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Speaker 3: My mother in law ruined my wedding.

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Speaker 1: What else was she supposed to do?

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Speaker 3: My fiance and I are getting married in two months.

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Speaker 3: As the wedding has been getting closer, my future mother

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Speaker 3: in law is showing signs of craziness I have never

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Speaker 3: seen before.

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Speaker 1: Because it was always about her.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I have known my mother in law for over

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Speaker 3: five years now and have always loved her. By the way,

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Speaker 3: and I'm Keon, and we'll try to give our best advice.

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Speaker 3: But we haven't experienced most of these situations ourselves, so

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Speaker 3: if you have, let us know what you would do

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Speaker 3: in the comments, and Op says a little backstory. My

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Speaker 3: fiance's parents were married twenty seven years and they ended

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Speaker 3: up getting divorced a couple of years ago due to

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Speaker 3: financial reasons. My future father in law remarried to a

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Speaker 3: wonderful lady who has trying to connect with me and

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Speaker 3: my fiance's brother's fiance.

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Speaker 1: Okay, reconnect me with my pull.

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Speaker 3: A backup fiances so op's fiance's brother brothers fiance, so

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Speaker 3: basically girlfriends brother in law's girlfriend. There has been a

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Speaker 3: lot of drama recently due to my future mother in

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Speaker 3: law not being told the date of our wedding as

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Speaker 3: soon as we confirmed it. She found out from her

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Speaker 3: ex husband because my fiance was still living with him.

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Speaker 3: On the rehearsal dinner invitation card, I put it was

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Speaker 3: hosted by the groom's family. I wanted her to feel

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Speaker 3: included even though she isn't paying for it. She was

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Speaker 3: upset because no one told her about it or asked.

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Speaker 3: I think that's a fair thing to be upset for

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Speaker 3: her to be, like, no.

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Speaker 1: One told me about the wedding, No one told me

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Speaker 1: about the wedding day, and no one told you that

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Speaker 1: you rehearsed. Yeah, so far, I see where the mother

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Speaker 1: will has come from.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my fiance told her it was because of her

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Speaker 3: financial issues, and he didn't want it to be a

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Speaker 3: burden on her. I think you still should have told

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Speaker 3: her and then she could make that decision of whether

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Speaker 3: or not she could afford it. Yeah, you could even say, like, hey,

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Speaker 3: I know you've been having like I just want to

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Speaker 3: you could come, But if you can't, I totally understand.

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Speaker 3: She visited our house and pulled me aside to say,

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Speaker 3: what are the seating arrangements going to be like for

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Speaker 3: the wedding? As long as you don't sit me next

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Speaker 3: to her talking about my father in law's new wife.

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Speaker 3: Also fair care. I mean, I don't know if you

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Speaker 3: needed to say that specifically.

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Speaker 1: She probably said it differently too.

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Speaker 3: She has voiced her opinion over several occasions about how

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Speaker 3: she wants it to be known she is the mother

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Speaker 3: of the groom and not my father in law's new wife.

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Speaker 3: A fair. I was so fair. She's probably saying he's

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Speaker 3: pretty nastily.

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Speaker 1: Though, Okay, okay.

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Speaker 3: She is constantly reminding everyone she will be civil at

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Speaker 3: our shower and wedding for the sake of her boys.

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Speaker 3: In my opinion, you don't announce you will be civil,

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Speaker 3: you just are. She has repeatedly sent text messages to

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Speaker 3: my fiance and his brother, as well as her ex husband,

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Speaker 3: talking about how she has received the bad end of

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Speaker 3: the stick in life, but she wants to do what's

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Speaker 3: best for her boys. Today, I received a text message

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Speaker 3: from her about a shirt a friend of hers daughter.

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Speaker 3: The shirt says mother of the groom with the letter

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Speaker 3: our wedding date. Underneath that, it says I left him first,

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Speaker 3: with the date of my fiance's birthday. Okay, cute, that's

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Speaker 3: a little weird. That one's a little weird.

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Speaker 3: A little weird. I'd be like, Okay, I have spoken

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Speaker 3: I also think it's supposed to be a jab at

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Speaker 3: my father in law's new wife as well. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: any advice please. And there are some comments. Dude, it

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Speaker 3: seems like she is just causing problems. She just wants

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Speaker 1: If this happened, yeah to me, my wife, my fiance

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Speaker 1: probably have the same reaction. I have now, Oh, really

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Speaker 1: she's causing problems. Oh I just was just something she'd like,

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Speaker 1: we don't have to listen to them all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think I think that's I mean, I

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Speaker 1: It's just like, yeah, but if I heard all these things,

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Speaker 1: I'd probably be like, Okay, just don't sit her beside.

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Speaker 3: The Yeah, I know that. I agree. It's like, obviously

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Speaker 3: she's not throwing things at people. She's just kind of

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Speaker 3: annoying like that one story. Yeah, so I think you

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Speaker 3: just say, okay, we won't sit her next to that person.

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Speaker 1: Skill out of one to ten, and how much of

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Speaker 1: a mother in law bridezilla she is being? Were like

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Speaker 1: a four?

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Speaker 3: Five she's being annoying.

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Speaker 4: I'm yeah, I'm gonna say five right now.

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Speaker 1: But I can see I can see it getting worse.

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Speaker 1: But right now, I'm like, okay, comment.

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Speaker 3: What she's jealous and insecure, perhaps a mother in law bouncer.

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Speaker 3: If she can't behave herself at the w let them

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Speaker 3: deal with babysitting her. Opie says, way ahead of U, lol,

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Speaker 3: My wedding coordinator is such a girl's girl, and she

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Speaker 3: is ready at any given moment to throw hands. Reply

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Speaker 3: is the shirt to communicate something to mother in law's

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Speaker 3: ex husband and or new wife. Because I was reading

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Speaker 3: about the shirt and thought it was ammeshment like mother

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Speaker 3: in law being possessive of her son versus you, op

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Speaker 3: Opie says, See, I think that's the message that I'm

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Speaker 3: picking up on too. I think she got a two

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Speaker 3: but also could be for me too because I'm the

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Speaker 3: one marrying him. Reply, Okay, yeah, I think it's the

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Speaker 3: wedding ring image and son's birthday that makes me lean

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Speaker 3: towards her son's marriage with you at it next day,

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Speaker 3: I actually can see this woman not intending to take

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Speaker 3: I have a mom who does not understand boundaries, and

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Speaker 3: my brothers have told me at times it feels like

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Speaker 3: she was trying to make them be not just her son,

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Speaker 3: but trying to make them feel her social and emotional needs.

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Speaker 3: Have you felt like she blurs the lines of what

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Speaker 3: was not ready for that. So a while ago, when

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Speaker 3: call him repeatedly to work on something in her house.

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Speaker 3: Sure it was things she absolutely needed and couldn't afford,

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Speaker 3: like a front porch. Hers was dry rotted and not safe.

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Speaker 1: She asked her front porch.

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Speaker 3: That's yeah, she needed that front porch. Then it got

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Speaker 3: to be mowing the grass or pulling up roots, et cetera,

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Speaker 3: et cetera. Finally she stopped doing that, but at one

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Speaker 3: point she was doing that. Common two says, is she

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Speaker 3: planning on wearing it to the versal dinner or the wedding?

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Speaker 3: If not, why did she text you a pick of

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Speaker 3: it looking for a reaction. I wouldn't give her one,

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Speaker 3: Opie says, I have no idea. I'm too afraid to

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Speaker 3: My response back was just awe, which is not how

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Speaker 3: worry much over your mother in law. Just make sure

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Speaker 3: you give an extra little attention to her. She is

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Speaker 3: feeling very insecure because not only is her long term

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Speaker 3: losing her son. We raised daughters and have best friends

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Speaker 3: their wives, and the embarrassment of not being able to

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Speaker 3: financially support anything, She's probably really feeling like she's losing

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Speaker 3: everything all over again. That tiny bit of extra energy

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Speaker 3: can imagine for years to come. Opie says, I do

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Speaker 3: try my best to include her in things. I've asked

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Speaker 3: her to be in charge of picking the mother's son dance.

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Speaker 3: I'm finding some pictures that I would like her to

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Speaker 3: take with her son the day of the wedding, just

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Speaker 3: to make her feel like she's actually included. Unfortunately, the

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Speaker 3: list of things that Mogg does for the wedding is slim.

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Speaker 3: I am blessed that my parents are taking care of things.

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Speaker 3: I do disagree with the fact she's losing her son.

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Speaker 3: I have made it crystal clear she will always be

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Speaker 3: as mom and I will have no part in what

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Speaker 3: and my decisions. Well, I do agree she's probably reliving

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Speaker 3: it's raining on the happiness I am supposed to feel.

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Speaker 3: She openly discusses things with me, and in my honest opinion,

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Speaker 3: I should be the last person she discusses things with.

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Speaker 3: I give her what I am capable of, and if

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Speaker 3: it's not enough for it's no longer my problem. And

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Speaker 3: there is a small update, folks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah this is smart, giving her a little bit extra

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Speaker 3: Just give her enough to keep her happy.

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Speaker 1: You gotta realize she's going through transitional time in her

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Speaker 3: She's being annoying. But it's not that I don't think

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Speaker 1: She's not handling it the best. You just gotta juggle

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Speaker 1: her down there with three I realize where she's coming from.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna love on her some more.

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Speaker 3: I think she's middle ground because she could go either way.

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Speaker 4: I think this is just in law. Yeah, it seems

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Speaker 4: this is from what we've read before.

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Speaker 3: That's middle of the road.

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Speaker 1: To me. I give it a three because right now

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Speaker 1: I don't have to put love her a little bit

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Speaker 1: more and I don't have to physically do anything.

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Speaker 3: Actually, but there is a small update. Oh boy, we

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Speaker 3: had our couple's shower today. Mother in law and father

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Speaker 3: in law were very civil with each other, and she

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Speaker 3: met the new wife. Okay. See, she said she would

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Speaker 3: be civil, and she was. Everything was fine from what

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Speaker 3: I'm told for the shirt. The next day, after she

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Speaker 3: sent the pick of the shirt, I casually dropped a

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Speaker 3: comment saying, Hey, people have been asking about the attire

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Speaker 3: She responded back, okay, and today she walked in with

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Speaker 3: a very classy top and pants. No mother of the

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Speaker 3: They even started dictating what gifts we open next. I

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Speaker 1: We've never been to a birthday party before or Christmas.

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Speaker 3: At this point, I said, the only people who know

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Speaker 3: At this point, I told my fiance what happened, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know. This mother in law is just gonna

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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, I do think you know, she probably is

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I was rooting for the mother in law in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she needs that. Like all these things over father

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like literally all these things. And reasons why this

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Speaker 1: She's divorced. She's mourning that she's trying to be there

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm still rooting for.

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Speaker 3: Rude are We're all rooting for you. But there is

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 3: First things First, to the people who have previously commented

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Speaker 3: apart for her be kinder to included more, you were

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Speaker 1: No okay, okay, okay, look, look you can't blame me

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you were just thinking the best of her.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see a naffing comment about how

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Speaker 3: He doesn't want to see it.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready, Wait, he's ready. Now.

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Speaker 3: I know this woman better read anyone. Oh you said I'm.

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Speaker 1: Ready, I said, wait, I'm ready now.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, Sorry. I know this woman better than anyone,

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Speaker 3: him first. I'm irritated, but I'm not about to let

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Speaker 4: Oh, mother, y guys, guys, it's cream.

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Speaker 3: No, and have pink flowers on it.

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Speaker 1: It's white, it's white based. It's kind of cream. You

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Speaker 1: a couple numbers graduated to a tin. That's the worst

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00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,880
Speaker 1: absolute thing you can do at a wedding. Dead move horrible.

439
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,600
Speaker 3: I immediately walk away to my parents and do some

440
00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,600
Speaker 3: deep breathing because it's literally just the rehearsal and I

441
00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:06,680
Speaker 3: don't need to let her room my day. While I

442
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,399
Speaker 3: was over there, the wedding coordinator was introducing herself to

443
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,840
Speaker 3: my husband, and my mother in law inrupted their conversation

444
00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:14,960
Speaker 3: and said, I'm mother in law's name, I'm the mother

445
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 3: of Opie's husband, directly in front of stepmother in law

446
00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,439
Speaker 3: and father in law. My future sister in law informed

447
00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,640
Speaker 3: me of this after the fact. We've finished the rehearsal

448
00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:26,800
Speaker 3: and headed to the dinner where we are told we're

449
00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 3: to sit. There weren't many places to sit anyways. While

450
00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,760
Speaker 3: we were at dinner, one of my bridesmaid's girlfriend arrives

451
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,880
Speaker 3: and brings a bottle of champagne, which was not expected.

452
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,600
Speaker 3: We finished dinner and decide at that moment to do

453
00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,919
Speaker 3: a champagne toast with the one bottle of champagne. Clearly

454
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 3: we only add enough for maybe half the people. Yeah,

455
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,919
Speaker 3: I know it looks bad, but again it wasn't planned

456
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 3: until right then and there. We take pictures and wrap

457
00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,920
Speaker 3: up dinner and start saying our goodbyes to everyone, when

458
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,560
Speaker 3: all of the sudden, mother in law pulls my husband

459
00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,639
Speaker 3: outside along with her too entourage. At the window and

460
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 3: see her bawling her eyes out will bear hugging him

461
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,639
Speaker 3: and then immediately leaving. I look around, thinking, oh, what

462
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,639
Speaker 3: in the actual heck is her problem. It was a

463
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,400
Speaker 3: little rude to take him outside, but to only hug

464
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,720
Speaker 3: him and not even say bye to me very rude.

465
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 3: I found out later she was upset because she wasn't

466
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 3: asked to participate in the champagne toast. No one asked

467
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,400
Speaker 3: to be in the toast. We were blindly handing out

468
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,119
Speaker 3: glasses to everyone. I couldn't tell you who got a

469
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,600
Speaker 3: glass and who didn't. She was also upset we sat

470
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,159
Speaker 3: where we did. However, she was the first one to

471
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,200
Speaker 3: arrive for the dinner and choose her spot.

472
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,440
Speaker 1: See all these little things I think she's trying to

473
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 1: point out and be upset about.

474
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's just making up things to be upset about.

475
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,440
Speaker 1: At this point, she was actually there for her son. Dude,

476
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 1: that was awesome. That was an awesome champagne toast. I'm

477
00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 1: so glad like you guys sat there. You guys look

478
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 1: great together. You guys are doing great. Blah blah blah

479
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:52,640
Speaker 1: blah blah.

480
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 3: But no, she took the annoying way well, wearing her

481
00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,880
Speaker 3: white based dress. Yeah tisk tists.

482
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:06,159
Speaker 1: Cream, you can go to hell. Why based.

483
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 2: It?

484
00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:10,360
Speaker 3: Now, let's get into my favorite part of the whole

485
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 3: weekend wedding day. Everything was fine the morning up, got

486
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 3: ready with my girls, took pictures the whole nine yards.

487
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,880
Speaker 3: We arrived at the venue to start taking more pictures

488
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,920
Speaker 3: and mother in law has not even arrived yet. My

489
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 3: husband and I did a first look and everything, and

490
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 3: she didn't even show up for that. She was given

491
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 3: a time to arrive and she was late. We had

492
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 3: to wait on her to take family pictures. And when

493
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 3: she arrived, y'all, when she arrived, she was wearing the

494
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:42,639
Speaker 3: purest white bassed dress with pink flowers on it.

495
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 1: Oh she changed it. My god, she made it more white.

496
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 4: She made it more white, she made it more I

497
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 4: told you the original one was cream.

498
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 3: My bridesmaids immediately came up to me and walked me

499
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 3: away from the situation, which was good on them. After

500
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,360
Speaker 3: I calmed down, we went back to get her for pictures,

501
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 3: and I was as nice as I could possibly be

502
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 3: during that time. I managed to avoid her during the

503
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 3: rest of the time before the ceremony and let her

504
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 3: mingle with my family. The ceremony starts, and it's beautiful.

505
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 3: Then I see my husband walking mother in law down

506
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 3: the aisle, y'all. I find out later when he led

507
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 3: her to her seat, she tried to kiss him on

508
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 3: the mouth. The rest of the ceremony was wait what

509
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 3: her son?

510
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 1: What?

511
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 3: No husband? Sorry?

512
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay.

513
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 3: I'm so crazy. She tried to kiss her ex husband.

514
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: She's going through it right now, she's relapsing, whatever's happening.

515
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 3: The rest of the ceremony was fine, and cocktail hour begins.

516
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 3: We walked down the beach for more wedding pictures and

517
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 3: it's now time for the entrance to the reception. My

518
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,920
Speaker 3: husband is nowhere to be found. Turns out mother in

519
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 3: law and her two entourage were holding him back to

520
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,920
Speaker 3: have a conversation with him about what. I don't know.

521
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 3: At this point, my brother is running down the beach

522
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 3: to get him back for our entrance. I was furious

523
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 3: at this point, not necessarily at him, but a little

524
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 3: bit because we were on a time crunch. We finally

525
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 3: get to the reception and it was great. Our first

526
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 3: dance was great. The father daughter dance brought everyone to tears,

527
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 3: and ironically, once the mother son dance started, everyone kind

528
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 3: of started drinking and was ready to party. During the reception,

529
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 3: I needed just a little break from dancing and my

530
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 3: husband's grandmother comes up to me and starts showing me

531
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 3: pictures of mother in law and father in law's wedding

532
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 3: from thirty years ago. I looked at her and said

533
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 3: I need to go dance with my husband and walked

534
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 3: away so vast to the bar. The rest of the

535
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 3: night was beautiful and we had an amazing time. Some

536
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 3: of the people from the wedding came back to the

537
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 3: house we were staying in to keep partying, and my

538
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 3: future sister in law was one of them. We were

539
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 3: basically yelling with each other about mother in law's action,

540
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 3: and apparently mother in law said some things to future

541
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 3: sister in law like, hey, future sister in law, remember me,

542
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 3: I'm mother in law. Hello, leave me alone. Mother in

543
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,120
Speaker 3: law just very obnoxiously because my future sister in law

544
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 3: hadn't had the chance to speak to her yet. We

545
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 3: all go to bed and wake up happily married and

546
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 3: start to pack for her honeymoon.

547
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: Yay, okay, we got there so acting kind of crazy. Yeah,

548
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:19,360
Speaker 1: white dress over the top, but no cake was fallen.

549
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, didn't have to drag her out.

550
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: Didn't have to drag her out, No words.

551
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, my husband gets a text for mother in law

552
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 3: saying have fun in Jamaica since I'll never get the

553
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 3: chance to go. He responded with a very quick okay,

554
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 3: And we didn't speak to her for an entire week,

555
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 3: which was amazing. But there is a little bit left

556
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 3: to the story. Any final thoughts.

557
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: At first, A few things. At first, I was rooting

558
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: for the mother in law. She wore cream than white based. Yeah,

559
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: she left. I want to apologize to Keion for telling

560
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 1: him to go to at double hockey six. Sorry. I

561
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: was in the heat of the moment and I actually

562
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,360
Speaker 1: feel bad about that name. Asking for your forgiveness gets

563
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 1: me on the lips first, Okay.

564
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 3: All right, I guess you never get in that forgiveness.

565
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna give it to him nastually.

566
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 3: Okay, there is a little bit left to this story.

567
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: It's just sorry, real quick.

568
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 3: I just I had hope that she would be better

569
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 3: than this.

570
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: She want to wear wine, dude, just don't. Why is

571
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: it so hard just don't wear white to a wedding.

572
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: I didn't even wear a white shirt to a wedding

573
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: because I was afraid that it would be too much,

574
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:30,880
Speaker 1: or wear a blue one.

575
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 3: I think that men can wear white shirts.

576
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: You wear told me that that is such a sexist

577
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: world we live in. Men can wear white shirts, but

578
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: women can't wear white dresses. This is crazy. I'm done.

579
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: I can't the attire of weddings just confuse me all around.

580
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: Can you wear a hat? A man can wear a hat,

581
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: but a woman can't.

582
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 3: No Ah, nobody can wear hats.

583
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:52,239
Speaker 4: Do you want to wear a bra?

584
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 3: What about?

585
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 4: Do you want to wear a bra?

586
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 1: Anyway you thought about that? But what about a NewsCap hat?

587
00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:59,959
Speaker 3: Sure, my dad, I let you wear a news cap.

588
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to wear it. I'm not old enough

589
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 1: to wear one of those.

590
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 3: So for those who once again think I'm the bad

591
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 3: person here for not giving her a chance, I tried to.

592
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 3: After many attempts at trying to help her find a

593
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 3: dress to wear or de escalate certain situations, She'll make

594
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 3: herself the victim. She purposely wore white based dresses to

595
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 3: both events on purpose and one hundred percent war that

596
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 3: shir to send to my husband and father in law

597
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 3: to make sure they knew she was going to get

598
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 3: some kind of attention. I have spoken to her since

599
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 3: the wedding, and it has been very brief. We haven't

600
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 3: spoken about the wedding yet, and I don't know that

601
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 3: we will for the future babies if we decide to.

602
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 3: My husband and I are on the same page when

603
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 3: it comes to her. There are boundaries we are both

604
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 3: seeing for when that time comes, and we will absolutely

605
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 3: not tolerate her crap. And that is the end of

606
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 3: that story. Folks, All right, yikes there, Yeah, don't tolerate it.

607
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 3: She's clearly causing problems. Yeah, we hope she wasn't going,

608
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 3: but she did. She did, and she disrespected what you

609
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 3: were trying to do. And you know, yeah, gave her

610
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 3: chances in the first half.

611
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 4: She got us. She she got Riley, for sure, she

612
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 4: short did.

613
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 3: But that's the end of that story. And we've got

614
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 3: another one coming right up.

615
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: My mother criticizes my parents inc well.

616
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 3: Maybe you should try it if you're so good.

617
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 1: I am a thirty three female living in the UK.

618
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: My mother is sixty seven female. We are extremely close

619
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: up until a couple of weeks ago. I have two sons,

620
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: three and one, and my mother and father watched them

621
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: for me when I'm at work. When I'm not at work,

622
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: I spend or should say I spent a lot of

623
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: my time at my parents' house doing things with my mother.

624
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: By the ways, comes from Annoy Damas And if you

625
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: want some of your own stories, go to the r

626
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: slash ok stories. I'm suffered where this one's submitted, it's

627
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: one of our own babies. I'm Riley, I'm Sophia, and

628
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: I'm Keon, and we'll try to give her best advice.

629
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: But we have not experienced most of these situations ourselves,

630
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: so if you have, let us know your take in

631
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: the comments are okay. Op says, it's important to note

632
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: that my mother and I have very different views on parenting.

633
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: I believe in treating children with the same respect you

634
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: would an adult, and allowing children to express their feelings.

635
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: My older son can get physical when he's upset, and

636
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: being tired or hungry can exacerbate his emotions. I have

637
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: been working really hard with him on this. We try

638
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: to work with Sophia on this. I take him for

639
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: time outs and I talked to him about other strategies

640
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: to use and we practice them together.

641
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 4: We should do that with Sophia.

642
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: We really should. If you go to the quarter for

643
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: a second, I have a right, Sophia, that's enough.

644
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 4: That's enough.

645
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: Maybe you should eat more food before you come on

646
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: the stream.

647
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 3: I was vacuuming the entire house.

648
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: Please don't hit me.

649
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 4: Sounds like it sounds I should have time to eat.

650
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: You're becoming very hormonal right now.

651
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 4: Oh no, don't say that.

652
00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: Calm down.

653
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 4: He's a woman doctor.

654
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: I know what words to prescribe to her.

655
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 4: How's your boyfriend?

656
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 3: Did you get one?

657
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 4: Works every time?

658
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: No, it's gonna be six months until it actually works out. Y,

659
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Speaker 1: it works every time.

660
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 4: Whatever. She's in a grumpy state or mind mindset. How's

661
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 4: your boyfriend? And she just looks like that.

662
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: She's not even hungry anymore. Yeah, she's like, what's who

663
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: you're thinking about? That?

664
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Speaker 3: Meat?

665
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: Slie ew grow ew.

666
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Speaker 3: That's great?

667
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 4: So how's your boyfriend?

668
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: So beautiful? Anyway, Hey, calm down, I've come. I take

669
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: him for timeouts, and I talked to him about other

670
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: strategies to use. He's three, so he doesn't use the

671
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: strategies often or on his own.

672
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 3: Sometimes he's three so he doesn't quite understand the strategies

673
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 3: that we're trying to use.

674
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Speaker 1: Sometimes he screams and cries and it takes a while

675
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: for him to calm down. I usually take him to

676
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: her room and stay with him until he calms down

677
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: and we can talk about what happened. I let him

678
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: cry until he's ready. Sometimes it takes ten to twenty minutes.

679
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: We have gone to the point where he can take

680
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: deep breaths once he starts to calm down, and his

681
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: tantrums have produced in time and frequency. It all started

682
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: on my younger son's birthday a couple of weeks ago.

683
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: My mother, myself, and my boys went out all to

684
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: eat together and went for a walk afterwards. We were

685
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: planning on going back to her house so the boys

686
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: can nap and we could play games. My youngest will nap,

687
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: but my oldest has recently been growing out of naps.

688
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: We will have nap one day and not the next.

689
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: When he does nap, we won't go to sleep until

690
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: nine or later, and it'll be rough. He will act

691
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: up when he gets tired, hitting, kicking, or throwing tantrums,

692
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: all normal toddler behavior. This has created a problem between

693
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: my mother and me because she doesn't agree with how

694
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: I handle his behavior. I've done a lot of research

695
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: on parenting, and I believe that children should be allowed

696
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: to have their feelings refused to scare a child into

697
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: not expressing them. We had talked about it previously and

698
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: decided that I would step in and handle behaviors so

699
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: she didn't have to On this particular day, I knew

700
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: he wouldn't want to nap, so I asked mom to

701
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: drive him around in my car while I put my

702
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: youngest down. She did for about ten minutes and he

703
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: fell asleep. When I went to transfer him to a bed,

704
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: he woke up. He was very upset and did not

705
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: want to nap. I told him we were going to

706
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: lay down together for a few minutes and then we

707
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: could get up. He did not want an app anymore,

708
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: so he started crying and screaming. I tried to stay calm.

709
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: I knew it would pass when he was ready. I

710
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: sat on the bed and told him that I was

711
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: going to rest. My mom came in and tried to

712
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: get him to calm down, which did not work. He

713
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: needs time to get it all out, as we all do. Sometimes.

714
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: She left but stayed by the door. He opened the

715
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: door and she came in and picked him up. She

716
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,719
Speaker 1: laid him on the bed and started talking to him

717
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: in a very angry tone, saying, you better not wake

718
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: up your brother. In my opinion, his brother is not

719
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: his responsibility and he wasn't in a place to understand

720
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,479
Speaker 1: where she was coming from. That's when I picked him

721
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: up and told her I had hit handled. She promptly

722
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: responded to you, and I was taken a bit aback,

723
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: so I clapped back with, well, what you're doing is

724
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: really helping. Then she said this was happening way too

725
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: often and it needed to stop.

726
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Speaker 3: Is like a three year old having some tantrums.

727
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 4: You need a three year old?

728
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Speaker 3: Have you ever, mother? Did you forget about when your

729
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 3: child was a three year old?

730
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Speaker 1: I hate it when other people are trying to parent

731
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: your own kids and it's like, dude, just yea, let

732
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: me figure this one out.

733
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, man, unless they're like hitting your kid or

734
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 3: you know, hitting you something where it's like you're not

735
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 3: parenting your child and someone's getting hurt or something like that.

736
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on there, involved Hey, it's Sean here.

737
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 2: We're gonna get back to this episode, but a quick

738
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 2: three minute break with asermar sponsors.

739
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming she was referring to my child feelings, like

740
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: his feelings were too much and she wanted them to stop.

741
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: I told her we'd leave, and we did. Later that day,

742
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: I texted her and apologized for escalating the situation and

743
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: told her we would take a break from coming over

744
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: to her house. I also offered to answer any questions

745
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: she had about my reasoning behind the way I parented.

746
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: She responded saying that parenting was hard, and even she

747
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: questioned her own parenting. I felt like she had been

748
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: judging me the entire time we'd been hanging out, and

749
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: she didn't just have a conversation with me about it.

750
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 1: The next day, I did get an apology text where

751
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: she admitted that she had overstepped Oh night.

752
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 3: Okay, improvement nice. I like this, Yeah, this is good.

753
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 3: This is good.

754
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: I told her. I appreciated the apology. My mom has

755
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: always been terrible at apologies. They usually start with I'm

756
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: sorry you feel that way, So for her not to

757
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: say that made me think her apology was genuine. Fast

758
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: forward a week, and I'm still upset. I can't quite

759
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 1: figure out why, though. I had talked to my sister

760
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: about the situation, and she said she had to stop

761
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: hanging out with my mom when her kids were toddlers.

762
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: She also said my mom brought it up to her

763
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: and said, I told them my boys have to follow

764
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: my mom's rules at her house, but I don't make them.

765
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: Even my sister said it didn't sound like a rule thing.

766
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: I had my son's one year appointment and took both

767
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: my boys as my husband was sick. My old us

768
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: threw a tantrum while we were there. After the appointment,

769
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: our pretty teachian told me she was impressed with how

770
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 1: well I handled both my boys and how calm I stayed.

771
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: I told this to my mom and I said it

772
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: was nice considering she doesn't agree with how I do things,

773
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,720
Speaker 1: and she said, we can agree to disagree. Okay, cool.

774
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: I may have been rubbing it in a bit, but

775
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: it's also hard to feel like you're doing the right

776
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: thing when your mother is telling you you're not. We

777
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: went for a walk together to the next day, but

778
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: I didn't bring it up. The same weekend, my mother

779
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: in law came to visit. I really off my mother

780
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: in law. We get along great and she's very sweet.

781
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: We were at a family gathering when I spotted my

782
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: mom telling my mother in law story. My mother in

783
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 1: law was looking straight at me, and then my mom

784
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: pointed at me and continued telling the story. I love

785
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: when people do that. What like they're like looking at

786
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: you and they're talking. Don't look at that person. Yeah,

787
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 1: Like Kean the other day, he was like really acting

788
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: weird and don't tell him that.

789
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:26,959
Speaker 4: Though I'm always acting weird.

790
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's strange.

791
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 4: It's like when none of y'all realized it was jelly Roll.

792
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 3: I don't even know who jelly Roll is.

793
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 2: I know.

794
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: Too, I was like, oh.

795
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 4: Shoot, and I just left the room colling person.

796
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, they all are.

797
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 3: Everyone's tall, not I. No tall to you, Keon dang Man.

798
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 4: No, that's okay.

799
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 3: Oh whoa, he's gentle parenting, you know. Oh no, talk

800
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 3: it out. I can't.

801
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 4: I can't change my height.

802
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: You can't. And I love that about you.

803
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 4: That's why I got good charisma, that's.

804
00:36:59,200 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: Right, and a great person.

805
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 3: Eleven year olds have a crush two even year.

806
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 4: Olds, but those one, no, it's two.

807
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: Oh, they're multiplying. At the end, my mother said enough

808
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: is enough, and my mother in law politely agreed and

809
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: they stopped talking. I was pretty sure I knew what

810
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: she was talking about. I didn't mention anything to my

811
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: mother in law about the fight between my mother and me,

812
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: because why would I. Sylvia, what do you think they're

813
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: talking about here?

814
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 3: I think that you gotta set more boundaries with your

815
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 3: mom and say, hey, mom, I you know I know

816
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 3: that you're trying to be helpful, but this is my child.

817
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,240
Speaker 3: So if you can't, if you can't listen to our boundaries,

818
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 3: then you can't be around the kids.

819
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. Information diet, Yeah, hanging out diet. I think that's smart. Like, hey,

820
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: we're not going to come around for a little bit.

821
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, you clearly don't like having my kids over.

822
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,919
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah you think his emotions are too much.

823
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll just stop. I'll just not bring my kid over.

824
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: Hop on the band and we got Carly getting on

825
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: the on for not getting me so soup.

826
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 3: Dude, I want me so soup so much, Carly, I

827
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 3: want me so soup.

828
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 4: Then why don't you date her and take her?

829
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go get me so soup.

830
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: You can take her.

831
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,959
Speaker 4: Then you get danger, Well, I want me so soup.

832
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: No you haven't actually, so the end the story. The

833
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: next morning, I decided to ask my mother in law

834
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: about the story Mama was telling her. She said she

835
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 1: couldn't remember, and I gave her the details I heard

836
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: and saw. She said she couldn't remember. Then I asked

837
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: her it was about my son. She said no. I

838
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: didn't ask if she really didn't remember or if she

839
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: was just trying not to get in the middle of it.

840
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: She stayed quiet, which gave me my answer. Now I'm

841
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: not sure what to do. My mother seems like she

842
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: doesn't want to talk about things, which is very normal

843
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: for her. But I can't get over things until I've

844
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: talked about them. I'm currently being polite to her when

845
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,919
Speaker 1: she reaches out, but I have no intention of hanging

846
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: out with her. She does watch my boys for me

847
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: twice a week, but my husband drops them off and

848
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 1: picks them up, so I will not see her on

849
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: nless it's arranged. Advice. Please, we have some comments. What

850
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: are our comments here?

851
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 3: What are your comments? I've already said my comments. I've

852
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 3: already said my comments. I don't have anything else to say.

853
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: Seems like the ball is in your mom's court. If

854
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: you're okay with not talking to her, don't talk to

855
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: her until she's ready. If you really want to talk

856
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: to her, spike the bullet, reach out.

857
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 3: We talk.

858
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: I don't like you know, Let's have it all out.

859
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: Talk to me like an a hole? Okay, what do

860
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: you not like about my parenting?

861
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 3: Saw?

862
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: What do you not what do you not see? An op?

863
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 1: I know you know what's happening. And I know you're

864
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: you're able to confirm with all your researcher you have

865
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: of why you're doing the things that you're doing, and

866
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: she might just think of it like an old traditional style, like, oh,

867
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: this is how things should be old, how this that was?

868
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: If you and she's probably afraid to see some reasoning there,

869
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: package it up and send it to her.

870
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, just have it out. I think you could have

871
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 3: a comment, you could have a conversation. But yeah, she

872
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 3: definitely is me and little Anning.

873
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: Yep.

874
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 3: I tried to limit my grandmother's access to my life,

875
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 3: but it back fired.

876
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 1: Seems like she did one information diet.

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Speaker 3: And this comes directly from the r slash. Okay, storytime

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00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 3: subpard it. Oh, this is likely going to be a

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00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 3: long one, but I'll try to keep it as concise

880
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 3: as possible. I thirty three female, and my husband, thirty

881
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 3: five male, are expecting our second child.

882
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: Ye children, Yay.

883
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 3: It's been a long road to get here, but today

884
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 3: I might have f'd up. Uh oh am I the

885
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 3: ale and what do I do now? By the way,

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00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 3: this comes from Last Faithfulness four three four And if

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00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 3: you want to submit your own stories, go to the

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00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 3: r slash okay, storytime subpred it.

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00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: I'm Sophia, I'm Riley.

890
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 4: And I'm key On. And guys, they posted our photo

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00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,760
Speaker 4: from iHeart on e News sick. I'm gonna.

892
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: Oh shit, we look really cute.

893
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 3: Send me a picture. The group ut. And we haven't

894
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 3: been through all of these situations ourselves. We only know

895
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 3: what we'd do, So let us know what you would

896
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 3: do in the comments, so Op says, in order to

897
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 3: give you the full context of the story, I have

898
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 3: to back up a few years. Growing up, my grandmother,

899
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 3: seventy something female, was pretty involved in my childhood as

900
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 3: far as I can remember. As I got older, I

901
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 3: started to notice her animosity towards her ex husband, my

902
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 3: grandfather and his wife, who I also call my grandma.

903
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 3: They had been divorced since before I was born, and

904
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 3: my grandpa remarried when I was maybe four or five,

905
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 3: so I found this strange. As time had gone on,

906
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 3: my grandmother has become increasingly distant from the entire family.

907
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 3: It started small, by claiming to be sick on days

908
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 3: of events like birthday parties for my younger cousins and

909
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 3: raging alternate times to see them. More recently, it got

910
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 3: to a point where she's been skipping bigger events like

911
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 3: weddings and graduations, and the family would genuinely be surprised

912
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 3: to see her, even though she's always invited. What is

913
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 3: especially strange is that this family is incredibly tight knit,

914
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 3: and she is slowly backed away like Homer Simpson backing

915
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 3: through the bushes. This distance has also expanded to her

916
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 3: amount of confer with the family. She often won't return

917
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 3: calls or messages, and she is rarely the first to

918
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 3: reach out. When she does reach out, if you respond,

919
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 3: you typically don't get a response back. It's like she'll

920
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 3: go through the motions to send a text on a

921
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 3: special occasion, but doesn't want the effort of a conversation

922
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 3: or real connection.

923
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: So kind of wants to be your grandma. Yeah, She's like,

924
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: I just want the title. And she seems like she's doing, like, legit,

925
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: the bare minimum to keep it. Yeah.

926
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 3: The one thing she will do is Facebook. Yeah, because

927
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 3: that's just easy and fine, and she gets the public acknowledgment.

928
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: That she's a granted, and there's so many fun games

929
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: on Facebook, but not in a.

930
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 3: Stage, genuinely connected sort of way, more like a look

931
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 3: at me, I'm such in a mathing gramma kind of way,

932
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 3: very performative, with no real connection. She will heart react,

933
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 3: leave gift comments with no words, and take your pictures

934
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 3: to post on her own page. My son is currently

935
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 3: her cover photo. She also posts about when I was

936
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 3: in labor but couldn't be bothered to respond to a

937
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 3: message I had sent you while I was laboring in

938
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 3: a hospital. Thankfully, she took that post down at my

939
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 3: mom's request. Speaking of my son, she met him once

940
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 3: when he was a newborn. He's about to turn three.

941
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 3: Her visit was unannounced and quite frankly, very awkward. The

942
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 3: one thing I remember was her being passive aggressive about

943
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 3: my newborn baby using a pacifier.

944
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: Oh well, seems like I can't feed right now? What

945
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: else am I supposed to do?

946
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 3: Why A's so upset about the bestwyer? She yelled him

947
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 3: and said, oh his name. You don't need that, that's yucks.

948
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 3: He probably does need that because he's a baby.

949
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: Let the baby be.

950
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 3: I remember thinking you never come around, couldn't even be

951
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 3: bothered to send a card for the baby shower. But

952
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 3: now you're criticizing my parenting. That's yucks. Ever since that

953
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 3: visit almost three years ago, my grandmother has continued even

954
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 3: less contact than before. She has never once reached out

955
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 3: to ask how my son is doing. She sends her

956
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 3: performative Happy Birthday or Merry Christmas text about how much

957
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 3: she met the thoth is proud of us, YadA, YadA, YadA,

958
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 3: but the second you respond and try to start a conversation, crickets.

959
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 3: She also went from living in the same city as

960
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 3: my uncles and younger cousins to moving out of state. Meanwhile,

961
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 3: she's doing the most on Facebook caart, reacting every single post,

962
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 3: making her gift comments, and stealing the pictures she wants

963
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,760
Speaker 3: to share for her own audience, who is blissfully unaware

964
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 3: of her absence.

965
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,439
Speaker 1: In some ways, this means more than actually being there.

966
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, in some ways this is actually so much better.

967
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 3: And I don't think you realize that'llp you.

968
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: Get the presence of a grandma online and not in

969
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: real life. I think you don't understand what you have here. Yeah.

970
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 3: Sometimes this is done with her profile. Sometimes this is

971
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 3: done on her boyfriend's profile. There was also a second

972
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 3: profile of hers that I had deleted because I was

973
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 3: certain it was inactive. This will be important later on.

974
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 3: One of the pictures she shared of my child. Her

975
00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 3: boyfriend commented, saying, you're suching, amazing great Graham. I'm sorry, sorry,

976
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 3: but my child doesn't even know who either of them are,

977
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 3: which is by her doing. He's not going to remember

978
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 3: a visit from when he was a newborn. This has

979
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 3: me feeling like her social media is nothing but performative

980
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 3: and she no longer has any real desire for connection.

981
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 3: To make it really clear, I went through my phone

982
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 3: recently to try to find the last time she and

983
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 3: I had a real conversation. We haven't had a phone

984
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 3: call in years, and the last time she reached out

985
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 3: to me was a year and a half ago. She

986
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 3: wished me a happy New Year. I tried to engage

987
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 3: her in conversation and she never responded. She also never

988
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 3: responded to a happy Birthday message I sent her later

989
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 3: in the year. What And as Porky pig One said,

990
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 3: that's all, folks, that's how does he do it? That's

991
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 3: all folks.

992
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 2: Hey, it's Sam.

993
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: We're gonna get back to these stories.

994
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 4: But here's three of us ads from our sponsors that

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Speaker 4: keep the show alive.

996
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 3: Fast forward. Yesterday we had our first I have struggled

997
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 3: with infertility and early miscarriages in the past, so I

998
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 3: kept our news pretty quiet until we had confirmation that

999
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 3: baby was healthy and viable. Few things the doctor wants

1000
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 3: to keep an eye on this time around due to

1001
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 3: the complications with the pregnancy and birth of our son,

1002
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 3: but nothing alarming at all. We got some ultrasound pictures

1003
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 3: to take home and we're happy as can be. When

1004
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 3: I got home, some anxiety came about making an announcement.

1005
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 3: I was excited to share our news, but I didn't

1006
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 3: want my grandmother's performative energy interfering. I decided, after a

1007
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 3: lot of consideration, to limit her and her boyfriend from

1008
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 3: seeing the posts. Yeah, they just reposted, and they're like,

1009
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 3: I'm so happy that I have another grandchild that I'm

1010
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 3: gonna see every day.

1011
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: Her likes are about to look slim because of that

1012
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: information diet you're getting there, Mm hmm. That and that's

1013
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,439
Speaker 1: what's up. So true.

1014
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 3: I had already been living them from the other posts

1015
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 3: that felt more personal. It has helped me protect my

1016
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 3: peace with the situation lately. With support from my family,

1017
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 3: I drafted the post, created a couple cute images, tagged

1018
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,479
Speaker 3: my husband, and posted the comments and support came rolling

1019
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 3: in from extended family, friends, and coworkers. I went to sleep,

1020
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 3: feeling relieved that we were able to finally share this

1021
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 3: news with the people who are present in our lives.

1022
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 3: At one am, first trimester insomnia came like clockwork. I

1023
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 3: checked my phone because what else do you do at

1024
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 3: one am? And my heart sank. Remember that inactive second

1025
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 3: profile I mentioned earlier, the one I deleted from my

1026
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 3: friend's list, assuming it was a passed away profile. Well

1027
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 3: it was wrong. Not only is it active, but it

1028
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 3: is apparently friends with my husband. There was a comment

1029
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 3: that said so happy for UXX. I panicked. My lizard

1030
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 3: brain came out in response to the abandonment trauma, and

1031
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 3: I deleted the comment without even thinking about it. I

1032
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 3: should have just left it and pretended it got lost

1033
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,439
Speaker 3: in the sea of comments, but my snap judgment brain

1034
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 3: was like, nope, let's stir the spot because now she's

1035
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 3: gonna see it's deleted. What do I do? I do nothing?

1036
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 3: Do I pretend I didn't even see it? It was

1037
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 3: one am and normal people would be sleeping. Do I

1038
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 3: reach out? Do I wait for her to reach out

1039
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 3: inevitably pissed? Do I give blatant honesty about why the

1040
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 3: main profiles access is limited in the first place. Do

1041
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 3: I even owe her the explanation. She has a tendency

1042
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 3: to deliberately create distance, but then also react in a

1043
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 3: really ugly way when she feels left out. For example,

1044
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 3: it was a big deal when my grandpa, her ex husband, passed,

1045
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 3: and she wasn't specifically named in the obituary. Can't do

1046
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 3: much about that he's gone, so big drama from her ensued.

1047
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,879
Speaker 3: Then it really upset her that we all stayed close

1048
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 3: with my grandpa's second wife, who I also call Grandma,

1049
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 3: which I think is the catalyst that led to even

1050
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 3: less contact than before. And I'm so on edge about

1051
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 3: that type of drama being even in the realm of

1052
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 3: possibility surrounding this pregnancy.

1053
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: And I think you have to keep as much peace

1054
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: for this pregnancy. Yeah, cut it out completely.

1055
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:03,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, just stop responding her information diant She's already not there.

1056
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: Yeah sure. Also she getting money off of these posts.

1057
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's monetized. I was so careful about drawing quiet boundaries,

1058
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 3: and now I feel like it's blowing up in my face.

1059
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 3: Am I the agle? Am I overreacting?

1060
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:16,720
Speaker 1: Help?

1061
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 3: And there is an update. But what do you think, dude?

1062
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: You know what you gotta do this? Grandma just wants

1063
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: to be there virtually and not their physically. She'd made

1064
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: her choice, she has and she continues to make it.

1065
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: Just you know, people have consequences for their actions, and

1066
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 1: sometimes your actions are the consequences of others.

1067
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 3: And her consequences are that she can't see your kid

1068
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 3: anymore or you. Thank you everyone for your responses. So far.

1069
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 3: I thought I was overreacting, but it is validating to

1070
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 3: see that many feel similarly to me about boundaries with

1071
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 3: toxic absent family members. About an hour after I posted this,

1072
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 3: Grandma went back on to her main account and art

1073
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 3: reacted to a couple of trivial posts I have made

1074
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 3: over the last couple of weeks, including a silly meme

1075
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 3: about cheese. I realized this was more than likely an

1076
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 3: a time to get my attention, almost as if to say,

1077
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 3: here's what I can see on one profile and here's

1078
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 3: what I can see on the other. At this point,

1079
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 3: I opted to do nothing unless she reaches out. If

1080
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 3: she reaches out, I will be direct and honest about

1081
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 3: the boundaries I've established and why If she doesn't then

1082
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go out of my way to announce

1083
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 3: them to her. Sometime between now and the birth, I

1084
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 3: will also make a point to block the old profile.

1085
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 3: Until then, I'm not gonna give any sort of attention

1086
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,439
Speaker 3: to her Internet antics unless she goes way out of line.

1087
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 3: And that's the end of the story. Wow, dang, dang, dang.

1088
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 3: I think that is the right move, Opie, and good

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Speaker 3: luck to Yeah, good luck I but that's also the

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Speaker 3: end of this episode.

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Speaker 1: Up now, Opie, real quick, let us know how it goes.

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Speaker 1: And we want to see pictures of the baby.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this is one of her own. Let us know.

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