The Bobby Bones Show - Did Eddie Book The Trip? Eddie Gives Morgan Some Brotherly Advice

Episode Date: May 3, 2025

Happy weekend! Eddie joins Morgan and she wants an update to see if he booked the trip they were discussing on the last Best Bits. Eddie shares if there was a moment his wife knew was the one, and Morgan gets some brotherly advice in all the love talk. Eddie also shares the things his wife did early on in their relationship that mattered to him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What's up everybody? Happy weekend. Eddie is joining me. What's that, Eddie? What's up, Morgan? You excited to chat? Yeah, always. I saw it on my calendar. It popped up.

But you know what? There's a problem with a calendar. Oh, boy. I tried to implement a new system guys, so they stopped giving me crap for asking them. So Morgan was like, all right, I got finally, I'm tired of going up to you guys and being like, what are you doing this week? It's your week to be the best bits. So she was like, I'm going to do a calendar invite.

And that's going to be your week that you're going to do it, so you're not surprised. Not even just like not going up. I wanted to be more organized for you guys, so you guys had a heads up. I get it. Totally. It makes sense, right? But the calendar is for today. I need it for the week. You just want it to show up the whole week? I can do that. Just tell me it's the whole week because we don't know what day we're going to do it. Right? That's true. It just kind of depends on what happened. Morgan, I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. Like so I need to know. Like on Sundays, I'll look at the calendar. I'm like, okay, cool. Tomorrow we have this. Okay. So if I see that, I'm like, oh, this week is Morgan's Best Bit Week. Okay. Then I will change yours. Just a little suggestion box. That's it. I like suggestion baches. We can change them always.

It's brand new, so you're open to suggestions. Of course I am. Well, Eddie, the biggest question I have to start this is, did you book a trip? The trip. Oh, shoot. Eddie. I was supposed to do that for like. Like seven weeks.

So I didn't book a trip, but here's what I did. Okay. So this totally goes with what we were talking about on the podcast. Yes. I signed up for the men's group. You did? I did. Okay.

We meet on Saturday morning. Okay, so not the trip, but you are joining a dude's group. You said do something out of your comfort zone and like, yes, there was a buddy of mine in Wyoming and I'm like, I'd love to go visit him. So that didn't happen because really, realistically, I just can't leave for a week. And so I settled for men's group at my church on Saturday mornings. And it was not my idea. It's almost like this is kind of like from above, Morgan, because one of my old neighbors who, we used to be neighbors like two years ago, he moved away. with his wife, just another part of town.

Like him and his family got a house on the side of town. Yeah. And we go to the same church though. And he was like, hey, have you thought about doing this men's group? And I'm like, no, I'm not doing it. Like, remember why I talked to you about this? Yeah. I'm like, it's just not my thing.

Not my thing to do it. And I said, are you doing it? And he said, only if you do it. And I go, oh my gosh. And that's kind of cool that he wants to go. Like, and he will only do it if I go. So I was like, all right, let's give it a shot. Okay.

We don't, we can't. But have you gone yet? Have you done any? No, no, it starts in like two weeks. Okay. And it's like maybe five Saturdays in a row, which I don't know if I can't make that Saturday, like if we're traveling, I'll have to just kind of not do it that week. But there's like donuts and breakfast and coffee and-

So you're getting free food. No, you have to pay. You have to pay for the food? It's $50 for five weeks. So like $10. Well, Girl math says that's free food. Is it $10? That's how that works.

I kind of pay for the coffee and the donut for. I think you just let it roll. That's how girl math works. Okay? You're just like, yeah, free food. What do you mean? Girl math is when like something's on sale and it's like 50% off. You're like, I didn't buy that.

It's like 50% off. You all are so ridiculous. My wife does this crap all the time. You know my wife does? She says, she goes, like we'll cut something, right? We'll be like, hey, we're spending too much money on like the kids lunches. Let's just do sack lunches. Okay, instead of like buying food at school.

She's like, okay, we'll just, I'll do groceries and we'll just, I'll make their lunches in the morning. So cool. We'll save like $200 a month, right? $300 a month. And she was like, look what I bought because we saved on that $300. And I'm like, no, that's not how saving works. You save, you don't spend the $300. And that is money that you save.

You don't look at that as like, that's $300 now that I can spend on something else. Like, that's not saving. Okay. You guys are out of your mind. In all fairness, I do understand your point because I do very much. I'm very good at saving. I always pay myself first. It's a strategy my dad instilled to me very early on.

Okay, you pay yourself first. Yeah, you basically goes into your savings, yeah, right away. Like, immediately as soon as you get paid, you pay yourself first. Oh, that's how you save. That's your money that you put away. I like it. Yeah, so before you spend money, you're putting something away. I like it.

It's depending on, you know, however your paycheck shows up. Roughly the percentage of your paycheck. Well, at first it was like $5. This is how it started. No, but like the percentage. Don't get me like a... Now, I'm taking, but like when it first started, it was like $5. Well, that's probably because you were making $10.

Basically, you know? Your paycheck was $10. One dollar go thing. Now I'd probably say like 25% is when I'm stocking away. Yeah, that's not possible for me. But that's a good. If I were single, totally. I would probably do that too.

I like it. Well, you were single once in a time when you didn't do it, Eddie. No, that was my beer drinking money for sure. I know. That's what it's your fault. Every two weeks, I'm like, God, dang, I don't have any money. Like, bars are getting expensive. Yeah, you weren't paying yourself first at all.

I was not. Okay, so how do we even get on the topic? paying first? You're talking about your wife and buying something. Oh, the $50 breakfast. Got it. Yeah. Okay.

So, anyways, it is Girl Math because technically you're getting something out of it that was free that you would have had to pay money for on different things. It's interesting logic. It's so weird that you are so responsible with paying yourself first and putting 25% away. Like, that's great. That's good. But then you lose all credibility when you say like, Girl Math.

It's all free. It's just fun to like. you know when you spend money especially now like you spend money and it just kind of like hurts your heart it just kind of makes you feel a little bit better when you're like Girl Math

I save some money Yeah Spending Money sucks That's what I'm saying So like it just kind of makes us feel better Okay I get that It's kind of like But you're just fooling yourself I know but it's a placebo effect

You're like yeah Girl Math Somewhere in there I save some money Maybe it didn't cost so much I'll say that next time Yeah So Girl Math It just helps you ease the pain

Of spending money I really think is truly where it comes from Yeah That's funny. I'm proud of you. I'm glad that you did this. We're going to do it. And we're signed up.

We're going to do it, which is, I don't know how it's going to go or what we're going to do. I'm assuming we talk about God, but I think there's more of just like a catch-up of like, from what I understand, maybe you split up in like groups of five. You sit around a campfire and you just kind of chat it up. Okay, so it's in evenings. I was picturing like a morning. Seven in the morning.

Why are you saying campfire? They do a little fire outside. Oh, so you are really around a campfire. Yeah, and you sit around the campfire while you drink. coffee, your donut. Okay. Yeah, I guess the mornings are kind of cool. Donuts with dad, but no kids.

Right. You know, back in school and... Oh, I do it all the time still. Yeah, donuts with dad. I haven't done it in a while, but donuts with dad, donuts with dad is fun. And it wasn't it like muffins with moms? Yes. Yeah.

They still do muffins with mom. Yeah. And my kids' school is cool too because we can do lunches with them, like on whenever we want, really. I love that. But we only do like birthdays or whatever. Okay, let me ask you this because on my birthday, my mom used to always bring Christy's cookies. This is the thing back in Kansas.

And it was these really, really good sugar cookies. Every birthday, she would show up to the school for my classroom and give us Chrissy's cookies or cookie cake and we'd always like celebrate. Do you do that for your kids on the birthday? Totally. Is that a common thing that a lot of parents do? Or do you feel like it's, some do it, some don't?

I think that I probably wouldn't do it, but I think everyone does it. Okay. So you kind of feel forced as a parent to be like, well, our kid can't be the only one that doesn't get the cookies or like the cupcakes or whatever, you know? But what's really challenging, though, nowadays is like everyone has allergies of something.

Yeah. Peanut allergies. So you have to ask like, okay. So make sure that the cupcakes don't have pistachios in them or whatever because we have a pistachio allergy. So there are things like that that I don't remember dealing with as a kid. Oh, no. Everybody had the same.

We all ate the same Christy cookie. Yeah. And little Tommy, if he got a rash, he got a rash. Or like if somebody couldn't have it, they couldn't have it. And that's like coming from someone who does have allergies. that I can't eat. But like, yeah, that's crazy too. I don't even think about that side of it.

You have to, like, ask first. Like, all right, we're going to bring cookies. Does anyone have a nut allergy? Because some of these, like, cookies have peanuts in it or, like, whatever. See, that's why sugar cookies are good. I think they're pretty clear from most allergies. Just find maybe a gluten-free one and then you'll be okay. Unless you have a sugar allergy and not good.

I have, I have that. Have a sugar allergy? Yeah, I'm allergic. Well, I'm allergic to, I think most people are, but I have an allergy, like sensitivity to, like preserved sugars. What even is an allergy? Like what is an allergy?

Your body inflames. That's what it is? Yeah. Like your certain areas of your body can inflame. Yeah. That's a great explanation because I never knew. It's always like, you know, grass. Like I'm allergic to grass.

Okay, cool. What happens? I get a rash or I can't breathe or whatever. It's like, well, at least the way that I've been taught to understand it and maybe different allergies kind of function differently. but when you have it, an allergic reaction, like, think of, like, when people wilt or their eyes will up, like, your body's inflaming. So, if it's your lungs that you can't breathe, my lungs are inflaming. A little bit.

If it's, like, my nose itches, then your nostrils are inflaming or whatever. It's probably a too simplistic way of describing it, but... Makes sense. That's at least how somebody kind of, like, made it identified to me as, like, you're just super inflamed because you're allergic to a lot of things that you keep putting in your body. So not sugar cane, but any kind of added... processed sugar? Well, I mean, even sugar cane, really, because it's really like you can have, like, fruit because it's natural sugar.

Oh. But anything that's added and, you know, baked goods, all about, yeah. So you can't have Kool-Aid. No, I can't Kool-Aid. That's just terrible. Eddie, I used to put, this is wild, I used to put sugar on my cereal. Yeah, I did too. You did too?

Like, if I had, like, corn flakes. Yeah. I'll put sugar. Rice, rice, crispy. It's my favorite. Rice, crispy, peas. With, why can I say rice cream? I did the same thing.

Right. I was trying to say rice Krispies with not rice crispy treats. Yeah. But that's what happened. Rice Krispies with sugar doused on top, man. A lot of sugar. I'd make it look like it was snowing on the rice Krispies. I would even, Eddie, I'd eat like a layer.

And then I'd do the next layer. Do you remember the best part, though, of all the sugar in the bottom of the wool? Yeah. And you would just scrape it off under there with the milk. Dude, that was so good. I didn't do that today. I know. It was so good.

But, like, I think about that often. And I was like, I was consuming literally more than my day. alien take of sugar that I should have in one setting. Did you guys ever had Kool-Aid in your house? Oh, yeah. Okay. So my mom, like my job was like, hey, Eddie, will you make the Kool-Aid? Yeah.

I would get my pitcher of water. Do I have a picture of water, fill it up, you know, all the way, or maybe just a little leave room for the sugar. Uh-huh. And then I would pour the Kool-Aid packet and it would turn it red, right? Then it was sugar time. We had those big, you know, cooking spoons. Like I'm talking about the big ones, not like the teaspoon, not.

spoon, not the ones that are like made out of, like the same size of the spatula. Like a ladle. Kind of, yeah. That you use for soup, kind of. Yes. Like the spatula size, but it's a spoon. Yeah. I would do three and a half of those.

Three and a half and it was delicious. But now I look at that like, well, no wonder like. We have so many issues. When people are diabetic, like, I'm on my way to like dine because of that crap. I know. Ice tea, like my baby. We had a babysit. she made the best iced tea ever and then I saw her making it one time same thing

five cups of sugar dude like whoa oh we used to drink like my mom and sister had diet Pepsi my dad and I had diet Mountain Dew like every day for every like I was never drinking water I have I saw Amy Polar this meme of her being like we nobody taught us about water like we never had water growing up and I think back to my life I never drank water it was Gatorade or Mountain Dew or any other like added sugar drink. I never drank water. It's so crazy. Like, yes, same with us. Because you're mentioning Kool-Aid and I see like we, yeah.

Like any meal, you'd reach for the Coke or the whatever, Dr. Pepper. Like it didn't matter. Whatever it was. It just wasn't water. Sunny D. Or anything but water. Like I, when I saw that meme, I was like, I really looked back on my childhood. I was like, that's why I'm not good at drinking water today because I didn't drink water. So see, that's funny you say this because like parenting now, the now that we know so much about health, And I used to argue it because I'm like, we don't have money to eat organic. We don't have money to do whatever.

But there are little things that you can change that isn't like going to break the bank. Yeah. And it's literally staying away from anything out of a can, you know, and just getting vegetables. And if you look at vegetables, like we have to, we, my wife and I, like, we're like, I know that we're having pizza night, but like, throws some broccoli on it. Something just to level it out because like I did not grow up that way. She didn't grow up that way. And like really, that's the root of like a lot of health problems. So many health problems.

And then I see stuff like on Instagram that like the first two years of your life, whatever you do within those first two years affects you for the rest of your life. Very formative. Well, we're screwed. So but now like we're younger. Like we have we have kids now or like somebody's probably pregnant with their first child right now listening. You could make a difference in their lives by just cutting all that crap out. It's true. And I know hamburger helper sounds really good, but it's out of a box and it can't be good for you if it's in a box.

It can't be good for you if it's in a can. Yeah. We've come a long way to understanding and learning. It is wild. I look back to our childhood and there's so much nostalgia in it, but it's also just like, what the crap was happening. I know. We just didn't know. Like my mom was visiting in town and we were talking about this exact same thing.

And she was like, I'm sorry. We just didn't know. Yeah. We had no clue. And they didn't. I often say the phrase, once we know better, we can do better. But until we know we can't do better, we don't know any different. Yeah.

That was our society. That's what everybody was doing. And I used to hate it because it's like, I can't eat that. It's expensive. Like, I can't eat organic. I can't eat. But now, like, I think they're doing a lot better at making kind of stuff more affordable. Even though all groceries are expensive right now.

Yeah. Like everywhere you go, groceries are so freaking expensive. Yeah. We spend so much money on groceries. I know. Okay. We're going to take a quick break. Anyway.

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You're not stupid, by the way. Yes, we're stupid. And we talk a lot on the show about how I waited for six years to propose to my wife. Yeah. I knew I loved her immediately, right? Like within the first six months or whatever. Like I knew immediately I loved her, but never did I think about spending the rest of my life with her until she told me, are you going to ask me to marry you or not? Like, we've been dating way too long. We met, you know, in college, we went through college, we got our first jobs together. We lived, we moved to Austin together, like everything. And I had thought like, we're just having a good time. Like, this is.

a fun relationship. I love you, you love me. We're best of friends. Yeah. But did you at some point, even if you weren't like really thinking in the headspace of marriage,

where you're like, yeah, I just want to hang out with you forever. Yes. I don't know about forever, but like, yes. Like I loved, I know,

I'm not a, I guess in my mind, I wasn't like a thinker of what am I going to be doing for the next 10 years of my life. I was more of what am I doing right now. I've always kind of been that way. I'm a day to day person.

Like I'm telling you. Like even when it comes to this podcast, I'm like, let me know on Monday that we're going to do it on Thursday because I'll forget. Yeah. So I'm kind of more of a day. You're not a big picture, big overarching planner. I'm not because I don't think for me, I've experienced that life doesn't really work that way for me. Like I thought I was going to be, you know, a touring musician and a rock band. Like kind of.

Which would be very day to day and a much different lifestyle. Yeah. My sister makes fun of me too because like I had this like, people. picture of Hollywood in my my bedroom and it was like the Hollywood sign and it would say my goal on top like idiot like I thought Hollywood was going to be my goal like I don't like Hollywood like I don't like really LA well you but you didn't know that then I didn't know that but I guess that's kind of when I when I was younger I was more of a like I'm a dreamer like I'm going to do this but now that I've become older it's kind of like day to day and just God tell me what's going to happen and I'm going to do I'm going to do me I'm going to do the best that I can I'm going to see it open door opportunities, I will take them. And let's just see where it goes. So, but then your wife gives you this ultimatum. And you're like, no, yeah, I don't, I don't want to lose you.

Is that kind of that moment? It was literally, I don't, I've never thought about this. And was she like, excuse me? And up until that point, you guys had never had conversations whatsoever about marriage, wanting to have kids. Yeah, we would talk about, like, what would we name our kids? Like, what are your top 10 kids' names? Yeah, like, where would, where would,

should we go, like, if we would ever get married? Sure, we talked about that, but, like, it was always, it wasn't when we were going to get married or, like, it was just like if we ever get married or like, I'm telling you, in my mind, my career, um, my job at the time, my music, like me playing music, writing music, me having my hot girlfriend. Like, that was my life. I never thought like, oh, yeah, like eventually you and I were going to have kids and get married. Like, no, never thought of it until she said, are you going to ask me to marry you?

And then I remember specifically going on a, I think me and my dad and my brother were on a fishing trip, like in South Padre or like, I don't know, somewhere in Texas. And I talked to my brother. I'm like, yeah, man, like, you know, my wife gave me the, well, my girlfriend gave me the ultimatum kind of thing. And he was just like, well, yeah, you idiot? Like, are you going to do it? And I was like, I mean, this is the first time I've really been thinking.

about and I'm like, I think I'm going to do it. Like, of course, because it made so much sense. Like, I don't want to live this life without her. Yeah. Like, not once that I ever think like, yeah, I like you, but I'm going to try to see if I can date someone else. Yeah. Never.

That's crazy. Like, it was just like a there. It was just there and it was good and happy and comfortable. Which is kind of my life. Yeah. And I realized, like, that's just how I live my life. That is true. Well, you didn't, you don't help me much here than Eddie.

Why? What are you thinking? I just like, I feel like I'm having. a lot of big feelings that I don't, I don't quite think I've ever experienced before. Ever. Yeah. Something feels different. And I don't know how to explain it and I don't know what it is.

That's why I'm asking trying to get information to like process. So like, let me ask you this because I think like, all right, if I wouldn't have married my wife, which, you know, like, I could have, I could have just said, no. Like, I don't want to get married right now. And then just prolonged it. And then met someone in my 40s or late 30s. And then me like, all right, you're the one I'm going to marry just because like, dang, we're almost 40. Like we should get married, right?

And I could have had a completely different life. I probably wouldn't have four kids. This is also true. Who knows? What would have happened? So like, when you say different feeling, could it be anything about just gone through the grinder of day day. and like being cheated on and you name it right yeah but now you're not dealing with all that

deceit yeah right you're not dealing with that right now so it feels good yeah and i well like here's a different distinction that i'm having where like in the beginning of all of my relationships and of course hindsight is always 2020 right you look back on something like yeah that made sense I definitely skated over that or I didn't look into that too hard or, you know, whatever. Yeah, you kind of do that. And I can genuinely do that for all of my relationships now. Even like the recent one, like I had a really big breakthrough where it was like a. You're talking about the uniform guy?

Yeah, man in uniform. Man in uniform. Where I was just like, that would have never worked. And I just ignored it because I think for the first time in my life I was in a safe and healthy relationship. Yeah. Okay. So there we go. So that was that first time.

So all the deceit lies, whatever being cheated on, whatever, bad dude, whatever. All that's out, right? So you got a really good dude. And you've checked that, that box has been checked. Good dude. Yeah. Not going to cheat on me, not going to lie to me, not going to do bad things to me, like, check. Yeah.

So now is he the dude? Because just because he's a good guy doesn't mean he's the guy for you, right? No. But this is the last guy, right? And like, obviously I realized, and I was like, okay, well, I need to be having some very intense conversations pretty early on to make sure I'm weeding through all of the

very specific things if we don't have in common. That's got to be weird for him. Just to get all those questions because that's not normal to be interrogated. But Eddie, the best part was like, he loved it. Really? He was just like, yeah. Like, this is because...

This is man of uniform. No. Okay, new guy. Now we're on new guy. Got it. Sorry. It was just more I learned the lesson with man in uniform

that, like, I had the breakthrough when I was like kind of sitting there and journaling and working through my stuff where I was like, I think the reason I really cared and that that relationship was so hard on me is because it was truly the first time that I felt not hurt. Like I was dealing with someone who actually cared and genuinely wanted to see me happy. It just didn't work out. It wasn't my person. And I think that was such a different hurt than I'd ever experienced because of that. So then like coming into this new relationship and meeting him, how I met him, the whole experience

and everything has been vastly different than anything I've ever. experience. So now I'm saying, that's why I'm trying to like, I'm like, okay, is it just another new different and I'm learning a lot of things or is this like a different, different, different? And it's going to be something that really matters. And I don't know how to deal with it. Can't answer you a question. Yeah. What do you want? Like, what do you want out of a guy? Like, it sounds like you're looking for the perfect man. No, not perfect. So what do you want? I want a consistent, loyal, and compassionate human being. Those are like my three very, like, I had just got done telling my friends that I needed an empath.

Like, I needed somebody who had a heart like mine. Because so, so much I was recognizing, like, as, especially as I went through back a lot of my relationships, that I just had this, this heart that couldn't be matched. Like, I cared so deeply and I would, I would fight so hard for things. and I was not matching with somebody in the heart category. And I was like, it's going to matter when I meet someone who, like, has this heart that I have. And that was, like, the first thing that I connected on with. IRL guy, I guess it's kind of the nickname that's been given to him, was like, holy crap, we feel and see life and experience life in the same way in that capacity. And that I've never felt before.

Okay. That's good. check that box. So that was. What else? The consistency is there on every level. Define that because like consistency like he shows up when he does like when he tells he's going to be there. Like what's what do you mean? The words align with the actions. But for how long? I know. We're still early on. How long? Well, we're, you know, over a month. Right. At this point, so over a month. Okay. Let's just say five weeks. Yeah. So far. Five weeks. So far. He's acting a certain way. And he is that that way.

He said, like, he walks to talk. Talks to walk, walk, whatever. You know what I'm talking about. He does, he said he's going to do. Like, there is, it lines. But, but can you give me, like, smallest example to a big example? Smallest example, he says he's going to take Remy for a walk and he takes it for a walk. Yeah.

Yeah. Big example, he says he's going to, I don't know, never drive drunk and he doesn't drive drunk. You know what I mean? Yeah, no. He, okay, small example is he. will, like, he's like, I'm always here to support you to help, like, make your life easier. That's the purpose of, like, a partnership. And he's done that.

Like, he's, he saw I got really stressed and my house was kind of mess and it was really stressing me out. He just kind of started picking up. I didn't have to tell him. He just kind of started, like, helping me in ways that would ease my stress. And that has been consistent because I have a pretty high tense job sometimes. There's just a lot going on all the time. There's not a lot of, oh, I'm aware.

Yeah. Like, it's just what it is. And so some things get pushed to the side. And then I get stressed out as a whole thing. And like he has eased a lot of that stress that I have because I just felt like I was taking on the world in a way. I wasn't. But you know what that feeling's like. That's like a small one.

Big one is like him like reassuring me just like I'm here and I'm in this and I like I want this to work. And it's consistent and he's showing that through actions. Okay. Good examples. Good examples. Okay. You know when there's something that I remember that my wife and I... Wait, hold on.

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So when we were dating, I'll never forget, like, I had a problem with, I don't know, some friends or maybe my family. I think it was family. Family issues. And we were talking on the phone. And I wanted to talk about it. And I wanted her to kind of help me deal with it. And I remember specifically that, like, all I wanted was for her to tell me what I wanted to hear. You know, just tell me, like, that it's not me.

It's them. It's whatever. Like, they're wrong. you're right right that's all I wanted and she was like and it happened like five six different times where she was just like well do you ever think about like what they're going through like what is she like what's your mom thinking about like when she says this or like and it was always like no what about me you know and she was like no you're right too but like what about your dad or what about your friend that that what's he like why why is he so upset yeah and I was like this is so cool because like

she that to me meant she truly cared about the issue and whatever it was doing to me she knew that I would be better at resolving it if I understood the whole picture other than like yeah you're right like see because that to me like yeah you're right they're wrong screw them like they don't need you you're better than all of them like that that would just do nothing for me other than just like yeah it doesn't it it supports you sure but it doesn't challenge you and like a partner truly should challenge and support you yeah in both ways Yeah, she's not just like supporting me just to get a good version of me. What'd you like?

I love that. She wants the actual best for you, even if you can't see it. She's always been like that. She's always been like authentic, real. Like, I'm going to shoot you straight. You're kind of being an a hole. Like, you know what I mean? Like she's not scared of me.

She's never, she was never scared of how I was going to react towards something. She's just like, you ask me, I'm going to tell you how it is. And she wasn't mean about it. But to me, that was such a strong. indication that she really cared about me. Yeah. You know? So like that was really cool.

So when you look back on that now, is that like, oh yeah, that for sure played a role in the fact that like I didn't want to lose her? Probably. You know, I never thought about it again. But when I look back at it, yeah, it's little things like that where I'm thinking like, yeah, those were all little bricks in the wall. It is. It's like building a foundation. Every time you start dating somebody new, you're building the foundation for what that relationship is going to look like. Yeah. So at what point, like, how much longer are you going to kind of go before you?

Because I'm shocked. I'm a little shocked that like five weeks in, we're calling it five weeks. Yeah. Five weeks in, you're already feeling like this where I thought, I thought that maybe you would be a little more reserved and more protected. Oh, yeah. And standoffish because of what you've been through. Okay. So this is interesting to you say that because I am to him. Like he's definitely like, he's like, he's like. He's the more like, he doesn't have any walls up. I have all the walls. And they're still there. But that's also why I'm asking this question just to understand, whether it's him or, you know, later down.

Like, I don't think I've ever truly considered that question of like, well, why is it them? You know, you kind of look at people and you're like, okay, well, why them? Why did you choose them? How did this happen? But I don't think it's that simple, right? Like, I don't think it could have been someone else. I really do think it could have been someone else. You know, like, I could have easily told my wife, no, I'm not ready.

And then I would have dated someone else. And then I would have dated someone else after that. And then would have dated somewhere up that. And then maybe find someone else down the line. And my life would have been completely different. But at the same time, that's not what happened. It's not what happened. And I decided to, I don't think you're ever going to find anyone perfect.

Not that you're looking for anyone perfect. I think a lot of people try to find someone like example. When I got my foster kids and the caseworker came to my house, I said I want the easiest kid. No trauma. I want a baby. Boy, were you in for a written. I remember the caseworker is just like, okay, that'll never happen. But okay, I'll write all that down anyway.

But like, because that's what we want, right? I want, if I'm going to change, if I'm going to commit to something, I want to be easy. But marriage isn't easy. Being in a relationship isn't easy. No. Life isn't easy. Life is not easy. Yeah.

So like, if you like it, Morgan, if it feels right, if you trust him, I wouldn't. go that quick, right? Like, obviously five weeks is not a lot of time. But like, just be open. I know. And be open. And don't let your age even make it a factor. Don't make your age a factor. Don't think like, because like, you know, yes, there is pressure when you get older. We're just like, man, everyone's being taken. I'm going a lot of weddings. Everyone's got boyfriends. Everyone's married. And I'm not. Don't let that affect you. Like, that's not your life. That's not. And I don't, I don't think I would ever settle. I think I have been through enough experiences that settling is just not an option for me as far as like, you know, just dating somebody or marrying to get married. That will

never be me. I will tell you though, I think you are at a good age for dudes because at this point, how old are you? I'm 31. 31. Maybe you're not. Maybe you're not at that point. Well, he's older than me. How old is he? He's 34. I was going to say, I think, I think 35 is a perfect age for a man to finally realize that he's ready to settle down and be with someone for the rest of his life. Yeah. I mean, the age is also getting older for women, too, so it doesn't surprise me. Like, early middle 30s is becoming the normal age for people to actually get married. That's just what it is.

It used to not be, obviously, but. And you start looking at rec leagues and, like, bars and, like, what single people do. do when you start realizing like, all right, I'm kind of at the high, I'm at the older range of this. I don't belong here anymore. Yeah. Like, I belong maybe at home. And then that life of starting with like finding a house with someone and getting married and then like shopping for a child and getting a room ready for your first baby. All that is like, it's all, you know, planned for us.

It's all there for us. But like for guys, we don't even think of that until there's a certain point that hits where like all our friends are kind of gone and be like, hmm, maybe it's time for me to kind of do what they're doing too. Yeah. That is true. I mean, you're influenced by what's around you. Yeah. That's very true. So you're dating these younger guys and they're like, nah, man, I like her and I'm having fun with her.

You know, but what's crazy about age though, Eddie is like, I would date guys who are like 37, 38. And they would be more immature than the dudes are like 27. And I'm like, I don't. I, that's why I stopped. I was like, I don't know. You're right. And there is a, there's a, a personality. Mm-hmm.

It really depends on your experiences, what you've been through, where you're at in your life. Yeah. That really plays such a core part of that. But I will say 35, 34, 35 is kind of that age where, like, people start, guys start thinking differently. Yeah. And I don't, listen, I don't know. I don't, I don't have anything. I think my, my, my logic in my brain and my heart are playing two different fields right now.

I know. They're trying to catch up to each other. one way or another and that's because of what I've been through and try writing it out just try writing it out and not expecting too much and like if it's right it's right I know but I think what scares me Eddie is that it really could be and I think that it's not scary terrifies the living pee out of me that's what you want it is of course what I want and I'm not going to push it away don't get me wrong I'm not going to be like you know go let your trauma ruin that no no but there is this like there's like this little morgan inside of me who's just like oh my gosh what is

happening like yes you wait for a moment like this your entire life and hopefully it is that moment but then you're like oh this is this is also kind of scary and i wasn't prepared for the other side of that like i was prepared for it to happen yeah but not prepared for all the feelings that come around it yeah yeah and that's just where i'm at i just have lots of feelings do it you got this do it i needed i needed eddie the dad to come in i'm like that was a long time ago for me, but yeah. But still, but that's why I think the logic side of my brain is like coming to people and be like, okay, so how did you, because my

brain is trying to make sense of something that's really hard to make sense of. Are you asking a lot of people this question? No, you're my first one. Really? You don't ask your girlfriends or anything? No, it's different. We have different types of conversations. You have kind of like a biased but unbiased, right? Like, you just want to see me happy. I do.

But you're also going to like tell me the truth. And I don't know him. Yeah, and you haven't met him. I already met him. So, like, my friends on the other side are like, they really just want me to be happy no matter what. And they might just kind of be like, no, like push, like, do. I just need unbiased kind of leveling brain. It's all things happening. He's the dude that your friends kind of saw at a bar and would like go talk to him.

Oh, yeah. This is the in real life, like, played out. Like, stars had to align perfectly for us to meet happening in a lot of ways. Like when we talk about back to that night and we're like, we almost did not meet. I'm not going to speak for Bobby, Amy, and lunchbox. But I think there is an undertone of we're happy for you. But we'll see. Yeah.

Because, you know, it's kind of like, we'll see. Well, because I've been through so much. I know. I know. It is weird, too. I look at my life, Eddie, in my whole 20s. Imagine this. Like, you, my entire 20s have been on the show.

I was 23 years old when I joined this show. So my entire, like, adult. That's crazy. Like my experiences of dating in life have just been a part of this show. So people are like, oh, well, yeah, it's another one. I'm like, well, no crap. A normal person dates this much in their 20s. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, this is real life. It's just, I happen to share it. But there was kind of a time limit, right? Like, it was like a certain time when you would like, wouldn't know, am I going to talk about this on air? Yeah. Like, how serious am I with this guy?

Serious enough to talk about them on air? So there were a lot of them. We're just like, all right, seriously. This is serious enough for me to talk about it on air And then you'll be like, oh, Morgan's looks sad Has Morgan been crying? No. I think it's also because you guys are just like friends to me

And so it was like I was just We see each other every day. Well, yeah, and like having like somebody part of your life I'm not good at hiding things. I'm not good at lying. Like so if I'm having something really good happen to me, I can't like for four months sit there and be like This isn't happening in my life.

You're right. You're right. I think it's all of us, right? Yeah. It's kind of what's so cool about us, like in there. We all know when someone's going through something. Yeah. Even Bobby.

Well, I'll be like, well, something. Something's not right at home. Like good and bad. You can tell. Or like, yeah, he's in a good mood or I'm in a good mood or. So that's why I think so much of just when, how and what I share. It's changed so much every time. I got you.

It just depends on like how excited I am, how I feel, what's going through my body and the experiences I'm having. And I'm just trying to be as real and authentic as it as. I can. I'm happy for you and I hope that he's the one. Yeah. Then awesome. And if he's not, I'll be okay. Yeah, you'll be fine.

Yeah. And you'll be ready for the next one. Yeah. And maybe he'll be the right one. I have good feelings. Good. That's awesome. That's where we are right now, Eddie.

We were supposed to talk this long about it, but you like went dad row and then I was just like, we're just going to be on here for a one. I know, we're just going to talk about how I knew my wife was the one. Yeah, but I loved that story. Thank you. I love hearing about your wife and how you feel. and as a dad and when it's cool for me too because we don't I mean I don't think that much about that yeah we're telling you we're such in survivor mode every day of our life that like we don't talk about

um you know us meeting or like when I knew she was the one so that's cool I thank you for asking that that made me feel good good I'm glad you got to talk about it okay well we do have listener questions yes so we're gonna jump out of here go check out part three here in a little bit it'll go up but any thanks for being here tell the people where to follow you yeah producer ready all the things. See all the dad stuff. All the dad stuff. Although, I will say my 17-year-old son, he said that one of his buddies at school said,

your dad's Instagram, like, has aura. You have an aura? And I'm like, that's what I'm talking about. I don't know what that means, but I'm here for it. Okay, I will tell you. Well, my son kind of told me what it meant. Well, it could be good or bad. No, he says good.

Okay. He said a good order. It looks like you live a cool life. Okay. I was going to say, if he just had aura, then Ora. We might have to go a few different directions. Dude, this is like my life too when my kids talk to me. I'm like, I don't know what you're saying.

Yeah. Like, just tell me in regular language. I know. But that, we were the same way. So what's aura? Your aura is like your vibe. Yeah. Same, same, same. So when it has aura, it's got a vibe to it. It's got a vibe. But that's why I say like, it could be good or bad depending if he just said like, it's got an aura.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like if I was just flashing money and like had a ski mask on and like, okay, he's a criminal aura. Yeah. But I have a cool aura. Yeah, you guys have vibes. At producer Eddie. Yeah, go follow it.

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