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Speaker 2: I feel funny about my boyfriend hanging out with my

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Speaker 2: So first of all, I want to give a disclaimer

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Speaker 2: that I know this is a matter of whose needs

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Speaker 2: will be put first mine versus roommate in X. I

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Speaker 2: also know that I cannot control who people hang out with,

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Speaker 2: nor do I want to. I just need some help

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Speaker 2: processing the situation and help setting boundaries. By the way,

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Speaker 2: slash Okay Storytime subrended. So here is the situation. My

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Speaker 2: a lot lately. We all enjoy similar activities like hiking, running,

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Speaker 2: and skiing. A lot of our free time was spent together.

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Speaker 2: Two weeks ago, the three of us went on an

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Speaker 2: overnight trip with two days of skiing and some sight seeing.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes my roommate and my boyfriend would do things just

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Speaker 2: the two of them, especially since they were the most

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Speaker 2: skilled at athletic activities compared to me. This past Sunday,

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Speaker 2: my roommate and only told me after he organized things

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Speaker 2: with her. I had no issues with this because I

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Speaker 2: trusted both of them. Two days ago, my ex somewhat

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Speaker 2: blind sides me and broke up with me. Interesting, and

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Speaker 2: I know, I think I know why. Yeah, he realized

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Speaker 2: you couldn't hang on the slopes babe.

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Speaker 3: On cloud nine.

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Speaker 2: He's like, I need someone who can shred the.

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Speaker 3: Nar dude, someone that can go up on cloud nine

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Speaker 2: It's me, ooh, I need someone who can hit the

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Speaker 2: double black diamonds now.

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Speaker 3: Or maybe maybe no, maybe he preferred the master bedroom

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Speaker 2: That. I wouldn't say it was a mutual decision, but

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Speaker 2: in hindsight it makes sense. I'm obviously very hurt and sad.

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Speaker 2: I'm losing a huge part of my life and someone

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Speaker 2: To me, it felt like something I couldn't have, both

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Speaker 2: him and the activities they're doing together that I would

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Speaker 2: have loved to do was being dangled in front of

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Speaker 2: like bond I had with them. He accused me of

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Speaker 2: I also feel that my argument is fair, especially since

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Speaker 2: they met through me and he was the dumper. Losing

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Speaker 2: of breaking up. I talked to my roommate for two

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Speaker 2: Even told her that I was concerned they would start

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Speaker 2: I always saw chemistry between them, but I wasn't worried

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Speaker 2: something that's too much thank you. Now, the comments are

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Speaker 2: I'm asking for help in navigating this situation and whether

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Speaker 2: Here's the comments. I think a starting point would be

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Speaker 2: I'd see how things play out, and if she is

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Speaker 2: you to find a new roommate and move out. Correct.

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Speaker 2: I'm just going to skip this to the update, yeah,

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Speaker 2: because that's every comment's going to be exactly what we

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Speaker 2: W Boss, that's crazy. Forty eight hours after the breakup,

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Speaker 2: I talked to my roommate and she said that while

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Speaker 2: to ask them not to hang out. Last week, they

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Speaker 2: when together, which I appreciate. Many posters suggested that they

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Speaker 2: were dating. All right, yeah they were Now okay, now's

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Speaker 2: there was an affair. There is an affair. Your roommate

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Speaker 2: was singing with your ex, all right, say eve.

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Speaker 4: Evel wasn't a physical it was emotional, and you don't

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Speaker 2: So this person is what Riley, that's gone back? Not

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Speaker 2: This is not your boy, absolutely not. We got to

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Speaker 2: I asked my ex while we were still dating, if

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Speaker 2: though I cannot be sure. I mean, of course they are.

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Speaker 2: You literally told them they can't hang out in front

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Speaker 2: Two days ago, I told my roommate that I no

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Speaker 2: She was fine with this and is asking around for

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Speaker 2: This is also happening less than two weeks after the breakup.

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Speaker 2: It feels weird and rude to me. Of course, they

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Speaker 2: have a little bit of story left. Honestly, cheaters aren't cool.

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Speaker 2: I think you need to just move on from these people.

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Speaker 2: I know it sucks. There sucks, man, it does like,

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Speaker 2: don't let my don't let my flippancy, don't confuse you

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Speaker 2: I do, but it's like you gotta get you gotta

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Speaker 2: move on to And the longer you hold on to this, like,

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Speaker 2: Like the faster you can just let this go and

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Speaker 2: let this might honestly just be occasionally to people who

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Speaker 2: are better fits for each other. It's still ex but

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Speaker 2: they excuse the affair. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: like these are two people who might be more compatible

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Speaker 2: than you even were with your eggs. So it's like,

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Speaker 2: who knows, we're gonna finish up the store here. So edit,

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Speaker 2: you all are so kind. Thanks for the words of encouragement,

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Speaker 2: tough love, and shared experiences. I'm staying with a friend tonight,

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Speaker 2: and I am hoping that the move out situation goes smoothly.

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Speaker 2: Living apart from my current roommate is the only viable

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Speaker 2: option for me moving forward will also be cutting contact

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Speaker 2: is settled. Yes, thank you. Op. Also, oh, I am

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Speaker 2: going to therapy tomorrow. Yes, what I was just about

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Speaker 2: I'm so thankful I have off from work. It's been

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Speaker 2: confirmed in a convo today that they are more than friends.

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Speaker 2: And there's some comments here. Let's see how the comments

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Speaker 2: are going to go of them. I think so, yes.

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Speaker 2: Comment one. Everyone likes to think of their selves as

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Speaker 2: the hero of their story. Currently, your roommate and X

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Speaker 2: are playing out their fantasy of being lovers against all odds.

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Speaker 2: You're now the villain in their epic love story, merely

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Speaker 2: by advocating for your own needs. Also, that's extra. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if that's the case, but it's definitely probably

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Speaker 2: a case of like, oh my god, I can't wet

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Speaker 2: we met in these crazy circumstances. That's what it is.

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Speaker 2: At the very least, moving out and leaving them behind

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Speaker 2: is your best move.

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Speaker 4: Do that?

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Speaker 2: Reply yep. Without a villain, the relationship will probably founder

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Speaker 2: very quickly. It was fun because it was secret and

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Speaker 2: behind your back, low key facts. Maybe he breaks up

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Speaker 2: with you, then he uses the controlling defense to frame

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Speaker 2: you as a villain. You break a contact and move on. Well,

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Speaker 2: they lose all of the fun of sneaking around at

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Speaker 2: first and then having a crazy X being the bad guy. Okay,

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Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, never mind, Oh

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Speaker 2: he did not just fun. So yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 2: a good point. My final take is gonna be if

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Speaker 2: there was no cheating here and they just like were

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Speaker 2: friends that then developed feelings over time outside of y'all's relationship,

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Speaker 2: that would be a completely different thing. But the fact

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Speaker 2: that there was infidelity while you guys were together, yeah,

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Speaker 2: makes them really suck. Honestly, they do. They suck. They

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Speaker 2: suck in. It's a bad situation and the best thing

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Speaker 2: that you can do is just put it behind you,

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Speaker 2: put it in the rear view mirror, work on yourself,

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Speaker 2: go to therapy, sort it out, go.

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Speaker 3: To the gym, some snowboarding, go to the gym, shred

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Speaker 3: professional snowboarding gal and then get in the Olympics and

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Speaker 3: show them what's wrong.

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Speaker 3: I told my parents that my grandmother dislikes me, but

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Speaker 3: And they both kind of froze and dumbfounded. My mom

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Speaker 3: but I don't believe them. My dad was quieter on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think you're right about that.

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Speaker 5: I think she's like almost uncovered all the clues, but

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Speaker 3: Like she lost her glasses, but now she's accidentally solving

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Speaker 2: Update. I want to start with how grateful I am

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Speaker 3: I don't care. My heart goes out to you. I

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Speaker 3: I've mentioned in the comments that both of my parents

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Speaker 3: they would say. My wee sister had no idea if

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Speaker 3: and ask them point blank why my grandmother didn't like me.

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Speaker 3: I was while emotional, so I don't remember things word

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Speaker 3: My Granny would make side remarks and when visiting my

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Speaker 3: They were long standing parental frignurs to my dad, so

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Speaker 3: My mom and dad wanted to have one Christmas to

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Speaker 3: he won't let her make me feel less than because

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Speaker 3: tried to physically put my dad and mom out of

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Speaker 3: like a sack of crap. Aha, So she gonna say sacotators.

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Speaker 2: That's what I thought too, especially since they're Irish.

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Speaker 5: Well there would be no potatoes yep. Well, actually the

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Speaker 5: Potato Fami they only could eat potatoes.

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Speaker 3: Well yeah, right, do you know how many potatoes it

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Speaker 3: takes to kill an irishman? None?

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Speaker 2: One to treat for five none. No, but they have potatoes.

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Speaker 5: They had potatoes and the Potato family that's all they

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Speaker 5: could eat. Well, that's not they just didn't really have

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Speaker 3: Said, sound like they were gonna eat people, what remember that?

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Speaker 5: No, just there was no shipments going in because the

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Speaker 3: But remember they were like, we're gonna eat her own

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Speaker 3: cond here's how we're gonna do it. Remember that, I

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Speaker 3: don't really.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't there satire. I never heard anyone say that

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Speaker 2: it was. I had to read that in seventh grade.

433
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Speaker 5: Oh you had to read this side. Oh you read

434
00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,480
Speaker 5: the satirical piece about Yeah, I know what you're talking about.

435
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,720
Speaker 3: Yep, yep changed my life. Anyways, from there, they said

436
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,199
Speaker 3: she had promised to change, and they let her come

437
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,480
Speaker 3: over it would make sure there was no favoritism. Now,

438
00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,399
Speaker 3: this and the fact that around this time one of

439
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,200
Speaker 3: my granddad's passed and my mom's mother was declining in

440
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,560
Speaker 3: her health, and I think some other family stuff was

441
00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,920
Speaker 3: happening as well as my dad's mom was worsening health,

442
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 3: and they didn't want to take our granny and that

443
00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,399
Speaker 3: relationship away from us at a young age, especially everything

444
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,840
Speaker 3: that's happening. They generally believed that she had changed and

445
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,399
Speaker 3: didn't want their problems with one another to affect me

446
00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,960
Speaker 3: and my sister's relationship with her only granny. I also

447
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,240
Speaker 3: got them to explain to me what they meant with

448
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 3: me telling them sooner and what they meant was they

449
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 3: had known earlier, they would have fully cut her out

450
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 3: of her lives and made sure I knew it had

451
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,920
Speaker 3: nothing to do about me, and it was her own

452
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 3: miscontract thoughts that she acts the way she does. They

453
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 3: apologized and over and over. I've seen my dad that

454
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,360
Speaker 3: upset before. Man, that's very upsetting.

455
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 2: Well, that just very upsetting. Yeah, they just got to

456
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 2: block her off.

457
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like with someone like this, you can't

458
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,440
Speaker 5: really just convince them to just like, hey, can you

459
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,479
Speaker 5: like be nice now?

460
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know she's it's she's not gonna get it.

461
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:39,359
Speaker 2: She's not gonna know how to do that.

462
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:44,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I don't know. I'm like, where why is

463
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 3: she like copying and pasting these relationships?

464
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Speaker 4: You know?

465
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,160
Speaker 2: Yeah? I I totally know so much.

466
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,680
Speaker 3: Short, they generally thought my granny had changed due to

467
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,879
Speaker 3: past experiences, and they never knew she was treating me

468
00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,160
Speaker 3: and my sister differently. I love my mom and my dad.

469
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 3: I don't blame I've never blamed him because I always

470
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,440
Speaker 3: thought something was wrong with me, but that I was effective.

471
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 3: The only thing I wish I could do is tell

472
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 3: my younger self I wasn't the problem. I wasn't crazy

473
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,960
Speaker 3: for believing that Granny didn't like or love me. I

474
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 3: just wish I could tell her she was a I

475
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 3: just wish she I just wish I could tell her

476
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,160
Speaker 3: she wasn't defective.

477
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 2: He was a child.

478
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 3: Thank you all again for the comments. I really appreciate it.

479
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,719
Speaker 3: More than you know what to do. Her health has

480
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 3: been declining and I don't know what to do.

481
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 2: Yay, that was story. Yes, I overheard my mother calling

482
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:36,400
Speaker 2: me lame. It made me curious your mom's lame? Yeah.

483
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,159
Speaker 2: So last year my mom, thirty eight female, left my

484
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 2: dad for her old boyfriend Mike. Oh yeah, he got

485
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,160
Speaker 2: out of jail. Yeah. Mom and dad were arguing a lot,

486
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 2: and she left to be with him. I wonder if

487
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 2: they had been arguing about Mike getting out of jail

488
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 2: a rough start. I've met Mike a few times, but

489
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,400
Speaker 2: generally when I'm with Mom or at her place, it's

490
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,200
Speaker 2: just her and me, because she says she doesn't want

491
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 2: to share her time with me with anyone else. By

492
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 2: the way, this country user is Zesty close Claw And

493
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 2: if you want to submit your own stories, go to

494
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 2: the r slash Shokay storytime subbured it so u except

495
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 2: since they've got together, my mom has changed a lot.

496
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 2: For one, she dresses different and is way more affectionate.

497
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 2: When she picks me up from school, She's always wearing

498
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 2: Lululemon and will wait outside the car and hug and

499
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 2: kiss me in front of everyone before we can go,

500
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 2: and sometimes she hugs me in the morning until I

501
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 2: wake up. She's made me start going to the gym

502
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 2: with her, made me start taking my uncle's taekwondo classes,

503
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 2: and on Sunday makes me wake up at six unless

504
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,640
Speaker 2: it's raining to go on run. Dude, crazy, she's on program. Dude,

505
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 2: She's like, we got a run, we got a run.

506
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 2: Let's up and at him. This is Mike, Dude, She's

507
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 2: on Mike's program. Apparently. She always makes me get so

508
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 2: tired in the gym, and my uncle is harder on

509
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 2: me than anyone else in his class, and the morning

510
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 2: runs ruined Sunday for me. Dude, what is she training

511
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 2: you for greatness? I've told her all this, but she

512
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 2: says it's for my own good and especially gets upset

513
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 2: when I complain about my uncle. Today's ago. I tried

514
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 2: phoning my mom about something I left at her place,

515
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 2: and she didn't pick up. She butt doabbed me after

516
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 2: and when I picked up, I could hear her, but

517
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 2: she couldn't hear me, and she was talking to Mike.

518
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 2: It was just small talk. But then Mike brought me

519
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 2: up and I heard her say to Mike straight up,

520
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,879
Speaker 2: he's so lame, just like his dad. Ah, is that

521
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 2: why she's trying to like train you for the Olympics.

522
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 2: She's like, he's so lame.

523
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 5: I need a taping him mapa bet he's got to

524
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 5: be a truck star. I need him to be interesting.

525
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 2: It is weird. It's weird. This is weird. Your mom's

526
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 2: a weird, fundamentally weird position to have on your kid. Yeah,

527
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 2: maybe she wasn't talking about you. Yeah, who knows. She's

528
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 2: giving like a CrossFit mom.

529
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, just like he said, he's just not strong enough

530
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 5: for these six am morning runs.

531
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 2: He's got to be faster. He then asked if my

532
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 2: mom would choose him over me, and she said something

533
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 2: like obviously I'd choose my son, and that he needs

534
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 2: to start being active in my life so I end

535
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 2: up like him and not my dad. It made me

536
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 2: so mad, and I still feel that way, and yesterday

537
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 2: she surprised me by picking me up from my uncle's

538
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 2: class to take me to Dairy Queen, and I just

539
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 2: couldn't talk to her. She got really worried that something

540
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 2: was wrong with me, and when she dropped me off

541
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 2: at my dad's I know they got into an argument.

542
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 2: Am I the a hole for not telling her that

543
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 2: what that you knew? She called you lame? I why

544
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 2: would you be the a hole? Let's keep reading. I

545
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 2: need more information about this, Okay. Op On his uncle

546
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,919
Speaker 2: and why Mike went to jail. My uncle would uh

547
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 2: uh his butt if they ever fought, and I'm pretty

548
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 2: sure Mike's afraid of him too, since we all had

549
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 2: a dinner and he was really quiet and polite to

550
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 2: him the whole time. I don't know why Mike went

551
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 2: to jail, and when I asked, my mom just said

552
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter because he was innocent. And I don't

553
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 2: know how she knows that, but she believes it. Uh

554
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 2: op On why his mom is with Mike, No, I

555
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 2: don't know, but she's happier with him than she ever

556
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 2: was with my dad. They used a date when they

557
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 2: were in high school, and I guess she's always wanted

558
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 2: to be with him.

559
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 5: Update, Man, I think you I guess you should talk

560
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 5: to your mom and figure out what she was talking about, because, like,

561
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 5: I don't know what's going on here, Like she's happy

562
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 5: with Mike. She said you were lame. That's all the

563
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 5: information we have here. All the answers to this are

564
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 5: also she's training you for the Olympics. Yeah, it's it's like, mom,

565
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 5: why are you doing this? Yeah, that's just like the question.

566
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 5: She'll be like doing what doing all of this?

567
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 2: Yeah? Why do you need me to like join you

568
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 2: in all these things? Do you just like, do you

569
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 2: hate dad so much that like you can't stand that

570
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 2: I'm also half of him? Yeah, and so you're trying

571
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 2: to like program. I think they got half of him

572
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 2: that's in me, out of me. I think they have

573
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 2: to have some sort of conversation. They just got to talk, which, honestly, look,

574
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 2: being fitness and being into fitness culture is cool. It

575
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 2: does circle around, though, and become super lame at some point.

576
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 2: If it's just literally your entire life, that's true. You

577
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 2: could say that about pretty much anything. Yeah, anything in

578
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 2: access not great update. I'm not really sure what to type,

579
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 2: but I feel like I need to write about some

580
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 2: things that have happened. When I was writing my last post,

581
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 2: I was reading the Expanse books, and pretty much there's

582
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 2: stuff in the second one about moms not seeing their kids.

583
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 2: I know that's so different from my situation and it's

584
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 2: not real, but I think that it's what got me

585
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 2: really emotional and scared. And I didn't realize that until

586
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 2: I looked back at the comments. So my dad pretty

587
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 2: much told me that I needed to talk to my

588
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 2: mom because he didn't want to deal with her, and

589
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 2: she was going to pick me up from school so

590
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 2: we could work it out. Hate that that is dad's responsible. Yeah,

591
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 2: when she did, I just tried talking to her like

592
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 2: normal or lying, but she knew I was lying and

593
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 2: seemed really worried. So I told her everything and it

594
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 2: made her cry and I felt really awful. But then

595
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 2: she started apologizing to me, which was really weird. She

596
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 2: told me that she shouldn't have said that and she

597
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 2: was wrong to say it, and that I'm not laying.

598
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 2: But then why'd you say that?

599
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 5: Well, okay, I'm not excusing that. I think that's like

600
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 5: really really hurtful. But you know, parents are humans and

601
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 5: sometimes they get annoyed by their kids and then they

602
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 5: say mean things about their kids. She didn't say it

603
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 5: to him, he overheard it. Doesn't excuse it. I think

604
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 5: you think it's worse actually that she oh she said it?

605
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, I think it is.

606
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 5: I can be worse because he overhears it, and then

607
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 5: he's like, you're talking behind my back.

608
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 2: I think if you think your kid's lame, you should go, buddy,

609
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: you're laying I think we have changes that would help

610
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 2: you live a better, more fulfilled existence.

611
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 5: I don't think it's okay that she did it, but

612
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 5: I think that this they needed to talk about this,

613
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 5: and maybe maybe she'll come back around and be like,

614
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.

615
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have said that.

616
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 5: I was dealing with things, But like she still still

617
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 5: is super and the wrong for doing it, but I'm

618
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 5: hopeful based off this reaction, we'll see.

619
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: She said that I'm her only chot and that sometimes

620
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 2: she gets jealous of how much I'm like my dad

621
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 2: and wishes I was more like her. She ranted about

622
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: how much she hates my dad and now he ruined

623
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 2: her life and it was his fall. Never mind, she

624
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 2: went back around. Dang. I had hope for her for

625
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 2: about a second. That sucks. Then she started saying she

626
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 2: would pass away without me and promised she was going

627
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 2: to make it up to me and never say something

628
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 2: like that again. And since then she really has tried,

629
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: Like she'll come to school randomly during lunch and drop

630
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 2: me off lunch, or make special dinner for me, or

631
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 2: even help out with my uncle's classes. She's not as

632
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 2: good as him, but knows the lessons talking about taekwondo. Yeah,

633
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 2: but literally the week after, she also forced me to

634
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 2: go to counseling with her and is making me go

635
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 2: with her every week. Now. All we do there is talk,

636
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: and we've talked so much now about what she said

637
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 2: and how I felt and that I'm kind of annoyed

638
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 2: by it. So yeah, I don't really like it, but

639
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 2: she seemed to think it's helping, and she even said

640
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 2: once she should have made us go to the moment

641
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 2: she left my dad. Besides that, Mike proposed to my

642
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 2: mom and she accepted, and she honestly seems happier than

643
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: she's ever been. She's been hanging out with his daughter

644
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 2: and his niece a lot too, to plan her wedding.

645
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 2: I'm still not close to him or anything but I

646
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't feel like I can say anything

647
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: with how happy my mom is. I mean, she's calling

648
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 2: all of our relatives to tell them the news and

649
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 2: telling me to start writing my speech. There's a little

650
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 2: more story, but Sophia, do your final thoughts too tricky.

651
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 5: I think that it's good that they're going to counseling,

652
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 5: but also I think that the mom is trying to

653
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 5: like take off all responsibility from herself for what she

654
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 5: said and how she's been treating her kid.

655
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, she literally said it was your dad's fault that

656
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 2: I called you lamb, And I'm really hoping that, yeah, guy, Yeah,

657
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 2: I'm really hoping.

658
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 5: That she learns in counseling that that was not okay

659
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 5: and that she needs to like own up and take responsibility.

660
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: But right now, not seeing that, not seeing that, not particularly,

661
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 2: not particularly so Dad's been pissed off ever since he learned.

662
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 2: And the worst part is that after she made me

663
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 2: admit this in counseling, she listens to the therapist and

664
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 2: wants me to start going to sessions by myself. She said,

665
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 2: my uncle will take me on the days that she's

666
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 2: going to book for me, so I won't feel any

667
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 2: pressure from her. I just hate it. I hate talking

668
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 2: about these things, and I wish I didn't have to

669
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 2: now I think you should. I think you do need

670
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 2: to talk about them. You have some comments here. Opie

671
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 2: on if his mom would let him stop therapy. I

672
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 2: have no choice but to continue therapy. She's not going

673
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 2: to let me stop. Maybe she'd let me stop the

674
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 2: one we do together, but not the one where I

675
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 2: go alone, which again, I think you will actually get

676
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 2: a lot out of that. Opie on why his mom

677
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 2: isn't going to let him stop. I've tried telling her

678
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 2: that I don't feel like it's helping me, but she

679
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 2: just said that therapy is a process, that maybe going

680
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 2: alone will make it better, and that she's not going

681
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,959
Speaker 2: to risk my mental health, and she should have had

682
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 2: me start going months ago. Opie on if his mom

683
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: cheated on his dad. She didn't cheat on him. I

684
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 2: know that while they were still together, they were both

685
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 2: arguing and yelling a lot about everything. I know she

686
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 2: wasn't happy back then. I just wish that she was.

687
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 2: MP on if he and his mom discussed her ranting

688
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 2: about his dad at therapy. I did tell him she

689
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 2: brought it up herself actually, and we talked so long

690
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 2: about it, and she agreed that she shouldn't have said that,

691
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: that it was wrong, and the therapist literally said, what

692
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 2: you said that it showed she's not taking accountability, and

693
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 2: then we wouldn't stop talking about it. It's just so exhausting.

694
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 2: Ope on how long his mom and Mike have been together,

695
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 2: and if they were, and if it was a fast engagement,

696
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 2: they didn't immediately get engaged. They've been together for about

697
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 2: a year now. I don't know why he went away,

698
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 2: but even if it was something bad, I just feel

699
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 2: it wouldn't break my mom and him up because she

700
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 2: already believes he didn't do anything wrong. Op On the

701
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 2: one useful part of therapy. My mom says that he

702
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 2: was joking about that, but I should focus on that.

703
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 2: She said she would choose me, But you're right that

704
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 2: it feels weird. That was probably the only useful thing

705
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: I feel we talked about in therapy, because I asked

706
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: if she'd still choose me when she and Mike have kids.

707
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 2: She told me she's not going to have anymore kids

708
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 2: because I'm all she needs. But besides that, it's just

709
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 2: talking on and on in circles and it's exhausting, and

710
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 2: that's the end of that story.

711
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think you'll probably find more success

712
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 5: in individual therapy than you will with your mother.

713
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you don't have to talk in circles at

714
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 2: that point. You can just talk about yourself what you

715
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 2: want to talk about. And because it sounds it does

716
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 2: kind of sound like your mom's kind of like a

717
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 2: everything is my way. Yeah, everything I do is the

718
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 2: right thing to do. Everything I think is the right

719
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 2: thing to think.

720
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 5: And tell your a therapist like, hey, I don't think

721
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 5: this is working really, I like, I'm exhausted. This is

722
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 5: like frustrating me, Like talk about those things too.

723
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 2: Also, she still can't make you go, brother, I just

724
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 2: want to let you know she can.

725
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 3: You can.

726
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 2: She can take you right to the therapist and you

727
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: can go. I'm not getting out of the car. I'm

728
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 2: not I'm not going to therapy.

729
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 3: I'm not.

730
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do this anymore with you. I've

731
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 2: told you I want to do it. I'm not going

732
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: to do it. I'll do it alone. If she makes

733
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 2: you keep going with her, you do. You don't have

734
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 2: to short of a court order. I think there's no

735
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 2: way for that to be in forced. So she's putting

736
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 2: it out there, but that is the end of that story. John. Here,

737
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 2: we're gonna get back to this juicy story, but a

738
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 2: quick three minute of break of ads from our sponsors.

739
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 2: I refuse to speak with my father because he's still

740
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 2: friends with my ex. What a stinker.

741
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 5: This is from the r slash okay storytime sub reddit.

742
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 5: This is direct you don't speak to this man and

743
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 5: also trigger warning mentions of substances. It begins eleven years

744
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 5: ago when I called off my wedding six months out

745
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 5: after an absolutely horrible night that only got worse and worse.

746
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 5: It started off when my fiance Mark crashed my high

747
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 5: school reunion and insulted my classmates with racial jokes.

748
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 2: Oh what a winner, yikes.

749
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 5: When I asked him to leave, he left and went

750
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 5: to the bar next door, and we didn't speak for

751
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 5: the rest of the night. By the way, this comes

752
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 5: from Throwaway. Cue the drama, and if you want to

753
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 5: submit your own stories, go to the r slash okay storytime.

754
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 2: Separate it. So when I got home at midnight, he

755
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 2: was a tome.

756
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 5: I went to bed angry with the sinking feeling in

757
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 5: my stomach, thinking that I'd like to call off this wedding.

758
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 5: When I woke up at am, Mark was not there

759
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 5: and I couldn't find my phone, my wallet, or my

760
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 5: car keys. I walked home from the bar, and I

761
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 5: could clearly remember everything from the night before. I started

762
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 5: to second guess myself, thinking that maybe I left everything

763
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 5: at the bar. But then how would I have gotten

764
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 5: in the house without my keys.

765
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 2: It made no sense. I went outside to.

766
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 5: Look for Mark's car, and I could see it a

767
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 5: few cars down. When I approached, I could smell the liquor.

768
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 5: I found Mark passed out behind the wheel, the engine

769
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 5: still running, and a pill bottle in his right hand.

770
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 2: Uh. That's not the safest way to drive. No, yikes.

771
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 5: Something told me to check the trunk, where I found

772
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 5: Mark's suitcase and opened it. No clothing, nothing at all

773
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 5: except my phone, my wallet, every purse I owned, and

774
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 5: my car keys. Mark denied having a drinking or prescription

775
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 5: pill problem for months at this point, and this was

776
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:03,760
Speaker 5: my final straw.

777
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 2: This felt like controlling behavior and I was having none

778
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 2: of it.

779
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 5: This was one of the cusp of many other recent incidents,

780
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 5: including Mark ruining my bachelorette party, where I was with

781
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 5: my friends and two of his for several days in

782
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 5: a cabin. Mark called me incessantly, then sent me blasts

783
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 5: of angry texts when I didn't answer. When I called back,

784
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 5: he wanted to know what I wanted from the grocery store.

785
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 2: I kid you not. Yeah, sounds like you might be

786
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 2: a little unstable, given that he's also an active addiction. Yeah.

787
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 5: It would take me an hour to describe what else happened,

788
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 5: but it led me to realize that I was about

789
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 5: to marry a self absorbed person with serious issues which

790
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,320
Speaker 5: he was in serious denial about.

791
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 2: His wrisk taking behaviors were out of control.

792
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 5: I gave Mark back the ring, moved out and changed

793
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 5: my number, leaving the dress in the closet and four

794
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 5: years of harmful relationship behind me. Whoo, I've learned the

795
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 5: hard way that when you're dealing with a self absorbed person,

796
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 5: if you embarrass them, you better be ready for payback.

797
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 5: Well Mark did anything and everything he could to embarrass

798
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 5: me back for calling off the wedding, including openly crying

799
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 5: in our small town barrows about oh I dumped him

800
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 5: for someone else?

801
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 2: Not true, which, by the way, that's actually the perfect

802
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 2: way to do that. See how he said dumped me. Yeah,

803
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 2: he's nothing, he need it on him. Yeah, I actually

804
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,399
Speaker 2: realized I like this guy. I probably shouldn't beata. Any

805
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 2: guy doesn't even know how to man. Forget this guy dude.

806
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, honestly, he can go cry and make a

807
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 5: fool of himself. You just need to, you know, if

808
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 5: someone brings him up to you can be like, yeah,

809
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 5: he I realized he was having a whole thing with

810
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 5: himself that he needed to deal with.

811
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 2: I'm not going to touch that. Yeah, but otherwise just

812
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,479
Speaker 2: let him let him, you know, go cry in the town.

813
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, he lived with me, oh rent free for half

814
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 5: our relationship.

815
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say he lived now currently.

816
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 5: I was like, ah, well, you change companies and started

817
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 5: from the bottom up again. Mark and went so far

818
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 5: as to have cigars made up with our names and

819
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 5: wedding dates on them and pass them around at a

820
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 5: huge party in our town, joking that he may as

821
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 5: well use them if they're going to go to waste.

822
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 2: Let me be clear, we never ordered these for our wedding.

823
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 5: Okay, Since he had no way to contact me, I

824
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 5: just ignored the antics and figured they'd pass away.

825
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 2: Eventually.

826
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,760
Speaker 5: I even got rid of social media so I wouldn't

827
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 5: have to hear any more small town tales, though I

828
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 5: ruined Mark's life. About two years into my relationship with Mark,

829
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 5: and just after we got engaged, things with my toxic

830
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 5: family got really out of hand. Mark told me that

831
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 5: I should just cut off my talks of family, and

832
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 5: I agreed, and I did. Even when I called off

833
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,760
Speaker 5: the wedding to Mark, I stayed as strange for my family.

834
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 5: I actually ended up reaching out to my family years

835
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 5: later when I was getting engaged to someone new, and

836
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 5: within minutes of hanging out with my dad to tell

837
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 5: him I'd like to meet up, Mark texted me. Within

838
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 5: minutes of talking to your dad, Yeah, that's awfully suspicious.

839
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, your dad gave him that number. Yep, yep on

840
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 2: my new number. Oh yikes, your.

841
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 5: Dad, Well, we already know that you were cutting off

842
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 5: your family. Seems like you made the right decision, and

843
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 5: that when I asked him where he got the number,

844
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 5: he said, you're dad.

845
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: Well, at least he's honest.

846
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 5: I can't even begin to tell you how my entire

847
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 5: world came crashing down in that moment. My dad confirmed

848
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,399
Speaker 5: that he had been in touch with Mark the entire time,

849
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 5: including the two years that I wasn't speaking with my

850
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 5: family while I was still engaged and wedding planning with Mark.

851
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 2: I explained, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait,

852
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 2: the guy who told you you should be cutting off

853
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 2: your whole family still talk to your dad and he's like,

854
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 2: you should get them cut him off.

855
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's like, you should cut them off. But I'm

856
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 5: I like him, so I'm going to stick around. Where

857
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 5: do they build this guy the silly boy factory, This

858
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 5: silly boy nonsense factory. I explained to my dad that

859
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 5: this was deeply painful to me that they were in touch,

860
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 5: and summarized all of the mental I had endured from Mark.

861
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 5: I explained to my dad that Mark was pills and

862
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 5: denying having a problem with it. My dad said that

863
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 5: he didn't believe me about the or the pills, that

864
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 5: he wouldn't stop being friends with.

865
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 2: Mark, and that they were now best friends. Are you

866
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 2: sure there's no way? I said that at the same

867
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 2: moment that came.

868
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,280
Speaker 5: It's funny, so much so, in fact, that they regularly

869
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 5: go on vacations together.

870
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 2: What the frick the dads are like? I found a

871
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 2: pal you're trying to take from me. Friendship comes in

872
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 2: all shapes and sizes, Buddy, you could be friends with

873
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 2: anyone else on everyone else you know. You could try

874
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 2: to be friends with, like George Clooney or something. Please,

875
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 2: I would rather you bother George than be with this guy.

876
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 5: That last part really irks me. I carried a lot

877
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 5: of guilt about cutting off my toxic family, but in

878
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 5: that single moment of time, I knew that it was

879
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 5: the right decision for me. I did not include my

880
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 5: family at my wedding and just carried on with life

881
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 5: without them, as I had been doing. About two years

882
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 5: after my wedding to my husband, my siblings reached out

883
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 5: to me and told me that one of our siblings

884
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 5: was severely ill and suggested that I come right away.

885
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 5: My husband and I drove back to my hometown to

886
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 5: meet up with my family for what I thought might

887
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 5: be the final time I would see my sibling. It

888
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 5: was a very uncomfortable drive down to see my family,

889
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 5: whom I hadn't seen in almost a decade. The whole

890
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 5: time I kept worrying that somehow Mark would be there,

891
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 5: but I didn't want to ask my family, if he

892
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 5: would be seeing my sibling felt like the most important priority.

893
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 5: When the door opened at my dad's house again, my

894
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 5: entire world came crashing down. What I saw in front

895
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 5: of me was even worse than seeing Mark. There in

896
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 5: front of me was every single piece of furniture from

897
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 5: the house that I shared with Mark. Back when we

898
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 5: were splitting. I told Mark that I never wanted to

899
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 5: see any furniture or any memory from our time together,

900
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 5: and that I was needing a fresh start and thus

901
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 5: leaving it all behind. Big mistake. Like a classic self

902
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 5: absorbed person, he made sure that I would see that

903
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 5: furniture again when I least expected.

904
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 2: Oh no, he plotted.

905
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 5: He was like, Oh, she's not gonna expect the furniture

906
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 5: to be in a parent's house.

907
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 2: I used in the bathroom at Great and Barrol. He

908
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 2: just starts leaving.

909
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 5: He goes to like all the places that she goes to,

910
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 5: like all the restaurants and stuff, and leaves like a

911
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 5: vase that they had the saltshakers, just on a table,

912
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 5: and she's like that looks so familiar, and she's going crazy.

913
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 2: She's like, why is the baby grand piano in Chipotle?

914
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 5: He gifted it all to my dad, including the bed

915
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 5: that we slept on crossis literally burn that.

916
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 2: Like, honestly, wtf.

917
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 5: I tried so hard to just ignore all of this

918
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 5: and focus on spending time with my siblings. Thankfully, my

919
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 5: siblings did pull through, and the joy of that led

920
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 5: me to want to try again with my family. Not

921
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 5: too long after this for kindling with my siblings and

922
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 5: my dad, my family threw my dad a major milestone

923
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 5: birthday party, but they didn't because Mark was invited and

924
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 5: they apparently didn't want to make him and his fiance uncomfortable.

925
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 2: What what are we taught? Where are your family? Why

926
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 2: are your family actively insane? Which one is your kid? Dad?

927
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 2: Which one is the child that is yours?

928
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 5: I found out that Mark had spent every holiday with

929
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 5: my family for years at this point. Not too long

930
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 5: after that birthday party, Mark got married and my dad

931
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 5: was a groomsman in his wedding.

932
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 2: This is crazy, that's honestly, pathetically, that's oh my god.

933
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 5: Does anyone else think this is like really weird and

934
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 5: sort of bad luck for Mark's new marriage?

935
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:38,959
Speaker 2: Yeah?

936
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 5: After about four years of family things happening which I

937
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 5: wasn't invited to, and a few more failed attempts to

938
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 5: get my dad to understand why his friendship with Mark

939
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 5: was so painful for me. I came to the conclusion

940
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 5: that this was a losing battle. I stopped trying to

941
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 5: explain myself. I just stepped away slowly, again feeling betrayed

942
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 5: by my parent. Well, but here's where things get interesting.

943
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 5: My sibling told me that my dad and Mark's friendship

944
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 5: came to an end when Mark's wife found substances in

945
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 5: his bag. Apparently Mark cold called my dad asking if

946
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 5: Mark could come by to get my dad back at

947
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 5: the substances that accidentally got in Mark's bag. Ooh while

948
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 5: visiting my dad, and my dad refused to lie for

949
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 5: Mark and say that they were his. I mean, at

950
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 5: least he draws the line at being, you know, accused

951
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 5: of taking.

952
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 2: The fall for this, which I bet you he didn't

953
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 2: even know about that.

954
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

955
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 5: Apparently Mark's wife is filing for divorce.

956
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. There is a little bit left

957
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 2: to this story. Do you have any final thoughts? Oh? Yeah,

958
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 2: addictions crazy, Yeah, I feel like we don't even know

959
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 2: what this guy really is.

960
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, And I think that it seems like, oh,

961
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 5: his dad is finally being like, oh, he is addicted

962
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 5: because he originally said I like, oh, I don't believe you.

963
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 2: That's not true. That's not true.

964
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 5: So now he has proof coming from Mark that that's true,

965
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 5: that Mark has a problem, and so I wonder how

966
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 5: he'll react to this. But there's a little bit left

967
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 5: to the story. With Mark out of the picture, it

968
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 5: felt like a good idea to get close to my

969
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 5: dad again, and I started to call him more. It

970
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 5: didn't take long before I learned that my dad and

971
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 5: Mark made up and Mark is back in the picture. Wow,

972
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 5: that was easy, And now I feel myself backing away,

973
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 5: But it feels like for good. I think you need

974
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 5: to Am I wrong for not wanting to stay connected

975
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 5: to my dad and just stepping away for good now

976
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,280
Speaker 5: that Mark is again back of the picture.

977
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 2: Am I the AO for not just getting over it already?

978
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 2: Leaving is how you get over this? Yeah, you need

979
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 2: to leave.

980
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 5: This isn't fixable because your dad doesn't want to fix it.

981
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 5: He wants to actively make it worse. He has no

982
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 5: desire to have a relationship with you because he cares

983
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 5: more about his relationship with Mark. But that, folks, is

984
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,720
Speaker 5: the end of that story. You're not the ALP. Please

985
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 5: don't continue to try and have a relationship with a

986
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 5: person who doesn't care about you.

987
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,200
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988
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:08,360
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989
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,400
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991
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 2: I started growing gray hairs because of how difficult my

992
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 2: parents were being. You're making me age. My son's high

993
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 2: school graduation was earlier this week. I had invited my parents,

994
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 2: both in their late seventies, at the beginning of the year.

995
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 2: They kept sea sawing oncoming or not coming. Eventually they

996
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 2: agreed to come like three weeks before their graduation, which okay,

997
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,040
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998
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,600
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1001
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 2: the schedule was pretty clear to them. Ceremony starts at

1002
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 2: X doors open an hour beforehand. Be there fifteen minutes

1003
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 2: before that because that is when parking opens up. Parking

1004
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 2: is going to fill up quickly because over two hundred

1005
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 2: and fifty kids were graduating, and you know, some of

1006
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: these kids had about seven generations of family showing up.

1007
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 2: Dang okay. I told them to meet me at the

1008
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 2: parking garage at the fifteen minutes before doors open mark.

1009
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 2: So what do they do leave their hotel located twenty

1010
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 2: five minutes away one minute before that. I got witched

1011
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 2: at for not waiting for them, even though fifteen minutes

1012
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 2: after the doors opened it was turning into standing room only.

1013
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 2: When we realized they weren't going to be here and

1014
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 2: parked by the time the doors opened, my husband, other

1015
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,959
Speaker 2: kid and I went to go wait in the line, which,

1016
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 2: thank goodness we did, because about five minutes later, the

1017
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 2: line was down the street to the next block over.

1018
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 2: They wanted us to come back out to get them,

1019
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 2: which was impossible because the sea of people were all

1020
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 2: pushing one way. Not about to battle an entire army

1021
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 2: of people to get back out. No other way out either.

1022
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 2: We were lucky to get the seats we did, because

1023
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 2: by the time my parents texted they had arrived, it

1024
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 2: was turning into standing room being the only thing left.

1025
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 2: Is that normal? What kind of ceremony is this? I'm confused.

1026
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 2: My mom then spent the entire first part of the

1027
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 2: ceremony people watching with a super judgy face on. She

1028
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 2: kept telling my other kid that the lady with all

1029
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: the piercings and tattoos probably doesn't have a job going

1030
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 2: nowhere in life. Blah blah blah blah blah, what a

1031
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 2: fun person. I shushed her and got the look, which

1032
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:34,839
Speaker 2: no longer affects me since I just spent the last

1033
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 2: eighteen years improving the look. Also, for some reason, my

1034
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 2: son's full middle name didn't get read out. They just

1035
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 2: said his initial instead. I don't know why or how

1036
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 2: it got missed, but I nearly missed getting pictures of

1037
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 2: my son getting his diploma on stage because she was

1038
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 2: witching about it. Some pictures turned out blurry because she

1039
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 2: kept smacking my arm. Luckily my husband got some pictures,

1040
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 2: but like holy f I would have cried if we

1041
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 2: didn't get some sort of decent picture. She snapped in

1042
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 2: my other kid because we did the whole whoo. I mean,

1043
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,320
Speaker 2: his name was called compared to the other people in

1044
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 2: the arena. I doubt he even heard us because it

1045
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 2: was just me and the other kid. Husband couldn't because

1046
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 2: he was trying to line up shots around people walking

1047
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 2: in front of us. And his brain couldn't do two

1048
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 2: things at once.

1049
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 3: Lol.

1050
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 2: I've always thought that's the dumbest thing ever. Did they

1051
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 2: do that at your greg? Ho are you're not allowed

1052
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 2: to cheer for each individual? I'm sorry you're gonna have

1053
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 2: to like literally shut all the way up about that, dude.

1054
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't like that either. I understand that they're like,

1055
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 5: we're trying to be quick and we'll cheer at the end,

1056
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 5: but like, well, the parents are got to.

1057
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 2: Cheer for two seconds.

1058
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 5: The one problem I think it should just be like,

1059
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 5: if it's not your kid, don't cheer for them.

1060
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 2: It's just like, what, like, what are we supposed to

1061
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 2: be just like lizard robot people?

1062
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's sally parents individual parents to like

1063
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 5: shout for their child.

1064
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 2: Anyway, one of the kids speakers, who's I mean, maybe

1065
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 2: class president, I don't know, was talking about evolution and

1066
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 2: how we got to the point we were at today.

1067
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 2: Classic speech. Yeah, my mom complained about.

1068
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 5: That they should be thinking God, God, God them here.

1069
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 2: Thanks mom, not even a Christian school mother, but anyway,

1070
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 2: she also complained because some of the young ladies were

1071
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 2: wearing head scarves. They let them in this school, like

1072
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,240
Speaker 2: Jesus Christmas on a cracker. It's an effing public school.

1073
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 5: Mom.

1074
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 2: There's still people just like you, though probably less of

1075
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 2: a witch bag. Also got comments from her about the

1076
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 2: kids with green hair, blue hair, purple hair, and one

1077
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 2: girl with clothes. They're just going nowhere in life clown clothes. Dude,

1078
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 2: wherever you are in life, Grandma, I don't want to

1079
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 2: be there. I do not want to be going towards

1080
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 2: your end of the life. I want to mark exactly

1081
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,479
Speaker 2: where you're at, so all the way around.

1082
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 4: I want to go to this high school graduation. Sorry,

1083
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 4: someone had a clown clothes. That's kind of sick, said

1084
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 4: at the same time. So, Grandma, they just graduated, their

1085
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 4: life is just starting. Girl with the clown clothes was

1086
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 4: wearing a bunch of the different graduation chords and had

1087
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 4: her name on the program with several scholarships listed. Pointedly

1088
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 4: told my other kid, and this is why we don't

1089
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 4: judge people based on their looks. They have tried to

1090
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 4: talk my son out of going to his choice of college.

1091
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 4: They think it's going to be too far away from me.

1092
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 2: Once we drop them off, we have to move across

1093
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 2: the country because military orders, and that it is in

1094
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 2: a bad part of town. They're trying to paint some

1095
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 2: picture that my son is going to be, you know,

1096
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 2: left for the vultures. The city the school is in

1097
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 2: has some crime, obviously, but the college itself has released

1098
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 2: their safety reports and haven't had much issues. Or I

1099
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 2: used her favorite line when I voice a worry, I

1100
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 2: think it's all left to God. It's funny. I'm not

1101
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 2: even religious or Christian anymore, and honestly, that is some

1102
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 2: of the best advice you can get. Managed to get

1103
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 2: the look again when I said that they're here for

1104
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 2: the rest of the weekend. We have another promotion ceremony

1105
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 2: for other kid this weekend, eighth grade, so send help.

1106
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 2: I think dealing with them has given me gray hairs.

1107
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 2: And there's an update.

1108
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 5: I mean, Bay, I think honestly, Okay, the thing is,

1109
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 5: I think your mom sucks, but I think this is

1110
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 5: like very like someone said in the chat. They were like,

1111
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 5: this is so like older mother daughter fight. Yeah that

1112
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 5: is yeah, she's like this like super like, which does

1113
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,919
Speaker 5: not excuse it. But she's that annoying conservative family member

1114
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 5: that you have that's always like yeah, and you have

1115
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 5: to like stop and then like you kind of get

1116
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 5: that little dig in or about the you know, it's

1117
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 5: up to God.

1118
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 4: And yeah, if you don't have anything nice to say

1119
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 4: anything at all, Yeah, just sit there and twiddle your thumbs.

1120
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 2: Yep. Update, I have gotten a few dms from people

1121
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 2: wondering if I made it through my parents visit. Well

1122
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 2: here I am. I did make it through, but my

1123
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 2: relationship with my mother did not. Oo rough sounds like

1124
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 2: it's probably for the best.

1125
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 5: Honestly, she sounds like she's stuck in her ways.

1126
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 2: We are currently not on speaking terms. Well, to be

1127
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 2: more specific, I'm not on speaking terms with her, and

1128
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 2: she has been refusing to accept that. The weekend after

1129
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,879
Speaker 2: my post, we had made plans to meet at ten am.

1130
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 2: They showed up at eight am, ready to go with

1131
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 2: no place to go. They made plans to stay for

1132
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,439
Speaker 2: so long, but made zero plans to fill that time,

1133
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 2: thinking I would magically come up with something to do

1134
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,439
Speaker 2: at eight am on a Saturday morning, like I can't

1135
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 2: even think straight due to lack of coffee at this hour.

1136
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,240
Speaker 2: I am not a morning person and have no idea

1137
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 2: where my bra is, but sure I'll pull out something

1138
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,479
Speaker 2: to do from my butt. They were just like, let's

1139
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 2: just do what you would normally would do on a weekend,

1140
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 2: which number one, it would be physically impossible for them

1141
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 2: to do, considering my mother probably needed a walker a

1142
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 2: decade ago, but refuses to use it because it ages her.

1143
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 2: And two, they have no interest in video games or

1144
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 2: board games. I already tried getting them to play a

1145
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 2: board game previously and my mom stuck her nose up

1146
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 2: at that. And three lots to do here, but ninety

1147
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 2: five percent of the thing's worth doing are outdoors. My

1148
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 2: mom cries her head off if it's over seventy one

1149
00:53:55,719 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 2: degrees outside. It's always I'm melting it's too hot, Like

1150
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:06,399
Speaker 2: she's the wicked witch of the Midwest. It's funny. I like, Okay,

1151
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,760
Speaker 2: you are cooking, right, cooking right now, man, you're cooking. Also,

1152
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 2: my family and I don't really go out every weekend.

1153
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 2: We like being home. We like being alone. I think

1154
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 2: you just don't like people. So there, I was scouring

1155
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 2: the internet for things to do with elderly people who

1156
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 2: can't walk in our area and still getting hit with

1157
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 2: go hike here are there all over there, while wondering

1158
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 2: if parent daycare was a thing. Mom was chatting with

1159
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 2: my husband when she decided to start talking about her

1160
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 2: favorite subject, Ema Ima my stepsister slash her stepdaughter. But

1161
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 2: the way she gushes about Emma makes you think Emma

1162
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 2: craps gold nuggets and pukes diamonds, emeralds, and rubies, all

1163
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 2: while having the cure to cancer in her head. While

1164
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 2: our parents got married, she kept asking me, why can't

1165
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 2: you be more like Emma? Like, I don't know, Mom,

1166
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 2: maybe because I'm still a teenager while Emma is pushing thirty.

1167
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 5: That's totally insane to be, like, why get a sixteen

1168
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 5: year old, I'll be more like an adult.

1169
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:06,399
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. And then the teenager's like, because she's she's

1170
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 2: twice my age, she's thirty, she's my age times two. Naturally,

1171
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 2: Emma was going to be more ahead in life. But

1172
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 2: from the day they married until now, I was constantly

1173
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 2: compared to Emma, told to be like Emma, and occasionally

1174
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 2: called Emma. When I had a mental breakdown in my

1175
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 2: early twenties and ended up in the psych word, I

1176
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 2: was told to get over it or turn it over

1177
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 2: to God. But when Emma had a similar situation, it

1178
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:32,399
Speaker 2: was all she needs all the help she can get.

1179
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 2: Emma Mary's a crap stain of a man who mistreated her,

1180
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 2: and my mom is ready to scorch the world. But

1181
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 2: when I was dating a guy who turned out to

1182
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 2: be harmful, it was my fault. You get the idea

1183
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:46,439
Speaker 2: double standards. Yeah, I have no real issue with Emma,

1184
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 2: though it took me quite a bit in therapy to

1185
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 2: get to the point where I'm no longer resenting her.

1186
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 2: These days, we're mainly Facebook friends, liking each other's random photos.

1187
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,839
Speaker 2: So she's gushing to my husband about Emma. I'm only

1188
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 2: half listening until I hear her say, clear as effing day,

1189
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 2: Emma is like the daughter I never had. Ooh ooh

1190
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 2: you sure about that? That's tough, man, you have a daughter? Yeah,

1191
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,399
Speaker 2: and I'd go I'd go knock, knock, knock, what's in there?

1192
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 2: A bunch of rocks? We had to take you to

1193
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 2: the home. You don't even remember I'm your daughter. Let's

1194
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 2: go get you a neurological profile. Yeah, that would actually,

1195
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 2: I think be the best way to do. Take it

1196
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 2: extremely seriously, because she definitely said this on purpose to

1197
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,959
Speaker 2: hurt you, So you not need to take this probably

1198
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 2: really seriously like a doctor. This is the age that

1199
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 2: it happens, you're probably exhibiting early signs of dementia. Let's

1200
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,720
Speaker 2: get you to the hospital, right early onset Alzheimer's. I'm

1201
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 2: getting Angry'd be like, nope, this is what happens to.

1202
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:43,959
Speaker 2: People get mad when they develop Alzheimer's. They start getting

1203
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 2: angry at you. We're getting the car, I'm getting you

1204
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 2: in the car, calling the police, calling the hospital, just

1205
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 2: to bother her because she deserves it. My husband and

1206
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 2: her husband went deer in the headlights, shocked. My son

1207
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 2: eighteen said, wtf. It took my daughter fourteen a few

1208
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,239
Speaker 2: seconds long, and it probably that's what she heard, but

1209
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 2: even she caught it. And she's not a morning person either.

1210
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,800
Speaker 2: I basically just said, well, I guess that's that. You

1211
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:10,320
Speaker 2: can get the f out now, dang saying all that business.

1212
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 2: That's also in a very appropriate respont but're like, oh,

1213
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 2: you don't have a daughter. I guess you can't be

1214
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 2: in my house anymore. By yeah, of course, I was

1215
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 2: hit by the oh what what did I do? What happened?

1216
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 2: I was hit by that bit. My son repeated what

1217
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 2: she said, so she started her gaslighting. BS, you took

1218
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 2: it the wrong way. That's not what I meant. And

1219
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 2: then you say, what do you mean? What did you mean?

1220
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 2: The only thing that that means is no, no, no,

1221
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 2: not the daughter I never had. It's just I wish

1222
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 2: that this person was like it. I wish you were

1223
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 2: like this person instead of all the things that you

1224
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 2: are and the way that you be. I wish you

1225
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 2: were a totally different person. That's what I meant. Yeah, yeah,

1226
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 2: I think with the help of those who commented on

1227
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 2: my last post, I shined up my backbone a little

1228
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 2: because I just told her to get the f out.

1229
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 2: My husband says, I told her, if you don't have

1230
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 2: a daughter, then why the f I have some crusty

1231
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 2: old farts in my house, and threatened to throw all

1232
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 2: of her crap out the window. I don't remember saying

1233
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 2: any of that, but my son backs it up. I

1234
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 2: don't remember a lot in a few minutes it took

1235
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 2: to get her tossed out. Oh, he's like, I blacked out.

1236
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 2: I just went full hulk on her. Yeah, she was gone.

1237
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 2: I mean makes sense after you put up with her

1238
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 2: antics like at the graduation, well, your whole life. She

1239
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 2: had literally from the geta fair After she finally left

1240
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 2: my house, I broke down crying and got sick. Yeah,

1241
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 2: I don't do confrontation very well. She keeps trying to call, text,

1242
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 2: and email me, and my husband managed to get her

1243
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 2: blocked on my phone, so at least I don't get

1244
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 2: bombarded with calls and text anymore. She was call and

1245
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 2: text boming me the first day before I blocked her,

1246
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 2: I had over fifty missed calls and forty text messages

1247
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 2: from her. She also managed to fill up my voicemail,

1248
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 2: not that I listened to any of it. Husband deleted

1249
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 2: all of them for me too. W husband. Yeah, she

1250
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 2: only has my old email account that I use for

1251
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 2: spam now, so I'm not really seeing those either. Though

1252
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 2: last I looked over a week ago, there were around

1253
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 2: twenty emails just from her. I'm starting to get a

1254
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 2: few letters in the snail mail from her too, so

1255
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 2: little joy. I guess she told some sob story to

1256
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 2: Emma too, because she reached out to me. Luckily, she

1257
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 2: listened to my side and just told me good for you,

1258
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 2: thanks Emma. Yeah. See, Emma's not so bad. She just

1259
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 2: is the favorite. It's not her fault. I was just

1260
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 2: that victim of like, yeah, have you ever had that

1261
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 2: moment where someone's like, yeah, that person rocks and you're

1262
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 2: like no, no, no, don't like me person.

1263
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 4: Stop.

1264
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 2: Oh stop.

1265
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:36,480
Speaker 5: It It's like when, yeah, like when someone's like who

1266
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 5: you hate loves a person and you're like, well, I

1267
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 5: gotta hate this person, and then you were like, oh wait, no,

1268
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 5: they're cool today.

1269
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. So she also told me she has never been

1270
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 2: a huge fan of my mom for reasons like this,

1271
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 2: Emma's ema, but she only plays nice and stays civil

1272
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 2: for her dad's sake. It made me feel a little

1273
00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 2: better knowing that Saint Emma dislikes her too. I mean,

1274
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:03,919
Speaker 2: we're almost at the end here. I gotta say, yeah,

1275
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 2: I think you can keep ignoring her. I yeah, I

1276
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 2: think that you're better off.

1277
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 5: I think there are certain situations where you have a

1278
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 5: frustrating family member and you can kind of just you know,

1279
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 5: not focus on them, but still have them in your life.

1280
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 5: In this case, I think it's gotten to a point

1281
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 5: where literally everything she does is just hurtful and mean

1282
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 5: and frustrating and annoying. And it's like I don't even

1283
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 5: want her. I don't like it's doing nothing for me

1284
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 5: or my kids to have her around. So until she

1285
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 5: learns how to not be a narcissist. She can go

1286
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 5: off and sit in a corner by herself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be really hard for do that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's finish this story. I was a mess for about

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Speaker 2: a week after everything happened. I still am a mess,

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Speaker 2: but less so. My husband and kids have been working

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Speaker 2: hard to distract me, and I have been keeping up

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Speaker 2: with my therapy sessions every week. She even got me

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Speaker 2: in for an emergency session next Monday. Luckily, my summer

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Speaker 2: is about to get busy.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 2: Husband is taking a month off, having a garage sale,

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Speaker 2: preparing to move to a new state, getting my son

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Speaker 2: ready for college, so I will have plenty to do

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Speaker 2: to keep my mind off things. I did tell my

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Speaker 2: kids they were allowed to have a relationship with either

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Speaker 2: grandma or grandpa, but they were both like nah, they

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Speaker 2: made my mom cry. Yeah, w kids, and then they

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Speaker 2: just proceeded to kick my button Mario Kart, which they

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Speaker 2: will do. The kids do that. Kids have a habit.

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Speaker 2: The kids they yet But folks, that's the end of

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Speaker 2: that story and the end of that episode. So if

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Speaker 2: you love us, make sure to subscribe. We love you

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