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Speaker 3: I told my in laws that if they disagree with

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Speaker 3: I don't think I was in the wrong, which was

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Speaker 3: infuriated my girlfriend, I twenty five female, recently moved into

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Speaker 3: my house. My girlfriend twenty seven, and I had a

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Speaker 3: little house warming her family, my mother, and a few

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Speaker 3: of our friends. We were eating outdoors and the kids

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Speaker 3: at there on table. My girlfriend's nephew knocked over and

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Speaker 3: drinking to loot.

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Speaker 2: I was at the.

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Speaker 3: Table when it happened, and it was clearly an accident.

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Speaker 3: He is very polite and apologized. He was a little upset,

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Speaker 3: but I just laughed it off. His father came over

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Speaker 3: and I was shocked how much his father gave out

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Speaker 3: on him. I told her it was only an accident,

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Speaker 3: and he kept going. I felt really guilty for not

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Speaker 3: and he said what happened, and his wife said he

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Speaker 3: deserved that. He said he should have stayed there a

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Speaker 3: a snicker from someone from their family. Anyways, I went

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Speaker 3: over to the boy a couple of minutes later, gave

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Speaker 3: him a bar of a chocolate and he's still crying.

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Speaker 3: He said he was sorry again. I gave him a

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Speaker 3: high five and taught him this high five I used

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Speaker 3: to do as a kid. His mother came over and said,

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Speaker 3: to do that alone. I took her and her husband aside,

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Speaker 3: said this is my house. If you want to upset

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Speaker 3: then get out. I swear the reaction that followed was insane.

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Speaker 3: They went back to the table saying it. My mom said,

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Speaker 3: never holding back. I didn't raise the great son. He

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Speaker 3: spot on did not let bullies in his house, which

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Speaker 3: erupted it even more. My girlfriend spoke to me in

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Speaker 3: private and asked me to apologize to them. I said, no,

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Speaker 3: I stand by what I said this part. I regret

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Speaker 3: a bit. I told her I think less of her

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Speaker 3: for even asking me to apologize. A maid of mine

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Speaker 3: and his son kicked a ball with the boy and I.

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Speaker 3: He actually gave me a hug I don't do hugs

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Speaker 3: at the end of the party and said sorry again.

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Speaker 3: He hugged so tightly for a couple of seconds. So

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Speaker 2: The rescue, said, hey, don't worry about spilling a drink. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: parents are like bad, bad.

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Speaker 4: But these are the kid's grandparents, the kid's parents.

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Speaker 3: It's just a kid's parents. Ok So he's having a

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Speaker 3: Opie's mom's like, I didn't raise a great son. Opie's

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Speaker 3: girlfriend's like, hey, could you like apologize to him? I

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Speaker 3: think to ease attention, okay, And he's like, I'm not

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Speaker 3: going to do that, and I think less of you.

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Speaker 3: Because of it, and then the kid gave him a hug.

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Speaker 3: That's what happened during this party.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I actually have mixed opinions on that. Then I'm

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Speaker 4: not gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: Really, what do you think you did wrong?

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Speaker 4: I don't think like I think defending the kid ten

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Speaker 4: I shouldn't parent someone else's kid.

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Speaker 2: I think it was the long belines, don't.

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Speaker 4: I know it's because it was in Op's house. So

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Speaker 4: he's like, y'all can't do that here. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Be yelling at the kid. But like, it's tricky.

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Speaker 3: It is tricky. It is tricky for sure. I see

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Speaker 3: Come on, but he's a man of house.

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Speaker 2: He's trying to be like it was my house.

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Speaker 4: Trying to set a good He's like, this is how

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Speaker 3: I could really go on about all the drama, but

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Speaker 3: to step in. My girlfriend is still pushing for me

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Speaker 3: to apologize. I still don't think I did anything wrong.

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Speaker 3: I didn't tell them how to parent, but I told

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Speaker 3: them to leave if that's how they want to parent.

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Speaker 3: If I'm being completely honest, I didn't say this. I'm

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Speaker 3: not sure i'd want a kid with a family like that.

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Speaker 3: Argue over spilling effing flavored water. While there's so many

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Speaker 3: messages apologies, I can't respond to them all. Here are

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Speaker 3: some of the common ants. Two responses agreed that must

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Speaker 3: be what they're like in private. Snigger is a word,

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Speaker 3: at least in the UK. My mother is the best

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Speaker 3: friend of any kid could have had. Yeah, puts a

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Speaker 3: big hole in my future with my girlfriend comments, I'm

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Speaker 3: a girl man in my forties. With my own children,

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Speaker 3: I still flinch when I spill or break a dish.

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Speaker 3: No one has yelled at me or physically punished me

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Speaker 3: for such things since I left home at eighteen, Yet lingers.

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Speaker 3: When my kids spill or break I calmly ask if

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Speaker 3: another response, not the a hole always put trash in

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Speaker 3: their place. You are in the right about everything, my bro.

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Speaker 3: You are much more of a man than most people

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Speaker 3: twice your age. If you marry into a family like that, well,

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Speaker 3: don't complain later. True, this is something hard I'm thinking about.

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Speaker 3: I'm not against giving out. There are times when it's

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Speaker 3: probably unnecessary, but if someone did that to my future

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Speaker 4: That's what I agree for that if it's your kid

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Speaker 4: one hundred percent. Oh my god, yell at the person.

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Speaker 3: Yeah with the girlfriend said, hey, could you apologize to him?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't agree. The girlfriend was probably also in

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Speaker 4: the wrong. I don't think he should have parented their

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Speaker 2: Come on, it's my house. Yeah, I'm yelling over him

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Speaker 4: You can say don't do it here, but you can't

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Speaker 2: Oh, maybe you should teach people how to parent the kids.

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Speaker 2: I've done that to my aunt. She loves it.

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Speaker 4: Does she?

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Speaker 3: Actually no, she hates it. Balls bar Ranch says, not

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Speaker 3: the ah. You don't realize you can't have a kid

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Speaker 3: with your girlfriend now. She supports this behavior, thanks, it's

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Speaker 3: will always let it happen. Op he says, Honestly, that's

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Speaker 3: really what's going on through my head more than anything.

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Speaker 3: Even my girlfriend doesn't seem to have had much too

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Speaker 3: of an issue of it. And that is all the comments.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna get to the update update two months later.

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Speaker 3: This isn't ama they old, but a bit of a RAMT.

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Speaker 3: Not sure if manny remember my girlfriend's nephews spilled flavored

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Speaker 3: water and my housewarming and crapit fanned. That happened about

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Speaker 3: two months ago. Not long after I made the post,

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Speaker 3: my girlfriend and I broke up. Honestly, the more I

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Speaker 3: I thought she might want to try and get back together,

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Speaker 3: but that wasn't it. She was looking after her nephew

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Speaker 3: for a few nights and noticed a mark on his arm,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I was worried about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems like that. Who do you go to

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Speaker 4: The wellness check? Yeah, if you can get the kid

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Speaker 2: Or not, but this is tricky.

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Speaker 5: This is ugh.

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Speaker 2: I don't like this.

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Speaker 4: This makes me like you were way more in the

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Speaker 4: right for stepping in at the party.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.

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Speaker 3: thirteen says, you absolutely did the right thing by calling,

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Speaker 3: even it was just once. A child being hit like

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Speaker 3: that is never acceptable. Hopefully this leads to proper intervintion. Hope,

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Speaker 3: Honestly, it was the other stuff he said that worried me.

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Speaker 3: And another commenter says, and we know from the first

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Speaker 3: post the way they treat their son is horrible and

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Speaker 3: You absolutely did the right thing, OPI. I hope you

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Speaker 3: plan on having kids one day, because I think you're

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Speaker 3: going to be a wonderful father. Opie says. It was

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Speaker 3: the emotional stuff that really was the issue. The behavior

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Speaker 2: Haha.

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Speaker 3: I go back and forth on kids. I probably won't,

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Speaker 3: but I'm not sure be his dad. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 3: get back with that X and be his dad.

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Speaker 4: That's true too, because we didn't get the full context

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Speaker 4: with what they were saying. When the kids spilled the drink,

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Speaker 4: I was just picturing like over the top, like how

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Speaker 4: could you spill that drink kind of thing, which like

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Speaker 4: is not great but better than like what they probably

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh.

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Speaker 3: Overshare seventy four says, I think whatever decision you make,

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Speaker 3: you'll thrive in. You'll definitely sound like you'd be a

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Speaker 3: stellar parent. But that doesn't mean you have to be

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Speaker 3: He deserves so much better than the cars he's been dealt.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for doing what was right and protecting him.

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Speaker 3: You're a good person, Opie and hope, he says to

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Speaker 4: He then sent an ominous threat, saying things are going

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have an idea. Just don't let the brother

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Speaker 4: Everybody else was okay with this happening.

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Speaker 2: coming from that more than anything. That's my suspicion.

438
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Speaker 4: I'm kind of wondering if she just feels like, oh, well,

439
00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,800
Speaker 4: I'm gonna support him because he's my husband kind of thing,

440
00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:50,720
Speaker 4: and he's kind of the ring master of this all.

441
00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, from what you said though, which sounds like you

442
00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:55,520
Speaker 2: shouldn't because he has no composure.

443
00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, what do I do? I know standing up for

444
00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,400
Speaker 4: myself was the right thing to do, but I can't

445
00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,639
Speaker 4: help but feel like I contributed to my husband and

446
00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,639
Speaker 4: sister in law's relationship crumbling. Please help, We do have

447
00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,280
Speaker 4: another update. But how are you feeling now? Oh boy?

448
00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,240
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think you need to feel responsible for this,

449
00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,560
Speaker 2: because you can't be responsible for how you know, the

450
00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:19,040
Speaker 2: sister in law and the brother in law conduct themselves.

451
00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:23,439
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, that's their own relationship, Yours is clearly doing good. Yeah,

452
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,320
Speaker 4: then missing out on the nieces as a bummer. But

453
00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,120
Speaker 4: that's like their parents need.

454
00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:29,840
Speaker 2: To get over that, right, It's not. It has nothing

455
00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,760
Speaker 2: to do with you, guys. It's their decision. Yeah, and

456
00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,679
Speaker 2: it's based on stuff that's really not your fault.

457
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,479
Speaker 4: So maybe you could take them out for like their

458
00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,560
Speaker 4: own special birthday thing, give them their little gift.

459
00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:42,840
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's probably a good idea.

460
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Speaker 4: Edit to clear a few things up. The landlord was

461
00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:48,640
Speaker 4: not upset about the leak incident. He sent a guy

462
00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,600
Speaker 4: out after brother in law explain the severity of the issue.

463
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,320
Speaker 4: Turns out the dishwasher was leaking under the subflooring in

464
00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,640
Speaker 4: the kitchen and creating the wet spot on the carpet.

465
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Speaker 4: He apologized for not taking it seriously at the time

466
00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,000
Speaker 4: and offered to get the carpets cleaned for us. But

467
00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:03,679
Speaker 4: I had wanted to shampooer for a while, so I

468
00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:04,600
Speaker 4: just cleaned it up myself.

469
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Speaker 6: Two.

470
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Speaker 4: Yes, I was wrong for assuming it would be fine

471
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,320
Speaker 4: if I wasn't there for the furniture thing. I'm definitely

472
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,480
Speaker 4: not claiming that was a smart move. It was a

473
00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,679
Speaker 4: very dumb, lazy move in fact, which is why I

474
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,760
Speaker 4: was willing to eat the angry text. I immediately apologized

475
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 4: and got in my car to meet the buyer instead.

476
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,560
Speaker 4: I also apologized to the buyer for not coordinating well

477
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 4: enough when I couldn't get into the house. I told

478
00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,280
Speaker 4: him that I understood if he wanted to leave, but

479
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,600
Speaker 4: he was very cool about it all and stuck around.

480
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,760
Speaker 4: I gave him the dresser for free for his troubles.

481
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Speaker 4: We have some comments. Comment one. I don't know if

482
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,359
Speaker 4: I have any great advice for what you should do,

483
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,240
Speaker 4: but what you shouldn't do is contact your sister in

484
00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,119
Speaker 4: law's husband ever again, or allow yourself to be alone

485
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 4: with him. He seems dangerous and unhinged, and I cannot

486
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,840
Speaker 4: imagine how he's treating your sister in law and niece's

487
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 4: behind closed doors. If this is how he's conducting himself

488
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 4: with you, this is not your fault, and they're handling

489
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 4: the bad situation poorly, and your sister in law is

490
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,440
Speaker 4: allowing her husband to call the shots and affect the

491
00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,800
Speaker 4: relationship with her brother and you. I'm sorry your husband

492
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 4: is devastated, but I'm sure he's not blaming you unless

493
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 4: he's a rational too. And the only blame worthy party

494
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,639
Speaker 4: here is your sister in law's husband and anyone enabling

495
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 4: this erratic behavior. Hope time and distance ultimately helps things improve.

496
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 4: And hope your sister in law safely gets out of

497
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 4: the relationship with this angry, unpredictable person. Hope he responds yep.

498
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 4: I told my husband I never want to be around

499
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,480
Speaker 4: him alone again. What is tripping me up is that

500
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,720
Speaker 4: brother in law and I have had really good conversations.

501
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,679
Speaker 4: He's always seemed like a genuinely good guy before this.

502
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 4: They got married around the same time my husband and

503
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 4: I did. Two of the girls are not his. The

504
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,399
Speaker 4: youngest one just turned to The girls love him, and

505
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 4: I've seen him be a wonderful dad to them. They

506
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,560
Speaker 4: are under a lot of stress, and I wonder if

507
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 4: I'm just the easy target. He has complained to me

508
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,560
Speaker 4: before that sister in law makes decisions without talking to him.

509
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 4: We've had lots of talks about joining in on the

510
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,200
Speaker 4: family and the weird quirks they have. I can imagine

511
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,399
Speaker 4: he can't take it out on his wife, or his

512
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 4: wife's brother, or their girls or his in laws, so

513
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,160
Speaker 4: maybe he's just taking it out on me. My husband

514
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 4: isn't mad at me at all. He is furious with

515
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,040
Speaker 4: his sister and super mad at brother in law. He's

516
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 4: also upset with his parents because they are staying neutral

517
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 4: on the matter, which I get, and then Commoner replies,

518
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 4: I just want to point out there is no neutral here.

519
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 4: Either they condone the behavior from brother in law or

520
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,159
Speaker 4: they don't. Silence and not expressing disappointment is condoning it.

521
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 4: That's the end of that story.

522
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 2: My boyfriend's parents refuse to attend our wedding. I told

523
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Speaker 2: them it would change everything, drag him there. So my

524
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 2: boyfriend male twenty eight comes from a very religious Catholic

525
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 2: family Protestant female twenty six and don't know much in

526
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 2: detail about Catholics. My boyfriend is agnostic and has been

527
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 2: since he was sixteen. Since his parents are very strict

528
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 2: and religious, he went over ten years without telling them.

529
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Speaker 2: By the way, this comes from user designer Raccoons sixty

530
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531
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532
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,720
Speaker 2: When we got together, they were really upset about me

533
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 2: not being Catholic and him not picking someone within the faith.

534
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 2: We live together, and that's another thing. They're upset about

535
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:10,360
Speaker 2: living in Sinny.

536
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 4: You're sinning. You're sinning, you're living in sin now.

537
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,160
Speaker 2: The most understandable thing is the baby. I was pregnant

538
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 2: when we met and told him. When I found out

539
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 2: it was from a previous partner, he decided to stay

540
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: and when we marry adopt our baby. This I understand

541
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 2: his parents being concerned about. I would be too as

542
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 2: a parent. The baby is now the least of the worries,

543
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 2: as everyone has accepted our baby. Now. It's the religion

544
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 2: that's the issue.

545
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 4: I just love that you really hit him with everything.

546
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 4: The religious parents hate.

547
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 2: It's baby out of wedlock, and that's not their sons.

548
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 2: You're not Catholic, you're.

549
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 4: Living together, you're adopting the baby together.

550
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 2: And low key your boyfriend's secretly not even Catholic anymore.

551
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're gonna be very mad.

552
00:23:58,760 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 4: I'm here for it.

553
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 2: They live in Michigan and we are here on vacation.

554
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 2: My boyfriend decided it was time to tell them the

555
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 2: truth after Easter, since it's a big deal for Christians,

556
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 2: even me I am a believer as well.

557
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:11,679
Speaker 5: Well.

558
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 2: Yesterday he sat down with his parents and told them.

559
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 2: It didn't go well. His mother cried, and his dad

560
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 2: went on a lecture and told us what they're unhappy about.

561
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 2: The night before, I had learned that apparently Catholics don't

562
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 2: go to Protestant weddings if one of the people getting

563
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 2: married isn't a Catholic anymore, and that's why they didn't

564
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 2: go to his cousin's wedding because it wasn't in a

565
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 2: Catholic church. Them not going would be a big deal

566
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 2: for me and my boyfriend as well. He said he'd

567
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 2: be hurt. Of course he would. His parents aren't gonna

568
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 2: go to his wedding.

569
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Speaker 4: Anyone would be hurt about that. Okay, say this was

570
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 4: him telling them I'm agnostic for since I was sixteen.

571
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 2: I think so. I think everything has been laid on

572
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 2: the table.

573
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 4: The rest of it.

574
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 2: It's been revealed, Okay, Okay, the truth is on the table.

575
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 2: So I asked them when we get married, would they

576
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 2: be there or not? They said no, oh, because it's

577
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 2: against their faith, and how it's not a valid wedding

578
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 2: because it's not by the church. So I told them

579
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 2: I would have a pastor because I believe in God

580
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 2: and being united under God. They said, it's not a

581
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 2: valid wedding, so one, they would not attend, and that's

582
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 2: a blow to me. Second, it feels like they are

583
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 2: dismissing our wedding. My boyfriend is hurting and I'm hurting.

584
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 2: I was honest with them and told them it's a

585
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 2: big deal for me and that if they don't go,

586
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,239
Speaker 2: it will change things for me. His mom asked, what

587
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 2: do you mean. I told her it would change how

588
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 2: close I am to you guys, it would be a

589
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 2: while before I'm ready to see you again. His mom

590
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 2: got angry and raised your voice, saying it was unfair

591
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 2: to say that because it's not about me and it's

592
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 2: about their faith. Saying it's not about her when it's

593
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 2: about her wedding to your son is the most brain

594
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 2: dead logic I've ever seen. This isn't even about you.

595
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 4: All you have to do is show up and watch

596
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 4: your son get married to someone that he loves, that

597
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 4: you have known for years.

598
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 2: Curly Pop. I told her, I get that, but it

599
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 2: doesn't change the fact that it would hurt me regardless.

600
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 2: I do understand, but I feel like they're justifying hurting

601
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 2: us because they're hurting because her son is agnostic and

602
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 2: I'm not Catholic. It insults me because it feels like

603
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 2: I'm being treated like I'm also agnostic. It reminds me

604
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 2: of my dad with their my way or the highway mentality.

605
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 2: My dad and I don't have a great relationship because

606
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 2: of that. I feel as if we will have to

607
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 2: set up boundaries with them as well. So now I'm

608
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 2: upstairs not wanting to go down because I feel awkward.

609
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 2: I had to go down to make a bottle for

610
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 2: my baby and I told his dad good morning, and

611
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 2: he didn't say anything back. That could have just been

612
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 2: him not hearing me. Since knowing this information, it means

613
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,640
Speaker 2: a lot of family won't go due to the religion.

614
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 2: His sister and his brother are very Catholic too. They

615
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 2: are borderline zealous. If I'm being honest, There's much more

616
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 2: I haven't written down, but I don't feel very comfortable.

617
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm walking on eggshells. Way before the

618
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 2: conversation yesterday, I guess what I'm wondering is if I

619
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 2: was out of line for being honest with them about

620
00:26:58,560 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 2: how I felt.

621
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Speaker 4: No, no, not at all. And I feel like this

622
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,239
Speaker 4: is something that you need to decide now, like you

623
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 4: might lose them in the rest of the relationship. And

624
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 4: if y'all are okay with them just not being part

625
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 4: of your life because of this, or with them trying

626
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,959
Speaker 4: to jump back in after and you're just gonna need

627
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 4: to get over that they missed the wedding.

628
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know this will end up being

629
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 2: like an arm's length for a while situation. But you're

630
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 2: not in the wrong for having feelings in expressing them.

631
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 2: Not a single bit has anyone been in this position?

632
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 2: And how did it go? And if any of you

633
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 2: guys are strict Catholics? Is this true? I've never heard

634
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 2: of that until now. And edit, I forgot to say.

635
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 2: My boyfriend wants to elope now and be civil, but

636
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 2: I always wanted a wedding with the families to feel

637
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 2: special for one day at least. I don't want to elope,

638
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:45,959
Speaker 2: and I have not told him this year.

639
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 4: I don't think you need to elope. I think you

640
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 4: can still have the wedding. I think you just need

641
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,719
Speaker 4: to get over the fact that they're not coming.

642
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 2: I would agree.

643
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 4: I don't know religion well enough. Is Protestant a form

644
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,360
Speaker 4: of Christian? Is that why they're so mad?

645
00:27:59,640 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 5: Okay?

646
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 2: But like they're like next door neighbors.

647
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 4: Know. I'm not a theologian, listen, but I dated a

648
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 4: Michigan religious family man once and they were the most

649
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 4: welcoming people ever, to the point where even after we

650
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 4: broke up, I was in the grandma's like Bible Verse

651
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 4: group chat for like two extra months. I mean, it

652
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 4: wasn't Catholics, so maybe that's the difference, but like there

653
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 4: is totally room to go around these like rules of

654
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 4: religion and still support the person, like it doesn't matter,

655
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 4: It shouldn't matter.

656
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really just like they could just be like, well,

657
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 2: you're different than us and we will accept that. And

658
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 2: instead they're like, you need to be exactly the way

659
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 2: we want you to be, and if you don't, then

660
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 2: we won't be there. And that's a power play. But

661
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 2: there's an update. I female twenty six, had time to

662
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 2: cool down because I was pretty pissed for many different reasons.

663
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 2: I felt insulted because my boyfriend's male twenty eight parents

664
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 2: are Catholic, instead our wedding will be invalid and not real,

665
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 2: and that they want him to be with a Catholic girl,

666
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 2: and that they aren't going because it's not in a

667
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 2: Catholic church, and it felt insulting to my faith. So

668
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: I'm Protestant. My boyfriend is an atheist. I'm going to

669
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 2: well that's an upgrade from agnostic. We're going to have

670
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: a pastor do the ceremony because I still believe in God.

671
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: So I went and talked my pastor and he said,

672
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 2: this is rough. And I talked to our town's local priest.

673
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: He said, maybe talk and see if they can come

674
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,479
Speaker 2: to the reception. The next day, I talked to our

675
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 2: local priest, great guy by the way, super chatty, just

676
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 2: like me. I told him the situation. He said, because

677
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 2: my boyfriend hasn't been a practicing Catholic for over a decade,

678
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 2: it's not like he's for the first time turning away

679
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 2: from the church. So his parents should use this as

680
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 2: an opportunity to show him love and grace the church

681
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 2: has and go and to bring a nice gift. He loo,

682
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: like I said, he's a good guy. And he said,

683
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 2: if they don't feel comfortable going to the ceremony, to

684
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: come to the reception. My boyfriend told his sister this,

685
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 2: and she said that she still doesn't want to go

686
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 2: because it's an internal fight, and that they still a

687
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 2: lot of his family is Catholic. Don't think they will

688
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 2: come even if the priest gave the green light.

689
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 4: Nope, don't. They're bad people. Well, automatic, No, you got

690
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 4: the green light, that was the only thing holding you

691
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 4: back and they told you could go. If you don't go,

692
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 4: you're a bad person.

693
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just like, I don't like it. Now they're

694
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,239
Speaker 2: saying I don't like it, so I don't want to.

695
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, stop throwing your temper tantrum and go to your

696
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 4: son's wedding.

697
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: So again I felt hurt and unsupported. I think they're

698
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 2: just using religion as an excuse because they don't want

699
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 2: us to get married. I understand why. If you read

700
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 2: the first post, you'll see why. I'd rather them just

701
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: tell me upfront though, and be honest instead of lie

702
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 2: and use religion to lie about it. I feel like

703
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 2: that's hypocritical. Personally, I would rather go no contact, but

704
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 2: my boyfriend is not willing to do that, so I

705
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 2: want to at the very least go low contact because

706
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 2: I know from both sides there will be resentment, miscommunication,

707
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 2: and misunderstandings, and I don't think that's healthy. My boyfriend

708
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 2: and I made a deal so that we can both

709
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 2: get what we want. He's an atheist, and I want

710
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 2: him to study the Word of Christ, go to classes,

711
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: and ask the questions as to why he doesn't believe.

712
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 2: So he will do the latter and see if he'll

713
00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 2: have a change of heart. If he doesn't, I will

714
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: ever pressed the issue, and for me, I will start

715
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 2: low contact with his family and slowly build a relationship.

716
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: And I will also learn the things he does and

717
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 2: find out whether God is real or not. He wants

718
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 2: me to challenge my beliefs, which I think is valid. No,

719
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 2: if they're all like, you' all need to be Catholic

720
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 2: or we're not going and then your boyfriend's like you

721
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 2: need to be atheist or you're wrong, I hate all

722
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 2: of this and you should just be single.

723
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 4: I don't think that the boyfriends saying or you're wrong.

724
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 4: I think he's just saying, if you're forcing me to

725
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 4: learn your ways, at least hear me out in my ways.

726
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 4: I think that this is turning into just wildly too

727
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 4: much of a like, why are we not just believing

728
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 4: what we believed at the start?

729
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, why don't we just get married right and then

730
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 2: be married and move on? I told him, I can't

731
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 2: promise a close relationship because I don't know if that

732
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 2: can happen with how his family is. His family and

733
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 2: I are very different. I mean we are different races,

734
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: so different cultures and customs. I love to dance and

735
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: as Mexicans, we have big parties. His family doesn't do

736
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 2: any of that and see that as sin. They sound

737
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 2: very fun, So I know we won't be close. But

738
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 2: I promised him a working relationship, and if they grant

739
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 2: themselves as a deeper connection, I will do the same.

740
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: He says he's content with that. We've got a little

741
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 2: bit more of this story. Let's finish this. I guess

742
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 2: what I want advice on is if this is the

743
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 2: right way. Should I not force him to try and

744
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 2: learn about God? And should I not try to force

745
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 2: myself into a situation that can go south with his family.

746
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 2: This has made me doubt whether we are compatible because

747
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 2: I know he's very close to his family, and I

748
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 2: think they can get away with anything, and he won't

749
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 2: change his boundaries with them. I noticed that all the

750
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 2: siblings do that. One just is low contact with them

751
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 2: because of the religion thing. So I wonder if I

752
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 2: should stay or not. But my boyfriend is a wonderful

753
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 2: person and I love him so much and I really

754
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 2: don't want to leave. Our relationship itself is strong, it's

755
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 2: just the outside sources. My family is uber supportive of him.

756
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 2: I guess any advice to help sort these conflicting feelings

757
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,880
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Speaker 6: My stalker is back, but my husband won't do anything

762
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 6: about it.

763
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 2: Ooh husband bad and trigger.

764
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 7: Warning for stalking.

765
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 6: So I thirty two female and my husband thirty three male,

766
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 6: have been arguing a lot recently over my old stalker.

767
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 6: For some background, back in college, I was twenty four.

768
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 6: I dated a guy let's call him Fred, for around

769
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 6: two months. Fred was interesting, to say the least. To

770
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 6: save time, he had several red flags once we started dating,

771
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 6: so a dumb dump. Fred acted like he couldn't cure less,

772
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 6: So I thought that was that. By the way, this

773
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 6: comes from cardiologist far five two three nine on the

774
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Speaker 6: r slash too. I take subredt it and if you

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776
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Speaker 6: slash Okay, storytime subred it. So a few months go

777
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 6: by and I'm starting to see Fred everywhere. I see

778
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 6: him at the grocery store, I go to my go

779
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 6: to nail place, my favorite restaurants, et cetera. I thought

780
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 6: it was just a weird coincidence, so I left it

781
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 6: at that. A year after our breakup, he starts messaging me,

782
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 6: telling me he was the happiest with me and that

783
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 6: he misses me so much. I called BS and blocked him.

784
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 6: Then things escalated. Fred changed numbers every time I blocked him,

785
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 6: and made new social media accounts, and I started seeing

786
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 6: his car everywhere. I tried getting a restraining order against Fred,

787
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 6: but since he hadn't done anything to me, they couldn't

788
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 6: do anything. A few months later, I was walking to

789
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 6: my car at night. Fred coincidentally saw me walking alone

790
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 6: and offered me a ride home. I said no, that

791
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 6: I had my own car and kept walking. Fred proceeded

792
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 6: to get out of his car. I ran to my car.

793
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 6: I drove away. Luckily he didn't follow. I tried again

794
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 6: to get a restraining order, but it was basically his

795
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,439
Speaker 6: word against mine. They gave me a temporary restraining order,

796
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 6: but that's it. I was terrified of even walking outside

797
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 6: and deleted all my socials. Thankfully, a very close friend,

798
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 6: let's call him pe Pete, stepped in to defend me.

799
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 6: Pete ended up threatening Fred and I finally stopped hearing

800
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 6: from Fred. I felt free and slowly got back into

801
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 6: my normal life. Now to present day, I'm now married

802
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 6: to my husband. I've graduated from college and live alone

803
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 6: with my husband. We've moved to a nearby city and

804
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 6: bought a house together. Sadly, a month ago, Pete passed

805
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 6: away during his sleep, and I was absolutely devastated. I've

806
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 6: known Pete since I was in high school and he

807
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 6: was my closest friend. To be honest, I'm still not

808
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 6: over his passing and sometimes I can't believe he's gone.

809
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 6: But guess who heard about his death? Fred found out

810
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 6: and is now back. I received texts from Fred a

811
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 6: few days after Pete passed away. I now see him

812
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 6: everywhere and he's insisting we talk. I just ignore him

813
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 6: and walk away. I've reported him, but nothing has happened,

814
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,479
Speaker 6: so I've deleted my socials again. Friends have been telling

815
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 6: me Fred has been asking around about me. He's asked

816
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 6: if I move, what I'm doing lately, if I have

817
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 6: other social media accounts, etc. I'm honestly terrified. I've moved

818
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 6: since I finished college, but somehow I see him at

819
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 6: my gym, grocery store, park, et cetera. It honestly makes

820
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 6: me believe he's never stop watching me, and it's terrifying.

821
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 6: I've told my husband about everything, and he says I'm

822
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 6: overreacting or just plane ignores my concerns and changes the subject.

823
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 6: I've argued that he doesn't care, and he argues back,

824
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 6: asking what do I expect him to do? He said

825
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 6: that Fred is to know where we live and that

826
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 6: will just change gyms. My husband is telling me to

827
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 6: just change my regular routine and stop going to certain places.

828
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 6: He says it's no big deal and Fred is harmless.

829
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 6: I'm like, Fred tried to force me into his car.

830
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 6: How is that harmless? My husband has been distant ever

831
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 6: since this started, and I feel alone. I don't want

832
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 6: to tell my friends and fear they will tell Fred.

833
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 6: If you think that any of your friends are capable

834
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 6: of telling your stalker what's going on, cut them out

835
00:36:58,800 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 6: of your life.

836
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 2: They have great things at the Army surplus store.

837
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 6: I can't go to my family because I'm in no

838
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 6: contact with him, and of course my husband couldn't care less.

839
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 6: I need advice. What do I do? Am I crazy?

840
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 6: Should I just change my gym and my routine? Like

841
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 6: how my husband says, part of me just wants to

842
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 6: move completely, But another part is basically asking myself. Why

843
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 6: do I have to uproot my life and change everything

844
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 6: because of him? Can't he just leave me alone? It's

845
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 6: been like ten years already and I want to move

846
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 6: on from this. Should I just talk to Fred hoping

847
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 6: he'll finally leave me alone?

848
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 2: It's not gonna work.

849
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:33,399
Speaker 7: If you just talk to him.

850
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 2: You should have a can of mace, and when he

851
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 2: finds you, you go. If you take one more step,

852
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 2: well I'm going to empty this entire thing into your

853
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 2: sinus cavity.

854
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 6: Added comments from OPI what does her husband think? My

855
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 6: husband thinks I'm overreacting and says if anything happens that

856
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 6: Fred will end up in jail. Why would you want

857
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 6: to wait until anything happens.

858
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 2: I'm literally I'm so angry at this man. Why we're

859
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 2: seeing him immediately?

860
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 6: Why would you want to wait until something happens to

861
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 6: your wife eight when he says that, because what does

862
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 6: it even mean? Do I have to end up in

863
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 6: a ditch before I can finally be left alone. My

864
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 6: husband's excuse is that the law will protect me, and

865
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 6: if Fred tries anything, he'll end up in jail. Well,

866
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 6: to change your routine. I've been changing up my routine

867
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 6: hoping I won't see him, and it's worked a bit,

868
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 6: but not entirely. I do have a protection back, and

869
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 6: I carry a bat in my car just in case.

870
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 6: And there is an update, folks. But just I your

871
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 6: husband does not support you.

872
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 2: I think you need something with it that's a little less,

873
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 2: you know, close range.

874
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.

875
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 2: I think you need something that can alle you have

876
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 2: a little distance. Yeah, I do think well to put

877
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 2: somewhere you're like, I own arrow or something. I think

878
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 2: the pepper spray is a good idea. Yeah. Literally, Like,

879
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 2: first of all, you need to serve your husband divorce papers,

880
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 2: because it's unacceptable that any person who's supposed to be

881
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 2: like your partner is treating this like a oh yeah.

882
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 2: Once he literally rem has you from the planet, I

883
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 2: guess I'll care. That's I'm leaving immediately.

884
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 6: My friends don't talk to Fred, and they are aware

885
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 6: of the situation. Fred has reached out to them randomly

886
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 6: asking about me. They have reported and blocked him as well.

887
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 6: Good now for the update. Last night, I decided to

888
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,479
Speaker 6: have a serious conversation with my husband one last time.

889
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,720
Speaker 6: I sat down with him and explained the whole situation again,

890
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,760
Speaker 6: told him how scared I've been and that he needs

891
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 6: to take this seriously. I wanted to show him how

892
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 6: terrified I was, how small I've been made to feel,

893
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 6: not just by Fred but also him. How is lack

894
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 6: of support concern for my own safety is making me

895
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 6: question our marriage. I asked if he'd even do anything

896
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 6: if I was found in a ditch. He was silent

897
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,919
Speaker 6: the whole time, while looking at the floor. He sat

898
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 6: in silence for a few minutes before I got up

899
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 6: to pack my things. My husband proceeded to cry. He

900
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 6: apologized and said he'd make this right. He said he

901
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 6: didn't want to overreact in fear of scaring me more,

902
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 6: but when in reality it made me feel alone. My

903
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 6: husband has been looking into Fred without my knowledge and

904
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 6: has found out where he works, lives, and even Fred's

905
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 6: family contact information. He wanted to gather more information about

906
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,879
Speaker 6: Fred before contacting a lawyer. We're both taking a few

907
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 6: days off of work to get our ducks in a row.

908
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 6: We're getting a lawyer and gathering evidence of Fred's pesterment.

909
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 6: We're also currently looking for a therapist for us so

910
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 6: we can both talk about the whole situation and other

911
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 6: issues we have in our marriage. I also have some

912
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 6: voicemails Fred has left me, and I officially think he's

913
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 6: lost it. I have an Apple iPhone and you're able

914
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 6: to see voicemails from block numbers. Some of the messages

915
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 6: are of him staying straight up gibberish, while others as

916
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 6: if he's having a conversation with me. He says things like,

917
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 6: oh yeah, babe, I get off work lates to two

918
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 6: nights and no go or I'm off so you can

919
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:53,720
Speaker 6: come pick it up right now?

920
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I don't know.

921
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 6: I can't do this anymore. There's a lot of fashion

922
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 6: in my life. Sounds like he's having a conversation, but

923
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 6: it's no one else else, just him, and it's terrifying.

924
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 6: My husband does feel bad and is trying his best

925
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 6: to console me. He has apologized repeatedly for making me

926
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 6: feel lonely. And has been more supportive and open. Currently,

927
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 6: he's looking through my car to check if there's anything

928
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 6: that might be giving my location to Fred. There is

929
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 6: a second update, so we're gonna get into it. After

930
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 6: my husband didn't find anything in my car, I still

931
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 6: felt something was wrong, so I took people's advice and

932
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 6: told and took my car to the mechanic. Told my

933
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 6: mechanic about my situation and if he could take a

934
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 6: look at my car, and, to my horror, a couple

935
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 6: days later, my mechanic found a small little cube that

936
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 6: was placed hidden under my car. At first, I really

937
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 6: wanted to believe it was just part of my car

938
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 6: or something, but my mechanic explained that it wasn't and

939
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 6: it was deliberately hidden. The cube is really small and magnetic.

940
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 6: I called my lawyer right then and told them everything.

941
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 6: I got pictures of the GPS and where it was placed.

942
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 6: I thanked the mechanic and drove to my lawyer's office.

943
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 6: At this I was shaking and wanted to cry. How

944
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 6: long have the GPS been there? How long had Fred

945
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 6: been following me without me knowing? Was he watching me

946
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 6: at that moment? Is he going to add another one?

947
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 2: What does this goofy do for work? What do you

948
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 2: you just follow this woman? Und go get some money

949
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 2: once you go make so once you get a job,

950
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 2: makes some money, Fred.

951
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 6: Some people are really awful. I called my husband to

952
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 6: meet me at the lawyer's office and told him everything.

953
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 6: At the office, I just wanted to disappear. I wanted

954
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 6: to run away and not look back. I was terrified

955
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 6: and felt so violated, knowing I was being watched for

956
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 6: who knows how long. With everything we had gathered, my

957
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 6: lawyer was able to get a temporary restraining the same.

958
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,800
Speaker 2: Day, which is crazy because I feel like, with everything

959
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 2: you have, you should have been able to, like, I

960
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 2: don't know, throw this guy in a bottomless pit, and

961
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 2: which is okay to say because he never hits the

962
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 2: bottom so he's fine. But he's just there. He's just

963
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 2: going back and forth.

964
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 6: We are currently going through the process of getting a

965
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 6: restraining order where I will have to go to court

966
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 6: and see Fred again. My lawyer says, the ross can

967
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 6: be long and draining, but it's something I do need

968
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 6: to get for my own safe There is a little

969
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 6: bit left to this story.

970
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 7: Do you have any final thoughts?

971
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 2: Again, Man, there there is an inadequacy in the American

972
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 2: legal system to allow this kind of behavior to just

973
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 2: go unchecked. Like, yeah, I'm sorry that your husband was

974
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 2: so like brain dead about this, Like maybe I don't

975
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 2: leave him after he like breaks down and it admits

976
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 2: all this stuff. But again, I'm extremely suspicious that he's

977
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 2: somehow like blessed this or like knew about this, and

978
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 2: maybe it was some kind of deranged test to make you,

979
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 2: like like be more assertive or something. I don't know.

980
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 7: I certainly hope that's not the case.

981
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 2: But it really drives me. I would need to know how.

982
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 2: I would need to know by all right, walk me

983
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 2: through the exact process of you gathering all this information

984
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 2: and finding it and how you got his contact information

985
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 2: and his family's information. How did you do this?

986
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,240
Speaker 7: But we got a little bit to this story, folks.

987
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 6: I got a bit scared and had my husband's car

988
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 6: also checked for anything. Thankfully, nothing was found in his car.

989
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 6: I started feeling watched at home, so I ad my

990
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 6: whole house turned upside down looking for anything maybe Fred

991
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 6: had placed. Again, thankfully, nothing was found. I've told neighbors

992
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 6: about what we found and to keep an eye out

993
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 6: for anyone suspicious. I've also started my safety training for

994
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 6: handling a pew pew and shootin' and still trying to

995
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 6: get my CCW, but it can be a long process.

996
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 6: Thank you again for everyone who has given me advice,

997
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 6: and I'll keep you updated if creepy Fred tries anything.

998
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 6: And Commoner says, air tags can be very small. If

999
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 6: you have the means, take your car to a mechanic

1000
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 6: and tell them you have a stalker. Well, I mean,

1001
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 6: I think shirty did that. They can check up on

1002
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 6: the wheel wells a car and the like. Check your

1003
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 6: purse too, just in case. I think there's an app

1004
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 6: you can download that will scan for low frequency devices

1005
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 6: like trackers tend to bet. I'm glad your husband apologized

1006
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 6: and is finally taking this seriously. Opie says, my car

1007
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 6: is currently at the mechanics getting checked out. Thank you

1008
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 6: so much for this advice, and folks, that is the

1009
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 6: end of that story.

1010
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 2: My boyfriend and sister just can't get along and I'm

1011
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 2: stuck in the middle of it.

1012
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 7: And they not get along or do they get along too?

1013
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 5: Well?

1014
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 2: My twenty six mail sister Kayla twenty four mail and

1015
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 2: I are very close. My boyfriend Tim twenty five. Mail

1016
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 2: and I have been dating for almost three years. In

1017
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 2: March twenty twenty three, Tim and I had been indulging

1018
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 2: in a little bit of the Devil's Lettuce together and

1019
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 2: then my sister called me. We spoke on speakerphone. She

1020
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 2: was talking about her job at the Plasma Donation Center,

1021
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: and she was venting about how disappointed she was that

1022
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 2: this is what her degree biology amounted to, earning eighteen

1023
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 2: dollars an hour. By the way, this comes from users

1024
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 2: Sacred Math eighty one oh five, and if you want

1025
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 2: to submit your own stories, go to the r slash

1026
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 2: Okay story time subreddit. Tim overheard this and interpreted that

1027
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 2: she was making a dig or throwing shape him a

1028
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 2: pharmaceutical tech. I tried telling him over and over, we're

1029
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 2: not talking about you, Tim, that she's allowed to be

1030
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 2: disappointed in her job. He dropped it, though it wasn't

1031
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:15,919
Speaker 2: the most harmonious resolution. That August, Tim and I, as

1032
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 2: well as my brother and sister, were all attending a

1033
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 2: local concert. We weren't all going together. Tim and I

1034
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 2: had seats together, as did my siblings, but since we

1035
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 2: were all headed to the same place, I suggested we

1036
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: could get together beforehand for lunch so he could properly

1037
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 2: meet my siblings. Tim seemed hesitant, but he agreed. So

1038
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,720
Speaker 2: the four of us meet for lunch, and it was rough. Tim,

1039
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 2: who was normally very extroverted and personable with strangers like

1040
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 2: the uber driver in cashier, was completely silent during the lunch.

1041
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 2: My siblings, who are introverted like me, tried their best

1042
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 2: to make small talk, but it was extremely awkward at best.

1043
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 2: We all went to the concert together and we came

1044
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 2: back together afterwards. Tim said, my brother is cool, but

1045
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 2: he was on yellow light with my sister. I asked why,

1046
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 2: and he said that she said shady comments during the lunch,

1047
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 2: like which one of y'all have the tickets? And where

1048
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 2: will you be sitting during the concert? I immediately shut down.

1049
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,959
Speaker 2: Later on, we got in a heated discussion in which

1050
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 2: I basically accused him of bringing his feelings from the

1051
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 2: March phone call into how he approached the lunch mentally

1052
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 2: and literally. He denied this and basically said, his feelings

1053
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 2: are his own and I essentially can't tell him how

1054
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 2: to feel about Kayla if he felt her behavior was untoward,

1055
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 2: So basically we dropped it and I guess I left

1056
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 2: it at yellow light. Then in December of twenty twenty three,

1057
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 2: my sister and I were playing a game and she won.

1058
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 2: I was happy for her. She never wins, so I

1059
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 2: texted Tim about it and his first response was, did

1060
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 2: you let her win? I said no, don't do her

1061
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 2: like that. He then said I wouldn't defend him like

1062
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 2: I defend her, and that led to a huge spat overtext,

1063
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,760
Speaker 2: in which it was revealed that he lied. In August,

1064
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: when I asked him if he still felt some way

1065
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 2: about the phone call, he said that he didn't tell

1066
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 2: me because he wanted to observe my siblings and I

1067
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 2: and see for himself how they would interact with him

1068
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 2: or each other. I told him that that wasn't his place.

1069
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 2: It was mine to set up or call off the lunch,

1070
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 2: and I should have had that information before I set

1071
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 2: it up. Eventually, and I forget how we resolved the

1072
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 2: talk and essentially agreed that at some point, no timeline,

1073
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 2: he was going to chat with Kayla and sort it out.

1074
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 2: So that brings us to now. Yesterday, Tim said he'd

1075
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,919
Speaker 2: like to speak with Kayla. I'm just a little concerned though,

1076
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 2: that it will once again go left. My sister is

1077
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 2: a black woman, and in the last year she was

1078
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,280
Speaker 2: fired from her job not the Plasma Center, for essentially

1079
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 2: not being nice or a team player or whatever bs

1080
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 2: they gave her. The truth is, and this is something

1081
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 2: I'm not debating on. People, especially in professional settings, have

1082
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 2: a tendency to assume the worst of Black women, and

1083
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 2: so the situation with Tim and her job has made

1084
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 2: her very self conscious about herself, what she says, and

1085
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 2: her face expressions. When I spoke to Kayla yesterday to

1086
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 2: gage her feelings on the potential meeting, she expressed this,

1087
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 2: she doesn't uh, she doesn't understand what she did wrong

1088
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 2: to Tim, but she said it could be an intention

1089
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 2: versus impact thing. She said she's concerned about meeting with

1090
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 2: him because one wrong expression could have him thinking negatively

1091
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 2: of her. I told her that if she is who

1092
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 2: I think she is and he is who I think

1093
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,959
Speaker 2: he is, it will be fine. Kayla called me back

1094
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 2: in tears, saying that by me saying I think I

1095
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 2: was implying that what Tim and her previous employer were

1096
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 2: saying could be valid and I shouldn't be doing that

1097
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 2: as one of her closest friends. I apologized, and that's

1098
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 2: where the entire situation is.

1099
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:45,359
Speaker 6: Now, Wait what Okay, I think I don't know any

1100
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,879
Speaker 6: of these people the semantics, right, we need to let

1101
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 6: go of the semantics.

1102
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 7: I think it's like, no, he was being nice.

1103
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 2: Come on, by the way, Kayla, you might just not

1104
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 2: be good at customer service. Take race completely out of it.

1105
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 2: I know people who can who don't have the patience

1106
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 2: for dealing with people one. I'd be terrible. I do customersise?

1107
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 2: I do you think that black woman. I'm not trying

1108
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 2: to delegitimize the black experience of like being seen as like,

1109
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 2: oh well, you're always on thin ice. It's like a

1110
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 2: one expression away from being fired. That's not cool. What

1111
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 2: I'm saying is whatever, just move on from the semantics here. Yeah, okay, I.

1112
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 7: Think in this situation, she's focusing on the wrong thing.

1113
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 2: Now I'm concerned that their potential sit down won't be

1114
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 2: great for her or him. Tim has been quick while

1115
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 2: venting to me to call Lady cowork. He's irritated with witches,

1116
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 2: and that's something I'd like to call him out on.

1117
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 2: I say that to say that on some level he

1118
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 2: does have biases, and I'd like him to check his biases,

1119
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 2: but it's sensitive. I haven't told Tim that Kayla lost

1120
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 2: her job or why I haven't told him how she

1121
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 2: feels generally about being misconstrued, because I feel like if

1122
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 2: I tell him, he'll think I'm trying to shrink his feelings,

1123
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 2: and to be clear, I don't want to shrink his feelings.

1124
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 2: I'm unsure of what to do. So this just all

1125
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 2: seems like a precarious situation, and it seems like every

1126
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 2: time I try to fix it, it gets worse. I

1127
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 2: don't feel it should be this stressful reconciling them, and

1128
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 2: I don't even need them to be friends, but it's

1129
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 2: been stressful for me in the lead up to their conversation.

1130
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 2: What should I convey to each person? If anything?

1131
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 6: And you go to your boyfriend and you say, hey, dude, uh,

1132
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 6: you need to get over a thing that wasn't even

1133
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 6: about you.

1134
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 7: Maybe you could say it nicer.

1135
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 2: I think you actually put the foot down and you go,

1136
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 2: if you can't be friends with my sister, this isn't

1137
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 2: gonna happen.

1138
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 4: You don't have to be friends with my sister.

1139
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 6: If you can't pay nice to my sister, if you

1140
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 6: can't even be polite to my sister. This doesn't work

1141
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 6: because my sister is important to me and you are

1142
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 6: being rude.

1143
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't care if you don't like her.

1144
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 2: If my sister calls me from this lunch and she's upset,

1145
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 2: this is done.

1146
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 6: This is over.

1147
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 2: And understand that, and now go be then nice.

1148
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 6: And then you go to your sister and you say

1149
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 6: I love you. I'm not trying to I'm on your side.

1150
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 6: Stop attacking me for something that someone else is doing that.

1151
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 6: I'm trying to handle. You guys have beef. I'm trying

1152
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 6: to handle it.

1153
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 2: There is an update. Well, I want to thank each

1154
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 2: and every one of you who contributed their thoughts to

1155
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 2: my initial thread. Tough words, but I needed to read them.

1156
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 2: Lots of wisdom that I recognized as such at the

1157
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 2: time but did not fully accept. So I told Tim

1158
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 2: about my concerns with my sister. It did not go well.

1159
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,879
Speaker 2: We ended up arguing for at least eight hours. This

1160
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 2: culminated in him finally speaking over the phone with my

1161
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 2: sister and I was present. Suffice to say that conversation

1162
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 2: and the hour long follow up the next day also

1163
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 2: did not go well. I mean, my sister explained she

1164
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 2: meant nothing wrong and apologized and heard all of the

1165
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 2: words salad he had to say, but she came away

1166
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 2: with the market impression of if you like it, I

1167
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 2: love it with my boyfriend, and she asked me not

1168
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 2: to call her for any more resolution talks with him.

1169
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 2: She felt he was condescending in tone, long winded, and

1170
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 2: using a lot of therapy speak, while ultimately saying nothing

1171
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 2: undermined his own apologies with more confusing sentiments somehow talked

1172
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 2: to what offended him and thus seemed to want her

1173
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 2: to figure out the problem and the solution. I, having

1174
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 2: heard everything he said, agreed to her request. If you'd

1175
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 2: like more details on that, I can share in the comments.

1176
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 2: Even if that was a stressful situation two years in

1177
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 2: the making. Apologies were made by both parties, as well

1178
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 2: as from me to each of them. What did you

1179
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:25,720
Speaker 2: have to apologize for? It is so exhausting word salad again.

1180
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 4: He states he didn't even know what he's mad at.

1181
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 6: He's like, you're asking, oh, like I'm sorry if I

1182
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 6: said something I don't And he won't even specifically state

1183
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 6: what he's mad at.

1184
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 2: He's mad at a feeling of incompetency, that came from

1185
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 2: his own brain about himself. The only reason he's mad

1186
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 2: at your sisters that she spoke the words that gave

1187
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 2: him the thought. So now it's her fault.

1188
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 5: Ah.

1189
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 2: Eventually, uh, and there were a lot more heated discussions.

1190
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 2: Tim and I got back on the same page as well.

1191
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 2: A few weeks ago, I was a passenger in the

1192
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 2: car with Tim. He had the stop sign and proceeded

1193
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 2: onto the main road, and then we got t bone

1194
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 2: on my side. Day I got the worst of it,

1195
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 2: a mild concussion and a few scrapes. Following this, Tim

1196
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 2: could not wrap his head around the fact that he

1197
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 2: was at fault. He wouldn't even say it, and he

1198
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 2: was shocked as the police charged him with failure to yield,

1199
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 2: and his insurance found him one hundred percent liable. In

1200
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 2: his mind, the other driver was speeding and she should

1201
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 2: have yielded to him. She was uninsured, which didn't help

1202
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 2: that mental process. As he was liable, I was entitled

1203
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,479
Speaker 2: to file a medical claim with his insurance. Tim asked

1204
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 2: me not to do this ultimately out of consideration of

1205
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 2: his insurance premiums, and he offered to pay my expenses

1206
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 2: out of pocket. This stressed me out. For a couple

1207
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 2: of weeks. I couldn't pinpoint why, but ultimately I realized

1208
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 2: it was unfair of Tim to ask that of me,

1209
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 2: especially when he was responsible. It's not that I don't

1210
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 2: trust that he wouldn't pay, but it's not personal. When

1211
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 2: things like this happen. We go to insurance. If your

1212
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 2: rates go up, they go up. That's the deal we

1213
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 2: make when we go behind the wheel. I expressed my

1214
00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 2: feelings to Tim, even ultimately agreeing with his out of

1215
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 2: pocket plant. My healthcare is handling the bulk of expenses anyway.

1216
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 2: Tim first apologized, then we didn't speak again until the

1217
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 2: next afternoon, where Tim tried to flip it on me.

1218
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 7: He's exhausting. He's exhausting.

1219
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 2: Do you run a marathon every day? You're dating this guy?

1220
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 6: He's truly exhaust Why would you want to be with him?

1221
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 6: I hate your sister. He doesn't seem to like you

1222
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 6: very much.

1223
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 2: Is this the only guy you've been with? Do you

1224
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 2: think there's no one else? There's so many thoughts. I

1225
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 2: think that creeps in so many better people like not

1226
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 2: every relationship has to be an eight hour argument and

1227
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 2: on the next day and then the next day, you come.

1228
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 2: It's not worth it. On a side comment that was

1229
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 2: said nine months ago, yeah bye, oh my put me

1230
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 2: in a in a trash compactor. I'd rather be there

1231
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:50,879
Speaker 2: than have to listen to Tim for one more day.

1232
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 2: So Tim said he was being accountable. He's contesting the

1233
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 2: charge in court. I wasn't being collaborative in this process,

1234
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 2: and I wasn't being considerate of all of his rsses.

1235
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 2: I ended that conversation as I felt it wasn't productive.

1236
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 2: Then I followed up and said, sure he was being

1237
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 2: financially responsible, but it's more so the emotional responsibility that

1238
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 2: I'm seeking. I haven't gotten anything more than I'm sorry

1239
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 2: the accident happened. Tim didn't respond to that. He just

1240
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,240
Speaker 2: said my feelings are valid, he understands, and thanks for sharing.

1241
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 2: After that, our text became a lot colder and more distant.

1242
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 2: We lived ninety minutes apart, so we primarily communicate through text. Essentially,

1243
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 2: Tim either gave me the silent treatment or decided I

1244
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 2: was one of the stresses. Having my very reasonable feelings

1245
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 2: be flipped on me was genuinely one of the most

1246
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 2: jarring things ever. Here I was arguing for an hour

1247
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 2: about my feelings and then he'll say he'll never tell

1248
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,479
Speaker 2: me how to feel. This is also the same guy

1249
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 2: who always urges me to be vulnerable with him. It

1250
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 2: was another week of reflections for me. Tim sucks true.

1251
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 2: I already knew that he can never be held accountable.

1252
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 2: He is always the victim, and I just had to

1253
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 2: tell myself over and over that this is not what

1254
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,720
Speaker 2: I wanted my life to be and I deserve better,

1255
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 2: not even just romantically. I just deserve peace. I need that. Yes,

1256
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 2: after a week of silence and low contact, him said

1257
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 2: he wanted to talk. I thought he was going to

1258
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 2: break up with me, and I was well and ready

1259
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 2: for it. Then he got on the phone and actually

1260
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 2: he just wanted to argue about my feelings some more,

1261
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 2: this time for two hours. I realized afterwards that I

1262
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 2: was arguing to convince him and he was arguing to

1263
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 2: avoid accountability. He told me at the end of that

1264
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 2: convo that every relationship has conflict. But I realized that

1265
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 2: this isn't healthy. I gave him one more chance a

1266
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 2: week to say the words I wanted to hear. They

1267
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 2: never came, so I broke up with him, and then

1268
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 2: we argued about my feelings a little more. He was

1269
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 2: extremely frustrated, and in some ways I'm frustrated for him.

1270
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 2: I think he just doesn't get it or doesn't want to.

1271
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 2: So that's it. That was my first relationship.

1272
00:57:50,680 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 8: Ah, get it an eight hour argument because you're like,

1273
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 8: I guess this is just how it works.

1274
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 4: No.

1275
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 2: No, oh, And for somebody who already had low self esteem,

1276
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 2: this is probably gonna be a doozy to reflect on.

1277
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 2: Shout out to the commentor who suggested therapy. I hear you, folks,

1278
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,959
Speaker 2: break up with your red flag partners, even if they're

1279
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 2: your first partners. You did, just do that, Please the

1280
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 2: love of God. I feel sad about it. I look

1281
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 2: back fondly on some moments, but I have so many

1282
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 2: journal entries in Reddit posts like these, and conversations with

1283
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 2: my sister that will not allow me to romanticize this relationship.

1284
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 2: I recognize that even if there were good moments, maybe

1285
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:41,280
Speaker 2: even mostly good moments, the bad moments were terrible and

1286
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 2: just not worth it. So many red flags to recall.

1287
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 2: I just didn't want to believe that he was who

1288
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 2: he was. I wish i'd put my foot down earlier.

1289
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 2: One of my lessons is to trust my instincts and

1290
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 2: act on them, and my intuition is better than I

1291
00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 2: give myself credit for it. I spent a lot of

1292
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 2: time during this relationship wondering if I was crazy.

1293
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 4: Oh, you're not crazy.

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Speaker 2: I'll go I'm letting it go. First relationship, first crazy relationship.

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00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 6: Queen procrastination says, to go to why didn't you tell

1296
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 6: me that fifteen years ago? You had to learn Sometimes

1297
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 6: you gotta learn things on your own.

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00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 2: Because I was fourteen, I was in freshman by honor.

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00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 7: Why didn't you tell her when you were fourteen?

1300
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 2: I was busy.

1301
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 7: He was busy doing biology.

1302
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 2: Having my first girlfriend. Really, actually, dang, I didn't know.

1303
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 2: I definitely didn't know back then.

1304
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 7: Let's finish her off.

1305
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 2: And finally, I'm thankful to be alive. I could be

1306
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 2: passed away in the grave right now, and Tim would

1307
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 2: be telling my family incessantly, well she was speeding. I'm here.

1308
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 2: I'm alive. I just have a few healing scrapes and

1309
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 2: headaches that are getting less intense every day. I get

1310
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 2: to move forward and meet new people, have new experiences,

1311
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 2: and learn new lessons. I'm living.

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00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 7: You are living, Ovita Lika, and that is the end.

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00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 5: Of that story.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Sam, your ogi host here. Bring to get

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00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: back to the stories. But here's three minutes fads from

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Speaker 1: our sponsored My boyfriend bar road my keepsake without asking permission. First,

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Speaker 1: I've had this shark tooth ever since I was maybe eleven.

1318
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: I found it on a beach on vacation. At the time,

1319
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 1: it was just cool, because what are the chances just

1320
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 1: walk on a random beach and find a shark tooth.

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01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 5: By the way this comes from.

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01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 1: It's about tank tooth, and it'd be honest of your

1323
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 1: own stories going to the arsage. Okay, story, I've st

1324
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: I read it so in time it became an important

1325
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,480
Speaker 1: emotional keepsake for me that reminded me of all the

1326
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: good parts of my childhood. Honestly, most of it wasn't

1327
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: very good, so extra important. I just really like this

1328
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: stupid tooth, and whenever I was upset, I would just

1329
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: rub it in my hands and feel comforted. My boyfriend

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01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: saw it in my room early on and I told

1331
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: him this story and he was like, hey, cool. To

1332
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: be fair, at this point, I didn't go into detail,

1333
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,080
Speaker 1: just said it's important to me. Some years went by.

1334
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:55,120
Speaker 1: We don't live together yet, but most of the time

1335
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,000
Speaker 1: he comes to my place because it's larger. One day

1336
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 1: a few months back, I was looking for my shark,

1337
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 1: and it was not in the two or three places

1338
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: it has been in. No, biggie, I'm honestly pretty messy

1339
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 1: and often lose stuff somewhere, only to find it in

1340
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: my sock drawer a week later or something. I kept searching,

1341
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 1: confident it would resurface because it has never left my flat.

1342
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 1: After two weeks or so, I began to worry. I

1343
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 1: took my vacuum cleaner apart and started panicking about maybe

1344
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: having dropped it in the trash somemoal and that it

1345
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:27,439
Speaker 1: may be gone for good. Eventually, my boyfriend is over

1346
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: and notices that one of my drawers was kind of

1347
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 1: messy because I had gone through it and searched every nook.

1348
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: I tell him I cannot find the tooth, and he

1349
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: was like, ooh, that's a shame. I'm sure you'll find it.

1350
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:42,439
Speaker 1: I didn't notice any weird vibes, so I guess he's

1351
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: got a good poker face. I didn't notice any weird vibes,

1352
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 1: so I guess he's got a good poker One more

1353
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: week he says over text, Okay, I need to tell

1354
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: you something, don't be mad. He sends me a picture

1355
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: of some art project and it has my shark tooth

1356
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: in it. Apparently he had to do a sculpture type

1357
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: thing for university, and it's like a Viking ship that

1358
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 1: has made half out of seashells, driftwood, et cetera, with

1359
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: my tooth as a centerpiece. And he tells me he

1360
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:11,919
Speaker 1: saw the tooth in my flat when he was over

1361
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 1: and I was in the shower, so he put it

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01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 1: in his pocket to ask me later that I forgot

1363
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: about it when he rediscovered it at home. The shark tooth,

1364
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: that is, he supposedly thought it was part of some

1365
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: other materials he had gotten elsewhere and just went ahead

1366
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 1: and used it. So I tell him he's gonna give

1367
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 1: it back to me asa and he goes, oh, well,

1368
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: it might take a few months because it's in an exhibition.

1369
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: And also he you super glue, though he doesn't know

1370
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 1: if he can get it off. After I had calmed

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01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: down a bit, I know, genuinely, I'm not sure if

1372
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 1: I'm overreacting or not, like, yeah, it's just the tooth.

1373
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 1: But he didn't ask me I could believe him that

1374
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: he doesn't remember our short conversation a few years ago

1375
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 1: about it. But who just takes something someone's bedroom and

1376
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: slaps it on their work without saying anything. I feel

1377
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 1: like if I see him in person, I'd have to

1378
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: struggle not to flip out. So am I the ahle

1379
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 1: for reacting strongly? So question to chat to Carly? Is

1380
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: opda hole for acting strongly?

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01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,480
Speaker 4: No? No, not at all. That's a very special thing

1382
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 4: that you had that you told him about, and then

1383
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 4: he still went and took it and then is like

1384
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,919
Speaker 4: I don't remember like he remembers.

1385
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:31,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean like it's not like she like,

1386
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. I'm looking at the conversation. And

1387
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 1: she's not saying like I'm breaking up with you. No,

1388
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 1: She's just like I'm.

1389
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 4: Mad, I'm mad, and give me my toothback.

1390
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 1: And yeah, she's like what she said is like I

1391
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 1: was just done at the conversation, stared at a wall

1392
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 1: for like thirty minutes. But yeah, I mean I feel like, one,

1393
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: this was not an overreaction. I think it was a

1394
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 1: normal reaction to having a child, a childhood memory tarnish destroyed.

1395
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, bastardized I don't know.

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01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of other words, but a bunch

1397
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: of a bunch of words that mean he just just

1398
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 1: took a little, a giant poop all over your your

1399
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 1: your childhood dreams. So I think, uh, I think it's

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01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 1: not at all an overreaction. No, no, op, you're not

1401
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: the a hole. Verdict from everyone else, not the a hole.

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01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,560
Speaker 1: Obviously we got some comments. He's lying to you. He

1403
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: definitely lied about just forgetting to ask you, which is

1404
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 1: what we said.

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01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 5: You were in the shower, not on the moon.

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01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 1: You telling me you have the kind of relationship where

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01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 1: he can't yell something to you in the shower or

1408
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:38,439
Speaker 1: wait to ask until you get out.

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01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:40,800
Speaker 5: He purposely waited.

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01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:43,439
Speaker 1: For you to not be in the room to take

1411
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 1: the tooth. There's no way he didn't make the connection

1412
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: between the tooth you were searching hectically for and the

1413
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: one he took. It's not like it's an iPhone that

1414
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 1: everyone has or a sweatshirt. It's a shark tooth. He

1415
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: is using it as a centerpiece of his dumb project.

1416
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: You honestly believe that b yes about forgetting where he

1417
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: found it. No, he just lied to you all over

1418
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:08,040
Speaker 1: again and let you believe you lost it.

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01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:09,680
Speaker 5: He waits a week. A week.

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01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: Come on, you think you would connect the centerpiece of

1421
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 1: his exhibit entered art piece with the object he swiped

1422
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: while his girlfriend was in the shower unless he literally

1423
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 1: got a traumatic brain injury and the last week. There

1424
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: is no effig way he'd forget I remembered where I

1425
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: sourced everything for my art projects when they were made

1426
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,320
Speaker 1: out of trash. You think you would honestly forget finding

1427
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 1: a shark tooth? That means he even debated telling you

1428
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: the truth for a whole week. Remember remember that it

1429
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 1: took him a week to decide you deserve to know

1430
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: the truth and that you weren't responsible for losing your

1431
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 1: prized object. Girl, throw the whole boyfriend out. If he

1432
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 1: expects you to believe this BS, just to imagine the

1433
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 1: stories he will try to sell you in the future.

1434
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 1: No man who has any respect for a woman's intelligence

1435
01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 1: would attempt to sell her this crap. I'm telling you

1436
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: for all the women ten plus years into this dating

1437
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:04,160
Speaker 1: game who have fallen for crap like this. If it

1438
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 1: acts like a douche and quacks like a douche, that's

1439
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:07,960
Speaker 1: a doch.

1440
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 5: Nothing all.

1441
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: He claims he only remembered this sometime after I told

1442
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 1: him that shark tooth is missing. I definitely don't believe

1443
01:06:15,240 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 1: his story. I was just unsure if I maybe believe

1444
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 1: parts of it or nothing. He's forgetful, so I thought

1445
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 1: it could be possible. And then Pickaboo. Another confident says, oh, pie,

1446
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 1: it's a shark tooth, and it's the center piece of

1447
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:31,720
Speaker 1: his piece, so it probably is the only shark tooth

1448
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 1: either at all over its size. He lied to you

1449
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 1: and stole from you. Why would he ever take anything

1450
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 1: from your home without asking to begin with? Forgetful about

1451
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: the story. Maybe forgetful that he took it from your place,

1452
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: use it in this piece and didn't tell you until

1453
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 1: you were going crazy looking for it, and he may

1454
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 1: get cut hard.

1455
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 5: No, ohp, he responds you.

1456
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:52,880
Speaker 1: Right at this point, I honestly wonder why he told

1457
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: me at all, since I didn't even know he was

1458
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 1: doing that sculpture. He could have kept quiet, and I

1459
01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 1: would have one hundred percent blamed my own messy booty.

1460
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 1: And it's because he does have a conscience, very small,

1461
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:06,919
Speaker 1: very quiet. But it was yelling, was yelling in his ear,

1462
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 1: saying you gotta confess he felt too bad.

1463
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 4: Do you think he would have tried to like sneak

1464
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 4: it back in after the installation was over, clean.

1465
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:16,240
Speaker 2: The off of it, Yeah, or you no, not sneak

1466
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 2: it back like sneak it somewhere like that.

1467
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 4: Opie hasn't looked one of the three places.

1468
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:23,440
Speaker 1: One of the three places. I think he could have

1469
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: snuck it. But I think he felt bad. Yeah, I

1470
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:26,439
Speaker 1: think he felt bad.

1471
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if it's also the piece Dave resistance

1472
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 2: in his art piece, she didn't.

1473
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 4: Even know about it, you know, he had an art piece.

1474
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 5: I think also that's a problem.

1475
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1476
01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like it was like a really big deal. Yeah,

1477
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 1: and you didn't you didn't ask him questions about this

1478
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:42,960
Speaker 1: thing that he's working on in school.

1479
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:45,240
Speaker 5: This seems like a broken relationship.

1480
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 4: I'm getting more and more on the breakup wavelength. Yeah,

1481
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 4: I think there.

1482
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 5: Are multiple problems. Like that's a great point.

1483
01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:55,440
Speaker 1: He's been working on this art piece, big art piece,

1484
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: that's it's it is.

1485
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 2: It is like a ship.

1486
01:07:58,000 --> 01:07:59,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the most important thing.

1487
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: He's probably working on it for like weeks months maybe,

1488
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:08,080
Speaker 1: and it has it come up at all. I don't

1489
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:10,720
Speaker 1: have the first time you're hearing about the Viking ship.

1490
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 2: I don't have ages. No, I don't know. There's no

1491
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 2: ages of this.

1492
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:15,440
Speaker 4: It was there a hell long. They've been together.

1493
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:17,320
Speaker 5: They are in university. That's what we know.

1494
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:20,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so like twenty twenty one.

1495
01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: I think, I think we're in a broken relationship break

1496
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 1: I think breakup.

1497
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:28,240
Speaker 5: I think breakup.

1498
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:29,520
Speaker 7: I'm on the breakup.

1499
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 1: Breakup train. All right, well, we got a small update

1500
01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 1: in the comments. I will use this for a small update.

1501
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:39,719
Speaker 1: I wrote an email to the university. Sadly, the answer

1502
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: was not encouraging, as they asked me for proof that

1503
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 1: I bought the tooth, even though I wrote in there

1504
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:47,000
Speaker 1: that I found it, So that's dumb. I will try

1505
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:49,680
Speaker 1: to find out who's responsible for the arts department, though,

1506
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 1: and keep trying. And a conter I forgot my pastor said,

1507
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 1: can't you screenshot your text messages when he says he

1508
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 1: took it and you can have it back that proof

1509
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:00,840
Speaker 1: that it doesn't belong to him. Ope, he responds, We

1510
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 1: sadly never directly refer to the tooth and the messages,

1511
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:06,559
Speaker 1: but it might work. We're gonna get right into the

1512
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:09,799
Speaker 1: rest of this update in a sec but any final

1513
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:12,679
Speaker 1: thoughts before we go into the update that might change everything.

1514
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 4: I'm still on the breakup trains.

1515
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:18,719
Speaker 1: Still on the breakup train. Angela Selton rich says the tooth,

1516
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:24,480
Speaker 1: the whole tooth, and nothing but that tooth. Breakup am

1517
01:09:25,400 --> 01:09:28,880
Speaker 1: Chuck comment Kimberly Holly Dack's a lot of armies as

1518
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:31,920
Speaker 1: he stole and liedop guaranteed that's not the only thing

1519
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:34,840
Speaker 1: he's lied about or stolen. What is he going to

1520
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,680
Speaker 1: lie about or steal in the future break up? I

1521
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: have my tooth back. Boyfriend threw it in my mailbox

1522
01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 1: in an envelope without a card or anything, so I

1523
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:45,840
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm supposed to take that as an

1524
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:49,640
Speaker 1: apology or if he's pissed. Tooth seems unharmed. Have I

1525
01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:52,720
Speaker 1: knocked boyfriend ever since this happened, and don't know what

1526
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 1: will happen with us. But I have the tooth back,

1527
01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:57,639
Speaker 1: and I'm actually now planning to get a tattoo of it,

1528
01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 1: so if it ever does get lost, I will still

1529
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 1: have it with me. Thanks for everyone assuring me that

1530
01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 1: I was not the a hole comments hope they broke up.

1531
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: Imagine stealing someone else's sentimental items for your own selfish

1532
01:10:11,439 --> 01:10:13,800
Speaker 1: art pieces comment to honestly the fact that she got

1533
01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:16,679
Speaker 1: it back fully intact with no mention of glue, residue anything.

1534
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 1: I feel like the art project itself I might.

1535
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:22,439
Speaker 4: Have been a lot because there was no super clue on.

1536
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 1: It, like it was under a week after when the

1537
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 1: university essentially told her to f off until she can

1538
01:10:27,280 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 1: prove it after he said it would be several months

1539
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,360
Speaker 1: before the end of it. Subsition, I have no idea

1540
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:33,439
Speaker 1: what he could have actually been doing with it, but

1541
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 1: I bet my house there was no art project. In

1542
01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:38,719
Speaker 1: comment three, what gets me is while it's a neat

1543
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:43,200
Speaker 1: really neat uh find and op is right to cherish it.

1544
01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 1: It's not like shark heath are rare you can buy

1545
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:48,040
Speaker 1: them online. Boyfriend could have easily sourced several for his

1546
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 1: art project. Comment for I don't know what will happen

1547
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:52,600
Speaker 1: with us, girl, I'm gonna need you to take that

1548
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 1: one again real quick. That is where that ends.

1549
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,080
Speaker 2: Break up, break up, breakup.

1550
01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:58,640
Speaker 4: I would have had to see a picture of the

1551
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:01,920
Speaker 4: art project to like in the moment of him saying

1552
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 4: your shark tooth is in an art project like I

1553
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 4: would have been like show me, show me, show it

1554
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 4: to me right now.

1555
01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:08,640
Speaker 5: Prove it, prove it. I do kind of want to

1556
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 5: see what that Viking ship looks like. That sounds kind

1557
01:11:10,520 --> 01:11:13,880
Speaker 5: of cool, but that is where that story ends.