[SMOOTH MUSIC]
I have to write whenever I find time to.
So when I do get time to myself, when everybody else
is in their own world or not asking me to do something,
then that's the time I like to sneak away and go write.
Because it's my me time, and that doesn't happen often.
So usually, to get me in the mood for writing,
I do like to meditate.
I like a cocktail.
It just helps to calm my nerves, and get my mind
in the right head space.
I like to light a candle because it has to smell good.
Everything-- you know, I need all my senses touched.
I need to taste my drink, I need to smell the candle,
and I need to hear silence.
Like, no one talking, no one around me.
What are you doing?
Writing.
Kisses, kisses.
Writing, writing.
What are you writing?
Writing about me? Something good?
Give me some good news. [SCOFFS]
I'm writing-- not writing a love book.
I'm writing for my book.
Congratulations, congratulations,
congratulations! - Thank you.
Do I clap a snap?
I don't know. - Well, yes.
I'm a writer now.
I'm an author.
OK. - There you go!
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Man, I'm so proud of my wife, Ashley.
She's been writing this book for years,
and she's been on and off stopping.
But right now, she's finally got an editor.
She's got everybody in place to make this book happen,
and I'm super proud of my wife.
She deserves everything that's coming her way.
Now, what are you drinking?
Everybody drinking?
Yeah.
I made me a little homemade Lemon Drop.
A concoction, we call that.
I'm glad we had some time together.
I know a lot-- - Yeah.
I know you've been complaining that I work a little too much
and our date nights haven't been as consistent--
But it's not about-- it's not.
But that's-- is that complaining?
Or is that me saying, hey, I miss my husband.
I miss my marriage.
Like, I want to hang out with you.
Is that complaining?
It's not complaining, but what I will say, I'm trying.
I'm trying and--
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I think you believe you are trying very hard.
I am!
I think you think that.
So you don't think that I'm trying?
I think you think that.
Am I doing better than I was a year ago?
Do you see, at least, I've been trying?
- I see that you've been trying. - Yes or no?
Yes or no?
I see that you've been trying, period.
OK, period.
But I feel like you are making it seem to me like I'm trying
for you to have date night.
No, I'm not trying--
Look at me trying to do this for you.
Like, it's for you, as well. - All right.
It's definitely for me.
And I will just say, like, I don't even enjoy
working the way I work now.
I've been working this way forever.
I want to be to the point where I work when we feel like it,
and now we're vacationing six months of the year.
Well, that is why I'm working so hard to get--
And I appreciate that.
You know, I'm trying to get "Fun Time Moms" bigger.
You know, FashionAshton is doing good.
- Amazing. - Right.
And now I'm-- - Shout out to you.
Right.
I'm very proud of myself for the amount of hard work
I've been putting in.
Right.
And now with the book--
like, I've just been doing so much.
And I feel like this is just my time to really shine.
Right.
And then, like I told you, I'm ready for you
to be a trophy husband.
I'm ready to retire.
And I commend the fact that you're not complacent.
A lot of women who marry a man of a status or money,
or whatever the case they-- it's like, all right--
Whoa, whoa whoa.
I didn't marry a man with all this status
and all this money, honey.
I wasn't nobody when you married me.
I wasn't who I am now.
No, you were a local DJ.
Like, let's-- - OK.
OK. Like--
- I wasn't broke. - I married a man with goals.
With goals.
Mm-hmm.
So a lot of times, when the goal becomes a reality,
then some of the wives feel like,
I don't have to work anymore.
I'm just going to do what I want, and just shop all day,
and do nothing.
You've never been that. - Yeah.
You've always-- I don't care if we
had $1 or 1,000 or millions, it's always like,
I still want my own.
And that's commendable.
Thank you.
And before I felt like I just had to prove to so many people.
Right.
Because people would say, your husband pays your bills.
Your husband takes care of you.
And that, at first, it would offend me.
And now I'm like, yes.
My husband does take care of me, because he's my husband.
Being a great husband is protecting
and providing for your family at all costs, no matter what.
So that's something that I pride myself in.
But it takes a lot of work. So, that's why I work that way.
It does it.
It takes a lot of work, and it takes a lot of time.
And it takes a lot of time away from us.
I want us to have more us time.
And I promise you, it's going to pay it out.
Do you?
And thanks for sticking with me all these years.
Exactly.
I feel like I need more recognition.
Like, I need more--
You are the epitome of, "I'm going to stick beside him."
"I'm going to stick beside him."
That's my man, and I'm going to stick beside him.
[LAUGHTER]
That's you on the meme, Mama G. You definitely got my back,
and I got your back.
But I appreciate you. Thank you.
And I appreciate that.
I'm looking forward to the book dropping.
- Thank you. - I'll let you get back to work.
Let me get back down stairs. Love you.
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