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Speaker 3: my father's secret messages. I told them to come clean.

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Speaker 3: I've female twenty seven, always had this perfect family life,

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Speaker 3: happy mother and father and three kids. Both my parents

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Speaker 3: worked very hard and we all had a loving, stable upbringing.

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Speaker 3: worked full time and done over time to help us

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Speaker 3: get by. When my siblings and I were kids, my

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Speaker 3: mother worked part time and my father was still learning English,

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Speaker 3: so he was working lower paying jobs. This meant my

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Speaker 3: to the cars, finances, pensions, everything. My dad learned English properly,

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Speaker 3: got a higher paying job, and me and my siblings

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Speaker 3: grew up. My mom went back to working full time,

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Speaker 3: but my dad never learned to do any of the

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Speaker 3: admin stuff that's annoying. He also never cooks, cleans, or

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Speaker 3: My mother is amazing and she has taken on the

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Speaker 3: weight of the entire family herself. But as I've grown up,

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Speaker 3: I've resented my dad more and more for not helping

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Speaker 3: I've been a little suspicious of my dad. It started

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Speaker 3: when a colleague at work asked if he could give

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Speaker 3: been giving them a lift and it turns out it's

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Speaker 3: a girl in her twenties. Let's call her Hannah. Uh oh.

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Speaker 3: My mom didn't like it and told him to think

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Speaker 3: of what people would think if they saw him driving

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Speaker 3: around with a young girl in his car. My parents

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Speaker 3: are both in their fifties. They had a few arguments

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Speaker 3: about this, and during this time I snooped through my

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Speaker 3: dad's work phone. I found Hannah, and it didn't seem

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Speaker 1: Guilty what she put in those?

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Speaker 2: Those are illegal smoothies. It probably put protein powder in

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Speaker 2: those smoothies. Oh.

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Speaker 3: Eventually, I think he stopped giving her lips because of

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Speaker 3: what my mom said. I checked his phone a few

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Speaker 3: times after that and found nothing. The last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 3: I've been suspicious again because when going out for his

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Speaker 3: That was a red flag for me. I knew I

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Speaker 3: checking out so much, so much. This weekend, I found

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Speaker 3: a woman, let's call her Elena. The texts were definitely

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Speaker 2: Oh no, uh oh oh, Who's Elena?

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Speaker 1: Who is she?

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Speaker 3: I then saw he had been calling her late at

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Speaker 3: I was crushed. I knew what this was. I took

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Speaker 3: more than I have ever before. I'm still in shock now.

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Speaker 3: I knew my mom needed to know, but didn't know

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Speaker 3: giving her lifts to and from work. The messages seemed

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Speaker 3: You no, I don't want to know bad, But it

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Speaker 3: It was absolutely horrible. I took photos of everything I found,

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Speaker 2: Oh that's honest.

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Speaker 1: That is scary.

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Speaker 3: It's like the drive that Christopher walk and takes John

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, irving, Irving Bert right, scary, scary.

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Speaker 3: I was shaking so much, and as soon as we

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Speaker 2: I shouted and screamed and cried.

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Speaker 3: And told him he's ruined everything. He kept saying they

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Speaker 3: And he just kept on denying having done anything more

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Speaker 3: there is no way I have misinterpreted those texts.

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Speaker 2: They're very clear.

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Speaker 3: He's not the person I thought he was, and I

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Speaker 3: all respect for him, and I could tell that really

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Speaker 3: I wasn't even thinking. I was just saying everything that

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Speaker 3: I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: The truth is. Just tell her the whole truth.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't know. I took photos of everything I found.

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Speaker 3: He was very scared at this point, saying about how

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Speaker 3: our family. Oh, now you have to think about their family.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of already crossed that line, bud. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you should have thought about your family before.

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Speaker 2: You're cheated on your wife. Maybe this made me even angrier.

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Speaker 3: I told him he has one day to do it,

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Speaker 3: My mom kept asking if he was okay and if

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Speaker 3: My poor mom made him herbal tea and took him

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Speaker 1: Oh. Oh, no, he doesn't deserve this woman.

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Speaker 2: This is the right time. I don't know. I thought

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Speaker 2: he was waiting. He's a coward. He's a coward.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't want to own up to his mistakes. To

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Speaker 1: be fair, he did look awful the whole day. I

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Speaker 1: of my guilt was gone again. This was at eleven

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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell her. I just don't know if

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Speaker 3: I really have been too hard on him or not.

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Speaker 2: Who cares, he's a cheeter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never dealt with anything like this before, so

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Speaker 3: I have no idea what to do. I just did

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Speaker 3: what was natural to me because I knew this had

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Speaker 3: to stop and my mom had to know. Am I

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Speaker 3: the A hole? And there are some comments and an update?

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Speaker 2: But what say you? I say, no, not the a hole,

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Speaker 2: not the a hole at all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is definitely like like we've said. It's like

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Speaker 1: if you're not hardened him like this, nothing's ever gonna

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Speaker 3: I mean just the fact that you, like, you know,

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Speaker 3: you said, hey, you need to tell mom and he

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Speaker 3: still hasn't done it. You might need to be a

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Speaker 3: little harder on him, Yeah, hard Yeah, because clearly he's

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Speaker 3: not scared enough by your threats. So you need to

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Speaker 3: either follow through and tell your mom or say, like

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Speaker 3: you know, really needle into him exactly. Comment one says,

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Speaker 3: not the a hole, but get up early and tell

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Speaker 3: your mom yourself tomorrow. You can't keep giving him chances

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Speaker 3: and he will do nothing. He's blown away and tells

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Speaker 3: her you told him to come clean, but he's refused.

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Speaker 3: That you've discovered he's cheating with both Elena and Hannah,

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Speaker 3: and that you have proof he's actually sleeping with Elena,

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Speaker 3: that he keeps trying to lie and downplay it. But

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Speaker 3: you've seen all his texts, and the one needs to

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Speaker 3: that him being ill yesterday was him refusing to tell

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Speaker 3: That it turns out he never stopped driving Hannah and

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Speaker 3: he's admitted it. But you far more proof with Elena

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Speaker 3: and that he phones her on long walks every night

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Speaker 3: I've considered this before I confronted my dad, but a

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Speaker 3: not mine. It should be but if he doesn't, unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: it does fall to you, right So I told him

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Speaker 3: he has to do it. I did say last night

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Speaker 3: that if he doesn't do it today that I'm telling her.

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Speaker 3: I do think you're right about not giving him chances.

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Speaker 3: I hate that he's even had this long.

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Speaker 2: Honestly.

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Speaker 3: The only reason I'm giving him another chance is because

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Speaker 3: my siblings were going up and down the stairs yesterday,

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Speaker 3: so there wasn't any privacy. I'll be the same. It'll

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Speaker 3: and keep them upstairs. Well, they're downstairs. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: What is his plan?

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Speaker 3: Is he going to keep seeing her? Opie says, sorry,

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Speaker 3: I forgot to mention. He told me yesterday that he

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Speaker 3: deleted her contact and everything, and that when he goes

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Speaker 3: her to say to never talk to him again. He

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Speaker 3: said they started becoming friendly because they have the same

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Speaker 3: we had to translate for her sometimes. He said he

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Speaker 3: was stupid and joked around with her and someone else,

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Speaker 3: but it was nothing more than that. So in his eyes,

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Speaker 3: it started with needing to translate and escalated to other

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Speaker 3: favors and jokes that got out of hand, but was

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Speaker 3: never more than that.

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Speaker 1: But we already know it was. Yeah, he's still lying, right,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty safe to assume that something's happened when she's

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Speaker 1: he's showing up at her place at night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And also, like Opie says, the text kind of confirmed

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Speaker 3: that they had a physical relationship and the fact that

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Speaker 3: all of us on and taking it on with a

441
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Speaker 3: lot of grace and immediately making sure that their mother

442
00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:41,200
Speaker 3: found out.

443
00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. Good for not keeping the secret too.

444
00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:45,200
Speaker 2: Very good.

445
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just about now. It's about you know,

446
00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,960
Speaker 3: being there as a support system for your mom, right,

447
00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,879
Speaker 3: but also you know, making sure that you're kind to

448
00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,040
Speaker 3: yourself because this also affected you. Right, This is your

449
00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:58,919
Speaker 3: family and your dad who has betrayed not only your

450
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Speaker 3: mom but also you your sibling.

451
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:00,840
Speaker 1: Yeah.

452
00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, tough man, tough time. But that is the end

453
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,200
Speaker 3: of that story. So we're gonna jump into the next one.

454
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:06,840
Speaker 2: Okay.

455
00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,800
Speaker 1: I discovered that we have another sibling, and the guilt

456
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,560
Speaker 1: is eating me alive. A long last sibling.

457
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,359
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, what do you do?

458
00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,200
Speaker 1: This is actually from an okay storytime separated it. What

459
00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:21,680
Speaker 1: of our fans sibling?

460
00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,439
Speaker 2: Dude? That's crazy.

461
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,960
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to make this as short and sweet

462
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,840
Speaker 1: as possible. I thirty three female have a family that

463
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,960
Speaker 1: has always been close mother fifty four, father fifty five,

464
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,440
Speaker 1: and me and two younger siblings, Lee twenty nine female

465
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Speaker 1: and Anthony twenty six male. By the way, that comes

466
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Speaker 1: from a success primary And if you want to submit

467
00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,960
Speaker 1: me your own stories, go to the art slush Okay, storytime,

468
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,960
Speaker 1: supredit join us. So, being the oldest, I've always been

469
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 1: the protector and tried to shield as much as I

470
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 1: could from the littles while we were younger. Our childhood

471
00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,480
Speaker 1: had some rough patches, but all in all, we all

472
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,240
Speaker 1: turned out to be decent humans. Hellwell, all of us

473
00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,560
Speaker 1: have ended up getting pretty good jobs and making our

474
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Speaker 1: own way. I have two great kiddos and a wonderful husband.

475
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,000
Speaker 1: Anthony is engaged to a fantastic woman and they have

476
00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,920
Speaker 1: a beautiful boy. Lee is an absolute unit of an aunt,

477
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,440
Speaker 1: but is a single pringle.

478
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,439
Speaker 2: What is unit of an ant mean? Like she's a

479
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 2: great aunt? I think so. I think that's is like

480
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 2: a unit. Yeah, she's a unit of aunt. Yeah. I

481
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 2: think that's like a praise praise word.

482
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,479
Speaker 1: I don't hear it used a lot, but I usually

483
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 1: only hear it used in the context of life, like

484
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,159
Speaker 1: like a group oh no, oh no, Like when you

485
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,879
Speaker 1: say like someone's an absolute unit like three oh yeah, big,

486
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's.

487
00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 2: Just she's just just that, that's strong of an aunt.

488
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a single pringle doesn't want kids, and we're

489
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 1: all here for it and most importantly for each other. Now.

490
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 1: Last July twenty twenty four, crapkind crazy. I worked a

491
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Speaker 1: third shift at the same place that my sister works first,

492
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,840
Speaker 1: so we see each other almost every morning. It was

493
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,600
Speaker 1: about ten o'clock that evening and I got a random

494
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Speaker 1: message request on Facebook.

495
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 2: I saw the first couple of words.

496
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 1: On the notification and it seemed like the scam crappy

497
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 1: get so I ignored it for a minute, but once

498
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 1: I sat down for a break, I opened it up.

499
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 1: It was a message from a woman about her sister

500
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: who she grew up with and they were both adopted.

501
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 1: The sister had found her biofamily and was attempting to

502
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 1: help her sister find hers. My flabbers were gasted. At first.

503
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:28,639
Speaker 1: I was like, haha, no way, but she dropped names, dates,

504
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 1: and details, and I was too convinced to ignore this anymore.

505
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,120
Speaker 1: I molded over for a while, but I messaged her

506
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: back and asked for more info. I ended up with

507
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 1: my supposed older sister's number, she would be thirty five.

508
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 1: I will now say that I kind of had a

509
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 1: precursor to this, because my mother had told me something

510
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: about this before, like thirteen years ago. The mom said

511
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 1: I was eighteen Pregger's by man that I wasn't in

512
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,479
Speaker 1: love with and not ready to be a mom. I

513
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 1: wasn't living at home and only saw my family once

514
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,040
Speaker 1: a month or so at that point, so I I

515
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: was keeping it to myself and trying to figure out

516
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 1: what to do. I personally knew a few very good

517
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 1: and wonderful people who were magnificent parents to children they

518
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: were not able to have. They only became parents because

519
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,479
Speaker 1: of the gift that someone else had given them, and

520
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,919
Speaker 1: I was ultimately prepared to do just that. I was

521
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:16,679
Speaker 1: going to give my baby to someone who had their

522
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,120
Speaker 1: life together and wanted so badly to be a parent,

523
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: where I wasn't exactly in any way ready. My mother

524
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:23,920
Speaker 1: quickly said, Nope, You're going.

525
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 2: To be a mama.

526
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: After I told my parents, we were just kind of

527
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 1: butting heads over this for a while, and I just

528
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: couldn't understand why she couldn't see where I was coming from.

529
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,199
Speaker 2: One night, she cornered me.

530
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Speaker 1: After some tears were shed by me, she plainly said,

531
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Speaker 1: I have done it and I regret it.

532
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 2: You won't do the same. And that was it. That

533
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 2: was the only talk there ever was about it. I

534
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,239
Speaker 2: think this is saying this.

535
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: I think had a kid and was going to give

536
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Speaker 1: it up, and the mom was like, just mentioned I

537
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: was in your place once. Yeah, yeah, because she did say,

538
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: like she just mentioned something about it. Seeing this whole story.

539
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,479
Speaker 1: This doesn't seem like she would just mention this whole story,

540
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 1: you know. But that last line, Yeah, so he.

541
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 2: Had a kid or.

542
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,919
Speaker 3: Was gonna give it up until the mom gave her

543
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 3: a very ominous yeah advice.

544
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 2: WHOA.

545
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: I did have the internal crisis of I have another

546
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: sibling out there somewhere, but there would be no finding

547
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: out anything, considering I knew no details and the only

548
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: person who could provide any you wouldn't. So I kind

549
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,199
Speaker 1: of just had to file that away in the no

550
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 1: touchy cabinet in my brain. But now we're gonna figure

551
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: some crap out. So I'm gonna say that we're close

552
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,359
Speaker 1: as siblings, but my brother and I are on the

553
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 1: same brain wavelength and our sister is not. We all

554
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,159
Speaker 1: have our quirks and such a boat. We all have

555
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: a bond with one another, separately as well as collectively.

556
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 2: I knew that I had to tell them, but I couldn't.

557
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: I knew me and Anthony could handle this better than Leep,

558
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 1: so I talked to him and his fiance about it.

559
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: My husband was first to have his mind blown, of course,

560
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: and he was absolutely confused, but supportive and helpful to

561
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: say that. So Anthony, his fiance, me and Mayabi had

562
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: a little pow wow and decided that if we were

563
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,479
Speaker 1: going to talk to Lee about it, we needed proof first.

564
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: Me and le are super critical thinkers and we will

565
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: pick things apart in the second So if we were

566
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 1: going to drop this bomb on her, we needed receipts.

567
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 1: Well we got them. I DNA tested and sent her

568
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 1: one as well. That six weeks was the longest wait

569
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: of my life, but we finally got it. Now, this

570
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: was a little crazy because you see people finding half

571
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,199
Speaker 1: siblings all the time, but she was a full blooded sister.

572
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: She was my mom and my dad's first child. WHOA

573
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,400
Speaker 1: what she must have been like really young or something.

574
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,920
Speaker 1: Ready made that decision to give her up right right?

575
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, gilt I felt was immense, gut wretching, like,

576
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 1: what's the catch here? Why did they let her go

577
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: but keep me? Just two years later?

578
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 2: Wow?

579
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 3: Two years can be like a huge could make a difference,

580
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 3: huge difference in where you are financially in life. You

581
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,239
Speaker 3: know where you were mentally, And I wonder if there

582
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 3: were any like outsider pressures. Well, I mean you have

583
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 3: here the mom trying to pressure up he into a

584
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 3: decision based off of her own life experience. But yeah,

585
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 3: probably have other people in the mom's life who were right.

586
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 2: You who I can't right of the kid? You're not

587
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 2: ready to have a child? Right right?

588
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: That's very possible. Our newly acquired sibling is probably the

589
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: most level headed and sensible person I've ever come in

590
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: contact with. She literally is in the state of if

591
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: she doesn't want to know me, that's fine. I just

592
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: now know who my family is, and that's fine by me. Okay,

593
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,400
Speaker 1: we all have questions and more questions, with some more questions,

594
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,719
Speaker 1: but we had a get together at our place one

595
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 1: night with dinner and no kids, and we told Lee.

596
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 1: She was surprised as heck, without a doubt, but she

597
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: took it so much better than I expected, thank God,

598
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 1: But now we all know, but our parents don't know

599
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 1: that we know. So our oldest sister, Beth doesn't live

600
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: far from us and has two babes of her own.

601
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: We have talked to her through text and we are

602
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: noticing blaring similarities and it's crazy. But I am at

603
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,959
Speaker 1: such a standstill with approaching our parents about this. I

604
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: know that this is going to tear a hole in

605
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: my mother's heart. It's been thirty five years. I do

606
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 1: not want to hurt my mother. I would love to

607
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: go and just tell her and get it off my chest,

608
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: but what is that going to do to her. Beth

609
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: did try to contact her first, but with no response,

610
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 1: so I was next in line. But lo and behold,

611
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: my mother did email her back a week before the

612
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: results came back and pretty much said, yes, it's me.

613
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: Your search is over. I hope you had a wonderful

614
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: life and I wish you the best, but please respect

615
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: my wishes regarding the decision that was made so long ago.

616
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 1: I don't know if she's trying to keep it from us,

617
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: or if she's doing it because it hurts that much.

618
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm so conflicted now I'm being heyckled by those who

619
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: know about it and care. Did you have the talk yet? No?

620
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 2: When are you going to? I have no idea.

621
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: I'm so scared of how she's going to react. But

622
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: I also want to meet and get to know my sister,

623
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: and so do lead Anthony. But I have put my

624
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: foot down on both of them about that. I would

625
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: not feel right going and meeting and getting to know

626
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: her and introducing kids and such behind my mom's back.

627
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: But you, guys would feel right if you just find

628
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: more episodes of full stories just like this one. Just

629
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: go to II Radio, Apple Podcasts or Spotify and search. Okay,

630
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: story time, You'll feel so right, have no doubt that

631
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: that's the right decision.

632
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 2: To so much better, so much better.

633
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: Feeling a little sick and speak, just watch us and

634
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 1: boom feel better. You're you're better. Yeah, there's a little

635
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: bit more to this story. But wow, wow, wow, I

636
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 1: still want to know. I want to know the story smart,

637
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: you know, I.

638
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 2: Mean, well one.

639
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 3: I think my advice for op is go talk to

640
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 3: your mom, yep, regardless of what her decision is, you know,

641
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 3: regarding your your sister and the relationship that she does

642
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 3: or does not want to have with your sister, you

643
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 3: are still completely allowed to have a relationship with.

644
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

645
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 3: I think it's just like you go to your mom

646
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 3: you say, hey, I know you were reached out to, right,

647
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 3: we were also reached out too, and we want to

648
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 3: have a relationship.

649
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 2: With our sister. Yeah, she can't.

650
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 3: Really tell you no, but I think that is considerate

651
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 3: to tell her that that's happening.

652
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: Right. If she does have a problem with it, you

653
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: can just say, please respect my wishes in this decision

654
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: that I'm making. Yeah, right, exactly words. Yeah, Yeah, there

655
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: is a little bit more. Yes, I am concerned with

656
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: my dad's feelings too. I'm just not sure about all

657
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: the details of the whole situation. So I would really

658
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: like to just one on one with my mom to

659
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Speaker 1: figure that out. Our father has never been the lovey,

660
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: emotional or super understanding father figure. He's more rough and rugged,

661
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: and all of us have had a heat streak in

662
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: us blessed to us from him. So do not think

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Speaker 1: I'm saying he was a bad father. He provided and

664
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,959
Speaker 1: did what he could. He had a problem with Booze

665
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: when we were young, and I'm the only one old

666
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: enough to remember the real rough times, but he got

667
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: his crap together and he is absolutely a wonderful pop off.

668
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 2: So any insights on this would help.

669
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: And I know everyone is just gonna say tell her

670
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: and get it over with, but this is a tender

671
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: situation that.

672
00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 2: Is gnawing at me, and that is it. WHOA what

673
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: would we say? What should O P do?

674
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: I think I think you go to your mom and

675
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: you say like, hey, I don't want to pressure you

676
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: to do anything that you don't want to do or

677
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: that you don't feel ready to do, right, and then

678
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: you kind of go into that like as you know,

679
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: like you received some correspondence, so did we?

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00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 2: Yeah?

681
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 3: I thought about it, and I want to have a

682
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 3: relationship with my sister mm hm. And you know, again

683
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,959
Speaker 3: that doesn't have to mean that you need to do anything,

684
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 3: but that's good.

685
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Yeah, I think that's a good way to

686
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 2: say it.

687
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,479
Speaker 1: Just like ease her in China, to put that pressure

688
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: on her and just be very honest about what you

689
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: want to do or what you are going to do. Yeah,

690
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: moving forward exactly. It's like really in asking for permission,

691
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: it's just letting her know that it's happening.

692
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that is the end of that story.

693
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: Hey, it's say, I'm your og host here bring it

694
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Speaker 1: back to the stories.

695
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Speaker 2: But here's three minutes bads from a sponsor.

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Speaker 1: I discovered the truth about my family from an Instagram message.

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Speaker 3: That's the worst way to discover the truth about your family.

698
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

699
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Speaker 1: Edit. Let me clarify my title in this post.

700
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: My mom is still my mom.

701
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: When I say she isn't my real mom, it means

702
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: that she isn't my birth mother. Sorry, if it comes

703
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: off negative, that's definitely not what I wanted it to

704
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: come across.

705
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 2: House.

706
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: She did nothing wrong, all right, starting off, Mom did

707
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: nothing wrong.

708
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 2: I did nothing wrong. Thing wrong.

709
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: Okay, let's start with some background. I was never really

710
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: clear on the details of my birth. All I knew

711
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: was that I was born in Dominican Republic in a

712
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: tiny clinic and lived there until I was three and

713
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: me and my family came to America for the second time.

714
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: By the way, this comes from deleted and if you

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Speaker 1: want to submit your own stories, go to the art

716
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Speaker 1: slash Okay storytime subreddit. They were here before I was born,

717
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: but went back because supposedly my dad had a job

718
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: offer back in DRM, and they went back for a

719
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: couple of years and came back to America when I

720
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: was three.

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Speaker 2: My siblings are eleven years older than me.

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00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: I remember always complaining as a child about how there

723
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: were never any baby photos of me, not one. Every

724
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: photo I've seen. The youngest I have been was three

725
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: or four years old. They always told me that it

726
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: was because they got tired of taking photos after the

727
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: first two kids, my brother and sister, so they barely

728
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: took any of me. But the photos were somewhere in storage.

729
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: We moved around a lot and hard to get a

730
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Speaker 1: hold of it. Eventually I stopped asking, and I just

731
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: accepted the fact that I've never seen myself as a baby.

732
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Speaker 1: When I was twelve, I got a message on Facebook

733
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Speaker 1: from a girl claiming to be my cousin and that

734
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: she wanted to talk to me, but not to tell

735
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: my father because he didn't want us to talk.

736
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,239
Speaker 2: I was scared, so I ended up asking about it.

737
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Speaker 1: He told me not to speak to her like she

738
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: said he would, because she was disowned after she engaged

739
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: in genetic copy pasting with a first cousin to be.

740
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: Like incest or something.

741
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: I think, so you're the first cousin and she's.

742
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 2: A bad influence. Eikes, Yeah, that's.

743
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, he blocked her, and my twelve year old

744
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: self was more worried about other things, so I didn't

745
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: question any further. Fast forward to now I get messages

746
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: from the same girl on Instagram. She wrote a whole

747
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: essay in Spanish, which took me a while to understand,

748
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: fully because I don't usually read Spanish. She said that

749
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,719
Speaker 1: my father had an affair with a woman named Jackie

750
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: when my brother and sister were around nine or ten

751
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: years old. She got pregnant and decided to keep the baby,

752
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: and so came out me. I have a sister named

753
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: Gabriella and two younger brothers, each from a different dad.

754
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: At this time, my dad, my mom, and brother and

755
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: sister were in Dominican Republic as well. Okay, so oh

756
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: he's in a fair baby, I guess. So that's what

757
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: this Instagram woman is telling us. My dad paid for

758
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: all of the expenses of my birth and was there

759
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: when I was born. She proceeded to show me all

760
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: these baby photos of myself with me, with my siblings,

761
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: with my grandmother, Jackie's mom, et cetera. Wait, okay, we

762
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: have proof, so ope's being.

763
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 3: Let me get this straight. Op was being taken care

764
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 3: of by this family. Yes, bile, mom, I guess till

765
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 3: like three, I guess.

766
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Speaker 1: So that is what Opie said at the very beginning,

767
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: was that like born in Dominican Republic, lived there until

768
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: they were three, and then yeah, then they moved to America.

769
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: Who She said that she would always take care of

770
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: me because I was the youngest, so she was my

771
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: main caretaker when my mother wasn't around. She also told

772
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: me that my mother passed away six years ago, and

773
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: before she passed, she wanted to see me, and my

774
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: dad said that he would take me to visit, but

775
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: he never did, so she passed away without being able

776
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,479
Speaker 1: to see me. Once more, I started hyperventilating. I thought

777
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: this was some sick joke and somebody was effing with me.

778
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: She told me to ask my cousin to confirm this

779
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: and that it's true. I drove over to his house

780
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 1: freaking out, and I asked him please tell me I

781
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: was going crazy and she's just messing with my head.

782
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 2: Fortunately, she was right. He told me they all knew.

783
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: He thought I knew. No, He said, my dad rescued

784
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: me because my mother was poor and lived in a

785
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,399
Speaker 1: bad area with bad influences, so he wanted to give

786
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: me a better life. He's really close to my dad,

787
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: and he told me to find out why he hid

788
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: it from me this long because it's effed up. This

789
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: is efed up. He was smoking Devil's lettuce. This will

790
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: be more important later. So I went home and confronted

791
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: my mom and dad. I calmly sat down and said,

792
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: I found things out today. I know Mom isn't my mom,

793
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: and I know I have another family. I know you

794
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: brought me here or rescued me or whatever when I

795
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: was three. I know she passed away six years ago

796
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 1: and asked for me, but you didn't take me to

797
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: go and see her.

798
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 2: Sad Yeah, yeah, tragic.

799
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, to not only find out that you've been kept

800
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 3: from the knowledge of your mother and also from her mother,

801
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 3: but also to know that you've been kept from her

802
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 3: when she asked for you before she passed away.

803
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 2: Right right.

804
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: I know I'm trying to see how old how old

805
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: op he is right now, but we can't tell.

806
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know it seems that like.

807
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: Years ago, Opie still would have been able to remember it, right,

808
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: This isn't like an eight year old. That's that's saying this.

809
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: They stayed quiet or what seemed like forever. My dad

810
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: spoke up. He said, so that's the story you heard,

811
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: and I said, yes, but I need really answers. I

812
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: need to know why you didn't tell me. I need

813
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: to know the whole truth. So he gave it to me.

814
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: To be honest, your brother didn't like you very much.

815
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: What that girl said was true. She was the one

816
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: who would take care of you when your mother wasn't present,

817
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: which was all the time. She was a substance regular user.

818
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: She basically abandoned you and left Gabby to take care

819
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: of you while she would be out constantly doing substances,

820
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: drinking or whatever else she did. Lily was the one

821
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: who babysit you the rest of the time, would take

822
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 1: you to preschool and drop you back off at her house.

823
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly how Jackie passed away. I think

824
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 1: she was eventually unlived because of the kind of life

825
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: she led. Oh wow, I only took you when you

826
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: were three, because that's when I finally gained custody of

827
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 1: you after fighting for years before that. Okay, so peaceful

828
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: was trying to get her Yeah wow, oh wow. She

829
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 1: only called me to ask me for money. She only

830
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: called about you once to say happy birthday, but it

831
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 1: wasn't even your birthday that day. I was waiting until

832
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: you turned eighteen so I could tell you. Even though

833
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: Lily isn't your biological mother, she's still your mom. She

834
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: raised you and loves you like her own. I don't

835
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: even know what else to say. I don't know what

836
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: to again from posting this. I'm just having a hard

837
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: time wrapping my head around all of this. I want

838
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: to see pictures of my real mom, Jackie. I want

839
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: to know what my family is like over there. I

840
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: think I feel so effing out of place in my family,

841
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: even though I grew up with them and I love

842
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: them to death. I can't recognize myself in the mirror. WHOA,

843
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: So this is all whole crisis have to everybody is

844
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: kind of changing.

845
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think, okay, it's important for you to know,

846
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 3: like really really not okay that your family all kept

847
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 3: this from you for years, but you know you do

848
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 3: have people that love you.

849
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

850
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I think it's definitely better than I was

851
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: expecting it. I was expecting the dad to just be

852
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: like the bad guy. I guess if you call anyone

853
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,439
Speaker 1: the bad guys trying to get you, and you know, yeah,

854
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: this whole time and things with like substance using and

855
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: everything is very hard to explain to child, very hard.

856
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: And I feel like, you know, if you're kind of

857
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: telling your kid like, no, you can can't meet your

858
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 1: like your biological mom or something like that, and they're

859
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: like nine years old, it's like it might be a

860
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: little it might be just very confusing about how to tell.

861
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you need to wait till exactly eighteen.

862
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: I think like some sort of teen years, like thirteen

863
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 1: or fourteen, you could make a stake in not telling you.

864
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 2: Absolutely right.

865
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: So I have to go to work now, but I'm

866
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: gonna edit the post later tonight when I come back

867
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: to add more thing. Sorry I had to go to

868
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: the short but this is ninety percent of what's going

869
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: on right now.

870
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 2: So what do I do? How do I deal with this?

871
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: I woke up today and I thought last night was

872
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: a bad nightmare. There's an edit about the Devil's Lettuce.

873
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: Things blew up. My dad smelled the Devil's lettuce and

874
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: questioned me about it, and I wasn't thinking, so I

875
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: mentioned how the cousin I went to talk to in

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00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: person was smoking some on his balcony. This cousin in

877
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: question has smoked a lot in the past, and my

878
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: parents hate it, and they've given him crap for it.

879
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. I apped up by not covering it up.

880
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: So the cousin texted me this morning, blowing up at

881
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 1: me because I feeled the beans, saying a bunch of

882
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: crap leg never could fighten me again. Don't ever call

883
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: me or come to my house. Your generation can't be trusted.

884
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 1: He's as old as my siblings and all that stuff.

885
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: I started freaking out and apologizing I wasn't thinking. We

886
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: talked about it, and we agreed that I would lie

887
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: to save his butt because it was the least I

888
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 1: could do.

889
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say that I was smoking it and

890
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 2: I lie.

891
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: He texted me saying that my dad talked to him

892
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: and he wants to hold a meeting tonight. Actually, as

893
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm typing this right now, but the meeting hasn't started.

894
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh wow. No, we're not gonna take the

895
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 1: fall for yeah, because what like, do you know how

896
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: old the cousin is not exactly that his old as

897
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,720
Speaker 1: your siblings which are eleven years older than Ope, Okay,

898
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And what is like twenty eight year old is.

899
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 2: Trying to make you take the fall?

900
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's an adult.

901
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 3: He could deal with the consequences of people getting mad

902
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 3: at him for smoking, Like.

903
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: I feel like they would get more mad at the

904
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: teenager smoking instead of this adult. No, don't take the

905
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: fall for him. It's not the least you can do.

906
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: He's manipulating you. But we do have an update eight.

907
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: So it's been a long time since I had posted this,

908
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: like three months. Basically, I've been a mess since then,

909
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: and I don't know how to process these feelings. It's

910
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: been three months and I haven't even fully registered the situation.

911
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: I don't know the Devil's let us issue. I ended

912
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: up telling my dad that I smelled like Devil's lettus

913
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:16,959
Speaker 1: because I was with friends and.

914
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 2: They were smiling.

915
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: He didn't even care or focus on that at all,

916
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: and everyone got off my cousin's back. Yeah, I probably

917
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: should have let him crash and burn, but I'm not

918
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 1: like that. It was dumb and he'd getten more crap

919
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: than I would, which is why I took the ball

920
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: for it. They didn't. It worked out, okay, I guess him.

921
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: So those who were worried about the Devil's lettuce don't.

922
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: My cousin also apologized for reaming me because I let

923
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: that slip out, because he realized that I was going

924
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: through a hard time and it wasn't my fault for

925
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: not thinking. So now the meeting, My sister, brother and

926
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: dad sat me down that night. No beating around the bush,

927
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: We just went into it. They explained why they didn't

928
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: tell me, and they told me a few things about

929
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: my mom, like how she passed away. She got into

930
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: a car with some bad people and they unlived her.

931
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: This information still haunts me to this day.

932
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 2: Some reason. I feel like that's a pretty ballad reason. Yeah, yeah,

933
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 2: that's really really hard. They asked me how I felt.

934
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 1: I said I was angry and I felt lied to

935
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: and betrayed, and that it wasn't fair. I could have

936
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: met her before she passed away and I couldn't. I

937
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 1: started crying, and then I started laughing, like hysterically laughing,

938
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: because this is crap you see in movies, and I

939
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: just couldn't believe it. They said the rest of the.

940
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 2: Family, the older ones that knew just forgot about it all.

941
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: I became a part of the family so quickly and

942
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: so young that they didn't look at me and think

943
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: of me as that kid that was born to another woman.

944
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 2: I was family, and that made me feel a little better,

945
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 2: I guess.

946
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: Contacting my sister and two cousins, they made a group

947
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: chat and added me. They asked me a million and

948
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: one questions about my life when I'm studying, do I

949
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: have a boyfriend, et cetera.

950
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 2: They showed me photos.

951
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,760
Speaker 1: My sister is Natalie, and my two cousins are Julie

952
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: and Sally. Sally, the older one, the one that reached

953
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: out through Instagram a few days afterwards, asked to talk

954
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: to me on the phone. I said, okay. I had

955
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: already sent them voice messages and current photos so they

956
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: could see what I looked like and sounded like. It

957
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: was fun. They wouldn't stop talking and they were freaking out.

958
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 1: It put me off a bit because I'm very, very shy.

959
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: But anyways, I talked to her on the phone. It

960
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: was my dad's phone. He was talking to her and

961
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: she asked to put me on. I was really awkward, though,

962
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: so it was a short conversation and I didn't want

963
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: to talk to her shortly after getting on the phone,

964
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: So issue number one. According to my dad, they're not

965
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: very trustworthy and they cause a lot of drama. I

966
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: didn't know what he meant.

967
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 2: Until this happened.

968
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: Oh no. Sally messaged me a long message basically questioning

969
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: if it was really me who was sending her these

970
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: photos and voice messages, and if it was really me

971
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: on the phone?

972
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 2: Girl, come on, come on.

973
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: She was saying how she suspected my dad of putting

974
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: someone else on the phone and pretending like it was me.

975
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: Her reasoning was that sense I was so awkward and

976
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: cold and not as excited as her sister and my sister,

977
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: so my reaction was not the right one, and that

978
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 1: made her doubt me and my dad.

979
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 2: Girl, she just found out that she has a sister. Yeah,

980
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 2: that's in it. Yeah, I get it. Sometimes you don't know.

981
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: What to say to people that you've never met before

982
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: and are supposed to have this whole background. Sometimes you

983
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: don't know what to say. Okay, this seriously pissed me off,

984
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: because who the f would do something like that? She

985
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: thinks that my dad would go to these great lengths

986
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: to play pretend she didn't believe him. In short, I

987
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: told her off and said that just because I'm not

988
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: jumping with joy doesn't mean that it isn't really me,

989
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: and that she offended me and my dad by accusing

990
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: us of something like that absolutely ridiculous. She apologized profusely. However,

991
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: this led me to rethink things. I stopped talking to

992
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: her after that, and I haven't talked to her since.

993
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say to her, and I

994
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: don't know how this affects our relationship, if you could

995
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 1: even call it that. I haven't spoken to Natalie or

996
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: Julie either, because they were going along with what Sally

997
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: was saying, like yeah.

998
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 2: Maybe this isn't her blah blah blah. It makes me.

999
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: Feel bad, But at the same time, I just can't

1000
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: bring myself to message them.

1001
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 2: I don't know these people.

1002
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 3: Absolutely happens with my little cousins. Yeah, but like if

1003
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 3: it's been because I have a couple of cousins.

1004
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,959
Speaker 2: Who uh are in uh, I won't say we're there.

1005
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 3: Sure farther away, yeah, And so like every every once

1006
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 3: in a while, like, well, we'll visit them, and I'm like,

1007
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,720
Speaker 3: oh my god, Haye, it takes like, you know, thirty

1008
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 3: minutes for them to warm up and remember who I

1009
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 3: exactly exactly.

1010
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, they're like yeah, yeah, but.

1011
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: Then like an hour later, right, right. You have to

1012
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: hate reminding that. So it's just like this, like this

1013
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,240
Speaker 1: is such a crazy situation, and this is a family

1014
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: that you haven't seen. Like, even if you're so excited

1015
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: about this, you're probably older than this person.

1016
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 2: You can't put those feelings and emotions on that person.

1017
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like expect that they owe you that, because

1018
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: that's not how people work that Like everyone's saying that

1019
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 1: opos them something. I know.

1020
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 2: It's like let's hop with that. Let's just let's let live.

1021
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: Let live, but we have issue number two, the current one.

1022
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 2: Let's do it. So a couple of nights ago, I

1023
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 2: was talking to my dad.

1024
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: He told me that he needed my help with the

1025
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: decision because I'm an adult now and he thinks that

1026
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: I should know about what's going on. Roughly a month ago,

1027
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: Sally messaged my dad. She asked him for help finding.

1028
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: She went on about how she has three children and

1029
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: she constantly needs to go to the court to get

1030
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: child support from their fathers, and she has not been

1031
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: doing well financially or emotionally, and now her health is

1032
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: suffering for it. She showed him photos of her head.

1033
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: She has this huge patch of hair gone, so her

1034
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: hair is falling out, and she acquired a bacteria in

1035
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: her mouth. She lost two front teeth, and if she

1036
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: wants to begin working again, she needs to get her

1037
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: health and appearance in order. She hasn't been taking care

1038
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: of her teeth, she admitted, because of everything going on,

1039
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: so irresponsibly, she let her dental health get worse and worse.

1040
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: She never looked up how expensive it was, and now

1041
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: that she realizes she does not have the money to

1042
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: be spending on teeth, she's asking him for help to

1043
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 1: pay for her treatment.

1044
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 3: So there is also a possibility that she reached out

1045
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 3: for this. Yeah, yeah, oh gosh. This reminds me of

1046
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 3: the incident three months ago, the blatan mistrust and second

1047
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 3: guessing and thinking my dad would go to such extremes

1048
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 3: to put on a show. How my dad told me

1049
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,479
Speaker 3: Jackie Bio mom would only ask for money when she'd

1050
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 3: call him and didn't ask how I was doing, And

1051
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 3: how their family is extremely dramatic and causes trouble all

1052
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 3: the time.

1053
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 2: I wasn't inclined to help her. Yeah, I don't.

1054
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: Trust her, I don't know her. However, I feel really

1055
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: bad when I saw those photos of her, and yes

1056
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: it's her, she's not lying about it, and how bad

1057
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: her dental health was, the good side of me is

1058
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,240
Speaker 1: itching to help. But we have our own financial problem.

1059
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: I got into a car accident a few weeks ago,

1060
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: and we were also paying off alone for school. And

1061
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: I'm not trusting of who is basically a complete stranger

1062
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 1: of me. My dad says we'll do whatever I want

1063
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: to do, and I haven't been sleeping well since then,

1064
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: and I don't know what's effing do So do I

1065
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: help her or let her offend for herself? And that

1066
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: is the end of it. What dang?

1067
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 2: What do we think? Do we help her or no?

1068
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 2: That's so difficult. That's really difficult. It's so difficult.

1069
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: Maybe it can be a kind of thing of being like, hey,

1070
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: like we have things to pay for too, Like I don't.

1071
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: We don't have just like an excess of money to

1072
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: just give you, but like you know, maybe we can

1073
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: pay for like little things here and there, or like

1074
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: I can only like do like one hundred dollars right now, Yeah,

1075
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: I think something.

1076
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 3: Like that maybe, and also saying like, hey, I want

1077
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 3: to direct I want to make sure this directly goes

1078
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 3: to dental health payments, you know, yeah, like that's a

1079
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,760
Speaker 3: good way I will send this money to the doctors

1080
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 3: or like having it directly go there, right right.

1081
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you can do a little bit, but

1082
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: you can limit yourself however much you want to pay. Yeah,

1083
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: it's like, don't go based off of like, yeah, I

1084
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't go based off of like a percentage of how

1085
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: much costs. I would just go off of like how

1086
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: much money you have and how much money you're willing

1087
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: to give away exactly, like and.

1088
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 2: How much money will not hurt you financially exactly.

1089
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: And if that happens to be like two percent of

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Speaker 3: My parents want to buy a house for my irresponsible sister.

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Speaker 2: I want to object.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's a big house.

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Speaker 2: Is a big purchase?

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Speaker 1: Did they buy a house for you question?

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Speaker 3: So let's start off with my parents. They make good money.

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Speaker 3: They always have one thing. They've never done well managed

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Speaker 3: the money. Anytime they get a raise or come into

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Speaker 3: some money, they have to spend it all.

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Speaker 2: They have a crazy amount in credit card debt. Yikes.

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Speaker 3: They have always been the type of people to have

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Speaker 3: the latest and greatest things. By the way, this comes

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Speaker 2: Okay, story time separate it. So example, last year.

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Speaker 3: We bought my husband a used car, a couple of

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Speaker 3: years old, but a nice car. We got a great

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Speaker 3: deal on it. It is fully loaded with everything you

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Speaker 3: can ever want. But we got it for about three

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars less than market value. We bought it off

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Speaker 3: my in laws. Immediately, my dad, who already has three cars,

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Speaker 3: started looking into buying one.

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Speaker 2: Why do you need more? Why do you need more cars?

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Speaker 2: You have three?

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Speaker 3: My mom became rational and told him no, that he

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Speaker 3: didn't need it, especially fully loaded. Good job mom. A

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00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 3: couple of months ago, my car was passing away. To

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Speaker 3: fix it would cost way more than the car was worth.

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Speaker 3: We did our research and I got a used black

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Speaker 3: trust me, color is important to this part of the story. Again,

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Speaker 3: we got a great deal because my husband's uncle worked

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Speaker 3: for the dealership where we got it.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: A month later, my dad texts me and tells me

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Speaker 3: he's trading in his car for a new one. I

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Speaker 3: ask what kind of car, and he sends me a link.

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Speaker 2: Two years newer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so same car as op but two years newer.

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Speaker 3: I asked him, you trying to copy me dead, to

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Speaker 3: which he responded, I can't let you have nicer cars

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Speaker 3: than me. He said it chokingly, but there was some

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Speaker 3: truth to it. So recently my parents have come into

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Speaker 3: a lot of money. My mom won a large settlement

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Speaker 3: against her former employer for wrongful termination. And my dad's

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Speaker 3: mother passed so he's getting a large inheritance, so lots

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Speaker 3: of money. Now on to my sister, My bipolar personality disorder,

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Speaker 3: self absorbed person sister. I hate to even call her

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Speaker 3: my sister. Honestly, she mistreated me physically and emotionally from

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Speaker 3: the time I was born Cheese. I cut her out

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Speaker 3: of my life when I was twenty two for two years.

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Speaker 3: The only reason I brought her back was because she

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Speaker 3: became pregnant. She was married for about three years and

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Speaker 3: her husband left her for another woman.

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Speaker 2: Was that crappy of him to do? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Did she deserve it?

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Speaker 2: Kind of yes.

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Speaker 3: I saw her emotionally abuse him, call him an idiot

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Speaker 3: and worthless. She never took care of the house, pictures

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Speaker 3: slightly better than orders. She refused to work even though

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Speaker 3: they couldn't have not to work, and like my parents,

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Speaker 3: she likes the latest and greatest things, just didn't have

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Speaker 3: the money for it, so they put themselves in crazy

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Speaker 3: amount of debt. So last year she got evicted out

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Speaker 3: of the place she lived. She barely paid rent, but

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Speaker 3: had an understanding a landlord that helped her a lot.

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Speaker 3: She barely paid any of her bills, as my grandma,

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Speaker 3: Mom and dad paid for a lot of it, even

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Speaker 3: her divorce lawyer. The thing that made the landlord punt

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Speaker 3: her out was the condition that she left the house

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Speaker 3: and he was having none of that. How was he

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Speaker 3: letting her get away with not paying rent?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's free. That's interesting.

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Speaker 3: How understanding the landlord do you have? So my parents

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Speaker 3: took my sister and my niece in about a year ago.

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Speaker 3: I had concerns, as I said, my sister is abusive.

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Speaker 3: This is the time in their lives. My parents should

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Speaker 3: be winding down and enjoying their lives together. She would

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00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 3: blame them for all her troubles, yell at them if

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Speaker 3: they didn't do what you wanted. I voiced that I

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Speaker 3: was concerned for them emotionally, physically, and financially. They told

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Speaker 3: me not to worry. They'll put in rules for her

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Speaker 3: to live there. She'll pay some She'll not disrespect them,

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Speaker 3: she will not disrespect me or my younger sister want

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Speaker 3: me visit, She'll clean up after herself. She will save

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Speaker 3: money to get out A sapped A lot of positive.

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Speaker 2: Thinking there, Yeah, a lot of positive thinking.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not a lot of reality, right, little too much

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Speaker 1: telling of the future.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, no, for sure, we know exactly how

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Speaker 2: this is gonna go. Do you do you though?

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Speaker 1: Do you really well?

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Speaker 3: As you probably figured, none of that happened. She would

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Speaker 3: publicly bash them on Facebook if they said or did

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Speaker 3: something she didn't like. Her room a mess, soda bottles,

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Speaker 3: wine bottles, trash everywhere. She berates me and my younger

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Speaker 3: sister all the time when we go there, and my

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Speaker 3: parents let her. She spends her money on stupid crap

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Speaker 3: and things she doesn't need. No rent was ever paid,

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Speaker 3: uses my niece as a pawn in her game, and

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Speaker 3: my parents pay for everything because she has no money. Well,

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Speaker 3: then tell her to get a job exactly. She has

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Speaker 3: also had three jobs in the past year. She can't

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Speaker 3: keep a job and keeps getting fired. It's never her fault, though,

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Speaker 3: that was a sarcastic statement. Oh, and they're taking her

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Speaker 3: on a Disney cruise and Disney trip soon, and my

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Speaker 3: parents made a point to tell me and my younger

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Speaker 3: sister that, oh we aren't invited.

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Speaker 1: Why are your parents so horrible too? What's that's a

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Speaker 1: crazy note to be like? And al see you're not coming. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like we're gonna. We're gonna actually pay for everything for her.

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Speaker 1: The poor thing can't can't have a she she can't

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Speaker 1: she can't keep a job. Yeah, but we will take

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Speaker 1: her on this Disney cruise. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And we also we're gonna pay for it too, probably. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, everything I said what happened has now on to

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Speaker 3: the issue. My parents call me all excited. Dad's friend

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Speaker 3: from work is selling his mother's home. It's conveniently two

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Speaker 3: minutes away from my parents' house. It's small, and they

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Speaker 3: are thinking of doing a down payment for my sister

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Speaker 3: to live there. The only reason they told me. My

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Speaker 3: younger sister was told, and she said that if they

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Speaker 3: didn't tell their power of attorney me, by the end

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Speaker 3: of the day, she will. Even the fact that I

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Speaker 3: am the power of attorney over my older sister shows

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Speaker 3: that my parents don't trust her. They told me and

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Speaker 3: her that the reason they chose me was because they

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Speaker 3: can't trust her to make it fair. Yet they're thinking

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Speaker 3: of doing this big thing for her now. I bought

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Speaker 3: a house in October of last year. My husband and

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Speaker 3: I saved drove crappy cars, didn't go on vacations and

1236
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Speaker 3: rarely ate out for our down payment on our house.

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Speaker 3: We did it all on our own, no help from anyone.

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Speaker 3: They called to tell me that what they would do.

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Speaker 3: It's changed their will to state that it comes out

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Speaker 3: of her portion of the inheritance. I guarantee they won't

1241
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Speaker 3: do that. It really isn't about the money for me. Honestly,

1242
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Speaker 3: I don't care if at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: I get no money from them, as long as they

1244
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 3: spend it on each other doing the things they want.

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Speaker 3: I also understand that they are miserable living with her.

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Speaker 3: My parents are currently seeing a family therapist on how

1247
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Speaker 3: to deal with her. When they told me, I got scared.

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Speaker 3: They are financially binding themselves to someone who they have

1249
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 3: bailed out constantly, well over twenty five thousand dollars worth.

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Speaker 2: That is a lot of.

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Speaker 3: I told him that I think this is the dumbest

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Speaker 3: financial decision ever, and then I want to speak with

1253
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 3: their physician about it. For them to think that this

1254
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 3: is a smart move is completely mind boggling, and something

1255
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 3: is not right. They said, it's only the down payment.

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Speaker 3: She'll be doing the rest, just like she was going

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Speaker 3: to clean the house and pay you guys rent exactly

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Speaker 3: like that. Didn't happen?

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Speaker 2: Did not happen?

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Speaker 3: I asked them what happens if my sister stops paying

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Speaker 3: for the house? What then they won't let her or

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Speaker 3: my niece be homeless, So they're going to continue making

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Speaker 3: the payments. They gave the argument that they can put

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Speaker 3: it in their name, to which I said, then they'll

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00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,760
Speaker 3: never let it for close. Then there is this fact

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Speaker 3: if something breaks, my sister can't fix it.

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Speaker 2: She can barely change a light bulb. What then they're

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Speaker 2: gonna go over there and fix.

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Speaker 1: Everything for her? Now, who is gonna mow the lawn?

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Speaker 3: Who's gonna shovel the driveway in the winter. Who's gonna

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Speaker 3: be mister fix it? My dad guaranteed he barely has

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Speaker 3: time to do the things for his house. Yet now

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Speaker 3: he's going to have another one to take care of.

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Speaker 1: He had a.

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Speaker 3: Serious heart attack two years ago and had a bypass

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00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 3: on six arteries. Oh wow, this man can't take care

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Speaker 3: of two houses. This isn't healthy for him. And lord knows,

1278
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 3: my mom can't do it. This is a mess. I

1279
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Speaker 3: told them that if she can afford a monthly mortgage,

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00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 3: then she can afford rent. If they want to help

1281
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,399
Speaker 3: her with a security deposit, fine, do it, but they

1282
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 3: will have no legally binding to it whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: It's safer. They said.

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Speaker 1: I made a good point, but she is a dog.

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Speaker 2: What place is gonna take her with the dog?

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00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 3: I said that my husband and my first apartment take dogs.

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00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,320
Speaker 3: And it was eight fifty a month for one bedroom,

1288
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 3: one den, one bathroom home. That is enough space for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: So she Opie is giving all of these reasons of

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00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: how she can't take care of a whole house on

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Speaker 1: her own, and they're.

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Speaker 2: Just like, yeah, but she's got a dog.

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Speaker 1: She's got a dog. We have to help her.

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00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 2: She got a dog.

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Speaker 1: Like worst case scenario, if she can't take care of herself,

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Speaker 1: she can't take care of a dog. Yeah, unfortunately, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: take the dog or give it the dog for adoption

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00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: or something like. That's not I cannot be a deciding

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Speaker 1: factor in you taking care of a whole second house

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Speaker 1: for this daughter.

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Speaker 2: Nope, not at all. That's crazy. Nope, no, no that way.

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00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 3: If anything breaks, they will fix it. Snow plowing, they do, mowing,

1304
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 3: they do, even garbage.

1305
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 2: With no reason for her to.

1306
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 3: Get a house when my parents will become responsible for it.

1307
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 3: This has all blown up. My younger sister is engaged

1308
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 3: and refuses to have anything to do with my parents

1309
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 3: over it. I'm going to distance myself, that is for sure.

1310
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 3: I feel as though I can no longer trust them.

1311
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 3: I've never trusted them much before, but that's an even

1312
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 3: longer story, and I've lost respect for them. I've worked

1313
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 3: hard for everything I've had, and I'm proud of that.

1314
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 3: They said that they're proud of me. Yet they're enabling

1315
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 3: my sister and her bad behavior and then want to

1316
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 3: buy her a house. What The thought of going about

1317
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 3: the rest of my life with minimal contact with my

1318
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,439
Speaker 3: parents crushes me. But I don't want to sit back

1319
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 3: and watch this car wreck. My parents did tell me

1320
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 3: I had valid points to take into consideration, but I

1321
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 3: think they will try to go through with this just

1322
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 3: to get her out. I told them that getting her

1323
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 3: house won't change anything. She's still gonna treat them like cramp.

1324
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 3: In all honesty, this is all in the early stages.

1325
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 3: They haven't even contacted a bank to see if they

1326
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 3: will be approved. I think they will be laughed out

1327
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 3: of a bank. I mean, if they have all that

1328
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 3: credit card debt. You probably yeah, probably, yeah, but who knows.

1329
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 3: I'm pretty scared. I know this is a mess that

1330
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 3: someday I'm gonna have to deal with as power of attorney.

1331
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 3: The fact that they even think this is a good

1332
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 3: idea and want to go through with it, whether they

1333
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 3: can or not, makes me question everything. My older sister

1334
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 3: found out that my younger sister and I are extremely

1335
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 3: disapproving and are trying to talk my parents out of it.

1336
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 3: She knows we don't like her, So what did she

1337
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 3: do last night? I have a temper tantrum? Uh shocking woo.

1338
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 3: This is not uncommon for her. My little sister told

1339
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 3: them she was gonna call the cops, but my parents

1340
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 3: begged her not to because then they'll take my niece away.

1341
00:58:57,440 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 2: Honestly, that might be the best thing for her. My

1342
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 2: parent said they're.

1343
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 3: Doing this for my niece, for her to be close by,

1344
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 3: and that you're not a mom, so you don't understand.

1345
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 3: I understand helping your daughter. I was fine with her

1346
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 3: moving into their house in the first place, just had concerns.

1347
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 3: Now they're doing everything for her. She's thirty, it's time

1348
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 3: to grow up.

1349
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to do.

1350
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 3: I'm at the point I should just sit back and

1351
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 3: if it happens, then it happens. It doesn't concern me.

1352
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 3: I'll just clean up the mess after they're gone. Is

1353
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 3: there anything I could do? What would you do if

1354
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 3: you were me? I appreciate that you guys took the

1355
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,959
Speaker 3: time to read this and any advice is appreciated, and.

1356
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 2: There is an update.

1357
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: Well, but what are your thoughts way back in the story. Yeah,

1358
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: when they were before they even like brought up this

1359
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 1: whole house thing, she was, well, maybe they were just

1360
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,440
Speaker 1: starting to bring it up, because I think they were like, hey, like,

1361
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: you gotta get your own place, and she's like, you

1362
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 1: have to, you have to do everything for me.

1363
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna tell my power attorney on you.

1364
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, I think I think that your

1365
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: your sister is gonna be you with your parents on

1366
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 1: this one.

1367
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 2: You gotta get out.

1368
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: So I feel like she should have just done that,

1369
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 1: and then the sister should be like power of attorney.

1370
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm wondering.

1371
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 3: Why OP is not exercising those right And it did

1372
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 3: say when I looked it up that there were different

1373
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 3: types of power of attorneys, so maybe it's more limited

1374
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 3: in its capacity.

1375
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, it's.

1376
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 1: Just interesting that that sister like threatened to tell ope

1377
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 1: when it was like, oh, p he's not gonna be

1378
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: with you girl, Oh peace.

1379
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:25,720
Speaker 2: It's not on your side at all.

1380
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 3: But I think that you've done everything you can in

1381
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 3: terms of warning your parents, and at this point it's

1382
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 3: their financial decision to kind of make. Yeah, like, if

1383
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 3: they mess up their lives, that's on them. True, true,

1384
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 3: but there is an update. I'm going to just let go.

1385
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 3: If this happens, then it happens. I've talked it over

1386
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 3: with my sister, husband and grandma, and we've all decided

1387
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 3: to step back from this. My younger sister still wants

1388
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 3: no contact for now, and that's her choice. I'll be minimal.

1389
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 3: It's not in us versus them. It's being worried about

1390
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 3: my parents. My mom and dad both have health issues,

1391
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 3: and I don't want this to crush them. I do

1392
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 3: love and worry about them. They're all adults. While it's

1393
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 3: not the brightest decision, it's theirs to make. My parents

1394
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 3: have involved all three of us for a long time,

1395
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 3: and problems and decisions that we shouldn't have been even

1396
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 3: as small kids. Maybe that's why they felt the need

1397
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 3: to tell us all this. Maybe they shouldn't have, at

1398
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 3: least not yet, or until they at least met with

1399
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 3: a bank. As for me, being the power of attorney,

1400
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 3: I am also the executor of their estate. If this

1401
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 3: goes through, I will tell them I want to meet

1402
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 3: with their lawyers and figure this all out. I will

1403
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 3: decide then if I want to continue. Huh, dang, I

1404
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 3: need to see a therapist. And there is an update.

1405
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: Oh wow, wowie, So they can go to a lawyer

1406
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 1: then and have this settled with a lawyer. Yes, yeah, interesting. Interesting.

1407
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's good.

1408
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:48,480
Speaker 1: At least op has, like some say in this even

1409
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 1: though it's like it's really not like totally involving op. No,

1410
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: but yeah, based on what I've seen in this story,

1411
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: I'm glad that op Has has a power in some Yeah,

1412
01:01:59,160 --> 01:01:59,960
Speaker 1: in some capacity.

1413
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. But let's get into this update.

1414
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 3: First things first, my parents did not ever do a

1415
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 3: down payment on a house for They told her to

1416
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 3: go do research and see what she can get as

1417
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 3: far as alone, and every bank told her no because

1418
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 3: she has a bunch of credit card debt. Yeah, which

1419
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 3: is what I figured might happen. The most delusional thing

1420
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 3: is she still thinks she can afford it and still

1421
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 3: keeps looking. I asked my parents about it recently and

1422
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 3: they said, yeah, we screwed up saying we could do that.

1423
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 3: She can't ever afford her house. I asked about helping

1424
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 3: her find an apartment, and that never goes anywhere. She

1425
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:35,439
Speaker 3: seems very content verbally abusing my parents in their home

1426
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 3: and they let her, so no change there.

1427
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:39,440
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1428
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 3: One thing that happened was the five of us, younger

1429
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 3: sister included, went into family therapy for a while. It

1430
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 3: was just my parents and older sister going trying to

1431
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 3: work on their dynamics, as they're the ones who lived

1432
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 3: together in battle a lot.

1433
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 1: When I did go, it helped me a bit.

1434
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 3: He made me realize that I really shouldn't hate my

1435
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 3: older sister as much as I should be angry.

1436
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 2: With my parents.

1437
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, honestly, I mean they're the one

1438
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 1: who they're the ones who contributed to this kind of

1439
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 1: golden child syndrome, right right.

1440
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 2: I don't know I was still being mad at the sister.

1441
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:13,680
Speaker 3: I mean absolutely, you could definitely still be mad at

1442
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 3: the sister, but it's like put some blame on those

1443
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 3: parents too. For sure, they are the ones who didn't

1444
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 3: protect me from my harmful sister. He also paired us up.

1445
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 3: Each person in the family has a partner that they

1446
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 3: were going to go to when problems happened. Someone event

1447
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 3: to and that person was to have the other person's

1448
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 3: back in arguments, no matter how wrong they may have been.

1449
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 3: I was paired up with my older sister. It was exhausting,

1450
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 3: but I really tried my best. As things usually happened,

1451
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 3: she came to me with everything, and yet I never

1452
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 3: went to her. I never told her about my problems.

1453
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 3: She called me every single day to talk about hers.

1454
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:49,360
Speaker 3: One family session, the therapist brought up that everyone in

1455
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 3: the room has problems.

1456
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 1: But I admit, like, I feel like it's probably.

1457
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 2: Like everyone here has problems. Yeah, but I'm imagining him

1458
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,800
Speaker 2: going all of you guys, yeah, are messed up. Yeah,

1459
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 2: you guys are all crazy. I don't know. I don't

1460
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 2: know what you want for me.

1461
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 3: You are lost, cause, yeah, all of us are depressed.

1462
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 3: All of us have combative PTSD, some have anxiety. My

1463
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 3: mother is an active user. My father is a self

1464
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 3: absorbed person, an ahole, and he just doesn't care. My

1465
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 3: oldest sister is borderline personality disorder. It doesn't make any

1466
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 3: of us bad, It's just who we are because.

1467
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 2: Of our trauma.

1468
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: Okay, that feels like a therapy response, like I don't

1469
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:26,280
Speaker 1: throw stones, kind of.

1470
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:31,480
Speaker 3: Like you all have anxiety and personality disorders and narcissism,

1471
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, that's what makes

1472
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:34,480
Speaker 3: you human.

1473
01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 1: Exactly, And I would just be like, okay, yeah, but like, yeah,

1474
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 1: so we're talking about talking that, but.

1475
01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 2: Like to deal with.

1476
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 3: These problems though, he wants us to seek individual therapy

1477
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 3: outside of seeing him. He then asked who is actually

1478
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 3: trying the tools he has taught us to communicate, and

1479
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 3: I was.

1480
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 1: The only one who answered.

1481
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:53,880
Speaker 3: He told us that some of us were on the

1482
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 3: verge of pulling away, and some of us are even

1483
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 3: on the verge of passing away. Pretty serious crap for

1484
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 3: our last time, right, Yeah, you read that correctly.

1485
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: It was our last session.

1486
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 3: The next week, we got a group text from the

1487
01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 3: therapist breaking up with us, telling us that I am

1488
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:10,440
Speaker 3: only able to work on a few clients right now

1489
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 3: as I am having personal problems.

1490
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:13,120
Speaker 1: That's crazy.

1491
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 2: He's like, it's not you, it's me.

1492
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 1: It's not using me.

1493
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 3: That sucks man, dude, So people could pass away from

1494
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 3: an OD or self arm. But oh well, no recommendation

1495
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:26,840
Speaker 3: for another therapist, nothing, Just to be kind of one

1496
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 3: another and let's pick up again in the fall. Also,

1497
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 3: my older sister is adamant that she is perfectly normal

1498
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 3: and that is diagnosis is wrong and wants his license

1499
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 3: for it. My younger sister did get married this past weekend.

1500
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 3: The only drama was from my older sister. One thing

1501
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:44,600
Speaker 3: I've never mentioned in the OPE was that my oldest

1502
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 3: sister for years has overstepped her boundaries with my husband.

1503
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,560
Speaker 3: She will flirt with him, try to cuddle with him,

1504
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 3: jump into his arms, and more. I have told her

1505
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 3: repeatedly to stop, and she hasn't. She has gotten creepy

1506
01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,560
Speaker 3: over infatuation with him. I told her last time, if

1507
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 3: she overt and if she even tried to hug my

1508
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 3: husband again, she and I are done.

1509
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 2: Good put up those boundaries.

1510
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 3: Well, she crossed the line at the wedding shocker. I

1511
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:13,520
Speaker 3: certainly told her off quietly, and then she proceeded to

1512
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:17,520
Speaker 3: have a crying, screaming hissy fit at her table. Of course,

1513
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 3: we're done, I told my parents, I'm no longer going

1514
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 3: to their house, and that includes holidays. Until my sister

1515
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 3: is gone. I will not enable them and her by

1516
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 3: visiting anymore. My parents are more than welcome at my home,

1517
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:30,800
Speaker 3: but she is not. I will not let my husband

1518
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 3: be uncomfortable anymore. Well, then on Halloween, my mother fell

1519
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:37,680
Speaker 3: into her bathroom and slammed her face on the bathroom

1520
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 3: to sink.

1521
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:40,240
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god.

1522
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:42,840
Speaker 3: Broke a bone in her face and broke her pelvis.

1523
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 3: My father says she was sober. I don't believe it,

1524
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 3: as my father doesn't pay attention to things like that.

1525
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 3: Plus they waited three hours before they call the ambulance.

1526
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 3: I will never know the truth there. But my mom

1527
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 3: is going into a nursing home until healed, so if

1528
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:00,320
Speaker 3: she's abusing things, they will know. My older sister wants

1529
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 3: to take care of my mom while she heals, and

1530
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:05,919
Speaker 3: we have all said over our past away bodies. By

1531
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 3: the way, you can heal yourself by listening to full

1532
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:12,520
Speaker 3: episodes of stories just like this. Just go to Spotify,

1533
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 3: Apple Podcasts, or iHeartRadio and.

1534
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 2: Search bucket story time. You heard the woman, But there

1535
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:20,840
Speaker 2: is a little bit left to the story. Fine thoughts like.

1536
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, wowe. Yeah, I'm just making like a mental

1537
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:26,840
Speaker 1: note to myself in the future of being like, I

1538
01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: hope that none of my kids ever feel like they

1539
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 1: can't see each other everything.

1540
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 2: I don't want that to happen to my kids.

1541
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:34,360
Speaker 3: I think about that a lot because I have such

1542
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:36,640
Speaker 3: a great relationship with Sam and I'm like, my kids

1543
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 3: better live up to us, right, stand on the shoulders

1544
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 3: of giants.

1545
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they gotta be. Oh yeah, that's hard. End

1546
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 2: with the mom now getting there.

1547
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just such a messy yeah, messy met Yeah,

1548
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:53,000
Speaker 1: but there's more so.

1549
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:55,840
Speaker 3: There's that I'm feeling guilt over the fact that I

1550
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:57,920
Speaker 3: won't see my niece as much or at all because

1551
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:00,160
Speaker 3: of my cutting my sister out. But I have to

1552
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 3: protect my own I'm going back and forth, and it's

1553
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 3: on the decision because of my niece. I feel as

1554
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 3: though I've made the right choice, but could.

1555
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:07,480
Speaker 2: I be wrong.

1556
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 1: It's not fair to her.

1557
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:11,520
Speaker 3: She needs somewhat stable people in her life, and if

1558
01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 3: I leave, it's gone. I'm at a loss. I haven't

1559
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 3: done therapy for myself yet. I'm scared to do so.

1560
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 3: It's a lot of crazy in my closet that I

1561
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:22,320
Speaker 3: don't want to relive. It's all a mess. Annie thoughts,

1562
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:24,600
Speaker 3: did I do the right thing? What do I do

1563
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 3: to help my mom and dad and niece without compromising

1564
01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:27,960
Speaker 3: my decision?

1565
01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 2: And that is the end of that story.

1566
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 1: Wowee man, wow wee wowee.

1567
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:37,679
Speaker 3: I mean I think that you have to prioritize your

1568
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 3: own sanity. Yeah, and it really sucks, like losing that

1569
01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 3: relationship with your niece, but for now, maybe the best

1570
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:46,720
Speaker 3: thing is for you to put some space and then

1571
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:48,719
Speaker 3: maybe come back to it and later.

1572
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean that seems like what you're doing, Like,

1573
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 1: I do think it's good for you to be like

1574
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:56,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to ever go to the parent's house.

1575
01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to ever go to the sister's house.

1576
01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 1: Parents can come to me. Yeah, I'm not moving. Yeah,

1577
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 1: I think that's a good boundary to set.

1578
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 2: I agree.

1579
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 1: And I think just doing more of that, like continuing

1580
01:09:07,360 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 1: boundaries and yeah, just just keep doing what you're doing,

1581
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 1: do yes, stay stay the course exactly exactly. But that

1582
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 1: is the end of that episode. We love you and

1583
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:18,360
Speaker 1: see it tomorrow.