In a recent episode of the Everybody’s Crazy podcast, aired earlier this month, the 37-year-old entrepreneur and her co-host April McDaniel received a call from a listener caught in a complicated love triangle involving a man she’s been seeing and her secret fling.
The hosts advised the caller to remain single until she could determine her true desires.
However, before wrapping up the conversation, they delved into the distinctions between a “sneaky link” and a “side chick,” with their producer eventually clarifying the differences for them.
According to COMPLEX they said:
“A sneaky link is somebody that you know you sneaking with,” the producer explained off-camera at the 18:44 mark in the video above. “But your side chick—the majority of the time your main girl know about the side chick.”
“I don’t even want to be the main chick,” explained McDaniel. “I need to be the wife these days. I don’t want to be the ‘wifey.’ I don’t want to be nothing. I want to be the wife.”
“When I tell you I hate, loathe ‘wifey’ with my whole entire soul,” said James, who is married to LeBron James, 39. “I’m sorry, don’t call me your wife and I’m not.”
She continued, “I had to politely tell my husband back in the day. He used to introduce me, ‘This is my wife.’ I had to pull him to the side like, ‘Excuse me, sir, don’t introduce me as that please. I am not your wife, and I deserve that title when the time is right.’”
“I don’t want you to start to think that it’s okay for you to say this and then, you know, means don’t have to go the next step,” she added.
On the other hand, McDaniel, 43, lamented about how to introduce certain individuals past a certain age, saying that terms like “boyfriend” sound crazy.
While the jury is out for “my man,” McDaniel feels that “my partner” makes her sound “like I’m a lesbian.”
“I feel like it’s tiers,” James conceded. “You have to start at the bottom and then come up.”
“One of these days we have to go live so we can ask people live like, what is the titles? Because I’m very intrigued by knowing what are the titles people go by and what feels ‘premium.’ Because I want the premium title,” McDaniel said.
Watch the full episode below:
