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Speaker 1: My boyfriend demands gifts for his daughter, so I muted

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Speaker 2: Seeza, I can have some more.

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Speaker 1: I Female thirty two went on an eight day business

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Speaker 1: a company. This would be a visit to scale our services.

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Speaker 1: Me and three other colleagues would visit, but we would

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Speaker 1: be at the same site for only two days until

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Speaker 1: we were spread out to other areas. Was very excited

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Speaker 1: until I told my boyfriend Brian thirty eight of eight months,

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Speaker 1: by the way, this comes from Fragrant Range sixty three

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Speaker 1: and if you had just meet your own stories, go

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Speaker 1: to our slash Okay story time suburd it. So his

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Speaker 1: reaction was very not positive. I asked what's going on,

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Speaker 1: situations at his job. But he reassured me that everything

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Speaker 1: was fine. Days later, he asked if I could take

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Speaker 1: then he said he would want his daughter to come

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Speaker 1: I think his cousin's interested.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, totally, totally yeah.

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Speaker 1: I understand his point. She's seventeen, female, loves anime and

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Speaker 1: But also I have my own kids, four and five,

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Speaker 1: realistically taking slash bringing them would be unprofessional. My accommodations

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Speaker 1: already confirmed. I got a very nice accommodation, but it

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Speaker 1: Bringing his daughter would require a separate bedroom or a suite.

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Speaker 1: also realized that he was ready to pay for any

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Speaker 1: I'm financially okay, but the whole idea of this trip

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not like married or like related or something.

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Speaker 1: Also, I began to worry about his sense of humor.

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Speaker 1: Uh oh, Keon knows where this is going. I think

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Speaker 3: I see you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like I've mastered Japanese business etiquette,

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Speaker 1: I'm being unfair. I think there's the possibility that he

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Speaker 1: he will likely be unable to pay me back. Am

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Speaker 4: Well? I mean, does he need to pay you back

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Speaker 4: for anything? Because I thought she didn't get anything for

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Speaker 1: Ultimately, Uh, that wasn't the thing. It was if he

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Speaker 4: So it's kind of like if he did, if she

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he might not be able to. He might not

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Speaker 1: We got some comments commenter, never bring a family on

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Speaker 1: not respect this business meeting. And it seems he does

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Speaker 1: not know how to behave in many situations. Opie says, yes,

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Speaker 1: I've told him many times. I don't know of any

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Speaker 1: sending where what he wanted would be okay. In top comment,

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Speaker 1: says Lady Scorpio, his demands were insane. Cut your losses

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Speaker 1: and don't feel even a little bit guilty. This guy

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Speaker 1: showed Opie a laundry list of red flags. Opie needs

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Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone for your advice. I wanted to clarify

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Speaker 1: We broke up last night.

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Speaker 2: Boom did it.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to come to my place, but it didn't

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Speaker 1: And also this is on him as a father. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: them both already changed my locks, changed all my streaming passwords, who,

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Speaker 1: It's time to take a couple steps back best friend.

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Speaker 4: So this is a really long story, but basically, I

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Speaker 4: By the way, this comes from a seventeen eighty six

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Speaker 4: to the r slash Okay storytime Separate it. So We've

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Speaker 4: been dating for about six months now and I'm really

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Speaker 4: I really don't want to lose him if I'm just

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Speaker 4: being paranoid, but he's my first ever proper relationship, and

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm missing red flags. After two

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Speaker 2: I'm talking at least three times a day.

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Speaker 4: Oh, and they always seem to make goofy faces at

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Speaker 2: Facetiming anyone is a lot. I tell that to the

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Speaker 4: They've been friends for five or six years, and they

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Speaker 4: his phone with an emoji next to her name is

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Speaker 4: a crown and then a heart. You have to run

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Speaker 4: no pie, And he told me that the reason why

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Speaker 4: that is is because her nickname by everyone is Princess,

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Speaker 4: so it's all always been that way.

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Speaker 2: Since they met. He can take the heart off, though.

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Speaker 2: Emoji's fine, hard emoji different message.

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Speaker 4: I was playing with his phone he was on mine

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Speaker 4: Should I give him an ultimatum stop being friends with her?

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Speaker 2: But was your answer?

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Speaker 1: Hope you understand that this is your first proper relationship.

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Speaker 1: And yes he looks good, he does the thing really good.

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Speaker 1: If you go out and you pursue yourself in better ways,

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Speaker 4: I cried and said that it wasn't good enough and

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Speaker 2: Then he got flustered and was like, Oh, I don't

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Speaker 4: And then his friend was like, Oh, I know it's

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Speaker 4: Then he feebly tried to ask her to apologize, saying

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Speaker 1: I'll do it for you. Yeah, Like, do you not

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Speaker 2: I just love the consistent lying for both people, Like

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Speaker 4: He's just like, wait, literally, I can't take his manipulation

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Speaker 1: We're going out and like we're a couple.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Then I shouted that we were together for six months

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Speaker 2: Good enough for him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course he didn't even interrupt her or explain

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Speaker 2: I had enough and I stormed out. I cried the

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Speaker 4: I have blocked him. God, he has called me about

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Speaker 4: but I am very naive and easily let on. I

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Speaker 4: I should probably make a whole new post. But anyway,

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Speaker 4: he has a separate phone, which he has been calling

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Speaker 2: Why does he have a separate phone? Yeah? Was that about?

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Speaker 4: I feel like they're so young, so why at probably

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Speaker 2: I ignored all of them.

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Speaker 4: Then a different number called me and it was his

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Speaker 4: Then when I told her everything, she was shocked because.

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Speaker 5: You're like, yeah, what about now?

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Speaker 1: Oh uh?

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Speaker 4: Then she admitted even more stuff that I didn't know before,

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Speaker 2: As a joke. Both was it and both were years ago.

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Speaker 2: That creeped me out so much. Yeah me noo h.

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Speaker 4: Then she was like, apart from this stuff, nothing else

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Speaker 2: They still are only just friends.

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Speaker 4: She admitted that the other girl did have feelings for

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Speaker 2: Relationship with others. Anyway.

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Speaker 4: I told her to forget it. I don't need his

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Speaker 4: Good for you. Op, that's true. Then she was like, oh,

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Speaker 4: That shows disrespect as his girlfriend. I'm just being honest

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Speaker 4: He's just not good at explaining himself. How did he

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Speaker 1: Trying to get that passport Lockdownary?

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Speaker 2: Did he manipulate all these people to believe that he's

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Speaker 1: Of friends soundative, clearly, I worry.

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Speaker 4: I'm mentally a bit slow. I have autism and my

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Speaker 4: I can get wrapped up in stuff like getting excited

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Speaker 2: That it's not even that real.

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Speaker 4: I can't explain, but if you know what I mean,

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Speaker 4: shouldn't have gone on his phone. Plus it's too crazy

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Speaker 4: him getting other people to call me begging for me back. Now,

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Speaker 4: I'm one hundred percent sure that he's trying to use me,

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Speaker 4: Otherwise he wouldn't be trying so hard to still be

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Speaker 4: her to leave me alone too, and for people to

442
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Speaker 4: stop the calls to me.

443
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:56,080
Speaker 2: And that is the end of that story. My friend

444
00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,600
Speaker 2: invited an extra person on our trip, but doesn't want

445
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Speaker 2: to pay for her.

446
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Speaker 1: It's all right, you can take in the bags, can

447
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Speaker 1: clean and cook for me. Then here's the story.

448
00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 2: Basically, my friend, let's call her Ashley, and I are

449
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Speaker 2: going on a trip with three other people Jess, Emily

450
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Speaker 2: and Sam.

451
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Speaker 1: Sam Mintionined, Sam Minchined.

452
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Speaker 2: Ashley and I were discussing what the cost of splitting

453
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Speaker 2: up prices was gonna be like for the hotel. I

454
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Speaker 2: booked our hotel, and since there's five of us going,

455
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Speaker 2: I told her it's gonna be split up into five.

456
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Speaker 2: By the way, this comes from Just Individuals thirty seven

457
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Speaker 2: forty nine and if you want to smit your own stories,

458
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Speaker 2: go to the r slash Okay storytime separate it. So

459
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Speaker 2: Ashley says she's paying for her friend Jess and wants

460
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Speaker 2: it to be split up into four, because even though

461
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Speaker 2: Jess is going, Ashley is the one paying for both,

462
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 2: and her friend isn't paying her back for it, so

463
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 2: there are five people going. But Ashley's like, I'm paying

464
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Speaker 2: for Jess, so I only want it split four ways. No, no, no,

465
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Speaker 2: you have to pay two of the things if you're

466
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Speaker 2: paying for Jess Ashley.

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Speaker 1: So let's just say this trip's like twenty five hundred, yeah,

468
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Speaker 1: to go on for a week, because the last story

469
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Speaker 1: we read about this was like around twenty five hundred,

470
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Speaker 1: So twenty five hundred divided about five people five hundred

471
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Speaker 1: bucks five hundred bucks, okay, twenty five divided by four

472
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Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty five bucks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

474
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Speaker 1: So is this person that we've all never met worth

475
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five dollars each? Yeah? If not,

476
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Speaker 1: we're splitting five ways, and you're paying one thousand dollars.

477
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Speaker 2: You're paying one thousand. That's tough if you want to

478
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,360
Speaker 2: pay for her, sure, but you're paying the whole thing.

479
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 2: I personally don't think that's fair to me, Emily or Sam.

480
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 2: Ashley is choosing to pay for her friend's hotel part

481
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Speaker 2: the way I see it, splitting it into four only

482
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Speaker 2: benefits Ashley and Jess. Jess because she doesn't have to

483
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Speaker 2: pay a penny. Yeah, Ashley. The thing is, oh, Ashley,

484
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Speaker 2: Ashley is not paying for Jess. Jess is just not paying.

485
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Speaker 1: That's the problem. I'm at. My brother's actually going through

486
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Speaker 1: this exact same scenario with a couple because the couple's like,

487
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Speaker 1: we're a couple. We hate that four ways. I hate that.

488
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Speaker 2: I'm like, no, you're two people. You didn't conjoin.

489
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like. My solution to this is like, oh, okay,

490
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Speaker 1: if we want to split it evenly, So what we're

491
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Speaker 1: gonna do is we're gonna find the square footage of

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Speaker 1: the hotel room. Yeah, We're gonna be like, okay, this

493
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Speaker 1: is your section, this is your section, and then we're

494
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Speaker 1: gonna split it up by like Cosper scare Foot.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, not me, Emily or Sam, because we'd be paying

496
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Speaker 2: more than we should, just because Ashley is paying for two,

497
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Speaker 2: but she's combining two into one because it's just her paying.

498
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Speaker 2: If this is confusing at all, here's a mini breakdown

499
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Speaker 2: of fake prices. But we've already done this, so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean we can give her fake prices cue.

501
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Speaker 2: Total of hotel one hundred dollars. Five people equals five

502
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Speaker 2: payments twenty dollars each. How Ashley wants to do it,

503
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Speaker 2: five people equals four payments twenty five dollars each, because

504
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Speaker 2: she's paying for two people, including herself, but she's only

505
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Speaker 2: counting them as one. That would mean me, Emily and

506
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Speaker 2: Sam have to pay more than what we're supposed to owe.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is right, No, Bennettle's just give

508
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Speaker 1: Ashley the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she missed like

509
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Speaker 1: eighth grade math.

510
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe she's just bad at map.

511
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Speaker 1: And she doesn't know how this works.

512
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Speaker 2: She's like, no, no, no, it's it's the same you guys

513
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Speaker 2: don't get it.

514
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think just sitting down with her.

515
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Speaker 2: And running what you just said over with her, you know,

516
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Speaker 2: like a whiteboard. Yeah, you're like, okay, Ashley, here you go,

517
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Speaker 2: and you.

518
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: Can use like cows, Like so there are four cows

519
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,400
Speaker 1: and they have to eat this much.

520
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 2: Better take one cow away the way she wants to

521
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Speaker 2: do it. It makes it to where Sam, Emily and

522
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Speaker 2: I are also paying for justice part, not just Ashley.

523
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure Ashley is upset with me because I

524
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Speaker 2: told her that it needs to be split into five

525
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Speaker 2: to make it fair for everyone else. And she's not

526
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 2: really been talking to me, so am I the ale?

527
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Speaker 2: And there are some relevant comments. Commoner one says, not

528
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Speaker 2: the ale. What are the sleeping arrangements? Could hinge price

529
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Speaker 2: on that? Who's on a bed, a couch, sharing a bed,

530
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Speaker 2: et cetera? Says I believe it's two full sized beds

531
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Speaker 2: and a sofa bed. Ashley and Jess would be sharing

532
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 2: a bed because they're closest with each other. We haven't

533
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Speaker 2: decided the rest of the sleeping arrangements yet though, but

534
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Speaker 2: two on the other bed and one on the sofa

535
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 2: bed most likely. Commoner two says, not the a hole

536
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Speaker 2: to your logic, Yes, Ashley should be paying forty dollars

537
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 2: while the rest of you are at twenty. I have

538
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 2: to ask, though, is your friendship worth whatever the real

539
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 2: additional amount you three would.

540
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Speaker 1: Have to pay is it? Is it worth it?

541
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Speaker 2: Also? Is she just paying for Jess for the hotel

542
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 2: or is all split cost items for the trip? Opie says,

543
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Speaker 2: I've talked to the others and they're not comfortable paying

544
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Speaker 2: extra either, and they don't know Ashley very well. I'm

545
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 2: not gonna make them pay for someone they don't even know.

546
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Speaker 2: Ashley did say it's just for the hotel that she's

547
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Speaker 2: paying for Jess, but that might actually but that might

548
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Speaker 2: change in a couple of months when our trip actually

549
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Speaker 2: takes place. Who knows. But my main focus right now

550
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 2: is the hotel. Opi is mentioned a few times in

551
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Speaker 2: the comments about the prices listed. Opie says, I don't

552
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 2: know how many times I have to say this, but

553
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 2: I said in the post that the prices I used

554
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 2: to the post were fake prices. The hotel price was

555
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 2: so much more expensive than the fake prices I used.

556
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Speaker 2: It's not just five dollars. I thought that was obvious. Okay,

557
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 2: no one is comfortable paying the extra because Emily and

558
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 2: Sam hardly know Jess, and we've all got our own

559
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 2: stuff to pay for during this trip. This trip is expensive.

560
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Speaker 2: It's not that I'm not willing to keep the piece.

561
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Speaker 2: It's that I'm not willing to be scammed.

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Speaker 1: I think if you added two zeros to her fake yesh, Yeah,

563
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Speaker 1: I agree, but there was an up date.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I wanted to thank everyone who responded

565
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Speaker 2: and for the tips. I made the post to make

566
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Speaker 2: sure I was thinking correctly, even though I truly couldn't

567
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Speaker 2: make sense into what Ashley wanted to do, but I

568
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Speaker 2: mainly posted it because my friend wasn't talking to me,

569
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Speaker 2: so I thought I might have been the ale putting

570
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Speaker 2: out there that everyone going on the trip are young

571
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Speaker 2: adults ranging from eighteen to twenty two. Makes sense. Ashley

572
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,199
Speaker 2: and I are twenty one. I noticed a lot of

573
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Speaker 2: people misunderstood my post, so I'm going to clarify a

574
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Speaker 2: few things. Jess was going on this trip, whether Ashley

575
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Speaker 2: pays for her or she pays for herself, she was

576
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 2: always going to come and is an original member of

577
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Speaker 2: the group that's going. I had just gotten the news

578
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Speaker 2: that Ashley is deciding to pay for her share of

579
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Speaker 2: the hotel, but Jess isn't paying Ashley back. So I

580
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 2: think Ashley got confused because since there's only four people paying,

581
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 2: she thought the bill should be split up into four.

582
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 2: She just is dumb. It's okay, I knew it. She's

583
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 2: just silly.

584
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 1: I knew it. She missed eighth grade math.

585
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: But that's not how the bill should be split up.

586
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 2: It should be split up by However, many people are

587
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 2: staying not paying because Ashley is choosing to pay for Jess,

588
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 2: she doesn't have to do that. The prices I used

589
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 2: in my post were fake prices to make it simpler

590
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Speaker 2: to explain the actual cost of the hotel was way

591
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: more than the examples I use it. Something I forgot

592
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 2: to mention is that Ashley and I have never had

593
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 2: an issue splitting up bills before, so I thought this

594
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 2: was extra weird of her to try and pull. We

595
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,199
Speaker 2: just never had this problem before. Also, a lot of

596
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 2: you were saying this will be a continuous problem during

597
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 2: the trip, like for food or anything else. But whenever

598
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 2: we've been on trips before and ordering food or whatever,

599
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 2: usually we order separate, so that shouldn't be a problem

600
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Speaker 2: during the trip. Another thing I didn't mention in the

601
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Speaker 2: original post was that the hotel room states it sleeps

602
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Speaker 2: six people. There's two full size beds two. There's two

603
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 2: full sized beds and a sofa bed. I don't know

604
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 2: if this is really that important, but a lot of

605
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 2: people were asking Jess and Ashley would be sharing a bed,

606
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 2: and most likely me and Emily will share a bed

607
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 2: because Sam made it very clear that she wants the

608
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 2: sofa bed lol. But I do not think it should

609
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 2: be split up by beds or sleeping arrangements because we're

610
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 2: all sharing the same space. Also, something I didn't mention

611
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 2: was Ashley said she was only paying for Jessice hotel part,

612
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: and that anything else was coming out of Jess's pocket.

613
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 2: She's not paying for Jess's hotel part, She's paying for

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Speaker 2: her own. Now for the actual update, I've talked to

615
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 2: both Emily and Sam about it and both agree it

616
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 2: should be split five ways, and if one person wants

617
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 2: to pay for another person, then they have to pay noble.

618
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 2: Neither of them are comfortable paying the extra because they

619
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Speaker 2: don't know Jess very well, if at all. I also

620
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 2: tried to explain to Ashley with examples like if I'm

621
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 2: paying for Sam and Emily, then it would be split

622
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 2: up into two and you're paying more for just two

623
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 2: people than I am for three, and then explain to

624
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Speaker 2: her that it just wouldn't be fair if I did

625
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 2: that to her. I also emphasized that the way she

626
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 2: wanted to do it makes it to where everyone is

627
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: paying Jess's share, not just her. I was not gonna

628
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 2: back down until she got it.

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Speaker 1: Now. I think her play was the act home so

630
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Speaker 1: she could save money.

631
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's say, what do you mean I should only

632
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 2: pay five hundred dollars and that's for everyone?

633
00:29:59,120 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: Kay?

634
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 2: No, Ashley, that's not how life works or money or hotels.

635
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Speaker 1: Oh man, I was thinking about, like other scenarios in

636
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: her life, where might come up again, A lot gets scammed,

637
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: she can get scammed by we could be one of

638
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Speaker 1: the stick And.

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Speaker 2: She finally says that makes sense now, and she apologized. Whoa,

640
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: She gets it, guys, she gets it, And I mean,

641
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 2: I'm happy she finally understands how it's not fair to

642
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 2: do it her way. But I'm still annoyed that I

643
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 2: had to, you know, reverse card and use her logic

644
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 2: against her to make her understand it should have made

645
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 2: sense from the very beginning. But it's whatever. I'm hoping

646
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 2: this whole situation won't make this trip any awkward. But

647
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 2: it's two months away, so hopefully everything will pass uh

648
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 2: and we'll have a blast. If anything else crazy happens,

649
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 2: I'll be short up to you, guys. Thanks for all

650
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 2: the replies and common says. Comment Want says, splitting four

651
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 2: ways means everyone's paying for the fifth person. Math really

652
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 2: isn't that hard? Reply? But then Ashley doesn't get a

653
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 2: claim she's the one paying for Jess. Reply, that's all

654
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 2: I could think while reading this. OHP should have just

655
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 2: stated it's exactly like that. No, we're not splitting it

656
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: four ways, because then you're not paying for Jess. We are,

657
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 2: and you are the only one who wants to pay

658
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Speaker 2: for so you pay for her a portion which is

659
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Speaker 2: split five ways. And Comma two says the math was

660
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Speaker 2: not mathing. Ain't that the truth? But uh, folks, that's

661
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 2: the end of that story, and Ashley finally learned how

662
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 2: to do math.

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Speaker 1: Yay, yay, the whole goal here. Hey, it's John here,

664
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Speaker 1: og host here. We're gonna get back to the stories.

665
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: But he's a quick three minute break of ass from

666
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: our sponsors. I trusted my friend's mother to live in

667
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: my deceased father's apartment. I regret it.

668
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 2: Never trust him.

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Speaker 1: My father passed away unexpectedly two and a half months ago,

670
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: of the ripe age of fifty eight. Oh this is

671
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: still very much of trauma for me. I'm the only

672
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: child and he was not married. He left everything to

673
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: me and his will, I inherited a two bedroom apartment

674
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: that I am not need of since I already have

675
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: a place on my own and by the way, this

676
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: comes from holographic Peaches And if you want to spit

677
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Speaker 1: your own stories, go to the r slash Okay story

678
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: teme to subredd it. So, my best friend's mother, Nicole,

679
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: has recently come home from living abroad for six months.

680
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: She came home early because she missed her family and grandchild,

681
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: but it basically left her homeless. She's been CouchSurfing and

682
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: living with her sister and daughter aka my best friend

683
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: since early childhood. Natalie. Almost immediately when Nicole heard that

684
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: my father passed away, she asked if nic Coole, just

685
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: if Natalie could ask me if the apartment was available

686
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: for a crash for a few months while she's fixing

687
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: up her life situation long term. I trust Natalie with

688
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: my life, and I had no reason not to trust

689
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: in Nicole. We all thought it would be a good

690
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: temporary fix since I wouldn't be able since I would

691
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: be stuck paying Dad's rent and alone, as well as

692
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: my own rent and bills. And she said she could

693
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: be there as much as I needed to to go

694
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: through Dad's things and clear through the apartment in stuff.

695
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: He'd just be thankful to have a place to go

696
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,479
Speaker 1: at night, and I wanted to help. She moved in

697
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: just shy three weeks after my dad passed and promised

698
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: me to be respectful of everything in the apartment. We

699
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: didn't sign a rent contract, but we said that a

700
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: three months notice both ways is standard and would do

701
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: here as well. I gave her permission to use things

702
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: in the kitchen if needed, as well as the washer, dryer, detergent,

703
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: fabric softener, cleaning products, toilet paper, eat up unopened food items,

704
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: et cetera, everything that goes with living in an apartment.

705
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: When Nicole had lived there for five weeks, she sent

706
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: a text saying she'd be moving out later that week.

707
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: She had found and rented a house. She also wanted

708
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: half the rent back that she had already paid me

709
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: for the upcoming month. Everyone asked said that I shouldn't

710
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: have complied and sent her the back, but since this

711
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: is my best friend's mom, I still wanted to help

712
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: her and I knew that she needed the money. She

713
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: was grateful. This is where a contract comes in. I'm

714
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: just glad she didn't stay and didn't leave. That's what

715
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: I thought was about to happen.

716
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 2: I'm a little concerned.

717
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: I would rather pay her back half rent. Know when

718
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: she's getting out of the house, I hope she's getting

719
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: out than staying.

720
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 2: I hope she's getting out.

721
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: Hope she doesn't stackt just her pr squat.

722
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 2: I think she might be.

723
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: As soon as I got the keys back and walked

724
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: through the apartment, I noticed that there was left stuff

725
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: around than usual.

726
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 2: Oh no, she cleaned, she hoped clean. She helped clean

727
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 2: all of your valuables.

728
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: My dad liked to keep, like to keep extra of

729
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: his things he used regularly, like hand soap, dish soap, detergent,

730
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: fabric softener, toilet paper, cooking things like olive oil, aluminum foil,

731
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: parchment paper, plastic bags, and all that kind of stuff

732
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: was just gone, even though no person possibly could used

733
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: it up in five weeks. For example, I know for

734
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: a fact there were three extra rolls of illumina foil

735
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,320
Speaker 1: that aren't there. Now. The worst thing was I noticed

736
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 1: that there were fridge magnets missing.

737
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 2: No, not the fridge magnets, yeah no, wait what the

738
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 2: fridge magnets.

739
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: Specifically magnets that have bought for my dad, round bed

740
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: neo round bead magnets that he used to make little

741
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: designs in graphs with oh yeah, they were a sentimental

742
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: OW immediately texted her and as if she had taken

743
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 1: the magnets by accident, and I got this reply, Hey,

744
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: holographic pieces. Yes, I took them because grandson thought they

745
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: were so fun to play with and I didn't think

746
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: they were very important.

747
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 2: No, give them back through mine, give them.

748
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: Back, I answered her. You can't just take whatever you like,

749
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: and it can be really dangerous for little kids to

750
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: play with magnets. If they swallow them, it can cause

751
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: serious damage. I want them immediately. A reply to that

752
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: was just, hey, ohp just relax. Yes, you shouldn't take

753
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: things that aren't yours. I'm beyond furious.

754
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 2: That's crazy. I feel like, yeah, you're right, you shouldn't

755
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 2: take things that aren't yours.

756
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: Proceeds to think I would be like wherever her new

757
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: house is, take her stuff, be like steal. Hey, I

758
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: need a place to stay. Both of my house and

759
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: my dad's apartment is flooded right now? Can I stay

760
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: at your house for a second and then just take

761
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: it all back? Take it all back? Come on, take

762
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: a little extra too, mm hmm interest. I am beyond furious.

763
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: I feel like the whole violated my trust in the

764
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: worst kind of ways. I trusted her to be respectful

765
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: in the apartment, not to steal things. I'm just wondering

766
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: what else goes missing. I have not had the chance

767
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: to go through everything, and it's not like I keep

768
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: inventory either. Depending I'm sorry, depending on when this guy

769
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: was like born, you could have money all over the

770
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: place my great grandpa's house. He was born during the

771
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: Great Depression era. They are taught not to keep money

772
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: in one place. That's true, So that's true.

773
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 2: You could you could be scraunging up money every year.

774
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: You might have keep on a little. Yeah, I'm so

775
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,959
Speaker 1: aware that I'm going through the trauma of losing a parent,

776
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: and I might be more sensitive than usual. I just

777
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: want to scream in her face and never ever ever

778
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: see her again or speak to her, but I think

779
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: that might be impossible since her daughter, he's my best friend.

780
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: We were running to each other on occasion, no doubt,

781
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: we have not spoken other than the text, and I

782
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: have not gotten a hold of her, and I have

783
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: not gotten a hold of my friend either. I just

784
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: want to know how I best should handle the situation

785
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: going forward, and if I should include my friend or not.

786
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: We got an update.

787
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 2: I think you should absolutely. I mean, if your friend

788
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 2: was involved in the conversation about your her mom moving in,

789
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 2: I think she should absolutely be involved. If she wasn't

790
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 2: and that was just a converse between you and her mom,

791
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 2: then maybe don't involve the friend.

792
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

793
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 2: I think that can just be you talking to her

794
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 2: mom and be like, hey, you need to give me

795
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 2: those things back, those sentimental value. I let you stay here.

796
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 2: I took off rent price. Ah, that's stealing.

797
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: How can you be so insensitive towards death kind of

798
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: take advantage of someone I don't know? It's weird. This

799
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: update is a long time coming. I wrote my past

800
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: one one and a half years ago, man, and I've

801
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 1: been wanting to update you all for a while now.

802
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: So unfortunately it gets worse. We left off with my

803
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: best friend, Natalie's mother. Nicole had been living in my

804
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: dad's apartment for a few weeks, and when she got

805
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: moved out, I found out there were things missing. In

806
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: my post, I specifically wrote about a set of magnets

807
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,800
Speaker 1: that and some household items. Well. A few days after

808
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: me writing the post, I started to notice there were

809
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: a lot more things missing. This is a few examples,

810
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 1: but not everything. Two full sets of towels from a

811
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 1: luxury brand, as well as a few odd towels same brand.

812
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: Two sheets, three sets of betting, and a small mirror,

813
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: A couple of movies, a few children's books, my old ones,

814
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: several things from the kitchen, like a vase and a picture,

815
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: and a small bathroom carpet that was stored in the closet. Yeah,

816
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 1: she snooped through my dad's storage and stolen things from

817
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: there as well. She's got a house to furnish.

818
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 2: Yes, she's like, I'm moving into a new place and

819
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 2: neat stuff.

820
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: This is your housewarming gift. Yeah, I don't think your

821
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: dad's gonna use this anymore. I have since gotten a

822
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: few things back, like the magnets that were most important

823
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: to me, Not all of it. She keeps coming up

824
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: with excuses. The sheets, the towels, books, et cetera. Are

825
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: moving box somewhere, or in a moving box somewhere, or

826
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: they're in storage. You'll get everything back soon, or I'll

827
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: just need to watch them first, or I haven't seen them.

828
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't even know if I have them.

829
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: Are you sure you don't have them. First off, did

830
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 1: you why did you take this in the first place?

831
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, come on. I honestly think at this

832
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: point maybe you could bring in the daughter your friend

833
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 2: and say like, hey, I've been having a lot of

834
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 2: trouble with your mom. If you're able to talk, like,

835
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 2: don't put it on your friend, because we don't know

836
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 2: that she's at all involved. She might not know anything

837
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 2: about it.

838
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 1: Can you help me set your mom?

839
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 3: Yeah?

840
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 2: I think you could say, like, hey, your mom, this

841
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 2: has been kind of taking advantage of the situation. Do

842
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 2: you you mind like helping me talk to her or something.

843
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: I'm more okay with it, but when I but when

844
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: it just had happened, I was furious. I'm very sad

845
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 1: about it. Now the situation is much more different and weird.

846
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily like the idea of Nicole using my

847
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: deceased father's very nice sets of bettings and hows, but

848
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: they are just things, and I don't know if i'd

849
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: actually use them myself. Pee. Natalie has been trying to

850
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: help me as much as possible, and she's very upset

851
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: with her mother. She tried to ruimburse me for everything,

852
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's her job to do that.

853
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: We have left it at If Natalie sees something that's

854
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: my dad slash minds and Cole's, she'll grab it and

855
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: give it back to me. But this is where things

856
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: get weird. My original post, I wrote that Nicole moved

857
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: out because she had found a house to rent. Turns

858
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: out she actually hadn't. She moved in with her boyfriend

859
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: in his department. They have since broken up, and I

860
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: left Nicole homeless again with no one else to turn to.

861
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,439
Speaker 1: She had to move in with Natalie about eight months ago,

862
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: who reluctantly agreed. She had a spare room and the

863
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: rent is high, so she needed the extra money.

864
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Nicole again, this is Natalie's mom, right yep.

865
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 2: Nicole once again has a situation where she doesn't have

866
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 2: a place to live and so now she's living with

867
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 2: her daughter. Hopefully she doesn't steal from her daughter.

868
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: Who knows? Yeah, who knows, dude, who really knows? These

869
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: days things have been crazy since this is a very

870
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: short list of how Nicole's acting right now. What she

871
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: will pick facts with Natalie constantly, and then immediately after

872
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: she'll pretend like nothing happened and that she's normal again.

873
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one too. She spends a lot

874
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: of money on things she can't afford electronics, clothes, shoes,

875
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: beauty stuff, and then she'll be late with the rent

876
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: or cause a huge fight to prove she shouldn't have

877
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: to pay rent this month. She also won't return things

878
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,280
Speaker 1: that won't fit so I's suit her because it's too hard,

879
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: and she has piles of clothes that are just too

880
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: small and laying around her room. Three She's gained a

881
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: lot of weight and she complains about it all the

882
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: time but won't do anything about it. For she's sick

883
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: all the time, as in, I'm not feeling good today,

884
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: think I have a fever, and then she'll just stay

885
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 1: home from work for a full week. Now, with everything

886
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: that's going on with the Avid, she's apparently saying she

887
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,720
Speaker 1: wants to quit her job because she doesn't feel safe

888
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: outside anymore, and if she does this, she won't have

889
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: any more income, yet she has no plan B. Five,

890
00:42:55,840 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: She expects Natalie to shop for food, pay for all

891
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 1: of it, and cook food every day. Six she'll whine

892
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: and complain that the apartment is messy, needs to be cleaned.

893
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: Natalie has a four year old son and a dog,

894
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: so there are a lot of toys in the living

895
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: room in this son's room, but Nicole refuses to clean

896
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: anything herself because it's not her mess, even if some

897
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: of the mess is hers. Seven. She spent an hour's

898
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: sorting her grandson's lego and then yelled at him when

899
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: he was playing with it because he rumined it. She

900
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: also complains that the grandson doesn't like her anymore and

901
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: says that he is mean if she doesn't want to

902
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: play with her. She says this is the front of

903
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: both Natalie and the kid. Eight. She'll lose something like

904
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: her phone charger or house keys, and then Nicole will

905
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: say that Natalie has taken the item from her and

906
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,919
Speaker 1: that it's Natalie who's lost them. She also says it's

907
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,720
Speaker 1: on Natalie to reimburse her for the things she loses,

908
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 1: clash her responsibility to get her a new set of keys,

909
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: et cetera. Nine. I also had the unfortunate run in

910
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: with the coole last fall at Natalie's son's fourth birthday.

911
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 1: She's act like nothing's happened. She talked to me laugh,

912
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: just pretending like nothing had happened even before though I

913
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: hadn't seen her or talked to her in almost a year.

914
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: It was super weird because it didn't feel like it

915
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: was just for show everyone else that had also been there.

916
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: How many more points do we have? What the heck?

917
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 2: Seems like she's just a nuisance is the issue. She's

918
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 2: living with Natalie, her daughter, and is a nuisance and

919
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 2: doesn't know how to act like an adult and you know,

920
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 2: kind of live on her own and that's it.

921
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: She also adopted a four month old puppy act as

922
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,919
Speaker 1: a co signer to the apartment where she's not and

923
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: she says that the dog did it on purpose, Peter

924
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: poop outside her door, have a spite for.

925
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 2: Her, And the list goes on, and the list goes on.

926
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: I think she's got to go on the streets, man.

927
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 2: I just don't think that. I think that Natalie needs

928
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 2: to set boundaries. I understand that it be especially you

929
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 2: know your mother. This is not just a random person

930
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 2: who's taking advantage of you, but neither Nonetheless, she's taken

931
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 2: advantage of you, and she's acting awful and she's just

932
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 2: being an overall nuisance. As Wrestling Mama says, Uh, so

933
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 2: I feel like you need to set some boundaries, or

934
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 2: you need to tell Natalie to set some boundaries and

935
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 2: say this is not going to stand. If you need

936
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,720
Speaker 2: a place to live, you have to follow my rules

937
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 2: or you're out.

938
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if.

939
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 2: She, you know, ends up being out, then that's.

940
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: That's on her. That it's just I don't know. Whenever

941
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: the red flag to me was whenever she traveled for

942
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,439
Speaker 1: six months and didn't have a place to land after

943
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: that kind of shows.

944
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 2: She relies on other people and she expects them to

945
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 2: like pick her up when she has nowhere to go,

946
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 2: even though she's not actually doing any work to find

947
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 2: a place, Like she's quitting her junk because she doesn't

948
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 2: want to do it.

949
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:57,720
Speaker 1: She's yeah, ah ah, last little bit here. I stated

950
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: in the list she's very worried about the virus. She

951
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 1: stays up all night to read about it, and she's

952
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 1: and she'll say to Natalie she's convinced if she'll get

953
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: sick from the VID, she knows she's going to pass

954
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: from it. I think she show first from untreated depression,

955
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 1: but it would not be good enough to explain what's

956
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: going on. I feel for Natalie because these last few

957
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: months have been hard for her. Nicole critiques her about

958
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: everything from how she looks to her parenting. Natalie cries

959
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: every day and she tries to be home as little

960
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: as possible. Someone has any insight might be happening, I'd

961
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: appreciate some advice. Thanks for reading. Sorry I don't have

962
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:37,240
Speaker 1: a nice for update.

963
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 2: I think Nicole probably has some sort of mental issues, absolutely,

964
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 2: And people are saying Wrestling Mama says, I think some

965
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 2: sort of kind of mental evaluation for sure. But regardless,

966
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 2: she's taking advantage of the people who are offering her

967
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 2: help and that's not okay. And you guys need to

968
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 2: set boundaries at the end of the day.

969
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be.

970
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 2: Like a literally of different things wrong with her. That

971
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,800
Speaker 2: doesn't well, that doesn't mean that she can get away

972
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: with treating you guys poorly.

973
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: Like I think, boundaries with a moderator around, sure, someone

974
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: that'll take her serious. But I don't know. She might

975
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: be a lost costs too, because sometimes I feel like

976
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: people at a certain age don't like to learn, don't

977
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: like to hear anything new. They just kind of live

978
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: their life that way, staying at the same level you're

979
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: she's losing money taking advantage of your daughter. Where's the

980
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:28,879
Speaker 1: line though?

981
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 2: We just don't know.

982
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 1: We just what do you mean you don't know? Where

983
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: would you put the line?

984
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 2: So she doesn't? Oh? I know, I know where I

985
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 2: would put put the line. I just meant like these

986
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 2: people don't clearly.

987
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: No, But where would you put the line?

988
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 2: I put the line up like she's stealing stuff? That

989
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 2: would have been I'd been like, whoa, if you don't

990
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 2: stop doing that, you have to find a new place

991
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 2: to live. I put the line at she's literally I

992
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 2: don't know, bringing a dog in and yeah, like without

993
00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 2: I don't know all of this.

994
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: All of this is the line I would have drawn

995
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: the line at you're buying stuff and not paying rent. Yeah,

996
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,040
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997
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:10,879
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998
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999
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: but I'm afraid to hurt her feelings.

1000
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 5: Oh, you're still gonna have to decide.

1001
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: I'm getting married next fall to my best friend of

1002
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: eight years Max. What do you know? And I've been

1003
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: struggling to put together my bridal party because I no

1004
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: longer wish to have my best friend Lindy as one

1005
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,240
Speaker 1: of my bridesmaids. I say my best friend in quote

1006
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: Marx because for all that she proclaims herself to be

1007
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: my best friend. I'm so glad I'm your best friend.

1008
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: I've had to do that to a few people, so

1009
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: glad I'm your best.

1010
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 3: Friend, that I'm your best friend, and they're like, yeah, yeah, Riley, Yeah.

1011
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: One are my eye colors? What is my color in

1012
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: my eye? Beautiful?

1013
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 5: That's the best response if you don't know someone's eye color.

1014
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: Love it. She hasn't been treating me like a good

1015
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 1: one for a while, and I also no longer regard

1016
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: her as one of mine as all the details below

1017
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 1: and more ooh tea. By the way, this comes from

1018
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: screaming in the morning, and if you would to sbmit

1019
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1020
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: So long backstory for context. And they are blue and green,

1021
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: not really, Hazel. I have been friends with Lindy ever

1022
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: since we were in elementary school together. We've been each

1023
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: other's best friends for almost as long as I can remember.

1024
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: I've always had each other's backs and supported each other

1025
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,840
Speaker 1: and been there for each other. We used to have

1026
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: a lot of shared interests, but as we've grown up

1027
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: and gone to different universities and pursued different things, those

1028
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: shared interests have decreased. I don't think it's entirely due

1029
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: to no longer having many or any at all shared

1030
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: interests that we have grown apart. I have many friends,

1031
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: some of who I have known for almost as long

1032
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: as Lindy and others less than that, and even after

1033
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: our shared interests have changed, we have managed to remain close.

1034
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: There have been some stumbling blocks in our longtime friendship

1035
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: that I have over time caused me to grow a

1036
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: bit more guarded around her, but for the most part

1037
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: I didn't make it much of an issue about it.

1038
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: In retrospect, I should have. Oh boy, I know exactly

1039
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: where this one's going.

1040
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 3: Oh he can see the future, folks. He's like what

1041
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 3: he can smell the future? Right?

1042
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: Oh he smells what's cooking? Yeah. So the incident that

1043
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: has caused me to start truly revaluating our friendship took

1044
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: place last spring. Our beloved family cat of ten years

1045
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 1: was diagnosed with late stage cancer. Less than two months later,

1046
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: we had to make the decision put him down to sleep.

1047
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,320
Speaker 1: As he was suffering too much rip cheese puff. Arrangements

1048
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 1: were made with his vet to have him put to

1049
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: sleep in the familiar comfort of our home. Since it

1050
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,879
Speaker 1: was a plan thing, I asked Linda ahead of time

1051
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: if she'd be able to come over to be with me,

1052
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: as I didn't want to be alone at such time.

1053
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 1: She said she had plans in the afternoon, and I

1054
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: told her that that was fine, as I didn't know

1055
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: how long things would take with the vet and funeral

1056
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: and Sarah may with the funeral company. Anyways, I asked

1057
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,280
Speaker 1: her if she could come afterwards, anything from the evening onward,

1058
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,919
Speaker 1: as I'd really appreciate the company. She said she wasn't

1059
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 1: sure she would have the energy to do so, so

1060
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: she had planned to head home after her afternoon outings

1061
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: to rest once more. I told her that this was

1062
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: fine and she didn't have to come over too early,

1063
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: that she could take a nap first if needed, and

1064
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: come after she felt more rested again. She said she

1065
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 1: wasn't sure if she could make it afterwards, and I

1066
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: decided to stop pressing the issue.

1067
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 3: Okay, sometimes when we stop pressing issues, issues developed.

1068
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 5: No, I we ain't pressing it.

1069
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you were now demoted to friend. Dude. If

1070
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: someone's cat was being passed away and they're like, I'm

1071
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: gonna have the issue, I'm just said like, oh, he

1072
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: had to ask her to come over times instead. I

1073
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: asked Max and then my boyfriend, if you could keep

1074
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: me company that evening, and he immediately told me he'd

1075
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 1: be there and whatever I wanted to arrange for food

1076
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,439
Speaker 1: that that that I might like to eat that he'd

1077
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: cheer me up with. Then, when the day came to

1078
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,399
Speaker 1: say goodbye Cheese Puff, my siblings and I were all there,

1079
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,919
Speaker 1: along with some of my siblings close friends, I cat.

1080
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,919
Speaker 1: Max updated as to what was happening so that he'd

1081
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 1: know what time to come over. That whole day, Lindy

1082
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: never once called or even texted a check gran on

1083
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: how I was doing, or offered any words of comfort

1084
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: or condolences. That night, I made a bunch of social

1085
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: media posts about Cheese Puff cheese Buffs passing. It was

1086
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Speaker 1: really hard to type them out and select the pictures.

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Speaker 1: Even now, more than a year on, I can't look

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Speaker 1: at my photos of Cheese Puff without tearing up. He

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Speaker 1: and my friends, both close ones and acquaintances like offered

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Speaker 1: their condolences and shared pictures and stories about cheese Puff.

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Speaker 1: Good number of them even reached out to me privately

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Speaker 1: support in various ways, but not Lindy. I know exactly

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Speaker 1: why Lindy didn't want to come over, But Lindy only

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Speaker 1: strives on taking other people's energy. Thus, if you don't

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Speaker 1: have any energy take, she's not gonna be there. So

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Speaker 1: she was with other people taking their energies and she's

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Speaker 1: gonna feast on that through the afternoon. Because Lindy is

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Speaker 1: an energy vampire. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you don't have any energy in your bucket

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Speaker 3: to pour into hers, she's not coming around.

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Speaker 1: Lindy has a few cats of her own, one of

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Speaker 1: which is older than cheese Puff, So it isn't that

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Speaker 1: she doesn't understand the love between a person and their

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Speaker 1: fur baby. Even the next day, it was radio silence

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Speaker 1: from her until the afternoon when she asked my family

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Speaker 1: how I was holding up. When I said I wasn't

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Speaker 1: really doing well, she sent me a thumbs up reaction

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Speaker 1: and then immediately began venting about related stuff that she

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Speaker 1: was going through.

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Speaker 5: Uh, he was right doing it, is doing it.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 3: His nose is approximately eight minutes in the future at

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Speaker 3: all times.

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Speaker 1: Really is that would be wild. That is undeniably would

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Speaker 1: be wild. When I tried to explain how I was feeling,

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Speaker 1: how much I was missing cheese Puff, and how overwhelming

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00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 1: the hurt and grief was, she just sent me a

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Speaker 1: gift and a heart react. So modern day condolences.

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Speaker 3: That's like, remember how they say, like the worst they

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Speaker 3: can say is no, Like that's the worst thing I

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Speaker 3: could have been sent in that moment, especially because this.

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Speaker 5: Person has cats, so they understand.

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Speaker 2: It's not like.

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Speaker 1: They're just like, oh, I don't get it because whatever.

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Speaker 3: Cheese puff, right, So it's just like, dude, after this,

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Speaker 3: never associating with you, don't call me, don't go by

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Speaker 3: my house.

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Speaker 1: Also, let me know if you have a friend like

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Speaker 1: this or did in the chat right now. And then

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Speaker 1: Lindy goes to me for the rest of the day

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Speaker 1: until the next day, when she texted me about how

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Speaker 1: she was going to get a new cat and also

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Speaker 1: a salon makeover she was planning to have. Anytime I

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Speaker 1: tried to talk about how I was feeling, she would

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Speaker 1: either give me a token reply and then continue talking

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Speaker 1: about her own plans or issues, or just outright not

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Speaker 1: addressed what I had told her. I tried a few

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Speaker 1: times throughout that conversation until I eventually gave up trying

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Speaker 1: to see comfort from her. After that exchange, I just

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Speaker 1: stopped talking to her about anything related to my grief

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00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: since she was just showing no interest or empathy, in fact,

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Speaker 1: only making me feel more upset that I already was.

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Speaker 1: It was really hurtful how she was completely dismissing my

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Speaker 1: pain and made everything about her that eventually turned to

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Speaker 1: me no longer turning to her for any form of

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Speaker 1: emotional or mental support, as she didn't seem willing to

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Speaker 1: offer it to me. Something also happened in her personal

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Speaker 1: life such that I didn't want to add my personal

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00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 1: burdens to what she had to deal with. All that,

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Speaker 1: along with some other instances in the past and more

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Speaker 1: instances till now, has shown me this pattern of behavior

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Speaker 1: with her. She treats me like a sounding board all

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Speaker 1: of her problems, but doesn't reciprocate when I approach her

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Speaker 1: with mine. She'll come to me with struggles or unhappiness

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Speaker 1: regarding the inconvenience to me, but only dane to address

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00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: mine if she's available or filling up to it. Otherwise

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Speaker 1: she makes excuses or simply withdrawals from me with the discussion.

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Speaker 3: One way, bucket, dude, one way only, one way, fill up,

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Speaker 3: filling up, feeling you're filling up my bugget.

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Speaker 5: I'm not feeling up your bugget, my bucket, all this

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Speaker 5: belonging in my buget?

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Speaker 1: Okay, you, Benny. How does a person engineer themselves to

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Speaker 1: become an energy vampire?

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of accidentally, I feel like a

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Speaker 3: lot of the people who do this kind of thing

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Speaker 3: aren't acutely aware that it's what they're doing, Like they

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Speaker 3: might have a vague sense that, like, you know, they

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Speaker 3: don't do that for others, but they probably just write

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Speaker 3: it off in a way of like, oh, let's just I.

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Speaker 1: Just don't do that.

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Speaker 3: I just that's just not who I am. I'm more

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Speaker 3: of like a talker, not a listener. And then they

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Speaker 3: just are like, and that's fine. They don't understand how

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Speaker 3: much of a detriment it is to just always eat

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Speaker 3: someone else's crap. Yeah, even when you're going through it,

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Speaker 3: they come over and they're like, yeah, whatever, shut up. Anyways, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so they totally scuffed my shoe and I got into

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Speaker 3: the elevator, and like basically from there, my whole day

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Speaker 3: just got worse and worse. And it's like, you know,

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Speaker 3: but I put my cat down, yet yesterday I put

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Speaker 3: my cat.

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Speaker 5: You no, no, we'd shut up because I'm getting the best

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00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 5: part of the story.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, what the heck?

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Speaker 3: You have to be fully unaware because no one would

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Speaker 3: consciously live their life that way.

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Speaker 1: Hope. He continues to my therapist about cheese puff incident,

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Speaker 1: and subsequently about the other instances. It's good, advised to

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Speaker 1: draw up boundaries to better protect my emotional mental health.

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Speaker 1: I have since then severely curtailed my deeper interactions with Lindy.

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Speaker 1: This person reads books. The boundaries are drawn, which everyone

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Speaker 1: relts respects, but Lindy often treats as if they don't

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Speaker 1: apply to her. She's a foreign The integram test, Wait

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Speaker 1: what you'll take the test? The ingram? Yeah, okay, I haven't.

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Speaker 5: I think I've done that once.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember. It's like the Christian version of like

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Speaker 1: the the gym ni astrology astrology stuff. Oh okay. Have

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Speaker 1: helped immensely, But at the same time, I often worry

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Speaker 1: that it's coming off as me icing her out, and

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Speaker 1: that I'm being unfair or mean to her by doing so. Dude,

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Speaker 1: what do you want do you want not to be

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Speaker 1: having a good friend or do you want this not

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00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: good friends? Like, yeah, you're icing around?

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Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, you can tell her why. Yeah, So

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Speaker 5: I did have the thing close.

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Speaker 1: This is this for me?

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Speaker 3: It was like I had a buddy who would always

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Speaker 3: just like complain, where it's like we could be talking

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Speaker 3: about something great and then it's like, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 3: it's like about how something sucks, or it's like how

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Speaker 3: they don't like this or don't like that. And I

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Speaker 3: eventually told him, I was like, hey, we gotta can

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Speaker 3: you like, I really don't like how you do that.

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Speaker 3: You seem to do it like a lot, like almost

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Speaker 3: without knowing. And then he changed it and it improved

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Speaker 3: all that and more. I have left and said has

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Speaker 3: left me not wanting her to be part of the

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Speaker 3: bridal party for my next fall. Oh yeah, the broader

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Speaker 3: party thing.

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Speaker 1: When we were younger, we talked about weddings and such,

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Speaker 1: swore to be each other's maids of honor. When it

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Speaker 1: came time, I no longer want her to be my

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Speaker 1: maid of honor. I don't even want her to be

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Speaker 1: a regular bridesmaids. I've already asked masks brother's wife to

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Speaker 1: be my maid of honor, and I've already asked two

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Speaker 1: close friends of ten to fifteen years to be my bridesmaids.

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Speaker 1: I no longer trust Lindy to be there for me,

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Speaker 1: to support me, prioritize me ahead of herself on a

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00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: day when I'm likely to be stressed out and in pain.

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Speaker 1: I have chronic pain issues and needed all the support

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Speaker 1: mentally and emotionally, but possibly physically as well as I

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Speaker 1: can get. I don't expect to have anything crazy bride

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Speaker 1: I don't expect to have any crazy Bridezilla demands, but

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a long and tiring day, and

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Speaker 1: I can't rely on someone I no longer trust who

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Speaker 1: might just peace out on me halfway through if she's

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01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 1: just not feeling it. Additionally, Lindy has her own chronic

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01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:34,440
Speaker 1: conditions that do affect her stamina and energy levels. Even

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Speaker 1: if our friendship wasn't rocky, it would be unfair and

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Speaker 1: setting her up for failure to expect her to take

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Speaker 1: on that role, as it will start really early in

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Speaker 1: the morning and last easily sixteen hours or longer. I've

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Speaker 1: come up with the way for her to still be

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Speaker 1: a part of my wedding beyond just attending as a guest,

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Speaker 1: as I don't want her to fill left out or

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Speaker 1: that I'm deliberately shunning her. However, I worry that no

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01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: matter what alternatives I offer and how I make it work,

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Speaker 1: she'll be hurt by me not asking her to be

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Speaker 1: a bridesmaid. I've tried to best bride size her as

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Speaker 1: many aspects of my life. I kill the cheese book incident.

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Speaker 1: Even now, I still can't help but feel like I

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01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: owe it to our many years of friendship, show her

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Speaker 1: the favor to or to cut her some slack. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what to do regarding this whole bridesmaid's matter.

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Speaker 1: Do I go ahead with my alternative option, or do

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Speaker 1: I not have her involved at all beyond just being

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Speaker 1: a guest?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that one.

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Speaker 1: My indecision is founded in a nagging feeling that maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm being too harsh on her. I would really appreciate

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01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 1: the advice on how to proceed with sensitivity and kindness.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all for taking the time and effort to

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Speaker 1: read this ridiculously long post. There's so much backstory and

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Speaker 1: so much more context. And there are many more incidents

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Speaker 1: that have happened in the past since losing my cat.

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Speaker 1: They've all added up to me making me feel this way,

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Speaker 1: and I do not want to make these decisions. I

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Speaker 1: only spoke to this about the main one, which she's

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Speaker 1: puff Oh Pie's.

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Speaker 2: Just just sweetie pin.

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Speaker 5: Like, I feel like I'm being too harsh. Dude, she

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Speaker 5: literally ghosted you after your.

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Speaker 2: Cat passed away.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not really a best friend. That's more of

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Speaker 1: a friend at that point. And people grow. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: to a friend right now where her and her girlfriend

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Speaker 1: that like, I've been like friends for years years she

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Speaker 1: they now have different interests and they're like, hey, like

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Speaker 1: she wants to go do this, but I kind of

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Speaker 1: want to go and do that, and they're not like

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Speaker 1: matching on that. I'm like, I know, it's really hard

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Speaker 1: because you guys have been like friends since like you know,

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Speaker 1: elementary school. People grow apart, and it sounds like emotionally

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Speaker 1: you guys are going apart, and just as marriage, I

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Speaker 1: feel like friendships, good friendships should be like equal yoke,

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Speaker 1: Like you want people around you that'll support you and

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Speaker 1: set you up for your best self. You don't want

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Speaker 1: people like taking that from you. Sometimes you can give

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Speaker 1: that and you can give energy to others. But if

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01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,360
Speaker 1: like people are taking it from you where they're not

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01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: supporting you in their best with day, even on your

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Speaker 1: worst days, I should show you something. It should