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Speaker 2: My fiance demands a fifty to fifty split, so I

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Speaker 2: told him to downgrade his lifestyle.

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Speaker 3: I told him, get oway, I'm going to cut you

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Speaker 3: in half with the sword. You want a fifty to

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Speaker 3: fifty split? Come on?

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Speaker 2: Am I the ale for telling my fiance that if

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Speaker 2: he expects me to contribute fifty to fifty, we have

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Speaker 2: to make some serious lifestyle changes. My twenty six female

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Speaker 2: by fiance twenty six mail sat me down yesterday and

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Speaker 2: gave me a long talk about how it feels like

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Speaker 2: I don't contribute a lot to the household, particularly in

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Speaker 2: the financial sense. I was a bit caught off guard

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Speaker 2: by this, but was willing to hear him out since

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Speaker 2: he wasn't wrong. By the way, this comes from throwaway

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Speaker 2: he makes a lot more than I do, and we've

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Speaker 2: always split bills accordingly, which ends up being about eighty

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Speaker 2: percent sent him. I asked what he wanted me to

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Speaker 2: pay now, and he was adamant about it being fifty

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Speaker 2: to fifty. I asked if everything was okay with his

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Speaker 2: job or if he needed to take fewer hours. He

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Speaker 2: wouldn't answer me. I honestly wouldn't have gotten upset if

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Speaker 2: there seemed like an actual reason behind it, but he

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Speaker 2: just said he'd been thinking about it a lot, over

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Speaker 2: and over every time. I asked what brought him to

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Speaker 2: this conclusion, what was going on, and eventually he just said,

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Speaker 2: that's how it's going to be. Take it or leave it,

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Speaker 2: those exact words in response to literally everything I said,

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Speaker 2: full shut down, no explanations. I told him that was fine,

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Speaker 2: I'll take it, and then asked if he'd made a

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Speaker 2: Zilo account yet or expected me to. He looked confused

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Speaker 2: and asked why would we need a Zilo account. I

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Speaker 2: explained that there's no way I can afford half rent

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Speaker 2: on our current place, so we'll probably have to move

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Speaker 2: into a one bedroom apartment. He got mad and asked

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Speaker 2: why didn't have shavings. I told him that I do,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not paying rent out of my savings because

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Speaker 2: that's a terrible and unsustainable idea.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I also began to go over what our new food

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Speaker 2: budget would be, our new entertainment budget, and that we'd

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Speaker 2: probably have to sell the cars and get one less

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Speaker 2: expensive one because I can't afford half of the payments

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Speaker 2: on an Audi and a land Rover. Then I explained

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Speaker 2: that date nights would probably have to be reduced too,

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Speaker 2: and we could still do like Buffalo wild wings or something,

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Speaker 2: but I preferred Thursday nights because you get two orders

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Speaker 2: of boneless wings for one. Basically, if he wants me

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Speaker 2: to pay half, we're living with my means, not his anymore.

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Speaker 2: He kind of agreed to it, but since then he's

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Speaker 2: been incredibly angry. He's not saying or doing anything, but

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Speaker 2: it's like he's walking around the house in this cloud

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Speaker 2: of pissed off. I've sent him six Zillo listings, all

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Speaker 2: of which he called uninhabitable for various reasons, some of

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Speaker 2: which I think were valid, others I disagree with. He's

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Speaker 2: now saying that I'm being unfair and manipulative, and that

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Speaker 2: he tried to come to me with a serious concern

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Speaker 2: about a relationship, and I'm making it impossible for him

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Speaker 2: to talk to me and bulldozing over him. Am I

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Speaker 2: the a hole? Brother? You bulldoze relevant comments, not the

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Speaker 2: a hole at all, And you are making perfect sense

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Speaker 2: in my mind. If he wants fifty to fifty, he

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Speaker 2: needs to understand that your income is the limiting agent

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Speaker 2: in this reaction. It does sound like he has something

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Speaker 2: else going on, and I would mentally prepare for him

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Speaker 2: to call the wedding off.

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Speaker 3: I forgot they were getting married. Oh yeah, wait, that's

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Speaker 3: another layer.

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Speaker 2: I uh yeah. He's like, we're about to get hurried,

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Speaker 2: and you need to should be a thing that he knows.

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Speaker 4: He's like, I know you can't do this, so I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna say this needs to be done.

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Speaker 2: Oh Like he's trying to get out of it. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's like people will do that if they're like, I

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Speaker 4: can't be the one to end it, so it has

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Speaker 4: to be something outside of me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it does it.

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Speaker 2: This sounds like he is coming up with reasons to

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Speaker 2: get rid of you in his mind, but he does

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Speaker 2: not want to come off as the bad guy. Century

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Speaker 2: and olders making up jobs and numbers. You make one

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Speaker 2: spend the same amount, but I literally cannot keep up

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Speaker 2: not the ale. The only options to give him what

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Speaker 2: he wanted was spend less or drain savings and enter

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Speaker 2: credit card debt and there is an update. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's expecting money that you don't have, so it's just impossible.

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Speaker 4: I would just ask him why he feels that it

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Speaker 4: has to be fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what she's asking. She's asking, is this anything changed?

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Speaker 2: Like what has changed here? What circumstances have changed? She

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Speaker 2: already got curious, and he was like, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: you just have to do it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, just pull stuff out of your savings

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Speaker 4: or it's like, but like where is it coming from?

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Speaker 3: Like who told you this?

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Speaker 2: Like where did you find this? It's like, but there

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Speaker 2: is an update whenever. So last time I posted was Monday.

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Speaker 2: Monday as a whole was spent just sorting through what

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Speaker 2: I felt and what to do next. There was a

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Speaker 2: lot of silence and a lot of anger and a

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Speaker 2: lot of Reddit advice, some of which I found very insightful,

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Speaker 2: some of which was less so. Also, some people think

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Speaker 2: I made this up as part of a viral marketing

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Speaker 2: sponsorship between Buffalo Wild Wings, Audi and Zillow, which honestly

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Speaker 2: would solve the money problems if true, but alas.

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Speaker 5: Is not the case.

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Speaker 2: Dang it, bummer. On Tuesday, after I got home from work,

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Speaker 2: I sort of just walked up to him on the

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Speaker 2: had questions and if he actually wanted to marry me,

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Speaker 2: he needed to be willing to answer them. I asked

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Speaker 2: if he thought I was gold digger, yes or no?

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Speaker 2: He said yes. Hmm. I told him that I wasn't

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Speaker 2: prove myself by sacrificing any sort of stability, and that

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Speaker 2: led to a bit of a screaming match and eventually

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Speaker 2: a confession. So it turns out we cannot afford anything

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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, what so he's living above his means?

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Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking.

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Speaker 3: He filled up his financial box.

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Speaker 2: Something happened. We are in serious credit card debt, the

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Speaker 2: cars are both on the verge of being repossessed, and

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Speaker 2: I did not know about any of this.

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Speaker 3: He blew out his financial box.

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Speaker 2: He's been cutting corners on actual necessities, including psychiatric medication, that,

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Speaker 2: in combination with some comments from his family, led him

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Speaker 2: to some pretty dark places. My fiance had a full

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Speaker 2: mental breakdown and apologized for calling me a gold digger,

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Speaker 2: which was nice to hear, but this whole thing had

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Speaker 2: me pretty shaken up. I went to stay with a

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Speaker 2: two for one boneless stop It. We talked a lot.

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Speaker 2: I'm still writing fiance for now and I hope he

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Speaker 2: can work through all of this. We talked about how

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Speaker 2: to sell the cars. We don't particularly have a choice

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Speaker 2: at this point about my income, his income, and the

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Speaker 2: sort of life we want to have. If we do

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Speaker 2: stay together, we'll be changing how we live a lot.

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Speaker 2: We need to get out of debt, We need to

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Speaker 2: get on our feet. I know some people are going

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Speaker 2: to say I'm being dumb for not immediately dropping all

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Speaker 2: contact and giving up in the relationship, but I can't

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Speaker 2: do that. I can't look at the guy I love

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Speaker 2: who went off his meds to try and make a

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Speaker 2: around for at least to try. Don't get married yet, though,

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Speaker 2: don't get married when he lied to you about your

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Speaker 2: finances and got you guys into a bunch of debt.

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Speaker 2: Just wait a bit, yeah, wait a bit on that marriage?

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Speaker 2: Ye you know, doesn't hold off on that doesn't come

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Speaker 2: across as the most trustworthy enough. No, No, it's like

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Speaker 2: maybe you know you want to give him a second chance,

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Speaker 2: you care about how you love him, don't forget that

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Speaker 2: he did lie to you about the financial situation that

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Speaker 4: And it's like again, why, Like where's it coming from?

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Speaker 4: Like who is who's telling him that he has that

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Speaker 4: this is the correct way to be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's more. I don't know what the future

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Speaker 2: looks like at all anymore. And the wedding is very

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Speaker 2: postponed at the moment. Good. Sorry this wasn't a more

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Speaker 2: fun update and relevant comments say watch your credit like

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Speaker 2: a hawk. Holmeslice Massive length, four hundred. While I understand

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Speaker 2: that you want to make it work, there are a

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Speaker 2: few things of note. It is absolutely critical to know

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Speaker 2: exactly how that debt got that deep. It's not at

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Speaker 2: all acceptable that he's been cutting corners on psychiatric medication.

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Speaker 2: He was going to point the finger at you being

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Speaker 2: in the wrong until you brought up leaving exactly. He

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Speaker 2: was literally blaming this on you.

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Speaker 3: To be clear, and he's like, She's like, ah, I

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Speaker 3: mean he was like, was my fault?

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Speaker 4: He is? He was, he was trying. He stopped taking

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Speaker 4: his meds for me. Isn't that romantic?

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Speaker 2: Like, no, no, it's not. His choices have left you

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Speaker 2: both in debt. How much of an effort is he

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Speaker 2: you really need to take a hard look at this

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Speaker 2: relationship how your future will look in it. And there

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Speaker 2: is an update.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, essentially he didn't put both of you in

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Speaker 4: debt because you're not on the house right because you're

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Speaker 4: not married.

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Speaker 2: No exactly, they're not married yet. But good. It seems like, oh,

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Speaker 2: he is taking this debt on. Don't don't do that.

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Speaker 2: It seems like oh, he's like, yeah, we have to

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Speaker 2: figure out how to get ourselves out of this debt.

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Speaker 2: Don't do this. It's not if you did not know

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Speaker 2: about the debt. It's not it's not your I mean, like,

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Speaker 2: I understand that you're in a partnership, but but like, no,

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Speaker 2: he's put himself into a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of He on a range Rover and an Audie

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Speaker 3: for himself. Gross.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not it's not your debt. But only one

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Speaker 4: of those kinds of cars are worth having. I'll let

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Speaker 4: you decide which one is which.

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Speaker 2: But there is an update Good Things about my Fiance

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Speaker 2: author's note one day later. Op he made this very

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Speaker 2: weird post where she lists the things she likes about

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Speaker 2: her fiance. I think this was a response to everyone

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Speaker 2: telling her how awful her fiance is. And here's the list.

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Speaker 2: Pretty as f This is the most physically attractive man

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Speaker 2: crystal blue eyes, just so pretty. It gives me butterflies

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Speaker 2: whenever he looks at me.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes that's funny, whenever he looks at me sometimes.

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Speaker 4: Word, what an adventure that's gonna be, What an adventure

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Speaker 2: He's always doing things like getting me wildflowers, making my

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Speaker 2: He knows co called Wonderwall.

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Speaker 2: The Earth Wind and fire. Yeah, he plays this song

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Speaker 2: What does this often? I am not a small woman,

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's actually pretty thoughtful, but he's lied.

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Speaker 3: And lied to you about it and made it your fault.

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Speaker 2: Has shown me that there is actual romance in life,

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Speaker 2: also really curious about the vasectomy thing. You said he

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Speaker 2: This just rings alarm bells for me. And there is

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Speaker 4: I I just oh, I just wonder so many things.

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Speaker 3: Oh boy, I wonder what happens, Oh boy, o.

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Speaker 4: Boy, oh boy, Oh, I wonder if this is going

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Speaker 4: if it's going to start as so, I'm just now

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Speaker 3: Real why as me it's the former I'm trying to

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Speaker 2: No, Well, there we go. There's a third up date.

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Speaker 2: We are out of debt and still together. I guess.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, it.

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Speaker 2: Feels so so good to say that and have it

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Speaker 3: Find you, find you a op because they are loyal.

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Speaker 2: Almost two years ago I made a post here about

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Speaker 3: And she's saying we, but it was he.

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Speaker 2: It was he. It was a he moment.

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Speaker 4: They were not married, they were not conjoined with their finances.

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Speaker 2: That is good, by the way, You know what else

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Speaker 4: Do it.

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Speaker 2: But there's a little bit left to the story. Any

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Speaker 4: This is a good example of like, you know, when

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Speaker 4: I think if there was not an unmedicated factor in

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Speaker 3: Probably I would have left. Yeah, but it seems like

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Speaker 2: They got better. Things can get better. But there's a

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Speaker 2: I think it is very smart that you held off

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Speaker 2: Thank you to everyone who offered advice. I don't know

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Speaker 2: Y'all are awesome, Blue being twenty two. Hold on here,

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Speaker 2: let me get this straight. So you communicated about all

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Speaker 2: communicate and did all the hard work over a couple

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Speaker 2: Is this even read it? Ps? Kudos to you and

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Speaker 2: Polly the Pony says, this is so great to hear.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on your hard work. Uh, you should be proud

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Speaker 2: loves me to the moon and back. Just following six

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00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 2: four six five says this is a massive green flag

437
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,119
Speaker 2: on how you all worked through this. Just validation that

438
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,480
Speaker 2: you all can make it through a marriage long term.

439
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,280
Speaker 2: A lot of people can't. You'll go through other trials

440
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 2: like this in your marriage and you both handled it

441
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,680
Speaker 2: so well. Congrats to the future wedding, and Opie says,

442
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 2: thank you. It was not the easiest thing in the world,

443
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,399
Speaker 2: but hey, nothing worth doing is gott to be easy

444
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 2: all the time, right, Sure? That is pretty secret.

445
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 5: Yeah.

446
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,919
Speaker 2: I mean props to you guys. You communicated and you

447
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 2: worked through it. But that's the end of that story.

448
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, So we're going to get into the next one.

449
00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 2: My boyfriend finally found a new roommate, but she's attracted. No,

450
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 2: we shi hods, your.

451
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 3: Boyfriend's too hot.

452
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 2: Uh bummer.

453
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 4: My boyfriend currently has a roommate from Heck that was

454
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 4: fired due to his heavy drinking three months ago. He

455
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 4: never got on unemployment and has not paid his half

456
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 4: of the rent for three months. My boyfriend needs a

457
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,199
Speaker 4: replacement roommate asap because he can't afford to pay the

458
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,120
Speaker 4: full price of rent on his own any longer. By

459
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 4: the way, this comes from a user throwaway, and if

460
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,199
Speaker 4: you want to submit your own stories, go to the

461
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,159
Speaker 4: r slash okay storytime stobreddit. So he asked me to

462
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 4: move in with him several times, but that is not

463
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,360
Speaker 4: an option for me right now, and I don't make

464
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,880
Speaker 4: nearly enough to cover half of the rent anyway. All

465
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 4: this aside, he began looking for a replacement roommate online

466
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 4: last week and also put the word out to his

467
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 4: coworkers Earlier this week. He told me that one of

468
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 4: his coworkers current roommates is looking for a new place

469
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,199
Speaker 4: to stay and is very interested in rooming with him.

470
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 4: It's a woman his age that works at a company

471
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 4: on the same tech campus as him. I was very

472
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 4: relieved that he found a potential roommate so fast, and

473
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 4: happy that it was someone presumably trustworthy and probably much

474
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,679
Speaker 4: cleaner than his current roommate. However, over the past few days,

475
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 4: my instincts have been feeling like something is slightly off.

476
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 2: My instincts, I my roommate senses are tingling. My senses

477
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 2: are sensing.

478
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 4: My boyfriend tends to do this thing where when an

479
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 4: attractive woman that he's around a lot, like for work

480
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 4: or the gym, et cetera, seems to be interested in him,

481
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 4: he won't tell me about it, but will act weird

482
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 4: about her, and he'll start telling me about how he

483
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 4: talks about me all the times you were and showed

484
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,400
Speaker 4: her photos of me and brags about me to her.

485
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 4: I'd rather he just be normal and mature about it.

486
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 4: I can always tell when he finds a woman attractive

487
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 4: and she likes him too, because he starts doing this.

488
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 2: He's like, anyways, yeah, look at my girlfriend. The cup

489
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: pre shoes.

490
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 4: Look at it.

491
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Speaker 2: Look at this picture my girlfriend, and look at this

492
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 2: picture my girlfriend. I love her.

493
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 4: I love her, right, this is my girlfriend. And he's like,

494
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 4: this is just his warm up. He's doing this in

495
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 4: the mirror to himself.

496
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 2: Okay, this is I'm gonna tell her about. I'm gonna

497
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 2: tell her that they will have to stop flirting with this. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

498
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 3: And then it's like he walks up to the girl

499
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 3: and he's like, I love you.

500
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 2: No, I did the wrong order.

501
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 4: I love her her the one on the phone. It's

502
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 4: accidentally a picture of her. No. Anyway, he started doing

503
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 4: that thing about this potential roommate almost immediately. He was

504
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 4: supposed to meet with her today after work to discuss

505
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 4: the potential rooming situation, and this morning, without even asking me,

506
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 4: first asked her if he could bring me to meet

507
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 4: with her. She said it may be uncomfortable for her

508
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 4: to meet me so soon, but she was willing. When

509
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 4: he asked me if I would be willing, I asked

510
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 4: him why I would need to go, and he said,

511
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 4: I just want to show you off winky face, which

512
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 4: again is the sign of what I've talked about above.

513
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 4: I was already busy anyway, so I didn't go. After

514
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 4: they met, I spoke on the phone, and he did

515
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 4: the thing that he does, telling me about how he

516
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 4: showed her pictures of me from my Instagram and talked

517
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 4: about me a lot, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

518
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 4: So I asked him why he keeps doing that, Why

519
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 4: does he feel the need to do this. He dodged

520
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 4: the question at first, but I wouldn't let it go,

521
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 4: so he finally admitted the actual story of how she

522
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 4: found out about the rooming opportunity. His coworker showed a

523
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 4: photo of him on Facebook to the girl. She thought

524
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 4: my boyfriend was attractive and asked if he was looking

525
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 4: for a roommate.

526
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 2: She's like, that guy's hot. Is he looking for a roommate?

527
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 2: And he wasn't, like that's weird. Yeah. If he knew

528
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 2: that the whole time and he was like, yeah, she

529
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 2: could be my.

530
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 3: Roommate, I'd be like, that's that's so cringey.

531
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, very weird. Hmmm.

532
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 4: Oh uh, oh, he's cute. Is he looking for a roommate?

533
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 4: I'm trying to speed run mistakes.

534
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

535
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 3: She had just broken up with her own boyfriend recently.

536
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 4: Oh, I got upset with my boyfriend for not telling

537
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 4: me this right off the bat. I keep asking him

538
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 4: how he would feel if the rolls were river, and

539
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 4: he just keeps saying he doesn't know and tries to

540
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 4: avoid talking about it anymore. I looked her up on

541
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 4: Instagram and she has the same overall look as me too,

542
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,439
Speaker 4: but there's no age gap between them, and he feels

543
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 4: ashamed about our age gap sometimes, which he even apparently

544
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 4: told her when they met and talked. I know that

545
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 4: them becoming roommates doesn't even mean anything would happen. And

546
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 4: if he cheats on me, that's his choice and there's

547
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 4: nothing I can do about it except walk away in

548
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 4: that event.

549
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,199
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552
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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie. I'm breaking up with this guy immediately. Yeah,

553
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 4: as soon as I find out. Oh, so you knew

554
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 4: that this girl you're gonna move in with is attracted

555
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 4: to immediately on from the jump from the jump he

556
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 4: wanted to jump you.

557
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you just were not gonna tell me about it.

558
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 4: Instead, you were gonna be like, I'll just like brag

559
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 4: about my girlfriend until she backs off.

560
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 2: That's goodbye. I'm undone, You've lost me. You're dumb.

561
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 4: I hope you learn a lesson from the mistake you've made.

562
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 4: I know he really needs a roommate asap, and I

563
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 4: don't want to allow my own stupid insecurities to prevent

564
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 4: him from solving his serious financial crisis. I'm trying not

565
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 4: to be stupid and immature, but I'm not even sure

566
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 4: if my feelings are valid or what I should do. Girl,

567
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 4: he lied to you about a girl who wants to

568
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,719
Speaker 4: sleep with him living in the same place as him.

569
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 2: Is she living there? Just to verify for my sake,

570
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 2: is she living there right now?

571
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 4: No, because I don't think Shanks enough money to live

572
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 4: in a place he would want to live.

573
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 2: Or somebout you. But it's still like they were trying

574
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: to make this happen, right.

575
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 3: Well, it's yeah. It was more like.

576
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 4: I think it was like discussed, like, oh, could it

577
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 4: work for us to live together? It's like no, yeah,

578
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 4: And then it was like, well she you know.

579
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 2: I just think that like if there are people that

580
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 2: you know, like you or whatever, just like tell your

581
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 2: partner be like, yeah, I found out this person, Like,

582
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: isn't that crazy? And also it could be kind of fun.

583
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 2: He'd be like it freaking like me, dude?

584
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 3: Yeah? And then so I definitely can't move in with

585
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 3: that person.

586
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 2: Can't freaking move in?

587
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 4: Should I tell him I don't want him to have

588
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 4: her move in and to keep looking for another roommate?

589
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 2: Yes? Should I leave it be?

590
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 4: No, the least would end in March anyway, but there's

591
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 4: always the off chance that they would choose to continue

592
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 4: rooming after that.

593
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 2: I don't know.

594
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 4: I would really appreciate some advice from clearer hopefully wiser heads.

595
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 3: And there are comments, but before we get into them, Sofia,

596
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 3: like we need I.

597
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 2: Think all the things that was said, ma'am. I mean,

598
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 2: like he lied to you, He didn't tell you, like

599
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 2: he knew about this from the get go, knew that

600
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 2: that was she was like a potential candidate for the

601
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 2: roommate situation, even though she specifically said that the only

602
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 2: reason that she wanted to move in is because she

603
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 2: was a trunk, right, that is, that's not good.

604
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 3: The fact that he knew that from lied about it.

605
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 4: And then when you say so if I did the

606
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 4: same thing with a guy who wanted to sleep with me,

607
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 4: and now I made in my roommate without telling you

608
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 4: that that was the case.

609
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 3: How would you feel about that? He goes comments, So

610
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 3: when your.

611
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 4: Boyfriend knows or thinks a woman is interested in him,

612
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 4: he goes out of his way to make sure she

613
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 4: knows you're in the picture, and he's very.

614
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 3: Happy with you. Girl, that's a green flag.

615
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 2: If that would be a green flag if it were

616
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 2: also accompanied by him telling ope about the things that

617
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 2: are happening.

618
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 4: Right, But it really it feels like it's like a

619
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 4: we'll see sea babe, sea babe, Look, I'm see you

620
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 4: don't have to feel threatened. And it's only girls that,

621
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 4: by the way, he's attracted to as well. If she

622
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 4: made that clarification, if he's not into the girl, he

623
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 4: doesn't do this.

624
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 2: Huge clarification that is a huge.

625
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 4: She always knows when he's into some other girl because

626
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 4: he only ever does this.

627
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 2: It feels like when like trying to stifle In older

628
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,479
Speaker 2: like shows, you'd have male leads or something or what

629
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 2: or just like male characters who are in relationship and

630
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 2: they're like, I can't flirt with all the hot ladies.

631
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 2: I'm off the market. I can't flirt with all the

632
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 2: hot ladies. And it's like, whoa, why do you want to? Like,

633
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 2: why are you really emphasizing that You're like, oh man,

634
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: my life is so much worse now than shake down.

635
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: It's like, no, I don't know. I'm just like when

636
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 2: I like, I think there is a certain level of

637
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 2: you know, you notice hot people in your life when

638
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 2: you're in a relationship. But also I feel like, at

639
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 2: least for me, when I was in relationship, it was

640
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: like I didn't really think about anyone. I wasn't interested

641
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 2: in anyone else, you know, And I have I have

642
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 2: proof of that because there was a person who I

643
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 2: thought was incredibly attractive before the relationship. During the relationship,

644
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 2: I was like I don't even care about that person,

645
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 2: And after this show, I was like, oh they're hot again,

646
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: so scientific evidence.

647
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 3: Wow, and you know exactly who I'm talking about. Wow.

648
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 2: Wow.

649
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 4: Yeah feels crazy being on the inside track for that. Yeah,

650
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 4: he's not going to want to address the situation head

651
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 4: on because that would be weird, So he's letting her

652
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 4: know it's not going to happen in a way that's

653
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 4: more subtle, but also impossible to misunderstand. As for this situation,

654
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 4: it honestly sucks. I'm not seeing any good options here

655
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 4: for your boyfriend. He can move in with this girl,

656
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 4: in which case he's going to be self conscious and

657
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 4: paranoid in his home, not to mention what it's going

658
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 4: to do to your insecurities as well, or he passes

659
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 4: on this girl and hopes to find someone better in

660
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 4: the short amount of time he has. It's not a

661
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 4: great set of options. You could find another roommate.

662
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. Do you know how many room people

663
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 2: are at the roommates? Yeah, Like, so many people need

664
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 2: a place to live. So many people Facebook marketplace thought,

665
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 2: I mean not marketplace, but Facebook, Facebook whatever it's called.

666
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 4: Buy your roommate on Facebook Marketplace buy roommate.

667
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 2: No, but like that's where, you know, whenever we needed

668
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 2: a sell letter or something and all, like my old apartment,

669
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: that's where we went go to Facebook. You find it

670
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 2: like you put out a thing and say, hey, looking

671
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 2: for a roommate. So many people are like, oh my god,

672
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 2: I won't even a roommate. Yeah. Providing the place to

673
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 2: live is really just the is the high ground I'm

674
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 2: thinking this.

675
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 3: I literally lived I lived in a place.

676
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 4: I lived in a situation where like, two of my

677
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 4: roommates huh.

678
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: My name's a coat on. I lived in a place

679
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 2: I lived.

680
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 3: In a situation that was just like.

681
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 4: Two of my roommates, one of them was taken and

682
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 4: one of them was single, and the single one had

683
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 4: a crush on the taken one, and it was just

684
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 4: like constantly a mess. Yeah, because the single one's constantly

685
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 4: trying to steal the taken one, and we're all living

686
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 4: together and it's just like horrifically uncomfortable.

687
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just never want to do that. Don't do it.

688
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 2: Don't do it.

689
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 4: So, uh, second comment here, I don't think you should

690
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 4: look at it as saying no based on your insecurities.

691
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 4: I think saying no to her base on what it

692
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 4: would do to your relationship is fine. If she's attracted

693
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 4: to him and they live together. He wouldn't be able

694
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 4: to let his guard down in his own home. That

695
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,479
Speaker 4: sounds miserable. He should be able to take his shirt

696
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 4: off and not worry about it, or chat with her

697
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 4: about their days without worrying she's going to make a move.

698
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 2: Reply.

699
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 4: It's hard to think about things like this in the

700
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 4: moment when you're in a financial situation like OPI's boyfriend.

701
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 4: I know I've made a hasty job and roommate decisions

702
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 4: because I felt that I didn't have time and didn't

703
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 4: want to risk losing my only chance quote unquote. But

704
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 4: from my experience, it's so worth it to wait. So

705
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 4: many people need roommates these days, and I'm sure it

706
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 4: wouldn't be hard to find one. Yeah, Op, maybe try

707
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 4: and bring up your veto with this point. It's also

708
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 4: totally okay to be feeling insecure, really secure people are

709
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 4: not delusional. People are not always easy to read, and

710
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 4: it's hard to trust their word, whether you're worried about

711
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 4: her making a move or your boyfriend saying yes, it's

712
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 4: normal to feel weird about it.

713
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 2: And there is an update.

714
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 4: How did no one bring up the fact that he

715
00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 4: lied to her about it?

716
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 2: It's like everyone glossed over that you did not tell her.

717
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 4: If if one of my roommates was like, Hey, I

718
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 4: want to bang this dude I'm moving in with and

719
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 4: I had a partner, I would have to immediately go, hey,

720
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 4: so you know my roommate situation, right.

721
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 2: I found someone?

722
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 3: Huge problem though, Yeah, huge problem?

723
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,800
Speaker 2: You don't have to move in with the first person

724
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 2: that says, hey, you want to, like, can I move in?

725
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: You could say, oh, we're not a vibe of fit.

726
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, cutie want a roommate?

727
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 2: No?

728
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 4: And then he said no, no because I have a girlfriend. Actually, yeah,

729
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 4: and that's weird. Yeah with this is weird.

730
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 2: Yeah.

731
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Speaker 4: Update, here we go, folks. Thank you so much for

732
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,760
Speaker 4: all of your advice and feedback. It helped me feel

733
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 4: more justified in my feelings. But also I see now

734
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 4: that he's trying to do the best that he can

735
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 4: in an all around crappy situation. I ended up having

736
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 4: several talks with him over the past few days, with

737
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 4: the first one going extremely disastrously do largely to both

738
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 4: of us being extremely stressed out, sleep deprived, and not

739
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 4: having eaten food all day, but the last one resolved

740
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 4: things as well as it could have and strengthened our relationship.

741
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 4: I think one of the two big underlying issues in

742
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 4: this situation was my own insecurities stemming from low self esteem,

743
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 4: which has been worsening over the past several months due

744
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 4: to mounting stress in my life from unrelated events. I

745
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 4: decided on my own that I need to start seeing

746
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 4: a therapist again to address this. However, the other aspect

747
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 4: I took issue with the most was his lack of

748
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 4: proper communication and lack of understanding for my emotions. When

749
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 4: you say lack of proper communication, do you mean lying

750
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 4: to you about a woman who wanted to sleep with him?

751
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 2: Of any communication? Really, but think about it.

752
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, just outright lie, Just no communication at all. When

753
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 4: I first followed the advice of many commenters here and

754
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 4: told him I wasn't comfortable with her moving in because

755
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 4: I was insecure, he reacted with no empathy and treated

756
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 4: my insecurities as a roadblock to him resolving his finance

757
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 4: angel situation, which I do understand why he felt like that.

758
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 4: He's under a lot of stress and had to take

759
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 4: out a loan to cover his ex roommate's rent for

760
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 4: this month, as it is so for those asking if

761
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 4: the situation is truly desperate, it is. He kept insisting

762
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 4: that if the roles were reversed, he wouldn't feel insecure,

763
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 4: even though I know he definitely would. I think this

764
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 4: was just the desperation talking. However, the next time we talked,

765
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 4: he apologized for not showing me appropriate empathy and not

766
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 4: treating my concerns as valid, and I apologized for letting

767
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 4: my insecurities get the better of me. We decided that

768
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,919
Speaker 4: he will still consider her as an option, but since

769
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,879
Speaker 4: she hasn't even signed anything yet binding her to moving in,

770
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 4: he would continue looking for other people and said he

771
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 4: will ideally pick someone.

772
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,720
Speaker 3: Else if he can. So, did he just immediately stop

773
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 3: looking at all?

774
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 2: That's the thing? Like he found this out months ago?

775
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 4: Was that? Right?

776
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 2: Am I right about this?

777
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 4: This?

778
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: He found that output of time since he found it out?

779
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 2: I don't think so. You don't think it's.

780
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 4: About ago since he found this central roommate. He since

781
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 4: he knew it was falling through. No, since since her,

782
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I thought, well, it's.

783
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 2: Been sometimes since he found out, because he lied about it,

784
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 2: so it's been at least time since.

785
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 4: I think it was more that he knew from the

786
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 4: very beginning that she was into it, that it was yeah,

787
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 4: that that was a part of it, and that he

788
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 4: never made that clear.

789
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 3: I don't think it's been that long. Okay, Well, because

790
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 3: it's like because they've talked.

791
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 4: About how it's like a tight timeline, and it's like,

792
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 4: that's why you're so stressed out, and that's why he's like,

793
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 4: so maybe it's I would know. I would probably say,

794
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 4: like maybe like a week at most, Yeah, which again

795
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 4: you can find. There are more roommates yeah, that don't

796
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 4: want to sleep with you.

797
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, that you can find.

798
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

799
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 4: And by the way, you can find full episodes with

800
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 4: stories just like this that you can listen to if

801
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 4: you go to Spotify or Apple podcasts or iet radio

802
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 4: and you search Okay story time and uh now we've

803
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 4: got basically sixty days, we got two months?

804
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 3: Were the stories for you.

805
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 2: To listen to? Folks? Whole lot of stores, a whole lot.

806
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 4: M boy, what's just say? Let's finish the story otherwise.

807
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 4: We also followed his sister in law's advice and discussed

808
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 4: all potential scenarios in the event that she does end

809
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 4: up being the new roommate. What we will do if

810
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 4: she makes a move on you? What we would do

811
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 4: if she starts walking around without clothing? Will you be

812
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:26,760
Speaker 4: friends with her or keep your distance?

813
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 2: You should?

814
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 3: You are keeping your distance?

815
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Yeah?

816
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 4: Will you hang out or drink with her late at

817
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 4: night like you used to with your old roommate. He

818
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 4: also wants me to meet her before it goes any further.

819
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 4: We haven't set a meeting up yet, but we'll see

820
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 4: what happens. I hate feeling like a controlling partner, and

821
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 4: I felt so weird discussing all of those scenarios. But

822
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 4: I think it's good to pinpoint exactly what I'm afraid

823
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 4: of and then talk about it because it helps.

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00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 2: HET's johny og host here.

825
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 4: We're gonna get back to the stories, but here's a

826
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 4: quick three minute break of ass from our sponsors.

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Speaker 2: Slowly, you communicated the things you're not being in control partner.

828
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 2: You are communicating your insecurities and your frustrations, and you're,

829
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 2: you know, all the things that you're worried about with

830
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 2: your partner. And a good partner doesn't necessarily have to

831
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 2: agree or acquiesce to any of those things, but does

832
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 2: listen to them and does taken them into consideration and say, hey,

833
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 2: I hear you. This is the situation I'm in. I

834
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 2: will try and you know, find something that works for

835
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 2: both of us. But right now, like she's my only

836
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 2: app Yeah, that would be the conversation.

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Speaker 4: Correct, do Mundo, And I'm really also not liking his

838
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 4: whole tactic here of it's like, oh, a girl likes me. Well,

839
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 4: instead of having it come from me and being like hey,

840
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 4: just being aw I'm actually in a relationship and I'm

841
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,399
Speaker 4: not interested in you. It's more like, hey, check out

842
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 4: this road block I have standing in between me and you.

843
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,760
Speaker 4: I have a girlfriend and if she wasn't here, maybe

844
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 4: we could date, but we can't because I have a girlfriend.

845
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 4: Tell tell them yourself from your chest nicely, don't want

846
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 4: to date them.

847
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 2: Nicest I've ever been rejected. I asked this guy out

848
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 2: in an Abercrombie in Germany when I was traveling, very

849
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 2: hot man and uh, and he was like because he

850
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 2: was thought we were we had been talking before. It

851
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 2: wasn't just like hey I saw yeah, yeah, we had

852
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 2: been chatting. And he was like, I'm so sorry I

853
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 2: have a girlfriend. But it was very brave of you.

854
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, so I just want like, really

855
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 2: cool of you. You're very brave. I was like, okay,

856
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 2: move on your part, Okay, thanks. Yeah. So I don't know,

857
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 2: just be honest, be honest.

858
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 4: It really just comes down to she's about all this stuff, man,

859
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 4: don't deceive, don't be because of course, and it's like, oh,

860
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, my insecurities got the better of me. It's like, dude,

861
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 4: he's turbo charging your insecurities. He's doing by behaving in

862
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 4: ways that make it feel like, hey, are you sneaking

863
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:10,760
Speaker 4: around on me? Like yeah, it's like it's like someone again,

864
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 4: like someone in a in a cat burglar outfit, like

865
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 4: sneaking into your house and you're being like, hey, are

866
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:17,720
Speaker 4: you gonna steal all my stuff?

867
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 3: And they're like, dude, you're so what are you over?

868
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 2: You're being insecure about? Yeah, what you think? Oh, come on,

869
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 2: you know better than that.

870
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just based on what I'm seeing, I'm thinking

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Speaker 4: maybe I should being.

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Speaker 2: A little nervous. But that's the end of that story

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