out.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like, hey, are you going to get a job?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like, what are we doing?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
You know, or like, you're, you know, like where are we going to live?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Your place, my place.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like you're kind of broke.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
You're an artist.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
I've got some money, but now I don't have as much because I broke up with that dude.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like, so there's, there would have been some stormy waters, but what do we do?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
We end the story, right?
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
Like George Orwell said, you know, whether something's a comedy or a tragedy depends on where you end the story.
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545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton
So I think you have to, like, you know, give yourself the grace that, you know, relationships are, you know, they're a long enough time.