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Speaker 3: My mother has booked her hotel room next to us

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Speaker 3: getting married in August next year. I want to be

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Speaker 3: I'm Riley, and we're here to mix y'all up. And

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Speaker 3: you don't know what's going on, but if you figure

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Speaker 3: it out, put it in the comments. And Opie says,

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Speaker 3: my father gifted me and my future husband a sweet

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Speaker 3: to stay in during the wedding at one of the

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Speaker 3: finest hotels in my town. Oh la lah wowie. When

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Speaker 3: my mom found out that we got a sweet from

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Speaker 3: my dad, she booked two suits in the same hotel

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Speaker 3: for her, my stepdad and my brother.

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Speaker 4: Why without asking why?

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Speaker 3: And also, let's not have her home. I feel like,

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Speaker 3: you know what, honeymoon out out of the town. Let's

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Speaker 3: venture a little bit. Further agreed, she made a big

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Speaker 3: deal that my abbie and I picked our sweet first,

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Speaker 3: so she wouldn't reserve that sweet by mistake. My parents

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Speaker 3: have been divorced for twenty three years, and I've been

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Speaker 3: doing petty things like this to one up each other

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Speaker 3: my whole life. So it's nothing new and I'm just

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Speaker 3: shaking it off and continuing with my life. Can we

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Speaker 3: just chill for a day, Yeah, just one day, Just

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Speaker 3: one day, guys, come on. Yesterday Mom called me and

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Speaker 3: They're so service oriented. They said it wouldn't be a

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Speaker 3: problem to book her suite right next to you in

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Speaker 3: Hobby's suite. They're two service oriented. You need to call

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Speaker 3: the hotel and be like, hey, you need to service

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Speaker 3: me because my mom is gonna be next to me

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Speaker 3: on my honeymoon. I like this on my wedding night.

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Speaker 1: I like this angle. I also feel like this woman

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Speaker 1: is kind of superstitious.

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Speaker 1: I just got into my suite. There are cameras everywhere.

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Speaker 3: bugs bed bugs, bed bugs. I found terrible reviews online.

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Speaker 3: I'm not staying there anymore. Yes, yeah, and I did

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Speaker 3: remember this is this is wedding night, so I guess

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Speaker 3: you can't go out of town for wedding night. Quite honestly,

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Speaker 3: don't know if I'm oversensitive or being unreasonable, but if

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Speaker 3: the hotel to prevent this and at it. Thank you

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Speaker 3: for the support everyone. I try to answer it as

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Speaker 3: many of you as possible, but I thought I would

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Speaker 3: answer some common questions here. The hotel cannot move my

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Speaker 3: not release my information to her. Mom knew exactly which

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Speaker 3: don't want to let my mom chase me away. Many

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Speaker 3: of you suggest I just talked to her. That won't

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Speaker 1: Oh so she's the problem and.

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Speaker 3: We've got an update. But uh, what do you think

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Speaker 1: I get that you don't want to switch hotels. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: It might be I was gonna say, have a full

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Speaker 3: And unfortunately it seems like those are both the options

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Speaker 3: have a different room on the opposite side of the hotel?

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Speaker 1: Please?

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Speaker 3: Is there anything?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what's your partner saying? That's a big question too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, here's my thing too. One more thing to end

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Speaker 1: remove on. Of course, why are we not on an

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Speaker 3: Yes? How did she know that you were going to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, because they won up each other a lot,

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Speaker 1: How one opening the ex husband is by getting a

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Speaker 1: sweet right at the sign of your daughter, Yeah, good night.

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Speaker 5: Because guess what ex husband I get to I get

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Speaker 5: to hang out with her when she's in your suite

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Speaker 5: that you bought for her. But I got three suites

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Speaker 3: I don't know. You could make her pay for it wild,

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Speaker 1: Make sure the rooms aren't connected.

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Speaker 3: But we got an update. Yes, I'm a doormat. All

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Speaker 3: of your comments were very helpful, but especially one person

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Speaker 5: This is what you tell your This is what you

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Speaker 5: that night. Either it's gonna be us, or it's gonna

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Speaker 3: And that was the wake up call I needed. I

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Speaker 3: It was very clear that I needed to talk to

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Speaker 1: Oh god, I have a very simple practice you can

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Speaker 3: Therefore, I did not dare to talk to her directly,

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Speaker 3: but I wrote to her nice, Okay, she can't twist

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Speaker 3: your words if you're not there. Me, I've been thinking

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Speaker 3: and I'm not really comfortable with it being so close.

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Speaker 3: Mom says, When did we talk about it? Me gives

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Speaker 3: a description of when we last spoke. Mom. I told

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Speaker 3: Oh guess what, You're right next to me, oh, he says.

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Speaker 3: Saying as close as possible feels like saying I want

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Speaker 3: I said as close to you as possile. I never

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Speaker 3: said next to you too, Opie. No, but it can

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Speaker 3: be perceived that way. Mom, But I never said that.

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Speaker 3: When would have said that in that case? Me, stepdad

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Speaker 3: and your brothers just wanted a room near you.

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Speaker 1: Uh, you said it's close as possible.

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Speaker 3: Me, it's okay, but not next to me. In my

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Speaker 3: I'm having spicy sleep, crazy style.

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Speaker 1: I'm having the shibunco of my lifo.

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Speaker 3: And people people four rooms down, I gotta hear it.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna try and make you a grandma that night.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be as loud as possible, and if you're near,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna fornice until my knees break.

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Speaker 3: And you're gonna hear that. We talked some more on

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Speaker 3: another occasion, and she's only convinced that the hotel understands

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Speaker 3: that she does not mean the room next to us,

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Speaker 3: I asked if she has spoken to the hotel about it,

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Speaker 1: They did it for at freaking time.

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Speaker 3: I'm just calling the hotel and asking for a new room.

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Speaker 3: If you really want to stay at that place, please,

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Speaker 3: is there any other way that we can have a

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Speaker 5: Look, Yeah, and not tell her the room number, because

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Speaker 5: if she knows your room number, I'm telling her that

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Speaker 5: we moved the room. Yeah, I'm not telling her anything,

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Speaker 5: but if she knows your room number, she's gonna be

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Speaker 5: knocking on that yeah all night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, hear me out, easy fix. Yeah. Talk to

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Speaker 1: whoever's in customer service at the hotel room. Yes, tell

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Speaker 1: them this story. Yes, tell them you don't want to

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Speaker 1: be a victim of this. They will do. They will

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Speaker 1: be like, girl, I got you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this is juicy t Thank you for making

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Speaker 1: my night. Yeah, I got your back.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: This is a street of a story.

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Speaker 3: They got to anyone.

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Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. If you were the manager

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Speaker 1: of this hotel and you heard this, when you do

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Speaker 1: anything in your power to make sure this doesn't happen, Oh,

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Speaker 1: you're evil.

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Speaker 4: The other driver one I'll give popcorn ready. I'm like, dang,

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Speaker 4: this is kind of crazy.

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Speaker 1: Actually I didn't think about that.

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Speaker 4: This is kind of crazy.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell everyone that works you keep an eye

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Speaker 5: on these two rooms weeks now. I would, I would

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Speaker 5: obviously help, But if things don't go that way, I'm

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Speaker 5: telling everyone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, up date too, Hey, fellow redditors gather around for

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Speaker 3: a story that reads like a reality TV show crossed

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Speaker 4: Gothel Oh okay, someone here has watched Tangle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, mother knows bens. Our relationship has always been strained

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Speaker 1: Oh oooo, that is promiscuous.

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Speaker 3: Armadu was simple, no stress, great food, a fabulous party,

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Speaker 3: Why did Mother Gothel leave before the appetizers? Do I

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Speaker 3: And whether she would be the best dressed of all?

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Speaker 3: According to mother gothel my stepdad should give his speech

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Speaker 3: We all thought that was a no brainer, but she

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Speaker 3: Of course, most of our family members and friends showed up. However,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet so, mm hmm, I'll be.

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Speaker 3: Just like, this is my wedding, Leave me alone, please

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're about to get wet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're a little busy. Mother Gothel didn't take kindly

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Speaker 3: for the time being. The ceremony was a masterpiece, exceeding

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Speaker 3: we returned, so almost all mingling time had evaporated and

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Speaker 7: Half's imagining, Yeah, just parched people in the desert like,

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Speaker 1: No, we wouldn't know.

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Speaker 3: We wouldn't know. My husband and I had very little

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Speaker 3: once again.

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Speaker 1: Displease, Oh my God, give us along.

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Speaker 3: This time it was because I hadn't devoted my time tour.

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Speaker 3: It's not your day.

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Speaker 1: Well it's okay. They're gonna hang out the hotel room.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, you're like, Mom, we got it. We'll be fine.

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Speaker 3: And because I hadn't abandoned my own wedding to have

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Speaker 1: I feel like it was a little bit of a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lot of different stuff.

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Speaker 4: I think we're all you put a line through it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's a bee. My dad and Mother Gofel couldn't

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Speaker 1: Oh wonder why dumb it?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't even think Mother Gothel is reaching out

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Speaker 1: It's true.

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Speaker 3: This arrangement placed mother Gothel and my stepdad apart. This

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Speaker 3: It's strange, uh, strangely. Mother Goffel wasn't upset about being

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Speaker 4: What are we gonna do?

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Speaker 1: Taken back her gifts?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, probably like two dollars?

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Speaker 1: How are we? This is not even love?

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, No, she doesn't care. She just wants to

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Speaker 1: So after seventeen years, come on at you in a

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Speaker 3: No, she doesn't care about not being next door her husband.

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Speaker 3: Oh anyway, I was furious, but I refuse to let

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Speaker 3: made of Honor. It's insane how she Gothel can do

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Speaker 3: I agree, it's her biggest day, and now she's in

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Speaker 1: No one's watching it girl.

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Speaker 3: From my table, I noticed my aunt walking up to

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Speaker 3: she's spreading she's spreading misinformation. The aunt is on Mother

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Speaker 1: No, you got me kids.

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Speaker 3: I caught up with them in the parking lot, clutching

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Speaker 3: They didn't want me to take it personally, but they

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Speaker 1: Well, they're not a gift if they haven't given it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, well, you didn't open them yet, so

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Speaker 1: Is basically open the air. Still, it does have your

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Speaker 3: They told me to see it from her perspective, it

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Speaker 1: What about the two times she got married?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great point. I won't drag this part out,

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Speaker 3: he went, I'm fine. The party afterward was an absolute blast.

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Speaker 1: Nice.

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Speaker 3: My dad and stepmom even turned the bar into an

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Speaker 3: a mine Nice. That prompted Mother Goffeld to check out

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Speaker 3: Woo. True, we've got a little bit left to this story.

442
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Speaker 3: Any final thoughts, R Yes, that was beautiful thought. I

443
00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,520
Speaker 3: made this all worked out well. You got a little

444
00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,920
Speaker 3: fun drama to tell people about on your wedding day.

445
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,240
Speaker 3: Everyone you didn't like left the wedding and you didn't

446
00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,400
Speaker 3: have to deal with your mom next to you.

447
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,080
Speaker 4: And you got to boink. We all allowed as you

448
00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:38,480
Speaker 4: wanted to.

449
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Speaker 1: You don't know that yet.

450
00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:40,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see.

451
00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:41,959
Speaker 1: It's two o'clock in the morning. She might be asleep.

452
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Speaker 5: No, No, the party don't stop until I walk in.

453
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 1: Yeah you walk in? Yeah, walk in the wood. Explain yourself.

454
00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,159
Speaker 3: So after the wedding, despite all that drama, I consider

455
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Speaker 3: my wedding day to be the happiest in my life.

456
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 1: Wow.

457
00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,159
Speaker 3: Now I'm married to the love of my life and

458
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 3: we will live happily ever after, side by side. As

459
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 3: for Goffel. At first I was boiling with rage, but

460
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,440
Speaker 3: now I find myself rather numb about the whole situation.

461
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 3: I haven't heard a word from her, and strangely, I

462
00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 3: feel oddly at peace with it. I'll continue to maintain

463
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 3: no contact with her, and if anyone asks, I just

464
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,920
Speaker 3: don't have a mother, Oh, just an incredibly awesome stepmom

465
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 3: who more than fills that role for me. Here's to

466
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,680
Speaker 3: moving forward and cherishing the family we choose. And that's

467
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 3: the end of the story.

468
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Speaker 1: There you go, dang, no more bio mom. But seems

469
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 1: like there's a reason. I mean, this is the reason.

470
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Speaker 1: But good for you. I'm glad you have support around you.

471
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have like a whole you know, family that's

472
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 3: besides her, that is willing to stand up for you

473
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 3: and be on your side. And now you got a husband.

474
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Speaker 1: I bet the real ones really showed themselves at your wedding.

475
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 3: Yes, and the other one's left.

476
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 4: I bet. I bet Op's dad was like I told you, so.

477
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't want to say I told you show,

478
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,119
Speaker 3: but that side of our serf, he can see us

479
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 3: signs here. But that's the end of that story. Yes,

480
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 3: my husband berated me for a grammar mistake, so I

481
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 3: reminded him He's not perfect either.

482
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Speaker 6: Nobody's perfect.

483
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Speaker 8: I gotta work it.

484
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Speaker 3: I thirty four female, met my thirty three male husband

485
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,360
Speaker 3: online and got married six years ago. I moved from

486
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Speaker 3: my home country to live with him in Japan. Since then,

487
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 3: he is Japanese and has a stable job there. And

488
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 3: on the other hand, I am a freelance illustrator, so

489
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 3: I was okay to move here. By the way, this

490
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Speaker 3: comes from Patient Lettuce thirty nine eighty three. And if

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Speaker 3: you want to smit your own stories, go to the

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Speaker 3: r slash Okay storytime severed it. I'm Sophia and I'm Savannah,

493
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Speaker 3: and we're here to give good advice goofy. But we

494
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Speaker 3: don't have all the answers. We only know what we'd do,

495
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,119
Speaker 3: So let us know what you would do in the comments.

496
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 3: And Opie says every day I use English with him.

497
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 3: Maybe you've already noticed, but English is not my first language,

498
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 3: so it's not perfect, and neither is my husband's English.

499
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 3: But at least we can communicate. I tried my best

500
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 3: to learn Japanese to be able to communicate with his

501
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:08,200
Speaker 3: friends and family, but Japanese is not an easy language.

502
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 3: I have to learn how to read Kanji, Hurgana, and

503
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:15,959
Speaker 3: Katakana from scratch by myself. During the VID twenty twenty,

504
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 3: we got money from the government and he bought me

505
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 3: some books and dictionaries, telling me to learn the language

506
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 3: more intensively. During the lockdown. He didn't teach me anything, though.

507
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 3: He said, since I could speak four languages, adding one

508
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 3: more language should be easy for me, Like technically yeah,

509
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 3: but also language it Yeah. Japanese is also like one

510
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 3: of the hardest languages, and it depends on what languages

511
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Speaker 3: you already knew, Like if you were coming from you

512
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 3: know the romantic languages, and then you went into Japanese,

513
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 3: probably a big switch. It's so nice that he didn't

514
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Speaker 3: offer to help you at all.

515
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Speaker 6: He bought her books.

516
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like read these. I tried, but it was

517
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 3: never good enough for him. He always said, my grammar sucks. Wow, Now,

518
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 3: how nice of your husband. But I do always have

519
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 3: a problem with grammar. As you can see, my English

520
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 3: grammar sucks too. He said, I should be able to

521
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 3: speak like a native at this point. So last year

522
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 3: summer twenty twenty two, I decided that I would get

523
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Speaker 3: a part time job at a restaurant so that I

524
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 3: could practice more of my Japanese. To my surprise, the

525
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 3: staff there likes me and they can understand my Japanese.

526
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 3: I also now can read and write several kangis. I

527
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 3: could write my own address with kanjis and read menus.

528
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 3: Last week, we have a family dinner with his family,

529
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 3: classic family dinner with the family. During the dinner, I

530
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 3: made some grammar mistakes, which was not actually quite bad

531
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Speaker 3: because everybody still understood what I was trying to say.

532
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 3: But my husband says in front of my family, I

533
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 3: was stupid for not understanding the correct grammar. Excuse me

534
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 3: immediately done.

535
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Speaker 8: No, It's like like people come over here and they

536
00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 8: speak like broken English, like you can still understand, but

537
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 8: it's just like you know, broken English, So it's probably

538
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 8: broken Japanese. I don't know, but you.

539
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 3: Still get the gist of it. You understand what she's

540
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 3: trying to say. And calling your girl or your no, sorry,

541
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 3: your wife stupid in front of your family is low?

542
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 3: Is still low?

543
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 6: Yeah?

544
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 8: If my family heard that any big excuse me, sorry, sir.

545
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 3: What did you say? It makes me upset because he

546
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 3: said it in front of everyone. So I said in English.

547
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 3: Your English isn't better than mine, and you can't speak

548
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 3: my language, so why are you calling me stupid? Oh?

549
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 3: Mic drop? Yeah, but he couldn't have even learned any

550
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 3: of your language after six years, and he's making you learn,

551
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 3: you know, perfect Japanese in six years. He was so

552
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,440
Speaker 3: pissed off and won't talk to me since that day.

553
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 3: Am I the ao And we've got an edit. But

554
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 3: before we get into it, what do you think? No,

555
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 3: he literally embarrassed you in front of his family. Yeah,

556
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 3: so no, he deserves that. I don't even think you

557
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 3: should be with this guy at all. I think I

558
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 3: would be taking a look at how he treats me

559
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 3: outside of this. Is it just the language stuff or

560
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 3: is he always kind of belittling you?

561
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 8: That's yeah, that's the other thing. I would like try

562
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 8: to find all those red flags because it seems like

563
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 8: they're just scattered everywhere.

564
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 3: It's like a little uh, it's like, yeah, red flag stuff.

565
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 3: But the bad stuff. He is not a bad guy.

566
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 3: I love him so much. Just he's very outspoken. If

567
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 3: he dislikes something, he would say it right away. I

568
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 3: feel like your making excuses. He never commented about my

569
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 3: body or looks, but he's very sensitive about my skill.

570
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 3: He often criticized my art style and other skills. He said,

571
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 3: I'm lazy. There is no excuse not to master the

572
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 3: language since I've lived here for almost six years already,

573
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Speaker 3: Oh p knows four languages, well, actually five languages, it

574
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 3: seems because she's she's already pretty fluent in Japanese and dude,

575
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 3: you know like one and a half. Come on, I

576
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 3: don't think oh Piece the lazy one here.

577
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 8: So he doesn't know any like English.

578
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 3: No, you know, he knows English, but she said, like,

579
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 3: you know, he's not. He makes a lot of mistakes

580
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 3: in English as well. But then what is the issue. Yeah, Like,

581
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 3: I know, maybe this is me trying to defend myself.

582
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 3: But last year I got my end three JLPT Japan

583
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 3: Language Proficiency Test Level three certification, and he said it

584
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 3: must be out of luck because my Japanese is very rough.

585
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 6: This guy is awful, Like.

586
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 8: Why can't he just be like, oh wow, that's great, Yeah, amazing,

587
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 8: You're doing so well. But he's just like it should

588
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 8: be higher, and said I.

589
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 3: Should have gotten the level one already because I'm here

590
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 3: for so long and we've got an update. But yeah,

591
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 3: this guy sucks boo. He's horrible.

592
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 6: He just keeps burrating you for literally.

593
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 3: What learning his language. You moved to him, so you've

594
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 3: already made the sacrifice of leaving your home country to

595
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 3: be with him, and then you've spent six years learning

596
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 3: his language when he has not made any effort to

597
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 3: learn yours. They're literally speaking to each other purely, it seems,

598
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 3: either in Japanese, so his language, or in English, which

599
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 3: is both of their second languages. So like the I

600
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 3: don't know the audacity of not even attempting to learn

601
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 3: her a native language and then berating her for how

602
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 3: she speaks Japanese.

603
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 8: Well, it's one strike one, not like you ask me

604
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 8: to learn this language, but then you don't help, like

605
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 8: you got me books, like yeah, why don't like you know,

606
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 8: be like, oh, I want to help it anyway, because

607
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 8: I really want you to learn this and I figured

608
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 8: you want to learn it too, so we can, like,

609
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 8: you know, we lived here for so long, let me

610
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 8: help you out, Like how about like some lessons or

611
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 8: you know whatever. But he instead like he's like, you

612
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 8: should have a job and have this as like your

613
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 8: side job.

614
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 3: Update. We got divorced wooooow. I've thought about it more

615
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 3: and more, and I feel like these past six years

616
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 3: have been heck for me. I'm tired of having to

617
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 3: find any reason to think that he's good for me.

618
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 3: I found a full time job in a Japanese company

619
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Speaker 3: and started working there last January. Everybody in my new

620
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 3: company said, I speak Japanese well, and so far I'm

621
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 3: doing great. I rented my own apartment and I am

622
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 3: surviving on my own just fine in Tokyo, albeit my

623
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 3: ex husband said that I would never be able to

624
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 3: survive in Japan without them. I also have a crush

625
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 3: on another guy, but I'm taking it slow. Thank you

626
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 3: for all your comments to me. And edit. I use

627
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 3: only Japanese in the company I work now and earn

628
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 3: almost the same amount with my ex husband despite just

629
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 3: working here for four months. Burn, you are flexing on

630
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 3: this guy left and right. My crush now speaks only

631
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 3: Japanese and we communicate just fine. And I bet he

632
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 3: doesn't make you feel bad about how you speak. I'm

633
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 3: confident now. Ooh and another Edits just to clarify, of course,

634
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Speaker 3: the reason of my doors is not only because the

635
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 3: language thing. I mean, obviously that was indicative of like

636
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 3: many other problems.

637
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, this was just like the cherry on top.

638
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 3: I kept saying my ex was a good person, and

639
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 3: I still think that he is a good person, but

640
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 3: he's not treating me right. There were a lot of

641
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 3: things he had done to me that I can no

642
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 3: longer tolerate. Before I was with him, I was also

643
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 3: doing modeling for a side job. I took good care

644
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 3: of myself. But after I married him, he said that

645
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 3: my looks didn't matter, and he disliked me dressing up

646
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 3: or putting on makeup because he thought as a married woman,

647
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 3: I shouldn't attract other men. This guy stinks.

648
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 6: That's like the dumbest reason I've ever heard of.

649
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 3: I hate that.

650
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, you can't look pretty anymore. Sorry, you have to

651
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 8: look ugly so that only I will want you. Yeah,

652
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 8: like what I did what he wanted, and I kept

653
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 8: telling myself.

654
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 3: Oh, this man loves me the way I am, no

655
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,719
Speaker 3: matter how I look. But then I found out he

656
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 3: was following Schmetsy girls on Instagram and Twitter. He never

657
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 3: chatted to them, so I let it slide, but I

658
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 3: kept thinking about it, especially since he never said anything

659
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 3: positive about my look. Basically, he never said any thing

660
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 3: positive about my effort except for my cooking. Well, it

661
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 3: seems like nothing pleases this guy, so you must be

662
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 3: like a really good cook.

663
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's I don't know.

664
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 8: This guy seems actually impossible to live with or impossible

665
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 8: to even tolerate.

666
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm imagining every time he goes to eat whatever

667
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 3: your meals, he's like, this is ah, damn it, it's

668
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 3: really good.

669
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's like, oh, fine, I guess you did it

670
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 8: for what prely?

671
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he said.

672
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 6: Whatever.

673
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 3: I started to feel unconfident. I got depressed and had

674
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 3: to take antidepressants. Then I gained twenty kilograms in six years.

675
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 3: When I said he never said anything positive about my

676
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 3: look and effort, it didn't mean that he always said

677
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 3: bad things about me, just that he seemed to be

678
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 3: indifferent about it. Now, after we got divorced, I don't

679
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 3: have to take my antidepressants anymore. Wow, direct correlation direct.

680
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 3: This guy sucks, and I lost fifteen kilograms already. I

681
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 3: started to talk to some guys until I met Mike

682
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 3: Crush right now. I was surprised because my crush always

683
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 3: said that I looked good and nice. He noticed when

684
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 3: I changed my hairstyle or nails, said I smelled nice

685
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 3: and complimented me when I did good things at work.

686
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 3: My crush works in the same company with me. The

687
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 3: other people also said that I look super good now,

688
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 3: and I look so much happier. Anyways, how I learn

689
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 3: Japanese and other languages is by listening to some song, movies,

690
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 3: or other people. Then when I can't understand some word

691
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 3: or phrase, I would find it in the dictionary based

692
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 3: on how I hear it. Then I have to guess

693
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 3: how it is written, so I can find the word

694
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 3: in the dictionary or translator. I prefer dictionary to translator, though,

695
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 3: because when I open the dictionary, I'll see many other

696
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 3: words other than the one I'm looking for, and I

697
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 3: may remember those words I accidentally find too. That's actually

698
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 3: like very smart.

699
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 6: Look at you, Op, You don't need no mind.

700
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 3: After I find the word and understand what it means,

701
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 3: I'll try to make a sentence with that word and

702
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 3: use it in real conversation. Now I can already read

703
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 3: Japanese comic books and watch the movies in cinema with

704
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 3: that much difficulty. That's really impressive, and it also kind

705
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 3: of makes sense why OP might struggle with grammar if

706
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 3: that is the tactic, because it seems like it's really

707
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 3: working for you. But if you're not necessarily looking at

708
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 3: like sentence structure, you're just looking at memorization of words

709
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 3: and stuff, it does make sense why that might be

710
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 3: like the last thing that comes. Please wish me luck

711
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 3: for my career and my life ahead, also for my crush.

712
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 3: Ope it ends well and we've got a second update.

713
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 3: Who hopefully we get another update about this crush. Well,

714
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 3: I love this. So it's been a few months and

715
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 3: the result of a Japanese language proficiency test I took

716
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 3: has been announced. I passed the level two with only

717
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 3: two mistakes. The highest is level one in five levels,

718
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 3: and I passed the level two, So I'm proud of myself. Okay,

719
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 3: that actually makes a lot of sense because earlier when

720
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 3: he was like you should up, like passed level one already,

721
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 3: I guess level one is the end goal, so level

722
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 3: five is like the lowest. My crush also confessed to

723
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 3: me and we're dating now. Yay. He is a Japanese

724
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 3: man who doesn't speak English at all, and he said

725
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 3: my Japanese is perfectly fine. I met his parents and

726
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 3: brothers last month during Obon holiday, and he brought me

727
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 3: to his hometown in a rural Japanese village. His family

728
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 3: welcomed me. His family lives on a farm and they

729
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 3: never went overseas at all and don't speak any English,

730
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 3: but they welcome me very nicely. I am a divorcee

731
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 3: and six years older than my boyfriend, but they don't

732
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,720
Speaker 3: mind at all. The fact that I am a foreigner

733
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 3: also doesn't bother them. I just got a promotion at

734
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 3: work this month, which is quite rare since I've been

735
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 3: here just for ten months, but they said I did

736
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 3: my best, so I deserved it. I plan to move

737
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 3: in with my boyfriend next winter. He treats me with

738
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 3: nothing but respect. He always seems to be proud with

739
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 3: anything that I do, and he even said my Japanese

740
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 3: accent is cute. He never scolds me in public like

741
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 3: my exe. I told him, why are you so nice?

742
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 3: He said, it's just normal behavior to be nice to

743
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 3: someone you care about.

744
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, wow, what a yeah, that's what those types of

745
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 8: people they do that. It's like, wait, you're like weirdly

746
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 8: normal so.

747
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 3: Nice to me. You're like that's yeah, yeah, that's what

748
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 3: you're supposed to do.

749
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 8: I'm nice to people.

750
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 3: I like what I thought, you're supposed.

751
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 8: To be really mean to them, Which makes.

752
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 3: Me realize how much of an a hole my ex

753
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 3: husband was. How about my ex husband? He stalked my

754
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 3: Instagram and found my post with my new boyfriend and

755
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 3: threatened my boyfriend, but my boyfriend just blocked him nice.

756
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 8: I like where this is going, Opie. I'm kinda like

757
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 8: really rooting for you. I think you're doing great, Opie.

758
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 8: I would my one maybe hold off.

759
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 3: On moving in so quickly?

760
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 8: Well she said next winter, so like, not even this one,

761
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 8: it would be the next one.

762
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 3: Well, we don't know if this when this was, you know,

763
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 3: could have been a couple months ago. If it was

764
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 3: like recently and you're you know, you're waiting a year,

765
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 3: that's I think that's good. But if this was, like,

766
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 3: you know, this past summer, you might already be moved

767
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 3: in together. I mean, I would just I would just

768
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 3: be cautious, you know. But it seems like he's a

769
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 3: really nice guy. My exes cousin who's really close to me,

770
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 3: told me that my ex posted his breakup text with

771
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 3: his new girlfriend on Twitter and sent the screenshot to me.

772
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 3: Why why would he do that? I read somebody feel

773
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 3: bad for me, right please? And I felt pity for

774
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 3: whatever girl was gonna be with him next because he

775
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 3: will never change. I feel healthier, prettier, and definitely happier

776
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 3: now than ever. I don't know what will become of

777
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 3: my new relationship, but I learned a lot. I will

778
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 3: never let anyone disrespect me and my effort. Last, but

779
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 3: not least, thank you all over the comments that you

780
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 3: left me. It definitely helped to clear my mind. Jeers

781
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 3: to you all. Hey, you're doing so good. You got

782
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 3: the sopie h. And that is the end of that story, folks,

783
00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 3: And we've got another one coming right out.

784
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,399
Speaker 1: Hey, this is Riley the host. I can't really read that. Well,

785
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,399
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786
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,640
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787
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Speaker 3: My wife had a secret contact texting her for weeks.

788
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 3: It made me feel like an idiot.

789
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 9: Well, she's the idiot.

790
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 3: So to preface this, I'll thirty four male say that

791
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 3: my wife thirty female, has never before given me a

792
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 3: reason to suspect her. She's pretty open with her stuff,

793
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 3: laptop and phone, laying around and whatnot that being set.

794
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 3: By the way, this comes from a way away two

795
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 3: four six oh one, and if you want to submit

796
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 3: your own stories, go to the rasash Okay Storytime separate it.

797
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 3: I'm Sophia, I'm Dakota, and we're here to give good

798
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 3: advice goofy, but we don't have all the answers. We

799
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 3: only know what we'd do, So let us know what

800
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 3: you would do in the comments, and Opie says, my

801
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 3: wife was in the other room doing something I don't

802
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 3: even remember what, and her phone buzzed on the couch.

803
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 3: No biggie. She TEGs and chats a lot, so this

804
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,479
Speaker 3: happens fairly often. However, when I looked over at the phone,

805
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 3: the message on the display was from Jeff and it

806
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 3: said I told you I was going to brutalize you. Huh.

807
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 3: Seeing that, I immediately picked up the phone and checked

808
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 3: the message. Sorry, but I don't feel guilty. I feel

809
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 3: like that was a just cause, especially since I don't

810
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 3: know of any close friends named Jeff. I mean, unless

811
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 3: they're talking about like a super Smash Bros. Championship, there's

812
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 3: not other great explanations.

813
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, they were super smashing something else.

814
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 3: She was super smashing your row super smash. There were

815
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 3: only a few messages, one from about a month ago

816
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 3: that went her, Hey, this is Opie's wife, just texting,

817
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 3: so you have my number? See you tomorrow? Him cool, thanks,

818
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 3: see you. Then one from a couple of weeks ago

819
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 3: that said her, Hey, gonna be a little late. There's

820
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 3: a roadblock down the street. Probably just a few minutes

821
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 3: him okay. And then the one from tonight her, how

822
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 3: am I supposed to drive my car now? Jeff?

823
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: Him?

824
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 3: I told you I was going to brutalize you. What

825
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 3: did you do to the car?

826
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 9: No, it's not the car, Sophia.

827
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 3: How am I supposed to drive my car now?

828
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:07,439
Speaker 5: Though?

829
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 3: Oh she's she's brutalized.

830
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 9: She's having difficulties sitting down.

831
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 3: Uh man, that's tough. I thought I thought they destroyed

832
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 3: the car, Like, what are they doing this?

833
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 9: It's all just an autobody, this story.

834
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 3: Seriously, I feel sick. I don't want to believe this

835
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 3: is what it looks like. She has never made me

836
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 3: question my trust in her, but she's also never mentioned

837
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 3: anyone named Jeff. Jeff is just the triple A guy, Jeff,

838
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 3: and she's a soccer. Now I'm starting to second guess

839
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 3: everything I thought was normal. She comes home late, but

840
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 3: she works long hours and is salaried in a demanding job,

841
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 3: so she never really knows exactly when she'll be home.

842
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 3: Sometimes she's quite late, but she's also very career driven.

843
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 3: She also often showers when she gets home, but she

844
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 3: has a physical job that she gets sweaty at, and

845
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 3: I know she hates houring in the morning. But now

846
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 3: I can't get it out of my head that she's

847
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 3: covering something up. I mean, those would all be the

848
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 3: best things to cover something like this up with.

849
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,720
Speaker 9: So just enough plausible deniability.

850
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do. Should I have snoop more?

851
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,959
Speaker 3: She doesn't really password anything and her Facebook is open

852
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 3: all the time, so it wouldn't be very difficult. It

853
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 3: just doesn't seem like the right thing to do, though.

854
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 3: Do I confront her? I don't have anything solid, and

855
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 3: if she's lying about this so easily, she might just

856
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 3: make something else Upah. I don't know. I hate this

857
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 3: feeling out mate, and we've got some comments. But what

858
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 3: do you think, GOPI should.

859
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 9: Do your wife?

860
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 3: That's actually uh no, don't do that, I ah no.

861
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 2: But you should immediately be like, hey, who's Jeff? How

862
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 2: did he brutalize you the other day? And watch her go.

863
00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 3: What exactly word for word? Just like that Koheba's and

864
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,439
Speaker 3: Scotch says, okay, the way things go on this sub,

865
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 3: I'm guessing she's cheating. However, something that instantly came to

866
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 3: mind was a workout. Does she have a personal trainer?

867
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 3: It all adds up if you think about it like that.

868
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and no one's ever cheated on someone with

869
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 2: their personal trainer.

870
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 3: Or it could be at two for one text him

871
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 3: that she's gonna be late, can't drive because she's a

872
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 3: weak glimbed. How am I supposed to drive? Isn't something

873
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 3: a lot of women say after getting banged hard? How

874
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 3: am I supposed to walk? Or sit down?

875
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 6: Sure?

876
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 3: Also, she didn't delete the old text entirely, which seemed

877
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 3: to indicate she's not hiding anything. If she was being shady,

878
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 3: you wouldn't have messages dating weeks back. Something to consider

879
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 3: before you blow her up with accusations.

880
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:48,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, that fair amount of sense.

881
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 3: However, I feel like confronting with like a certain level

882
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 3: of calm is good. You know, you can say, hey,

883
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 3: I I accidentally saw some of these texts and I,

884
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 3: you know, I opened it up because I was really confused.

885
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 3: Could you explain what this is?

886
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 9: But like, why would she have a secret personal trainer?

887
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 3: Opie says, there were so few texts over a long

888
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 3: period of time, so I'm wondering if she was deleting

889
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 3: them and only left the ones that looked innocuous. I mean,

890
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 3: the brutalizing one is not innocuous.

891
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 9: Yeah, but that one was brand new, that's.

892
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 3: True, Goebu's and Scotch says, right, but if she's only

893
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 3: texting him when she's gonna be late or when she's

894
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 3: sore from a workout, there isn't anything to delete. Plus,

895
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 3: if she's cheating, I can't believe she would just leave

896
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 3: her phone around without a past code. That's like cheating.

897
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 3: One on one. Not saying I think she's not cheating,

898
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 3: I'm saying you have to consider alternatives before you fire away,

899
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 3: and op says, you're right. Pilch's cat said go check

900
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 3: your phone bill. Not sure about your carrier, but for Verizon,

901
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 3: at least you could see a record of all the

902
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 3: numbers that have been texted. And when I'm assuming you

903
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 3: have a shared account. Opie says, we do not. Actually,

904
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 3: she's on a plan with her two brothers, and I'm

905
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 3: on a pay as you go plan pm me cat

906
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 3: picks please. So does she go to the gym or not? Yeah,

907
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 3: that's all we want to know. Opie says she has

908
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 3: a gym at work, but I don't think she goes there.

909
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 3: She says, it sucks, so personal trainers seems to be

910
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 3: out if she doesn't go to the gym, but it

911
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 3: seems like she's still getting a workout.

912
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 9: She's doing something.

913
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 3: Brief as possible, says, Does she have a personal trainer?

914
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 3: Opie says no, Well not as far as I know.

915
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 3: She's very cheap and she knows a lot already and

916
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 3: has a free gym at her work. The plan is

917
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 3: to ask her tonight when we're both home. I'll update. Then, Guys,

918
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 3: go into the comments right now and just tell us

919
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 3: what you think is gonna happen. Cause I think that

920
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 3: she cheated. I'm hopeful that she didn't, but I think

921
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 3: she did.

922
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 9: It could be she cheated with a personal trainer. Who knows.

923
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we got an update. Well, it looks like

924
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:00,479
Speaker 3: many of you were right. She's got a personal trainer. Wow, okay, yes,

925
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 3: thankfully it actually was a personal trainer. So I think

926
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 3: that you need to maybe take a more active, you know,

927
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:09,760
Speaker 3: role in your wife's life.

928
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: He said she's a talker.

929
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, why did he not know there was a personal

930
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 3: trainer or that she was even going to the gym?

931
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 9: You can't know stuff if people don't tell you about it.

932
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 3: This is true, so maybe she needs to talk about it.

933
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 9: It's it just makes me go, why is the personal

934
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:25,280
Speaker 9: trainer's secret?

935
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 3: I'm wondering that. Yeah, where's the communication issue here? Who's

936
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 3: is it? Both of you?

937
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 2: Because that's gotta be like at some point it's a throwaway.

938
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I'm seeing a personal trainer now?

939
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 8: Yeah?

940
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 3: Why didn't she mention it?

941
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 9: There's no way.

942
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 3: I'm so relieved, and you guys are way smarter than me.

943
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 9: No, well to stop, don't be relieved yet.

944
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, slowly, roll bud. She came home from work last

945
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 3: night and I told her I needed to ask her something.

946
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 3: Could we sit down and talk. She looked worried, but

947
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 3: agreed right away, and asking what was wrong? I told

948
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 3: her I had read her message and asked her to

949
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 3: please explain it to me. Comprehension washed over her face,

950
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 3: and then a look of pity. She said she had

951
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 3: joined the gym down the street because her work gym

952
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 3: is terrible, and she signed up for a personal trainer

953
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 3: because they were having a deal and she wanted to

954
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 3: be held accountable. She showed me her sign up sheets

955
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 3: and key card, and even pulled up the gym website

956
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 3: and showed me here little calendar spots for her training

957
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 3: sessions with her personal trainer, whose name is of course Jeff.

958
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 2: Hmmm, why was your personal trainer a secret? I?

959
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just don't understand why you didn't know about this.

960
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: Why.

961
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 3: I mean, like, even if she wasn't keeping it a secret,

962
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 3: why didn't I personally if I was going to the

963
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 3: gym or if I got a personal trainer, I would

964
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 3: talk about that to my partner. I'd be like, oh,

965
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 3: exciting news. You know I hated that gym at work,

966
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 3: Like do you guys not talk to each other about

967
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 3: stuff like that? And why not talk about your communication?

968
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 3: She apologized profusely and said she didn't mean to scare me.

969
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 3: I asked her why she hadn't said anything, and she

970
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 3: said it was because she wanted to make some progress first,

971
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 3: which honestly is very much like her. When she's trying

972
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 3: to do a project, she does not like to draw

973
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 3: attention to it until it's done. I think that tada

974
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 3: moment motivates her. I mean, it's not really like a

975
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 3: project though.

976
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 6: No it is, but like you have to keep doing

977
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 6: that forever.

978
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 3: Kind not forever, but you know, like you're gonna be

979
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 3: hopefully exercising. It just doesn't have to me like a

980
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 3: specific enough end date to well, it's.

981
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 6: Just I know this happens to me.

982
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 2: Like if I want to do something and I say it,

983
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 2: the odds of me doing it go down.

984
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 9: So it's like if you're like, I'm going to the

985
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 9: gym so I can get in shape, bob bah.

986
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,439
Speaker 3: It's like now I'm less likely to if she never

987
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 3: says it, it will happen. Birthday rule wish stuff. So

988
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 3: everything is okay because I asked her what was up

989
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 3: comments in Vader X body says, just god, I was

990
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 3: right in my comment on your original post. Now she'll

991
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,399
Speaker 3: wonder why you're going through her phone, but that will

992
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 3: be another post opia. I told her I saw the

993
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 3: alert and it made me want to look, and she understood.

994
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 3: I don't bek that will be an issue, and Project

995
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 3: Directory says, I think there's still room to be concerned here.

996
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 3: She really should have felt comfortable telling you about the

997
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 3: trainer earlier. Hope, he says, I don't think it's an issue. Honestly,

998
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 3: she wanted to wait until she made some progress. I

999
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 3: can totally see her waiting until I said something and

1000
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 3: then excitedly telling me about the trainer. I think that's fair.

1001
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I get that. Let us have a good

1002
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 9: story where no one's getting cheated on.

1003
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 3: Stop, let me be happy.

1004
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,800
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1005
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Speaker 8: My husband told me he was completely broke. I had

1009
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 8: no idea things were that bad.

1010
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,240
Speaker 3: Why did we have no idea?

1011
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 8: I forty female have a son from my previous marriage.

1012
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 8: After my divorce, I raised him mostly alone since his

1013
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 8: dad doesn't pay child support. Those years were hard, but

1014
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 8: I rebuilt my life. I focused on my son in

1015
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 8: my career, and honestly, I was very happy being single.

1016
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 8: By the way, this comes from important point forty four

1017
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Speaker 8: to twenty five and if you want to submit your

1018
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Speaker 8: own stories, go to the r slash Okay story time subreddit.

1019
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 8: I'm Savannah, I'm Sophia. We have to give some good

1020
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 8: advice goofly, but we don't have all the answers. We'd

1021
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 8: only let you know what we would do in this situation,

1022
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 8: but you should let us know what you would do

1023
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 8: down in the comments. As OPI says, about five years ago,

1024
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 8: I met my now husband almost sixty mail through work.

1025
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 8: He owned his own business. I wasn't looking for anything serious,

1026
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 8: but we clicked immediately. Within a couple of months, he

1027
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 8: was basically staying at my place all the time and

1028
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 8: eventually moved in even though I wasn't comfortable enough. A

1029
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 8: year later we were engaged. My son loves him and

1030
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 8: calls him Dad. My family of friends adore him, and

1031
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 8: he's always been kind and generous with us. We split

1032
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 8: our expenses in a way that worked for us. We

1033
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 8: paid rent fifty to fifty. I handled the household bills,

1034
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 8: and he was in charge of food and entertainment, going

1035
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 8: out activities, et cetera. Not long after moving in, he

1036
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 8: had to close his business. But he always reassured me

1037
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 8: we were financially fine. Because he's near retirement age, I

1038
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 8: didn't push too hard. I assumed he had savings and

1039
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 8: things under control. For the last couple of years, he's

1040
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 8: been mostly a stay at home dad while I work

1041
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 8: full time. He cooks, cleans and supports me at home,

1042
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 8: which I appreciate, but over time things started to feel different.

1043
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 8: When we met, he was very active, went to the gym,

1044
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 8: had friends and hobbies. Now he mostly stays home watching TV,

1045
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 8: doesn't exercise anymore, and doesn't really see friends or family.

1046
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 3: Sounds like he may be depressed.

1047
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, sounds.

1048
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 3: A little depressed, which if he is having mon you know,

1049
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 3: monetary struggles, could be really yeah, and also like he

1050
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 3: had to close his business and everything.

1051
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 8: So I've tried encouraging him to do things like volunteering,

1052
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 8: hobbies or even part time work just to stay active,

1053
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 8: but he always brushed it off. We've also stopped going

1054
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 8: out together much this year. We've only been on two dates,

1055
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 8: both of which I planned. Then this Monday, he told

1056
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 8: me he's completely broke. His savings are gone, and the

1057
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 8: remaining money connected to his business is no longer available.

1058
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 8: What upset me wasn't the money. It was that he

1059
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 8: never told me things were getting this bad. Now suddenly

1060
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 8: I'm responsible for everything financially, and our current lifestyle is

1061
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 8: honestly not something I can afford alone. I've always been

1062
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 8: transparent with him about what I can and can't afford.

1063
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 8: When I told him I was upset, he said he

1064
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,439
Speaker 8: thinks I was fine before because there was money, and

1065
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 8: now I'm only upset because there isn't.

1066
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 3: Well, yes, He's like, wow, I can't believe that you

1067
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 3: are only in it for the money, And she's like, no,

1068
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 3: I'm upset because you lied about how much.

1069
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 8: Money you had, or not even lied, just like didn't

1070
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,399
Speaker 8: even say yeah, a lie of a mission. But that's

1071
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,879
Speaker 8: not how I see it. I'm upset because he hid

1072
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 8: this situation and never really tried to restart the business,

1073
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 8: fine work, or even plan for the future with me,

1074
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 8: or that I had to carry all myself. He still

1075
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 8: hasn't done anything. I'm resolving the situation alone. Okay, girl,

1076
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:12,919
Speaker 8: then you what's the point?

1077
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 6: Just get rid of them.

1078
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 3: But the problem is that, like I feel like the

1079
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 3: sun has you know, so much attachments, so I feel like, oh,

1080
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 3: he might want to work it out more because of that,

1081
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:27,240
Speaker 3: But I absolutely think before you get married to someone,

1082
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 3: you should know each other's financial situation very in depth.

1083
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 8: Also, I've tried to speak with him before about how

1084
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 8: I was feeling prior to the big bomb, but I

1085
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 8: feel like he never truly listened to what I say.

1086
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 8: His response, I love you so much. I've never felt

1087
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 8: like this before. I'm so happy with you. I don't

1088
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,439
Speaker 8: need anyone or anything else. I told him, I want

1089
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 8: to see him as the partner and man of the

1090
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 8: house again, not someone who just stays at home all day.

1091
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 8: I appreciate everything he does around the house, but I

1092
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 8: don't want to feel like I'm his entire world while

1093
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,439
Speaker 8: he has no life of his own. Yeah, you don't

1094
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,879
Speaker 8: want that, No, no, no no. At the same time,

1095
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 8: I feel guilty for questioning things now that he's struggling.

1096
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 8: Am I the a hole for being upset and doubting

1097
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 8: our situation? And uh, there's an edit I'm gonna read

1098
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 8: real quick. Just to be clear, I did ask him

1099
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 8: several times about the finances, but he always assured we

1100
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 8: were okay and he got it covered. I never pushed

1101
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 8: to see his bank statements, and he was sort of

1102
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 8: covering his part of the agreement. So I believed in him.

1103
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 8: I assumed a man his age had it handled without

1104
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,359
Speaker 8: me supervising every cent. And there's a second edit as well.

1105
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think, I mean, I don't like. This

1106
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 3: is not Op's fault, but I think is you know,

1107
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 3: is a lesson that next time if someone says, oh, yeah, no,

1108
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 3: no need to worry, maybe we do it like you know,

1109
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 3: we keep pushing and saying no, I want to know.

1110
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 3: I want to talk about this. We're about to get

1111
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 3: married or we are married, we should talk about this.

1112
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 3: Financial is a part I missed the partnership. Families go

1113
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 3: through hard times, but I don't like feeling I have

1114
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 3: to sort it out myself. When I was in the

1115
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,399
Speaker 3: blind all the time, he started as a great team

1116
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 3: player and having that support was great, not the money,

1117
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 3: the mental and emotional one. But everything changed and I

1118
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 3: miss his masculine energy. I have been doing this by

1119
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 3: myself all my life. I wanted a partner for support,

1120
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 3: not to carry him as well.

1121
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,919
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, especially because you have a kid.

1122
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, and your previous partner didn't support you financially.

1123
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 8: And again, it is not about the money. It's about

1124
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 8: everything else, and there's a third edit. We were a

1125
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 8: couple of months into a serious relationship, but we were

1126
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 8: together slash dating before, so he moved in after the

1127
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 8: year mark. I was not comfortable. As for me, it

1128
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 8: was very important that whoever I was going to move

1129
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 8: in with because of my son, it was someone with

1130
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 8: a serious plan and looking for a long lasting relationship,

1131
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 8: not just try and hit sort of thing. Before we

1132
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,800
Speaker 8: got married, we signed a prenup as I been clear

1133
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 8: that all I have is for my son and I

1134
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 8: don't want to jeopardize that. Mart he was married before,

1135
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 8: has four kids, all adults now. He left the house

1136
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 8: to the ex wife. He moved out and was looking

1137
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 8: at his own place when we started getting serious. That's

1138
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 8: why he said better to live in with me and

1139
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 8: get our own place together. Yes, I've met the ex

1140
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 8: wife and all the kids. We were actually quite close

1141
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 8: and they were so nice. The X four kids never

1142
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 8: said anything weird. On the contrary, I noticed he was

1143
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 8: providing for them as well am I. The a hole

1144
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:36,399
Speaker 8: has no consensus. Opie received mixed reactions, and there are

1145
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 8: some relevant comments. Comment number one moved a man in

1146
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 8: and let him get close to your son, but wasn't

1147
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 8: comfortable asking about his business.

1148
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, excellent point. It feels like Opie

1149
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 3: was kind of consistently not comfortable asking or like speaking

1150
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 3: her mind on things because she's you know, she didn't

1151
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 3: really want him to move in, but he did, and

1152
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 3: she didn't say anything. She wanted to know about the financials,

1153
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 3: but he pushed back, so she didn't say anything.

1154
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 6: Trust me, I get that.

1155
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 8: I'm still learning the backbone and it's hard, but you

1156
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 8: all in all, at the end of the day, you

1157
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 8: know what you want and no one should jeopardize that.

1158
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 8: Don't feel the need to like have people like come.

1159
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 6: Before you, you know.

1160
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:28,919
Speaker 8: Ohp response, which was down voted. I did ask over

1161
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 8: and over and he always gave me half responses or

1162
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 8: as shired. Everything was covered. Comment or two responds. If

1163
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 8: you refuse to ask about his finances, you are just

1164
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 8: as culpable. Everyone's sexier, OHPI responds. I understand your point,

1165
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:46,240
Speaker 8: but believe me, I tried several times and his response

1166
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 8: was always I don't care about money.

1167
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 6: We are fine.

1168
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 8: Even when I told him to organize everything and give

1169
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 8: me numbers to plan, he just avoided or got upset

1170
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 8: Opi on her husband's retirement plan and wanted someone to

1171
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 8: help take care of her kid financially too. Opie responds,

1172
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 8: you are sort of right. I didn't need someone to

1173
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 8: help me take care of my kid financially, but I

1174
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 8: do believe in a partnership and wanted that team to

1175
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 8: build a home and a relationship where we both do

1176
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 8: our best for the best of the family. That's why

1177
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 8: I didn't want him to move in initially, as I

1178
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 8: believe once you take that step, it's because you are

1179
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 8: willing to commit forever, especially after kids. He did show

1180
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 8: that commitment. He loves me so much that his world

1181
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 8: closed and he only sees through my eyes, which is

1182
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 8: too much weight for me to carry.

1183
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 3: Ohp.

1184
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 8: He shared additional information after reading the comments. There's an't

1185
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 8: in it in terms of financial We only shared the

1186
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 8: rent all of other bills I pay for, including my

1187
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 8: son and my personal expenses. He has been buying the

1188
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 8: groceries and, like I said, entertainment. He might have helped

1189
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 8: pay one term of my son's soccer classes, but I'm

1190
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 8: usually the one who pays for everything. When I say

1191
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 8: I can't afford all by myself, I meant taking over

1192
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 8: his part of the rent as we moved to a

1193
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 8: way more expensive house since we got together, and the

1194
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 8: food also. Even before he told me he's broke, I

1195
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 8: had started making changes on my things to save up

1196
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 8: some money. But I'm annoyed I'm doing this changing my

1197
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,359
Speaker 8: lifestyle while he's still the same. I don't see him

1198
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 8: looking for a job or a loan or anything to

1199
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 8: resolve this situation. Hence why I'm wondering if he has

1200
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 8: been a freeloader all the time and was just distracting

1201
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 8: me with other things.

1202
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 6: I don't know.

1203
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 8: I'm sorry for being like this, and there is an

1204
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 8: update nine days later. Oh boy, I'm surprised by the

1205
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 8: number of comments, but I appreciate the advice. I take

1206
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 8: responsibility for my own decisions or lack thereof. To clarify

1207
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 8: a few things, we have a joint account where he

1208
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 8: was transferring his share. However, we agreed to keep our

1209
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 8: finances separate. I don't want him to know my financial

1210
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 8: situation or to manage my money, which I've been through,

1211
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 8: so I asked about his finances respectfully and he provided

1212
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 8: as agreed.

1213
00:57:58,000 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 3: Okay, it's a good start.

1214
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 8: After all the comments, I decided to have a serious

1215
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 8: conversation with him and requested proof of several discrepancies. He

1216
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 8: got upset at first, but I stood my ground. It

1217
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 8: was either that or a breakup. We've only been married

1218
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 8: a few months and I'm not going.

1219
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 6: To carry a big weight.

1220
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 8: He's having issues with the irs because his brother stole

1221
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 8: his identity and opened businesses in other states.

1222
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 3: Ah, are the businesses going well?

1223
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 11: I mean yeah, But the thing is he knew this, yeah,

1224
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 11: and didn't say anything, and so he put you and

1225
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 11: your son in jeopardy.

1226
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 6: Like that's just not okay.

1227
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 8: It's like, you know, obviously that was out of your

1228
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 8: control and like you know, I don't know your brother

1229
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 8: story identity had always opening these businesses whatever, But like

1230
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 8: you need.

1231
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 3: To be on communication. Yeah, I open be honest, say hey,

1232
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 3: my brother stole my identity.

1233
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 8: How can I get help with that? Or how do

1234
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 8: I go about this? You know, like anything, Like you

1235
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 8: just sat there and let him do it, Like I

1236
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 8: don't understand. I mean maybe he didn't, but like I

1237
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 8: don't think he communicated that to OPI though. Now there

1238
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 8: are other serious problems too, And I spoke with a lawyer,

1239
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 8: an accountant, and two ex's of the brother. The brother

1240
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 8: is a lost cause. I was upset because I told

1241
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 8: him I needed to start fixing the problem, not just wait.

1242
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 8: He got upset when we met with the lawyer and

1243
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 8: accountant to create a plan. That's when I told him

1244
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 8: I couldn't continue with him on those terms. I understand

1245
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 8: he's going through a tough time and I'm here to

1246
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 8: support him, but I can't take over his problems while

1247
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 8: he just sits around. Either he takes responsibility and gets

1248
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 8: things done or I'm leaving. It's not the money that

1249
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 8: bothers me. It's his attitude, agreed, Op, I think that

1250
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 8: you're being very like reasonable, Yeah, one hundred percent like

1251
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 8: for sure, because who is this man to come into

1252
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 8: your life and just ruin things for you when you

1253
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 8: are doing all this work, You're trying to create a

1254
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 8: life with you and your son and now this bomb

1255
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 8: he's not doing anything but just I mean, it's not

1256
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 8: like he's taking your money, but.

1257
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 3: He certainly isn't adding deady thing.

1258
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's not giving you anything, and it's a partnership,

1259
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 8: you know, I mean, it's just Yes, I understand the

1260
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 8: age difference and that it's normal for a stay at

1261
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 8: home dad to be responsible for household chores. However, this

1262
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 8: wasn't ever agreed upon. I never wanted to stay at

1263
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:26,919
Speaker 8: home husband, and as I mentioned to him, I feel

1264
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 8: played truthfully.

1265
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she's like, you just started staying at home.

1266
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 8: Yeah, you just started staying at home, like you lost

1267
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 8: your business, you know, and I let you take that

1268
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 8: time to kind of figure things out. But you didn't

1269
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 8: figure anything out. You just sat at home and did nothing.

1270
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 8: And now you're this couch potato who just is you know, like, oh, well,

1271
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 8: what am I supposed to do?

1272
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 3: You could just say you're a stay at home husband

1273
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 3: because you stay at home. It's not how that works.

1274
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 8: He pretended to be the kind of man I've always wanted,

1275
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 8: interesting and dependent, intelligent, high masculine, energy and respectful, but

1276
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 8: he ended up being the complete opposite. He's very respectful

1277
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,919
Speaker 8: and we have an amazing relationship. But I'm feeling stuffocated.

1278
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, unless he makes this huge like change,

1279
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 3: unless you get the change that you wanted and you

1280
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 3: asked for, then yeah, I think I think leave.

1281
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, either, because I feel like you've already given him

1282
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 8: the ultimatum.

1283
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've given him time, You've given him, you know,

1284
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 3: the choices, so let's see what he chooses.

1285
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 8: So I gave him a month to find a job

1286
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 8: or a solution for our financial situation.

1287
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 3: There we go.

1288
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 8: He needs to return to the gym or a sport

1289
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 8: and hobby, make some friends, and have a life. I

1290
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 8: need to be able to spend time with my son, myself,

1291
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 8: and my friends without him. I'm also ensuring with the

1292
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 8: lawyer that this situation doesn't affect me or my son.

1293
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:54,479
Speaker 6: Smart o pie.

1294
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 8: There are some relevant comments commentary. One says high masculine energy.

1295
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 8: Responds yes, so real man, responsible, grounded, decisive, protective. I've

1296
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 8: been taking control all my life and in relationships because

1297
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 8: men just turned into big babies and I'll end up

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Speaker 8: handling and manhunt everything at home. I wanted a man

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Speaker 8: that could handle things so I could disconnect and try

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Speaker 8: to have some rest. I mean, yeah, I don't. I

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Speaker 8: feel like that's not too much to ask for, Like

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Speaker 8: you're asking for a partnership and that is like, you know,

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Speaker 8: it's give and take, but he's taking everything and you're

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Speaker 8: giving everything.

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Speaker 3: So it's like it's just not equal. There's not a balance.

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Speaker 8: And I think once you get back to the balance,

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Speaker 8: it should work. Out and hopefully he doesn't like relapse

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Speaker 8: when this happens again and whatever. But like hopefully once

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Speaker 8: he once you put him on the tracks, he'll be

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Speaker 8: able to.

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Speaker 3: Go, yeah, put him on the bike and then he

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Speaker 3: starts peddling himself.

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Speaker 8: Sometimes people need that push and like, but you can

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Speaker 8: only push like so much to where you know, then

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Speaker 8: it's like, all right, you don't want to do anything.

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Speaker 6: See, yeah, you know.

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Speaker 8: So I think that it was right to give like

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Speaker 8: a timeframe on this, but like you have a month

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Speaker 8: to figure this out, not everything, but just start something.

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Speaker 9: And that's the end of this story.