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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sam. This is a John your og

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Speaker 1: Okay Storytime podcast host, and we got some great stories

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Speaker 2: I thought my boyfriend was perfect until a doctor proved

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Speaker 2: he was cheating on me.

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Speaker 3: No, we can't all be perfect.

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Speaker 2: I met my ex boyfriend in February of this past year,

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Speaker 2: and we hit it off immediately. He got me flowers

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Speaker 2: on our first date. We went to a big concert together,

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Speaker 2: he cooked me dinner, and we even had our first

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Speaker 2: kiss on a private beach like a Diddy Dang rom com.

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Speaker 2: The only issue was that I had plans to move

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Speaker 2: out of state in the middle of the summer and

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Speaker 2: I didn't really want to jump into a relationship.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dakota, I'm Keon, and we don't know everything yet.

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Speaker 2: We're here to give good advice goofully, but we don't

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Speaker 2: have all the answers. Well, you know what we would do,

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Speaker 2: so if you do something else, let us know in

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Speaker 2: the comments, and Opie says. Knowing this, my ex came

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Speaker 2: over one night at midnight with a box of chocolates

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Speaker 2: to ask me to be his girlfriend.

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Speaker 4: My initial thought was no.

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Speaker 2: He knew I was moving, and even though I liked him,

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Speaker 2: I told him that I didn't want to move so

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Speaker 2: far and do long distance. When I said that, he

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Speaker 2: started crying, and I really did like him.

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Speaker 4: So I said yes.

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Speaker 2: Two weeks later, he told me he loved me after

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Speaker 2: we finished having spice to sleep.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's a red flag. Usually it's a red flag.

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Speaker 5: Sorry.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, apparently he had said it a week prior.

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Speaker 2: We were at a rooftop showing of La La Land

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Speaker 2: in the city, but I just didn't hear it.

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Speaker 3: Oh boy, this this guy, this guy's are a romantic.

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Speaker 4: He's the love bomber. Watch out, it's the love bomber.

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Speaker 2: I had never been in a relationship before, so all

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Speaker 2: of this was so exciting. I truly grew to love

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Speaker 2: him a law and became excited about a potential future

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Speaker 2: with him. He would always talk about me as if

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Speaker 2: I was his dream girl, and eventually planned a surprise

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Speaker 2: bonfire date on a beach to ask me if I

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Speaker 2: wanted to do long distance with him. I said, yes,

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Speaker 2: I will be our long distance girlf I'm very happy.

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Speaker 2: As I began meeting his friends, he started talking about

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Speaker 2: one of his coworkers, twenty one female a lot. Apparently

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Speaker 2: this girl was bipolar and had BPD and hadn't been

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Speaker 2: taking her med, so her roommate was evicting her and

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Speaker 2: was venting about it. To my ex.

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Speaker 4: I tried to justify.

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Speaker 2: It because he also had BPD and could have good insight,

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Speaker 2: and we had expressed how we were okay with the other.

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Speaker 4: Having friends of the opposite agenda.

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Speaker 2: She would call him while she knew we were hanging out,

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Speaker 2: was checking his location, and he even went over to

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Speaker 4: It was all starting to make me very uncomfortable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's gonna be like, oh, my bipolar, my

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Speaker 4: He des sort of queen that I love you, babe,

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Speaker 4: we share BPD.

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Speaker 3: That I had made her BPD bacon pancakes and Danish.

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Speaker 2: We both had BPD, so I gave her my PbD,

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Speaker 2: bacon pancake Danish. At one point I even got roped

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Speaker 2: into driving her home from therapy. I nervously expressed this

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Speaker 2: with her. I stopped hearing about her entirely. I would

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Speaker 2: still see her name pop up on his phone, but

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Speaker 2: he never talked about her. At one point, I asked

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Speaker 4: Why are you asking? Uh, why are you asking?

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Speaker 3: We're living in Lola Land right now, and uh, it's

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Speaker 6: Be called sebs.

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Speaker 4: Check it on a stick. Flash forward to June.

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Speaker 2: I thought I had a UTI, so I went to

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Speaker 2: related disease that could only come from someone who hadn't

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Speaker 2: been honest. My heart sank into the floor. The only

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Speaker 2: person I had ever had spash asleep with was my axe,

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Speaker 2: and we had been dating for months, so where the

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Speaker 2: asked when the last time he had spash's sleep with

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Speaker 2: someone who wasn't me was, and he said January. I

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Speaker 2: hung up and went to work and spent my whole

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Speaker 2: and I sobbed in his car, saying things like I

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Speaker 2: but it just doesn't add up. He kept swearing that

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Speaker 2: lose him, so I chose to believe him. A couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks later, we went on a road trip up

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Speaker 2: move my things up to my parents' house before my

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Speaker 2: new lease started.

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Speaker 4: On the last day of.

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Speaker 2: This trip, also the last day before long distance, we

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Speaker 2: I burst into tears. I told him how I didn't

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Speaker 4: It was worse the next day.

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Speaker 2: At the bus stop and we said goodbye, we both cried,

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Speaker 2: and he gave me his blanket to hang on to.

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Speaker 2: He hugged me like it was the last time he'd

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Speaker 3: He gave he was blanky.

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Speaker 2: This guy's crying from a maybe attack of guilt, a

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Speaker 2: guilt attack.

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Speaker 4: And you're crying because you'll actually like him.

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Speaker 2: And he's like, man, ooh, maybe I do feel a

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Speaker 2: little bad that I'm gonna immediately and already have cheated

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Speaker 2: on this girl.

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Speaker 3: This guy's not the main character. This guy's not the hero.

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Speaker 6: He's a villain.

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Speaker 4: He's the villain now.

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Speaker 2: Two days after this, he drove to Las Vegas for

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Speaker 2: his coworker's twenty first birthday.

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Speaker 3: Usually, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, unless if

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Speaker 3: it's uh a spicy transmitted see.

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Speaker 2: The Little Spicy Germs Colin Oloviya BPD.

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Speaker 6: Yikes.

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Speaker 2: I was told that all of these friends of hers

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Speaker 2: I didn't go because I was still twenty and couldn't

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Speaker 2: do any of the things they were going to do.

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Speaker 2: I felt very uneasy about this, but chose to trust

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Speaker 2: my ex. He barely spoke to me the whole time.

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Speaker 2: I tried to call him while he was getting ready

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Speaker 4: Or didn't want to talk on the phone. I expressed

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Speaker 4: this was hurtful, and he apologized. After he got home.

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Speaker 2: My sister sent me a screenshot of his coworker's Instagram

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Speaker 4: I didn't follow her, but there were photos of.

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Speaker 2: Them cuddled up at a restaurant and a collage of

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Speaker 4: No sign of anyone else rough Row.

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Speaker 2: Well, oh p, at least you got to learn what

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Speaker 2: a lying, manipulating love bomber is.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna be like Vegas just does that to people, Babe,

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Speaker 3: what happens to Vegas?

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Speaker 4: Go who's on the gram?

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Speaker 2: I called him and asked what the heck was going on,

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Speaker 2: saying the photos looked platonic and that he thinks I

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Speaker 2: I felt like I was talking to a wall. I

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Speaker 2: told him that if it were one of his other friends,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be as upset, but he knew that the

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Speaker 2: girl made me feel uncomfortable, and he went into this anyway.

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Speaker 2: The next week was filled with messages being delivered for

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Speaker 2: hours his location, getting randomly turned off and avoiding phone calls.

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Speaker 4: The next Sunday, he broke up with me. I was

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Speaker 2: I knew that his BPD was acting up again and

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Speaker 2: that he had started new meds that were messing with him,

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Speaker 2: but I was so confused how the person who had

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Speaker 2: We talked again a week later, and he berated me,

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Speaker 2: saying that I didn't care about him or his mental health,

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Speaker 2: and that he couldn't be around someone like that. Mind you,

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Speaker 2: I was checking in on him daily, asking his friends.

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Speaker 2: I was doing and researching his medication and.

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Speaker 4: Its side effects.

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Speaker 2: The day before I actually puked because I was so worried.

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Speaker 2: And you can just let this guy go.

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Speaker 3: No, it's very hard for Ope, because this is Opie's

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Speaker 3: like first real relationship. They're doing long distance. It's a

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Speaker 2: I know it's not easy, but I'm telling you right

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Speaker 2: now that you can just let this guy go and

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Speaker 2: continue to date and find other people, because he was

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Speaker 2: not the end all, be all of your life.

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Speaker 4: I promise you was know all. A month later, we

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Speaker 4: randomly talked again and he told me that someone like

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Speaker 4: like cheat on you and give you an STD.

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Speaker 3: Oh, he's guilting himsel that I don't deserve to be

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Speaker 3: put through his behavior, that he misses me every day,

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Speaker 3: admires my ambition, and that he hasn't thrown out any

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Speaker 3: of our things.

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Speaker 2: I was a mask, asking him things like if you

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Speaker 2: know my worth so well, why couldn't it have been you.

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Speaker 2: He ended the conversation by telling me that he needed

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Speaker 2: me to not be alone for the night, that he

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Speaker 2: would text my sister if he had to. A couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks later, him and his coworker's relationship became public,

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Speaker 2: and they are still publicly dating to this day. I've

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Speaker 2: been dating and hooking up with other people since then.

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Speaker 2: Today is the three month anniversary of us breaking up.

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Speaker 2: But whenever I have a day to myself, I can't

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Speaker 2: help but sit in what happened? Hey?

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Speaker 3: This guy, this guy sucks. Come on, op, put the

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Speaker 3: pieces together.

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Speaker 4: He's the flip flop. He's the flip flopper.

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Speaker 6: RONI.

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Speaker 4: He's like bad, How could you do this to me?

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Speaker 4: I can't put I mean, you never cared, that's all.

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Speaker 7: You don't deserve to be put through, but I put

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Speaker 7: you through.

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Speaker 6: I still have.

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Speaker 4: All of your things, and I think you're incredible.

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Speaker 3: That's definitely the BPD with how he's handling things. But

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Speaker 3: he's also manipulating you, or he did manipulate you, so

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Speaker 3: I'm happy you didn't. One, you were already long distance.

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Speaker 3: That made it probably a lot of a lot easier

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Speaker 3: for you to just move on. But two, you come on.

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Speaker 3: You got a good head on your shoulders. I feel

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Speaker 4: He don't deserve it.

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Speaker 4: Just through on yourself. This is just a learning experience.

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Speaker 4: It's not just a bad dream.

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Speaker 2: Everyone who knows me knows I cared about him more

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Speaker 4: Again, if you've gone through something similar, how did you cope?

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Speaker 2: And there are some comments, Wow, what you've been through

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Speaker 4: Because of what we've been through.

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Speaker 2: He literally speed ran the whole dream guide to Walking

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Speaker 2: not everyone is like him. There are billions of people

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Speaker 4: Yeah, don't you?

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Speaker 3: Did you know? Block all socials. Don't worry about him again.

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Speaker 3: You're away from him, seems like you're doing alright. Move

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Speaker 3: It's a learning situation and it sucks, but you'll know

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Speaker 6: Okay storytime subreddit. I'm Carly, I'm anjie, and we're here

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Speaker 6: to give good advice. Goofiley, But we don't have all

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Speaker 6: He and I were just friends for eight years prior

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Speaker 6: I feel betrayed, stupid, and humiliated. I'm also angry because

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Speaker 6: he didn't just cheat. He cheated with someone who lived

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Speaker 6: I've already decided I'm done. I've signed a lease for

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Speaker 6: I haven't told him yet, and I don't plan to

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Speaker 6: My plan is to pack and move all my things

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Speaker 6: This is where I may be the ahole. I know

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Speaker 6: Tina doesn't live here anymore either. So am I the

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Speaker 6: knowing he can't afford this place or a new one

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Speaker 8: I don't think so.

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Speaker 6: I think so I could maybe get behind like sure,

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Speaker 9: It was, Like I don't think I don't think it's

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Speaker 6: I moved out. It was incredibly hard, but I knew

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Speaker 6: He then decided that he wanted to talk. I did

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Speaker 6: I said, you want to talk. Now, where was this

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Speaker 6: When you would talk crap about all the different dudes

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Speaker 6: I continued, not only did you ef her, but you

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Speaker 6: there you go, he said, I cut her off after

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Speaker 8: This man is so dam I laughed.

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Speaker 6: She said, well you thought wrong, buddy, and got up

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Speaker 8: Jeez, dude, this man is so stupid.

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Speaker 6: Stupid, stupid, mass stupid. One crucial detail I forgot to

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Speaker 6: I was out walking my dog when the universe decided

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Speaker 8: Now, there's no way.

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Speaker 6: Turns out she lives there as well.

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Speaker 6: Now that the situation is over, tell me what really happened, okay,

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Speaker 6: she said. She was crying on the couch. He started

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Speaker 6: She said. She told him he shouldn't because of me,

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00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 6: and that's when he told her the lie about us

441
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,199
Speaker 6: just having to tell each other. She said, it happened

442
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:55,000
Speaker 6: so fast, but she knows that it was a full,

443
00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 6: spicy sleep act, not just some other things. She threw

444
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,440
Speaker 6: me for a loop and pissed me off by saying,

445
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,200
Speaker 6: and I quote, I used to purposely walk around half

446
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 6: clothed to get his attention and entice him.

447
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 7: Bro.

448
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,159
Speaker 9: I mean, I guess thanks for being honest, but like,

449
00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,119
Speaker 9: why are you admitting to all of this right now?

450
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 6: She said, especially after you stated that you didn't like

451
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,520
Speaker 6: when I walked around like that, And then he came

452
00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,440
Speaker 6: to me and said he doesn't mind, and that he

453
00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 6: likes it. I figured if he didn't care, why should I.

454
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 6: She said, he would set up movie nights for them

455
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 6: to cuddle on the couch while I was at work.

456
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 6: I saw red and it took everything in me not

457
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 6: to one tour in the face for the blatant disregard

458
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:43,120
Speaker 6: and disrespect. Yeah. I gathered my composure and said, if

459
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 6: you wanted his wieneror so bad, why didn't do you

460
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,199
Speaker 6: do all this before I was in the picture. She

461
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 6: said she didn't see him like that until she started

462
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,360
Speaker 6: to see me changing him.

463
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:53,160
Speaker 8: Oh my god.

464
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 6: By that she meant, I stopped him from dropping everything

465
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 6: and running to her, aid, I mean, she has so

466
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,440
Speaker 6: many men to choose from, eh, and I didn't think

467
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 6: that he needed to be the one to be running

468
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,679
Speaker 6: to her side. I said, it wasn't enough for you

469
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 6: to have a community to run to. You had to

470
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 6: run to what I now know was an already passing

471
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 6: away relationship. I asked her when was the last time

472
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 6: they spoke, and she said, we talk every day, and

473
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,760
Speaker 6: he's been over here a few times. She said, nothing

474
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 6: spicy related happens, and he talks about how he messed

475
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,360
Speaker 6: up and how he wishes he could have been different.

476
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 6: Sounds like BS to me. I said I didn't care

477
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 6: and that I was done talking, and to act like

478
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 6: she didn't know me. If she saw me, he tried

479
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 6: calling and texting incessantly because Tina told him that I

480
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,920
Speaker 6: lived in the same complex, but I blocked his number

481
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,399
Speaker 6: and muted all his notifications and I haven't looked back.

482
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,160
Speaker 6: He also tried to contact my friend, who told him

483
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,400
Speaker 6: in no uncertain terms to leave me the f alone.

484
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 6: Tina has also been trying to reach out through mutual friends.

485
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,119
Speaker 6: I have told them all that I want nothing to

486
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,360
Speaker 6: do with either of them. I'm done with the drama

487
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 6: and the lies. Apparently he's scrambling to find a new

488
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 6: place and is very stressed for his predicament. Honestly, I

489
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 6: don't care.

490
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 5: Uh.

491
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 6: He made his choices and now he has to deal

492
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 6: with the consequences. I've been going to therapy and it's

493
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,679
Speaker 6: been incredibly helpful in processing my emotions and building my

494
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 6: self esteem. I'm focusing on myself now and I'm determined

495
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,159
Speaker 6: to move forward and create a happy, fulfilling life. And

496
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 6: that is the end of that story.

497
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 8: Yay for therapy.

498
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 6: Good job, op knew you didn't deserve that and you got.

499
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 11: The heck out of there.

500
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 6: You sure did. That's great.

501
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, that is so insane to like, because Okay, I

502
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 9: understand wanting to ask like you're the fair partner pretty

503
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 9: much like, yeah, well you know what happened. But it's

504
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 9: crazy that she went into that much detail and about

505
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 9: what she did wrong. It's like, Okay, I was kind

506
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 9: of wanted just to know, like just to you know,

507
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 9: make sure I didn't get the wrong idea or anything

508
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 9: like that. He just made it so much worse, Like

509
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,679
Speaker 9: I don't know, that's just so insane to me, Like

510
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 9: I feel like she would at least.

511
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 8: Try to save herself a little bit instead of.

512
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 9: Being like, yeah, I actually did this because I right,

513
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 9: it's like, Casey, you're just a terrible person. Yeah, you're

514
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 9: like literally asking to be like yelled at right now,

515
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 9: Like it's so what you want.

516
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 8: It's crazy. It's crazy.

517
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,479
Speaker 9: And that's the end of this story. We're going on

518
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 9: to the next one. I discovered my fiance's secret family

519
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 9: after I moved States for him.

520
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 6: You are you guys neighbors now?

521
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 9: I met my fiance when we dated as kids in

522
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,400
Speaker 9: middle school. We reconnected about two years ago after living

523
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 9: life separately and meshed so well that we decided to

524
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 9: just take the jump.

525
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 8: His family lives in Texas.

526
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 9: We originally lived in Minnesota, and his mother wasn't doing well,

527
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,719
Speaker 9: so we moved down here to be close. My fiance

528
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 9: bought a two bedroom house about a year ago when

529
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 9: you first learned of his mother's condition.

530
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 8: And by the.

531
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 9: Way, this comes from a throwaway two five five three

532
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 9: seven five and you and some of your own stories

533
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 9: go to the hour slash okay, storytime, separate it and

534
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 9: I'm Angie.

535
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,679
Speaker 8: I'm Carly, and we're here to give good advice. Goofily.

536
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 9: But we don't have all the answers. We just know

537
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 9: what we would do in the situation. So let us

538
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 9: know what you would do in the comments. So oh

539
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 9: p sets. At first, after we realized we wanted things

540
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 9: long term, he would fly back and forth every couple

541
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 9: of weeks until I asked him to just.

542
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 8: Stay with me. He had no intention of moving back

543
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 8: to Minnesota.

544
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 6: And it was kind of a you move here or

545
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 6: we do.

546
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 9: Long distance situation. He didn't explicitly tell me that, but

547
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 9: that's just what I gathered from our circumstances. After some

548
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 9: time thinking, I quit my job and moved to be

549
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 9: with him. I've been here officially for forty days. Last week,

550
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 9: while looking for something in the garage, I found a

551
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 9: pair of baby size to Nike shoes. I asked him

552
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,400
Speaker 9: who they belonged to, and he said he had no idea.

553
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 9: I thought nothing of it at the time and just

554
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,199
Speaker 9: tossed them. Two days ago, when going through the hamper

555
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 9: to do our laundry, I found a small pink, bluey

556
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 9: T shirt, probably the size of a five or six

557
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 9: year old. I immediately remembered the shoes, and my mind

558
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 9: started to race. What that's a crazy way to find

559
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 9: this out.

560
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 6: I'm glad we got curious after the second article of clothing,

561
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 6: but why didn't we look into the shoes more.

562
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 9: That's like scary for just if truly nothing's going on

563
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 9: and there's just a random baby shoes in your house,

564
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 9: like he's a kid, or this house is haunted some

565
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 9: kind of crazy ghost. I'll admit I assumed the worst

566
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 9: and that he was hiding a kid from me, and

567
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 9: I blew up a bit. I accused him of lying

568
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 9: to me and started getting emotional. An argument ensued after

569
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 9: I didn't believe him when he swore he had no

570
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 9: idea where these things came from. He's an only child,

571
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 9: so there's no nieces or nephews. The only family he

572
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 9: really talks to here is his parents. He offered no

573
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,400
Speaker 9: explanation other than simply insisting.

574
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 8: He had no idea.

575
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 9: I pretty much shut down after realizing we were getting nowhere,

576
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 9: and have spoken maybe ten words to him. Since he

577
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 9: isn't pushing me to talk either, it feels like I'm

578
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 9: just here, existing in the same space. Since yesterday, I've

579
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 9: just been filled with despair and regret about moving here,

580
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 9: and I'm not even sure if I should be feeling

581
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 9: this way. The thought of apologizing for my blow up

582
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 9: and trying to rectify things when he might be secretly

583
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 9: lying to me about something like this just makes my

584
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 9: stomach churn. I don't hope or even want to believe

585
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 9: that that's the case. He's never given me any reason

586
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 9: to feel like this before, but it just doesn't make

587
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 9: any sense to me. And there are some comments, But

588
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 9: what are your comments so far?

589
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 6: I like that she was like and I didn't really

590
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 6: think he was hiding a kid from me. Yeah, No,

591
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 6: he's hiding an entire family from you. Yeah, I mean,

592
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 6: I mean it's hardly what I would say.

593
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 9: They have the title to like, that's that a hint,

594
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 9: But like I would immediately.

595
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 6: Still be like, why is there a baby? Shoes and

596
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 6: T shirt.

597
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 9: Yeah, and you have no siblings, so there's no possible

598
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 9: ray of nieces or nephews.

599
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 6: And this is too big for you to be like, oh,

600
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 6: like it's for us having like you're not pregnant.

601
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, you don't know that. You're not gonna announce to

602
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 8: me that I'm pregnant.

603
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 6: What a backwards way. Yeah, surprise he's pregnant. Right.

604
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 9: We do have some comments though, Comment number one this,

605
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 9: I've randomly found kids clothes intermixed in my stuff. But

606
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 9: it's as simple as I've had nieces and nephews over

607
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 9: even years prior and just never thought to do a

608
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 9: clean house for crawl spaces or bins very often. It's

609
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 9: still weird, but this kind of stuff happens when you

610
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 9: sometimes babysit kids. If you don't or never have, it's

611
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 9: strange and weirder still to not have any curiosity whatsoever.

612
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 8: That's a good point, the.

613
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 6: Fact that he's not like he's just kind of like, oh,

614
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 6: that's weird.

615
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 9: It's just like a brand new baby of baby Nike's

616
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 9: and my clothes, like oh awkward.

617
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 6: And then she's like he's like, actually, like I just

618
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 6: really like Bluey that shirt's for me, for me, She's like,

619
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 6: it's my baby.

620
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 8: Like I put on my leg, I.

621
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 9: Draw the little face on my I make a little

622
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 9: puppet out of my leg.

623
00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 6: Yeah. Like like best answer is I've taken up puppetry, right,

624
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 6: But the fact.

625
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 9: That he's not even curious about trying to make it's like, Okay,

626
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 9: there's definitely something going on.

627
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 6: Zero creativity problem.

628
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 9: Come on, it doesn't have to be a mystery either

629
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 9: of you can or even need to solve.

630
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 6: But his reaction or lack of surprise.

631
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 8: At all is a red flag in my opinion.

632
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 9: Come a number two says, you've now found baby shoes

633
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 9: and a shirt for a small child, maybe five or six.

634
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 9: They were in his garage and in his laundry. The

635
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 9: laundry especially is suspect because that is constantly moving and refilling.

636
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 9: Does he think these items just magically appeared? There's maybe

637
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 9: one child or two in My first thought was that

638
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 9: there's a baby mama out there who was leaving evidence

639
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 9: for you to find.

640
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 8: Interesting.

641
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 6: You know how some.

642
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 9: Women leave earrings in the bed or underwear behind so

643
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 9: the man's wife can find it.

644
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 8: That's what I thought of with this. So what is

645
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 8: he going to do about this? What are you going

646
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 8: to do about it? I don't know if it will work, but.

647
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 9: You can search birth records online. You might have to pay, though,

648
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 9: sites like ancestry and my Heritage have birth records and

649
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 9: you don't have to have all the info like birthdates.

650
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 8: That's interesting.

651
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 6: I didn't know that.

652
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 8: That is good to know. We do have an update.

653
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,719
Speaker 9: Someone suggested I propose getting cameras and gauge his reaction.

654
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 9: He was very against it and immediately jumped to the

655
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 9: conclusion that I was trying to catch him in something.

656
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 9: His reaction took me mess fries.

657
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 6: Would you have to be caught doing? Exactly? After that,

658
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 6: I said screw it and.

659
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 8: Went through his phone.

660
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 9: Another popular suggestion and something neither of us had done

661
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 9: since knowing each other. So I'd watched him put in

662
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Speaker 9: the code from the corner of my eye and then

663
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 9: went through it while he slipped. I found a woman

664
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Speaker 9: that he's been calling and answering calls from while he's working,

665
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 9: maybe every other day. After my hand stopped shaking, I

666
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 9: called from my phone and asked who she was. She

667
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 9: asked me who I was, and I told her I'm

668
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 9: his fiance. She told me she's the mother of his kids,

669
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Speaker 9: and that he's a father of two boys, a girl

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Speaker 9: ten seven and five years old.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 6: Kids not so much. Okay, she didn't say his.

673
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 8: Life though, Yeah, yeah, that's true, just the mother.

674
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Speaker 6: I'm wondering if they're in a relationship or if the

675
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 6: thing he's lied about is just not having a bunch

676
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 6: of kids. Yeah, I mean, that's still a massive, unforgiven lie.

677
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 6: But I'm like, I'm wondering if maybe they're not like

678
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 6: together together a bunch of kids and their co parenting thing.

679
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 8: That's a good point. That's a good point.

680
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 6: Still weird, still like not something you don't disclose to

681
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 6: someone that you're engaged to.

682
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, but okay, okay, okay, yeah, the next sentences. The

683
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 9: next sentences, they met in college and have been on

684
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Speaker 9: and off since then, but they're currently just co parenting.

685
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 8: An obvious lie, he says. Though, Okay, interesting.

686
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 6: An obvious line.

687
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 9: Yeah, so maybe maybe there's like other hints of a relationship.

688
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 8: There's so much to the story.

689
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 9: She told me that she'd been told about me, and

690
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 9: that he said I was pregnant and had pretty much

691
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 9: moved here at random against his will, that I was

692
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 9: just a crazy what night sand while they were on

693
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 9: a break, and he was just trying to co parent,

694
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 9: basically playing this role of the heroic father to a

695
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 9: fake baby, trying to do right when in reality he's

696
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 9: just a psychotic piece of garbage.

697
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 8: She seemed more relieved that I wasn't pregnant than anything,

698
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 8: but that's her issue. I told her about the shirt.

699
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 9: She said her kids had spent the weekend, another lie,

700
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 9: because no one has ever been here since I moved in.

701
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 9: She didn't even seem to care that he hid his

702
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 9: own children from a woman that he was going to marry.

703
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 9: He doesn't know yet, but I'm leaving.

704
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 8: I'll be using my little.

705
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 9: Savings to get home and stay at a motel until

706
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 9: i'm on my feet again. Thankfully, when I left my job,

707
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 9: my boss said I was always welcome back.

708
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 8: My flight is in two days.

709
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 9: I probably shouldn't have, but I also broke his phone

710
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 9: and said that I accidentally spilled water on it.

711
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 3: All.

712
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 8: I actually spilled water on it.

713
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 6: Oh no, I mean like you accidentally had a secret family.

714
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 9: About an hour after I called her, she texted him

715
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 9: call me, and I panicked. I assume she plans to

716
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 9: tell him that I know, even though I asked her

717
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 9: not to. It hurts and I've been evaluating everything this far,

718
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 9: every conversation we've had, every little piece that hasn't added

719
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:11,239
Speaker 9: up one thing.

720
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 8: I will say.

721
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 9: Although we never begged me to move or anything, we

722
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 9: did have numerous conversations about the possibility, and a month

723
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 9: before I moved here, he acted so excited and even

724
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 9: sent me a bunch of job listings in the area.

725
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 9: I definitely did not stock him or pressure him, but

726
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 9: he clearly wants his baby mama if he's concocted this

727
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 9: whole psychotic fairy tale to sell to her. So I'm

728
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 9: truly and honestly done. I'm just trying to remain calm

729
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 9: and saying until I'm up and out of his life

730
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 9: for good. This whole time, he hasn't even asked why

731
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 9: I'm not talking to him either, Thankfully, I guess because

732
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 9: I wouldn't know what to say. But I know he's

733
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 9: a garbage parasite, and that just hurts me even more.

734
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 8: And we do have a little bit more to this story.

735
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 8: I might just wrap this up. It's like a teeny

736
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 8: tiny bit more.

737
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's hear it.

738
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 9: It's like I really was just nothing this whole time.

739
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 9: I uprooted my whole life literally for nothing more than

740
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 9: a single month of playing wife. Now I have to

741
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 9: pick up the pieces and repair them all on my own. Well,

742
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 9: his life stays unchanged and he gets to be happy

743
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 9: with his family. This has all happened within the last

744
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 9: forty eight hours, so I am still collecting myself emotionally.

745
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 9: And uh, that is the end of that story.

746
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Speaker 8: Wow wow wow wow.

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Speaker 7: My daughter's friend moved in with us and it's been

751
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752
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Speaker 7: My husband male forty five and I female thirty five,

758
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762
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Speaker 7: I'm Riley, and we're here to give good advice. Goofily,

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Speaker 7: But we don't have all the answers. We only know

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Speaker 7: what we'd do, So let us know what you would

769
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Speaker 7: do in the comments. My daughter's friend, let's call her Lily,

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Speaker 7: female twenty one, is having issues at home. My daughter

771
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 7: is telling us about it, and I talk with my husband.

772
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 7: He's known Lily for a while. Some of what she's

773
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Speaker 7: said about home life is true. Kids shouldn't have to

774
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Speaker 7: go through anything that causes drama. I suggest letting Lily

775
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 7: move in with us to get her away from it

776
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 7: and help guide her through the transition. Everyone agrees, great idea.

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00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 7: Lily doesn't give my daughter an answer right away. My

778
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Speaker 7: son has been moved out for a month and I'm.

779
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Speaker 11: Thinking cool, we have an extra room.

780
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Speaker 7: And then about six weeks later, my daughter says Lily

781
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Speaker 7: will be here in two weeks. My stomach fell out

782
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 7: of my body. I should have said something then, but

783
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 7: I didn't. It felt like my world was about to change.

784
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 7: Lily moves in, gets a job within a month, and

785
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 7: we discussed my daughter and Lily helping with financial contribution

786
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,720
Speaker 7: to the household one hundred and fifty dollars a month each.

787
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 7: They're both over eighteen, both have full time jobs. Conveniently,

788
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 7: we all work at the same place, except my husband.

789
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 7: He works overnights at a manufacturing plant. Lily has her

790
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 7: driver's license but not a car yet, and if I

791
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 7: didn't have any plans on my day off, I'd let

792
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 7: Lily and my daughter take my car. Everything seems to

793
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 7: be going good for the first month or so, but

794
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 7: doesn't it always go good in the beginning. After the

795
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 7: I'm wonderful phase, things started getting weird. We'd all get

796
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 7: off work at the same time, but for whatever reason,

797
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 7: the girls thought they needed to change out of work

798
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 7: clothes into street clothes at work in the employee bathroom.

799
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 7: I wanted to go home, so I'd be sitting there

800
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 7: waiting in my car ten to fifteen minutes for them

801
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 7: to come out. In that time, we could have been home.

802
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 7: After a couple of weeks, I asked that they please

803
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 7: wait till we get home.

804
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 11: To change.

805
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,919
Speaker 7: I said it nastier than intended. I had a bad

806
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,720
Speaker 7: day at work and was frustrated. Then I noticed my coffee,

807
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 7: creamer and coffee are being used faster.

808
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 11: That's fine, doesn't bother me.

809
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 7: Until the last of it is used and I'm not

810
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 7: told so I can buy more. So I talked to

811
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 7: the girls about it. If you use the last bit,

812
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 7: please say so. Then it's not just the coffee or creamer,

813
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 7: it's other items in the fridge too. I don't know

814
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,439
Speaker 7: how many mornings I didn't have breakfast. I'd sometimes cry

815
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 7: when I saw there weren't any eggs or bread, and

816
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 7: I snapped. I was buying more and more creamer, coffee, eggs,

817
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 7: and we were still going through it so fast. My

818
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 7: daughter wanted to be nice and make Lily coffee. She's

819
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 7: filling the filter completely full of grounds. That's a cup

820
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 7: of grounds for a twenty four ounce tumbler. I ask

821
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 7: her why. He tells me Lily likes her coffee strong.

822
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 7: I'd take her to the coffee pot and show where

823
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 7: there's a regular and strong brew. Adding more grounds doesn't

824
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 7: make it stronger. Eventually this all evolves to I'm not

825
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 7: making dinner anymore because I'm tired of wasting my time

826
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 7: and money. It took months to reach this point. Whatever

827
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 7: I made, they wouldn't eat. They'd order door dash, Uber

828
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 7: eats or takeout. So I made food for my husband

829
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 7: and me.

830
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 8: That was it.

831
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 7: My daughter and Lily are buying their own food that

832
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 7: includes coffee and creamer. Yeah, that seemed like that was

833
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 7: the solution. That's honestly, that seems like a pretty easy solution.

834
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 5: Though I like, i'd trust like this was more frustrating

835
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 5: to actually live in.

836
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Speaker 8: But it is kind of funny to have.

837
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Speaker 10: This story be like my daughter's friend move in and

838
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 10: it was absolute chaos, and it's so going faster, and

839
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 10: they get Uber Eats and they'd change in the bathroom.

840
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Speaker 5: I'm like, again, all annoying stuff, but I'm sort of

841
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 5: waiting chaos.

842
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 7: During all of this, I did try and bond, but Lily,

843
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,720
Speaker 7: like a friendship, she kept her distance because she didn't

844
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 7: know me and was intimidated. Still, I invited her to

845
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 7: everything we did, she'd decline. Sometimes, when I had the

846
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 7: day off and the girls had to go to work,

847
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 7: they'd come home and go straight to one of their bedrooms.

848
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 7: Then I'd hear sobbing, not crying, sobbing. It was terrifying

849
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 7: at first. Both girls had really bad anxiety and the

850
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 7: smallest thing would set them off. I told my husband

851
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 7: he had a month to help my daughter find some help.

852
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 7: He didn't, so I did. Got my daughter in touch

853
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 7: with the place, and she began counseling. At this point,

854
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 7: she was in counseling for about ten months and began

855
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 7: to handle her mental stress in healthier ways. We all

856
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 7: strongly suggested to Lily she began counseling or therapy for herself.

857
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 7: He kept pushing it off and never went. Whenever I'd

858
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 7: come home from work and they'd be home all day,

859
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 7: Sometimes I come home to them both sobbing. I check

860
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 7: on them, and sometimes the answer I got would be.

861
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 8: We just really needed a session.

862
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 7: Eventually I stopped checking on them. There comes a day

863
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 7: where the girls had asked to use my car. The

864
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 7: next morning, sure, I don't work, keys are on the table.

865
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 7: Afternoon comes around and they still haven't left. My husband

866
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 7: is relaxing before work, and I decide to go to

867
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 7: the store real quick. When I get back, he's getting

868
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 7: dressed and the girls are waiting in the living room.

869
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,479
Speaker 7: I ask what's going on? He tells me. After I left,

870
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 7: my daughter went upstairs to tell Lily I had left

871
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 7: with my car. Lily asks to take his car. He

872
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,240
Speaker 7: just got that car Adventure Pack Rev. Four, he says.

873
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 6: Now.

874
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,240
Speaker 7: Lily gets upset and says they have to go somewhere.

875
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 7: He tells her I'll be back soon. Lilly panics and

876
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 7: says she has to leave now. I get back before

877
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 7: he's even finished dressing, and I get mad when he

878
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 7: tells me all that I let the girls take my

879
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 7: car and say we can talk about this when you

880
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 7: get back. Before this, there were hints that Lily felt

881
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,919
Speaker 7: like my car was her car. He goes to work

882
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 7: and girls get back and we talk. It all comes

883
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 7: down to ME telling Lily she had all morning and

884
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 7: she didn't use my car like she said she would.

885
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 7: So I go somewhere and that's when you finally want

886
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 7: to use my car. I told her I felt like

887
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 7: she felt entitled to my car. She denied it, so

888
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 7: I reminded her it is my car. She's access to

889
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 7: my car because I allow her to, but that doesn't

890
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 7: mean it's hers to use at her convenience. Things with

891
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 7: Lily just kept getting worse and worse. I actually forgot

892
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 7: my husband lived with us. I felt alone. That's not

893
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 7: a great situation.

894
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 11: Again, again, not a good situation.

895
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 8: I'm sure it was not fun to do.

896
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 5: I didn't love me like The image that popped into

897
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 5: my head is her going into the kitchen at like

898
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 5: two am and he has motion.

899
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 11: Jesus, sorry, I forgot you lived here.

900
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 8: I thought it was just thought Lily.

901
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 11: Terrible girls and three animals.

902
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 7: We had been talking about moving for a while, and

903
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,919
Speaker 7: when Lily moved in, we told her we'd be moving

904
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 7: the following year. So about six months through the lease,

905
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 7: I began looking at places. I talk to my husband,

906
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 7: tell him how I'm feeling alone and unwelcome in my

907
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 7: own house. Lily and I were fighting a lot. After

908
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 7: every fight, she'd ask if I hated her. I always

909
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 7: said no, because I didn't. She needed help, help that

910
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 7: I couldn't provide, and help she didn't want to get.

911
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 7: Can't help someone that doesn't want to help themselves. Though,

912
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 7: I tell him I couldn't live with her anymore, that

913
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 7: if he wanted to take Lily with us during the move,

914
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 7: I'd find my own apartment. My own inner piece was

915
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 7: more important. To me than Lily was. He told me

916
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 7: he felt the same about Lily and didn't want to

917
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 7: bring her with us. Neither one of us wanted to

918
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 7: tell her we didn't want her moving with us, and

919
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 7: Lily was also trying to convince my daughter to move

920
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 7: out with her. I discouraged that. I was beginning to

921
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 7: realize Lily was a leech. My daughter always had to

922
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 7: be with her do as she said. Lily was isolating

923
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 7: my daughter and I didn't like it. Even friendships can

924
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 7: turn harmful, so we had a hard conversation together. We

925
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,439
Speaker 7: talked to Lily about her behavior and how we weren't

926
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 7: okay with it. We also told her that if nothing changes,

927
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 7: we do not want her to move with us. The

928
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 7: conversation did not go well. She thinks you hate her.

929
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 7: She's crying, my husband's crying, my daughter's crying. I'm stoic

930
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 7: as f Still, I don't ate her. I just didn't

931
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 7: feel anything.

932
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 8: For her anymore.

933
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 7: Things got worse after that. Found a place for us

934
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 7: and got so excited I convinced my husband to sign

935
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 7: the lease without him having seen the property. Lily doesn't

936
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 7: know where it is. This was in December and we

937
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 7: signed the lease on the new place, and we still

938
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 7: had the lease with Lily until May at the old place.

939
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 7: We decided we could pay both leases. Lily and my

940
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 7: daughter were going to stay at the old place together

941
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,240
Speaker 7: while my husband and I lived in the new place alone.

942
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 7: The day after Christmas, everything explodes again. This was the

943
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 7: word done explosion. Lily and I were arguing, and my

944
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 7: daughter opened up and told us how she felt about Lily,

945
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 7: but wasn't sure how to end it, so we kept

946
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 7: Lily away from the new place. Later that night, my

947
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 7: husband and I told Lily she wasn't coming with us.

948
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 7: She had thought things blew over and she was fine

949
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 7: to come with us. I was firm and said absolutely not.

950
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,919
Speaker 7: She has some kind of dissociation with the conversation kept

951
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 7: repeating how she needed to go to the gym. We

952
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 7: kept steering the conversation towards No, you're not coming with us.

953
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 7: We've had enough of this behavior. She kept saying, can

954
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 7: we talk about this later. I need to go to

955
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 7: the gym. She leaves and my daughter goes with her.

956
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 7: My husband has a bad feeling the entire time. We

957
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 7: go get some fast food, and as soon as we

958
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 7: get back, my phone rings. I've always told the kids,

959
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 7: I don't care where you are or what time it is.

960
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 7: If you are unsafe and you don't want to be

961
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 7: there anymore, call me. I will be there, no questions asked.

962
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 7: The phone rings, and it's my daughter. I answer.

963
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 11: She's crying.

964
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 7: We get back in the car and stay on the

965
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 7: phone with her the entire time. She's in the gym

966
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 7: bathroom because Lily is taking her anger out on her.

967
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 7: Lily is putting the blame of the fallout on my daughter.

968
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 7: We get to the gym, my husband goes inside to

969
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 7: get her. We get back to the house, set my

970
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 7: daughter up in our room, favorite pillow, here's the dogs remote,

971
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 7: lock the door. We're gonna smasher burgers, and then we're

972
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 7: packing some stuff to leave. It's one thing to fight

973
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 7: with me, it's another to go after my daughter. I

974
00:43:58,640 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 7: was cold, I.

975
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 8: Was calm, I was dangerous.

976
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 7: I don't remember how long we were in my daughter's

977
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 7: room packing. When Lily gets back, she goes straight to

978
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 7: the bedroom door and opens it, not very far because

979
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 7: I was sitting in front of the door. Lily says, oh,

980
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 7: she wasn't expecting that. She begins crying about how her

981
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 7: best friend left her at the gym, and she doesn't know.

982
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 11: Why, what's going on.

983
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 7: My husband keeps responding to her, and after a minute

984
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 7: or two, I just lean back and slowly shut the

985
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 7: door on her. I tell him not to respond anymore

986
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 7: because that's what she wants. So there we are shut

987
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 7: in my daughter's room packing her stuff, while Lily is

988
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 7: crying about how she doesn't know what's going on and

989
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 7: is scared. She says, I brought Abby. Please talk to me,

990
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 7: what's happening. I brought Abby. My daughter stops, gets a

991
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 7: panic look on her face and begins to repeat she

992
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 7: brought Abby. I get her focused on me and say, nope, focus,

993
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 7: is this keep or throw away?

994
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 8: We continue packing.

995
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 7: Lily eventually goes away to her room with Abby. We

996
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 7: load up my husband's car with my daughter, her stuff,

997
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 7: and all three fur babies, and we head to the

998
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 7: new house. We unpack at the new house, go back

999
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 7: for our stuff, and spend the night at the new place.

1000
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 7: No electric or heat yet, but we were done with Lily.

1001
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 7: The next day, my husband, my son, and I go

1002
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 7: back to the house with the u al and pack

1003
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 7: up everything that is ours. Lily's car was in the driveway.

1004
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 11: She had a car this whole time.

1005
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess now she does, so we thought she

1006
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 5: was home sleeping.

1007
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 7: We did it all quietly. We left my daughter at

1008
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 7: home because we didn't want Lily to have an opportunity

1009
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 7: to get her alone again. We move everything out, leaving

1010
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 7: Lily alone in the old house. I text Lily as

1011
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 7: she has until the end of January to move out.

1012
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 7: We didn't tell her where we were so she couldn't

1013
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 7: bother us, and she doesn't respond. Lily kept trying to

1014
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 7: guilt my daughter into talking to her again, and Abby

1015
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 7: did the same. We let my daughter make up her

1016
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 7: own mind. She decided to not talk to Lily anymore

1017
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,839
Speaker 7: and made new socials without Lily as a friend. I

1018
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 7: was proud of her for that. It was years till

1019
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 7: we saw Lily again at a big box store and

1020
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 7: I wanted to talk to her and see how she's doing,

1021
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 7: but I didn't.

1022
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 11: I won't.

1023
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,760
Speaker 7: My intention wasn't ever to hurt her, but I couldn't

1024
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 7: do it anymore for myself, and then she took her

1025
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 7: anger out on my daughter.

1026
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 4: I was done.

1027
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 7: I know I wasn't perfect in all of it, and

1028
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,240
Speaker 7: I made mistakes. I still think about Lily and wondered

1029
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 7: how we could have done better for her. But you

1030
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 7: can't help anyone who can't help themselves. My daughter learned

1031
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 7: some valuable life lessons. She began being more assertive about

1032
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 7: her personal feelings and boundaries. She's grown so much and

1033
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 7: is doing well. I couldn't be prouder. And that's the

1034
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 7: end of that story. And you know what, seems like

1035
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 7: everything's doing a lot better.

1036
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, I honestly think Opie probably did.

1037
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 6: Dude, it sounds like she did her best.

1038
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 8: I agree, I agree.

1039
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 7: I think I think it's not always you know, I

1040
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,879
Speaker 7: think Opee went into this wanting to help a young girl,

1041
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 7: and this girl turned out to be a lot more

1042
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 7: work than Opie was able to handle.

1043
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 8: And that's you know, that sometimes happens.

1044
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:46,839
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1045
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Speaker 5: My nephew turned my home into a free hotel and

1050
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Speaker 5: I've had enough?

1051
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Speaker 6: What is this hotel for dogs?

1052
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 5: My nephew, twenty male, who I've dearly loved forever brought

1053
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 5: his new girlfriend eighteen female to meet us and asked.

1054
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 6: If they could stay over. I said sure, we have two.

1055
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 5: Very comfy sofas, and came down the next morning to

1056
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 5: find them both entwined on the one sofa.

1057
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Speaker 11: I'm Riley, I'm Sophia, and.

1062
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 6: We're here to give good advice.

1063
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 5: In a goofy manner. But we don't have all the answers.

1064
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 5: We're not omniscient, so you only know what we would do,

1065
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 5: and let us know what you would do in those sweet,

1066
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 5: sweet comments. This wouldn't bother most people, but we're hardcore

1067
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 5: Christians and don't believe spicy sleep before marriage is a

1068
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 5: good idea and something we are trying to instill in

1069
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 5: our own children ages fourteen, twelve, nine, and six. Still

1070
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 5: they're not Christian, so we chose to ignore it and

1071
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 5: explain to our kids that we can't enforce our beliefs

1072
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 5: on others. This happens a few times over the next fortnight.

1073
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 5: Nephew then asks, if I get a caravan, could I

1074
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 5: perk it on your drive so we can live there?

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00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 11: WHOA, that's a this is a big step up.

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00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 5: I'm also scurious, like entwined is such a fascinating herb,

1077
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 5: because I'm like, well do we I think we were

1078
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 5: just cuddling.

1079
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 7: That's kind of my vibe. Well, I mean I was

1080
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,240
Speaker 7: not on that couch. We don't know how they were entwined.

1081
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 6: I love you.

1082
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 7: That's a I thought this was kind of a one

1083
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:27,760
Speaker 7: night thing.

1084
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 11: Yeah, I also love I've been thinking about moving in.

1085
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 7: I've been thinking about moving in.

1086
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 8: I hope that.

1087
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 5: You're thinking of the same thing too. Nephew says, yeah,

1088
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 5: it makes sense. I'm here all the time anyways. Now

1089
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 5: they're both here most nights, no longer bothering to ask.

1090
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 5: One day, I come home from food shopping at five

1091
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 5: am to find them practically dry humping on the sofa,

1092
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 5: her underneath, legs wrapped around him, sucking on his neck

1093
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 5: while he's smooching on hers. My four kids are in

1094
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 5: the room on various screens and playing with toys.

1095
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 7: I'm all right, that's crazy to be like, howdays they're

1096
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 7: like four nine and twelve thirteen or twelve.

1097
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 6: Nine in six.

1098
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 7: Okay, still, OI, can we stop with the overtly spicy

1099
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 7: related displays in front of my kids?

1100
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 8: Please?

1101
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 6: Nephew lifts his head and says, what we're cuddling?

1102
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 5: I retort yeah, horizontally. They stare at each other deadban

1103
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 5: like I'm being unreasonable. I turn into a comedian. I

1104
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 5: barely kiss Hobby in front of our kids, so this

1105
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 5: horizontal canodling is a bit much. Waving my hands dramatically

1106
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 5: and laughing. They both get up and sit side by side,

1107
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 5: holding hands. I later chat with them and explain our

1108
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 5: values and state that we're trying to raise our kids

1109
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 5: with what we believe is right. We don't particularly want

1110
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 5: to store up future problems with our own kids when

1111
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 5: they're older, asking why their own girlfriend's boyfriends can't stay.

1112
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 5: When we let nephew and girlfriend to give credit, they

1113
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 5: take this on board. However, we now come down most

1114
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 5: mornings to the sofa cushions all on the floor where

1115
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 5: they've made themselves the double bed. Girlfriend doesn't work, so

1116
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 5: she's here constant while nephew leaves her work at six

1117
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 5: am and gets back around five pm. Girlfriend likes to

1118
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 5: Binge series on Netflix, munching on crisps.

1119
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 7: They are British, They're British, British, They're British.

1120
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 5: Everything she watches is fifteen rated. While my kids are

1121
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 5: in the living room. They know we don't swear, and

1122
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 5: we've asked them often to curb the very heavy language.

1123
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:18,839
Speaker 6: That they use.

1124
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 5: Nephew is a hotthead like his dad, and his favorite

1125
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 5: word is the F word since he hit eighteen. Nephew

1126
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 5: then tells me that his dad has asked him to

1127
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,439
Speaker 5: move his stuff out since he hasn't paid him rent

1128
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 5: the whole time he's been staying most nights at mine.

1129
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 5: Nephew drives a pretty fast car no seatbelt because quote

1130
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 5: they're uncomfortable. Nephew is trying to break his family's record

1131
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 5: of one hundred and twenty five miles per hour. His

1132
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 5: car has lowered springs, and he realizes the wheels are

1133
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 5: being eaten into by the rims, but can't afford to

1134
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 5: fix it just yet. He borrows our old banger to

1135
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:52,359
Speaker 5: get to work. Two weeks later, Nephew's telling me he's

1136
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 5: going to give me some money towards food while he's here.

1137
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 5: After another two weeks he offers me fifty zero. He

1138
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 5: already owed me thirty, so I say, with the thirty

1139
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 5: dollars you owe me, is that eighty pounds? Then his

1140
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 5: face drops, but he rallies quickly and says, yeah, sure,

1141
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 5: bearing in mind I'm on disability. We have four kids

1142
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:11,879
Speaker 5: and my husband earns just over minimum weight, so we're

1143
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 5: not that well off and pretty much live hand to mouth.

1144
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,439
Speaker 5: I order food in bulk, and order treats and things

1145
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 5: on Amazon, subscribe and save to save money where we can.

1146
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 5: I buy cans of Sona to save money when we

1147
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 5: go to the cinema. I also buy booze cheaply at

1148
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 5: all the ahead of when I need it now. If

1149
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 5: he likes to treat himself with these by taking first,

1150
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 5: then asking you don't mind if I well, yes, actually

1151
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 5: I do now where it wasn't so much a problem

1152
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 5: when you were only visiting. I've also started saying buy

1153
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 5: your own munch whenever my kids are eating sweets or crisps,

1154
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 5: or whenever we're sharing something and he pipes up with ooh.

1155
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 8: What you got.

1156
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 7: This happens a lot.

1157
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 5: I've also begun to state, dude, bye, you eat way,

1158
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:51,919
Speaker 5: and there's six of us to live off that money.

1159
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 5: I also noticed empty adult soda bottles in the car,

1160
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 5: including the driver's door. Ooh, and pull him up on that,

1161
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 5: saying I'm not impressed and it's pretty disrespectful to borrow

1162
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 5: my car and drink and drive. He gets cheapest and apologize.

1163
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 5: Then nephew calls one day to ask what we need

1164
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 5: to keep from the car he's borrowed, since it's being

1165
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 5: towed by the police who have caught him speeding in

1166
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 5: the car with no insurance. There's me thinking he's switched

1167
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,800
Speaker 5: his insurance over to our car. Oh, since he was

1168
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 5: warned we had no insurance on it as we weren't

1169
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 5: driving it currently. It was on our drive tax though Nope.

1170
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 5: He tried to blag that he thought he was covered

1171
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 5: under a third party, but obviously they weren't born. Yesterday,

1172
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,720
Speaker 5: our car gets towed. That sucks, and he says, sorry,

1173
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 5: it's going to cost you one hundred and ninety pounds

1174
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 5: to get it back out, and that increases to twenty

1175
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 5: pounds per day, so you'll need to do it soon.

1176
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 5: Thankfully I was able to remind him that I'd said

1177
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 5: to him when he first borrowed it, you get caught

1178
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 5: doing anything illegal in it. It's on you may and

1179
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 5: his face fell. We borrowed the one one hundred and

1180
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 5: ninety pounds.

1181
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 8: And got the car back.

1182
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 5: I also bought the spark plug that had been damaged

1183
00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 5: from a new oil leak, which he fitted and got

1184
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 5: it back on the We had to pay for a

1185
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 5: new insurance contract on this car to be able to.

1186
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 11: Get the police to release it.

1187
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 5: Last week, our own car had to be towed to

1188
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 5: the garage when the brakes failed. I call him to

1189
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 5: ask what time he's back and say, gotta need our

1190
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 5: car back. It's in the garage and I need to

1191
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 5: get a food shop done. He replies, Ah, well that's

1192
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 5: not going to work given the state that it's in.

1193
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 5: I think and say, yeah, I've seen the state of it.

1194
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 5: But I can push the rubbish to one side as

1195
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 5: I only need the driver's seat, don't need to take

1196
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 5: anyone with me. He replies, I've just had to drive

1197
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 5: it into a ditch to avoid hitting some idiot driving

1198
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 5: like a tweat. I ask what the damage is he replies,

1199
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 5: The front has gone. The driver's side wing mirror is

1200
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 5: hanging by its wire smash, there's no headlights, on the

1201
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 5: left side and half a number. He says, I've managed

1202
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 5: to find someone with a towbar because it wasn't moving.

1203
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 5: I said, well, you're a third party. You can claim

1204
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 5: on the insurance, and he says no, because I avoided

1205
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 5: hitting him because I wasn't wearing a seat belt and

1206
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 5: didn't want to go through the windscreen, so I drove

1207
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 5: into the ditch on purpose and he's driven off. So

1208
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 5: you've written my car off because you chose not to

1209
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 5: wear a seat belt and he says yeah. Basically, he

1210
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 5: manages to drive it back to mine and it's not

1211
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 5: driving terribly because I drive it two minutes around the

1212
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 5: corner to grab the food I need. This is now

1213
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 5: nine PM when I get back. He says, I'm still

1214
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 5: taking it to work in the morning because I've got

1215
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 5: no choice, hoping at that time in the morning there

1216
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 5: won't be many coppers about. He then gets back around

1217
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 5: five pm, so.

1218
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 6: He takes it to work in the morning.

1219
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 7: At this point, like, yeah, he's in a hole and

1220
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 7: he's a fall here, but like you're a little bit

1221
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 7: up fall Like if so fool me once you know.

1222
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 5: We're at fool me. Thrice stereotar like fool me fifth, yeah, fife.

1223
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 5: He then gets back around five pm and states had

1224
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 5: to limp the car home. It's really not doing well.

1225
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 8: I'm sure it's not.

1226
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 11: I imagined it wouldn't be.

1227
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 5: I get in it to pop to the supermarket for

1228
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 5: stuff I couldn't get the day before, and it won't

1229
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 5: even turn over. We try to jumpstart it, but it's

1230
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 5: not playing ball. Cars passed away. He says, you can

1231
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 5: get about two hundred and fifty or three hundred pounds

1232
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 5: for it from the scrappy I'll call them tomorrow.

1233
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 6: Oh yeah.

1234
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 5: A couple of weeks before, he'd asked about scrapping it

1235
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,319
Speaker 5: when it inevitably passed away, and then said, I'll need

1236
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 5: to use that dash to get my car back on

1237
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 5: the road so I can still get to work. My face,

1238
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 5: I can't even describe the look I gave him. He

1239
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 5: looks a bit sheepish, and I ask, well, how much

1240
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 5: do you think it'll cost to get yours sorted?

1241
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 6: And he says, got to sort.

1242
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 5: The tires, so probably around two hundred pounds. So now

1243
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 5: here we are a four car family and none of

1244
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 5: them currently working. He duly calls the breaker's yard. When

1245
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:28,919
Speaker 5: I ask him how they were paying me. He says,

1246
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 5: they're paying it into my account. He'd actually managed to

1247
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 5: fix his tires the week before, and it said I

1248
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 5: won't be needing to borrow much. So when the breakers

1249
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,439
Speaker 5: collected the car, I call him and ask if they've sent.

1250
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:38,879
Speaker 8: The money yet.

1251
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 5: He says, nah, it'll be later this afternoon. I say,

1252
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 5: we'll buzz it over to me when it gets there yet,

1253
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 5: and he says, yeah, no problem. Around four PM, I

1254
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 5: call and say, have they sent you the dosh yet?

1255
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:49,919
Speaker 8: His reply yeah.

1256
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 5: I say, well send it over to me then, because

1257
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 5: I need to do a supermarket delivery since I can't

1258
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 5: get there now, and he says, how much do you need?

1259
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 5: I said all of it? Ah, we had to use

1260
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 5: some of it in the car. I asked how much

1261
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:05,240
Speaker 5: did you use and he replies about two hundred pounds.

1262
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 5: I got and yell his name in an incredulous way.

1263
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 5: He says, well, I did say I'd need to borrow

1264
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 5: about two hundred pounds, and then proceeded to tell me

1265
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 5: he spent about five hundred pounds that week trying to

1266
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 5: get it sorted. Presuming I imagined that I'll feel sorry

1267
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 5: for him. I reminded him of what he'd said previously

1268
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 5: about having had the tires done, significantly reducing the amount

1269
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 5: he'd need to borrow. He said, oh yeah, sorry, I

1270
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 5: demand he sends the remaining forty dollars forty pounds over

1271
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:32,399
Speaker 5: and tell him I'll borrow the rest for my sister.

1272
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 5: I didn't mention at this point there. We're also going

1273
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 5: to be spending five hundred pounds fixing our other car.

1274
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 5: This was five nights ago. Our car is still in

1275
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 5: the garage and there's a crack in some pipe that

1276
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 5: needs replacing. It's going to cost us five hundred pounds,

1277
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 5: which I've managed to hold back since we've been paid

1278
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,919
Speaker 5: Hubby's monthly salary, but it's left us understandably tight this month,

1279
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 5: what with Hubby needing to use public transportation to work too. Thankfully,

1280
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 5: he works twenty four to forty eight hour shift, which

1281
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 5: usually saved those petrol since he's only driving there and

1282
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 5: back once or twice a week. We've given the top

1283
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 5: bunk to the nephew, and the nine and six year

1284
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,479
Speaker 5: old are top and tailing in my daughter's single room,

1285
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 5: so all three older boys are sharing together. This is

1286
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 5: again where I think you're exactly right, and now I

1287
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 5: will even go so far as like, again, I'm trying

1288
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 5: to be sympathetic to Opie.

1289
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, but like that's not fair to your kid.

1290
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:22,919
Speaker 8: No, it's not fair to your kids.

1291
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 7: Your kids. One, you said you're trying to raise them

1292
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 7: in a certain way, and already you are effectively at

1293
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 7: like not at fault, but like you are responsible for

1294
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 7: them not being raised that way when he's around influencing

1295
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 7: them in another way. And then also you are, like

1296
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 7: you know, making them share much smaller quarters because the

1297
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 7: nephew gets to stay and take advantage and eat the

1298
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 7: food that you know, more than inconveniences the whole family.

1299
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 5: Since nephew declared that the younger lads can have the

1300
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 5: sofas so they can share the bed, we've had to

1301
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 5: have another chat about our values, which began with the

1302
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 5: line absolutely not you're having a laugh. Since then, they've

1303
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 5: been staying weekends at her dad. They still expect to

1304
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 5: be fed when they arrive here with no warning, as

1305
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 5: he generally doesn't sleep in more than three or four

1306
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 5: nights a week. Last night, I didn't cook enough shepherd's

1307
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 5: pie as we didn't have enough potatoes or meat four

1308
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty four grams in the portion of lambmins.

1309
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 5: I've managed to make it stretch by finding a few

1310
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 5: older potatoes in the pantry, making a new batch of max,

1311
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 5: and stretch the meat sauce by adding another carrotstick of

1312
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 5: celery and putting more water in in some gravy granules.

1313
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 5: I had to make this extra mash while eating mine,

1314
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 5: because they disappeared at six pm when I was cooking,

1315
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 5: so I didn't actually know they'd be eating with us.

1316
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 5: When they arrived back and declared they were starving, I

1317
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 5: had to try and make it stretch for the seven

1318
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 5: of us. I think I did pretty well. They even

1319
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,919
Speaker 5: had leftovers which I was able to give to the dog.

1320
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 5: I asked last night when he gets paid, and he says, Friday,

1321
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 5: Why I reply, because we're skinned mate, and he o

1322
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 5: is quite a lot. He goes, oh, yeah, the two

1323
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 5: hundred pounds, And I said, and the rest you've had

1324
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 5: over the last couple of weeks. And I do literally

1325
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 5: go through my bank account on my phone to add

1326
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 5: up the totals. He's conveniently forgotten the small bits he's borrowed,

1327
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 5: which totals two hundred and thirty eight pounds, which does

1328
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 5: not include the one ninety for the impound fee from

1329
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 5: a few weeks bey four. He keeps forgetting about that too,

1330
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 5: since I told him I'd borrowed it from my sister.

1331
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 5: He thinks he owes her, even though I've paid her back.

1332
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 5: I'm getting seriously fed up. My sister arrived unannounced on

1333
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 5: Thursday and offered them her house to live in. Honestly,

1334
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 5: please yeah, since she's paying rent on it but living

1335
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 5: with her man in his place mostly and they're buying

1336
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 5: another house together. The girlfriend has jumped at the offer,

1337
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 5: as it'll cost them just under one thousand pounds a month,

1338
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:32,080
Speaker 5: including council tax and bills, which is a freaking steal

1339
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 5: for a two bedroom house in that area. He's complaining

1340
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 5: about how much it's going to cost him, even though

1341
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 5: he earns twenty to twenty five pounds per hour. But

1342
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 5: I reminded him what he should be paying for that bargain.

1343
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 5: So they'll be moving out in a couple of weeks.

1344
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 11: I thank goodness.

1345
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 5: I cannot wait because we've no savings left and not

1346
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,400
Speaker 5: having a living room is causing a few issues. Feel

1347
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 5: like a right mug, but he declared to me when

1348
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 5: we got back in touch that he always pays his

1349
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 5: debts back. He owes me close to five hundred pounds now.

1350
00:59:57,560 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 5: He wrote my car off and is paying and contributed

1351
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 5: nothing apart from the fifty pounds he gave me two

1352
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 5: weeks ago. I don't know how to even broach the subject,

1353
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 5: to be honest, but I need him to contribute from

1354
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 5: this week going forward, since all our money is going

1355
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 5: on getting our car fixed before the seventeenth. My dad

1356
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 5: is coming from Australia to see us all and has

1357
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 5: booked a cottage for us to stay in Scotland, and

1358
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 5: we'll be needing to drive ten hours to get there.

1359
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 5: We have to use our car as it's a seventh

1360
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 5: seater and we're going for one week. We can't afford

1361
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 5: to hire one, plus there's six of us. Any advice appreciated.

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01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 5: Oh my god, that's the update.