Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique Letter On today’s lunch date episode, the crew is joined by guest blogger, K. Antoinette, and they read and analyze a Dear Nique letter. The writer is mourning the loss of a year and a half long toxic relationship. He admits to blocking her, and he also recognizes that leaving the relationship is better for him; unfortunately, he is struggling to cope with them no longer being together. He misses her, and he wants them to be...
Dec 02, 2020•47 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Friendship On today’s episode of RSP, the Black Golden Girls return for a second visit. The RSP crew asks the ladies questions about their 20-year friendship, and they each share how their communication styles aid them in remaining honest and transparent with each other. They even discuss their first Black Golden Girls episode and how they worked through a friendship issue right on the show. The ladies also discuss the importance of ho...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique Letter On today’s lunch date episode of RSP, before the crew gets into the Dear Nique letter, they briefly engage in a convo about Yusuf’s cooked crack, Nique’s next educational pursuit, Professor Tee’s disdain for buffets, and C.L.’s re-enactment of the “big-faced girl” comment. The Dear Nique writer shares that her 10-year cheating boyfriend is actually angry with her for finally leaving the relationship and their apartmen...
Nov 25, 2020•32 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Marriage & Dating Advice On today’s episode of Relationship Status Podcast, the crew is joined by Destiny, Brittany, Paige, and Yana, the cohosts of The Black Golden Girls Podcast, where they discuss relationship advice. Guest podcaster, Brittany, suggests that a person should get to know him/herself, and Paige says one should not bring prior problems in a new relationship. Yusuf says people should take their time, and Destiny chal...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique Letter On today’s lunch date episode, the crew discusses a Dear Nique letter from a lady who is seeking advice about whether or not she should ask her boyfriend for a 2-month break from their relationship. The writer claims she fears they’d both regret not having more partners prior to their marriage. C.L. explains that a woman who truly loves the man she’s with certainly doesn’t want to share him with other women. Yusuf say...
Nov 18, 2020•45 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Taking a break in relationships. On today’s episode of RSP, the crew discusses what it means to take a break in a relationship. They tackle the questions: what are the pros and cons of taking a break, do these breaks lead to closeness or distance, and what are legitimate reasons for taking a break? A popular opinion shared among the team is that a break is automatically understood to be a breakup, and the men certainly agree that havin...
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Relationship Direction This week’s lunch date episode is in honor of the 2020 presidential election results. The news came across their screens as the team was preparing to record their latest episode. They immediately decided they’d do a special lunch date episode to discuss the election results and share in this historic moment. The hosts pay homage to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and former president, Barrack Obama. They discuss Donald’...
Nov 11, 2020•20 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Mommy and Daddy Issues On today’s episode of RSP, Yusuf, Professor Tee, C.L. and Nique discuss mommy and daddy issues, and how, if left unresolved, those issues can impact the relationships you try to build with others. The ladies discuss the challenges they have faced conversing with men who are looking for a girlfriend to be a domestic replica of their mothers. The gentlemen believe men are likely to deal with women who have both mom...
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Relationship Direction On today’s mid-week episode, the team is joined by a faithful listener, Danielle Sutton. Danielle joins the team to discuss the topic, “What assets do men and women bring to a relationship?” C.L. starts the conversation by saying men bring comfortability. The women chime in and say that logic helps bring comfort to the relationship. Comparatively, Professor Tee points out that a woman’s emotions, although sometim...
Nov 04, 2020•44 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Relationship Direction On today’s episode of RSP, the team takes some time to share listener feedback. Comments about previously aired shows serve as a great segue into the conversation about relationship directions. Nique’s personal story leads to the question, “Should couples discuss and be able to answer the questions, ‘What are we doing, What is this called, and Where is this going’?” At the root, the team agrees that not knowing t...
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique On today’s lunch date episode, the crew reads a Dear Nique letter from a man who is reconsidering marrying his fiancé. He is uncomfortable with the changes she’s made since she began attending a particular church. Not only does she demonstrate a symbolic practice that our writer can’t understand, she also removed some spontaneity from their sex lives. C.L. thinks our writer is indeed “trippin,” and Yusuf suggests that maybe ...
Oct 28, 2020•53 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Relationships and Finances On today’s episode of RSP, the team discusses finances and how money issues affect relationships. “Should men with financial problems try to date, and “Is it deceptive if a spouse has a secret account?” These are two of several questions the team tackles. Nique says she would most definitely ask a man how much money he makes. Professor Tee shares how she allowed her ego to get in the way of admitting previous...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 24 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique On today’s midday episode of RSP, the crew responds to a Dear Nique letter. The writer wonders if she should be concerned about her boyfriend’s reaction to receiving a compliment from a gay man. She describes him as showing “rage,” towards this man, and she believes this to be a sign of homophobic behavior. While the crew agrees that the young man was out of line, the team is definitely divided. The gentlemen see no problem ...
Oct 21, 2020•58 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Relationship Boundaries On today’s episode of RSP, the crew is back together again, and they are discussing relationship boundaries. Should couples have conversations about their boundaries in specific areas, or should they just go with a flow and figure things out organically? The crew discusses four common areas that challenge boundaries in a relationship: personal time, family boundaries, social media and sex. How much ME time is to...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique On today’s episode of RSP, the crew discusses a Dear Nique letter. The writer admits to having a nonsexual affair with another woman, and he complains that since then, his wife continues to show signs that she doesn’t trust him. He questions whether or not she will ever see him for the good and not for his “mistake.” The team breaks the letter apart, and immediately points out two things: 1. Trust lost requires work in order...
Oct 14, 2020•42 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Non- physical Cheating On today’s episode of RSP, the crew discusses nonphysical cheating. Is it a thing, and if so, what does it look like? C.L. starts off by saying he has a dilemma. “Should I text my ex and send her a Happy Birthday text,” he asks the team. From there, they discuss all the ways people violate trust in a relationship. One example is object cheating—when a partner becomes obsessively interested in something outside of...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Listener Comments On this episode of Relationship status, the crew is joined by the host of the LBF Podcast K Antoinette "The Blogger", and they talk about the comments and reviews from the listening audience. CL admits to manifesting and delivering, Nique charges her crystals, and Yusuf reveals the bain of his existence. Yusuf and CL and Yusuf react to being called a chauvinist. A Black Golden Girl takes a CL, Yusuf feels dismissed, a...
Oct 07, 2020•35 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Friends and Relationships Pt. 2 On today’s episode of RSP, the team continues the conversation about friendship dynamics and how friends’ perspectives impact their friends’ romantic relationships. Can friends overshare information about their relationships? Are friends able to offer an unbiased perspective? Do our friends hold us accountable when we make poor decisions about our romantic relationships? Guest hostess, K. Antoinette, sug...
Oct 05, 2020•59 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique On today’s lunch date episode, the crew responds to a Dear Nique letter where the writer asks, “Will a ho phase help me regain my self-confidence?” The writer shares that she discovered her ex cheated multiple times and learning those details did not give her the closure she thought she needed. C.L. points out that the writer should not consume herself at all with why he cheated or how many times he cheated. He implies that ...
Sep 30, 2020•31 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Friends and Relationships On today’s episode of RSP, the crew is joined by podcaster and blogger, K. Antoinette, a returning guest hostess and a new friend to the show. Before digging deeper into the topic of friendship, the men adamantly reject Nique’s reference of their closeness as a “bromance.” They discuss the types of friends: acquaintances, close friends, and best friends and how each connection is different. Yusuf finds himself...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dating Difficulties On today’s lunch date episode, K. Antoinette, the Blogger, joins the team to extend the conversation about dating challenges. In response to C.L.’s point that women share too much too soon, the ladies remind him that dating feels like an interview and men come with a list of questions. Yusuf, however, says that a simple question about a turkey sandwich can quickly evolve into a deeper, more personal convo. The crew ...
Sep 23, 2020•44 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Difficulties in Dating On today’s episode of RSP, the crew is joined by K Antoinette the Blogger, founder of Let’s Build Futures, a service which provides mentoring and a space to have healthy dialogue on a variety of topics. Today’s conversation is about the common challenges millennials face when dating. Based on the generation cohorts’ birth years, Nique and K Antoinette would be considered millennials (Generation Y), while Professo...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique Letter On today’s lunch date episode, the team hosts their first ever live Dear Nique. Liz calls in to share her situation with the crew, in hopes of getting some advice. Currently, in her 5th month of pregnancy, Liz is appalled that her baby’s father not only thinks she’s a liar, but she also believes this once good man now shows signs of being a psychopath. Despite the two of them no longer being together, he pops up on he...
Sep 16, 2020•47 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Love Bombing On today’s episode of RSP, C.L. poses the question, “Have you ever been love-bombed?” A fairly new term, love-bombing is the practice of showering a person with excessive affection and attention in order to gain control, a behavior typically demonstrated by narcissists. During the conversation, Nique has a lightbulb moment. “This just happened to me,” she admits. C.L. is not surprised that she, or any of us, has been love-...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique Letter On this lunch date episode, two listeners join the show to share their insight on a Dear Nique letter from a writer who meets a seemingly chivalrous man in Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, he goes from chivalrous to frustrated within a 72-hour period. That frustration was demonstrated through him hanging up on the young lady after he didn’t get a response he expected or wanted. Guest listeners, Kelsie and Jenny, chime in to r...
Sep 09, 2020•45 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Communication On this week’s episode of RSP, the team is joined by podcaster and marriage/family counselor Katrina Bell and they talk about communication. C.L. asks Katrina for some advice for his friend L.C. They discuss the process that Katrina went through starting her podcast during the pandemic. They tackle the debate on whether an acknowledgment of "tone" is a way for a woman to change the momentum of the conversation. They talk ...
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 18 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique Letter On today’s lunch date episode, the team responds to a Dear Nique letter. The writer needs help deciding if she should follow her heart and give her ex-fiancé a second chance, despite his prior betrayal. While the RSP hosts all agree that the woman is likely making a huge mistake giving him another chance, they acknowledge the main issue is not even mentioned in the letter at all. After discussion and deliberation, Yus...
Sep 02, 2020•45 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: "Love" VS. "In Love" On this week’s episode of RSP, the team discusses “love” and “in love.” They tackle the perceived differences between the two, concluding that many people treat the term “in love” like it’s the greater goal. Often used, the phrase, “I love him/her, but I’m not in love” suggests that love is not enough. C.L. challenges the term, stating emphatically that it’s not even a thing, and he doesn’t believe in the term “in ...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Dear Nique Letter On today’s lunch date episode, the team discusses a listener’s letter to Nique. The writer states, “I have never had a successful relationship, as I’ve usually cheated or looked for something more (outside of my relationships). He mentions his father’s infidelities and wonders if it will take him just as long to get himself together as it took his dad. Should the writer focus on self-love and self-care before trying t...
Aug 26, 2020•40 min
Hosts: Nique Crews, C.L. Butler, Nateisha & Yusuf Topic: Getting to The Root In this episode of RSP, the team has a Black Table Talk moment, after Yusuf points out that one of our listeners thinks the men gang up on Nique. Professor Tee attempts to serve as a mediator as C.L. and Nique dissect their communication chemistry on the show. Meanwhile, Yusuf sits quietly during this segment, even though he is the one who brings up the issue. Later in the show, the ladies pick up with Part 2 of the...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 25 min
