Matthew Ridge

she's she's had a she's had a pretty tough road she's had a she's been lucky but also you know like she's been unlucky in love as well so and when you're unlucky in love all we want is connection you know that that's what i reckon you know i don't know about you guys but you know i want to go home and be with a woman that you know adores me loves me you know like i'm uh i never thought i'd be the sort of person i always used to say to people i always used to say to people that that that i fell for like i'll love you like you've never been loved but i'll never be faithful because i just didn't

believe in monogamy I just didn't think it was in me or anybody else to be that matter and then one day I just changed and like thank God because mate it just makes it so much simpler and here's the other thing no bullshit just don't tell lies

Like, as soon as there's any bullshit in your relationship, as soon as there's any lies, as soon as there's something you can't tell anybody, as soon as you can't put your phone down, as soon as you've got to worry about, oh, as soon as there's any little bit of niggle that you are too scared to tell your partner, then you're going down the wrong path, you know?

It's just what I know.

You know, like, I've done a lot of fucking bullshitting in my life, man.

Like, I've had, you know, like...

I say that, you know, men are predatorial, but so are women.

You know, like when a woman decides that she wants a man, she's going to get him.

You know, like if a woman's, like if there's a beautiful woman out there and she wants you and she decides to put her fucking horns down and come get you, she's going to come get you.

And, you know, like, I had that happen to me a couple of times, and that's what fucked my, you know, that's what stuffed up my marriage.

But this was a woman who was married and just decided that she wanted a piece of me, right?

And it didn't matter how often I said, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

She just kept coming and coming and coming and coming until I went, fuck, all right, doesn't matter, I'll throw in the towel.

But you know what?

It's just when you carry around baggage, guys, honestly, when you carry around,

that follows you around the place, you know, it just weighs you down.

Hmm.

I found it really hard.

It was real hard.

Um,