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Speaker 1: My ex and I are divorcing. I banned his daughter

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Speaker 2: Oh double whammy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, get them all out of your life in one

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Speaker 1: fell swoop. This is to answer the question of our

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Speaker 1: breakups and divorces. Always expect it?

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Speaker 2: That's so sad. Yeah, a sad question.

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Speaker 1: Do they sometimes hit you out of nowhere? Who's to say, well,

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Speaker 1: they always expect?

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Speaker 3: Like, so anytime I get in a relationship, should I

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Speaker 3: always expect for them to break up with me?

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Speaker 1: No? More? Like, are you like you're experiencing a lot

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Speaker 1: of fighting and there's like red flags going on, and

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Speaker 1: you're like, oh, this relationship is head and you know

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Speaker 1: we're about to divorce.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you know, like you're.

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Speaker 1: Expecting it, not like you start a relationship and you're

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Speaker 1: like break up?

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Speaker 2: What what kind of question is this?

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Speaker 1: No? No, no, I don't know. I didn't have a

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Speaker 1: lot of time, so no move eighty three fifty seven

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Speaker 1: says my X and I are divorcing. Uh, my daughter

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Speaker 1: seventeen and I are in the process of moving stuff

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Speaker 1: into our new place. I got one of these moving

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Speaker 1: pods that's out in front of the old house, and

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Speaker 1: my stepdaughter fifteen started moving her stuff out to it.

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Speaker 1: I told her stop ouch, wait, oh, that's so sad. Wait.

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Speaker 1: So they started get their divorcing and Opie and her

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Speaker 1: daughter were moving the stuff out and the stepdaughter started helping,

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Speaker 1: and then OPI was like, no, you're not coming with.

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Speaker 2: That's so step fick' oh.

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Speaker 1: I need to know how long this relationship had lasted.

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Speaker 1: That is really tough. At first, I thought she was

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Speaker 1: confused and thought it was for her and her mom's stuff.

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Speaker 1: The plan is for them to move back to my

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Speaker 1: ex's home state. My stepdaughter wasn't confused about that though.

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Speaker 1: She thought for some reason that she could move with

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Speaker 1: me and my daughter to our new house in town.

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Speaker 1: So we got into a whole discussion about it. My

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Speaker 1: ex was involved. Turns out her daughter is very upset

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Speaker 1: about how having to move because she doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: leave her friends, her school and go to a place

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Speaker 1: that is so backwards. After talking, my ex said she

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Speaker 1: understood where she was coming from and asked me to

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Speaker 1: let her live with us at least during the school year.

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Speaker 1: First off, I think it would be weird for her

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Speaker 1: to live with us since her mom and I aren't

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Speaker 1: married anymore. It makes more sense for her to go

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Speaker 1: live where both her parents are. Logistically, it also presents

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Speaker 1: an issue because our new place is smaller than this one,

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Speaker 1: so she would have to share a bedroom with my daughter,

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Speaker 1: and I know my daughter would hate that, So it

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem fair to force that on her. Edit because

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Speaker 1: people keep asking, we got married about six years ago.

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Speaker 1: That's a long time time. My ex did also say

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Speaker 1: she would pay for expenses. People, please stop suggesting I

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Speaker 1: get a bigger place. I just bought our new place.

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Speaker 1: I am not selling it and getting a different place six.

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Speaker 2: Years So she's been there since she was nine with

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Speaker 1: I don't think it is necessarily a problem. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it. Opie is the a hole for not wanting

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Speaker 1: to do this. I don't think this is necessarily her responsibility. However,

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Speaker 1: I also looking like from the point of view of

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Speaker 1: the fifteen year old, that is really hard. That is,

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Speaker 1: that's a really hard thing to deal with. She's been

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Speaker 1: this has been her mother figure figure since she was nine,

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Speaker 1: person like a girl that she's seen as her sister

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Speaker 2: Well had a good time for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, okay, not the A hole for sure, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: angel or devil is my question?

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Speaker 2: Would you rather be the angel or a human? Maybe

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Speaker 2: not double, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's definitely not the angel.

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Speaker 2: I would be the angel of the scenario.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. Opie totally has a right to be like,

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Speaker 1: this is not legally my daughter. My ex wife has

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Speaker 1: a responsibility to her, and I shouldn't have to have

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Speaker 1: that responsibility. I think that Opie is, yeah, not the

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Speaker 1: a hole for that. It just like, is really sucky

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Speaker 1: for this poor fifteen year old to learn that this

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Speaker 1: that is really auchi. It's really Auchi. Yeah. No, I

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Speaker 2: Do you think he should be the angel?

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Speaker 1: I think I think I would probably have a conversation

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Speaker 1: because it seems like he just kind of assumed that

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Speaker 1: she wouldn't like that. I would say, hey, would you

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Speaker 1: be open to sharing a room just for this year

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Speaker 1: or half the year, and if she's like super against it,

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Speaker 1: then that is I think an answer. But if she says,

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Speaker 1: you know what, you know, I want it, Like I'm

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Speaker 1: okay with being with my sister for you know, another year,

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Speaker 1: just so she can keep going to school, I think

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Speaker 1: have a conversation with your daughter first before assuming things.

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Speaker 1: Either way, let's.

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Speaker 2: Say, ah, maybe get more confection.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I need a little bit more context. There are

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Speaker 1: irrelevant comments though. Shammy Danny says, not the a hole.

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Speaker 1: Where did she get the idea that somehow she was

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Speaker 1: thought it was an option. Her mom told her they

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Speaker 1: were moving back to her home state, which again, like

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Speaker 1: she's a fifteen year old who has seen this man

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Speaker 1: as her father for six years. I really don't fault her.

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Speaker 1: They should have had that conversation with her mom beforehand,

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Speaker 1: like they should. Yeah, they should have briefed this poor child.

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Speaker 1: Gamer green Eye says, not the a whole. It's normal

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Speaker 1: for a child that age to be upset about moving away.

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Speaker 1: Not your fault. Her mom should have talked it out

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Speaker 1: with her, and Opie says she did it. Seems like

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Speaker 3: I think she did it, told her what was happening. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the fifteen year old didn't want to accept it and

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Speaker 2: Could, yeah, try and gig in. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Ah, this really is tough. Commoner says, not the

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Speaker 1: a hole. But she's known you since before she was nine,

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Speaker 1: assuming you didn't get married. That's so true within the

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Speaker 1: it's normal. She feels close enough to you where she

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Speaker 1: thinks that's an option. You should talk to your daughter

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Speaker 1: Maybe your daughter feels sisterly enough where she would prefer

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Speaker 1: And if your daughter is okay with sharing a room,

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Speaker 1: then talk to your ex to get the child support,

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Speaker 1: because that is not legally your child. And op responds, no,

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Speaker 1: my daughter definitely does not want to share her room.

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Speaker 1: She never grew that close to her stepsister. Okay, then

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Speaker 1: I think that is somewhat of an answer. It is

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Speaker 1: really it's still really hard, And then Commetter says, everyone

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Speaker 1: sucks here to be in a child's life from nine

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Speaker 1: to fifteen. It sounds like she probably views you as

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Speaker 1: her father. She didn't even question that she could continue

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Speaker 1: living with you. Has she been in contact with her

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Speaker 1: biofather if he's out of state? If not, it kind

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Speaker 1: of pivots You're the ahle. The more I read, the

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Speaker 1: more I kept reading that this girl is unwanted by

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Speaker 1: all her parental figures. Oh, Biodad is a quote unquote

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Speaker 1: pushover who lives States away. Mom says it's okay to

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Speaker 1: stay while she moves States away. Stepfather of most of

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Speaker 1: the girls of the child's Memorable life says, no, that

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Speaker 1: poor girl. I think it's strange after six years of

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Speaker 1: And Opie responds her father does keep in contact and visits.

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Speaker 1: And then OPI responds to multiple questions on if his

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Speaker 1: Opie says, they got along most of the time, but

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Speaker 1: my daughter never grew attached. And then Opie was asked

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Speaker 1: his stepdaughter stay. Opie says, I am not willing to

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Speaker 1: sell my new place and get a new one. It

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Speaker 1: would be a waste of the real estate Commission. And

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Speaker 1: Opie on why's ex wife is moving back to her

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Speaker 1: says housing prices are too much for her. All their

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Speaker 1: back in her mom's home state, and there is an update.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, this is I think. I think the answer

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Speaker 1: like it sucks. He seems amandian CB says he seems

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Speaker 1: very detached, which is what I'm reading into this. I

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Speaker 1: just but yeah maybe maybe yeah, maybe maybe their fallout

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Speaker 1: was not like the fall up in the relationship wasn't good.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that Opie has any responsibility to this girl.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just I am putting myself in her shoes,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, that's really that's a really tough situation

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Speaker 1: and you're wondering what where that leaves you. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is really this is really hard, but but there is

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Speaker 1: an update. What did you think though? Do you do

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Speaker 1: you think angel? Non angel? What's yours?

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Speaker 2: It is depending on how the divorce went.

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Speaker 3: I would be the angel. If the divorce went well

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Speaker 3: and it does seem like he's detached and I hate that.

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Speaker 3: The Yeah, the sister like it just didn't work out

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Speaker 3: and the family didn't work out. Yeah, it's so tough.

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Speaker 3: But the fifteen year old will have to like learn

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Speaker 3: try to try to keep her, you know, yeah, because

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Speaker 3: everything earlier they were like everything that she knows.

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Speaker 2: Is backwards there. Yeah, that would be really tough on

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Speaker 1: Responsibility, Yeah, no, it's not as responsibility. It's literally just

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Speaker 1: like I am thinking about her and I feel bad.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into this update and find out more. So

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Speaker 1: I talked to my ex privately and she said she understood.

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Speaker 1: So we ended up getting together and having a talk

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Speaker 1: She was still very upset and ended up locking herself

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Speaker 1: in her room. We thought we would give her some space.

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Speaker 1: But later on, though, there was some fighting between her

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Speaker 1: and my daughter, which was unusual because they haven't really

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Speaker 1: fought before. In the end, I decided it would just

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Speaker 1: be easier if we moved out sooner than expected. We

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Speaker 1: might have to shuffle things around while we paint, and

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Speaker 1: we don't have all our stuff here yet. Despite that,

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Speaker 1: I think it's best. I think it's for the best. Overall.

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Speaker 1: It is a difficult, it is a less difficult and

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Speaker 1: awkward living situation. In a week or so, we should

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Speaker 1: Amazing Reality twenty nine to eighty says, sounds like you

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Speaker 2: No, that would you wait.

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Speaker 2: Yeah trust him.

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Speaker 2: And you do online education, education, We trust you.

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Speaker 1: been mia and there is an update, but let's pause. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Is uk a false state? I don't know Oka Uka

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Speaker 2: and let us know Ukan's uk Arians. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't trust him one. The fact that he is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the family's in on this. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So he just has that kind of his family knows,

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Speaker 1: What do you mean you're leaving?

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Speaker 2: What we say, Sophia, what the grass is always greener

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Speaker 1: It's so true. Water that grass and talk to your partners.

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Speaker 1: Let them that's a good that's a good motto. Uh yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: No, I was just gonna say, yeah, understandably, it is

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Speaker 1: that's like crazy that every like it doesn't seem like

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Speaker 1: We found out that he went on a spending spree

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Speaker 2: It's weird. These are all weird.

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Speaker 1: I might update again in a few more days. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think they should, you know, whether it's cheating

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Speaker 1: that quote unquote intervention. Valley Lilies his brain tuber so

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Speaker 1: the like the witch the witch trials rappening Salem Witch Trials,

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Speaker 1: wasn't I think I think that they said, like one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons was possibly carbon monoxide poisoning because that

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Speaker 1: causes hallucinations.

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Speaker 3: I need to I need to look into that. I

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Speaker 3: love listening to video essays. Yeah, I listened to the

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Speaker 3: Cults of Scientology last night.

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Speaker 1: Oh that one's crazy. I listened to a podcast about that.

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Speaker 1: But I think it was set in Australia or something.

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Speaker 3: Dude shout out to Australia. They were not having any

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Speaker 3: of that. No, they were like, we're done, We're not

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Speaker 3: accepting any of that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: But there is another story.