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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sam.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 4: My husband's family is everything I dreamt of until they

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Speaker 4: turned on me just like that. By the way, trigger

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Speaker 4: warning fertility issues and miscarriage. If you know that's that's

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Speaker 4: Me twenty eight female, and my husband thirty two male,

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Speaker 4: have a wonderful relationship, but his family, who once treated

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Speaker 4: me like their own, has turned on me in painful

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Speaker 4: and hurtful ways, especially after a recent health scare. I

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Speaker 4: don't know how much longer I can take this, even

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Speaker 4: though I love him with all my heart. By the way,

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Speaker 4: Art Slaw Show. Okay, Storytime subredit. So. My husband and

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Speaker 4: I have been together for four years, married for two

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Speaker 4: We met when I was hired to plan his sister's

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Speaker 4: wedding and clicked into We kept things professional during the wedding,

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Speaker 4: but started dating afterwards. From the beginning, our relationship felt

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Speaker 4: like magic. It was deeply respectful, loving, supportive, and safe.

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Speaker 4: It's truly one of the most beautiful parts of my life.

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Speaker 4: Over time, I also grew close to his family. His

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Speaker 4: mom felt like a second mother to me. His younger

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Speaker 4: sisters were like close friends, and his family, dynamic, though

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Speaker 4: rooted in hardship, felt strong and warm. The only person

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Speaker 4: who seemed off was his aunt, but I didn't pay

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Speaker 4: her much mind. I genuinely loved being a part of

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Speaker 4: the world. That is until he proposed that's not a

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Speaker 4: good time to stop loving being a part of your world.

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Speaker 4: It was everything I dreamed of, a beautiful trip, a

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Speaker 4: perfect moment, pure joy. But something changed when we returned

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Speaker 4: his mom, who used to be my confidant. Suddenly it

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Speaker 4: became different, suddenly cold, passive, aggressive. I noticed it, but

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Speaker 4: brushed it off in the glow of my engagement. Looking back,

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Speaker 4: I wish I hadn't. Since then, things have just deteriors.

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Speaker 4: Every day for a year now, I've cried. I don't

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Speaker 4: think there's been a single day I haven't. It's gotten

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Speaker 4: so toxic and painful that I've started to wonder if

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Speaker 4: I can even stay in this marriage, not because I

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Speaker 4: don't love my husband, but because of how his family

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Speaker 4: makes me feel. For some background, my husband has three sisters,

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Speaker 4: one older who's married, and two younger. His father passed

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Speaker 4: away when he was very young, and they grew up

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Speaker 4: in severe poverty. His mother worked five jobs to support them.

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Speaker 4: His maternal uncle helped them immensely, which is likely why

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Speaker 4: his mother and aunt uncle's wife are so close. Ever

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Speaker 4: since my husband started working at twenty three, he's been

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Speaker 4: the sole provider. He pays for his mom, aunt, an uncle,

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Speaker 4: and one of his sister's expenses. Today, the family is

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Speaker 4: quite well off, but it's largely due to him. They

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Speaker 4: love him, sure, but often treat him like an ATM,

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Speaker 4: I always admired this about him, his loyalty and deep

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Speaker 4: a few instances of their behavior. After our engagement, his

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Speaker 4: more on his plate. She once told him, if I

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Speaker 4: don't take care of him, who will?

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Speaker 2: Who else is gonna take care of him? Like, well,

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Speaker 2: he's a grown man who's actually taking care of you. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so yeah, they probably don't need to worry about that.

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Speaker 4: The expectation that like the wife needs to be the

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Speaker 4: we will down with the gender roles.

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Speaker 2: Let's just all be happy that your son has found

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Speaker 2: someone he loves and they're gonna be together. But it's

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Speaker 2: like it's gonna be so hard to get him to

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Speaker 2: see like any toxicity on his family side. I feel

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Speaker 2: like because of what they went through together, Yeah, and

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Speaker 4: During wedding planning, my husband joked that he just went

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Speaker 4: into elope. His mom said a good life partner should

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Speaker 4: Even though we had no intention of voting anyone on

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Speaker 4: When his sister showed up at their house mid crisis,

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Speaker 4: her marriage was toxing. We were expected to cancel entirely

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she made her quit the job and stop therapy.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, her aunt said, I cared more about my

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Speaker 4: work and personal life. I still haven't fully processed. That day,

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Speaker 4: that's heartbreaking. And of course now the mother in law

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Speaker 4: My husband was devastated. We cried and held each other

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Speaker 4: for hours. He protected me fiercely, didn't let anyone visit

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Speaker 4: The entire time, I kept wishing it was my mother

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Speaker 4: My husband has tried everything. He's defended me, banned the

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Speaker 4: person who wronged me. Yes, he even screamed at his

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Speaker 4: she fainted. He feels guilty and now so do I.

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Speaker 2: But good for the husband. I'm glad the husband is

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Speaker 2: defending you. That was what I was really most worried about, right,

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Speaker 2: So he'd be like, well, sho's my mom, but it's like, dude.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm so glad. It just sucks that like these

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Speaker 4: even truly love him because they can't support the one

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Speaker 4: despite it all, I love him and more than anything,

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Speaker 4: he is my peace, my comfort. No matter how how

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Speaker 4: I feel like my life is a nightmare. I can't escape.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to divorce him, but I don't want

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Speaker 2: always had some issues with mother in law, mainly after

432
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 2: I got pregnant with my first child. It was like

433
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 2: her personality completely changed. She had issues with my family

434
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 2: members and was extremely rude to them, acted inappropriately towards

435
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 2: children not even related to her at my baby shower,

436
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:31,360
Speaker 2: and became extremely controlling in certain aspects. It only got

437
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,960
Speaker 2: worse once I gave birth. To give you an idea,

438
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 2: once she knew that I hadn't eaten all day, she

439
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,360
Speaker 2: woke the baby up right when she saw I had

440
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 2: finished heating up my food to eat. I was breastfeeding

441
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:43,879
Speaker 2: at the time and had to stop what I was

442
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 2: doing to go feed the baby. I was also very

443
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,399
Speaker 2: obviously going through major postpartum depression at the time. It

444
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 2: was evident in my actions, and it had been spoken

445
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 2: about when I wasn't able to visit them at their

446
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 2: camp with Mark and our only baby at the time,

447
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,639
Speaker 2: and there was a first that I wanted to be

448
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 2: a part of. Mother in law wanted to do it anyway,

449
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 2: and said, what OP doesn't know will hurt her. She's

450
00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,160
Speaker 2: trying to take away first moments with her child. Yes,

451
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,160
Speaker 2: and it's like my grandchild.

452
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,200
Speaker 1: It's like, eh, your old news.

453
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,439
Speaker 4: You already got that with your own regular children.

454
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,359
Speaker 2: So she woke the baby up from a nap while

455
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 2: we were visiting, after she knew I had battled to

456
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 2: get him to sleep. She gave him coffee without asking. Jail,

457
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 2: I'm saying to jail, you gave a baby coffee. Jail

458
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 2: mom gives him coffee without asking. Many many, many more

459
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 2: things along those lines. I always dealt with these things

460
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 2: silently because I didn't want to cause waves. Girl, what

461
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 2: little did I know? We were all feeling some type

462
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 2: of way. So when mother in law and father in

463
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 2: law was told that I was pregnant with our second child,

464
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 2: father in law was excited, but mother in law barely

465
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 2: smiled and didn't seem very excited. When she found out

466
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 2: we were having a girl this time, she wasn't excited

467
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 2: at all. I thought I was just overreacting or looking

468
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,400
Speaker 2: too much into it, so I never said anything to anyone. However,

469
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,640
Speaker 2: they never want to take my daughter with them when

470
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,360
Speaker 2: they take my son. They asked to take my son

471
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 2: for a week at a time, but never seem to

472
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 2: want to take my daughter. This has been pointed out

473
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 2: to them by an aunt and they just brush it off.

474
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 4: Is she not a woman herself? Was she not once

475
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 4: a daughter baby?

476
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 2: I don't know, But whatever goes on there psychologically is

477
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 2: freaky and complicated. Last year, they decided to sell their

478
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 2: house and live permanently at their camper, which is a

479
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 2: permanent setup in Pennsylvania during the spring and summer and

480
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 2: down at another campground in Florida for the rest of

481
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 2: the year. Around the time they were selling their house,

482
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 2: my brother in law found out he was battling Stage

483
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 2: four answer they still made him help move all the

484
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 2: stuff in their house. Multiple times. When sister in law

485
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 2: tried to say they needed to get home, mother in

486
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 2: law said, oh, you can go, brother in law can

487
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 2: stay and help. He was going through chemo at the time.

488
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 2: Not only that, but they barely checked in on brother

489
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 2: in law. Brother in law and sister in law would

490
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,919
Speaker 2: only hear from them when they wanted something and then

491
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 2: would ask how he was as an afterthought. But don't

492
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 2: you know it, she was Mom of the Year when

493
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 2: she actually went to an appointment or two. She tried

494
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 2: to tell sister in law she didn't need to go

495
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 2: to the appointments. Yet, sister in law has been the

496
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 2: rock of the entire situation. Can you imagine it's the

497
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,679
Speaker 2: absolute rock you have to have in your brain to

498
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:35,880
Speaker 2: tell your son's wife, yeah, you don't need to come

499
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 2: to your husband's answer treatment appointments. What a I am

500
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 2: so thank I love you mom, thank you for yeah

501
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 2: yeah ye yeah. She tried to tell sister in law

502
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 2: she didn't need to go to the appointments. However, sister

503
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,360
Speaker 2: in law has been the rock of this entire situation.

504
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 2: She even told Mark and I not to ask brother

505
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 2: in law about what was going on with his own

506
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 2: cancer because he didn't know and she could tell us better.

507
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 2: All of the extra stuff from their house stored at

508
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 2: brother in law and sister in law's house because they

509
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 2: were local. They did nothing with those items during the summer.

510
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 2: Father in law picked up some odd jobs to do,

511
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 2: so he stayed busy with work, but he would stay

512
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 2: at brother in law and sister in law's house a

513
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 2: few nights a week without bothering to let them know,

514
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 2: despite being asked to and mother in law did nothing

515
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 2: all day at the campground. Brother in law and sister

516
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 2: in law had to tell them to get their stuff

517
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 2: out before they headed south for the winter. Mother in

518
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 2: law and father in law are still having stuff shipped

519
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 2: to brother in law and sister in law's house without

520
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 2: asking and just expecting them to hold it for them

521
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 2: until they're back up north. Mother in law and father

522
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 2: in law also made comments about our parenting. It's all

523
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 2: gotten back to us. Keep in mind, my kids only

524
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 2: see them maybe three times a year. They are the

525
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 2: fun grandparents, not the there every day or even once

526
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 2: a week kind of grandparents. They also apparently talked about

527
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 2: how Mark and I never come to visit. We both

528
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 2: work forty five hours a week and live four hours

529
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 2: away from them while raising a young family. Meanwhile they're retired. Yeah, no, definitely,

530
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 2: we are the ones who need to make the effort here.

531
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

532
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 2: What, They made no effort to come see the kids,

533
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 2: but expected us to completely uproot our busy lives for them.

534
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 2: In October, they wanted to come pick up my son

535
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 2: and take him up to camp for a few days

536
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 2: before Mark and I would head up with our daughter

537
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 2: for the early Halloween weekend. Mark had plans he could

538
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 2: not miss that weekend, and I ended up having to work.

539
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 2: This is the only reason why mother in law asked

540
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,479
Speaker 2: if she could pick up daughter as well. Mark and

541
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 2: I said we would rather her not go, as it

542
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 2: would be her first time walking and trick or treating

543
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 2: and we wanted to be there for that. Mother in

544
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 2: law said, it is it worth that just to get

545
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 2: my son, so they decided not to have him at all.

546
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 2: Her excuse was it was way too much driving. Before

547
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: they went to Florida. We had agreed to meet them

548
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 2: halfway and they didn't even leave for Florida for another

549
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,959
Speaker 2: two weeks. She lied to us about when they were

550
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,719
Speaker 2: leaving in November December. Once they were down in Florida,

551
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: they called and asked if she could fly up, take

552
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 2: our son on his first plane ride down to Florida

553
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 2: and keep him for two weeks. This is the same

554
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 2: woman who said a two hour drive was not worth

555
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,479
Speaker 2: spending time with her grandson. We said we would think

556
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 2: about it, but we obviously did not let that happen.

557
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 2: Mark and I talked and realized they would have done

558
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 2: something like taking him to Disney World and not told

559
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 2: us until after the fact when we said we don't

560
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 2: know if we would be okay with that long of

561
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 2: a time away anyway, she said it wouldn't be worth

562
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 2: it for just a week. Again, there's her saying, my

563
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 2: kids aren't worth it. Oh and just to add, the

564
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,160
Speaker 2: two hour drive before wasn't worth it for my kids,

565
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 2: but a flight to spend a week with my kid

566
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 2: isn't worth it. But it was definitely worth it when

567
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 2: they flew from Pennsylvania to Florida for a cruise during

568
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 2: their time up north. Make it make sense. Your parents

569
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: kind of suck. Sorry, that's what makes sense. I mean

570
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 2: your in law suck, not your parents. Mother in law

571
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 2: was recently in the hospital. She was admitted to the

572
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 2: hospital had to have a biopsy in surgery, which we

573
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 2: didn't know until days after she had been admitted. Father

574
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 2: in law lied to his sister this Aunt. She is

575
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 2: so sweet and caring and has been so understanding about

576
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: what mother in law and father in law have been

577
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 2: putting us all through, saying that we knew she was

578
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 2: in the hospital. He told us immediately after talking to

579
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 2: say June Aunt. June. Then they lied about when she

580
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: was released from the hospital. Wait, can we just acknowledge

581
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,479
Speaker 2: really quick, how dumb of a lie that is. So

582
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 2: he talks to the aunt June and is like they

583
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 2: already knew, and then called them and then told them

584
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,719
Speaker 2: you could have just done it the other way, and

585
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: technically you wouldn't have even been lying right, right, But

586
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 2: you can't even do that right. Then they lied about

587
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 2: when she was released from the hospital, flat out said

588
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 2: a different date, no idea. Why, oh my god, Rush

589
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 2: the latest is father in law's birthday being this week

590
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 2: and we all reached out via Facebook or text to

591
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 2: wish him a happy birthday. Keep in mind we have

592
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 2: never really called on birthdays. I know Mark hasn't received

593
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: a birthday call from them in a while, and I

594
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: never have. Brother in law is lucky if they even

595
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 2: bother to get a hold of him. Usually he doesn't

596
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 2: want to hear. Usually he doesn't hear from them for months. Well,

597
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 2: apparently this wasn't enough for mother in law. She texted

598
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 2: Mark and brother in law and said she was disappointed

599
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 2: in them for not calling their father. And this seems

600
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 2: to be the straw that broke the Campbell's back. Mark

601
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 2: didn't respond because he's at the point where he's like

602
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,719
Speaker 2: screw them. But brother in law is rightfully fed up

603
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 2: and done. All of us are questioning if we are

604
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: even going to bother to go to camp at all

605
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: this summer. We didn't expect anything out of them. If

606
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 2: that is the retired life they want, that's fine. We're

607
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 2: just tired of them acting like they are parents or

608
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: grandparents of the year, when really all they is to

609
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 2: seem like it without doing any of the work. At

610
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 2: this point, I don't care, nor do I think we

611
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 2: are overreacting for keeping our distance at it. I forgot

612
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 2: to mention. To this day, they will still bring up

613
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 2: how Mark caused the house fire that destroyed their house

614
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 2: over ten years ago. Whoa because he had his truck

615
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 2: plugged in. Woh, sounds more like something's wrong with the

616
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 2: house is wiring. But she has brought it up numerous

617
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,719
Speaker 2: times over the year, and we do have an update.

618
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 4: Iikes, that's a crazy thing to throw it there for

619
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 4: you in your darn electric truck.

620
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 2: Our house wouldn't have burned down. It's like, well, mom,

621
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 2: remember when the contractor told you the whole house was

622
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 2: wired with aluminum wiring and you said that's.

623
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 4: A scam, And you're trying to steal our money.

624
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 2: I would bet my my internal organs that that was

625
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 2: a conversation that was had with her, and she went,

626
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with illuminum wiring. They've done it for

627
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 2: hundreds of years and it's totally fine. Yeah, and then

628
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 2: you plug the truck and the whole house turns into

629
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 2: a light show. Yeah, you have an update. Before I

630
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: get to the main story, I want to add that

631
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 2: I found out that she had deluted me off of Facebook.

632
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: Ooh.

633
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 2: I only figured this out because I went to block

634
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 2: her and father in law from seeing my future posts

635
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 2: and I couldn't find her. She texted me on Saturday

636
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 2: asking if I was home and if they could video

637
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 2: chat with the kids. I don't know why that day

638
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 2: was finally the day, but I knew I couldn't deal

639
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 2: with just ignoring her anymore, so I responded to her

640
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 2: with the following quote. I'm not sure when you deleted

641
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 2: me off Facebook. Just noticed last week in August, when

642
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 2: it would have just been my son coming up, you

643
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 2: said it wouldn't be worth meeting us halfway for him

644
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,479
Speaker 2: to come up. When on the phone asking about flying

645
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 2: up from Florida, you said it wouldn't be worth seeing

646
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 2: my son for just a week. I have let many

647
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 2: things slide before, but that sent bells off in both

648
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 2: my and Mark's mind. We have been made aware of

649
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 2: many comments you guys have made about our parenting and

650
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 2: how you would do it differently. I am also aware

651
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 2: of things that have happened, such as you saying what

652
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 2: hope he doesn't know won't hurt her when Mark stopped

653
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 2: you from doing a first of our sons when I

654
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,959
Speaker 2: could not come up to camp. We are also aware

655
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 2: of comments about how we didn't make an effort to

656
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 2: come see you guys this summer when we are extremely

657
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 2: busy and a young family, and the logistics of making

658
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 2: a huge trip like that often isn't feasible for us.

659
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 2: There are other things that have really upset me over

660
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: the past year as well, but it is not my

661
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: story or experience to tell. I do not want to

662
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 2: get into a long discussion over this. I just want

663
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 2: to enjoy the only day off I have with Mark

664
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 2: once he's home for the next few weeks. Crickets. Then

665
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 2: a few hours later, my father in law sent me

666
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 2: a picture of a turtle and asked me to show

667
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 2: my son. Once again, he excluded my daughter. I told

668
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 2: him that I would and left it at that. Saturday,

669
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 2: the mother in law sent me a friend request, but

670
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 2: I just let it sit there. On Sunday, Mark sent

671
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 2: a message basically backing everything that I set up, but

672
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 2: called them out for only being grandparents when it's convenient

673
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 2: and that they have two grandchildren and not one. He

674
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 2: also said something about not trusting them with the kids alone,

675
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 2: and they got a little chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp crickets.

676
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 2: Brother in law sent his own message related to his

677
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 2: own issues with mother in law, and her response sent

678
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 2: me through the roof. She said, brother in law, I

679
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 2: understand what you're saying, but it works both ways. You

680
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 2: never call us, and you never called the check on

681
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: me after surgery.

682
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, the whole the phone works both ways,

683
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 4: that whole line.

684
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do?

685
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 4: Those whoa.

686
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 2: You see what I'm doing right here? Snip snip cutting ties, cut.

687
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 4: Them off them off.

688
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 2: Your son, the brother in law had stage four cancer

689
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: and you're saying, phone works both ways.

690
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 4: So take your own freaking advice.

691
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 3: My guy.

692
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, here we go. Okay, I saw red red.

693
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 2: She is referring to her most recent surgery from the

694
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 2: hospital visit. They only told us about after June asked

695
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 2: if we knew and they said yes, when we didn't,

696
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 2: they'd been there for days. Then they lied about the

697
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 2: day they left. How is that comparable to battling? Can sir? Yeah?

698
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 2: But literally, She's like, you didn't even call when I

699
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 2: was in the hospital.

700
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 4: You freaking.

701
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 2: Ah do with these people? I wouldn't even entertain this.

702
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: I would completely stop talking about move of life, but

703
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 2: never associate with the people ever get in my life? Right, Okay,

704
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 2: here we are. So. She also spoke to brother in

705
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 2: law on the phone yesterday and basically played victim with everything.

706
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: She said.

707
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 2: It cost them six to seven hundred dollars every weekend

708
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 2: they come to visit us. They choose to get an

709
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 2: expensive hotel room instead of staying with us, the dummies,

710
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 2: and they can't afford that. But then says that they

711
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 2: have invited us all down to Florida and would pay

712
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 2: for airfare, and they go on multiple cruises every year.

713
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 4: We can pay for we can pay for you guys.

714
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 4: The mom died and then the sun, but we don't.

715
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, we ran out of money for the daughter.

716
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 4: Oh sorry.

717
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 2: Okay, So again, if that's what they want out of retirement,

718
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 2: that's fine. Just don't make excuses and make us look

719
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 2: like the bad guys. She also reiterated that it would

720
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 2: not have been worth it for the times to see

721
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,720
Speaker 2: my son again, just my son, for that Florida trip,

722
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 2: so she's doubled down on the whole worth it thing.

723
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 2: She also told brother in law that the ball is

724
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 2: now in March andized court to reach out to her.

725
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: Neither of us have heard any response to our messages

726
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 2: explaining why we were fed up. Mother in law truly

727
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 2: feels like a victim and all this she's wanting an apology,

728
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 2: But I'm not sorry for finally speaking my truth and

729
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 2: standing up for myself. But I guess we all know

730
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 2: that narks are unable to see the wrong they do.

731
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 2: Oh and they still haven't tried to contact sister in

732
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 2: law at all. It's been three months all those now

733
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 2: since she's heard from them. All in all, I'm at

734
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 2: peace with it. I know I handled it calmly and maturely,

735
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 2: which God bless you, because I would not have and

736
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 2: I don't have time for adult temper tantrums. Thank you

737
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 2: to everyone who commented on the previous post, I truly

738
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,359
Speaker 2: think you help me get the courage to speak up.

739
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Speaker 5: By the way, it's gonna take a lot of courage

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Speaker 5: for you to listen to full episodes with stories like this,

741
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742
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Speaker 2: We have a final update hereund out last night that Grandma,

746
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 2: mother in law's mom has been in the hospital since Monday.

747
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 2: She fell, but is okay from that. However, she has pneumonia.

748
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 2: Mother in law didn't bother to tell brother in law

749
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 2: during her call where she was painting herself as a victim.

750
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 2: We found out through cousins. I am one hundred percent

751
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 2: done with this woman. What if something happened to Grandma

752
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 2: and the guys didn't have a chance to speak to her.

753
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 2: Do you have any idea the wrath that would rain

754
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 2: down for me if one of my parents hid that

755
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 2: mind Nana was in the hospital with a serious complication

756
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 2: or illness or whatever. You dude, Yeah, which they would

757
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 2: never do that. But mother in law has shown her

758
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 2: true colors, and I don't want any children anywhere near

759
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 2: that toxicity. Yeah, the toxicity. Uh and that is the

760
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 2: end of that story.

761
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Dude, separate yourself. Try to have

762
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 4: good contact with the rest of the family so that

763
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 4: you can find out from other people and that this

764
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be, you know, your only way of

765
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 4: getting updates on the rest of the family. That's just ridiculous.

766
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 4: So many things that a mother should not do, should

767
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 4: not do.

768
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 2: I'm Sam here, We're gonna get back to the stories.

769
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770
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Speaker 1: My partner cheated on me, but my US legal status

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Speaker 1: depends on her.

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Speaker 4: Ooh, that's tough, tight spot.

773
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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to stay with the cheator to stay

774
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Speaker 1: in the United States? Rough well were living. I met

775
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Speaker 1: my girlfriend over a year ago while on a Jay

776
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Speaker 1: one visa in the US. I met her only nine

777
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: days after arriving, so we basically spent my entire three

778
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: months there together. We fell in love pretty fast and

779
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: had an amazing time. We knew I had to go

780
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: home at the end of the three months, but we

781
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:59,760
Speaker 1: had many deep conversations about us and what we wanted,

782
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: we decided we'd give being in a long distance relationship

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786
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Speaker 1: the States, and about four weeks later she came to

787
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Speaker 1: visit me in my home country. It was like a movie,

788
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: showing her the small town I grew up in and

789
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: all the places I went as a kid. We'd even

790
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: did a little trip around some other nearby countries. We

791
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: both had a very convenient work situation where we could

792
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: be remote, so every six months, one of us would

793
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: go visit another for a month. That's fire on the

794
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: past days we were apart. We would FaceTime every single

795
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: day and never missed a day. Talking to her was

796
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,760
Speaker 1: so easy. It got to a stage where we realized

797
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: that going back and forth wasn't suitable, so we looked

798
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: into moving into the same country together. She happens to

799
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: be a European citizen through her dad, so it made

800
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: sense for her to at least try to move to

801
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: my country for a bit and make work remotely. We

802
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: had a great time, but we realized pretty quickly that

803
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: the lifestyle in my country wasn't really suited for us

804
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: and the life we wanted, and the job market is

805
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: completely trash. So we decided that because everything about the

806
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: relationship was perfect, we would get legally married so I

807
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: could live with her in the States Eagle Noise. It

808
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: made more sense even for things outside of the relationship.

809
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: For example, I have a STEM degree that would pay

810
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: extremely well in the city she's from, and it's very

811
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 1: hard for me to get a STEM job in my hometown.

812
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: She also has a very close relationship with her family,

813
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 1: and I'm on good terms with mine, but definitely not

814
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: as close. Anyways, I'm extremely excited for this new life

815
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 1: in the US. I have a lot of friends in

816
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: her city from living there, and I have the potential

817
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: to make a serious amount of money. I came to

818
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: the US and we legally got married, and while I'm

819
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,439
Speaker 1: waiting for my green card, I was able to get

820
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: an ead work permit, with which I have secured a

821
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: dream job in this dream city that is paying me

822
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Speaker 1: three x the amount more money than any job I've

823
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: ever had in my life. I started the job yesterday

824
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,280
Speaker 1: and he's with this dream girl, so perfect.

825
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 4: I think we just told the story. We're happy, everyone's happy.

826
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: You just leave it as is.

827
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 4: Everything's okay. I hope he doesn't seem to know about

828
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 4: the cheating yet I'm really worried.

829
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 1: Or there isn't anything, or there isn't any.

830
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,720
Speaker 6: Cheating, But you know, I think you just right now.

831
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 6: You keep working in this relationship until you get that

832
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 6: green card.

833
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then after two years the hook. Anyways, around

834
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 1: the time of anniversary of us deciding to be exclusive,

835
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: she started acting weird when I was talking about it

836
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: and saying a happy day and we should mark the occasion.

837
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: She didn't respond to my text about it and avoided

838
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 1: the conversation. When I talked about it in person, she

839
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: put it down to being so stressed out at work,

840
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: and to be fair, she does have a stressful job,

841
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: so I believed her, but I still had a weird

842
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: feeling in my stomach. So I said it again a

843
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 1: few weeks later, that we should do something to mark

844
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: the occasion now that work is less stressful, even if

845
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: it's late. Now she got weird about it again. Don't

846
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: do it, don't snoop, which I'm not proud of, but

847
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 1: I know it's frown upon by many, but we have

848
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 1: talked about it and given each other license to snoop.

849
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: She snoops on my phone all the time and I

850
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: don't care, as I have nothing to anyway. All I

851
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: did was search the name of the guy she was

852
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: seen before me in her text, and all I saw

853
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: is what I needed to know. No, she was just

854
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 1: asking him about like travel recommendations, Yeah, because they used

855
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: to like travel a lot. So he's like, Hey, I'm

856
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: going to his home country. What should I do?

857
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 4: Just surprise him, she said, hey, I'm traveling to that.

858
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: I understood what we were going for and I appreciate it.

859
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,800
Speaker 1: Thank you. The next morning, I was in a terrible

860
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: mood and she could see this, so after persistently asking why,

861
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 1: I said that I saw something on her on and

862
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: I needed her to explain it to me. Honestly, long

863
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: story short, she had hooked up with this guy about

864
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 1: a week after we had exclusive. They weren't on a

865
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: dinner day, went to a nightclub after and went back

866
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 1: to her apartment where I had stayed the night before

867
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: this happened and the night after this happened, and had

868
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: spicy sleep.

869
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 4: Girl.

870
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: I'm heartbroken and I don't know what to do. We

871
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: had such a dream relationship and everything is great. Other

872
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: than this, I also can't stay in this dream job

873
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: in this really cool city if we break up. The

874
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: situation in my home country is kind of bleak. So

875
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: I'm conflicted for these reasons. She also said that if

876
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: I decided to leave her, she completely understands, but also

877
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: doesn't want to wait around pretending to be with me

878
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: until I get my green card. I know we're in

879
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: the early days, and I understand long distance is tough,

880
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: but I think I have a right to be sad

881
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: if she has spicy sleep with someone else after we

882
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: agreed to be exclusive. Does anyone have thoughts on what

883
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: I should do?

884
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 2: Update?

885
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 6: Ooh man, this is tricky because like normally I'd be

886
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 6: like leave her.

887
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously, but the green card stuff makes it.

888
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:15,280
Speaker 2: It's tricky.

889
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 6: Sam Chan or Sam Chean, you cheated, so now you

890
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 6: owe me as citizenship. Ye, you cheated, so you got

891
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 6: to marry me.

892
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 4: It's the rules.

893
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, Hannah says, shoot, yeah, is there another way you

894
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 6: can get at least like a.

895
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 4: Work green card temporarily? Okay, she's over right now?

896
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: What?

897
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 4: Yeah?

898
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be good because he does have a job.

899
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 6: I would just say, like, I don't want to continue

900
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 6: this relationship, but if you could give me a little

901
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 6: bit of time to get everything sorted because I don't

902
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:41,720
Speaker 6: want to necessarily.

903
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 2: Leave the country right now.

904
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I will like do whatever I can to

905
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 6: get a green card or some sort of visa extension

906
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:48,959
Speaker 6: right now.

907
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got an update. I guess more people responded

908
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: to my post than I expected, and I said, I

909
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,959
Speaker 1: give you an update. So here it is. Oh man,

910
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,399
Speaker 1: so much crap has happened, and I don't know where

911
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: to begin. I just want to let the dust settle

912
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 1: a bit before I posted anything else. But anyway, here

913
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: I am, and I'll try to keep it as short

914
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: as I can. Long story short. I didn't want to

915
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: leave the United States and my job, but I'm also

916
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: not a complete psychopath, and I can't fake a relationship

917
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: for two plus years to get a green card. My

918
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 1: guilty conscious would unlive me. So I decided to try

919
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: and make the marriage genuinely work. Yes, I talked to

920
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: a lawyer about it. By the way, we had very

921
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: unproductive arguments about it all. Initially I had her sister

922
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: calling me telling me I need just get over it

923
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: because dating in California is brutal, and I should be

924
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: okay with cheating. I also found out a whole lot

925
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 1: more crap about her. This isn't the first time she cheated.

926
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: She cheated on other mostly significant boyfriends before me, with

927
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: her old boss from work multiple times.

928
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 4: No, I continue to look up.

929
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: With the boss until a couple of months before we met.

930
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 6: Some boss boss whoa No, the girl, what is this

931
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 6: she doing?

932
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 4: Why getting into relationships? Stop it?

933
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, and stop believing this guy on there's some.

934
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 2: Serious relationship relationships.

935
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 1: And then get someone to go to your country.

936
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 4: You had to fly out to you to.

937
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: The United States. You get everything settled, and then you're like,

938
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure about this, knowing.

939
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 4: That you've all no, but knowing that she's already cheated on.

940
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: Him, knowing that she's already cheated on him, and then

941
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 1: put him in like, hey, here's everything you've ever wanted.

942
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: I cheated on you by and you.

943
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 4: Have to leave bye, Like what messed up? That is

944
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 4: so much up in the head, Like how can you live?

945
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:37,879
Speaker 1: Like do it to someone in the United States, don't

946
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: do it as someone else in another country. You know,

947
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do it don't do it, but the

948
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 1: priority list is the United States. This guy. Why is

949
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: this relevant, you ask, because around when she told me this,

950
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: I realized that this was the same work friend who

951
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: calls her all the time and sends her risky and

952
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: often ask to hang out outside of work works at

953
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: least a couple of times a month, and she always

954
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: entertains that bus then found out she was still on

955
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 1: dating apps for the first six months of us being

956
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: officially boyfriend and girlfriend. I still to this day don't

957
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: know if anything came from that, but who knows. I

958
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: don't like it. There were some more smaller things, which

959
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: I won't get into right now, but you get the idea.

960
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:28,240
Speaker 1: Long story short. Eventually admits to being in the wrong

961
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: here sincerely I think, apologizes after some therapy, et cetera,

962
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 1: and the dust appears to be sidling, she gets all, wait,

963
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: psych Okay. It continues and gets gradually worse, so a

964
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:46,479
Speaker 1: few months later we're not arguing anymore. All seems fine,

965
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: except we almost never have spicy sleep. Sometimes I try

966
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: to initiate and she just rejects it. Maybe we'd have

967
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: spicy sleep twice a month. Not ideal, but worse things

968
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: can happen. Anyway, we go to a couple of parties,

969
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: but each time we go to one, she gets wasted.

970
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: This girl usually barely drinks. She's quite small, though, so

971
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: I'm thinking a little booze could go a long ways

972
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: on her. Anyways, I start finding these for tom supplies

973
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: in her car and in her purse, et cetera. For

974
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: those who don't know about it, look at some Reddit

975
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: threads about it. This crap is highly regular user I've

976
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 1: and ruins people's lives. Oh so it's like a substance. Yeah,

977
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: and it really affects how you deal with booze. So anyways,

978
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: I bring it up to her that I found these

979
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: for Tom shots and I hope it's not a way

980
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: of self harming. It erupts into a huge argument. She

981
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: starts telling me she doesn't like telling me about her problems.

982
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: It was so much easier with her ex, who she

983
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: cheated on with her old boss. Says she doesn't want

984
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: to have spicy sleep because of little things I do

985
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: think she thinks are unattractive. Some examples of these are

986
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: I use Google maps, well, bringing us on a date

987
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: one time. Wait once.

988
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 6: It wow me for I mean, honestly not me, I

989
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 6: guess because I use it all the time.

990
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, you supposed to know.

991
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 4: Psychically where it is.

992
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 3: And again, op, he's not even from this area.

993
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 4: It's not even from this area.

994
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:15,800
Speaker 1: And she's like, yeah, google Maps.

995
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 4: He's like, I did not, and I don't know where

996
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 4: to go and Google.

997
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: That's crazy that she thinks this because she's.

998
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 4: Or maybe she's just like, you should have been using Apple.

999
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: Maps, that's what she thinks. But she should use Google

1000
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: Maps because whenever you travel, Kean, what do you use?

1001
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 4: I use Apple?

1002
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:34,919
Speaker 6: Use Google Maps, Google Apple Maps, google Maps exclusively.

1003
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 4: I use Apple Maps.

1004
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: Google Maps are more wrap sucks? Yeah, no, no, no, whenever

1005
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: you go, whenever you go abroad. Whenever I was in Bali,

1006
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: you just use Google Maps. I try to use Apple.

1007
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: It put me in wrong spots because they don't update it.

1008
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: They updated a lot in the United States, not while traveling.

1009
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: I asked if she could stop scrolling on Instagram while

1010
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: we were out for dinner. I'm not forceful enough, whatever

1011
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: that means. I don't make as much money as some

1012
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: of the guys she works with. I make over six figures.

1013
00:49:59,200 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 4: Loo.

1014
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: My arms are too skinny too. Apparently her exes were

1015
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: way bigger. I used to beget a Simmi Pro sprinter,

1016
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 1: and I'm by no means in bad shape. I'm also six'. Four,

1017
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: anyways this argument was my first time ever actually losing

1018
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 1: my cool with. HER i shouted regrettably and called her,

1019
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 1: crazy almost broke, up BUT i REMEMBERED i wanted to

1020
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 1: keep my, job so, AGAIN i worked through it AS.

1021
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 1: FOD a month or, two she's doing therapy and generally

1022
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: making an. Effort we're having spicy sleep. Again we talk

1023
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: about our, problems but only On. Sundays the rest of the,

1024
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,720
Speaker 1: week we just do nice things when we're not, working

1025
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: and it's. Fun her old boss is, blocked and there

1026
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be any issues other than her trying

1027
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 1: to be her reliance to those tom. SHOTS i can

1028
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: see that she's really trying to not let me. Go

1029
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: she jumps out of bed every morning to make me,

1030
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,840
Speaker 1: breakfast cooks me dinner every, night makes an effort to

1031
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: do things with, me et. Cetera she got a little more,

1032
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: controlling BUT i don't mind using the excuse Of i'm

1033
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,320
Speaker 1: your wife, now so that's. Okay this is all well

1034
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: and good until my mother calls me and tells me

1035
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: my granddad is sick back home and may have a

1036
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. LEFT i was very close with my.

1037
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 1: Granddad we spoke on the phone a lot WHILE i was,

1038
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: away AND i grew up with him as if he

1039
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 1: was a second, father who was also in perfect. Shape

1040
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: the last TIME i saw, him he was a pro

1041
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: soccer player and never smoke or drank his whole. Life

1042
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: just got him at eighty eight and he went downhill

1043
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: within a couple of. Weeks n really. Hard also not

1044
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: bad time with the. Grandpa grandpa did, great but this

1045
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 1: is just bad time FOR.

1046
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 4: OP i. Know i'm, like what's gonna. Happen someone's gonna move.

1047
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 6: In, Yeah i'm pretty sure that would make kind of

1048
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 6: visa situation a little bit hard if you leave the.

1049
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 4: COUNTRY i don't know right.

1050
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 6: Now, yeah, YEAH i don't know how that would.

1051
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 4: Work, well she'd be? Faithful?

1052
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 7: Simple can she be faithful for two? Weeks she seems

1053
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 7: like it's pretty. HARD i don't have a travel. Pert

1054
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 7: IF i leave THE, US i lose this green card.

1055
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 7: APPLICATION i talked to my.

1056
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: Lawyer, yes but for the first, TIME i consider giving

1057
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: up everything because it would mince a lot to. Me

1058
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: to see him before he passed. AWAY i, thought, well

1059
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: at LEAST i could reapply for the green, card but

1060
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:09,919
Speaker 1: my wife made it very clear that IF i went

1061
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: home she would divorce. ME i was, lost, confused, sad and.

1062
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: Emotional in a few days WHERE i was hesitant on my,

1063
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,959
Speaker 1: decision my grandpa passed. AWAY i was completely. Heartbroken while

1064
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: my wife was there for, ME i still resented her

1065
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: for what she said about IF i go. Home, HOWEVER

1066
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: i kept quiet about this. ONE i really don't have

1067
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: the energy to argue. Anymore. Anyways fast forward to the

1068
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: last month or. Two she's doing well in. Work it's

1069
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: also commission based real estate, job and her company is

1070
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: having an event In nashville for people aged twenty to

1071
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: thirty all over the world who are working at that.

1072
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: Company she tells me that she and a few of

1073
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 1: her friends from the office are. Invited the company is

1074
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: paying for the. Hotel she, SAYS i could, come, go go.

1075
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: Go other people are bringing their. PARTNERS i also have

1076
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,320
Speaker 1: a couple of close friends In nashville who have always

1077
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 1: wanted to. VISIT i, think, yeah, alright why.

1078
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 4: Not, Okay, nope he's.

1079
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 2: Coming keep an eye on.

1080
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 1: Her angie AND i were watching The middle the other

1081
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: day and there was this rule where one of the

1082
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: kids got in trouble and the kid didn't have like

1083
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: an xbox or a phone or anything they could take,

1084
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: away so they did the five feet, rule so the

1085
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:17,240
Speaker 1: kid had to be within five feet of a parent

1086
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 1: at all. Times at you had to be within five

1087
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: feet of the parent at all, Times so the dad

1088
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: had a ruler on. Him he's, like oh, see that's

1089
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: five feet three, inches getting. CLOSER i would have the

1090
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: five yard rule with, her.

1091
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 4: And i'd be, like, whoa where are you going stay with.

1092
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: Dinner within Five. Yeah, ANYWAY a couple of weeks go

1093
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: by AND i hear nothing about us booking. FLIGHTS i

1094
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: overhear her in different rooms on the phone to her

1095
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: friends talking about going To, nashville et. Cetera, EVENTUALLY i, say,

1096
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: hey we should book flights before it gets super, expensive

1097
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: and lo and, behold she gets weirdly mad and says

1098
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: she doesn't want me to come because it doesn't financially

1099
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 1: make sense for me to spend four hundred dollars on

1100
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: a flight when we could when we rent to. Pay

1101
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: it also makes no sense considering how MUCH i, make

1102
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,479
Speaker 1: so how MUCH i. Saved we have a small argument about,

1103
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: it BUT i let it. Go we don't talk about

1104
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,280
Speaker 1: the trip again until, yesterday when she's packing her. BAGS

1105
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: i was lying on the bed finishing something for work

1106
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: on my. Laptop as she. Packed she asked WHY i

1107
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: was being. WEIRD i Said i'm trying to, concentrate WHICH i,

1108
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: was and then she gets disportionately mad and, says do

1109
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: you Think i'm gonna do something with someone else In? Nashville.

1110
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: Doy she starts saying she can't BELIEVE i think that

1111
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 1: lowly of. Her it's, disgusting et. Cetera, Meanwhile i've been

1112
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: silently sitting. THERE i did not prompt, this but this

1113
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: looks like a red flag to. ME i tell, her

1114
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: don't be. Silly of COURSE i don't think, that even

1115
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: though because of what she, Said i'm not.

1116
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 6: Sure, Yeah she's, like, oh he's like sitting, there and it's, like, oh,

1117
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 6: okay you Think i'm with a cheat on?

1118
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 7: You do you Think i'm just gonna go and sleep

1119
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 7: with someone else When i'm In nashville without?

1120
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 4: You and that's WHY i didn't.

1121
00:54:58,360 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: Want you to. Come i'm just finishing.

1122
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 6: Thing do you think That i'm leaving for two weeks

1123
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,760
Speaker 6: and making SURE i turn off my cell phone Because

1124
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 6: i'm gonna cheat on.

1125
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 4: You with my boss in our hotel. Room that's what you.

1126
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,319
Speaker 1: Think, NO i would never think.

1127
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 4: That of, course you think That i'm gonna send you home.

1128
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 6: And make sure you don't get your green card so

1129
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 6: THAT i can marry my boss.

1130
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: An evil villain explaining their plan before they do. It

1131
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: do you think did you? Think my? Gosh, ANYWAYS i

1132
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 1: drop her off at the. Airport this morning she goes To.

1133
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 1: Nashville all is. Well she texts me a few times

1134
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: during the. Day she's usually very responsive to me on her.

1135
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: Phone she's constantly on, it to the point where it

1136
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 1: can be. Annoying she gets mad at me WHEN i

1137
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: don't respond to her fast enough, sometimes so she calls

1138
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,240
Speaker 1: me to tell me that she's going On Broadway Party

1139
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: street In. Nashville great place to, go how to blast?

1140
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 3: It, also, SORRY i want you to take, me, dude let's.

1141
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 3: Go you know your way around.

1142
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: Kind of not like super, much but it's pretty.

1143
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 4: Fun, Stupid i've never been.

1144
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 1: With some people from her Company's New york office that

1145
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: she just. MET i, say have. Fun usually she's always

1146
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: texted me and updating me to let me know she's.

1147
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:16,360
Speaker 1: Safe but, tonight, no by the, way. Night after this story's,

1148
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: done you can go to your favorite podcast, platform which

1149
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:20,280
Speaker 1: those platforms could.

1150
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 6: Be, Spotify Apple, podcasts Or, iHeartRadio and.

1151
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: You type these special eleven letters in.

1152
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 4: A row, OKAY, S T O R Y, T I

1153
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 4: AM e.

1154
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 1: Spells, okay story, time and there we will be waiting for.

1155
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: You how many STORIES a, LOT a. Lot i'm just

1156
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:40,359
Speaker 1: gonna finish it. Out we already know what's gonna.

1157
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 4: Happen we already know where the right off the. CLIFF i.

1158
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 6: Know If obi doesn't get his green card by the

1159
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 6: end of the, Story i'm gonna be, like.

1160
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 4: What was the point of?

1161
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,799
Speaker 1: This, YEAH i can see her location in. NIGHTCLUBS i

1162
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:56,760
Speaker 1: text her to give me a call when she's walking

1163
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: home SO i know she's. SAFE i don't get a.

1164
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: TEXT i see her back to the. HOTEL i Mean

1165
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: i've texted and tried calling multiple times getting sent to.

1166
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: Voicemail it's been about two to three hours since she

1167
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 1: got back to the. Hotel don't no word from. Her

1168
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: we all know what she's. Doing so, Yeah i'm here

1169
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: tapping this in the early hours of the, morning lacking.

1170
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: Sleep so forgive me if this post seems a bit

1171
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: of a, mess it absolutely does. Not i've just reached

1172
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 1: a breaking. Point how DO i deal with? This is

1173
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: this relationship? Salvuble N could you check real quick if

1174
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: there's an update or. Something obviously this relationship isn't. Salvagible

1175
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: it hasn't been salvageable since you.

1176
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 4: Found out that she cheated on. You, yeah but you

1177
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 4: know what is. Salvageable you're a green? Card, yeah, dude

1178
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 4: how far away from it are?

1179
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 2: You you?

1180
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: Were so you've got to be. Close you got to be.

1181
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 1: CLOSED i gotta be. CLOSE i feel like he'sa a

1182
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: year and a half.

1183
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 4: Out he's gotta be a year and a.

1184
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 1: Half could you do that for your and a? Half

1185
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: we haven't even been in this house for a year

1186
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 1: and a. Half it's a. LOT a year and a,

1187
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: half it's a. Lot we haven't even livestream for a

1188
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: year and a. Half that's a long. Time.

1189
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 3: Nothing this is the the most recent update or the,

1190
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 3: like the The nashville update is from like almost like

1191
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 3: a little bit less than a month. Ago oh, wow

1192
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 3: so we got things since?

1193
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 6: Then, Yeah Sam chan, says if he's only half a

1194
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 6: year IN i just. Quit, yeah it's, like, don't don't

1195
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 6: do another year and a, half you, know but that's.

1196
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: Up he should have just quit.

1197
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 4: One so he, SEES i, know you should have done,

1198
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 4: that have done.

1199
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 1: That dang oh.

1200
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 3: Ah he's got a just grit his teeth and just bear. Down,

1201
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 3: yeah you've made it this. Far if it was like the, beginning,

1202
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 3: sure but if you made it this, far get your green,

1203
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,439
Speaker 3: card whatever it. Takes, hey, y'all It's john Og host.

1204
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 3: Here we're gonna get back to the. Stories but here's

1205
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 3: a quick three minute break from as for more.

1206
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 2: SPONSORS i was ghosted by my, crush but now he's haunting.

1207
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 7: Me whoa just like a ghost does best, Right he's

1208
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 7: a perfect.

1209
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 2: GHOST i twenty seven, female recently found out that my

1210
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 2: boyfriend male thirty Two mark is friends with my online

1211
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 2: Friend Jeff mail thirty. ONE i have A facebook account

1212
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 2: WHICH i just use for memes and tagged my friends

1213
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,479
Speaker 2: and family. In, YES i still use. It over, TIME

1214
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 2: i began to add people and accept friend requests from other,

1215
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 2: people some WHO i don't even. Know and by the,

1216
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 2: way this comes from user entire scheme six' one twenty

1217
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 2: from the R, Slash ok storytime subreddit and if you

1218
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 2: want to submit, your stories go submit. Them There, WHO

1219
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 2: so i don't accept everyone's REQUESTS as i sometimes don't.

1220
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,720
Speaker 2: CHECK them i still have requests from People dating gecko.

1221
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 2: Back years don't accept everyone and as, some people, mostly

1222
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 2: guys like to message ME and i don't. REPLY back

1223
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 2: i don't even KNOW when I had jeff send me.

1224
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 2: A request, but ANYWAY since i Don't, HAVE messenger i

1225
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 2: don't receive pop ups like, other APPS so i have

1226
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 2: to go in the message tab to check who sent me.

1227
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 2: The messages about, Last year jeff sent me. A MESSAGE

1228
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 2: since i don't have those pop, UP notifications i didn't

1229
00:59:58,000 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 2: know that he had. Sent one he sent One, in

1230
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 2: JANUARY which i, didn't see and one Again, in february

1231
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 2: WHICH again i did. NOT see i only saw the

1232
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 2: message he Sent. In march, AT first i was going

1233
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 2: to tell HIM that i have a boyfriend and don't

1234
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 2: talk to guys because my boyfriend didn't, like THAT which

1235
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 2: i didn't even have one, back THEN but i decided

1236
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 2: to continue the conversation to. Be nice we exchanged numbers

1237
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 2: and we started Talking. ON WhatsApp i didn't Know that

1238
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:26,439
Speaker 2: JEFF and i would get along. So well before long

1239
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 2: we were talking daily and phoning each. Other daily he

1240
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 2: lived about thirty minutes away from me in. Another city

1241
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 2: JEFF and i really got along and it felt nice,

1242
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 2: for once since MOST guys i dated. Were ummies it felt.

1243
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 2: VERY refreshing I liked jeff and we planned on, meeting

1244
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 2: UP but i chickened out because of. My insecurities it

1245
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 2: do be like that. Though, SOMETIMES yeah i was a

1246
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 2: bit overweight and needed to lose, some WEIGHT but i

1247
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 2: was lazy and. EXERCISING thinks i started jimming, last YEAR

1248
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 2: but i, wasn't consistent so no. Results yet JEFF and

1249
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 2: i talked for about, three MONTHS and i get you

1250
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 2: can get bored talking to someone and you need to

1251
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 2: put a face to. Their voice although we do know

1252
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 2: what each other. Looked like jeff was a dork like

1253
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 2: me and. Very FUNNY like, I said i liked. The

1254
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 2: guy but then. Something happened jeff, Stopped replying oh what's?

1255
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: Going, On eh.

1256
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 2: Jeff's pulling A Little danny phantom. On. You oOoOO this

1257
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 2: is a major turn off, To ME but i know

1258
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 2: that life can. Get hectic but these days turned, into

1259
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 2: weeks and he would send a message once a week

1260
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 2: or reply To my. WhatsApp status this SUCKED because i

1261
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 2: really thought he liked. Me TOO so i was ghosted

1262
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 2: apparently with. No reason it felt weird and maybe he

1263
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 2: got a girlfriend. OR something i. Don't know then a

1264
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 2: couple of months of only communicating once a week, OR

1265
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 2: so I decided i wasn't gonna reply to any messages that.

1266
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 2: He said the infatuation simmered AWAY and i didn't care

1267
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 2: that he wouldn't send a reply to my. Messages anymore

1268
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 2: when he sent, A message i didn't even. OPEN it

1269
01:01:57,760 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 2: i just deleted it.

1270
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 4: For you, OH yeah i do Sometimes.

1271
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 2: Deleted honestly that is my number. One, ick SINCE like,

1272
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 2: I said i struggle, With insecurities thoughts of him making

1273
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 2: fun of me or laughing about me went through, my

1274
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 2: MIND though i don't make it known or other people's

1275
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 2: problems but. My own jeff did send three more messages,

1276
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 2: after THAT but i never. Opened them it was all

1277
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 2: just replies to. MY statuses i started to focus. ON

1278
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 2: myself i went to the gym regularly and started having.

1279
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 2: HEALTHIER habits i got my life. In ORDER since i

1280
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 2: was a procrastinator and. Very disorganized this Was My new,

1281
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 2: year's resolution and the results have. BEEN amazing i started

1282
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 2: feeling amazing for myself and my life. SEEMED better i was,

1283
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 2: depressed before but. No longer in the new year of twenty,

1284
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 2: Twenty four mark followed Me on INSTAGRAM and i followed.

1285
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 2: HIM back i don't have a lot, of FOLLOWERS but

1286
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 2: i saw that he FOLLOWS people i know personally and

1287
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:53,040
Speaker 2: they follow him. As well he sent ME a dm

1288
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 2: and we continued. To talk he also happened to be

1289
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 2: living in the next town and asked me out on,

1290
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 2: a date which went amazing and we had a. Great

1291
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 2: time we started seeing each other, more regularly mostly on

1292
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 2: weekends because we both work nine, to five and between

1293
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 2: work and the gym and my part time work in,

1294
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 2: THE evening i was tired on weekdays. At work life

1295
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 2: balance do be hard to, come, by absolutely BUT weekends i.

1296
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 2: Was free he met my FAMILY and i, met his

1297
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 2: and then he asked me to be, his GIRLFRIEND and, i,

1298
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 2: said yes, my boy you won't be, my fee. My

1299
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 2: goyfee so he met my FRIENDS and i hadn't met

1300
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 2: his YET because i was busy the times that they

1301
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 2: weren't and they, also work which. Is good we should all, be, Working, right,

1302
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 2: yeah eh we all need to work to earn. Our,

1303
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:40,680
Speaker 2: Place no i'm, Just. Kidding okay mark decided to have

1304
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 2: a gathering at his Place, last SATURDAY and i took my.

1305
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:46,560
Speaker 2: Friend along she Knows, about JEFF but i never showed her,

1306
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 2: a photo and at, the gathering he said that his

1307
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 2: friend was. Running LATE then i went to the bathroom for.

1308
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 2: A WHILE when i was, IN there i heard some

1309
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 2: commotion and knew that someone had come in through the.

1310
01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 2: FRONT door i was in the bathroom near the, front

1311
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:00,160
Speaker 2: door AND when i, came out because he was, WALKING

1312
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 2: in i knew it. Was him we, haven't MET but

1313
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 2: i saw pictures. OF him i was stunned and could.

1314
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 2: NOT move i ran back into the bathroom in distress

1315
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 2: and called my friend on my phone in the bathroom

1316
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 2: to come. In there as she, came IN and i

1317
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 2: told her that It. Was jeff oh, my god It.

1318
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 2: Was Jeff of jeff. Out. THERE oh i didn't know what. To,

1319
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 2: do honestly he KNEW what i, looked like AND although

1320
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 2: i had lost weight and, LOOKED different i still posted

1321
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 2: pics OF what i look. Like now so then my

1322
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 2: insecurity started to. CREEP in i was suspicious of. My,

1323
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 2: BOYFRIEND honestly i started to think that they were pranking

1324
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:37,439
Speaker 2: me or. Using me was this? A coincidence i. THINK

1325
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 2: not i felt like throwing up thinking that they would

1326
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 2: be using me and seeing who can sleep with her

1327
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:44,880
Speaker 2: first or. Meet her and That's why mark followed Me

1328
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 2: on instagram and, messaged me, oh girl was whoa pump?

1329
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 2: Those brakes irelan?

1330
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 4: Over, here man you.

1331
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 2: Were okay, all, right okay wonder something had to. Have

1332
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 2: happened i'm sorry for whatever it was that has given,

1333
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 2: you this, you know the fear that put the fear.

1334
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 2: In you, but yeah you know. It's understandable i'm sure in.

1335
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 2: Some way, but sure there's not really much that you

1336
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 2: need to. DO here, i mean it's it would be a. Crazy,

1337
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 2: Coincidence yeah JEFF'S like i talked to YOU and i

1338
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 2: used dap dogging him and he stopped talking to you

1339
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,520
Speaker 2: pretty much. As, well yeah so it's like the stop

1340
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:18,040
Speaker 2: right he started. The pullback he started to. Pull, back

1341
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 2: yeah you also. PULLED back i, don't know there's.

1342
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 4: If it was, a contest he wouldn't.

1343
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 2: Have done that. Everything, else yeah if it was, a,

1344
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 2: contest exactly.

1345
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 4: It would Be like i've never seen, the movie but

1346
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 4: TEN things i hate, About you i'm assuming they.

1347
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:32,919
Speaker 2: Might right we stayed in the bathroom for ten more

1348
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:35,400
Speaker 2: Minutes and mark sent me. A message by, THAT time

1349
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 2: i had already been in the bathroom for like, fifteen

1350
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 2: minutes and the only THING that i could think of

1351
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 2: to do was to Update my WhatsApp status with A

1352
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 2: video i. Took earlier it was in the Backyard of,

1353
01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 2: mark's HOUSE and i Knew that jeff would recognize it

1354
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 2: as we were all. Chilling there, BEFORE long i Saw

1355
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 2: that jeff sent me a message asking ME where. I

1356
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 2: am i didn't reply and just went out to. The

1357
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 2: backyard when my FRIEND and, I return mark came up,

1358
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 2: to me grabbed me by, my arm and Introduced. TO

1359
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 2: jeff i ACTED like i didn't, know him smiled and.

1360
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 2: Said hello he. Looks stunned throughout, The evening jeff was

1361
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 2: looking at me and trying to start, a CONVERSATION and i,

1362
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 2: ignored him but subtly so that no one knows.

1363
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 4: BUT me i, don't.

1364
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:16,840
Speaker 2: KNOW girl i think maybe the twenty five minutes in

1365
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 2: the bathroom were fifteen to twenty minutes in the bathroom

1366
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:23,520
Speaker 2: could have given. IT away a, little, right, no, No,

1367
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 2: Perhaps yeah like she's.

1368
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 4: In here, thinking, Like okay i'm gonna like. Trick them

1369
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 4: i'm gonna Say that i'm like into. The, backyard Yeah

1370
01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 4: put i'm actually, in here And then i'm just gonna

1371
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,959
Speaker 4: gou in the backyard. Super chill and they're like seeing

1372
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 4: this whole, thing happen and, they're LIKE so i saw

1373
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 4: you go into. The bath they're fifteen minutes ago post,

1374
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 4: this thing and then just like walk out and like

1375
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 4: now you're actively, you know like it's like like, It's,

1376
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:48,439
Speaker 4: okay yeah this.

1377
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 2: Is, Fine yeah, It's like jeff is a guy you

1378
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 2: talked to months and. Months ago now you're with this

1379
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 2: guy you just met, his parents like and so he's

1380
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 2: freeze Friends. With jeff it'll, be like oh, my god

1381
01:06:57,920 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 2: you won't. BELIEVE it i was talking. TO him i

1382
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:01,880
Speaker 2: talked to him for a, little bit and then he.

1383
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:05,439
Speaker 2: Ghosted me so nobody knows. BUT me i didn't enjoy

1384
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 2: my EVENING and i just wanted to. GO home i

1385
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 2: was originally supposed to, sleep OVER but i couldn't bear

1386
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:12,919
Speaker 2: to be in my. BOYFRIEND'S presence i wanted to leave

1387
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 2: as QUICKLY as. I could mark could see this caught

1388
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 2: on to it later in. The EVENING when, I left

1389
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 2: i didn't say goodbye to his other friends and went

1390
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:23,479
Speaker 2: home with. My friend the ride home was quiet because

1391
01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 2: my thoughts were. Running WILD when i got home at around,

1392
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:28,480
Speaker 2: Eight pm mark sent me a message asking Me if,

1393
01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 2: i'm HOME and i. Didn't reply the, next day he

1394
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 2: sent another message, and PHONED but i didn't reply and.

1395
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 2: NEVER answered i didn't put my phone OFF because i

1396
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 2: need to use my. PHONE now i have not Talked

1397
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 2: to mark as, of Yet and jeff sent me. Another

1398
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 2: message it's been a couple of days And now i'm

1399
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 2: sitting here thinking of breaking Up with mark and. Blocking

1400
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 2: HIM but i don't know what. TO do i feel

1401
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 2: like my life is spiraling out. Of control and there

1402
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 2: is an. Edit here JEFF and i may not have,

1403
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 2: met up but we did send some SPASHY text i

1404
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 2: was being a human one DAY and i told him

1405
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 2: EVERYTHING that i wanted to do a vice VERSA and

1406
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:11,440
Speaker 2: i don't, do that but it, felt nice and the

1407
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 2: anticipation of meeting up FUELED that i initiated, it all

1408
01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 2: but he was. INTO it i felt Awkward seeing jeff

1409
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:20,720
Speaker 2: and thinking that he knows so much. About me and what.

1410
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 2: We discussed it almost felt like meeting your ex who's

1411
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:27,040
Speaker 2: friends with. Your boyfriend we didn't. Exchange PICTURES should I

1412
01:08:27,080 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 2: tell mark or just break?

1413
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 4: It off what you want to break Up with mark

1414
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 4: just because you talked to? His friend so of course

1415
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 4: you Should.

1416
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:37,600
Speaker 2: Tell, mark yeah of course you should Talk to mark and, be,

1417
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 2: like hey so. Weird, thing yeah Me And jeff eerowski

1418
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 2: over there and we were a little bit.

1419
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 3: Of.

1420
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 4: History right if you make it a, big deal it's

1421
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 4: gonna be a. Big deal but if you bring, it up, just,

1422
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:52,880
Speaker 4: like hey by, the way, so weird, So random i'd

1423
01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 4: like Talked to JEFF like i did actually. MEET him

1424
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 4: i just didn't know how to react in. That situation,

1425
01:08:57,520 --> 01:09:01,040
Speaker 4: we talked, nothing, Happened right you can ask him. About

1426
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 4: it he'll say. Nothing out.

1427
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:07,440
Speaker 2: I'm honest we've sent some. Spicy messages we exchanged colorful

1428
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 2: words right. Through text never even. Made up, but, LIKE

1429
01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 2: yeah i think we Need the really the root, of,

1430
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:18,760
Speaker 2: this though is addressing like where these thoughts and feelings are.

1431
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:22,280
Speaker 2: Coming from here's. The update it is the following week after,

1432
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:25,639
Speaker 2: the GATHERING and i haven't Spoke to mark in. THREE

1433
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,479
Speaker 2: days i got back to work and was swamped for

1434
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 2: a couple, of days AND like i said in, MY

1435
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 2: post i work a nine, to Five so i'm always

1436
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 2: TIRED once i. GET home i don't Usually see mark

1437
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 2: during the Week because i'm mostly tired, and lazy AND

1438
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,599
Speaker 2: once i get home and my head hits, The bed,

1439
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 2: i'm OUT like, i like but we usually talk a

1440
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:47,040
Speaker 2: lot on. The Phone, BY wednesday i was feeling BAD

1441
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 2: that i hadn't, replied BACK so i sent him a

1442
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:51,080
Speaker 2: message to, meet up and we met at a CAFE

1443
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:53,080
Speaker 2: because i was scared if we met at his PLACE

1444
01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:56,360
Speaker 2: that i would be booted out if the meeting. Turned

1445
01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 2: sour he couldn't meet at my PLACE because i live

1446
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 2: with my family AND we i wouldn't have. ANY privacy

1447
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:03,760
Speaker 2: I told Mark about jeff AND that i knew him

1448
01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:07,760
Speaker 2: kind of and how we, were friends and about, our conversations.

1449
01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 2: ET cetera i also told HIM that i kind of

1450
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:12,439
Speaker 2: liked him but he had, ghosted me told him ABOUT

1451
01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:14,640
Speaker 2: how i felt and how we were planning on meeting up.

1452
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 2: AND such i also told him That seeing jeff for

1453
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 2: the first time and finding out that they were friends

1454
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 2: really threw me for. A loop i basically told HIM how,

1455
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 2: i felt AND how i thought that maybe they were

1456
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:27,519
Speaker 2: pranking me. And such mark was basically quiet the, whole

1457
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 2: TIME which i. Appreciate it he's a great listener and

1458
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 2: would usually just intervene. When needed it's nice to have

1459
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 2: someone to talk to. Without interruptions he asked me if

1460
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:40,360
Speaker 2: there was something going On between jeff and me at,

1461
01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 2: this MOMENT and, i, said no there. You go he

1462
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 2: also told Me that jeff hasn't spoken to. Him either

1463
01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:48,760
Speaker 2: he felt hurt as WELL since i. Was ignoring then

1464
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 2: he told me that he didn't think he could be

1465
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 2: with someone who, runs AWAY which i usually do when

1466
01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:55,559
Speaker 2: stuff hits, the FAN and i was ready for him to.

1467
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 2: Leave me and in, THAT moment i felt THINK that

1468
01:10:58,240 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 2: i wanted to break up with him in the, first

1469
01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 2: PLACE and i was scared of. LOSING him i, felt

1470
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,360
Speaker 2: DUMB but i was ready for. THE consequences i also

1471
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 2: didn't want to get in between his Friendship. With jeff

1472
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 2: but when he took hold of my hand in, that

1473
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 2: MOMENT all i felt, Was love.

1474
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:15,280
Speaker 4: This, Is beautiful oh. My gosh and then they get

1475
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:17,679
Speaker 4: married and then like a two thousand song starts playing

1476
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:18,880
Speaker 4: yeah something.

1477
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 2: Something Like, Avril, levine, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah yeah

1478
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 2: he said that he never KNEW that I knew jeff,

1479
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 2: like that and that we would work. Through whatever he

1480
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 2: still called me out because of, my actions AND now

1481
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:32,880
Speaker 2: i have to make it up to him by baking.

1482
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:36,120
Speaker 2: Him cupcakes this. Perfect look so it's we're being. Held,

1483
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:38,920
Speaker 2: accountable yeah we're taking things on as. A.

1484
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:40,160
Speaker 4: TEAM yeah i.

1485
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 2: Like that he's not, just like you're perfectly fine and did,

1486
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:44,599
Speaker 2: nothing wrong because, IT'S like, i mean was a little

1487
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 2: questionable chain of from. His, perspective certainly like what the

1488
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 2: heck's going on from your, PERSPECTIVE Though p, it's, like

1489
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 2: yeah got all this stuff going on in? Your head

1490
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:54,639
Speaker 2: It secure, you're LIKE am i being set? Up, something

1491
01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:57,720
Speaker 2: clearly something happened in the past that we's neither here,

1492
01:11:57,760 --> 01:11:59,600
Speaker 2: Nor there but this is right where we want. To

1493
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:04,120
Speaker 2: be look what happens when we have clear. Communication exactly

1494
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:07,040
Speaker 2: he's also the one that encouraged me to Speak to

1495
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 2: jeff and told me to work out whatever issue there is.

1496
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 2: Between Us so MARK and i are fine at the.

1497
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 2: Moment now jeff was. Something else the, FOLLOWING day I

1498
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 2: sent jeff, A message i asked him about, his day.

1499
01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 2: Et cetera then he called me UP and. I answered

1500
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:23,519
Speaker 2: he ASKED if i was really going Out, with MARK

1501
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 2: and i. Said yes he asked Me if mark was

1502
01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 2: the REASON that i wasn't responding to, his MESSAGES and

1503
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:32,439
Speaker 2: i told him that he was. The reason He, being

1504
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:36,360
Speaker 2: jeff he wasn't replying to my messages and, ignoring ME

1505
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:38,840
Speaker 2: and i also told him that he made me feel

1506
01:12:38,880 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 2: INSIGNIFICANT after i basically bared myself, to HIM and i

1507
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,280
Speaker 2: FELT that i didn't need people in my life who don't,

1508
01:12:44,320 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 2: reciprocate feelings Even after i've been trying to. Establish communication

1509
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:51,439
Speaker 2: then he told me. The, truth oh he didn't reply

1510
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,720
Speaker 2: to my messages because he liked me and didn't want

1511
01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 2: to get attached because he was hurt in. The past

1512
01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:00,400
Speaker 2: he thought that if he, didn't reply then he wouldn't

1513
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:03,160
Speaker 2: feel anything for. Me anymore BUT when i didn't respond to,

1514
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 2: HIS messages i was hurt and, FOR clarity i would

1515
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 2: send messages and he would only read them but reply to.

1516
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:10,920
Speaker 2: My STATUSES when i sent messages after, his reply he

1517
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 2: would only. Read them the. Next week he would reply

1518
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 2: to my status no reply afterward than the same week

1519
01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 2: or two weeks there after the. SAME thing i sent

1520
01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 2: a response afterward with. No reply he also told me

1521
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:21,720
Speaker 2: that seeing me with his friend hurt him and he

1522
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 2: would rather distance himself because he can't see me being with.

1523
01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:27,840
Speaker 2: His friend he said that it was supposed to, be

1524
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 2: him which is low key a pretty wild thing to

1525
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 2: say about someone you, never met not gonna lie they'd never. Met,

1526
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:36,959
Speaker 2: up yeah you only texted. ME personally i don't feel anything,

1527
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 2: for HIM so i don't KNOW where. I stood i

1528
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 2: don't know if he's going to continue to Talk to

1529
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 2: MARK and I and i don't want to come between.

1530
01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 2: Their friendship that was the gist of. Our CONVERSATION so

1531
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 2: i don't KNOW where i Stand with jeff and if

1532
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 2: he's going to Talk to mark. And me but by,

1533
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:51,639
Speaker 2: the way you can listen and you could talk, as

1534
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:54,200
Speaker 2: well but we can't. Hear you two full episodes with

1535
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 2: stories like This on Spotify and iHeartRadio and. Apple podcasts

1536
01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:01,679
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1537
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:06,120
Speaker 2: and there you will find just a beautiful mountain spring

1538
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:11,679
Speaker 2: flowing with stories and good vibes, and crazy. Juicy drama

1539
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:13,760
Speaker 2: the only person in the STORY that i feel may

1540
01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:14,719
Speaker 2: not need Therapy.

1541
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:18,320
Speaker 4: Is mark mark is just like in the middle of.

1542
01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:21,599
Speaker 2: All, This yeah mark's like pretty like took. That well, he's,

1543
01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:24,280
Speaker 2: LIKE hey i don't like the way that you kind

1544
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:26,519
Speaker 2: of like disappeared and didn't talk to me for. Three,

1545
01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:29,240
Speaker 2: days however now that, YOU'VE explained i. Get it that.

1546
01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:32,720
Speaker 2: Was weird you will work. THROUGH this i Don't like

1547
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 2: jeff BEING like i can't sue Being with mark because

1548
01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 2: it should have. Been me it's like kind of, like

1549
01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 2: possessive a, little ownership be a little like get.

1550
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:43,599
Speaker 4: Over, It sorry it's like an.

1551
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 2: Idealization of like, the situation and Clearly like jeff's got

1552
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 2: to work through that in, some Way and opete Sort

1553
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:53,519
Speaker 2: of i'm just gonna cut him off and not talk,

1554
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 2: to him Or like i'm gonna. Pull off are they

1555
01:14:55,560 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 2: making fun? Of me, like yeah which is not necessarily like,

1556
01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,240
Speaker 2: you know coming from a place, of nothing but you

1557
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 2: can't let that get in. The, way okay so let's

1558
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 2: finish this. Story off thank you everyone for. YOUR responses

1559
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:08,360
Speaker 2: i appreciated it when people told me to bite the

1560
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:10,800
Speaker 2: bullet and Just confront Mark. And jeff if not for,

1561
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 2: YOUR responses i wouldn't have done that and would have

1562
01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 2: rather blocked. Both guys I'M glad i put This. ON

1563
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 2: reddit i didn't want to bother my friends with my

1564
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 2: issues because they would have constantly asked me about, the

1565
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:23,639
Speaker 2: situation and the less, they know. The better my FRIEND

1566
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 2: whom i told also just told me to talk to,

1567
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:29,320
Speaker 2: the guys but she's, also BUSY so i haven't met

1568
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 2: up with her, this week and that is the end of.

1569
01:15:31,200 --> 01:15:31,679
Speaker 2: That story