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I was informed yesterday that, and I did not know this, but I was informed by my wife that we are separated.

Oh, it's hard to hear it.

Let me tell you this story. This is a good story. So Chelsea and I talked on the phone yesterday. Chelsea's down in Florida, and she's down there, and we have a great, great marriage going on right now, which knock on wood, maybe me bringing this up on the radio will probably hurt it or something. I don't know. But we have really good things going on right now. and she said to me she goes you want to hear a funny story and I said what's that she goes we're separated I go we're separated what are you talking about and she said I got a phone call from my friend and so her friend called her and said that a friend of hers called her and said did you hear that Mojo and Chelsea are separated and she goes no they're not separated I'm like one of Chelsea's best friends and she goes no they're separated I'm telling you they're separated and so she said well I don't think that that's true what you know what is making you think this well I was listening to their podcast and their podcast on there it's obvious they're separated and so Chelsea and I do this podcast called the we don't podcast we started this thing like a year or so ago and it's been kind of fun it's actually been therapy for our relationship because we talk about different things in our relationship but talk about others you know raising kids all that stuff and the last top or the last um yeah i guess topic the last show was about um people who are living apart together it's a trend that is going on right now with people who are kind of like in my age range like the 40 50 year old age range or going in second marriages where they'll get married to each other with the intention of being together but not being together they actually will have separate homes and we had friends of ours that did this years ago you should go listen to the podcast by the way i couldn't believe i looked at the numbers of this podcast for some reason i always think that the titles of things that zach posts for the titles are always what probably gets people to listen to them but it's actually a pretty good uh pretty good podcast we talked about friends of ours that started doing this years ago more than a decade ago and i thought these guys were insane i thought that they were gonna be failed you know in their relationship because they both decided that they were gonna get married but then decided they were gonna have either separate living arrangements or separate homes totally um so long story short let me go back to this so this lady um i was gonna say names but i'm not gonna say names so she said to chelsea this and i said to chelsea i go isn't that interesting she's so vested in this i said maybe she's got a

little thing for me that was your first talk and then chelsea said we're now officially separated

but but isn't that wild but it's it's all off of and i am listen i'm guilty of this yeah i'm a

headline reader you are yeah you are i read a headline you send me a story sometimes and you're like you you didn't do the story i'm like because you didn't read the story you read the headline

and it was a million percent clickbait yeah do you think it's like that old adage of distance makes the heart grow fonder it so i do think that we talk about that i mean my husband's been gone

for the past two weeks he's coming home tonight i'm so excited and i i feel like i have this this new like appreciation or i will have this new appreciation for him i'm so excited to see him like i just yeah i do think that there is an element when you are not around somebody all of the time and you're able to be independent and do your own thing but then when you come together

it's so much more special i don't think i'm built to be with somebody 24 7 like i it's just not in me. Do you guys ever watch Abbott Elementary? No. I believe Cheryl Lee Rolfe does this with her husband. I think they live apart from each other. And she loved it. I think it was her that I saw in the interview. I wish we could take this

approach with work. Imagine only working three days, but then when we come back the next three days, the show's so much better. Well, you have more to talk

about, right? I'm with you. Or maybe like every Friday. Yeah, that's right. I'd actually like to

just do that with you right now. I'll see you later. Bye.

Yeah, don't tell me twice.

So Chelsea and I have been kind of going in this direction a little bit. And it's not that we're living in separate homes, but she goes down and visits Joe all the time. And so when she goes down and visits Joe, and then Jacob too, she goes and sees him in Chicago. And she'll stay for lengths of time, and she'll be gone. And then it gets to a, like, in our relationship, we've been married, believe it or not, we've been married 30 years. That's incredible. I'm 54, Chelsea is 50. We've been married 30 years. so majority of our lives we have been together yeah that's scary it's scary for her I feel bad but we in all of our relationship even in the beginning we were kind of lovey-dovey with each other I think at least I think she doesn't think so but we never really said how much we missed each other and I have on and I'm being really honest with this I think that post-surgery that heart surgery I had yeah I think my mortality came into play where now I literally miss her every moment but I also like the idea that I can order a pizza you know what I mean like I like that idea too and you were talking about Wes you guys are newlyweds yeah I know you guys are very lovey-dovey but I'm also I get you guys probably get into each other's nerves a little bit right yes all the time you were worried about him leaving yes he leaves now he comes home you got all this like spark of you know the built up uh uh you know what stuff that happens to you when you have sex um and then three or four days from now you guys will be like back to but can i tell

you something too i think especially um you know for second marriages i have noticed that if you have gone through a relationship and then a breakup and you have spent that time by yourself like I did for several years and I grew really independent and I got to really like my alone time. And that is something that fills me up. I do think that it is important. And I think Wes would agree that we do spend some time apart from time to time. Like he has a new job now and he's going to have to travel like every other month. And he was like, do you think that's going to be okay? Are we okay with that? I'm like, I think it's great. I think it's a great idea for us to miss each other and for us to be able to get that time to focus on ourselves so we can recharge and be great when we are together again. And I know we've talked about this in the past and like

when you're dating or have a spouse and they won't share any of your interests with you, like say you're into the ballet and your guy just like won't go with you. Like I do feel like sometimes you need to bridge that gap and do things that you don't want to do, but I don't think that should be a constant. Like it is okay to do some things by yourself. It's really important.

it's not just okay it's very important right it is really healthy and that was something that i didn't understand when i was young and dumb you know uh christy what's going on

hi this is definitely exciting for me my first time calling i've been i listen every single morning on my way home from work to my fiance and our four kids um and i had texted because we never fight we i don't like being away from her during the week but it just works out better for me to help with the kids in the evenings yeah and like i get to stay home tonight and tomorrow and i wait all week for that i it's it's our time together and i always am extremely excited for it and she it feels the same way and as much as it's hard to be apart.

during the week every night it does make you know yeah nice that we have together better it's so

funny i i've seen you know early in my life people that would do long distance relationships and they'll be apart from each other and you always thought the negative but you never realized that it actually is a positive sometimes because it makes you more uh focused and more in in interested in your partner when you are together because otherwise it's routine i was gonna say it makes the time intentional routine is bad what's up olivia hi hi olivia she's eating her cereal is that what it is or she walking in snow olivia you know what it is bag what is she she's like she's got there she is hold on let's guess she's uh

how does this happen olivia like at what point did you forget that you called olivia all right i'll put her back to me please yes i love when lydia gets so mad i know because you just know she's gonna yell at her what's going on beth i hi i'm actually considering doing that now i got married three years ago but had to move from the east side to the west side so i still commute for work and then my kids still live on the east side and we've been trying to move and he's just not that motivated so i'm actually considering just getting my own place back on the east side for during the week so are

you doing it because you're upset with him or are you doing it because you because this this there's a little bit of thing that you have to think about you don't want to do it to spite him because you're upset with him because then if that's the case honestly i don't know if it's going to be a successful thing but i think that if you're doing it for proximity and you're doing it for your relationship to grow it stronger and because obviously you know it also helps during the week when you're working not having to do that long commute you know what i mean right right it's

kind of a little bit of both okay proximity and he's we had a we had a deal i moved out there while his daughter was still going to high school she graduated in 2023 and we are still on the west side and he's not like with the program so i'm like maybe i need to just go be on my own

program for a minute that's maybe that's one of those things can i tell you can i recommend something to you that's where you guys may want to go talk to somebody you may want to you know do some therapy before you decide that you're going to actually do move and then bring that

up with a therapist and i always a lot of creative things and i only say this because i think we've

been there done that and i think that then all of a sudden you you guys start getting uh bitter

towards each other you know yeah yeah it's already getting there on my side so well good

luck to you i appreciate you uh what's up barb how you doing i am well how are you good what's

going on well i uh first time long time um well i i find that absence makes the eyes wander rather than make the heart. Oh.

Interesting. Is this coming from experience?

Yes, when I was younger. Not now, of course, but when I was younger, when I was in long-distance relationships, or it just made your eyes wander.

Okay. But is it okay to have your eyes wander as long as you're not touching?

Well, yeah, that's true. That's true. I set you up for that one.

Oh, wait a second. And Barb, you do not sound like the type of lady that's out there getting yourself some strange penis.

She didn't say it was strange. Yeah, I did not. But it was when I was much younger.

She sounds like the nice neighbor next door.

She does.

She sounds like she knits.

It's like Barb. This is Barb on the phone with us.

But has a sex dungeon in her basement. Yeah, that knitting needle.

We're calling you Desiree. You've got to have a better name than Barb. What's up, Olivia? She's back. What's up, Olivia?

Hey.

Hi.

I got to hear the radio. Hold on, because it's going to be stupid. Hey, so, you know, I got divorced. I have kids that are younger, and I started dating this man. And, you know, we've been together for now four years. But two years in, I'm thinking, like, oh, no, we should move in together. But, you know, it was just too hard with the kids. And then I also thought at the same time, like, you know, when the kids are with their dad and he's at his own house, like, I really enjoy being by myself. What if I want to sit around and do a puzzle all night? you know it's like it's yeah at some point yeah i'm 47 he's 53 like you got your own stuff going on i work a lot you work a lot but when we are able to like convene it's fantastic so it's funny you do that now although i really want my bills to go down to halfway there you go that's right

i i do find it i do find it funny

Like, I used to notice, like, when Chelsea would see people, like, friends of hers, and she hadn't seen in a while, I'd see her light up. Like, I don't think she was lighting up for me. And I'm thinking to myself sometimes, now I see the light up sometimes when she sees me, you know? Like, when we get back together after having a little bit of a time apart from each other. Kim, what's up? It's Mojo in the morning.

Hi, good morning. I just want to say first time long. Wow. Kim's on the boat. Love it. so i have actually been with my boyfriend for about seven years um and we have never lived together um we lived in different cities here and there but i'm actually going after work today to sign a lease for an apartment that's literally across the hall from his oh my gosh that's wild

so instead of having a two-bedroom apartment where you guys each have your own room it's like friends you want to have your own yeah exactly you're rachel and uh and that's ross what's going on Why are you guys doing that?

Basically, it's basically that. It's, I like my things a certain way. He likes his things a certain way. And there was a point in our relationship, like you guys mentioned earlier, where our time together got really routine and that wasn't good for us. So this is definitely working out a lot better. You know what?

Whose apartment is going to be decorated nicer?

Oh, mine.

I'm interested to see how that works. Will you call us later and will you come on the air with us? and maybe even come on the podcast with Chelsea and I?

Yeah, sure.

I would love that. That would be awesome to hear because here you are. You're doing it intentional, but you're doing it intentional in the same apartment complex.

And they've been together for a long time, but the only thing that makes me nervous is if you separate and then you can hear them with other people. Well, let's not think that.

Well, okay. All right.

Yeah. Let's hope that that doesn't happen.

Is the show not jumping right to that conclusion? Come on.

Well, that's the thing that you don't want to do, And that's the part that you should go check it out. Living Apart Together is on our Mojo in the Morning We Don't podcast, and you can check it out on the iHeartRadio app.

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I would say Bishop State's like a home for people. It may not be like a four-year where you have a dorm, you have a roommate, you have a rec center, but it's still a place you can go meet new people, classmates, people in the hallway, make friends with advisors on all these teachers and everything like that. It's just a place you can feel like yourself and not try to be the thing you don't want to be. With this program, I learned networking a lot. We've had two dinners with heads of different companies dealing with shipping or even game design builds, dealing with AutoCAD or new 3D modeling. So really being able to meet new people or meet heads of new people has been really helpful. I don't come from a wealthy family, so four years were kind of not out the picture, but less probable for me to go to. Bishop State, with my scholarship, it cut my price in half and made it way easier for me to go to school for the same 12 credits I would go for a four-year.

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