I Do! Wait, You Don't?

Now this is like a dating scene or whatever, or if you want to just get dressed up and go out have fun with your home girls, take some drinks and ship. This is the place to get dressed up for. Like I said, five star restaurant. The ambiance is beautiful, nothing less than ballroom. Okay. Back to the couple across from us. Now we see them. They're into each other. They're like loving on each other. He's complimenting her and we're nosy, so we hear this. She's complimenting him back.

They're cute. I love it, little cute, beautiful black couple. Now she had on a beautiful gown It wasn't like, you know, giving Taylor Swift like stupid gowns. It was given like, oh, I'm a bad bitch. It was giving like adult prom like. It was very cute though it's very cute. He had on his nice little fitted suit. It was cute without the blazer though. It wasn't like giving church like, but it was given like very Kirk Franklin. Issh. Now, if y'all know anything about Kirk Franklin, y'all know what

that man can dress his ass off. I love it. So he had his nice little waves and she had her cute little weave. They were cute. He gets up, he goes to the bathroom. Now, I'm a very complimentative woman. I compliment any woman that looks good, even if she don't. It's nothing wrong with uplifting somebody. Even if you see a girl and maybe she ain't in tip top shape, tell her she's in tip top shape. Give her some motivation to go get in tip top shape. You know

what I'm saying. Whatever I go over to I tell her you look so fucking cute. You and your date look great as a whole. Blah blah blah. She's like, thank you, so much. She's like, you're Jess. I'm like, no, I'm Samantha. She's like you're lying. I'm like, okay, it's me. It's Jess. And so I walk away or whatever I tell her. She looks cute. He comes back, the exchange a few words. He never sat down. This man got on his knee and he pulled a ring out of his little man purse. Now, yes, he did have a

man purse. He did not walk in there with it like carrying it, you know what I'm saying over his shoulder, because that would look like tragically stupid. But he had a man purse. He pulled a ring box out of his man purse right, got on his knee. I'm talking about. He bent up that slippery earl. Now, if you don't know what a slippery earl is, you ain't black. It's a church sho But his was cute. It was like a cute little doch in gabana church shoe. He was.

He was very, very cute. He proposed to this beautiful girl. Me and my homegirl was so fucking happy. I'm talking about we were screaming like we was telling other tables alert them, like look y'all, look, pay attention to y'all. He about to propose to her. This is beautiful. So now the whole fucking restaurant just about is looking at them, and he goes, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, will you

marry me? Bitch? I like to just die. I pulled out my phone and we recorded everybody recording this ship and she said no. Yeah, she she said no to my man's and everybody immediately immediately stopped recording. It was not a moment for that. And um, it was very sad, i'm gonna say, because the whole restaurant got quiet. It was like silence. Not even a fucking cricket was present. It was even more awkward than if a cricket would be present there. Um, so I just started clapping. I

was like, well, great, maybe y'all are not ready. And he turned around and he noticed who I was, and he was like even more embarrassed because he had saw me recording. And I was like, I will never post this. I will never hurt your feelings or put your business out there like that. But here I am today talking about it on the podcast, which I think is more respectful than posting the video with with a guy proposing and a girl saying now, now listen, that's that story time.

All right, I got another story I'm gonna get too later, but this is what I want to talk to you all about. That brings me to my question, is it a dale breaker? Is the relationship over when the girl says no, or even the guy? But in this case, when the girl says no, is the relationship over? I don't think it should be for quite a few reasons. Now, y'all gonna ask me why I know this. Listen, I told you they were all over each other. They were

like loving on each other. Usually these days, you go out and you see people on dates, but they're in their phones. They're not looking at each other, they're not playing foot seas, they're not touching one another anymore than I looking into each other's eyes. They were doing all of that. Do you understand what I'm saying? They were still a beautiful couple, and I can tell that they have a lot of love for each other. No, I don't know them. I don't know her, don't know him.

From Adam and Eve. But I can tell they share a lot of love and a lot of similarities. However, they're not on the same page, or she wouldn't have said no. That does not mean she does not want to be with him. She even cried, she shed a tear, she did. But that is a woman who was sure of herself that she's not ready to take that step to get married. If I had more time, and if I had known her, I would have asked her, well,

why did you say no? Is it because he's not ready you you feel like he has more growing up to do, or you guys are not on the same page. Is there something that he just did? Is he just proposing to make ship right because he just cheated? I don't know, and I couldn't assume. But what I'm gonna say is the level of attention that they were giving each other, it doesn't lead me to believe that they

were over after that night. She just wasn't ready to get married, or maybe she wasn't ready to marry him because she didn't think he was ready. There could have been so many reasons why she didn't say yes. Maybe marriage is not in her future. A lot of people feel like they don't need to be married. A lot of people may feel like they don't need that contractual

agreement because marriage is a contract. Yes it is. It's something very sacred and it's beyond contracts, but illegally it's an agreement, and and you're buying it to a person, and a lot of people feel that that's not necessary to be together, you know what I'm saying. So she could have thought that way, but she could be cheating. Let's just say that she she just she couldn't know. She ain't ship and didn't want to take this man's hand in marriage because she still got some working on

herself to do. Also, it could be him. It could be he is just not ready. Now, listen, it takes a lot for a guy to get down on his knee and propose. It really does. So I'm not gonna say he wasn't ready. I can't say that maybe he's not ready to her. There are so many factors. It's so many. And when she shed that tear, she did tell him that she was sorry, and she took his hand and she told him to get up, you know, pulled him up, and she kissed him and she hugged

him he was piste off as a motherfucker. Let me tell you. He turned around when he saw me. He was like, yo, like he looks so defeated, Like, please don't post that. I'm like, I promise, sir, I will not. I will not. But y'all look so good, and I want to tell y'all, whatever y'all path is, y'all build that ship together, keep it straight. Nobody can take her away from you. I don't even know that. And can't

nobody take you away from her? I don't know you know what I'm saying, But those are my positive words to them, and they left. I don't even think he paid the fucking bill. He was so embarrassed. I said, Si, I should have paid it for him. But brings me to my next question and the carefully reckless discussion. When is the right time to ask someone to marry you? When is the right time to propose? Now? I know a lot of people go back and forth in their

minds or whatever. I don't think you should propose if you've never heard your partner talk about marriage. Ever, some people just don't have it in their future. Some people are just not there yet. Some people just don't even think of it. And this looks like a fairly young couple. Not saying it's it's bad to get married young. In some instances it very well is. But they looked younger than me. I'm twenty nine, you know I'm and I'm a hard twenty nine bitch. Sometimes I look thirty, sometimes

I look twenty two. Very seldomly do I look twenty two. But so what they look like they were like, but they carried themselves very very maturely. I don't think there's ever like there's ever a right time. I just think you just have to know there is going to be a thought in your mind, something that comes over you where you just know it's a feeling, you know what I'm saying, It's like a static that goes through you.

Has to be it has to be. Nobody is just going out buying rings and getting on their knees and proposing to bitches. Nobody's just doing that. He loved that girl, period, right, And if this has happened to you, taken to consideration in real time, there are issues that won't allow someone to say yes. But it does that mean a relationship is over? No? No, And then listen, you have to understand, a lot of people get married for the wrong reasons,

Like you know what I'm saying. Like I'm not saying everybody, but some people do. Like and I spoke about this briefly on another podcast episode, like I think it was like the fourth or fifth episode. I said, you know, people they get married for the look of it. You know what I'm saying. They get married because it's tradition or I just want to be a wife. People love

that label as a wife. You know what I'm saying when you haven't even learned yourself as an individual, but you're gonna jump into a marriage that could have been that girl's preservation that could have been heard like you know what, No, I don't even know myself. And when I say that you don't know yourself, you have to know yourself in and out before you are willing to walk down the aisle and become one with someone else.

Because if you know yourself, you know what you won't take, and then you have to know the other person because you'll know what they won't take. It's a very very big step. That's the biggest step in a relationship that I say that people take blindly. Look at Erica and Safari. I believe that they loved the hype. I believe she loved the hype of being married. She's always wanted it. She's beautiful. He is a beautiful guy too, very beautiful personality,

what have you. You know what I'm saying. But they hate each other now they have two children, or that's at least what they want us to believe. Whether it's fake or not, because you never know what's real anymore, but they can't stand each other on the show online and I don't know, I don't know what happens behind closed doors, but what they show us is they can't

stand each other. Two nights ago, Eric ameniz As was with fucking Natalie None at a fucking lounge talking about I'm saying, oh, throwing middle fingers up, whatever whatever, you still got two kids with this man, goofy, You still got two kids with this man. You can live? Yes, you can, you can live. Because that they were in the comments like, oh, she's speaking from a hurt place, and she gets upset when we tell her the truth. I think the only time she's she's ever accepted the

truth was from Wendy Williams. But we she hates that and I love Erica, I do, but I just feel like she's trying so hard to show him that she can move on to that it's reflecting on her poorly, very poorly. She's going through it and we know this, we know it. But baby, you're gonna be okay. You don't need to do all of that, you know what I'm saying. And she probably like, bitch minjo business I whatever, Bitch, No, you put it out there, so it's my business now,

you know what I'm saying. But you don't want to end up like that. So at times you can't just say yes, and when everything doesn't properly align, you don't

just say yes. Now, should she have done it differently with you know what I'm saying to you save him the embarrassment, you know what I'm saying, because that could scar him from ever doing that ship again if they do make it, which I think they will, you know what I'm saying, because they walked out holding hands still, you know, even though she led, he was very embarrassed,

like a scream for him. But do you think she should have said yes in the restaurant and then got in the car or got at home, like look, babe, I said yes, but I don't want to do it, you know, because a lot of people say yes to spare the God's feelings. You know a lot of people do that. Now, how would I have done it? I would have done it the same way depending on where

we were. Now, if we were around like his family or like my family, or you know, at a party where you know, he he invited people that I know and all that ship, I would have definitely told him no in front of them, just to save all the hype, just to save everybody's hopes getting up and ship, you know what I mean. Like, I definitely don't want to be the barrier of bad news, but I definitely don't want to say yes just to be nice. And people

are taking pictures. I told you we were recording that couple. If somebody records me, it's going up anyway. It's me ship, Why the funk Whitney record? And they're gonna be posting and I say no, that's gonna be the first thing on all the blogs. That is not what I want to do. I would never want to embarrass my partner, my boyfriend, my my man. I would never want to embarrass him like that. So I would definitely say, Babe, not yet, not yet or not yet not even no,

just not yet. Even if I don't plan to ever marry him, I'm gonna say not yet. That's still saving his feelings. But being as honest as you can without being disrespectful or being you know, being mean about it or coming off mean. You can come off very mean and not even be aware of that. You understand. So if this has ever ever happened to you, make sure you hit me up in the d M or the email and tell me about the time. Because I want to help people do this ship. There's no just fix

my mess today. I want to help you all privately. I don't want to try to help you all on the podcast. You know what I'm saying. Y'all think I make fun of everything, and I do, but I will gladly help. Like, do not leave somebody just because they said no to your proposal. It could be so many reasons. Now listen, second thing that happened to me this week? Hold up, Hold up, I know the ship getting good, but listen to just the couple seconds of a commercial.

If you love me, you'll listen. I'm dating I'm dating this guy. He's the only one I'm dating at this point. It's still in the end, the beginning stages, you know, and you know, we're months in and I kind of irritated him a little bit just with my selfishness. And sometimes you don't know that you're being selfish. Right, So he has this thing going on. I have my thing

going on. Right. He's forever supporting me. He knows my schedule before I even tell him, Like he knows where I'm going before I even tell him, because he's involved. He is very hands on with me. He pays attention to everything. He is a very attentive guy to me, and I love it. However, it's not that way vice versa. You know what I'm saying. And I was just out of town recently. I had to shoot a movie in Houston, produced by Jamie Fox and the Torry Turner. Congratulations to me, y'all, y'all, huh,

give me the applause, y'all. M much more coming to the screen now. I was on set all night, thirteen fourteen hours. Right back here at home, he had an event. Now, he's an event planner. He that's what he does. So I text him like eleven o'clock and they like, hey, are you home, just to see because I hadn't heard from him, you know, in a couple of hours. I'm like, okay, hey, you're home. You're good because he had checked on me. And then I noticed that he stopped texting me. So

I'm like, hey, you home, like you sleep? What's up? You know what I'm saying, keeping tabs, because that's just what you do. You keep tabs on your man when you know when you do that. He faced tim to me two hours later and he's like, you didn't know where I was? And I was like, no, I thought you were home. He was like, I had such and such to do. I had this. How did you not know that? And I was like I didn't know babies, Like how could you not know? Like it's like I'm

in your world. I'm only in your world. You have no regard for what I do. It's like you don't care about what I'm doing. But I always care about what you do. I always ask you, oh, how is your show? I always tell you before you show, you better go kill it. I know where you're gonna be, I know what's going on, which your schedule. I know everything about your schedule and what you do, but you don't know shit. You can't keep up with nothing that I do, and it's like you don't care, you have

no fucking regard. And I was like, for a second, who the funk you talking to? But then I had to realize, I'm like, this is very, very true, and sometimes you have to take a step back and you look and you have to see how selfish you are. I'm so spoiled, And yes, I can be very selfish. I'm a very very good person, sweetheart. But one thing I do, I do notice, and he brought it to my attention. I go to extra mouth for you. You don't do that for me. I'm in your world, so

you have to kind of collide worlds. You have to kind of like, look at it is give and take in fifty fifty I want How am I gonna expect this man to love and support everything I do when I don't even take the time too and it can literally take me ten seconds to learn his schedule or to you know, he he does this ship all the time. So it's like, y'all, I should know this stuff. You know what I'm saying, Especially if you're seriously dating somebody. Now,

if you're not funk, would they do? You know what I'm saying, if you're just getting a dick and you just you know by bone real quick and yeah, but serious dating, Yes, you have to be just as attentive to your partner as you want him to be to you. And that goes for the guys as well. And after that conversation we were able to move on. He didn't hold the grudge. He even said a little joke because I was in the chair getting my makeup done before I actually went to film on said film my scene.

He's very understanding. So that brings me back to the first topic. Marriage. Don't relate it to me right now. Yes, I want to get married, but that's not in my plans right now. Listen, right now, I'm just dating, so shut up. You have to know someone inside and out. You have to learn how to be selfless. You have to make a lot of sacrifices and compromise to get to that point where you say yes wholeheartedly when you're being proposed to. That goes for men and women. And

I want y'all to take that with y'all. If y'all didn't take anything else, you have to be mindful of the partner of who you are with, because if you jump into it, you're gonna jump right out of it. You're gonna wish you never did. And nobody wants to get married just to get divorced. So it doesn't mean it's over if she says no, and it doesn't mean it's over if he says no. I love you, guys, because I know y'all love me. Tune in next Wednesday,

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