I don't know.
I think I'm playing my own doctor.
I don't know.
But--
Yeah, you are.
Why do you feel, you know, that you--
the separation of, like, you know,
your personal life, how you bring
the best to your relationship?
Like I said, it was-- it's internal stuff that
I feel like I want to work out.
And in that sense, I didn't realize that I wasn't--
that it was a bad thing that I wasn't bringing it to Keele.
And you're happy with your relationship with him?
But you're just battling something inside
that you don't really want to bring to him because you feel,
like, it's too overbearing?
Or--
He knows about it.
I don't keep it a secret.
But I-- my feelings, I just--
Well, what is it?
--handle it myself.
Well, my career thing is--
is in a very--
it's not in a good place.
Not a good place, OK.
I was in a group for 30 years.
And I was terminated from that group.
It's the ending of a relationship.
So it's like you're grieving.
- Like a sisterhood. - Yeah.
OK.
So you grieve that.
And you're dealing with that personally.
And then you have the legal stuff that goes with that.
And the feelings of rejection, being devalued,
your work, your efforts being--
All those issues.
--minimized.
And 30 years is a long time to be
in a relationship with someone and for it to end severely.
Right.
Because you're basically fighting for--
to not be excluded from all of that hard work,
all of the history--
No, so that's the legal side.
That's the legal side of--
- Just getting your just due. - Yeah.
But then all of that stuff is all
jumbled up in a mess over here.
And my relationship is perfect--
not perfect, but it feels like it's in a great space.
That's your escape.
And you don't want to bring all of that
into your relationship.
Right.
I don't want him to deal with that.
Like, I don't want him to--
But he wants to deal with it.
I don't want to--
Well, I can understand.
It's very hurtful.
If I could just burst out with emotion and just--
[BLEEP] you, bitch.
Dun, dun, dun.
Wow.
You would want to just scream that out if you could.
But I'm not that person.
So for me, OK, I have to accept it.
I've got to deal with it.
I really pray for you that you're
able to navigate through life as you're
going through the legalities and not let that affect you daily.
Hey.
Don't cross your boundaries.
Listen, stop talking to me like that
about crossing boundaries.
[BLEEP].
We have been through a lot together.
I think you've been putting me through a lot.
See how you just turned that--
No, but I've been there.
But listen, another thing.
OK, I respect your opinion.
OK, but I'm just saying, you're just-- you're not--
everything is what I did.
But you're not looking at what I've been through with you.
I just want you to keep it 100.
All right.
This is-- this is more than 100 from me.
- Mm-hmm. - Keep it 100.
Mm-hmm.
For once in your life.
I've been keeping it 100.
OK.
I tried. You know what I'm saying?
All right.
As we move forward, you know what I'm saying,
let's not be mean to each other. - Mm-hmm.
And let's just move on.
Stop being like-- I don't-- every time
I talk to you and it gets--
why don't you--
I'm tired of that.
That's why I stay away from you because I'm not
going to get my big speeches, and me be vulnerable,
and me sacrifice who I am for you to keep
coming back with your same
[MAKES TALKING NOISES]
What you did to me, and [TALKING NOISES]
I'm the perfect one, [TALKING NOISES]..
That is dead, yo.
All right, I'm over this conversation.
Nobody does that in here. You're over the conversation?
Yeah.
Because when it gets real, when it's anything against you,
you don't want to hear it.
It's really frustrating because I am constantly
fighting in a battle with a human being who
wants to always dig me and put me down
when I'm trying to get along.
Althea, I know you love acting like you're perfect.
I'm not-- how am I acting like I'm perfect?
- I know you see yourself that. - I don't see myself as perfect.
Althea, you've got issues just like I do
and just like everybody else does, Althea.
- Mm-hmm. - All right?
So accept it.
And work on your issues.
This is why I would not go on vacation with you
and I'm done with you. - Why?
Because I said you have issues? - No, because--
- We all got issues. - --it's drama.
The whole house got issues, Althea.
Everybody got issues.
It's all right.
Like, do you think people-- do you think if you
got issues that you look bad?
It don't make you look bad.
You've got great things about you, too.
It's a balance.
But God damn, you don't come across as a human being
if you think that you can't work on some of your issues
that keep blaming everything about me.
You're a beautiful person.
But there's-- there's stuff about you that you must
work on, like everybody else.
Stop running away from it and just [BLEEP] face it head-on.
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