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Speaker 3: My boyfriend demands I cut contact with his brother because

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Speaker 3: his brother defended me.

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Speaker 1: What is this some kind of sick game.

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Speaker 3: Trigger warning, physical altercation?

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Speaker 1: Oh god, it might be.

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Speaker 3: Boyfriend and I have been together for two years. I

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Speaker 3: have known as brother who I will call Reggie for

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Speaker 3: most of that time. We've always gotten on well enough.

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Speaker 3: The whole situation started with my twenty first birthday party.

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Speaker 3: We had a party at home with twenty or so

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Speaker 3: friends and family. Reggie was of course present at the party,

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Speaker 3: along with a few other members of boyfriend's family. By

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Speaker 3: the way, this comes from Punch Drunk Lady, and if

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Speaker 3: r slash Owkay Storytime subread it. So the party was

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Speaker 3: going reasonably well. As it started to get later, I

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Speaker 3: started to get a little tipsy and most of the

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Speaker 3: guests had started to go. It eventually got down to

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Speaker 3: a wasted little group made up of myself, boyfriend, Reggie,

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Speaker 3: and a couple of my girlfriends. We were sitting outside

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Speaker 3: and one of my girlfriends decided to get on the trampoline.

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Speaker 3: She managed to execute a pretty cool flip, and I

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Speaker 3: expressed that I wished I knew how to do one.

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Speaker 3: My friend talked me into giving it a try. I

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Speaker 3: got up on the tramp stumbled wastedly, and fell down laughing.

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Speaker 3: Everyone else except for boyfriend, was laughing also. It didn't

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Speaker 3: seem like much of an event until Boyfriend got up,

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Speaker 3: muttering iplethetic in an angry tone, and then told me

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Speaker 1: She's like, you can't even do a flip. It's literally

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Speaker 1: my biggest ick.

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Speaker 3: I was pretty confused as to what was going on,

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Speaker 3: so I asked him why, and he answered me with

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Speaker 1: What what do I? I read that in Irish in

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Speaker 1: my head. What because of cow?

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Speaker 3: Hey? Both of my friends and red. He looked pretty

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Speaker 3: shocked at this, but before I followed boyfriend to the bedroom,

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Speaker 3: I told him it was fine and Boyfriend was probably

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: He can have a real temper sometimes not good, particularly

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Speaker 3: after a few drinks, but I didn't think that would

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Speaker 3: be the case in this instance, as literally nothing upsetting

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Speaker 3: he shuts the door and starts really going off. He

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Speaker 3: tells me that I'm disgusting idiot, that I was showing

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Speaker 1: What? She's like drunk, and he's like, who do you

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Speaker 1: think you are?

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Speaker 3: You?

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Speaker 1: What do you do? You want everybody to think you're

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Speaker 1: a gymnast or something? Off? You're pathetic. Meanwhile he's cheating

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ye, that I was an embarrassment him and that

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Speaker 3: I was to go to bed now, oh, now it's

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Speaker 1: I know what's bent not leave.

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Speaker 3: The room until morning so that I would be more

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Speaker 1: This needs to be the last time break up, break up,

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Speaker 3: Reggie is banging on the door and tells boyfriend to

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Speaker 3: We got to Reggie's place. He lives with a couple

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Speaker 3: him know about boyfriend's temper, but explain that he had

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Speaker 3: never blown up over something as insignificant as me mucking

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Speaker 3: is no excuse for that. Well, I mean you, I

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Speaker 1: Let me, let me brainstorm. So you have a priceless

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Speaker 1: family heirloom passed down for the hundreds of years, and

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Speaker 1: he confuses it for toilet paper. Oh, I even said he.

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Speaker 1: So I immediately swapped to this guy because I just

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Speaker 1: can't see Opie doing anything wrong. But no, and you know,

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Speaker 1: outside of the bounds of ridiculous situations, this is all

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Speaker 3: Never does ye ever. Nope. I asked Reggie if he

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Speaker 3: But Reggie said no, and that boyfriend's behavior was unacceptable.

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Speaker 3: Good on, Reggie.

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Speaker 1: I have a better hypothetical. He spits on her mom

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Speaker 1: and then like pushes her into the pool. That's like

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Speaker 1: a I would sit him down and be like, you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't get to leave. You have to sit here

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I felt silly and embarrassed, especially knowing that Reggie

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Speaker 3: I told Reggie I had better get home and try

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Speaker 3: like girl, you you I mean like you can go

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Speaker 3: anywhere because you're your own person, but you shouldn't go

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Speaker 1: Rights you have to fix. This should be a thing

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Reggie said that he wanted me to stay at

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Speaker 3: about tidying up from the party. Also, the fact that

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Speaker 1: That's the biggest red flag.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. Boyfriend eventually rocked up and seemed calm enough. Well,

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Speaker 1: Not have even been there. I bet you he was

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Speaker 1: probably with whoever he's cheating on ope with.

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Speaker 3: That's also true. I told him I thought we needed

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Speaker 3: didn't think the way he spoke to me last night

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Speaker 3: is responsible was I'll discuss that with you. After you

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Speaker 3: delete Reggie's phone number, you won't be speaking to him again.

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Speaker 3: Oh pe, oh pee. If someone is ever telling you

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Speaker 3: because his brother recognized that this guy's abusive. I was

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Speaker 3: ties with you, brother. He told me he wouldn't discuss

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Speaker 3: I told boyfriend I thought that was pretty unnecessary and

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry for yelling, but you need to respect what

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Speaker 3: the conversation love you, Hey you don't he stupid?

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Speaker 3: Get out of that relationship. Will Pe please.

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Speaker 1: Well do what I do, or we won't have the conversation.

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Speaker 3: I replied that I needed a little time to think,

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Speaker 1: He was probably mad as a fair partner wasn't in there.

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Speaker 3: So this morning I woke up, boyfriend is work and

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Speaker 3: I have a text from Reggie. It says, hey, Opie,

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Speaker 3: I hope you're okay. Look what boyfriend did the other

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Speaker 3: night is really not all right, and I think you

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Speaker 3: should get out of there for a while. I've talked

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Speaker 3: to our friends and it's totally oh the roommates and

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Speaker 3: it's totally fine for you to crash here until you

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Speaker 3: figure out what you want to do. So that leaves

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Speaker 3: me where I am now. Don't know what to do

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Speaker 3: with the situation. Do his boyfriend asks and cut contact

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Speaker 3: with Reggie, or take Reggie's offer of some space away

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Speaker 3: from boyfriend to clear my head. My worry is that

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Speaker 3: I stay at Reggie's. That will destroy any chance of

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Speaker 3: fixing things with boyfriend. Advice very much appreciated. I can't

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Speaker 3: wait for all the comments.

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Speaker 1: So SOA, we're about to get that.

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Speaker 3: Say leave Reggie.

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Speaker 1: You being unable to fix things with your boyfriend is

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Speaker 1: not a problem that. Yeah, that's a solution.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there is no fixing this.

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Speaker 1: You sure he's no fixing de sire to fix it? No, No, nope, nope.

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Speaker 1: Please leaves, and you know, get out of there. If

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Speaker 1: I am a psychic. I can predict a crime is

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Speaker 1: That was a reference for you. That was a psych

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Speaker 3: Reggie replied to him, saying that if boyfriend came here

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, straight up, like the police. Hey, like an

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Speaker 3: Already threatened, boyfriend showed up at Reggie's probably fifteen minutes later.

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Speaker 3: He drove up the lawn and almost hit the letter

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Speaker 3: Reggie and his dad went out while I stayed in

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Speaker 1: If only someone had thought about doing that before he

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Speaker 3: Boyfriend and Reggie's dad ended up palling him out to

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Speaker 1: So what the actual flippity DooDah are his parents doing?

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Speaker 1: I don't care that he's my son. He's pinned on

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Speaker 3: I feel pretty awful after all that his mom and

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Speaker 1: Police, my known abuser is coming to this house to

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Speaker 3: the moment. The latest news is that boyfriend has been

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Speaker 3: haven't really decided what to do there. That's a fun

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Speaker 3: my plan is to stay with Reggie for now. It

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Speaker 3: We also spoke to a couple of the neighbors that

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Speaker 1: Why why is he not in jail? Failure of the parents.

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Speaker 3: By the way, you can keep an eye out for

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Speaker 3: full episodes with stories just like this. Just go to Spotify,

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Speaker 3: Apple Podcasts, or iHeartRadio and search up Okay, storytime, But

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Speaker 3: Immediately call the police. Back ups say, hey, I'd like

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Speaker 3: all this damage. Yeah, here it is. Hello, Hello he

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Speaker 3: Here's proof in text.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I gotta tell you. I bet you this

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Speaker 3: do next.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I just told you what. I know it's due.

440
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Speaker 1: You have to buy a net launcher. And next time

441
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:29,679
Speaker 1: old uh stinky pants comes uh sniffing around, you just

442
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,280
Speaker 1: get him with the net launcher. Good and uh that

443
00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,440
Speaker 1: was a good sound. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, you

444
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:36,679
Speaker 1: just hit him with one of those. You know.

445
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Speaker 3: I'm at a bit of a loss as to what

446
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,240
Speaker 3: to do next. I'm planning to talk to my UNI

447
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,440
Speaker 3: about getting into student housing. I'm planning to go out

448
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,879
Speaker 3: tomorrow to buy some pepper spray. Also, I'm tossing up

449
00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,160
Speaker 3: about reaching out to boyfriend's X, but I'm not sure

450
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Speaker 3: if that will cause more problems for everyone, So I

451
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Speaker 3: suppose that's it for now, at least. I'm sorry that

452
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,520
Speaker 3: this was a bit of a novel, but I know

453
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Speaker 3: a lot of people wanted an update, and considering how

454
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Speaker 3: nice everyone has been, I wouldn't want anyone to worry

455
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Speaker 3: that I had gone back slash state with him. Rest

456
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 3: assured that is totally out of the question. The more

457
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,399
Speaker 3: I think about things that happened within our relationship with

458
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Speaker 3: this new perspective, the more I realized how fed up

459
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Speaker 3: some of those things were.

460
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Speaker 1: Yes, you're getting out of the cycle. Yes, yeah, I

461
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Speaker 1: love right. I just wanted to make sure I updated

462
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,359
Speaker 1: so no one was thinking I still stayed with this guy.

463
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

464
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Speaker 1: I just had to tell you. Yes, good good ending. Yeah,

465
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Speaker 1: and I'm glad, so glad that so glad. You know

466
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Speaker 1: your boyfriend was so smelly.

467
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Speaker 3: But Reggie, Reggie, Reggie for the whin We got another story.

468
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 1: My boyfriend bought a house with his brother. It's been

469
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Speaker 1: less than an ideal living situation. Move out, that's the solution.

470
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 1: I have been with my partner for about a year

471
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Speaker 1: before our relationship. He purchased a Big four unit home

472
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Speaker 1: with his brother and brother's wife. So the three of

473
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Speaker 1: them bought the home together with the long term goal

474
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Speaker 1: of eventually having two units to themselves, one for my boyfriend,

475
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,879
Speaker 1: the other for his brother and wife, and converting the

476
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Speaker 1: remaining two units into a shared floor shared between them all.

477
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Speaker 1: By the way, this comes from user objective olive twenty

478
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Speaker 1: five to ten And if you want to submit your

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Speaker 1: breddit to.

481
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Speaker 3: Every doing it go so many stories over there.

482
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Speaker 1: So it's a beautiful, old, historic Victorian home that needs

483
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Speaker 1: a lot of work done to it. Their mother had

484
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Speaker 1: passed a year ago, so the money they received from

485
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Speaker 1: her will they use towards the home. I came into

486
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Speaker 1: the picture shortly after this big decision and their mother's passing.

487
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Speaker 1: I've been renting an apartment for the past six years

488
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Speaker 1: by myself. I've always lived alone, and even when I

489
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Speaker 1: lived with family, I was pretty isolated. Both my parents

490
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Speaker 1: have passed and I have a pretty traumatic upbringing, full

491
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Speaker 1: of abandonment from my parents and family, substance problems, and

492
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Speaker 1: an overall emotionally neglectful family. I do not have good

493
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Speaker 1: relationships with my family members, So that's the gist of me.

494
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,679
Speaker 1: My partner's goal was originally to purchase a home with

495
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Speaker 1: his future partner. That has now changed since purchasing the home,

496
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Speaker 1: it's now that he sees himself living in this home

497
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Speaker 1: and having kids here. I obviously aligned more with his

498
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Speaker 1: original goal of purchasing a home with my partner. Two

499
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 1: tenants have left from the house, so they both occupy

500
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Speaker 1: one unit now, which happens to be the future shared floor.

501
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,640
Speaker 1: I'm here all the time now for the past month

502
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 1: since he's moved in. They've knocked a wall open to

503
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Speaker 1: gain easier access to each other, so I can walk

504
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: over to his brother's side right through a door. Imagine

505
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 1: a hotel with a shared door you can unlock thatchoes

506
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Speaker 1: to an adjacent room. Additionally, his brother is a vet

507
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Speaker 1: slash dog breeder, so they have tons of dogs, like

508
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 1: eight on the brother's side, which is a noise issue

509
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: for sure. The problem for me is figuring out how

510
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Speaker 1: I fit in this whole vision. They have already carved out.

511
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: The units they took over are one bedroom units. Long term,

512
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Speaker 1: when they're able to fully occupy the house, they'll each

513
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: have three bedroom units. Essentially the size of a normal house.

514
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Speaker 1: In each there won't be a shared door once we

515
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Speaker 1: move into the bigger units. I was thinking of moving

516
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: in a couple of months so I could save on

517
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Speaker 1: my rent and pay down my debts faster. But it's

518
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: such an unusual circumstance, at least to me anyway. So

519
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: am I clocking this right? Are they? So? They have

520
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Speaker 1: three or four units in like a shared building, like

521
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Speaker 1: an apartment space, like maybe they're like penthouse units ors

522
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Speaker 1: I assume, I don't know. From the sounds of it.

523
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Speaker 1: It sounds like they're pretty large, like they're extensive, So

524
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Speaker 1: it sounds like they've bought like a you know, huge

525
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Speaker 1: space in like a like a apartment complex. They're knocking

526
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Speaker 1: down the walls or like condos or something. Sorry, I'm

527
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Speaker 1: just it's been I was, it was. It was difficult

528
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Speaker 1: for me to paint that picture in my head. So

529
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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get clear because at first I

530
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Speaker 1: was thinking in the context of like houses, the units

531
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Speaker 1: on like a property, but it really, yeah, it feels

532
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: like they're knocking down walls and like like somehow they

533
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Speaker 1: bought the whole penthouse of a building and they're knocking

534
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Speaker 1: down walls in there, because if you have three or

535
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Speaker 1: four units with three bedrooms, or like three units with

536
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Speaker 1: three bedrooms and the one with one, it's like, I

537
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Speaker 1: just I'm having a hard time visualizing if anyone in

538
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Speaker 1: chat can help me out orunds.

539
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Speaker 3: Like it's a duplex that they're turning into a single

540
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Speaker 3: family house.

541
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Speaker 1: Possibly, yeah, okay, yeah, so much room for activities, says Kimberly. Fine,

542
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,879
Speaker 1: I really value my privacy and independence. His brother and

543
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 1: sister in law feel I close myself off, But the

544
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: way I see it, there's literally a door they can

545
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: walk through at any moment to see me. You can't

546
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Speaker 1: get any closer than being on the same property, like

547
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: ten feet away through a door. So our relationship is

548
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: strained right now because I do not exactly get along

549
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: with his brother. I find his brother to be intimidating

550
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,959
Speaker 1: and cold. The sister in law I get along better with,

551
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: but I'm still not exactly the closest with them. My

552
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Speaker 1: boyfriend touts that I get an instant family with them

553
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: and that they will help me with anything, and once

554
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 1: we're moved in upstairs, I will get more privacy and

555
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: can do whatever I want to the space to make

556
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Speaker 1: it our own. To sum it up, the kind of

557
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,479
Speaker 1: deal I feel is in front of me is that

558
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: I'd have to accept the circumstances of the house with

559
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: him and his brother and sister in law, or I

560
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 1: have no future with him. It feels like I cannot

561
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: choose my partner alone in this. My boyfriend says I

562
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: guilt him and make him feel like he has to

563
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Speaker 1: choose between his brother and me, which I feel like

564
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: that's wrong. If anything, it feels like the brother is

565
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: probably putting that energy out there. Yeah. Part of me

566
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: is unsure if I'm being too closed off due to

567
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: my upbringing. I don't know how to accept the situation

568
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: without feeling like I'm a bystander. With all this, we

569
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: got into an argument yesterday because of a room that

570
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: is currently empty and in the process of being fixed up.

571
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 1: We had a differing opinion on windows. I tore off

572
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Speaker 1: some window frames without consulting his brother, and that caused

573
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: an issue. We had stripped the paint off of them,

574
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,439
Speaker 1: but poorly, so I was getting frustrated and tried to

575
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Speaker 1: expedite the process. His brother has for the first time

576
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: texted me directly in our group, looking to resolve our differences.

577
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: And here's how I look at it. Here's the pros.

578
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 1: I'm able to get help from his brother and sister

579
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 1: in law at any given moment, especially if we had kids.

580
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: I could see that being a huge plus reduced in

581
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: it reduces the debt and overall home ownership cost. It

582
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: is a beautiful home, and owning a home in New

583
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:23,719
Speaker 1: York is a big deal. I knew it.

584
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 3: Oh then maybe it's like a yeah, someone's saying Brownstone.

585
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: I knew it. Yeah, Brownstone, like.

586
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 3: A Brownstone in New York, like going to the gold But.

587
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: They're saying units. It's multiple units. You know, you don't

588
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: really have multiple units in but a house like a Brownstone.

589
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: So I'm seeing where it's like it's like a high ride,

590
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: like there's they have multiple units.

591
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 3: But how they would not be it was a high rise.

592
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 3: They would not be able to like take down walls.

593
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you buy the apartment. Yeah they bought it,

594
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 1: so it's like they own those apartments. sEH.

595
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Speaker 3: I was thinking like old house that was like made

596
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 3: into a bunch of like separate places, and then they

597
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Speaker 3: they got Oh, I guess that that's what I was saying.

598
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 3: That could be true. But it's like multiple.

599
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 1: It would be a massive house because you've got at

600
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: least two units that have three bedrooms. How does that work?

601
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,360
Speaker 1: So that's a six seven eight, it's a ten bedroom house,

602
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 1: I mean a ten bedroom brownstone. I don't know.

603
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 3: I'm just throwing out other possibilities.

604
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: I just like the penthouse.

605
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 3: Oh they said a Victorian house.

606
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 1: Oh that's right.

607
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 3: Blast the set of a house everyone.

608
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: Ooh shoot, I feel silly. It's a beautiful home, and

609
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: owning a home in New York is a big deal.

610
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to buy a home on my

611
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: own right now. I do woodworking projects, so getting to

612
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 1: do a lot of DIY things will be nice once

613
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: we have the three bedroom space. His brother being a

614
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: vet is also a pro and the cons unsure of

615
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: boundaries and privacy. At the moment, the dogs are loud

616
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: and currently because of the shared door, there is a

617
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: lot of noise and I'm not it's not feeling like

618
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: a single household. His brother will always be included in

619
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: some way. I feel like a bystander. Well, I mean

620
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: you'd be a part of it. I don't get to

621
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: own the home, and I do have to give up

622
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: creative decisions on things such as the exterior of the

623
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: home or the shared downstairs, since that will be his

624
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: brother's decisions. I love my apartment. I made it my own,

625
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: and I feel sad about leaving it. Anyone in a

626
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: similar situation, can you chime in? Am I being selfish?

627
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: Part of me thinks I am because of how independent

628
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: I am. My boyfriend tells me to see the big

629
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: picture of it all, but I struggle with it because

630
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: I view things as wanting to only make decisions between

631
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: him and I, and it's an awkward dynamic for me

632
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: to accept that his brother is a huge part of

633
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: the home. I always imagined my future relationship being its

634
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: own entity, living with that person exclusively, and having a family.

635
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: I might be closed off to this dynamic as well

636
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: because I am a deeply mistrusting person. I'm not sure

637
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: how to process my thoughts on this. And there is

638
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: an edit.

639
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I move in or when I have a partner,

640
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 3: I'm going to live in a compound with my brother.

641
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,479
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yeah, You've made it very clear. Sam is

642
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: the package deal.

643
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Sam has to deal with that.

644
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: I think with advances in cloning, we can come up

645
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: with some very creative solutions to that problem.

646
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 3: I don't want to clone you, sure, yeah, we.

647
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: Can do it.

648
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 3: If we're cloning, why not just coming up come up

649
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 3: with teleportation?

650
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: Oh you know what? Yeah, hey, all you clone nerds,

651
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: why don't we get off of clones and start working

652
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: on teleporting exactly way better. Yeah, I'm trying to bully

653
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: the cloning people into thinking that clones are so uncool

654
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: that they have to do teleprodus.

655
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 3: I think you how to do it anyway.

656
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Speaker 1: I can't keep that better than edit. Let's go to

657
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: the edit. I spoke with my boyfriend about the situation

658
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: and have decided to not move in until I'm ready smart,

659
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: So I will be keeping my apartment. Also, I will

660
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: not devote my spare time to doing housework there alone anymore,

661
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: since it's too stressful and takes away from me doing

662
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Speaker 1: things for myself.

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Speaker 3: Wait, you were sorry? Wait you were doing housework for

664
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 3: a place that she doesn't even live in. What also

665
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 3: that like they've given her no like creative autonomy, you know,

666
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 3: like she's not had any of the creative decisions where.

667
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, unless you move into this house right

668
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: now with me and my brother and his wife then

669
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: clearly you don't want this relationship to continue. Yeah, it's

670
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: such like a weird logical jump, like there's just a

671
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: hole there that the logic is falling into. Yep, we

672
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: will revisit the idea of me moving in sometime in

673
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: the future, but we have no hard date on it.

674
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: I've been reading all the replies and I really appreciate

675
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: the different perspectives. And we have an update.

676
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Speaker 2: Hey, it's Sam, your og host here. We're gonna get

677
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,720
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Speaker 1: Thoughts.

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Speaker 3: I'm the same ones that I've already said, don't move

681
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 3: in here. I mean, I think the problem here is

682
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 3: that they want you to move in, but also they

683
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 3: don't want to give you any like, say over anything.

684
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: Right, which I guess, and also they want you to

685
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: clean things to some extent. It makes sense because I

686
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: think it was like a family house or something.

687
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 3: And it's you know, so immediacy of having her move in.

688
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: Right, That's the thing that it makes sense where they're like, well,

689
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: this is like our family house. So it's like, if

690
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: you're not married into the family, it makes sense you

691
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't be on the title or deed or whatever. But also,

692
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: because you're not married to me and in our family,

693
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: it also makes sense for me to not tell you

694
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: it's something you have to do. Yeah, or the relationships

695
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: over exactly. Yeah, there's an update here. Hope it makes sense.

696
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: This is a good update. Actually, this is a good

697
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: what is it? This is good? This is good news. Mark,

698
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: I made a steak. You made a steak. Yes, I

699
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: I will not elaborate. This is a good update. Actually,

700
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: So it's been a little over three months since I

701
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: posted to quickly recap. My boyfriend had purchased a house

702
00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: with his brother and sister in law about a year

703
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: a go, just a few months before I was in

704
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: a relationship with him, so I had no say in

705
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: the matter since I was not around.

706
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 3: Also kind of crazy, not like now that we're revisiting

707
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 3: that information, kind of crazy that he's insisting that she

708
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 3: move in when the relationship is seemingly only less than

709
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 3: a year old. Yeah, he's saying that she has to

710
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 3: move in after like less than a year a relationship

711
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 3: or the relationship is over.

712
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: What I think. It's not an explicit ultimatum, but it's

713
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: more like implied. That's what he had been putting out

714
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: there a big four family Victorian that they wanted to

715
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: convert into a two family, with the majority of the

716
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: space and house decisions going to his brother. Obviously, I

717
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: wasn't okay with this arrangement for a multitude of reasons,

718
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: but there wasn't much I could do besides voice my input.

719
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: After reading through all of your responses on my original post,

720
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: which I was super appreciative of, I decided to hold

721
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: off on moving in with him. It was not a

722
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: situation I wanted to move into immediately until I got

723
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: a better feel of how things would go between him

724
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: and his brother and the house. I also have a

725
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 1: very nice apartment and do not want to give that

726
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: up so fast. My boyfriend was definitely a bit bummed

727
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: when I told him, but he understood. So I decided

728
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: to wait things out and see if my boyfriend would

729
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: naturally come to terms with the fact that long term,

730
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a good decision for us as a couple.

731
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: A few of you had said since his heart was

732
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 1: invested in the house, there wasn't much persuasion I could

733
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: have on him. I didn't push him on anything. I

734
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: just let his brother's bad decisions in my boundaries do

735
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: the talking. For example, if we were to move into

736
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,439
Speaker 1: the upstairs unit together, my boyfriend originally wanted to open

737
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: up a door to the other side into the brother's unit.

738
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: He said the brother wouldn't come through and that it

739
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: would be private for us. I firmly disagreed and lamented

740
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: on the current facts of how the situation is downstairs

741
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 1: with the same kind of hotel door pathway to his side,

742
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: where the dogs are barking and there's an invasion of

743
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: pride and it's not exactly our space. He eventually agreed

744
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: to not open up the door and only have the

745
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: front door aka a normal house, not a hotel. His

746
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: brother is also pretty rash, so he frequently will start

747
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: up drama with him through text messages. Just last week,

748
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: his brother decided to text him and basically said, I

749
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: don't think the house is going to work out. I'm

750
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: not going to be happy with the house, with how

751
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: things are going now. You are at girlfriend's house all

752
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: the time. She just wants her own private getaway. She

753
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to get along with the dogs, et cetera,

754
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: to which my boyfriend said, yes, I think it would

755
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: be healthier for me and girlfriend to get our own house. Therefore,

756
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: there is no more talk of us moving into that

757
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: house permanently. That's still, I think, not the right. What

758
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: are we doing? Are we ready to move into to

759
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: the house? Are we ready for home ownership together?

760
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 3: No? Why are we ready for? Why are we even

761
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 3: thinking about home ownership?

762
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: Yeather? Are we doing this just because we're like, well,

763
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford a home on my own?

764
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 3: Yeah? Whoa Not a thing makes suys Opie. If you're

765
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 3: uncomfortable with the idea, it's your instinct saying no.

766
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: Yes, you still don't have to go buy a house

767
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: with your boyfriend just because he doesn't want to live

768
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: with his brother.

769
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,919
Speaker 3: Now, dude, it's been under a year.

770
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: Very very weird, very very very weird. So I was

771
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: so relieved it came from his brother because I did

772
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: not have to push him out of it. His brother did, which, FYI,

773
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: my boyfriend is only at my apartment one or two

774
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: nights a week. Max. I am super allergic to the dogs. Wait,

775
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: so yeah, I avoid them. So she's allergic, yo, that's

776
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: huge information. Allergic.

777
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 3: She hates dogs, she's allergic.

778
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's allergic. Yes, Oh my goodness, what is it?

779
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: Why are the dogs there? And he does he's a

780
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: dog breeder?

781
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 3: No, and they just have dogs, all right.

782
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: I know he's a vet. It was because he's a

783
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: vet slash dog beaeder. Yes, and yes, I want my

784
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: house to be my private getaway. I don't know why

785
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: he painted that in a negative tone. Yeah, he's like

786
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: she want.

787
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 3: She wants her own space in New York.

788
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Hey, bro, I don't know if

789
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: you caught onto this, but she doesn't think like I do,

790
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: so watch your back.

791
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

792
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: My boyfriend actually was relieved too. Now our talks have

793
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 1: switched to us coming together as a couple and figuring

794
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 1: out how to save up for a house in two years,

795
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: which fixed my concern of thinking he only cared about

796
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: the house in the first place. Although I got a

797
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: vent a bit, I am bummed at his brother essentially

798
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: stole this time from him and money as well. He

799
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: had money for a home before he put it all

800
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: on this one. Now we have to wait for his

801
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: brother to pay back his share. Also, he can't be

802
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: considered on another mortgage until they refinance the house and

803
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: remove him in two years. That sucks. I do make

804
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: a good salary and have excellent credit, so I could

805
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: potentially qualify for a mortgage on my own. We just

806
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: need to wait, save, and pray that the New York

807
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: housing market simmers down. It just sucks that his brother

808
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: has really come in between him starting his own life.

809
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: That's how it feels. At least feels one sided, like

810
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: his brother seemed to call all the shots, and now

811
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: my boyfriend is paying for it, like literally and figuratively,

812
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: he is paying for it. At this point, the issues

813
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: are financial. His brother's a vet who makes more than

814
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: double what my boyfriend makes, yet he doesn't pay most

815
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: of the mortgage. My boyfriend has been floating most of

816
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: the mortgage payments paying for a new roof. Blah blah

817
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. He can't pay off his credit cards

818
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: because of the money tied to paying the roof. They

819
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: are all essentially in a financial hardspot. Overall, though this

820
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 1: is excellent news. I'm just glad I won't have to

821
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: move in there forever. My boyfriend would still like me

822
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: to move into his apartment soon though, for the meantime

823
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: to help us save up. You don't have to do that.

824
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: You don't have to do that. I'm still on the

825
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: fence because I don't like the situation.

826
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 3: If you're on the fence, don't don't do it.

827
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: If you know what you want, get what you want,

828
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:53,720
Speaker 1: not what you don't.

829
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 3: For the love of God, like super excited to move

830
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 3: in or don't do it.

831
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: We were going to do a month trial run of

832
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 1: me staying over see what issues I have and fix

833
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: them before I move in. Or I just say no

834
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,919
Speaker 1: entirely and don't move in. He's in a financial pinch

835
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 1: right now, but I don't want to move in based

836
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: on that alone, even though it would be temporary, but

837
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 1: two years is quite a long time. I would rather

838
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: pay the rent at my place for my own sanity.

839
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: And by the way, you can listen to full episodes

840
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: with stories just like this for your sanity. All you

841
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: have to do is go to Spotify or Apple Podcasts

842
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: or iHeartRadio really any podcast platform and search okay storytime Yeah,

843
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: and there you will find all of our words and

844
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: you can listen to it to your heart sings.

845
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 3: My advice is, girl, don't don't let anyone pressure you

846
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 3: into doing something that you don't feel ready for. You

847
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 3: have been in this relationship, it seems for less than

848
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 3: a year it is okay for you to be like, hey,

849
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 3: maybe we're not ready to move in together. Yeah, and

850
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 3: him going on, you know, all these different directions to

851
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 3: try and get you to move in with them. Weird,

852
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 3: a little sketchy, little sketchy, a little sketchy.

853
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: Yeah. And to boyfriend, why are you letting your brother

854
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 1: just like run over you dude?

855
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and for yourself, it's your money too,

856
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 3: go on, have a voice, have a voice, speak up.

857
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: Let's finish this story. Edit. I think there's some confusion

858
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: based on some of the replies I've read. My boyfriend

859
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: still lives in the house they bought together. He's not

860
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: being removed. He will still live there until me and

861
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: him were to find a place to call home. So

862
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: he's staying there and I'm staying at my apartment until

863
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: we make a decision on if I move in with

864
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: him or vice versa, or if we just stay put

865
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: where we are. There's not there's no rushing that part.

866
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: So the good about this update is we plan on

867
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: buying our own home in the future together if all

868
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: goes well. Him and the brother are trying to work

869
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 1: through the issues and that.

870
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 3: There we get a storys there we go.

871
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: I guess she's pretty serious about it. If she's basically

872
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Speaker 3: But she seems like still hesitant. The only reason that

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Speaker 1: Up Yeah, I don't know. Don't don't do things because

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Speaker 3: if your gut saying oh, I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 3: My family treated my sister badly during my graduation.

890
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: I'm planning to leave, so I'm to graduate. Backstory.

891
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 3: My sister, let's call her Rain And I almost misread

892
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 3: that as Raisin h is the oldest out of three.

893
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 3: Our mother has never liked her for various reasons, the

894
00:41:58,160 --> 00:41:59,959
Speaker 3: main one being that Rain is the one who ruined

895
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 3: her teenage years. My mom had her at sixteen and

896
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,240
Speaker 3: was and very obviously resents her for this. Oh really,

897
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 3: it's the child's fault.

898
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 1: Right, It's the kids fault that her life got uh ruined,

899
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: not her own fault.

900
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 3: Our family is mostly pro life and anti adoption, so

901
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 3: giving Rain up or terminating her wasn't an option. Because

902
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 3: of this, our mom has always been very cold to

903
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 3: our sister. By the way, this comes from she who

904
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 3: wanders and if you want to sumit your own stories,

905
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 3: go to the r slash. Okay, storytime subbured it.

906
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: Damn really quickly. Can I just say so your mom's

907
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: always been a piece of shit? That's crazy? Yeah did

908
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: you say that? Sorry?

909
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 3: Rain is all so different. She's Wicca like myself and

910
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 3: mainly listens to really heavy metal and pet's nude how

911
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 3: scandalous women in her free time. Our mom tried everything

912
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 3: to punish Rain and mold her into a normal woman.

913
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,399
Speaker 1: It didn't work, and it.

914
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 3: Just caused Rain to have some pretty bad self esteem issues.

915
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 3: When Rain turned eighteen, she fled to go live with

916
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 3: our dad and never looked back. Mom acted like she

917
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 3: never existed, and sadly, she made her lives a whole

918
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 3: lot better once Rain was out of the picture. Rain

919
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 3: graduated last year and my mom refused to show up

920
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 3: or let us show up. She sent Rain a passive

921
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 3: aggressive card, and that was that. Rain was really upset

922
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,760
Speaker 3: from what I heard, and was inconsolable for a few days.

923
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 3: She told me she felt unloved and worthless. It was

924
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 3: heartbreaking to hear her say those things, and I did

925
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 3: my best to comfort her. She got better, but I

926
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 3: can tell she hasn't really recovered from that. After that,

927
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 3: she got a boyfriend and went no contact with our mom.

928
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 3: She moved several states away to live with her boyfriend,

929
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 3: best friend, and best friend's husband. She's a lot happier now,

930
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 3: or at least was until yesterday. Fast forward to yesterday.

931
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 3: Rain surprised us all when she came to my graduation.

932
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 3: She drove all the way from northern Wisconsin to southern

933
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 3: Texas and it was an amazing surprise. I literally cried

934
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 3: when I saw her, and it really made my big

935
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 3: day so much better.

936
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: Mom, Well, let's just first, you've got a good sibling.

937
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: That's good.

938
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 3: Mom wasn't happy to see her and started nitpicking on

939
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 3: what Rain was wearing. Rain ignored her and gave me

940
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 3: a hug before excusing herself to a seat. The ceremony

941
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 3: itself came and went without fuss. Here's your diploma, get

942
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 3: the f out kind of ordeal ah. Afterwards, my mom

943
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 3: was throwing a huge celebration party for me and my friends.

944
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,879
Speaker 3: Her friends also attended. I invited Rain and it took

945
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 3: a lot of convincing to get her to go. I

946
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 3: really wish I hadn't. Rain arrived a bit early and

947
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 3: had issues parking her car. My stepdad was making fun

948
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 3: of her big time. Her car is a standard and

949
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 3: she's still getting the hang of it. She can't parallel

950
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 3: park to save her life. My stepdad said something really

951
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 3: offensive and I went inside. My friends really like Rain

952
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 3: and were really excited to see her as well. The

953
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 3: only people who weren't excited to see Rain was my mom,

954
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 3: stepdad and the family friends. They kept whispering about her

955
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 3: like middle schoo whenever she wasn't around. It was embarrassing.

956
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: Why why is it? Why are they acting like it

957
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: was like, it's like scandalous, and Rain decided to be

958
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: born spy her own mother.

959
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 3: What is this attitude? When the party started, Rain brought

960
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 3: several large pans of her amazing brownies and her graduation

961
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 3: present for me. That's so lovely. I felt really bad

962
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 3: because our mom's family had done fall for her graduation

963
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 3: and here she was going out of her way to

964
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 3: bring me stuff and visit. I mean, just focus on

965
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 3: the fact that you too have a great relationship.

966
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, you didn't.

967
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,439
Speaker 3: Seem to mind in the slightest. My mom got really

968
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 3: wasted and flat out started being mean. She called Rain

969
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 3: a horde of names and said Rain had gotten even

970
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 3: more gross than when she had last seen the poor girl.

971
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 3: I got pissed and told my mom to knock that

972
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 3: crap off, and proceeded to tell her that Rain was

973
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 3: family and she would be treated as such. My mom

974
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 3: got pissed and she told me that Rain wasn't a

975
00:45:55,960 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 3: haffing mistake. You're anffing mistake, Mom, You suck. Mom also

976
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 3: told me that Rain would never be true family, just

977
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 3: a nuisance and a burden. So that's when I kick

978
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 3: her out.

979
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I'm like immediately in that moment, disowning

980
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:11,919
Speaker 1: my family right there.

981
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 3: Yep. Sadly, Rain overheard this, and I could tell it

982
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 3: really hurt her. My mom's equally as wasted friend agreed,

983
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 3: saying it was a shame because Rain is smart but

984
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 3: a complete loser. I cannot believe that this is happening.

985
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,760
Speaker 3: This is beyond anything Mom's ever done. She has always

986
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 3: been mean to Rain, but never like this. Needless to say,

987
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 3: the day was ruined. When Rain brought out her brownies

988
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 3: for me, my mom yelled at her to stop stealing

989
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 3: the spotlight. Rain is an excellent baker. I loved the brownies,

990
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 3: but my mom told Rain to throw it away or

991
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 3: get it off, get at the f off the table.

992
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 3: Before she did it herself. Rain was just gone. All

993
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 3: I saw was an empty, depressed shell, wandering around and

994
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 3: trying to get task done like a robot. I seriously

995
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 3: wondered if I was in some crappy soap opera or dreaming,

996
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 3: because this was just eft in so many ways. Pop,

997
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 3: I don't know what the f my mom's problem is.

998
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 3: She's a sad, angry.

999
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: You know, she's a person broken little wench of a lady.

1000
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, she just she's so unhappy with how her life

1001
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 3: is going that she has to take it out on

1002
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:15,879
Speaker 3: everyone else.

1003
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: Well, it's weird because it doesn't feel like she's taking

1004
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: out on OP. It feels like it's all directed. It's Rain, Yeah,

1005
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: which is I don't get she's scape going Rain.

1006
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 3: Rain left the food hidden in my room and left

1007
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 3: her gift with it. Nobody noticed, thank god, so nobody

1008
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 3: sabotaged her efforts. If you didn't say another word the

1009
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 3: entire time until my mom really pulled some fed up

1010
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 3: crap no more, I would have left.

1011
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: I would have left. Well this is isn't this your

1012
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: graduation like OPI? This is for Op.

1013
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:45,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm saying if I was Rain, I would have left.

1014
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 3: If I was Ope, I would have taken Rain and left.

1015
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: If I'm OP, I stand up on the table, I

1016
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: stomp my feet, and I clean my glass, and I

1017
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: say everyone's attention please. Yeah, my mother is a creature

1018
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: from the black legal yep, and I no longer see

1019
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: her as my mother. Yep.

1020
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 3: The sona right there. After a couple hours, food was

1021
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 3: ready and we were all super hungry. Rain got her food,

1022
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 3: sat down next to me, and ate in total silence.

1023
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 3: My sister is a bouncy, cheerful, chatty woman. Normally. This

1024
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 3: was ruining my day, so I tried to keep my

1025
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 3: mom away from her. When I went inside to do

1026
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 3: a couple things, I came back out to my mom

1027
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 3: yelling at Rain tackle her. She said horrible things to

1028
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 3: my sister and rubbed the fact that she would never

1029
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,760
Speaker 3: have something like this in her entire life in her face.

1030
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 3: Rain was crying and I screamed at my mom to

1031
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 3: shut the f up. I told my mom she was

1032
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,879
Speaker 3: a crappy mother and how dare she treat her own

1033
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 3: child like that. Momm yelled back at me, saying Rain

1034
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 3: would never be her child and that she wished Rain

1035
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 3: would just f off already. Everyone got silent. Rain gave

1036
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 3: me a hug, told me she loved me, then grabbed

1037
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 3: her dog that she had to leave behind when she

1038
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 3: first moved out and left.

1039
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: I was furious.

1040
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 3: My friends and I left after telling Mom how horrible

1041
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 3: she was, and tried to catch up with my sister.

1042
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 3: It was pointless that we turned around and went back home.

1043
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 3: She was speeding big time and got too far away

1044
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 3: to reasonably follow. Rain has not spoken to any of

1045
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 3: us since. She hasn't been on Facebook and her boyfriend

1046
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 3: said she made it home fine, but instantly went to

1047
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 3: bed and hasn't woken up since she got there. I

1048
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 3: don't know what to do. Her mom is pretending like

1049
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 3: nothing happened and fakes confusion when I angrily confront her

1050
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 3: about the bs she pulled yesterday. I'm so so lost.

1051
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:23,879
Speaker 1: Rain is a.

1052
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 3: Wonderful and amazing sister. She didn't do anything to deserve

1053
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 3: any of that. Between crying and being angry, I haven't

1054
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 3: been able to figure out what to do from here.

1055
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 3: What can I do to help Rain? I love her

1056
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,399
Speaker 3: a lot, and I really look up to her. She's

1057
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 3: an amazing person and it really effed me up to

1058
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 3: see her be treated like this by our own family.

1059
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 3: I know she needs my support, but I don't know

1060
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 3: how to help. And there is an update. But oh, Pee,

1061
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 3: you help her by being there for her, Yeah, by

1062
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 3: letting her know that you love her, and by telling

1063
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 3: your mom to f off and to never talk to

1064
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 3: you again, right until she can freaking get her head

1065
00:49:58,719 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 3: out her.

1066
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 1: But know how much you support her, yeah, and how

1067
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: appalled you were by all these untrue things your mom

1068
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: was saying.

1069
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that's all you can do.

1070
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: And probably encourage her to like talk to account or

1071
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: a therapist about it, because you know it's unfortunate. You know,

1072
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 1: my mom will probably hate that I say this, but

1073
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, they don't mean too a lot

1074
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,319
Speaker 1: of times. Most times I may even say, but a

1075
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: lot of our issues just stem from our upbringing and

1076
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: our parents in our childhoods, And it's like, you got

1077
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 1: to get an addressed, you know.

1078
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 3: Indeed, but there is an update. So I finally got

1079
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 3: a hold of Rain after a surprisingly short amount of time.

1080
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,399
Speaker 3: Apparently this was normal behavior displayed by mom to her

1081
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,359
Speaker 3: when we were growing up. My brother of fifteen, Mail

1082
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 3: and I never noticed it, but we understand now better

1083
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 3: late than ever, I guess. I talked to Rain and

1084
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 3: offered my support. You appreciated it, and we had a

1085
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Speaker 3: really deep conversation. I found out a lot of really

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Speaker 3: terrible crap that my mom had done to her, and

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Speaker 3: it's pushing me closer to moving out. The only thing

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Speaker 3: stopping me is fear of my mother and for my brother. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: I think that's understandable though, By the way, I understand

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Speaker 3: that you can listen to full episodes of stories just

1091
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Speaker 3: like this just go to Spotify, Apple podcast, or iHeartRadio

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Speaker 3: and search a Pocus story time. But there is a

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Speaker 3: little bit left to this story. Any final thought.

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Speaker 1: If you have if your brother, I being a concern

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00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 1: for your brother is definitely understandable, I would suggest, as

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Speaker 1: he even said, he's starting to see now like, hey,

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Speaker 1: that was really messed up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: There have been situations where I've had good friends stay

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Speaker 1: my ales when I was you know that age, and

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Speaker 1: your mom's just all talk. She's just a bag of

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Speaker 1: hot air that if you stand right next to it, yeah,

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00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: I can burn you. But it's just like if you

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00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: just get a little bit of distance, it's just like

1105
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: a breeze. What is she gonna do? Tell you how

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Speaker 1: much you suck? Like, that's great, you know that you don't.

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Speaker 3: It's a great example. Thankfully, I learned that Rain is

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Speaker 3: in therapy and getting help. You said, it really helps.

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Speaker 3: But mom's comments are still hurtful and offensive. That's why

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Speaker 3: she cried. I told her not to worry, because showing

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Speaker 3: emotion is just part of being human. Boom.

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Speaker 1: Rain is also.

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Speaker 3: Planning on helping fund my move out when my friends

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Speaker 3: and I can find a place. She and I both

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Speaker 3: want me out of that toxic environment. What mom did

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Speaker 3: and is done to rain makes me literally nauseous. I

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Speaker 3: may be overacting, but it's bad to me.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, you're not reacting. It's nauseating.

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Speaker 3: You're not over reacting at all.

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Speaker 1: It was a nauseating from like paragraph yeah one.

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Speaker 3: But folks said, that is the end of that story.

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Speaker 1: And the end of this episode and the end of

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Speaker 1: the stream. Kean, please tell me you have an act

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Speaker 1: a lot already.

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Speaker 3: And thank you for the ten bucks. I just feel

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Speaker 3: like it you worked hard. That's very sweet.

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Speaker 1: Also, yes, thank you. That was very sweet, so sweet.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate that boy he's in my hand.

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Speaker 3: And then for stand along with us. My stomach is

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Speaker 3: growling like smart. But folks, that's the end of that story,

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Speaker 3: the end of this episode.

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Speaker 1: And the end of this stream.

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Speaker 3: So if you love us, make sure to subscribe. We

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Speaker 3: love you and see you tomorrow.