The Best Of The Pick Up - The Most Unhinged Ways You Got Broken Up With

Published Jun 27, 2025, 10:00 PM

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  • Sabrina Carpenter has said she would consider 'phone-free' concerts in the future
  • What inappropriate thing did your kid say? (note for Michael: this is 2 breaks)
  • The most UNHINGED ways you've all been dumped (note for Michael: this is 2 breaks)
  • Laura Henshaw chats about how she found out she was pregnant
  • A woman has divided the internet over her 'tight-arse' kids birthday present
  • ASK UNCUT: Gabrielle has discovered that her husband is cheating on her, but is still torn on whether she should stay or go
  • The key to a long-lasting marriage has been revealed (and it's not passion)

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This episode was recorded on Cama ragle Land. Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life on Cut.

I'm Laura, I'm Brittany, and this is the pickup show. If this is the first episode of Life on Cut that you're listening to, this is actually our radio show, our national radio show that airs across the country every day of the.

Week, and we package up all the best bits here for you.

To listen to.

I had a great week, you did?

It was very fun?

Yes, you do?

I mean I got married, But that's not why. I meant some weeks on radio or funnier than others. Like, sometimes the world gives you the most amazing content, sometimes it doesn't. But this was a good week.

I mean, we had some pretty sentimental and serious stuff. Also, we had an ask gun cut this week as well. Her name was Gabrielle. We've included it in this show. It's probably the most serious live askun cut we've had. She's found out that her husband is cheating on her and that was do you know what briot?

Like?

For all the askun cuts that we normally do that don't usually happen in real time. You know, people, if you listen to the pod. A lot you would ask on Cut people right in we answer with the details that we have, But this was a very different one because Gabrielle called and we kind of had to unpack it live with her, and you want to give the type of advice that you would give to your best friend. But I really hope that she listens to that and she does.

Something about it. It was a hard one because she's living it now and it's complicated. She's been with in for like twenty thirty years, they've.

Got kids, got kids.

Yeah, it's and you know, I was trying to be probably more diplomatic than I wanted to be in all honesty, but you have to remember it's a real person with a real situation, going through real things.

Yeah, and it's also on live radio, so like the last thing you want to do is tell someone to leave their husband on live radio and really grow hard on them when they're clearly in a very emotionally difficult time. Yeah, but that is all coming up. Also, if any of you guys would like us to answer your ask gun Cut live on radio, Like, if you have something, it can be anything from trivial to something that's to do with your friendship to something whatever, whatever it is, you actually can remain anonymous.

Still, it'll be your voice.

Please write into either us at Life on cart just say that you're happy to do radio, or you can write to the pickup directly who has their own Instagram as well, and we can get you on the radio show and we can answer your questions live. But this week, on this week's show, I told a story about Marley, and I feel like any parent will relate to this. Marley said something that was innocent but totally inappropriate in context. And it's those moments where your kid says an inside thought that they just shouldn't say, and you want the whole world to swallow.

You up whole.

I feel like it's to ride a passage though, Like I don't know anyone who has a kid who hasn't done that, Like kid hasn't embarrassed them or that's how they learn. You know, they don't know what's right or wrong, and just sometimes it's more awkward than others.

It's also like sometimes kids are just so honest, Like there was this one person who wrote in on oh did a little call out box and this one person wrote in and so like they'll go on a camping trip. The mum had mentioned she didn't want the mother in law to come on this camping trip. The mother in law came over this one day and her daughter was like, I want you to come on the camping trip. She doesn't want you to come, and that was why she made up at this full elaborate lie about why she couldn't come. The kidsens straight out at it us, Yeah you sucked, Nana, like they just yeah, that's so cook.

Kids are the worst.

So I actually did a call out this week about a story as well, and the responses I got were I shouldn't say brilliant and funny, but they were brilliant and funny. We can only laugh about them because it's in hindsight. But it was like, what's the most unhinged way you've been broken up with or you found out your partner had moved on? And I say that because we didn't want normal breakups. It's off the back of Eric Dane, who's like a famous actor. He was mixed seemy. He was in euphoria, but he his girlfriend found out that they were no longer together in a really unusual way. So it got us. We unpack it but it got us thinking, how did you guys get broken up with One person reading and said they got home like they lived on a property and there was a padlock that had been put on the gate at the start of the property that said do not enter marriage over.

You can't do that when it's like my last.

To be clear, I'm laughing from shock.

It's no laughing at you.

That's not it's not funny.

But I can't believe people do this.

I would say that if you were like in a situation where like you find out you've been cheated or something like that, like getting the locks changed, probably isn't as uncommon as what we might think it is, Like that's when you get those big retaliations. Anyway, guys, we unpack it all. I haven't listen to the show.

Hey, Laura, question, if you were to go and see like one of your favorite artists, but they said you weren't allowed to bring your phone, how would you feel? Would it bother you? Would it put you off going? How are they going to police it?

Is my question?

Okay, well I have that answer. So this is actually happening at the moment. Sabrina Carpenter has come out. She went to a concert herself in Las Vegas to see Silk Sonics, and part of that gig was the fact that you weren't allowed to take phones, so you had to put your phone away. It was like a no phone gig. She said, she's never had a better experience at a concert. She was loving it. Everyone was dancing, engaging. That was like they were back in the seventies. And she's saying, well, maybe maybe I'm gonna consider no phones at one of my future concerts.

I mean, I understand the debate for it. I get it, like it must be annoying being on stage and everyone's actually just watching you and not really watching you.

They're watching you through a phone.

But I also think that there's there's positives to it too. I mean, she's not any one of that thinks this, Like multiple people have come out in the past. John Mayer, Billie Eilish have a listened to Billy's comment.

All I ask is that we all try to live in the moment, and a lot of the time I'll say, put your phones away. But if you want a film, that's okay, just put it next to your face. You know what I'm saying, Look at me in my eyes, be here because this is the only moment we get to be in this moment, and like we're never going to be right here this second, on this day and this age ever again, this is the only only moment we ever get ever ever.

I do like it.

Just before Laura you said, well, I could be doing a pooh, and Lauria's like, I could be all the toilet doing a poo when it will be the last moment I get to do that.

Okay.

I love Billie Eilish, but that's one of those you have to be their moments to really feel the magnitude of it. Because when someone's like, ye's the only moment we're going to be here, like that can be said about every second of your life. You could you could apply that logic to sitting on the toilet doing a pooge, like we can't. Okay, I have multiple feelings about this, but I.

Give me one feeling.

We don't have time for multiple uncertainty.

I think it's too hard to police. And my biggest issue with it is like it's okay to say, oh, look, you know, no phones or put your phones down, so then people like socially police each other. So if someone has their phone out, it's been like put your phone away. But I don't think that you could like stop people from bringing a phone into a venue for a massive concert. Imagine how long those lines would be.

They're already too.

Long, Laura, there is something called a secure pouch. What's it called Grace. It's a Yonder p that's a Yonder pouch, and this is like a female feminine product, Yes, pouch. So they've got these pouches where I'm imagining it's a secure patch. They can only be like it's locked. It can only be opened in certain parts of the venue. So maybe it's like the bar, or it's the entrance or toilet or whatever it is. But I'm imagining people line up and when you're scanning your tickets, you get a Yonder pouch. They watch you lock your phone in it, and then everyone knows you can't open it until you go back to this area. So you've got your phone on you, but it's not allowed to be used. I don't know. I'm sort of like, I sort of think it's cool. I understand why artists would say, hey, guys, surprisingly we don't want to stare at your phone. Like eighty thousand phones just looking at us. We'd love to be engaging with you and seeing your reaction. Are you enjoying it? Like, are you vibing it being the moment? But I also understand where we live in a day and age where that's also helping promote that artist totally.

And I think like you've got to be in a pretty privileged position to say, oh, I don't need the promotion of people and their instagrams.

Like Sabrina Carpenter can say that, Yeah.

Like most artists need their audience sharing it and like you know, promoting it across socials and all that sks of stuff to be able to sell out venues or to get more eyes on the products that they're create.

I don't know.

I mean, I remember this is not a new debate. I remember it was very very obsessed with John Mayer back in about twenty thirteen, and he came out saying that constitutor is different now. He's like, I don't feel as though people are enjoying them when they're at my concerts. And then I go on social media to see how many people have shared it and what they've said about it to actually get a gauge because people are watching me perform through a phone.

Well, he actually said, funnily enough, I've got his quote here.

Thanks.

People aren't going crazy, And I think to myself, I'm not playing a very good show, am I? And then I look out into the audience and they are going crazy, but not for me. They're applauding into the phone. So that sends back to like, it must feel really hard. Imagine how insecure they are. It's like the John Mayer who was huge, and he's still on stage being like, oh god, these guys aren't enjoying this, Like no one's laughing, clapping, cheering, celebrating. They're just looking into their screen.

Yeah, but the question is who's having a bad time? Like is the audience still having a good time or is it.

Just because of the person on That's what he doesn't know.

Okay, but there is nothing worse than if you're in the standing area and some idiot and if you has their phone out and you can't see over it and you're watching the person on stage through their phone, because that's all you can see.

That's why I see it.

It is better Yep, YONDI pouch here we come now.

I want to know for all the parents out there give us a call. We are asking what is the inappropriate thing that your kids said? They said it out loud, other people heard it, and you just wish they hadn't because you know, in how that old adage like kids will say the dundest things. Sometimes it's cute and sometimes you're just like, wow, I've really fail as a parent.

I think it's a.

Rite, a passage. I think that you can't escape it as a parent. Like at some stage, every child has going to embarrass you with something they say.

Well, my daughter, Marley May, she just turned six, she had a birthday last week, and I you know, six is kind of at that age where you start to come out of it. They've got a little bit more social awareness. They know right from wrong, a little bit more. I would expect these things from my four year old, but not from my six year old.

So no, I'm sorry. Six year olds don't get a pass They know better.

Do they?

She's a kindie. The thing is is she does know better. And some some times they don't say things meaning for it to be super offensive, but they just say a matter of fact thing. It's a statement they've observed something they don't understand that maybe that might hurt someone's feeling, and.

They just say it.

Also, I say, they know better. I don't even know what she said yet, so let me judge. I'll judge her after the fact.

All right, well, you guys can all judge her now. So our really really good family friend. She also works for us at Life on Cut. She's been in my life.

Her name is Nest.

She's been in my life like the last to twelve years, and she is a huge dog lover.

And she's actually the reason why I.

Ended up adopting my dog Buster, because she was fostering him at the time. Now, her and her wife, they were home a beautiful dog named Juni, and Juni has been a huge part of their family. And you know, they've been through big transitions, They've had little kids themselves, and you know, Junie's been there whilst their family has grown. And recently she had an accident and they had to make the really hard decision of putting their dog down. And anyone who's been through that when their dog, when your dog is a family member, it is devastating, absolutely devastating.

Also because their dog was so young and it was unexpected.

Yeah, absolutely, and now look the other weekend, it was like a situation where they were having friends over. Anyone who was really close to Juni and our girls are.

It was the wake.

Yeah, well no, it wasn't awake because it.

Was a pre It was before that actually had Junie put down so everyone could say they're goodbyes, and Junia had this beautiful day and I sort of said, look, I don't know if my kids are at an age where this will go down.

Well, they're really turbo.

I was like, everyone's quine, kind of solemn and having nice time, and she probably needs.

A bit of calm. I was like, I don't think my.

Kids are right for this, and they were like, no, no, no, bring them along, and I was like, no, it's really I just don't think it's right anyway, So I didn't go on the day, and we went over for dinner a couple of days later, and we were there.

Just you know, have a carug and.

Show our support, and Matt and I went over, brought the kids and we picked up dinner and we all had dinner together and it was a really lovely night. And of course on the drive over there, I had to explain to the girls what had happened and why Junie wasn't there anymore.

And you could see mar Ali and Lola.

Were processing and they've experienced death in our family, like their grandparents have passed away, and so they no one understand that that means that that personal thing is not here anymore.

And so we had a lovely night. I had a lovely dinner.

But anyway, the next day sent a nice message to my friend and I was like, oh, you know, it was really nice to see you. I hope that you hope that you guys are feeling okay and she said, yeah, yeah, we were feeling great. That was until Marley pointed out one of the dog toys and said, why have you got that? Your dog's dead. You don't need that anymore, point blank, sent her in a text message to me and I was like, sorry, she did not, and she was like, hey, yeah she did. Actually, in fact, she pointed out several things that the dog had that were around the house and told us that.

It's not needed to be fair, it's not why have you got a dog bed?

Your dog's dead.

But she didn't say it in front of me, or I would have corrected her. She said it behind my baby, you don't correct her because it's right.

What she said is right.

Maybe she seems to understand that it was like more gentle way, it's wrong.

That's the problem.

It is true, like, yes, it's factual, but wrongly.

So then I did feel like at six, it's pretty old. No, six is pretty mature.

Do you know what she was hangering for?

Do you know what it was? And I figured it out. She wanted to she wanted to take the dog toy home.

She liked it, and she was like, you don't need that. Guess who does.

I'll take it off I'll take it off your heads. Well, yeah, so not long ago, it's like two weeks ago. At my wedding. Yeah, Marley did something.

Yes, my wife and I got to hang out with your lovely children, who are delightful.

Dear you dare they're not even here to defend themselves.

And we were sitting there and Marley looks at my wife Diana and goes.

She your grandma, And I was like.

No, this is my wife. We're married, and she was like, hmm, okay, is that it?

That was it?

Like we have six years between us.

It's not exactly, well, there's an age gap. Right there.

Six years is a long time.

She's only been alive for six years.

The poor kid, it was that woman is as old. She's like a whole six years old.

It could be your mom, could be grandma grandma?

Is that your grandmother's story?

Story?

And also how did Diana react to this? She told Molly that I was her daughter, so she really leant into it.

I like that.

You really just cause like some more confusion to try and fix that problem.

We weren't even going to bring it up. But it was just too when you it was too much.

Bless her. Oh my god. I hope my kids are not listening to this anyway. I hope they're at school. We got bad now, three.

O'clock, they're finished. They got picked up half.

An hour ago. What my kids get to school these days? Three o'clock, babe, it's got no idea.

Well, I'm sorry that we school, honey. We work on the pick up. That's when people are picking their children up from school.

That's the whole point.

I thought thirty All right, we got Beth on the line, Hi, Bed, what was the interappropriate thing your kids said?

So my daughter would have been maybe three and a half. I'm sitting on the toilet in all my glory. She wanders in, looks me dead in the eyes and says, mummy, why does your mom have a beard? And then I had to proceed to explain to her, honey, it's not a beard. Tell her all about it. And then I'm made sure to tell her wait till your older darling, your bum's gonna have a bed too, well.

You like, because I'm breaking down the stereotypes, and I'm like, you know.

Embracing women have air too. God, damn it, we're giving her a past. She's three. I'm allowing that one.

Oh dear, all right, thanks that, Beth Kara. What did your kids say that you wish they hadn't?

So when I take my daughter into the public toilets after she's been and it's my turn, she'll say, very loudly, are you.

Doing a pooh mum?

Oh yeah yeah, I'm like, oh my god, it's so embarrassing.

It's worse when they start to describe the smell of it as well.

Because you've kept them like logic, they'll do it in mine.

Other thing is is like I'm doing a weei.

But she still has to ask you, so loudly in front of everybody.

How do you respond?

How do you because you've got to have then have a conversation, and you know everyone in the store next door is having a giggle about it.

You say, we don't talk.

Usually, I go, it's doing away.

Be you quiet, And then you hear the person next door giggling.

I know, I know she's entertaining, that's for sure.

Thanks car Amy. What did your kids say that you wish they hadn't?

Oh?

Yeah, So my daughter, coming from a red eyed flight into Australia from Malaysia, decided to tell her customs officer that her dad had a big willie. Why don't know? We don't know. And it was more alarming for me because I was like, that's something I've never said, Like, where does she get that?

How does she know what that is?

The customs?

Are you importing anything? Well, my dad's got a big willy.

My husband was stoked. You could imagine the customers officers that have very limited personality were started cracking up laughing. So she's now eleven and never lives.

It down for she at the time, did you say.

She was two and a half.

Oh my god, that is absolutely gold.

But also you do question why does a two year old have any clue?

And I could just I was like, this is what did she typicallyk I run around in our home telling my husband he's got to be willing all the time.

You like, hey, if you guys want to use that on that TV show board of security that put me on your ads.

That's okay. He thought it's the best thing ever.

So so that that's cold. But also like, this is not something that is unfamiliar to any parent. I feel like that this is just a rite of passage when it comes to parenting. You've just got to figure out how to navigate these situations the best you can.

Now, Laura, I want you to dig deep into your past. Have you ever been broken up with in like a really messed up, unhinged way, or did you break up.

With someone who No, because I dated a lot of men who cheated on me and stuff, and I just state so like they probably.

Tried to break up.

They're like it's over. You're like, that's not.

Christ I prove it. I'm still here.

Why am I in your bed there? Why? I mean you'll come.

I don't think I've been broken up within.

I haven't broken up with it in an unhinged way. I've just stayed in unhinged relationships for a really long time.

All right, minor technicality, a little bit different. So Eric Dane, and before you ask you, that is because I know you won't know, Laura, But that's mc steamy from Gray's Anatomy explained it to me, the really hot doctor. And for like our younger listeners that have no idea what Grey's Anatomy or mxed Steamy is, he's the dad out of Euphoria. So everyone knows Euphoria.

Yeah, I do actually know who this guy is, so like, I appreciate that.

Okay, thank you.

So he there's this story going around at the at the moment, and I want to say allegedly. So Eric Dane has been dating allegedly his girlfriend Priya Jane. So Dane and Jane, that's how we're gonna call them. They were properly together, right, She was a huge part of his family. They spent the weekend together and then Eric Dane had to go to one of his own premiers, so she didn't go. He's gone to the premiere she's watching where she sees him photographed on the red carpet with a new woman, Janelle Shirtcliffe. So she's just like at home, sees her partner in photos and on the red carpet debuting a new relationship. Okay, I'm sorry, but if your partner is going to the premiere of their own show and you weren't invited, surely that's a red flag that they're not with you anymore. I mean I have questions. I do have questions because maybe he said no, Maybe he said, like, you know, partner's not invited, like it's a Christmas party, like they couldn't pay for pote.

I think this screams of he's tried to break up with her and she didn't take the clue, because like maybe he didn't do it as direct enough.

But if it's weird.

That she's watching on his premiere and she had no clue and he just ropped up.

I mean they have matching tattoos, which means it's pretty serious.

But they imagine if she just got the tattoo to match his, he already had it, and she's like, he's like, this is had together.

We are Look.

I think if this is true, I mean, this man is fifty two years old.

To me, that just screams spineless, like if you can't break up.

With someone, and the way that you do it is by just like appearing with your new girlfriend.

Hope they get the hint.

That seems like a really really spineless way to manage you break up totally.

She did say that he never actually broke up with her, but give us a call. It got me thinking, there must be some unhinged ways you've been broken up with. I remember I was seeing this guy, same kind of thing. I think, like where you were basically together without it officially being together. I don't know that was my situation. We were properly together, we weren't seeing other people. It's like we've met each others.

Found how long had you been dating for on and off for three years? Okay it's a long time.

Yeah, But it was never like one hundred percent exclusive, do you know what I mean. It's like the assumption was there we did everything together, but it wasn't anyway. It was at his thirtieth birthday and I had helped him with like planning of stuff. I was there taking photos of the night, his family there as a family friend event, and I'll never forget it. I was literally had the camera, his family's camera, and I was taking photos of everyone across the dance floor. And you thought you were his girlfriend at the time. Yeah, so at his birthday yep. And then across the dance floor, I looked over and he looked at me directly in the eye, locked eyes, and then made out with a girl in front of me. She did not she did, swear on my life.

I'm speechless. I am literally speechless. How old was this man?

He was his thirtieth If you looked sorry, I just had plagued because I honestly.

I can't believe it.

Yeah.

And then I was like never, it was a big thing. I said, never call me again, don't contact me, and I unfollowed him on Instagram. It was a whole thing.

I moved over.

Yeah, I moved overseas, brought a one way ticket, and then it went on for years. He followed me around. He was like, I made a mistake. I love you.

Oh that's New York guy.

Yeah.

Oh nah, you didn't tell me that part of that story.

That is absolutely shocked.

I was like, guess this means we're not together. He was like mackiing on with someone else at his birthday.

I think like definitely, people have like found out from their friends. Like I have a girlfriend who found out that her partner was broke had broken up with her because he'd already told his mate that he was breaking up with her or had broken up, but it just hadn't filtered to her yet. So he his mate was like, oh, I'm so sorry about you, and Shamyer and it wasn't.

His name's not Damien.

He was like, I'm so sorry about you and Damien like, you know, I hope you're okay, and she was like, what are you talking about. That's how she found out through the friend anyway, shocking, but we do have I mean producer Grace here. She has a very own tail as to how she got hectically dumbed.

Speaking of fishy, I was dating this guy when I was a teenager, like eighteen nineteen, so adult, so serious. Yeah, it was very serious. We're dating for like four months. I'd met his parents. I met mine.

Nineteen and four months deep and meeting the parents.

That is serious, thank you. It is serious. Anyway, we decided to go on a date to the aquarium.

That's not so serious.

He just didn't turn up and I never heard from him again.

Wait, you've never spoken to the guys.

And he messaged me drunk once like four years later for what, just being like, hey heard you got into.

Radio, say sorry about the aquarium. I know he never mentioned that. But one thing to go someone? Right, you haven't turned up for a date, but you can't just never see them again.

Literally.

I was replying being like, hey, are you alive? Did I do something?

What's going on?

And he just never But if you were dating for four months and you'd met his family, why didn't you go to his house?

Or you just like oka scaredy cat? So you just you just a message his dad.

You're just too good. You just get better and better. Hey, we've got Courtney on the lines.

So Courtney, will.

We'll circle back to your grace. There's a lot to unpacking your story, Courtney. What was the unhinged way you got dumped?

I received a Facebook invite to his going away party announcing that he was moving into state.

Oh my goodness, and you obviously weren't moving with him.

Did you go to the party?

Yeah?

Why was my revenge?

Though?

You stole showed him Courtney, he couldn't see in the dark.

This is the gift that keeps on giving. I mean, like there's other ways you could enact revenge. I feel like that is the that is the most g rated version of it. But I'm you sure showed him.

Thanks Courtney, Emily.

What was the unhinged way you got dumped?

My sister sent it to me on Instagram, but he'd already blocked me, and so she sent me the screenshot of him getting engaged. What yep?

And you what how long are you together for?

We were together on and off for five years? Yeah, so quite on and off, so you know, just like two and a half years together. Then I had six months off and then came back together and yees, So I couldn't see the engagement and helpment he pullopped me. So my sister screenshot it and sent it to me.

Wait, so you okay, you were still dating?

What did you do? Did you contact the other girl?

Because clearly he was living a separate life at the same time.

I have sent her a message, so I've got to give credit where credits due. He planned it all out very well, so like we were texting and stuff, and then yeah, the day of the announcement, he'd blotched my phone number blocks me on everything, and yeah, I think just hoping to never run into me again.

We never have the other.

I sent her a message and she never responded. I've seen that she's saying it and I know they're married.

Now, Wow, that is Oh god, I feel sorry for her.

That's a real shame that was to end on.

Because she could have You don't know, she could have known, or she does know now Emily told her and she no.

I still feel like that's one of those situations. If that guy's that good at lying, he's probably.

Led his way out of that situation as well.

You know you're gonna you're gonna believe you over some random chicky messages you're on Instagram.

That's not true. I was that exact person. I was marrying someone who's marrying someone else. Simultaneously, I reached out to her. We both dumped his ass. Yeah, we don't have trying to get into it. So like that bar Rah Buttle, Oh well, I'm praying for some some good love to come your way. Emily.

Oh, thank you. I mean, I mean, I love myself.

It's really like that's all that matters. I'm so excited for our guests on the show today Laura Henshaw. She's one half of the Absolute Empire that is Kick, which she hosts alongside and has started alongside Steph Clear Smith. So we're talking like podcasting, fitness apps, they've got food, they've got so much in it. They're absolute juggernauts in the space. But we're not talking to Laura Henshaw about that today. We're talking to Laura Henshaw today because she has just announced she is in her second trimester of pregnancy. Now that might seem like everyone's like, Okay, cool, she's having a baby. But I think what's interesting about this is last year Laura released a mini series like a podcast series, titled Do I Want Kids? Because she's always been on the cusp of trying to decide what is right for her and she wanted to put out the pressures that people experience when they are trying to make this big, life changing decision. And I related heavily to that because I've always been in the same space. Obviously, Laura has made the decision to have kids. It's on the show today. Welcome Laura, and congratulations.

Hello, Thank you so much.

Laura. Now that here are coming out of the trenches of the first trimester.

How are you feeling.

Much much better now?

The first trimester, I think as well, because you don't tell that many people, and also like it's obviously so early, the embryo is tiny. I felt so sick, and I also felt quite depressed, yes, which was it was a lot, a lot to take in, and I'd spoke to some friends about it and they kind of said, oh, I didn't feel that, and I was like, oh, my goodness, is something wrong with me? But anyway, now I'm out of the first trimester, I'm feeling alive again.

I mean, you never know as well, because like, obviously your hormones are going crazy, But do you do you wonder whether or had you guys made the decision. Were you like, yes, we're trying for kids, or were you still at a point where you were kind of fluctuating between this yes and no feeling inside you?

So we had made the decision we wanted to have kids, but we were not trying.

It's interesting there's seen.

A lot of conversation online about this, but you know, if I was having sex, therefore I was trying to have a child. Like people can, you know, say whatever they want to say and make judgment on that, but we weren't trying at the time, Like I was training for the London Marathon. I was literally like four weeks.

Out from that.

We had thought I had a laproscopy books in on the fifteenth of May, thinking that we had to like in demetriosis looking at that and kind of exploring a few other things. So we definitely were not Yes, we were not trying at the time, so it was a very big surprise, but we had decided we did want.

To have kids.

What has the conversation been like off the back of doing a podcast series and been so openly vocal about the fact that you are unsure and then coming out saying you're pregnant because I can imagine. I mean, I've seen a little bit of discourse around it, which is a shame. But what do you want to say to those people, because I feel like people are making it sound like once you've made a decision, you're not allowed to change your mind.

Yes, that's exactly exactly right, And I feel like both of you would relate to this so much. And it's not just with having kids on it having kids that there's so many other decisions. But it's been really interesting, And I didn't expect a lot of people to listen to the whole podcast series, but a lot of people, I think, saw a few snippets and thought, oh, you don't want to have kids. So a lot of the commentary has been, as you said, kind of saying, oh, like, didn't you not want to have kids five minutes ago? But I think while I didn't, we didn't change our mind, like we actually just genuinely didn't know when we made the decision that we did want to. I think my biggest response to that is just that if we had changed our mind about a decision that is life altering for us and affects no one outside of myself and my husband, it is completely okay for us totally change our minds.

Yeah, but you know, I mean, the biggest thing I've learned throughout my motherhood experience is that the people who are going to judge are going to judge anyway. The people who are going to have opinions on it are going to have opinions. And I think the reality is unless you kind of go into motherhood as this sacrificial land where your kids are every single thing that you've ever wanted and nothing else matters. There's always going to be some criticism, whether that's because you're a working mum or because you're still running businesses or you know, it's the juggle, and the pressure on mums to do it perfectly is so much greater than the pressure on dark But.

It's interesting that people have a go at you for taking your time to do your due diligence and work out what you really want. Because if there's anything that you need to work out, if it's a yes or a no, it's having a life altering decision like having a child.

Oh one hundred percent, I think the other thing is And it was really interesting and exploring the mini series last year, a lot of women said this to me, and I think it was really.

Awesome that they were honest.

They said that they at the start really didn't like that I was doing this podcast series because they didn't feel like they could make the choice for themselves. They felt, we know, there's so much like we live in a pernatal society. There is so much pressure on women like as our well, I don't believe it's our purpose in society, but it is definitely a part of the kind of patriarchal belief system that we as women should bear children, and so a lot of women haven't felt like they could actually think about it and make that decision for themselves. And so I think as well, sometimes when we see someone like actually thinking about it, that can be a way that we reaction.

I totally understand that.

Well, I also think, I mean, for whatever reason, and it's obviously so deeply wrong, but there's a selfishness that's linked to it. We assume that if you don't want to have kids, then there must be something about the life that you want to live that's inherently selfish. And it's just those two could not be further from the truth. But Laura, I saw something that you posted the other day, or it might have even been yesterday, and it was around when you, I mean, every influencer posts like the happy being on that you know, clear blue stick and the two double lines and crying, and it's all kind of like the same moment of happiness and joy, and I resonated so much to what you posted. You shared the moment that you've discovered you were pregnant and your husband, Dalton was in the shower, and it was just a very real moment that wasn't wrapped up in the absolute joy.

It was wrapped up in more.

I guess, shock and surprise and processing.

What was that like for you guys?

Oh yeah, and I mean thank you for saying that. I mean, the funniest thing. I didn't even think about it, but everyone was like, why did your husband not get out of the shower?

I was.

Also processing, yes.

But that's right, and I think that's the thing.

I was like, we didn't have I can't actually remember if we even hugged that day, like I'm sure we did at some point, but it was in this beautiful emotional embrace. And it's really interesting that thinking about that moment of finding out if like that we were pregnant was actually a part of the reason that I thought that maybe I was undeserving of having children or I shouldn't because I didn't think I was going to be emotional. And I'm really glad that I realized that that's no reason to decide to or not have kids. But the thing is, like, for me, when I was shocked, I was in absolute shock. As I said, we weren't trying. Even if we were trying, I think it is always going to be a shock, right, and you're not necessarily going to respond.

In the way that you see online.

And it's been it's been really interesting, very much the same as your story. So many people broke to me and said, oh my goodness. I've always felt like something was wrong with me because I didn't cry when I found out. But I'm so happy and I loved my child, but I didn't.

I didn't feel emotional.

You know, Laura.

I mean, there's one reaction, which is shock. When I found out I was pregnant, I sat on the floor and cried. Not out of happiness. I sat It was not planned. I'd not been with my partner for very long at the time. I was really worried about how he was going to respond to it, because we know, we knew we wanted to have kids, but it was still early doors and like, yeah, I sat on that bathroom floor by myself and bawled my eyes out because my reaction to it wasn't elated joy of motherhood.

It was, oh my god, what have I done well?

Laura's I loved your response, Laura. That was like so practical and pragmatic. The first thing he said was like, can I still do the London Marathon priorities and you didn't do it. And I remember you saying, what did you say? You said, something's happening.

With my I said I was tired, which is true.

You would have struggled in first trimester, that's for sure.

But I think it's oh, of course.

I like both you Lauras are talking about the fact that it's it's not the way that everyone necessarily thinks it is, and maybe that your first impression isn't pure joy in happiness, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it's still something you love and want totally.

And I think, like I mean, just in I don't want to leave it with that. I start on the floor devastated and not round that one out. Becoming a mum has been the best thing that's ever happened to me. Like I could not love motherhood and being a mum to my beautiful girls more.

And you know, I think that.

Everyone has different reactions when they find out, and everyone processes pregnancy very differently, and that does has no indication on what type of mum you're going.

To be, Amen Queen, one hundred percent, it's so so true. I think it's amazing that you shared that because I've had some also messages in people saying I cried of like sad fear because I was like, what's going to happen?

Of fear?

And I felt like I could never tell anyone that because I felt like it meant I didn't love my child, when obviously that is not the case at all.

What do you want to say to anyone listening that is maybe a bit undecided about whether they want to go down the journey of having kids, but they also feel the time crunch from the biological clock and the pressure asking for a friend as a thirty eight year.

Old old, yeah, it's a killer.

I think the first thing I would say is that the fact that you are thinking about it, and you mentioned this before, it is a life altering decision is so important that we put time into thinking about it. So the fact you were thinking about it is so so so amazing. Go on the journey, and also just take that pressure off yourself. I think when you feel the clock, it's like, oh my goodness, I have to make the decision. I have to make the decision. But making the decision first for yourself that is the most important thing, and then you can look at.

Okay, what does this mean when we.

If you do decide you want to have kids, when we have to start trying, do we have to freeze our eggs, etcetera?

It is.

We could not be more thrilled for you. Congratulations, hooked. We can't wait to watch the follow and follows the pregnancy journey with you. No, we're just so exciteded for you. If you want a live stream the birth or watch that as.

Well, thank you so much. Guys.

I have Marley May's birthday party this weekend. With kids' birthday parties big bitch massive, especially for kids school because you know you've got to invite all the school friends.

I actually haven't been invited.

That we're not a school friend. There's a bit more politics involved.

Well what am I? I'm an auntie? You are?

But no that auntie' isn't coming.

It's like they get real specific when they get to school and they pick exactly who's coming.

So now she didn't invite me? No, sorry, she play on as you were. Marley's old enough.

To choose her friends now and you did make the cup, so sorry, brit you can come over.

Why don't I take that so person.

You can have a juice with me instead.

But look, there is an Aussie mama who has absolutely divided followers online and also has received a lot of criticism for the very unconventional gift that she brings to kids' birthday parties have listened to this.

So you know, when you're at a kid's birthday party and everyone wants to help, but nobody knows how to help because they don't know any where any of the cleaning stuff is.

So I bring my bag of rags. I bring cleaning rags.

I like to bring dish washing detergent because you can bet your boots that the parents of may have run out of dish washing liquid. And the other thing I bring is a lot a lot of tea towels. So that's my presence for a kid's birthday party, A bag of rags. Does anyone else do like that?

No, but she doesn't get invited in many places.

No one else does that.

Imagine that day, here's a bag of rag.

Okay, I saw this.

I have a sneaking suspicion.

She does not want to be invited to kids birthday party?

Is that this is so funny.

She's put this in place so that she never gets invited to another six year old party again. She's like, I know what will deter these little kids from inviting me? A bag of rags, some dishwashing detergent, and some extra tee.

To look, let's dig a little deeper here, let's give her the benefit of doubt. She does say that she doesn't like to bring gifts for kids that'll just end up in landfill.

Is fair, like a lot of people can get better gifts, like some money in their trust fund.

Jane, don't give them something that will end up in landfills.

I don't know. Maybe there's something in it. Maybe maybe the family has run out a detergent. If I run out a detergent and I was like, oh my god, where's the detergent? And then Jane was like, I brought some. I'd be very grateful. I think you need to give something to the kid, lollibag, maybe like not a bag of rag.

Hear me.

I have complex feelings on this one, because firstly, it is so incredibly helpful, like we're having Molly's birthday at our house, and it is so helpful when some parents or you know, because usually now it's dropping go parties, right like so the parents just come, they dump their kids, and then their kid free for two hours.

I'm stuck with them all and then I got to clean up after them. So it's really nice when one or two parents like stick around.

Brings help with the dishes, help clean up.

But I also think it would be very.

Presumptuous to think that I don't have enough cleaning products in my own house to deal with the party that I chose to put.

On in my home.

To me fair, I've never been to your house where there's been a toilet roll, Like it's always I'm.

Wiping dishes with toilet paper.

Well, who knows. You do let a lot of things run out and not replace them, so you're like, what are you wiping your butt with them?

Tea towels? Obviously we have.

So many bath No, but I don't know. I mean part of.

Me is like I understand the sentiment, but I do think it's a little bit too grown up to be showing up to a kid's birthday party and being like, you know what, nothing for the kids, just a bit of morning Fresh and a bag of rags, Like it's actually a wonder.

People went crazy online.

Yeah, it's actually if we break this down. She's doing a good thing, but you need Where she goes wrong is not giving anything for the kids. She's actually doing wonders like imagine someone turned up to your house and like, yes, I've got all the cleaning stuff. I'm going to help you clean. You would be like, oh my god, thank god, especially if you have dirty kids. Over Where she loses her audience is by giving a bag of rags to the six year old. That's where like she's.

I'm glad we really unpacked that and got down to the nitty GrITT. If anyone wants to come on the weekend, I'll send you my address. You can come with a bag of rags and some morning fresh.

I'm ready.

You're inviting other people now, but I don't have any bag. Okay, cool, guys, I have a great party, Miley May and Laura, I hope you have a lot of dishes and nothing to upen with.

We have asked on cut where you guys call up. We answer your divas darkest burning questions and we do our absolute best to answer them. Now, we've never had a question quite like this. One got Gabrielle on the line and she has just found out very recently that her husband has been cheating on her or having an affair. Gabrielle, welcome to the show.

Hello, what's been going on? How long have you been with your husband? And how long have you found out he's cheating on you?

Okay?

So we've been together relationship for twenty nine years, wow, married three years, two kids, and apparently he has been having an affair for five years.

How did you find that out?

Well?

On story short, normally his phone has been attached to him consistently. Yeah, he hasn't leave it in the kitchen one night and I heard a ding go off, so naturally I just picked it up, thinking nothing of it, went to hand it to him and obviously discovered a lovely naked woman on his phone.

Oh my god, Gabrielle, So is it been a five year affair with the same woman?

Yes? Wow? How long ago did you find out all this information?

Probably about four months ago.

So you're still probably really in the thick of all of it. Have you made any decisions? Are you wanting to stay? Are you unsure? Like what is happening for you?

Well, we are still living together, obviously. He claimed that they haven't actually been intimate together, which is my burning question?

Do I believe that?

No?

And each morning I wake up, I guess and I go, oh, I'd love to talk to her.

Also, is that the other question?

I really have this craving.

To talk to this woman, which is nautiral strange.

No, that's not I don't think that's strange at all. Like this is someone that has infiltrated your life directly and indirectly for five years.

I mean, look, there are people who definitely have come back from infidelity in relationships, but only if their partner is really truthful and forthcoming about it all. Like if you if you are actually feeling like, Okay, I know I've got the information.

Now we can go to therapy together.

Things have changed, Like if there's no action in changing anything, then you're just and you're left with so many unanswered questions. And also when you are seeking answers to those questions, if you're being shut down or you're not getting closure or any of this, like you can't heal because you're expected to just believe what's being told to you from the person who's been lying to you for five years about something correct. So is he still talking to her? Has he blocked her like, how is how where are things at now?

Well, apparently it's all been blocked. We haven't heard from her, obviously. I think that wall that blocks me now is he does still get quite defensive if you go to ask a question or talk about it and sort of says you should not be over it, but kind of be over it.

If that may No, that is rubbish, And.

I'm thinking the time frame for me is my biggest thing. It hasn't just been a couple of months. It's actually been five years. And yeah, we've been married, I've had a baby.

He was doing this at the same time that you were getting married, that you were walking down the aisle, or that you were choosing to have a baby together.

But also, he doesn't get to do this to you and then tell you to get over it and move on like sorry, that's not how this works. He either has to be open and it's this goes now how you wanted to go. If you want access to his phone and he wants to save the relationship, he gives it to you if you want to contact her and ask her if you want to know anything about that situation. He has to be willing to be completely open with you. He doesn't get to gaslight you would now say you should be over this by now. Yeah, look I agree with.

Women, Yeah, with children and thinking that my soul.

Yeah, GARYL I think I just thought it.

Yeah, Yeah, I think.

You're totally in your right if you want to to reach out to this other woman to find out more of the truth, if you think that you might get more of the truth from her and that might give you some sort of validity enclosure, you are absolutely in your right to do that. And I also don't think that you're breaching anything in the relationship by doing so, because at the moment, it sounds like one of the big things that you can't get your head around is whether you're being lied to as to whether or not something physical happened or didn't happen, or whether it was just text messages.

You are not alone.

I think anyone who's in their car is listening to this right now would absolutely be saying, Okay, if that messaging has been going on back and forth, nude messages for five years, it's probably unlikely that nothing more happened. But you know what, even if nothing more did happen, that's still such a huge infidelity that's happened in your relationship for five years, that you're allowed to navigate this, how is best for you?

I think it's been eating at me, and I'm like, should I shouldn't? I?

I think because I think I would call guys in this situation, what would.

You do it?

I mean I had been in that situation. I'm not married with kids, but you know, I was with someone for six years that had had a double life, and I did contact her and we spoke for hours and I got all the information. The difference was she didn't know I existed either, so we were both sort of in silo. So this woman might not want to talk to you. I think if you're going to go down that track, I would take a really gentle approach with her and just say, look, I just want to know. I'm not going to have a go at you. There's nothing that's going to happen. I just want the information, Like.

What's done is done at the end of the day.

Yeah, it's still eats at me.

Is is he really been?

Like?

Yeah, he's got a lot to lose.

Gabrielle.

If you do speak to her, though, please give us a call and let us know what happens, because honestly, if I was in your situation, I would be calling.

That's where I would be at.

And you don't even need to tell your husband you're calling. To be honest, you just just.

Do it, Just do it.

Yeah, I definitely wouldn't devolve informations.

Yeah, please let us know how it goes. We're all thank you very much.

We're so sorry you're in this situation, you know, And yeah, please keep us updated because we do want to know what happens.

Thank you so much for listening.

I have a question for you. Now that you are I mean you're in newlywed, now that you have a few days of wedding experience, marriage experience, what do you think is the key indicator of a long term happy marriage?

Long distance living in different countries seem each other sporadically, like see a great Wi Fi connection.

Continuing to have a honeymoon romance, but expanse for forever.

All right, Well, look, the reason why I want to talk about this.

Is because there was a Harvard professor who is uncovered the secrets to a lasting relationship. And one might think it's passion, one might think it's having a hot, steamy romantic time, but it certainly doesn't seem to be it.

Have a listen to this.

Happiest marriages are those characterized. But what we call companionate love not passionate love. I mean passionate love is at the very beginning, when you're actually bonding to each other. Like, what do you want to get to within five years? Is best friendship? And best friendship is a magical thing. And you get to live with your best friend, so you get to watch TV with every night and.

They've got your back on literally everything. Oh I think it's nice.

I'm sorry, pretty like you uncovered the secret. Make sure your friends with your partner. Sorry, no, I agree with him, but it's like, I feel like it's pretty obvious.

This is a Harvard professor. Don't pooh pooh his research.

God damn it.

He's been doing this for twenty years. He told him twenty years ago.

He's been studying love for twenty years.

No, okay.

I The reason why I kind of love this is because I do think in relationships sometimes we put so much emphasis on keeping the spark alive and having this passionate, all consuming relationship. But I also think that sometimes that all consuming super passionate relationships can be the most toxic and most problematic. And if you'd asked me years ago what kind of relationship I wanted, I would have said fireworks, money, no, not abs, abs, private ship, anny no. I would have said I loved like the intensity of it. And I definitely had that with my husband when we first met. Like, I'm not going to say that that didn't exist.

You were also fighting thirty other women for him, though the intensity was there.

So the intensity was so there, couldn't have been more intense.

Oh, it was a competition. I was gonna win.

But don't even like him.

We've been together eight years now, and I honestly think one of the best things about our relationship is that we are best friends. We have so much fun together. We love hanging out together. And you know, when I listened to this, I think that sometimes you can get a bit caught up in like, oh, we're keeping the spark alive, but we're doing all the things that we need to do in our relationship in order to like still have that connection.

But it's so nice to hear that.

Like the number one definer is that friendship is also so so important.

I just can't stop giggling every time you say it. It's just not rocket science that you need to be friends with your partner. But what I do like that he says is about the fact that it's really important to know that your intimacy levels change and they decrease, like it's normal to have less drive and passion and for want of another word, if you can read between the lines here for three PM, but that is normal in a long term relationship. And I like that he's reiterating that, but I feel a bit bad for him that he spent twenty years studying this to come that you need to be friends with your partner.

It's not just friends, though I disagree, it's best friends.

And I say this shut.

I say this because.

There are a lot of people out there, and I'm sure there's people listening to this who are like, yeah, I'm friends with my partner.

Of course I love him or I love her.

We're really really close, but like they're not my number one for best friend. Like I go to my girls and I tell them X y Z before I tell my husband. People have different relationships, for sure, but like, what a nice place to be at when it's like the first person you want to tell everything to.

Is your partner.

If you're going to spend the rest of your life with britty No, I just shut up, britty No. This is a shared radio show and you're allowed to talk about the things that you want.

To talk about as well, and Brittie's like and I'm allowed to preoprove them.

So anyway, happy marriage to you.