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Speaker 1: My wife confessed to her affair because she regretted it.

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Speaker 1: My wife, I'm twenty seven mal lost after a confession

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Speaker 1: from my wife twenty nine email, I'm stuck in my

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Speaker 1: own head and need an outside perspective for some context.

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Speaker 1: We're college sweethearts, married for six years, and we have

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Speaker 1: a daughter or female. My wife's not only my first

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Speaker 1: love but also my best friend. The family we built

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Speaker 1: means the world to me. Recently, our marriage hit a

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Speaker 1: rough patch when my in laws fifty nine female and

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Speaker 1: fifty nine male, stayed with us for a few months.

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Speaker 1: It put a lot of strain on our relationship. My

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Speaker 1: mother in law has always been gracious, but my father

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Speaker 1: in law never approved of us. I'm not on his

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Speaker 1: top five choices for his daughter.

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Speaker 3: Ah.

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Speaker 1: He straight up told me I wasn't good enough for her.

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Speaker 1: He even initially refused to walk her down the aisle

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Speaker 1: because of his disapproval of me. Oh, he's our biggest obstacle.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to ignore him. We no longer had our

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Speaker 1: space as a couple and family. My father in law

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Speaker 1: took over everything and undermining me to our daughter. He

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Speaker 1: called it his grandfather rights. He came between my wife

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Speaker 1: and I. She would make excuses for him or say

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Speaker 1: he still needed her dad. We were pitted against each other.

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Speaker 1: We stopped communicating, bought often with no resolutions, and intimacy

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Speaker 1: went extinct. We're still in recovery. We're working on reconnecting.

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Speaker 1: We went to this retreat for our anniversary, and overall

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Speaker 1: it was good for us. We were able to talk

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Speaker 1: and have fun with each other again. Part of the

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Speaker 1: program was intimacy exercises, basically stared into each other's eyes

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Speaker 1: in a quiet space for extended period. It's supposed to

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Speaker 1: help us be present with each other. We decided to

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Speaker 1: continue these exercises at home, so during our last exercise,

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Speaker 1: we were staring into each other's eyes. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: stuff we appreciate and I start telling her how much

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Speaker 1: she means to me and what specifically I love about her.

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Speaker 1: She looked like she was in pain the more it

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Speaker 1: went on. She told me to stop praising her and

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Speaker 1: how I didn't know everything. I asked her what she meant,

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Speaker 1: and she confessed to a near physical affair. During our fallout.

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Speaker 1: She said she was lonely. We were on opposite sides

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Speaker 1: of the earth, and there was a coworker nineteen mel

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Speaker 1: showing her with attention and affection. Or that's too young,

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Speaker 1: nineteen Malde. This girl is like t twenty seven, that's

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Speaker 1: too young. So this is what's happening. You got a nice,

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Speaker 1: stable husband at home, and you got this nineteen year

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Speaker 1: old gen z lunatic being like, ahha with some mommy,

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Speaker 1: let me try to slide in there. That's what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: And you're Leonard. You're Leonard letting that little torp do that.

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Speaker 4: I think this is one of the downfalls of the

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Speaker 4: Internet and the mommy fantasy. It's now coming into off

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Speaker 4: of the Internet. It's not just a Reddit thing, Dang dude,

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Speaker 4: it's not just a chat thing now.

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Speaker 3: It's like real.

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Speaker 1: In this case, at first, she ignored him, but his

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Speaker 1: chasing began feeling good, she softened. She got a high

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Speaker 1: from that. Sorry, I'm just sitting character here, She got

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Speaker 1: a high from it. She was engrossed, and they'd have

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Speaker 1: Other coworkers teased her about how she had the guy

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Speaker 1: wrapped around her finger and him being whipped. She dismissed them,

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Speaker 1: but felt guilty about what others were perceiving, so he

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Speaker 1: moved their lunches to ar. She convinced herself the relationship

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Speaker 1: wasn't wrong because nothing physical occurred in private that shared lingering,

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Speaker 1: hugs and touches with each other. She eventually resolved to

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Speaker 1: she stopped because of her love for our family. She said,

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Speaker 1: while on her way out to meet him, she saw

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Speaker 1: our daughter and me having a good time playing together,

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Speaker 1: and how our daughter gave her a drawing over her family.

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Speaker 1: They reminded her of what we had on our commitment.

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Speaker 1: I remember that night too, her telling me she was

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Speaker 1: how excited she was, and her suddenly canceling and ignoring

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Speaker 1: her phone. You know what This reminds me of is

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Speaker 1: did you ever watch Stranger Things?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Remember that whenever Nancy's mom is going out to meet

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Speaker 1: decided to stay. Yeah, this is what's happening right now. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm looking back on it a lot differently now.

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Speaker 1: I was too numb to respond. It didn't seem real.

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Speaker 1: She asked me to say something. I asked why she

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Speaker 1: was confessing now. She said it was weighing on her,

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Speaker 1: and me speaking so positively about her made it worse.

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Speaker 1: I asked if she was still involved with a coworker.

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Speaker 1: She swore she wasn't. She broke things off with him

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Speaker 1: with no contact and he transferred to a different department.

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Speaker 1: He said losing our family wasn't worth the risk. I

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Speaker 1: asked her if she ever planned to tell me. She

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Speaker 1: admitted no. She convinced herself there wasn't anything to tell

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Speaker 1: because she didn't go through with it. We got a

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Speaker 1: little bit more before we get through that. But honestly,

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Speaker 1: this is emotional cheating, but I think we can work

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Speaker 1: through it. If this happened, I'd be like, we can

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Speaker 1: work through this. You didn't do anything, pol you almost did,

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Speaker 1: but you stopped and thank you for telling also too,

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Speaker 1: she told him. That's another huge plus there, not plus,

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Speaker 1: but you know thing to add.

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Speaker 4: I I'm on the fence with her because she fully

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Speaker 4: planned to do it. Like if she didn't happen to

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Speaker 4: stop and glance at him in that moment, she would

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Speaker 4: have fully gone out there and.

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Speaker 1: Done You think that should divorce?

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Speaker 4: No, but I'm just so.

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Speaker 1: You think they think you're working out too.

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Speaker 4: I think they can work it out, but I don't

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Speaker 4: think that it's gonna be uneasy process. And I think

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Speaker 4: that she's I think that she's a lot more at

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Speaker 4: for ror that she's willing to admit because she knew

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Speaker 4: it was weird. She knew she moved to the car

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Speaker 4: knew that it's so guilty. Yeah, she felt the guilt.

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Speaker 4: So that's already there. Like you said, emotional cheating, it's there.

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Speaker 4: The fact that she didn't go through with it gives

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Speaker 4: to save it, but I don't.

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Speaker 1: Know if well.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they're gonna have to do the work together.

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Speaker 4: She's gonna have to do the work together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I true. So my mother in law knew before me. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the guilt was eating away at my wife, and she

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Speaker 1: my wife needed to trust in our relationship. It got

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Speaker 1: She kept asking for me not to shut down on

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Speaker 1: her and proclaiming how she loves me and wants our family.

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Speaker 1: I told her that I didn't want to hear I

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Speaker 1: biggest mistake she's ever made, and she's fully committed to me.

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Speaker 1: I only told her I needed some space to process. Girl,

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Speaker 1: give him some space. He needs to figure this out.

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Speaker 1: He'll come around. Just give him some space.

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Speaker 4: This isn't like a oh, hey, I forgot to tell

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Speaker 4: you I borrowed your credit card, sorry thing.

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Speaker 1: No, this is a this is heavy I almost cheated

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Speaker 1: on you.

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Speaker 4: And for him to go from like saying like you're great.

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Speaker 4: I trust you and everything to this. This is not

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Speaker 4: something you can bounce back from in in just like

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Speaker 4: a day, yep, or even like a week. There's healing

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Speaker 4: in processing. He's got to go through the proper stages

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Speaker 4: of grief here.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm. Sometimes she respects my Space request, sometimes she doesn't.

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Speaker 1: I moved out to the guest room for the time being.

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Speaker 1: Sends affirmation texts about her love and what our vows

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Speaker 1: mean to her. I'm still just really numb right now.

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Speaker 1: This is heck. I don't know what to do with

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Speaker 1: her confession. I knew things weren't perfect. I knew we

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Speaker 1: but I never expected this. I was here wanting my wife,

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Speaker 1: wanting to work on our marriage and our family. She

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Speaker 1: goes off sneaking around with some nineteen year old kid, like,

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Speaker 1: what the heck? What are we doing here? I don't

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Speaker 1: relate either. I never looked elsewhere my wife is it

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Speaker 1: don't move past this. We'll continue to work on my marriage.

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Speaker 1: We have an update Number one. I think you need

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Speaker 1: some friends, yep. Because if your wife is your first

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Speaker 1: That is also kind of tough to be around. We

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Speaker 1: Their stay ended up being a lot longer than expected,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't think my father in law would escalate

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Speaker 1: all it had. It had taken on my family. But

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Speaker 1: my in laws have since moved out the issue is

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Speaker 1: in my mother in law. Though she has always been gracious,

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Speaker 1: it's just my father in law on through the update,

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Speaker 1: I had time to process and was in a lot

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Speaker 1: better headspace to talk to my wife. There we go,

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Speaker 1: that's what we she said. Thankfully, we found an opportunity

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Speaker 1: when our daughter was at home. I don't want her

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Speaker 1: exposed to our fights. We were good at keeping her

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Speaker 1: out of them until my in law stayed. She was

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Speaker 1: exposed to us fighting.

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Speaker 1: It's partially why I paused the convost slashed intimacy exercise

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Speaker 1: after my wife's confession, because it was only leading into

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Speaker 1: a fight. I did want to cultivate a healthier environment

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Speaker 1: for our daughter. My wife said she was glad we

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Speaker 1: were talking again and how she didn't want to hide

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Speaker 1: things anymore or have secrets from me. She asked where

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Speaker 1: her confession about the affair left us. I told her

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Speaker 1: it left us. No, We're good. I know I love her,

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Speaker 1: I want our family, and I was committed to repairing

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Speaker 1: but I don't know the full extent of our wounds.

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Speaker 4: At this point. The only thing that you can hope

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Speaker 5: My boyfriend believed that I'm only dating him because he's rich.

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Speaker 5: So recently, we attended a family get together at my parents' house.

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Speaker 3: What was up. I'm smelling a breakup.

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Speaker 5: I asked him what's wrong? First thing out of his mouth?

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Speaker 2: Well, because that's it's true. It's true my problems would

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, your problems will be solving. Then you'll have

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Speaker 3: Exactly, But my first level of problems will be solved. Right,

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Speaker 3: I get to girl, you don't have to explain yourself.

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Speaker 5: The absolute audacity to take a joke, I said when

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Speaker 5: But now it just sounds like you're you know, it

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Speaker 5: sounds like he's like, I've already heard the truth and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but also like, have you not talked to your

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Speaker 5: The tears were already starting to come down, but I

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Speaker 5: He's the first person I've ever felt comfortable being myself with.

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Speaker 5: There are some comments and an update. Folks, I think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and she.

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Speaker 5: actually have a mature conversation that's not being fueled by

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00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,919
Speaker 5: like big emotions and stuff and like wait, like say,

441
00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,880
Speaker 5: let's calm down, let's have a mature conversation. If he's

442
00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:29,000
Speaker 5: still accusing.

443
00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,440
Speaker 2: You, yeah, yeah, because it really does feel very dramatic,

444
00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 2: like that whole conversation of him being like, did you

445
00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,439
Speaker 2: say you wanted to marry me because I'm rich? And

446
00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:39,280
Speaker 2: then she's like why would you say that? And she's like,

447
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 2: did you say you want to marry me because I'm rich?

448
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 2: It's like that feels like it's poor. Yeah, it feels

449
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,040
Speaker 2: like it's pouring rain. And he's asking like if she

450
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:50,760
Speaker 2: she did this whole con.

451
00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,320
Speaker 3: Against his family or something like that, Yeah, that's what

452
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 3: it sounds like, with the level of it, did she

453
00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:00,159
Speaker 3: marry me just because I'm the crown prince right? No,

454
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:01,320
Speaker 3: I would never do that.

455
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, your sista said that you did prot rain sh

456
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,720
Speaker 5: sh Yeah, yeah exactly.

457
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 3: I just can't even believe you. I don't even know you. Yeah,

458
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 3: it's so dramatic.

459
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, there are some comments. Vivid Ad says, has to

460
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 5: be way more to this. If you're paying for all

461
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 5: your own stuff, there's zero reason to believe you're with

462
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 5: him for money. Is he paying your bills? Do you

463
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 5: ask him for money? Does he spend a lot of

464
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,880
Speaker 5: money on you? That kind of comment of marrying rich

465
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,119
Speaker 5: would make a man making good money feel uncomfortable. But

466
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 5: if there's no reason to believe that, then it shouldn't

467
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 5: be an issue. Opie says, he doesn't pay my bills,

468
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 5: and I definitely don't ask him for money. I was

469
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 5: raised with a we don't have money for stuff like

470
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,560
Speaker 5: that dad, so I find asking for money hard, even

471
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,960
Speaker 5: if I'm owed it. He definitely is generous with how

472
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 5: he spends money on me. On our first date, he

473
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,159
Speaker 5: showed up with flowers and I was stunned because no

474
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 5: one ever did that for me before.

475
00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:52,439
Speaker 3: That's normal.

476
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 5: He should be doing that. That's not like going above

477
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 5: and beyond. Yeah, exactly after I told him.

478
00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 3: He's brought flowers for every single day consisting stop. I

479
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:01,919
Speaker 3: love that.

480
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 5: When I told him I was gonna wait a few

481
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,399
Speaker 5: months to take my car into the shop because then

482
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 5: I'd have a bit more money saved, it was making

483
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 5: a weird squeaking noise. He literally drove me and the

484
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 5: car to the shop that day and told me not

485
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 5: to worry about it. My safety was more important. And

486
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 5: there is an update three days later. Wow, I honestly think, yeah,

487
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 5: I have that conversation.

488
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I'm sure conversation, like it seems like everything

489
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:23,640
Speaker 3: else is good.

490
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, And in so many of these stories that we read,

491
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 2: it's like they find something out and then that person

492
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 2: who finds out this misinformation is like, we're over, we're

493
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 2: talking about this without having a conversation, and she was like,

494
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I can't believe you would think this

495
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 2: without having a conversation, And it's like, well, I mean

496
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 2: he's kind of there to have that conversation, yeah, even

497
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 2: though he wasn't really believing her super fast, like that's

498
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:44,159
Speaker 2: what he's there for.

499
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there is an update, folks. All right, so

500
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:47,439
Speaker 3: let's do it.

501
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 5: Hi, all, I just want to make an update since

502
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,840
Speaker 5: a lot has happened over the weekend. Some comments helped

503
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 5: me realize that simply walking away from the conversation was

504
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 5: not the right thing to do. Yeah, but again, both

505
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 5: of you had very high emotions and and I think

506
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 5: waiting until you are both cooled down.

507
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:05,439
Speaker 3: Is probably very smart.

508
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 5: I decided to text my boyfriend on Friday and sent

509
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 5: him this message, Hey, boyfriend, I want to apologize for

510
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 5: leaving things the way I did. I was really upset

511
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 5: and hurt, so I left before my emotions got worse,

512
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 5: which obviously didn't help the situation. Can we meet up

513
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 5: this weekend and talk. I want to see if we

514
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 5: can get on the same page and evaluate our relationship.

515
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 5: He texted me back almost immediately and agreed to meet

516
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 5: up at my place yesterday. He obviously also wants to

517
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,399
Speaker 5: get back. Yeah, you guys both want this relationship, and

518
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 5: you let your sister get in the.

519
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 3: Middle of you.

520
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a gaggle of silly geese over shilly geeses.

521
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,679
Speaker 3: I was pretty nervous. I'm not gonna lie.

522
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 5: Some people thought that I should just break up with them,

523
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 5: and others thought that maybe there was something deeper going

524
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 5: on that he wasn't telling me Either way, I wanted

525
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 5: to get all the facts smart.

526
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 3: When I opened the door.

527
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 5: He was hauling a bouquet of flowers, and I had

528
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 5: a look on his face I've never seen before. Oh.

529
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 5: It was a mixture of sun and concern, which was

530
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 5: kind of overwhelming because he's not really the type to

531
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 5: be so expressive or emotional. He gave me the flowers

532
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 5: and we sat down, and the first words out of

533
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 5: his mouth were I'm so sorry. Ope, I know I

534
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 5: fed up.

535
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 3: See, guys, sometimes you have a real conversation with people

536
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 3: that you love, yeah, and it works out. You can

537
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 3: solve your problems. Was sold problems. Who would have thunk.

538
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 5: That apology just really calmed me down because I was

539
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 5: so afraid this was going to be a back and

540
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 5: forth of us trying to defend ourselves for what happened.

541
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 5: He said he was just about to text me to

542
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 5: meet up and talk. When I texted him, I thanked

543
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 5: him for the apology and apologized for my reaction to

544
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 5: and asked him, how did.

545
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:40,640
Speaker 3: We get here?

546
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 5: Can you just explain everything from the beginning, so I

547
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 5: can understand. I wasn't prepared for what he told me.

548
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 3: Oh my goshut the thumb. What do you think he

549
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 3: really excited for this? I don't know.

550
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 2: I think maybe the sister said more things or something.

551
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 2: I wasn't expecting to have another like twist in this,

552
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 2: and I'm.

553
00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 3: Really very happy. I think the sister said more. I

554
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 3: think so.

555
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 5: For some context, my boyfriend was not the person he

556
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 5: used to be.

557
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 3: Oh.

558
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 5: He used to be a serial womanizer, work aolic type

559
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 5: of guy. I was aware of all this before we

560
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 5: started dating.

561
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 3: Dude.

562
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 5: This is the plot of a movie where like the

563
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 5: prince who's always out on the town, woman eyes and people, yeah,

564
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 5: you know, meets this kindergarten teacher at a bookstore or whatever.

565
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they slowly.

566
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 5: Fall in love, right, and then he finds out that like,

567
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 5: she wants to be with him for money.

568
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's everything's over. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. They

569
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:34,919
Speaker 3: have a fight in the rain, in the middle of

570
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 3: the cobblestone streets. In the accent yeah, and they have

571
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 3: a British accent. They've got British accent. His dad, the King,

572
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 3: who was also a lawyer, was his idol. He wanted

573
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 3: to be just like him. Dude, this is exactly what's happened, exactly.

574
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 5: However, his dad had been married to his mom for

575
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 5: many years, so that was where my boyfriend drew aligne.

576
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 5: He was fine hooking up with women while he was single,

577
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,919
Speaker 5: but as soon as he got married that would be

578
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 5: the end and he would be a faithful partner.

579
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 3: Like his dad, I would hope.

580
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 5: So yeah, right, kind of that's not like that, that's yeah.

581
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

582
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 5: Unfortunately for him, things kind of all came crashing down

583
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,360
Speaker 5: when he found out his mom had.

584
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 3: Been cheating on his dad for years now.

585
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 5: When my boyfriend told his dad about it, and she's

586
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 5: probably cheating with like the prime minister.

587
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's some other duke from the other other province.

588
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 3: His dad told him to keep it to himself because

589
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 3: his dad had also been cheating for years. No, oh,

590
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 3: my gosh, I wasn't expecting. Oh this is a movie.

591
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 3: Oh dude, you have a movie script right here. Just

592
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 3: make everyone British.

593
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, make everyone British, and also make your partner the

594
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:47,959
Speaker 5: Prince of England.

595
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 4: Yah.

596
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 2: Pitch it to a Hallmark or yeah, like my fair prince.

597
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great name for it.

598
00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 2: My you with the prince? Yeah exactly. Oh my god, gosh,

599
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 2: this is crazy. So is he now gonna be like, well,

600
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 2: I have to follow in my dad's whatsneps. Yeah, well

601
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 2: I'm not to do it.

602
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 3: I guess I don't have to be faithful like my

603
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 3: dad because he wasn't.

604
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 5: I think they both knew about the other affair partners

605
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 5: and just decided they cared more about their image and reputation.

606
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,239
Speaker 5: So they never got a divorce. Wow, because they're the king.

607
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 3: Because they can't get a divorce. Exactly.

608
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 5: My boyfriend was floored. The idealized image of his dad

609
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,719
Speaker 5: was shattered, and he got really depressed. He started drinking

610
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 5: and going to bars more off to work, and that's

611
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 5: where he met our mutual friend, Matt. Matt was working

612
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 5: as a bartender and.

613
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,199
Speaker 3: Got to know him a bit. I am seeing this

614
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 3: whole movie play out in my Yeah. No, I really

615
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 3: am too. Ope, I like it. I like it.

616
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 5: Matt's a wonderful person, the type who really takes an

617
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 5: interest in everyone. Matt helped him get a better handle

618
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 5: on his life and they became friends. My boyfriend completely

619
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 5: changed his lifestyle. He stopped over drinking, cut his hours

620
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 5: down from the eighty to ninety hour work weeks he

621
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 5: used to do, and stopped objectifying women just to sleep

622
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 5: with them.

623
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,959
Speaker 3: That's good, cool. Nice.

624
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 5: Matt later moved into my city for work, and I

625
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 5: was introduced to him because he started dating one of

626
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 5: my friends, Becta. My boyfriend and I actually met at

627
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,239
Speaker 5: Matt and Becca's wedding. Anyways, my boyfriend moved out here

628
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 5: a few years ago to get away from his parents

629
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 5: after his lifestyle changed to essentially restart his life for good.

630
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 3: Dude, he gave up the crown.

631
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: Wow.

632
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 5: He moved to have a yeah, yeah, yeah, you could.

633
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 3: Have like a low key, like simple life, yeah, spotlight.

634
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 5: And he's like dry, I don't know. He's like walking

635
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 5: on the street one day and ohp he bumps into

636
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 5: him and he's like, do.

637
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 3: You know who I am? Yeah? And she's like, no,

638
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:42,479
Speaker 3: who are you am?

639
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 5: I supposed to And he's like, wow, oh my gosh,

640
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 5: I've never met anyone who didn't know who I want.

641
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 2: She doesn't know me, she just she's the type to

642
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 2: bring a book to a concert.

643
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 5: She's reading a book at a concert. I've never seen

644
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 5: a girl like that before. I'm my god, he said, quirky,

645
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 5: and then they fall in love and.

646
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 3: Then the Hathaway. Yes. Well, so that brings us to

647
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 3: last week.

648
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 5: After I left the park, my boyfriend took what I

649
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 5: said to heart, that the word of my family and

650
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 5: friends should be enough for him to trust me, and

651
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 5: went straight to Matt after to get his thoughts. My

652
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 5: boyfriend said Matt was really kind, letting him explain what

653
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 5: happened without interrupting, but then afterwards Matt really laid into him.

654
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 5: Matt asked him, do you really think that he would

655
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 5: still be living in a crappy one bedroom apartment if

656
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 5: she was dating used just for money? Has she ever

657
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 5: given you any reason the question of before all of this.

658
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 5: My boyfriend admitted that I had never given him any

659
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 5: reason to question my motives. Yeah, that he knows I'm

660
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 5: generous and not materialistic, But my sister's words got into

661
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 5: his head. He said, it was like listening to a child.

662
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 5: They have no reason to light to you, so I

663
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 5: believed it immediately. I actually don't blame him for that part.

664
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 5: Every single person who has met my sister describes her

665
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 5: as innocent and bubbly and as a very difficult time

666
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 5: seeing her as anything but that. Even my parents still

667
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 5: view her like this despite them knowing how many people

668
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 5: she's cheated on yikes, well, how much of their money

669
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 5: she's wasted and never given back, and how many times

670
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 5: she's joked about unliving them or myself.

671
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's a when we're looking at a list

672
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 2: of characteristics, it's a wild one to throw in there.

673
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 5: I didn't know this next part, but my boyfriend opened

674
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 5: up to Matt when they were first getting to know

675
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 5: each other about how many women used him for his money.

676
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 5: People only saw me as Crown Prince Peter. I was

677
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 5: in anything back Crown Prince Peta. And then when I

678
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 5: met Opie, she just saw me as that guy right,

679
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 5: that man on the street that she knocked over, And

680
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 5: I wanted to be that guy who just did laundry

681
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 5: at a laundry Matt and didn't have servants to do

682
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 5: it for him. I knew that his last relationship ended

683
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 5: badly while he still lived out East, but apparently this

684
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 5: was the first major relationship after his lifestyle change, and.

685
00:30:58,960 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 3: He really loved her.

686
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 5: He bought basically everything for her all the time, and

687
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 5: she still cheated on him all of that led him

688
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 5: to become really insecure about people's motives when it came

689
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 5: to dating. He explained that even some of the nicest

690
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 5: women just lit up and acted completely different when he

691
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 5: told them he was a lawyer, crown prince, and it

692
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 5: completely unlived any desire he had to get to know

693
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 5: them better. He told Matt, you didn't want to date

694
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 5: anyone unless he knew someone who could vouch for them personally.

695
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 5: Matt was the one who encouraged him to ask me

696
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 5: out because he already noticed we liked each other and

697
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 5: told my boyfriend that I was a good person. I

698
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 5: know this girl, she comes in here time to time.

699
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 5: She's a real dime a real dime piece.

700
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should ask her out. Ask her. I don't know, Matt.

701
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 3: I just could never find anyone who loves me for me.

702
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 3: Do you really think she could be the one? And

703
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 3: then she walks in the door, yeah, hair hair blowing.

704
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 3: It's like, oh right, I'll give right.

705
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,719
Speaker 5: Back to their recent conversation, Matt's ad that if my

706
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 5: boyfriend needed more outside confirmation, he should listen to me

707
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 5: and go talk to people in my life to get

708
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 5: a better perspective of what kind of person I am.

709
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 5: He starts interviewing people. There's a whole montage of him

710
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 5: collecting notes about Ope, and everyone's like, Oh.

711
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 3: He's the nicest gallant girl could ask a friend for.

712
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 2: I'm seeing he is getting introduced to her family and

713
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 2: you live in like a small, like crammed apartment, and he's.

714
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 3: Like, but they're really rounded by little kids.

715
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 5: Yeah.

716
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's at first like, yeah, it's disgusting, disgusting.

717
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 2: You haven't you don't have your maid come in and

718
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 2: all the kids are like sneezing into their arms, like,

719
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 2: and then they all gather around for it and it's andy.

720
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

721
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 2: Then they all huddled together on the couch and he

722
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 2: sees that they really just value each other.

723
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 3: And he's like, I really understand the magic of Christmas.

724
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 5: Now my boyfriend has actually spent the last week doing

725
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 5: exactly that. He even went to my parents were describing

726
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 5: that's what she means, and told them what happened. Apparently

727
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 5: my mom was horrified. She really likes my boyfriend, so

728
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 5: when she found out that inviting my sister I had

729
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 5: essentially caused a rift in our relationship, my mom got

730
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 5: really upset. Her whole aspiration has always been to see

731
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 5: all our children married, and since my sister has said

732
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 5: nothing but failed relationships and I've otherwise been chronically single,

733
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 5: knowing she did anything to mess up my relationship was

734
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 5: probably pretty upsetting to her. He said that she was

735
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 5: crying and very apologetic. He also asked her to give

736
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 5: me space until he had had a chance to apologize

737
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 5: to me himself, which in hindsight makes a lot of

738
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 5: sense because my mom usually calls and texts me every

739
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 5: day and has been mia this whole week. All in all,

740
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 5: my boyfriend said that my friends and family had nothing

741
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 5: but good things to say about me, that I was

742
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 5: absolutely not a gold digger, and anyone who ever suggests

743
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 5: that is just plain wrong. I was crying pretty hard

744
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 5: by this point, hearing everything. My boyfriend kept apologizing and

745
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 5: saying he'd do anything to earn my trust back. But

746
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 5: he also said that if our relationship was going to work,

747
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 5: if my sister might pop up again unexpectedly, he needed

748
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 5: to know everything. He wanted to be prepared for exact

749
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 5: exactly what kind of person she is, so this kind

750
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 5: of thing never happens again. So I told them not

751
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 5: absolutely everything, because there's so much to cover, but once

752
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 5: I started mentioning things, I just kept going, I'm not

753
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 5: going to get into the gritty details on Reddit because

754
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 5: my sister might see it, and also a lot of

755
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 5: it is really painful. But the long and short of

756
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 5: it is she has untreated mental illnesses that was very

757
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 5: obvious from a lot of the comments that she makes yep,

758
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 5: that she refuses to get help for the times we

759
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 5: have gotten her specific help therapy in patient medications. She

760
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 5: has been uncooperative or stop treatment against medical professionals advisement,

761
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,439
Speaker 5: and she has a pattern of awful behavior and love

762
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 5: bombing in all of her relationships both familial and romantic,

763
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 5: that she never takes accountability for her This is why

764
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 5: I'm low contact with her. By now, you're probably wondering

765
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 5: if I'm in therapy. I haven't been for some time

766
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 5: because I've been working contracts and didn't have insurance coverage

767
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 5: through work, but I will come September. Something my boyfriend

768
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 5: both agreed to in this conversation is for both of

769
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 5: us to get individual therapy, him to deal with his

770
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 5: unresolved and se securities and trauma around his parents and

771
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 5: past relationship and me because my sister did a number

772
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 5: on me and I've never really opened up about it

773
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 5: in therapy. We're also going to set scheduled weekly times

774
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 5: where we're not necessarily going to go on dates, but

775
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 5: have uninterrupted time to talk openly, especially on any insights

776
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 5: we sat in therapy. By this point of the conversation,

777
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 5: things were getting a little less heavy, and I joked

778
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 5: about how we both have the same trauma reaction of

779
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 5: going silent when things get too intense. We both agreed

780
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 5: that we didn't handle this well, and in the future,

781
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 5: any and all concerns we have will be communicated properly

782
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 5: and immediately. We're not going to run away from each other,

783
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 5: and if we don't understand something, we're going to ask

784
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 5: questions until we do. Since we talked for hours, we

785
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 5: ended up just making dinner at my place and talking

786
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 5: some more. I'm really hopeful for what comes next.

787
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 2: Anna.

788
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 3: There are some comments, but do you have any final thoughts.

789
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 3: I think this is great. I think everything about this

790
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 3: is great.

791
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:51,439
Speaker 1: Yeah.

792
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 2: I now really want to watch a movie where there's

793
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 2: a print in the popp earth kind of thing.

794
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 5: I agree, but yeah, but the popper is op yeah. Yeah,

795
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 5: and these and they call love love Yeah, And there

796
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 5: I like it. They're not sisters.

797
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 3: Really funny.

798
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys, maybe work on your communication and stay

799
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 5: away from your sister, right, you got this?

800
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe in this relationship. I believe in you guys.

801
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: I believe in it.

802
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 5: Comments Nola says no one told the op that a

803
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 5: boyfriend came around asking about her.

804
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 3: Odd Opie says, after.

805
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 5: My boyfriend's convos with Matt and then my parents, he

806
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 5: basically said he had what he needed in his words,

807
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 5: to reassure himself of my intentions just around things out.

808
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 5: He casually reached out to a few more of my

809
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 5: friends and my brother with hey, just curious how you

810
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 5: would describe Ope as a person and what her values

811
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 5: are text Only one of my friends kind of questioned

812
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 5: him about it. He told her that he was in

813
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 5: his head a bit and needed some outside reminders to

814
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 5: reassure him of what he already knew. I'm not surprised

815
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 5: none of my friends said anything to me. We usually

816
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 5: update each other about stuff in person, so I imagine

817
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 5: when I meet up with them they'll bring it up.

818
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: Then Hey, it's Sam, your og host. Here. We're gonna

819
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: get back to the stories.

820
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 3: But here's three minutes of ads from our sponsors. I

821
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 3: don't want to marry my boyfriend anymore.

822
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 2: Yeh oh, not that he male wanted to marry me

823
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 2: t when he ate female anyway.

824
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 3: He's stated in marriage is like a noose around the neck. Cool.

825
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 2: I was absolutely in love with this man. We have

826
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 2: such a beautiful child together. I wanted to marry him

827
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 2: because I wanted to show my absolute commitment commitment I

828
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: thought he reciprocated, but over time I just.

829
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 3: See that I was delusional.

830
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,120
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Speaker 2: slash Okay storytime separate it. So, after our child was born,

833
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 2: I saw him following a lot of thirst trap girls

834
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 2: on TikTok. I told him how much it hurt me,

835
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 2: especially when my body doesn't look great anymore.

836
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 3: After pregnancy. My self esteem was at a low point,

837
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 3: mostly hormones.

838
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 2: But seeing that didn't help, I asked him to unfollow

839
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 2: them and not engage with that content. Every time I

840
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 2: build my confidence up and accept my new body, I

841
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 2: would see him following more girls. I would remind him,

842
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 2: he would unfollow and I had to start building up

843
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 2: my confidence again. For a while it seemed good until

844
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: he had to use my phone for work since his broke.

845
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 2: I offered him my phone since he drives for work

846
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 2: and I want to him to have a way to

847
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 2: communicate in an emergency. Months later, I logged back into

848
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 2: my private TikTok the likes and follows.

849
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 3: It was hundreds of girls.

850
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 2: He was logged into my private account on his phone,

851
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 2: knowing I was checking in on his account from my end.

852
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 2: I confronted him, told him with the lengths that you

853
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 2: went to try and hide this, him doing it over

854
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 2: and over knowing it hurt me. I consider it cheating

855
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 2: and I won't tolerate it again. He agreed, promised not

856
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: to do it again, and we moved on.

857
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 3: Things were looking up for a bit.

858
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 2: I'm losing a lot of the baby weight. I had

859
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 2: time to work on my appearance again. Things were feeling

860
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 2: a bit more normal again. Reader, I'm sure at this

861
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 2: point you're screaming on me.

862
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 3: Run it's gonna happen again. Yeah.

863
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 2: I was almost there, and you would be right. I

864
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 2: found his Twitter and my recommended. He told me he

865
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 2: didn't have Twitter. When I asked, he was following and

866
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 2: liking again. But I now saw him commenting I had it.

867
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 3: I told him, and he just said, I don't get it.

868
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 3: I just see it.

869
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 2: And after back and forth, I told him I don't

870
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 2: want to be with him anymore.

871
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 3: Maybe you could like have.

872
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 2: That kind of conversation when you first is brought up like, oh, well,

873
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 2: this is how I see it. I don't see it

874
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 2: as like I want these girls in a relationship. She

875
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 2: was like Gord, which different couples of different feelings about

876
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 2: but like after all this time, Ope, he's explaining how

877
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:24,240
Speaker 2: it makes her feels.

878
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 3: And then he's just like, I don't get the problems.

879
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 3: Like come on, man, man, I see where you're coming from.

880
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 3: Kid together, Yeah, I know right.

881
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,439
Speaker 2: It's like I know you've told me so many times,

882
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,720
Speaker 2: but like, why is this a problem?

883
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 3: Like that's crazy.

884
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 2: The only reason why I'm staying is that I will

885
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,439
Speaker 2: be danged if I don't get to see my son

886
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 2: every day and he doesn't get to see his father

887
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 2: every day. Now we are back in the growth phase,

888
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 2: but dang, it's been weighing on me every day. I

889
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 2: have moments where I feel happy and confident, but I

890
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: just remember these women and how I look nothing like them.

891
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 2: In moments where I look at him lovingly, happy with

892
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 2: our growth, It's tainted thinking what new way is he

893
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,320
Speaker 2: hiding his regular use to these women.

894
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 3: Him calling me pretty or beautiful feels like a lie.

895
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 2: There are moments where we are playing with our son

896
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 2: and I'm wondering if it'll be the last time we

897
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 2: do that. Seeing my boyfriend on his phone fixated to

898
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 2: the point where he can't even hear me talking to him,

899
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 2: wondering if his attention is on another woman. Yeah, honestly, Oh,

900
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 2: this is so sad because it's all the like highs

901
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 2: and lows, and it's like, just because it can get

902
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,879
Speaker 2: better a little bit doesn't mean that like it's worth continuing.

903
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 2: I'm grieving the me that didn't know any of this.

904
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 2: I wish I was still oblivious. I wish I could

905
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 2: just forget all of it, still blissfully in love with

906
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 2: him and our little family. I wish I no longer

907
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 2: agreed with him when he said marriage would be like

908
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 2: a noose around his neck.

909
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 3: And there are some comments.

910
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 2: One comment was downvoted and says your insecurity is not

911
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 2: his faults, although he still should not have lied to you.

912
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 2: I feel like you two did not communicate it correctly,

913
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 2: and just like him, I would see it as porn,

914
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,240
Speaker 2: which shouldn't be a problem as long as he still

915
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 2: genuinely appreciates you.

916
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 3: I could see why that was done voted in a bit.

917
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's coming from a place of like

918
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 6: I get what they're trying to say in terms of

919
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 6: the like, sure, there is a certain amount of insecurity

920
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 6: here that like other people can never control the amount

921
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 6: of insecurity.

922
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 3: You have about something, right, but.

923
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 6: Again, like there's a lot of other stuff going on

924
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 6: here as well. Of like if that insecurity has been

925
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 6: communicated and like things were agreed upon and then you

926
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 6: still went.

927
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 3: Back on that thing, it's like that's where.

928
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 2: It gets into like right, you know, right, because it's

929
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 2: always the kind of thing where it's like, you know,

930
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, when it comes to insecurity,

931
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 2: it's like you are really the only one that can

932
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: actually build yourself up, Like you're the only one that

933
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,720
Speaker 2: can I guess kind of do something about it. People

934
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 2: can definitely support you and contribute to that, but you

935
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 2: still sometimes would have to have your own like self love.

936
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 3: But in this situation specifically, the context is still Yeah.

937
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 2: Like she did communicate that insecurity exactily, and he seemingly

938
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 2: didn't do anything.

939
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:13,280
Speaker 3: To reassure her that he does still like her.

940
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 6: Exactly And somebody says like duchess.

941
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 3: Cassanda says, I don't know. She's at a boundary that

942
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 3: he agreed to, and it's like, yeah, that's the thing, right, yeah,

943
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 3: And I'm seeing against it.

944
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 2: Bobie response to that, and I agree, my self esteem

945
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 2: is on me. But seeing him, the man I gave

946
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 2: my heart and soul to ruined my body for actively

947
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 2: seek out and hide his interactions with these women hurts

948
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 2: to see comments makes me wonder if he's messaging these

949
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 2: women or paying these women to see more, would he

950
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 2: f these women if given the chance to continue doing

951
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 2: so after I explicitly told him I consider it cheating

952
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 2: is not hurt done unintentionally. I'm guilty of wanting to

953
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 2: feel enough for him for letting that affect the way

954
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 2: I view my body. My self esteem is on me,

955
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 2: but my lack of trust in him is on him

956
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 2: and his actions. The same commenter says, I over read

957
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 2: the commenting part My bad, But what if?

958
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 3: What if? What if? Doesn't really help?

959
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 2: He is addicted to corn, Maybe he needs therapy to

960
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 2: get away from it. Girls posting themselves as their's traps

961
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: mostly don't even reply, nor would they ever interact with

962
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 2: the men physically. Have you tried asking him if he

963
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 2: does not feel fulfilled? Spicily related? Opy responds, it's okay,

964
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 2: and yeah, the what ifs are definitely hurting progress.

965
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 3: But I can't help that.

966
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 2: My mind is wondering just how deep this goes. And

967
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 2: while most don't comment back, the possibility.

968
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 3: Is always there.

969
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 7: Guys he okay, you know, no, fat I don't okay, no, FYP, No,

970
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 7: FYP is really clever, so Fie, well done, well done, darling,

971
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,959
Speaker 7: you give up the good work like that.

972
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 3: I don't get it.

973
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 5: But no, just like when you don't do like you

974
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 5: don't watch corn or anything and you don't like.

975
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 2: Oh, it's like a like you know, almost like a

976
00:43:58,360 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 2: like dry January kind of.

977
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but for like the entire year for the gooners.

978
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 3: Does it stand for maybe we unless we maybe all

979
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 3: figured it out? Well anyway, I just had a clever idea.

980
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 3: But that's okay. Jobs, I'm proud of you.

981
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 2: We have discussed his needs at length, and while I'm

982
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 2: working on my end to make sure he's satisfied. It's

983
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 2: hard to maintain at times, part of which is because

984
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 2: I'm continuing to try to meet his needs when my trust.

985
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 3: In him has been abliterated.

986
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 2: But now this is responding to a longer comment about

987
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 2: corn addictions, Opie says, thank you. Seeing these comments about

988
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 2: corn and regular use changed my perspective for context. He's

989
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 2: an amazing dat started working super early mornings three am

990
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 2: to one pm so he can spend time with his kid.

991
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 2: He's helping me learn Spanish so we can teach our

992
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 2: son to be bilingual. He will help me out with

993
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 2: no questions asked. This is his first real relationship and

994
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 2: we ended up having our kid before our first anniversary.

995
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 2: Before anyone comments, we have been friends for over ten years,

996
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 2: so he's navigating a relationship for the first time in parenthood.

997
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 3: At the same time, and.

998
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 2: Since our last discussion on this, he has corrected behaviors

999
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,919
Speaker 2: didn't even touch on. He started complimenting my body more,

1000
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 2: initiating more, giving me time to work on my self care, nails, skincare,

1001
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 2: hair care, et cetera, so I can start feeling like

1002
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 2: myself again.

1003
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 3: He started watching corn where the women look more like me.

1004
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 2: Deleted socials where there are thirst, straps, et cetera, all

1005
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 2: of which I didn't explicitly ask for. When I say

1006
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 2: absolute commitments, I'm here throughout the thick and thin.

1007
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:25,839
Speaker 3: I absolutely believe.

1008
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,720
Speaker 2: A relationship can recover from most anything if both are willing,

1009
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 2: and we are. We both see now that our relationship

1010
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 2: needs to be strong for our son, and we will

1011
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 2: do what it takes to make it. And there are

1012
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 2: some comments. Bitter pill Pusher too says, you love the

1013
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 2: man you want him to be, not the man he is.

1014
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:43,919
Speaker 3: You know what you should do?

1015
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 6: The commenters are always so fascinating and a little bit

1016
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 6: funny on these. I love the person. I like to

1017
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 6: imagine that this person just scrounges Reddit and on every

1018
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 6: single post is like, you.

1019
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 3: Know what you need to do? Yeah, you know what

1020
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 3: you need to do? Yeah, vaguely cryptic. Right, it feels

1021
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 3: so ominous like you No. I actually that's why I'm here.

1022
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 3: You know what you need to do? Yeah? Sorry, I

1023
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,240
Speaker 3: was actually asking a question to read it. Yeah, yeah.

1024
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 2: Plaine Rosemary says exactly, you can't marry a fantasy if

1025
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: you're unhappy and he violates your boundaries. Why stay the baby? Wait,

1026
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 2: is not the problem here in International Fee twenty two

1027
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,760
Speaker 2: five to five. You could try a couple's therapy, but honestly,

1028
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 2: I don't think he's worth it. And as the mother

1029
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 2: of a nineteen year old who has had a lot

1030
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: of revelations about her dad, your kid will not benefit

1031
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 2: from parents who live together but aren't happy together. He

1032
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 2: cheated on you, you told him not to do it regularly,

1033
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 2: and he dismissed you each time. I don't think he

1034
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 2: will change, and there is an updates, but before we

1035
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 2: get into it. Yeah, honestly, I kind of feel that

1036
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 2: way because like in one of her comments, she was like,

1037
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 2: this is his first relationship, like you know, blah blah

1038
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 2: blah blah blah.

1039
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I remember seeing things one time where.

1040
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, like it was videos of people trauma

1041
00:46:59,239 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 2: dumping online.

1042
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 3: It was like, I'm going through this hard thing.

1043
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 2: But I keep reminding myself that, like it's their first

1044
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 2: time living too, you know.

1045
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 3: So it's like, of course they're gonna make mistakes and whatever, and.

1046
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, but let's look at that in the

1047
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 2: opposite perspective. It's Op's first time living and she's not

1048
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 2: doing these things you.

1049
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:16,879
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.

1050
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 2: So it's like, just because it's someone's first time, like

1051
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 2: going through a relationship or having certain I don't know,

1052
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 2: feelings or experiences, doesn't mean that you have to just

1053
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 2: put up with it and be okay with it because

1054
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 2: you're bringing it up and trying to fix it. And

1055
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 2: I mean, it seems like he's doing things now, but

1056
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 2: for a while he was being very dismissive of you.

1057
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 3: So everyone was right.

1058
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. It would just continue to happen connantly, over and

1059
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 2: over until I reached a point where when I saw

1060
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 2: it again, I just felt numb. I started giving love

1061
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 2: to myself, focusing on exercising, diet, creating arts, spending time

1062
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 2: with my son. Eventually I decided I couldn't be with

1063
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 2: him anymore and I left. Get this, Our son is

1064
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 2: almost three, And when he was begging for me back,

1065
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 2: he said, I'm sorry, it's just hitting me that we

1066
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 2: have a son. OHPI says, effing what anyway, I have

1067
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 2: one hundred percent custody and I'm driving.

1068
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 3: This is awesome, And there are some more comments. Commenter says, yep,

1069
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 3: and the plus.

1070
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 2: Site is your son won't have his cheating irresponsible but

1071
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 2: as a primary role model nop He says, this was

1072
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 2: the big realization at the end of it all, he

1073
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 2: has a poor male role model, but by me saying

1074
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 2: I'm a bad role model as well. That love is

1075
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 2: tolerating disrespect and accepting less than the bare minimum. I

1076
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 2: love him enough to put my fears of solo parenting aside. Yeah,

1077
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 2: that's honestly a really big thing too. Like, if you

1078
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 2: don't like what someone's doing in a relationship, but you

1079
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 2: like don't know if you want to leave or stay,

1080
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 2: imagine teaching your kids that it's okay to do that,

1081
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 2: or that it's okay to be treated that way.

1082
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 3: You know, you just got the little kids scrolling on

1083
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 3: his feed too. Yeah. Literally, it takes a lot of courage,

1084
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 3: and she slight it up. Good job, Dune.

1085
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 2: Another commentary says, congratulations on your independence. Your ex sounds

1086
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 2: like a real piece of work, and it is obvious

1087
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 2: that you and your kiddo are thriving without him. Also,

1088
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 2: he's just now realizing you have a child together. Did

1089
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,439
Speaker 2: he think you had a dog together for the last

1090
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 2: three years? Opie says, my job dropped when I heard

1091
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:22,879
Speaker 2: him say this, Like what he later tried to say

1092
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Speaker 2: that our son is just now getting a personality and

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Speaker 2: it was hard for him to feel fatherly instincts. Blah

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00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 2: blah blah, But really all parents can see the personality

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Speaker 2: from very early on. His problem is he decided to

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Speaker 2: not connect the son until it seemed the relationship was

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00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 2: going to end. And another commenter says, how'd you get

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00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 2: the full custody? Opie says he gave it willingly. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'm not surprised by that, honestly. Another commentarre says, I

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Speaker 2: remember your post. I'm so glad you have found a

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Speaker 2: way to honor.

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Speaker 3: And value you.

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00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 2: You deserve honest and compassionate love. I wish nothing but

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Speaker 2: the best for you. In this new chapter, Opie responds,

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Speaker 2: you don't know how how many times I went and

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00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 2: read the comments of that post every time it happened again.

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Speaker 2: Y'all really were there for me more than y'all could count.

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Speaker 1: Hey's johnyo Og host. Here.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna get back to the stories, but here's a

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Speaker 4: quick three minute break of ass from our sponsors.

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Speaker 2: My ex boyfriend got our coworker pregnant, so I congratulated them.

1112
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 2: I had a twenty eight Asian female found out that

1113
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 2: my boyfriend at thirty one, Hispanic mail of three years,

1114
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 2: cheated on me with one of our coworkers, and his

1115
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 2: sister had a part in it.

1116
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 3: What Last week?

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00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 2: On Friday, I was at my work desk when my very,

1118
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 2: my very nosy lead came up to me, whispering and

1119
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 2: asking if I was okay.

1120
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 3: I was confused. She then pulled up.

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00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 2: Her phone and asked if I had broken up with

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00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 2: my now ex boyfriend because she screenshotted an Instagram post

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00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 2: that was made over the weekend by one of my

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00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 2: coworkers person he cheated on me with. By the way,

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Speaker 2: this comes from Electronic bar eight four eighty four on

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Speaker 2: the r slash comfort Level pod subreddit. If you want

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Speaker 2: to submit your own stories, go to the r slash

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Speaker 2: Okay story time supbredd it. So I do not have

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00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 2: social media, so I told my nosy lead to show

1130
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 2: it to me, and there was a picture of my

1131
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 2: coworkers kissing my now ex boyfriend.

1132
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 3: For the world to see.

1133
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 2: On Saturday, I told them that we needed to talk,

1134
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 2: so I went over to his house. On my way there,

1135
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 2: the same nosy lead send me a screenshot of a

1136
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 2: post that was made by my coworker saying that she

1137
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 2: was about two months pregnant.

1138
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 3: I called and asked.

1139
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 2: Him to explain himself while I was nearing his house,

1140
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 2: and he just stayed quiet. He refused to come out

1141
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 2: or see me when I arrived at the house, so

1142
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 2: we basically talked through the phone for the time that

1143
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 2: I was there. After I sent him the pictures of

1144
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 2: the screenshot, not telling him who sent it, he finally

1145
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 2: said things happened and he got close to our coworker

1146
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 2: after his sister started inviting her to the house.

1147
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,959
Speaker 3: Then confessed that he started dating her two months ago.

1148
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 2: The day before his mom's fiftieth birthday, which he invited

1149
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 2: her to but told his sister to tell me that

1150
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,359
Speaker 2: she was the one that invited the coworker. He also

1151
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 2: told her to dress in gold, which is his favorite color,

1152
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 2: when the theme was hot pink, to which everyone was

1153
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 2: wearing but her. On the day of his mom's birthday,

1154
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 2: he spent the whole night drinking and talking and dancing

1155
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 2: with his sister and our coworker because they claimed that

1156
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 2: they didn't want her to feel left out. I was

1157
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 2: with the rest of his family. His cousin invited me

1158
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 2: to dance since my ex was dancing with our coworker

1159
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 2: when suddenly my ex pulled me to the side and

1160
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 2: was upset that I was dancing with his cousin. I

1161
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 2: told him that I should be the one that's upset

1162
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 2: with how he has been acting all night, but just

1163
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 2: didn't want to make a scene out of it out

1164
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 2: of respect to his mom.

1165
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 3: I ended up saying bye to his mom and said

1166
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 3: that I wasn't feeling too well, so I left.

1167
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,399
Speaker 2: That was when the cheaters decided that they were going

1168
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,439
Speaker 2: to go upstairs and make a baby on the night

1169
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 2: of his mom's fiftieth birthday while everyone was celebrating downstairs.

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00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 3: Mind you, he told me all of this over the phone.

1171
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 2: After some time, his sister came down and said that

1172
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 2: he had asked me to go back home for the day.

1173
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 2: I yelled at her for helping her brother lie to

1174
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 2: me for the last two months. Her answer to me

1175
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 2: was that she didn't feel like I was good enough

1176
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 2: for her brother because I didn't speak Spanish. Yes, Spanish,

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00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,840
Speaker 2: and she liked my coworker because she was Hispanic, and

1178
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:54,919
Speaker 2: wanted her to date my and wanted her to date

1179
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 2: her brother, who is now my ex boyfriend.

1180
00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 3: So she set them up.

1181
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,720
Speaker 2: After everything that I've done for them and her kids,

1182
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,919
Speaker 2: helping her daughter get through speech therapy, watching her kids

1183
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 2: while she goes out a party, and helping their mom

1184
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 2: run errands. All of this wasn't good enough because I

1185
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 2: needed to speak Spanish too. His mom came out to

1186
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 2: ask what was going on. I told her I came

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00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,240
Speaker 2: to say goodbye, and that her son was a dog

1188
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,799
Speaker 2: and a pos and he can do the explaining to her,

1189
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 2: but that I was done. She cried, telling me not

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00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 2: to go and that whatever he did to hurt me

1191
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 2: he would get back, so for me to stay. I

1192
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 2: told her that he will get what he deserves, but

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00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 2: I was done with her son. I remained professional as

1194
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 2: best I can all week when those shifts overlapped at work,

1195
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 2: even congratulated them on their pregnancy in front of everyone.

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00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 3: He called me, to which I picked up and asked.

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00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 2: He wanted to know where he stands in our relationships

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00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:49,760
Speaker 2: so he can make a decision. I think you've already

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00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 2: made a decision, dude, when you were pointing on your

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00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 2: mom's vivir birthday.

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Speaker 3: He says, I just need you to tell me where

1202
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 3: you're at. Yeah, cause if you're like down with us

1203
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 3: still being together. Yeah, that's crazy.

1204
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 5: See, I'm just trying to get like a sense of

1205
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 5: where your head's at, trying to my head.

1206
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 3: My goodness, h oh, he's thinking relationship.

1207
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 2: And he asked if I cannot make a scene or

1208
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 2: make things awkward at work. I responded, there's no place

1209
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 2: for him to stand when there is no relationship, and

1210
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 2: his decision was already made when he decided he wanted

1211
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 2: to sleep with another woman and impregnant heart.

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00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,879
Speaker 3: I didn't make things awkward. What they did affected them,

1213
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 3: not me.

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00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 2: This week, his sister ended up quitting after she got

1215
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 2: into an argument with another supervisor. And Friday came back

1216
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:39,760
Speaker 2: around today and I received some more good news.

1217
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:40,760
Speaker 3: The company ended.

1218
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 2: Up firing him because of a DUI, which he now

1219
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 2: has two duys. Am I the a hole side note,

1220
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 2: My ex our coworker were all supervisors at the same company.

1221
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 2: His sister reports to our coworker. They're all on first

1222
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 2: shift and I'm on second shift. And we do have

1223
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,439
Speaker 2: an update. Wow, but do we have any final thoughts

1224
00:54:58,520 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 2: before we go into this update?

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Speaker 8: A lot of crazy stuff happened. It's pretty easy. Yeah, no,

1226
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 8: don't go back together with them. Cheated on you and

1227
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:13,720
Speaker 8: had a baby with another woman. It's pretty yeah, pretty,

1228
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 8: So you're yeah, you're.

1229
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 3: Definitely not the a whole. I don't know what you would.

1230
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 2: Be the a whole for, Like nothing, you didn't do anything,

1231
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 2: You didn't do anything, you just I don't know what

1232
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 2: you would be the ale for. You left the party

1233
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 2: and you congratulated them on the pregnancy. I think that's

1234
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 2: a very nice thing to do.

1235
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 3: If they feel guilty, Yeah, that's all they am. That's

1236
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 3: on them, man, that's on them. But there is an update.

1237
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 2: So, since my ex boyfriend has been fired, my phone

1238
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 2: has been ringing non stop with constant messages going off.

1239
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 2: I ended up blocking his number. At work, my coworker

1240
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 2: has reported me to HR for Pesterman. My manager, who

1241
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 2: has been on personal time off for the past two weeks,

1242
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 2: talk to me about it throughout the past week and

1243
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 2: asked about what happened. I told my manager that I

1244
00:55:57,320 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 2: haven't done or said anything to my coworkers except for

1245
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:03,240
Speaker 2: cold congratulations on her pregnancy and hello, as a fellow

1246
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 2: coworker would. I told HR where the proof was that

1247
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,319
Speaker 2: I was talking about her or making her uncomfortable, and

1248
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:11,240
Speaker 2: that they can go ask associates or other management members

1249
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 2: if I had said anything about her, also for them

1250
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,720
Speaker 2: to go ask her to explain to them exactly why

1251
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 2: she felt I was pestering her on what grounds. Apparently

1252
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 2: associates and management have been talking about her pregnancy and

1253
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 2: how my ex boyfriend cheated on me and is the

1254
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 2: baby daddy.

1255
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 3: She is saying that I told everyone about it. Pathetic.

1256
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,359
Speaker 2: She needs to realize that the only reason everyone knows

1257
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 2: is because she purposely posted it on Instagram for the

1258
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 2: world to see about her and my ex boyfriend scandalous

1259
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 2: relationship and also announcing her pregnancy.

1260
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point too.

1261
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 2: Her coworker told OPE that she was being cheated on like.

1262
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 3: OPI found out after PE.

1263
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone else is telling OpEd the information. It has

1264
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 2: been confirmed by HR after asking management and associates that

1265
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 2: I have not said anything to my coworker but that

1266
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 2: day when everyone congratulated her on her pregnancy. Also that

1267
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:05,919
Speaker 2: I didn't say anything to anyone about my cheating young's

1268
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 2: boyfriend and coworker, but that everyone found out through her

1269
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 2: post on Instagram. They said that they would talk to

1270
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 2: her and handle the situation, but for the time being,

1271
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 2: I was to keep a distance fine with me. I'm

1272
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 2: not sure how they will take care of the situation,

1273
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 2: but I'll wait and see what happens now. Over the weekend,

1274
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 2: I went over to their house to get my stuff.

1275
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 2: After confirming with his mom that he was not home,

1276
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 2: she agreed to help pack my stuff for me as well,

1277
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 2: so I can just go in and out. She had

1278
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 2: the garage open and was finishing up packing stuff, so

1279
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 2: I went to help her finish. As we were finishing,

1280
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 2: he pulled up on the driveway, so I grabbed the

1281
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 2: last of what I could and told his mom that

1282
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 2: I was leaving.

1283
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 3: I rushed to my car, but he stopped me and

1284
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 3: said that he wanted to talk. There was nothing to

1285
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 3: talk about. His mom told him to let me leave.

1286
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 2: She walks over to pull him to the side, but

1287
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 2: he brushes her off.

1288
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 3: He wouldn't let me leave until we talk. That's not scary. No,

1289
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 3: it's not scary. No, No, that's yeah.

1290
00:57:58,320 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 4: No.

1291
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 3: See what you're doing, dude, that's your fault. So that's

1292
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 3: your fault because of you. I try to throw tom

1293
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 3: hens and I myself.

1294
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 2: Man. He kept saying to listen to him, and he

1295
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 2: needed to talk to me. At this point, I was

1296
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 2: just over it, I responded, what is there to talk about?

1297
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 2: The day I came over here and asked you to

1298
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 2: explain to me what happened, you couldn't even come outside

1299
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 2: and tell me, Not even for a second did I

1300
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 2: see your face. I give you a chance to come

1301
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 2: out and explain yourself, but you threw that chance away.

1302
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 2: You only spoke with me over the phone, and not

1303
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 2: once did you even apologize for having.

1304
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 3: Cheated on me.

1305
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 2: You couldn't even come out to face me, so you

1306
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 2: sent your sister to tell me to leave, and that already.

1307
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 3: Explains what you are not. You are not a man.

1308
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 3: You can't even own up to your wrongdoing.

1309
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 2: Now that you want to talk, I don't have to listen,

1310
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 2: since there is nothing between the two of us.

1311
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 3: Bam. I think that's a banger response. Yeah, I think

1312
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 3: you nailed it.

1313
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 5: I really think there's like, like, there's no question here.

1314
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 5: You just need to get him out of your life.

1315
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,479
Speaker 5: And if he keeps bothering you, I don't know, like, yeah,

1316
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 5: restraining order absolute. I mean, I'm real, you can report

1317
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 5: him and say no, he's literally harassing me.

1318
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 2: He's showing up to my house when people are telling

1319
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 2: me him to leave, including me.

1320
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 3: He's not leaving.

1321
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 2: He won't even let me leave, like that's yeah, that's crazy.

1322
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 2: I'm rolling my eyes, rolling our eyes over here. I

1323
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 2: pushed past him and placed the box in my trunk

1324
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 2: and went to get in the driver's seat. He was

1325
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 2: still insisting that I talked to him. He then said

1326
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 2: that he was sorry, he didn't know what he was thinking,

1327
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 2: it was all a mistake, and that he still loves me,

1328
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 2: that he wouldn't be with her if she wasn't pregnant.

1329
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 2: His mom told him, cheating is not a mistake. You

1330
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 2: did it because you wanted to do it. Your love

1331
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 2: was not sincere. You wanted someone else. You did the act,

1332
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 2: so now you suffer the consequences. I told him, even

1333
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 2: if she wasn't pregnant, you still cheated for that alone.

1334
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:49,959
Speaker 3: I will still leave.

1335
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 2: She pulled him away and waved me off as I left.

1336
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 2: Since I have his number blocked, he was using his

1337
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 2: mom's phone to call me, but I hung up once

1338
00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 2: I heard it was him. She then sent me a

1339
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 2: text my to block her number. Honestly, I feel horrible

1340
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 2: that his mom had to witness all of this. She

1341
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 2: was such a lovely person. She cared for me as

1342
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 2: if I was her daughter. I really do wish the

1343
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 2: best for her and her grandkids. But may my ex boyfriend,

1344
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 2: his sister, and my coworker get all the karma that

1345
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 2: they deserve.