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Speaker 1: My friend booked her wedding in the same week as mine.

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Speaker 2: And didn't think it was a problem. Well, actually, girl,

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Speaker 1: Twenty nine female have this friend thirty female who booked

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Speaker 1: their wedding date six days before ours. Four background, her boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: I and my fiance went to the same university. We're

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Speaker 1: not that close, but fast forward. The four of us

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Speaker 1: are currently working abroad and became closer with the span

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Speaker 1: of two years. Close friends is in we were together

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Speaker 1: for almost every week for that period. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I'm Sophia, I'm Savannah, I'm Keon. I'm back, and.

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Speaker 1: We're back to give you good advice. Goofy, But we

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Speaker 1: don't have all the answers. We only know what we do,

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Speaker 1: so let us know what you would do in the comments.

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Speaker 1: Hey Doopie, says my fiance and I got engaged last

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Speaker 1: and we booked the date, venue, and other major suppliers

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Speaker 1: on the same month. We immediately told our friend group

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Speaker 1: about the date so that they can plot it in

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Speaker 1: their calendar ahead of time.

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Speaker 2: I've been sharing.

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Speaker 1: Every detail to this close friend of mine since she

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Speaker 1: had already appointed herself as one of my bridesmaids, which.

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Speaker 2: I also intended to do.

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Speaker 1: Then, four months after, this close friend of mine got engaged,

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Speaker 1: which I'm obviously happy with, until she told me a

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Speaker 1: month ago that they picked a date which is six

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Speaker 1: days before ours.

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Speaker 2: That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I was so shocked because it seems like she didn't

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Speaker 1: consider the people around her. We have common friends who

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Speaker 1: will both be attending our wedding, and both of our

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Speaker 1: weddings will be held at the same city four hours

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Speaker 1: away from the Metro. I immediately told her that I

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Speaker 1: might not be on her wedding since for sure I'll

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Speaker 1: be busy a week before my wedding since I have

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Speaker 1: no coordinator, I live abroad, and we will hold our

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Speaker 1: wedding in our home country, which I only took a

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Speaker 1: work leave for three weeks max. There's a lot to

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Speaker 1: do for last minute preparations. So after telling her that,

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Speaker 1: she replied to me it's okay, I understand that leaves

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Speaker 1: as if she was just given me an FYI, which

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Speaker 1: hurts me a little bit more because it doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: like she cares if I'm at her wedding or not.

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Speaker 1: She's in my bridesmaid's list, but I'm planning to remove her.

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Speaker 2: Due to this.

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Speaker 3: Were you about to say brides maging.

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Speaker 1: Rides majing list. She's doing magic, but I gotta let

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Speaker 1: her go. I didn't talk to her about this, but

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Speaker 1: I've been hurting since then. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: it's not within my control. She can pick any date

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Speaker 1: she wants, but I just hope she considered me in

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Speaker 1: any way. So am I the a hole for having

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Speaker 1: this feeling? What should I do? How can I tell

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Speaker 1: these details. I thought about opening up to her, but

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Speaker 1: I think she'll play the victim. Or maybe I'm just overreacting.

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Speaker 1: And we've got an update.

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Speaker 2: Folks, what do you think GOP should do? Not overreacting?

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Speaker 2: I think it's very hurtful. Yeah, absolutely, your friend have

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Speaker 2: their wedding, like not even a week before yours and

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Speaker 2: then just be like, oh, you have to like put

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Speaker 2: also plan your wedding like right after it. Yeah, literally

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Speaker 2: six days later. Yeah that's so much time. Yeah, that

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Speaker 2: is not happening. I do think if you're upset, you

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Speaker 2: should talk to her.

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Speaker 1: If she was going to be your bridesmaid, presumably she

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Speaker 2: So I would talk to her first.

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Speaker 1: See how she responds, Say that you're upset, and if

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Speaker 1: she's like, oh, well, joke's on you. I don't freaking care,

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Speaker 1: then you don't invite her to your wedding.

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Speaker 3: The fact that you haven't talked to her about it yet. Sorry,

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Speaker 3: I would talk to her, yeah, be like, hey, this

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Speaker 3: is not cool. You were supposed to be my bridesmaid.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of feelings here if I did

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Speaker 3: that to you kind of thing, you know, exactly.

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Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if her friend planned this four months

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Speaker 1: after OP had already you know, decided on the date

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Speaker 1: because this girl might not even get people to come

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Speaker 1: so let's see what op did. This is from a

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Speaker 1: bit over five months later. Hello, So, at first I

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Speaker 1: best to remind myself that this is their wedding, not mine,

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Speaker 1: so I have no control over. But something definitely changed between.

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Speaker 2: Us, and I know she knows it too.

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Speaker 1: A few months later, her fiance messaged and asked my

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Speaker 1: fiance to be his groomsman. He even requested for my

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Speaker 1: fiance to allot at least two to three days of

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Speaker 1: his time to prepare as a groomsmin insane. My blood boiled.

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Speaker 1: They set their wedding six days before ours. Then he

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Speaker 1: had the audacity to ask for the prep days. Take

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Speaker 1: note that's for the role of an entourage, so they

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Speaker 1: knew that a groom needs maybe more than six days

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Speaker 1: to prep for his own wedding. My fiance politely declined

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Speaker 1: politely declined as well. Gi low Ki asked me if

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Speaker 1: they're still invited but indirectly told her that we will

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Speaker 1: remove them on our list since we're considering that they're on.

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Speaker 2: Their own honeymoon.

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Speaker 1: Anyways, I was furious again at how inconsiderate they are,

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Speaker 1: so I decided to talk to her to open up

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Speaker 1: She told me that if she were in my shoes,

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Speaker 1: you have to change your wedding to six days before

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Speaker 2: Then it's just two weeks, two weeks earlier, perfect than planned.

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Speaker 1: She'd was like, based on my personality, I was just

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Speaker 1: Asked three days of press as a groomsman, so they

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Speaker 1: especially if there's last minute things that we need to handle.

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Speaker 1: After the talk, I realized that our EQ was not

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Speaker 1: other's weddings, but we'll support each other as a bride.

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Speaker 1: focused on my true friends. But somehow I still feel

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Speaker 1: really an unfortunate event. What's most sad about it is

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Speaker 1: My enthusiasm to it really skyrocketed down, and I feel

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Speaker 1: really bad for my fiance. I always saw this couple

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Speaker 1: since we're in a small group of friends working abroad,

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Speaker 1: but we've slowly started to set some boundaries, like not

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Speaker 1: me and very objective towards this issue. He already told

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Speaker 1: because he feels like she's always prioritizing herself without considering

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Speaker 1: the people around her. There have been other instances like

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Speaker 1: they'll know that this couple isn't invited, and maybe they'll

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Speaker 1: understand when they get the other girls invite why it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I feel like it's kind of

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Speaker 2: it's not being petty, it's being just setting a boundary

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Speaker 2: because she obviously like crossed the boundary there. So it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: now I have to like rethink her friendship and kind of,

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Speaker 4: Like I completely understand that.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. I don't want to retell this story anymore. Did

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Speaker 1: Opie's friend know about her wedding date beforehand? Opie said

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Speaker 1: they knew our date even before they got engaged. She

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Speaker 1: kind of understand that logic However, she absolutely should have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it still had to be a conversation. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: still has to be a conversation. Yeah, because just doing

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Speaker 3: How did nobody ask like, hey, is this okay? Or

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Speaker 2: It should have been.

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Speaker 1: She goes to you and says, hey, I had this

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Speaker 1: idea about, you know, making sure all of our friends

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Speaker 1: cost to them. Wouldn't be okay if I did it

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Speaker 3: Which is sounds so stressful to be, like you're a bridesmaid,

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Speaker 3: but then you're like, oh, I'm gonna do my wedding first,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I told her, why does it have to be

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Speaker 4: Liar, Yeah, what?

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Speaker 1: And also why wouldn't it be after OPI's wedding?

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Speaker 3: What do you mean by no other choice? There's three

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Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five days in a year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and also there's you know, four weeks to choose

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Speaker 2: They could have been maybe planing it around like family

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Speaker 1: But again, still, why didn't we talk about this before

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Speaker 1: you decided?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Still there's not any other day they couldn't, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: she told me she had no the choice.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't argue much about it because I really don't

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Speaker 1: know if that's true. And a short update from Ope,

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Speaker 1: they had a wee night with their friends to tell

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Speaker 1: them they're side of the story. I didn't know what

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Speaker 1: and they were hurt that we didn't invite them to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just annoying that now it's like a competition

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Speaker 1: So my question isn't about controlling their friendships. I understand

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Speaker 1: Comment one says, look, you had enough comments from your

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Speaker 2: Yes, it sucks.

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Speaker 1: It was a week before yours, and a really good

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Speaker 2: At all in any way.

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Speaker 1: With friends, the best you can do is work on

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Speaker 1: okay without them, or planning around them. Don't put those

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Speaker 1: People from our home country were already dragged into this mess,

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Speaker 2: You should have told me. Of course, I wouldn't go

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Speaker 1: It does seem like that comment or before was being

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Speaker 1: I'm just happy that the people who went to our

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Speaker 1: I read your previous two entries and I have to

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Speaker 1: you need to grow up. You sound like a teenager

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Speaker 1: whining about prom From what I read, the other couple

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Speaker 1: Ope for being upset that someone completely ignored how she

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's ridiculous. I would be super upset if one

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Speaker 1: Is that okay or not even is that okay?

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Speaker 2: But will you come?

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Speaker 2: and emotions all that, it is like they did try

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Speaker 2: to make it work of being like, you know, you

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Speaker 2: like do other stuff, but also that means like more

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Speaker 2: on them it's more so, I feel like that's not

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Speaker 1: Exactly, discrediting. Yeah, what they're you know, gonna be busy

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Speaker 1: with even more.

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Speaker 2: That's true. And good Morning Putty.

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Speaker 1: Potato says they're also planning this wedding from a different country.

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Speaker 1: There's probably gonna be a lot of people flying in

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Speaker 1: and it takes at least a week when you're in.

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Speaker 2: A different country.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And a lot of people just can't take off

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Speaker 1: So if they were yeah, if they were coming for

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Speaker 2: Go to both.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but we've got a little bit left to be frank,

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Speaker 2: It's not a party, it's her wedding. Yeah what, it's

441
00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,199
Speaker 2: not a party. It's not a party.

442
00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,560
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. You do sound frantic and like

443
00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,600
Speaker 1: you're a lot to handle. It sounds like your friend

444
00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,920
Speaker 1: group is kind of over your dramatics. My best friend

445
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,119
Speaker 1: is married to a literal wedding planner, and the fact

446
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,000
Speaker 1: you can't see friends because of wedding planning is outrageous.

447
00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:27,320
Speaker 1: Was the week before thing a little rude?

448
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,199
Speaker 2: Sure, a little rude?

449
00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,560
Speaker 1: This person? Is this the friend that planned the wedding

450
00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,639
Speaker 1: six days before? But it's also a wedding in a

451
00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,560
Speaker 1: foreign country and a lot of factors beyond anyone's.

452
00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,639
Speaker 2: Control go into picking a date. It's not true.

453
00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,440
Speaker 1: You could have made this a fun twin bride's vibe

454
00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,440
Speaker 1: and made a giant week long party out of it.

455
00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,560
Speaker 2: If her friend had asked her. No one wants to

456
00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,480
Speaker 2: share their wedding. Also that, Yeah, I'm gonna put that

457
00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,760
Speaker 2: out there. No one wants that. I don't care how

458
00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,320
Speaker 2: close you are. No one wants to share their day

459
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,879
Speaker 2: with someone else. These comments are weird.

460
00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,880
Speaker 1: Opie says, Actually, I get what you mean, but based

461
00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,960
Speaker 1: on experience, Yeah, we're really dang busy the week before

462
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,080
Speaker 1: our wedding as we're cram and legal requirements before the wedding.

463
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:10,520
Speaker 1: We don't have a coordinator since it's expensive, so we diid.

464
00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:10,800
Speaker 2: Most of the things.

465
00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,760
Speaker 1: Everything went well, but we almost had no sleep due

466
00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,000
Speaker 1: to preparations, so we scheduled everything before. We told them

467
00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,040
Speaker 1: that we cannot come anyway. We're actually okay with it already.

468
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,440
Speaker 1: I stepped back from the friendship since they're spreading rumors

469
00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,720
Speaker 1: and talking to my friends negatively about the issue, even

470
00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,800
Speaker 1: after making peace about it, and even after the wedding, Like,

471
00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,479
Speaker 1: what's the point. I'm more focused on why I'm feeling

472
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,320
Speaker 1: like I'm too dependent on our other friends. And that's

473
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,600
Speaker 1: the end of that story.

474
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:41,200
Speaker 2: My best friends sent everyone an RSVP except me. Mine

475
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 2: arrived five days before the deadline. Maybe she just forgot

476
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,360
Speaker 2: I had a friend I'd known since grade school. We'd

477
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,640
Speaker 2: been close for over twenty years. We called each other

478
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 2: best friends, but as we grew older, life got busy

479
00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:54,640
Speaker 2: and we each focused on our careers. By the way,

480
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,399
Speaker 2: this comes from no Comment sixty seven ninety seven, and

481
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:58,920
Speaker 2: if you want to submit your own stories, go to

482
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 2: the our slash Showcase story Time subreddit. I'm Savannah, I'm Sophia,

483
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,000
Speaker 2: I'm Keon. We had to give some good advice, goofy,

484
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,840
Speaker 2: but we don't have all the answers. We can't only

485
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,479
Speaker 2: tell you what we would do in all little heads,

486
00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 2: but let us know what you do in your big

487
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 2: brains down in the comments. As Opie says, back then,

488
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:15,920
Speaker 2: we used to hang out every day since we only

489
00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 2: lived five minutes apart. Our homes became each other's second home.

490
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,919
Speaker 2: Even our families were close. We were the typical girl

491
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 2: best friends who did everything together. We were there for

492
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 2: each other through heartbreaks and happy moments, from first relationships

493
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 2: to life milestones. We knew everything about one another. Then

494
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 2: last year I heard from her grandmother that she was

495
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,159
Speaker 2: getting married this year. I was excited for her, so

496
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,480
Speaker 2: during our next hangout, I asked her about it, but

497
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,440
Speaker 2: she outright denied it, saying, I'm not getting married yet.

498
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,200
Speaker 2: Why are people spreading rumors? The thing is, I knew

499
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 2: she had always wanted to marry her boyfriend. She had

500
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,679
Speaker 2: told me during their first year together that she was

501
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,199
Speaker 2: eager to settle down, but he wanted to wait a

502
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 2: bit longer so they could save up for their future.

503
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 2: I didn't bring it up again after that, even though

504
00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 2: her parents had also mentioned the upcoming wedding. Okay, so

505
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 2: it's this wedding's happening unless she doesn't know that he

506
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 2: hasn't proposed yet, or she's just lying. Yeah. I figured

507
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 2: maybe she just didn't want to announce anything until there

508
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 2: was a formal engagement. Then last month, she posted her

509
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,880
Speaker 2: prenuptial shoot everyone on Instagram was congratulating her. I felt

510
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 2: a bit hurt that she had denied it before, but

511
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,120
Speaker 2: I let it go because I didn't want to soult

512
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 2: during what should be a joyful time in her life.

513
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,120
Speaker 2: I have to comment and even messages her to say congratulations,

514
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,360
Speaker 2: but I didn't get a reply. Still, whenever we see

515
00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 2: each other, she's always the first one to approach me.

516
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 2: That made me think there wasn't any bad blood between us.

517
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 2: When we hang out with our mutual friends, she usually

518
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 2: stays close to me and catches me up on everything

519
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,040
Speaker 2: going on in her life. She's more of the talker

520
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 2: between us, while I've always been the listener. Then came

521
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 2: the digital RSVP. Our common friends received THEIRS, but I didn't.

522
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 2: I felt hurt, and honestly, I was angry. I waited

523
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 2: a few more days, hoping to receive the RSVP, but

524
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 2: nothing came. I didn't want to be confrontational, so I

525
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 2: asked one of our close friends about it. That friend

526
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 2: told me maybe I should wait a bit longer. Then

527
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 2: maybe she just forgot to send mine. Hearing that hurt

528
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 2: even more.

529
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's still dub It's like, Oh, so she either

530
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 1: definitely didn't want me there or forgot about me.

531
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 2: She just forgot. Yeah, guys, you're just such a forgettable person.

532
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 2: I always imagine that when either of us got married,

533
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 2: we be the first of No. We used to talk

534
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 2: about it, and I genuinely believed we'd be each other's

535
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 2: top priority. Eventually, the RSVP came, but only after that

536
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 2: close friend of ours asked her why I hadn't received one.

537
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,399
Speaker 2: She said it to me just five days before the

538
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,679
Speaker 2: RSVP inline. Right after sending it, she messaged me with

539
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,360
Speaker 2: please respond now. I don't know. I feel like she's

540
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 2: being like weird, Like it's like a chore. Yeah, her

541
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 2: to like invite you there, like are you friends or what?

542
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 2: Like hurry up and respond, It's like, gird, just got it?

543
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 2: Yeah you have please respond right now. Let me check

544
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 2: my freaking calendar. Yeah I don't know. Did you even

545
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 2: want me there? Yeah? That made me feel like I

546
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,920
Speaker 2: was only invited because someone pointed out I hadn't been included.

547
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 2: I didn't respond right away. I needed time to think.

548
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 2: The whole situation deeply hurt me and triggered my abandonment issues.

549
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 2: Started questioning everything again. How could someone I've been so

550
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 2: close with suddenly exclude me from such a major life event.

551
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 2: I tried to figure out what went wrong in our friendship,

552
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 2: but I couldn't come up with anything. We were always okay,

553
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 2: even when life got busy. She would still update me

554
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 2: whenever we had the chance to hang out. After about

555
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,919
Speaker 2: a week, I made the decision not to attend. I

556
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 2: couldn't bear the thought of being there, knowing I was

557
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 2: only invited as an afterthought. I send her a message

558
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 2: thank you for the invite. I'm really happy for you,

559
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 2: but I'll be out of town on your wedding day,

560
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 2: so I won't be able to attend, wishing you all

561
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 2: the best. She never replied, I just don't really like

562
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 2: this girl. It seems like it was a pity invite.

563
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,400
Speaker 1: And yeah, like you had talked to one of your

564
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 1: mutual friends and then maybe the mutual friend was like, hey,

565
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: so he's supposed to be coming, and then she's like, oh, yeah,

566
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: I guess i'll invite OP then invites her and it's

567
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: like t hurry up, come right now, right now, come on.

568
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, someone brought it up and like, hey,

569
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,640
Speaker 3: you forgot about OP, Like do I have to? No?

570
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 2: I don't want to bring us.

571
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: I would talk to her, if you're really gonna be

572
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: kind of thinking about this for a while, just hop

573
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: the conversation and say, hey, I was a little hurt

574
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: that you seemingly invited me as a second thought.

575
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,719
Speaker 2: You know, if it's really like gonna make you overthink

576
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 2: and bring up your trauma, then yeah, I feel like

577
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 2: it would be in your best interest to be like,

578
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 2: let me get a better understanding.

579
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 4: About this, because why not.

580
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I took that silence as her cutting me off.

581
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 2: That's when I decided to fully let go and burn

582
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 2: the bridge. I kept torturing myself trying to figure out

583
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 2: what went wrong, but I guess I'll never know. Then,

584
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 2: just yesterday, we were both at a friend's birthday party.

585
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,880
Speaker 2: She arrived late and actually came up to me first

586
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 2: before greeting the celebrant. I used the moment, since things

587
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: were winding down, to quietly leave. I didn't want to

588
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,159
Speaker 2: make a scene or pretend everything was fine. I just

589
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 2: want to be at peace with the fact that we're

590
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,959
Speaker 2: not friends anymore. I don't want to dwell on her

591
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 2: reasons to try to understand them, and I definitely don't

592
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 2: want to be petty about it. Even though I could

593
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 2: stir up some drama if I wanted to, hah, but

594
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 2: I don't do that. Yeah, there's an edit to add.

595
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 2: Sorry for my poor construction of sentence. It's not that

596
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 2: she's always the one who approaches me first, But what

597
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 2: I mean is when we're together, she's usually the one

598
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 2: who initiates most of the conversations and shares more stories.

599
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 2: She's naturally talkative, and I genuinely enjoy listening and responding

600
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 2: to her. Of course, when I see her first, I'm

601
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 2: the one who approaches her. I go up to her

602
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 2: and give her a hug. Then she usually starts talking

603
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,400
Speaker 2: right away, catch me up on things, and I share

604
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 2: my stories too. But overall, she just talks more because

605
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 2: that's her personality. I really don't mind at all. Edit

606
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 2: it again to add this, as per a co editor suggested,

607
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for understanding where I'm coming from.

608
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 2: It's actually a bit funny how some people think my

609
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 2: friend might be tired of always initiating conversations. English isn't

610
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 2: my first language, so it's hard for me to explain clearly,

611
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 2: but that's just how our friendship works.

612
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 1: Just talk to her, just so I can know you

613
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: don't even have to continue the friendship after that. I

614
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: just gotta know find out for me, please, why she

615
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,439
Speaker 1: seems to not want to be friends with you anymore.

616
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: I mean, and OPI you may just be taking it

617
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:07,239
Speaker 1: that way, like maybe true, like you know, nothing has

618
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: happened and you're just taking it that way, or you know.

619
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 2: I don't know. It just seems like there are pieces

620
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 2: missing to this puzzle, and I really want you to

621
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 2: figure it out so that you feel more at peace

622
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 2: with it, because as much as you're like, I want

623
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 2: to be done, I want to be done, this still

624
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 2: continues to haunt you. It lingers. Yeah, we've been friends

625
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 2: since we were six, and like any long friendship, we've

626
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 2: had our small arguments too. I know her well. If

627
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 2: she were upset with me or didn't like something I did,

628
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 2: she would completely ignore me. But that's not what's happening.

629
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 2: She's still friendly, and that's why I find the whole

630
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 2: situation confusing. The only possible reason I can think of

631
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,959
Speaker 2: for her not wanting me at her wedding is that

632
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 2: I'm the only one who knows she was unfaithful to

633
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 2: her fiance. Ooh, well, you see this changes things now. Girl.

634
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 2: Why do you even want to be friends with this girl?

635
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 3: Is Opie the only one who knows?

636
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 2: The only one? She said? Yeah, she said. The only

637
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 2: possible reason I can think of her for not wanting

638
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: me on her wedding is that I'm the only one

639
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 2: who knows she was unfaithful to her fiance.

640
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: Obviously, I don't know why, but maybe it's because I

641
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: could destroy her whole wedding.

642
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 2: Dude, one, why.

643
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: Would you even want to be friends with someone who

644
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 1: cheated on the fiance? Like, and also, why haven't you

645
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: told the fiance.

646
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 2: Let's get around to that.

647
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: I mean, if Op's close friends with you know the girl,

648
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: presumably you know the fiance.

649
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 2: Why doesn't he know that he was cheated on? Yeah,

650
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 2: the fact that that wasn't the first thought, and it

651
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 2: was just like, maybe she just doesn't want me there.

652
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 2: Maybe it's what she did and what you know, what

653
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 2: she told you. Yikes, that's crazy. Okay, Now this is

654
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Speaker 2: a whole different perspective now, and we both know what

655
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 2: we know. I called her out on it multiple occasions

656
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 2: until she eventually stopped. That's the only thing that makes

657
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Speaker 2: any sense to me. That's the end of that story. Hey,

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Speaker 2: it's Dakota, your favorite good time boys.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get back to the stories, but here's three

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Speaker 1: minutes of ads from our sponsors. My wife made a

662
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: disgusting comment about her brother's girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: Now he won't speak to her. I'm not talking to you.

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Speaker 1: So this goes all the way back to last Christmas

665
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Speaker 1: when my twenty nine male wife twenty nine female and

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Speaker 1: I first met my brother in law's twenty eight male

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Speaker 1: girlfriend twenty three female. My wife has five siblings, and

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Speaker 1: out of all of them, she's always been the closest

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Speaker 1: to Paul, meaning he would come over to our house

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00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: at least twice a week. He has a spare spt

671
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: of keys to our place in case of an emergency,

672
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: and we even had an emergency key to his apartment.

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Speaker 1: By the way, this comes from expert Sample sixty five

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Speaker 1: sixty three, And if you want to spit your own stories,

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Speaker 1: go to the r slash. Okay, storytime suppared it. I'm Sophia,

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Speaker 1: I'm Savannah, I'm ke On, and.

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Speaker 2: We're here to give good advice.

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Speaker 1: Goofy, But we don't have all the answers be aling

679
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: know what we'd do, So let us know what you

680
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: would do in the comments, and Opie says everything was

681
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: fine until last October when we noticed that Paul stopped

682
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: co over. My wife said he hardly even replied to

683
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: her texts, which was concerning since Paul has a history

684
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: of depression and sometimes withdraws from everyone when he hits

685
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: a dark place. One night, after my wife got his

686
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: voicemail four times and my in laws confirmed they hadn't

687
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: heard him either, we drove to his apartment out of

688
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: concern and used the emergency key. Usually when Paul gets

689
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: like this, his apartment looks a mess, but to our surprise,

690
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: his place was spotless and smelled like a bath and

691
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: bodywork store. When my wife realized he wasn't home, she

692
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: took the opportunity to snoop, and that's when she found

693
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: silk sheets, high end women's clothing, skincare, new appliances, and

694
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: meal preps in the fridge.

695
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: It was clear that Paul had a girlfriend. As soon

696
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 2: as we got home, my wife sent him a message

697
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 2: telling him we had stopped by and asking why he

698
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: hadn't told us he was seeing someone. Eventually, Paul called back,

699
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 2: apologized for being so distant, and explained that he had

700
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 2: been aiding a girl named Sadie for a while. The

701
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 2: reason he hadn't told us was because my wife is

702
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 2: often too pushy, clearly, and she's snoopin' and he didn't

703
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: want her to be upset that he was dating someone

704
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 2: she hadn't set him up with, since my wife had

705
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: tried to set him up with her friends several times

706
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 2: in the past. He also told us not to worry

707
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 2: if he didn't stop by as much, and that he

708
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: would introduce us to Sadie when he felt ready. After that,

709
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 2: we hardly.

710
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,239
Speaker 1: Heard from him until December, when he told us he

711
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: was bringing Sadie to meet the family the day after Christmas. Honestly,

712
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: I was happy for him. Yes, I missed hanging out,

713
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: but I was glad the guy was living his own life.

714
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: My wife, however, was furious, saying that Sadie was probably

715
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,239
Speaker 1: the one making Paul distance himself from the family, and

716
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: that she had made him buy all those expensive items

717
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: we had seen at his place. When the day after

718
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: Christmas came, everyone gathered at my in laws house to

719
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: meet Sadie, and everyone, including myself, was a bit surprised

720
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: since Sadie was nowhere near his usual type as my

721
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: sister in law said, she gave off black cat energy.

722
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: I honestly thought Sadie was pretty nice. She was friendly

723
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: to everyone, helped in the kitchen, cracked a few jokes,

724
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: and Paul seemed genuinely happy. He was telling everyone about

725
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: how he had been eating less processed foods and now

726
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: craved cleaner meals, and how Sadie takes him on her

727
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: morning runs. Throughout it all, however, my wife looked noticeably annoyed,

728
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: and when I tried to speak to her, she brushed

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00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: me off, saying that Sadie was trying to change Paul

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Speaker 1: into some of you was not despite everything, she held

731
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: her tongue. That night, while my wife and I were

732
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: having drinks with all her siblings, the conversation steered toward

733
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: everyone making jokes about Paul's new lifestyle and how surprised

734
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: they were that his type had changed so much. It

735
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: was all lighthearted until my wife offered Paul a second

736
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: adult soda uh oh, and he declined, saying he tried

737
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: to drink less because Sadie hates the smell of it.

738
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: That led my sister in law to crack a joke

739
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: saying that he better refused the adult soda or he

740
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't get lucky that night. At that point, I think

741
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: Paul just had enough of the jokes and drink another

742
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: adult soda just to quiet everyone down.

743
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Speaker 2: I hate that. I hate that you shouldn't have to

744
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 2: feel bad for wanting to like be healthy, accommodating to

745
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 2: his girlfriend and also just be healthier.

746
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Speaker 1: I think like sometimes you get around that certain group

747
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: and whether that's like drinking or smoking or like eating unhealthily,

748
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: they make you feel bad if you don't. Also, like

749
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: that's not everyone who does those things, but like there

750
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: are certain people that will make you feel bad because

751
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: they kind of feel bad about it, and then they

752
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: see you not wanting to do that, and to them

753
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: it feels like a slight against them. Yea, And like

754
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: you're making you know, you're saying that they're doing something wrong.

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00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not what you're doing, Paul. I never thought

756
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 2: like if I like go out and like drink and

757
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 2: like someone's like, oh I don't drink whatever, I don't

758
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 2: like make them feel bad for that. Yeah, because you're

759
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 2: a good person.

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00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: It's crazy.

761
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 2: It's actually crazy. I'm just nice to them. Yeah, I

762
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 2: don't know, better than being mean.

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Speaker 1: I guess by one am Paul had gotten Prince Zip

764
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: say two beers had turned in two five. And then

765
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: he took the bait of the other's jokes by revealing

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00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: that Sadie actually wants to wait a while before they

767
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: become intimate. Immediately after he said that, my wife told

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00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: him that with them out of money he spent because

769
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: of her, he should be getting somewhere by now.

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00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 2: Off and with all the money that you're spending on her,

771
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 2: open her legs.

772
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: And followed up by saying she was surprised because Sadie

773
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 1: looks like she gives it up pretty easily.

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00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 2: Yoh wow, Oh, I would have slapped something off of someone.

775
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,439
Speaker 2: You knocked the highlights out of her hair.

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Speaker 1: After that, things went south fast, and Paul hasn't spoke

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00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: to my wife since December. No matter how many times

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00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: I tried to reason with my wife and tell her

779
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: that all she needed to do was apologize, she wouldn't

780
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: hear it. She kept insisting she was the only one

781
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: who cared enough to tell him the truth. On top

782
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,720
Speaker 1: of that, she started trying to turn her parents against

783
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 1: Paul's relationship by telling him that Sadie posts designer bags

784
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: and sheoes on Instagram and that she bets Paul is

785
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:20,280
Speaker 1: the one.

786
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 2: Paying for it all.

787
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: One night, I tried to tell her to stop and

788
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: that she should be happy for her brother, but that

789
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: escalated into an argument where she made a remark about

790
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: how I apparently don't know what an older sibling looking

791
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: out for a younger one looks like.

792
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 2: Not this, it's not this.

793
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: At that point I told her that her attitude was

794
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: the reason Paul cut her off.

795
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 2: Am I the a hole.

796
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: For finally reaching the end of the rope and telling

797
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 1: my wife the ugly truth?

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00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 3: Nah?

799
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 2: And there is an update. I think you think. I

800
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 2: think if she's gonna hear it, it should be from him.

801
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: I think you gotta tell the truth more. Yeah, you

802
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 2: gave her like a little bit of the truth. That's true.

803
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 2: You get her a nibble of the truth. You said

804
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 2: like one thing that everyone has been thinking. But there's

805
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 2: also several other things you could have said, but I

806
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 2: think you started off with like yeah, the best one

807
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 2: being like yeah, when you act like that, that's probably

808
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 2: why he doesn't talk to us anymore. Yeah, I think

809
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 2: you should call her out way more. She sucks.

810
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 3: Do you do you think it's just because it's like

811
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 3: a sibling dynamic or like because again it's I don't

812
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 3: even know, man, Like that's like, this is why she has.

813
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 2: A weird relationship with her brother. I mean it could

814
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 2: be like I mean, I know families that like are

815
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 2: weird like that, that want to be like a thing.

816
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 2: But yeah, they're like really close and they post pictures

817
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 2: of themselves like kissing each other's cheeks and stuff, and

818
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 2: it's like your brother and sister. I don't know what,

819
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 2: why do I have to think about this?

820
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: And it might not even be like a they actually

821
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: want that in like a weird way or anything, but

822
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,439
Speaker 1: I know it gets to the level of enmeshment where

823
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: she's just too involved.

824
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, too involved, and let your brother live his life,

825
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 2: Like if you're sitting there and trying to control him

826
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 2: all the time, No wonder he doesn't want to speak

827
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 2: to you. But we do have update, so let's see

828
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 2: if she changed her tune.

829
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: Hey everyone, and I honestly didn't expect to get this

830
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: much feedback, but I just want to give a heartfelt

831
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: thanks to everyone who offered advice.

832
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,240
Speaker 2: After reading the comments and doing.

833
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: Some quiet assessment of the situation, I decided to reach

834
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: out to Paul, not on behalf of my wife, and

835
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: not to make excuses for her behavior, but to genuinely

836
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: check in and make sure he was doing okay, and

837
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: to let him know that if he ever wanted to talk,

838
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: I'm here. Took a bit of convincing, but I will

839
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 1: be meeting with him tomorrow during my lunch break. As

840
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 1: for things between my wife and I since that argument,

841
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: she's been very frosty. Before she left for work, I

842
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: told her I was sorry for the way I phrased

843
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: my words and that I would like it if we

844
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: could sit down, think about the situation rationally, and look

845
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: at each other's perspectives. I don't think you phrased your

846
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,280
Speaker 1: words harsh enough. That, however, just led to another argument,

847
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,800
Speaker 1: as apparently to her, it seemed like I was playing

848
00:37:54,880 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: devil's advocate for Sadie. Sadie's not the devil, girl, you dad,

849
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: He's not the devil. I told my wife that I

850
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: don't think Sadie is a gold digger or even trying

851
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: to change who Paul truly is, and that Paul's just

852
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: doing what a lot of guys do when they find

853
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: someone they truly connect with. My wife responded by saying

854
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: that I was only giving a good assessment because I

855
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: find Sadie attractive and ow.

856
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 2: And there it is jealous. Yeah, could have spotted that

857
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 2: from a mile away, and despite my reassurances, she scoffed

858
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 2: and left for work that evening.

859
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: After she got back home from work, she said she

860
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: had late lunch with her friends and wasn't in the

861
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: mood for dinner. When I tried to bring up our

862
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: earlier discussions, she told me that she now knows I

863
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: would never take her aside or trust her instincts, and

864
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: then went to bed. Cause your instincts suck, They're terrible.

865
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: Most likely, I will update after I catch up with

866
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: Paul tomorrow and we got an update too.

867
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 2: Uh. Oh, do you think that she will listen?

868
00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 3: No?

869
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she's to be this way for the

870
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 2: rest of her life and just be miserable and annoying.

871
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 2: Ain't I feel like we might be getting a divorce?

872
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 2: I mean maybe, I don't know. I don't know if

873
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 2: it'll go well, but we do have an update, so

874
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 2: let's see what happens.

875
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: Put in the chat one if you think they're gonna

876
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: get divorced, or two if she comes around let us know.

877
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 2: Hey guys, it's been a while.

878
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: Honestly, I wish I had a happier update to give,

879
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: but it seems like every time I tried to take

880
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: one step forward, I end up taking three back. My

881
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: lunch with Paul went great. At first, we talked about

882
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: work in the family, and then we gradually shifted to

883
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: how things stood between him and my wife. Paul said

884
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: that my wife was way out of line and suggesting

885
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: that Sadie was a gold digger, and that if she

886
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: and the rest of their siblings had let him get

887
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: a proper sentence out during the holidays, he would have

888
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: set them straight. Apparently, Sadie has her own money, buys

889
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: basically whatever she wants, and even owns a small business

890
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: back in her home country while also earning a decent living.

891
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 2: Year admitted that yeah, he buys Sadie gifts, as all

892
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: boyfriends do, but those gifts aren't the reason she's with him.

893
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, every boyfriend buys gifts. He said that he went

894
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: out and bought new things like an air fryer for

895
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 1: his apartment because he genuinely wanted those items, and that

896
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: Sadie's been teaching him how to cook simple meals so

897
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: he won't turn the door dash when she isn't around.

898
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: He also told me that Sadie has her own appliances

899
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: in her own apartment. What came as a surprise was

900
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: that Paul told me he had asked Sadie to move

901
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: in with him Wow, but she declined, saying she doesn't

902
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: believe in living together before marriage and also thought it

903
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: was too soon and she didn't want him to feel suffocated.

904
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,720
Speaker 1: Paul also told me that before he blocked my Wife,

905
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: she had been sending him messages raging about how wrong

906
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: Sadie was for him, and now she was driving him

907
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: away from.

908
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 2: The family to isolate him.

909
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: He laughed at that, because he said Sadie's actually been

910
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: making sure Paul feels like he has a support system

911
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: outside of her. She cooked a whole spread for him

912
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: and his friend during the Super Bowl and even left

913
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: afterward despite them insisting she stay just so he could

914
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: have some time alone with his friends.

915
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:11,760
Speaker 2: Healthy Healthy, Healthy, Healthy Black.

916
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: My wife has also told Paul that Sadie was probably

917
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: just using him for citizenship and wanted to escape her

918
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: home country. Paul said that was the message that solidified

919
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: his decision to block my wife, since all of it

920
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: was completely unfounded. Sadie has been a citizen for a

921
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,919
Speaker 1: few years and actually has a pretty good home back

922
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: in her country. Paul also mentioned that Sadie has been

923
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: more open to forgiving my wife than he has, that

924
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: she's very family oriented and hates the idea that others

925
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: think she's trying to isolate him. I think it's just

926
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: Opie's wife. Moving on to the current status of my marriage,

927
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: my wife had no idea. I met with Paul when

928
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: I got home that evening. She was already in a

929
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: bad mood because one of her friends had said something insensitive.

930
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,919
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa.

931
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: One of your friends said something insensitive and that made

932
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: you feel bad?

933
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 2: No, oh, no, anyway, so I let it go for

934
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 2: the night.

935
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: The message she had sent Paul about Sadie's home country

936
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: still lingered in my mind because the way she had

937
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: phrased things was completely out of line and struck a

938
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: particular nerve with me personally. Saturday came around and things

939
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: were somewhat calm until my wife decided to start ranting

940
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: about the entire situation with Paul again. I tried to

941
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: shut it down, but she had gone quiet for a

942
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: minute or two, and I thought she had agreed to

943
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: let it go, only to realize that she was browsing

944
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 1: Sadie's Instagram.

945
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:40,720
Speaker 2: Stop.

946
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 3: I think she's just obsessed.

947
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 2: She is, she is obsessed.

948
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 1: I tried to shift her attention and asked if she

949
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: was excited about where I was taking her for Valentine's Day,

950
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: but she brushed me off.

951
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:55,760
Speaker 2: She's like, I don't freaking care about Valentine's Day. I mean, honestly,

952
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 2: I think he might have to end it, Opie. Yeah, really,

953
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 2: you know you're trying. You're just now discovering her true colors.

954
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,720
Speaker 2: I don't know how long they've been together, but you're

955
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 2: just now discovering what a freak she is. And it's like, Okay,

956
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 2: she's just so aggressive. She is for like what reason?

957
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 2: Like your reason. She was like so worried that her

958
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 2: her son, that her brother wasn't happy, and then she

959
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 2: discovers that he is happy, and she's like, well, I

960
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 2: had nothing to do with that, exactly exactly.

961
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: She's upset because she didn't have anything to do with

962
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: like his happiness.

963
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she needs to be involved in every area

964
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 2: of his life. Yeah, Like what a control freak.

965
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we've got a little bit left. I finally

966
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: told her to stop and that most people don't spend

967
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,919
Speaker 1: hours obsessing over their brother's girlfriend. She shot back, saying

968
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: I don't care about her or her family and that

969
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: I was allowing her brother to get taken advantage of.

970
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: I told her calmly that I trust Paul and his

971
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: ability to think for himself, and that the simplest way

972
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: to quell her worries was to apologize to her brother

973
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: and ask for a chance to get to know Sadie.

974
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: She said she doesn't need to get to know Sadie,

975
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 1: and I gave up. We did go out for Valentine's Day,

976
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: but the vibe just wasn't there this evening. When she

977
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: gets home, I'm going to ask her to attend couples.

978
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,479
Speaker 2: Counseling with me or if.

979
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: She prefers, individual therapy, because this is becoming too much.

980
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 1: Thanks for all the advice again. Yeah, you need big

981
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: amounts of therapy because this marriage is not gonna last

982
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 1: if you just keep going on the track you're on.

983
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I think counseling individual and yeah, she

984
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 2: other she really needs some uh, because now you're you're

985
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 2: like falling out of love with this woman now, all

986
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 2: because of these, like I would too, weird controlling assumptions

987
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 2: that she has of her own brother and this girl

988
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 2: that is doing wonders for him, especially because she's like,

989
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 2: he's you know, depressed, and he's down and I feel

990
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 2: bad for him and blah blah, and now he's happy,

991
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 2: and she's like, well, he should have taken my advice

992
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 2: on how to get happy, not like do his own thing.

993
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 2: It's like, girl, he's happy, be happy for him.

994
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, she doesn't want self sustaining happiness.

995
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just crazy in my opinion.

996
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 2: But that's the end of that story, folks. And we've

997
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 2: got another one coming right up. Yeah, we do. My

998
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 2: mother refused to leave my dad even if he was cheating.

999
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: Now I know, I girl leave him.

1000
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 2: I eighteen male. For the past two years have seen

1001
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 2: a weird dynamic between my father, forty six, and my

1002
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 2: mother's younger sister, thirty four. My dad is a guy

1003
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 2: with some status. I mean, not a big deal for

1004
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 2: the general population, but he is the VP of a

1005
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 2: company that has production and branches in eight countries and

1006
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 2: is not exactly modest about it. No one is smart

1007
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 2: enough to give him advice, no one knows better. By

1008
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 2: the way, this comes from Okay Weird ninety four to

1009
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 2: thirty and if you want to submit your own stories,

1010
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 2: go to the r slash Okay Storytime subredd And I'm Savannah,

1011
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 2: I'm Sophia, I'm Keon, and we are here to get

1012
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 2: some good vice in a little goof manner. But we

1013
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 2: do not have all of the answers. We'd only tell

1014
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 2: you what we would do in this situation. But I

1015
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 2: would love, but love love to know what you would

1016
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 2: do down in the comments. As Opie says in his field,

1017
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 2: I am sure he's very skilled, but no one knows

1018
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 2: better than him, even with unrelated things like what furniture

1019
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,399
Speaker 2: to buy, why the dog won't eat, and stuff like that.

1020
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 2: When we eat, my mother puts the plate in his face,

1021
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 2: puts the food on that plate, and he looks around

1022
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 2: and is like the recipe for the steak says it

1023
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 2: should be eaten without salt, and my mother instantly jumps

1024
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 2: up and brings the salt she forgot. I told him

1025
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 2: you can bring it yourself if you need it. I

1026
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 2: don't know how relevant it is, but my dad is Slavic.

1027
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 2: He's a slav as a Slavic man, as a Slavic man,

1028
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 2: as a Slavic woman. I agree with this Slavac. He

1029
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 2: knows best, he knows best, and I disregot everything I said.

1030
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 2: My dad's Slavic came here pretty poor when when he

1031
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 2: was a student there is from here, still European, but

1032
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 2: more western. He works long hours, meetings after meetings and

1033
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 2: then goes to jog or to the gym, or during

1034
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 2: winter he goes to the pool to swim. During that

1035
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 2: my mother, who also has a full time job, tries

1036
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 2: to hurry with the dinner. I try to help her

1037
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 2: all the time, but I really don't think she should

1038
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 2: be doing all that for him. This aunt of mine

1039
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 2: is pretty funny and doesn't take life too seriously. Thirty four,

1040
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 2: no kids and divorced with a history of affairs with

1041
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,720
Speaker 2: married guys that ended in drama. Dad treats her differently

1042
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 2: than he treats everyone. He talks down to people and

1043
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 2: everyone is walking on thin ice around him. But my

1044
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 2: aunt doesn't s was rubbing his arms. So, mister big boss,

1045
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 2: have you peeled potatoes yourself? Because they are the best

1046
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 2: and we all know only you can make the best things.

1047
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 2: And then she laughed, and he laughed too. He doesn't

1048
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 2: laugh with us. Dad's hobby is making wine. And he

1049
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 2: took my aunt to see the grapes and put a

1050
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 2: grape himself in her mind mouth.

1051
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, depends how you did.

1052
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 2: It was like did he throw it? He goes? Oh,

1053
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 2: think fast? Or he was mowing the lawn and she said, ooh,

1054
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 2: mister engineer, doing the ordinary man work. Where are your servants? Girls?

1055
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 1: Stop?

1056
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 2: He left? Stop it. People who work under him at

1057
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 2: the company or directly with him are under constant stress

1058
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 2: because he treats them like in the military on burger events.

1059
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 2: Every time he is around, people are somehow tensed. She

1060
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: put her hand against his neck and said, what do

1061
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,359
Speaker 2: you say, brother in law? Would you make me your secretary?

1062
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 4: Oh?

1063
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 2: Oh, ew, why would you? As a slavic woman, I

1064
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 2: disagree with that. Wake up, that's gross. My mother didn't

1065
00:48:57,800 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 2: like that. Well, yes, I.

1066
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 3: Don't think any one like that.

1067
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 2: But mother would. She's like, yes, dear, And he laughed

1068
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 2: and said you would beat my but and she says,

1069
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 2: and you would deserve that? In wings?

1070
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 4: Ew do they do?

1071
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 3: They not realize there are people in the room.

1072
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 2: I don't think they care. They just don't care.

1073
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 3: Like, hey, stop it, you know what?

1074
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 2: That's it?

1075
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: Spring?

1076
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 3: What's going on?

1077
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 2: Water spray? I would literally be like stop, so you

1078
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 2: guys gonna kiss her?

1079
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 3: What?

1080
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 2: I would get a room and they're like, you want that?

1081
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 2: We can do that only if I'm his second day,

1082
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 2: only only in front of everyone here. If my mother

1083
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 2: needs a ride he is always busy, or if I

1084
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 2: needed now, I can gride myself. But when my aunt

1085
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 2: called him at ten pm to pick her up from

1086
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 2: the train station, he was at the office, but he

1087
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 2: went to pick her up. So they're having an affair

1088
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 2: or something. And the update is I told mom, without

1089
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 2: using the word cheat, just about my concerns, and she

1090
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 2: got angry and threw a coffee mug on the floor.

1091
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 2: WHOA Okay, she got angry and cried and said to

1092
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:16,240
Speaker 2: never repeat such nonsense. That's cause shit old Betty knows. Yeah,

1093
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 2: she knows your dad is chitting on her and she

1094
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 2: doesn't want to confront that. Then it's just in my head.

1095
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 2: She also immediately called Dad to tell him what I did. Girl,

1096
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 2: I feel betrayed. To be honest, why she needs to

1097
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 2: tell him everything? I am a bit worried he will

1098
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 2: be angry with me when he comes home.

1099
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:41,760
Speaker 1: Freaking hitler, youth over here, stop reporting on your family.

1100
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 2: There's an update. What do we think is gonna happen?

1101
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 2: I hate this. He's gonna go home and be like

1102
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 2: what with you?

1103
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 4: That's it stopping?

1104
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 1: Get me to eight. I think the mom is not

1105
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: gonna do anything because unfortunately she is stuck in this

1106
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: very Lina's dorm out.

1107
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, well she's dorm out.

1108
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: And also I think just sorry, oh, just trained to

1109
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: be like traditional wife.

1110
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 3: Yes, but also like since he's has so much money

1111
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 3: that I mean, she's a full time job too, she's

1112
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 3: a full time job. But like this guy's probably like hey,

1113
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 3: if you you know, if you can leave whatever you want,

1114
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna give you any more money or like

1115
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna provide.

1116
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: For you anymore.

1117
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, like yeah, I mean I want kind of thing.

1118
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 2: I have all this power.

1119
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1120
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: The problem is that I think that even though she

1121
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: like totally would be fine if she laughed, because again,

1122
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:29,720
Speaker 1: she has full time job. I think she is stuck

1123
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: in this like traditional idea of I can't leave my husband.

1124
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to care for my husband. It doesn't matter

1125
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: if he cheats on me. I just have to keep going,

1126
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: and anyone who says anything bad about my husband is

1127
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 1: the enemy, even if it's her own kids.

1128
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I don't know. Weird family dynamic we

1129
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 2: got here so weird. But onto the update. Mom doesn't

1130
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 2: talk to me, doesn't talk to him. She didn't even

1131
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 2: feed my seven year old sister, and I cannot stop

1132
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 2: feeling it's my fault. I had plans with friends for

1133
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve, but I feel guilty and bad. I

1134
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 2: should have waited until January? Should I apologize?

1135
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:04,919
Speaker 4: Would help?

1136
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 2: Don't apologize? You did nothing wrong.

1137
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna be moving out soon, and realize that

1138
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: maybe you need to distance yourself from this family.

1139
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Yeah, I don't think. I mean, you can apologize,

1140
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,879
Speaker 2: but be like I still feel that way though, Yeah,

1141
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 2: you did literally nothing wrong. Yeah, I feel like you

1142
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 2: are trying to look out for your mom. Yeah, because

1143
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 2: your dad and her sister have a weird dynamic.

1144
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 3: Yah.

1145
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the only one who can help your mom is

1146
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: your mom.

1147
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 4: That's true.

1148
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 2: Upting number two. Three days later, my mother today came

1149
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 2: to me to talk and apologize for her reaction, and

1150
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 2: she also wanted me to know she truly doesn't believe

1151
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,760
Speaker 2: he is cheating with her sister, okay, girl, but admitted

1152
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 2: their interactions are making her sad because he is never

1153
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 2: that chill around her. In her opinion, it's just that

1154
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:58,240
Speaker 2: her sister has a way with him, she herself doesn't. Yeah,

1155
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:03,359
Speaker 2: a way of cheating, Yeah, flirty way, a rambunctious way

1156
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:07,800
Speaker 2: of like intertwining, and ended it always saying that probably

1157
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 2: her sister would be a better match for my dad,

1158
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 2: but asked me to never again come to her with

1159
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 2: such comments as I did recently. Now you're even admitting

1160
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,839
Speaker 2: it though. Yeah, she just can't face it. That's how

1161
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,359
Speaker 2: your problem, girls, I mean, boy boy.

1162
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:23,359
Speaker 3: Uh.

1163
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 2: She repeated that she's sure he is not cheating with

1164
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,919
Speaker 2: my aunt, but even if he did, she doesn't want

1165
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 2: to live without him. Okay, so you just are giving.

1166
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 4: Him permission to do that, I guess. Yeah, that's crazy.

1167
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 2: And she mentioned that the custody over my sister would also.

1168
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 4: Be a very sensitive topic.

1169
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 2: Oh that's bit. So nothing got solved here, And I'm

1170
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 2: pretty sure he is messing around with your aunt. Positive

1171
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 2: about that, yeah, because why else would they be like

1172
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 2: weirdly flirting Like I have aunts and uncles. Never seen

1173
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 2: any of them do that with anyone else besides their

1174
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 2: significant others.

1175
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's so freaking weird.

1176
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 2: It was really weird, really weird. But that's the end

1177
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 2: of that story, and we got another one coming round

1178
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1179
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 2: host here and we're going to get back to the stories.

1180
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 2: But here's a three minute ad break from our sponsors.

1181
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: My mother wish she had a different daughter and now

1182
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: everything's changed.

1183
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 2: What's wrong with me? Is it because I don't shape

1184
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 2: my lane?

1185
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: For some context, my mom has this friend couple she

1186
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: met when she was a teenager and they have a

1187
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: daughter six months older than me, be Female twenty five.

1188
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: We used to be very close when we were younger,

1189
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: but as we grew up, our interests were very different,

1190
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: so we kind of drifted apart. And she's still close

1191
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: to my sister, Female twenty three. By the way, this

1192
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: comes from throwing am I the Ahole eight four eight

1193
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: nine two nine, And if you want to smit your

1194
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Speaker 1: own stories, go to the r slash Okay storytime subur

1195
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: I'm Sophia, I'm Savannah, I'm Keon, and we're here to

1196
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: give good of us, goofy, but we don't have all

1197
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 1: the answers. We really know what we'd do, So let

1198
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 1: us know what you would do in the comments, and

1199
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: Opie says, last year, when my country was in lockdown,

1200
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: my daughter, a female four at the time, had a

1201
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: very hard time adjusting to the fact that we had

1202
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: to stay home and she couldn't go to daycare since

1203
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 1: they were only open to essential workers. She started to

1204
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,280
Speaker 1: become aggressive and I had a very hard time dealing

1205
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 1: with her, and it took about three to four months

1206
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: and the help of a social worker to fix this problem.

1207
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: Before I was able to fix the issue, I got

1208
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: a message from B saying that I was a piece

1209
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: of garbage.

1210
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 2: Oh ollow, that I'm the one.

1211
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: Who caused my kid's behavior issues because I'm a bad mom.

1212
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 1: Oh that my kid lost the wrong parent. Oh her

1213
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: dad passed away when she was one and a half.

1214
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 2: That's a horrible thing to say to someone, And that

1215
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 2: I should have been the one who passed away. Oh B. Why, well,

1216
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 2: she chose violence for no reason.

1217
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:01,879
Speaker 1: She said, she feels sorry for my kid because she's

1218
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: stuck with me until she's old enough to leave, and

1219
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 1: several other things along those lines. I was really surprised

1220
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: to get this message because I hadn't talked to her

1221
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: it over a year.

1222
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,439
Speaker 2: Why that's imagine like.

1223
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: You haven't talked to someone in over a year and

1224
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 1: then you just get like really aggressive, awful message.

1225
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, h huh huh.

1226
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: So I called my sister to ask her if she

1227
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,320
Speaker 1: knew what it was all about. Apparently, when my sister

1228
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: is upset, she vents to be and when my mom

1229
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 1: is upset, she vents to be's mom, but they never

1230
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,760
Speaker 1: really update them when they're no longer upset.

1231
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 2: For some reason. I told me that if she.

1232
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 1: Wanted to know I'm raising my kid, she should talk

1233
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: to me instead of making up her mind based on

1234
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: what my family says when they're mad. She told me

1235
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 1: to f off and stop trying to find excuses for

1236
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 1: being a moron. So I just blocked her.

1237
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,720
Speaker 2: Be like, uh huh what ewa?

1238
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: She called CPS on me two or three days after

1239
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,760
Speaker 1: claiming my kid was neglected, but the case was closed

1240
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: after the first appointment because it was obvious that my

1241
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 1: kid wasn't neglected.

1242
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 2: Dude, I'm call my mom.

1243
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm gonna have to put you on like

1244
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: an information diet if you talk to Bee's mom because

1245
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: and then you send her what be sent to you.

1246
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I also would be like, what are you

1247
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 2: guys saying that makes them react like yes, is just

1248
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 2: actually insane. They have to be saying something pretty severe.

1249
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, my sister and Bee's dad tried to explain that

1250
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: she shouldn't have said those things, and Bee's dad even

1251
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 1: apologized on her behalf and I'm still close to him.

1252
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: Fast forward to today, my mom called me because she wanted

1253
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: to take my daughter to the insectarium since Bee was

1254
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: in town for a couple of days and it had

1255
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: been a while since she had seen my kid.

1256
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 2: No, no, you're not seeing my kid ever again.

1257
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 3: Ge to switch up, you know, from everything you said,

1258
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 3: you like, hey, I think something's going on.

1259
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 2: She's like, hey, yeah, she probably has some sort of

1260
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 2: mental health.

1261
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 3: Ish That's what I'm talking about, Like something's going on.

1262
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 3: Because there's no way you can switch that switch up

1263
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 3: like that.

1264
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely insane to say to the mom that you

1265
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: just told, you know, called c cps on said she

1266
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: was terrible mom, and then you have the audacity to

1267
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 1: text her and say I want to take your.

1268
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 2: Tie to the insectarian. No.

1269
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: I told her no, because B is not someone I

1270
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: want in my kid's life. She kept insisting, but I

1271
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: held my ground, and then she called me selfish and

1272
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: said that because of my little bump in the road

1273
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: with B, CPS is not a bump.

1274
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 2: In the road. Yeah, what she called CPS.

1275
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: My kid was going to miss out on a lot.

1276
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: I said I didn't care, and that people who wish

1277
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: I was gone are not welcome in my life or

1278
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: my kid's life until she's old enough to make her

1279
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: own decisions.

1280
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 2: Agreed.

1281
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: My boyfriend and Bee's dad agreed that I'm not being

1282
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 1: selfish by keeping my kid home, But my sister sided

1283
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: with my mom and said that grown up problems shouldn't

1284
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: impact kids and that I'm ruining.

1285
00:58:58,440 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 2: It by being spiteful.

1286
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: You're her sister and your mom are crazy, and I'm

1287
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: also not talking to them anymore.

1288
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 2: I just like don't understand where all of this, Like,

1289
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 2: what was the event that happened that makes them think

1290
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 2: like she's neglecting your child and being you know, wrongful.

1291
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: I don't know some way, but I don't trust sister

1292
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: and mom because we already know that they are the

1293
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 1: source of whatever B thinks it is going on.

1294
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, because she doesn't talk to either the mom or B,

1295
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 2: so like, what is her family telling these people?

1296
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: I can understand her opinion, but I feel like Bee

1297
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: really went too far?

1298
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 2: Am I the a hole? We've got an update? Put

1299
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 2: in what world?

1300
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: Girl? She called CPS on you?

1301
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 2: That's unforgivable. Yeah, like you were trying to get my

1302
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 2: child taken away from me because of what something that

1303
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 2: like somebody told you. Why don't you come to me

1304
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:49,480
Speaker 2: and ask why don't you try to be a part

1305
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 2: of my life?

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00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: Bibby, You're never coming around here. You're never coming around

1307
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 1: these parts no more? Shoot Scraham, get.

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00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 2: Out of here. Get I had an update be gone?

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01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 2: Ooh that was it? Be gone?

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01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: I have a not so little update. Things really hit

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01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: the fan these past few days, so I wasn't able

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01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: to update sooner. My sister came over to my place

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01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: after she finished work because she had talked to some

1314
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 1: coworkers about this situation and they implied she should have

1315
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: been on my side, so she wanted to talk more

1316
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 1: about it. While my sister was there, I started receiving

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01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: messages from relatives and some of my mom's friends. My

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01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: mom had posted a picture of her and be at

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01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: the insectarium with the caption I had a wonderful day,

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01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 1: but it would have been even more wonderful if op

1321
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 1: he would have let daughter come with us?

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01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 3: Wow? Why then I would have replied with a screenshot

1323
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 3: of what she told me.

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01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:51,440
Speaker 1: And then no, no, And then I text back and

1325
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:54,960
Speaker 1: I say, yeah, it was tough since CPS took my

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01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: daughter away. Oh no, no, sorry they didn't because I'm

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01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: a good mom.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy to post and be like, yeah, I had

1329
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 2: a wonderful time, but would have been better if my

1330
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 2: bee of a daughter would have let me see my granddaughter,

1331
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 2: even though I'd be talk and crap on her for

1332
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 2: the last year. Yeah, And then I just I just respond,

1333
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 2: shouldn't have called CPS on me? Then?

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01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, since they didn't have the full story, they were

1335
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 1: mainly asking me why I kept my kid from my mom.

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01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 1: I called my mom to ask her to either delete

1337
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: the picture or remove the last part of the caption

1338
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 1: because she was starting drama for nothing. She was obviously

1339
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 1: upset and was starting to argue, and at some point

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01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: I asked her something, you guys have made me wonder

1341
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: why aren't you on my side, Why despite what B said,

1342
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 1: are you still hanging out with her and never tried

1343
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 1: to defend me. I'm still speechless from what she said.

1344
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:51,200
Speaker 1: She said because B is like the daughter I always

1345
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: wished I had.

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01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 2: Wow, well keep her cause you're not my mom anymore.

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01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 2: What I respond, I'd be like, you know what, that's

1348
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 2: actually all I needed to hear. Have fun with her,

1349
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 2: don't ever contact me again? Yes, exactly. Bye. Yeah, i'd

1350
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 2: be I'd be like, cool and keep her. I'll just

1351
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 2: get out of your hair then, Yeah, if that's what

1352
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:17,480
Speaker 2: you want, like, my God, put it on me. That's

1353
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 2: just that's crazy and it's so disrespectful to say, like,

1354
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 2: how dare you say that to your your kid daughter? Also,

1355
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 2: to say be is like the daughter I always wish

1356
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 2: I had. You have two daughters? Yeah, so crazy. I

1357
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 2: wish I had two of them. I wish I had

1358
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:35,000
Speaker 2: two bees.

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01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: Bee is quite successful. She has a good paying job,

1360
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 1: a pretty house, a nice car, was well established before

1361
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 1: she had a baby, and recently got engaged. My sister

1362
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: and I, on the other hand, have struggled to get

1363
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 1: where we are and it's not good enough for my mom.

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01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 1: My sister heard the whole thing and started bawling her

1365
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: eyes out. I know she's always tried to make my

1366
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 1: mom proud of her, but I think what she said

1367
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: just broke her. My sister is currently staying at my

1368
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: place until she can secure a stable place to live

1369
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 1: since she was still living with my mom, and we

1370
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 1: spent the past few days moving her stuff while my

1371
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 1: mom was at work because she doesn't want to face her.

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01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: I think I'll take the advice you guys gave me

1373
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: and go no contact with my mom.

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01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 2: I don't know what my sister will do, but I

1375
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,479
Speaker 2: think she'll be taking this path too. Wow, nice mother

1376
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:29,959
Speaker 2: just ruined her daughter's Yes. Way to go, Mom, Yay,

1377
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 2: one big happy family. Now you don't get to see

1378
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 2: your grandchild ever again or your daughters. So have a

1379
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 2: good life with Bee Bye be go be bees together.

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01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 2: That's the end, though,