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Speaker 1: My mother in law wants to stop my marriage. Should

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Speaker 1: I go no contact with her? This is OKOP where

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Speaker 1: we read the craziest true stories on Earth.

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Speaker 2: I am John and Sam. Should Op go no contact

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Speaker 2: with the mother in law?

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Speaker 3: If you're trying to stop love, listen, I'm gonna stop

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Speaker 3: loving you.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Tit for tat, tit for tat.

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Speaker 3: I mean I think Ope should probably distance himself or

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Speaker 3: herself from the mother at least temporarily over.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Just wait for the divorce then you can

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Speaker 2: become best friends.

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Speaker 3: I mean I was saying, like the wedding ceremony, right, Also,

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Speaker 3: wait for the divorce so that you can be friend

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Speaker 3: of your mother's ride it.

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Speaker 2: All the way right.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's only one way to find out what happens

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Speaker 1: spell that day. So this one comes from mother in

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Speaker 1: law issues. Very apt, very apt. They say, let's get

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Speaker 1: down to business. I've been with my fiance Adam for

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Speaker 1: five years and we've been engaged for seven months. We

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Speaker 1: have a beautiful home together, and we both work really

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Speaker 1: hard at our relationship. Flex quite a flex. The issue

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Speaker 1: isn't with Adam. He does his very best to try

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Speaker 1: to mitigate the situation with his mom, but ain't good enough.

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Speaker 2: Nope, but it's.

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Speaker 1: Wearing on him, and I worry that one day he'll

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Speaker 1: have to choose. I don't want him to have to

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Speaker 1: do that. That would hurt him too much to choose

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Speaker 1: between me and his family. There are a lot of situations,

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Speaker 1: but I thought I would highlight the worst slash most

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Speaker 1: recent we got, like a worst of recap. That's right,

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Speaker 1: let's go, coming in at number one. Around three years ago,

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Speaker 1: one month after we purchased our house. His mom really

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Speaker 1: needed windows in her house. Okay, mold was growing a

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Speaker 1: lot and some no longer had seals.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Now, his mom actually has a sizeable savings account, enough

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Speaker 1: that she could spend her money frivolously on luxury goods

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Speaker 1: like Burken bags those are like forty k bags six

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Speaker 1: figures in some cases, and getting her hair done two

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Speaker 1: times a week, her nails, buying a new Mercedes every

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Speaker 1: two years, and so on. However, she never budgets for anything,

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Speaker 1: so she asked him for twenty five thousand dollars to

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Speaker 1: replace the windows.

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Speaker 2: He said he would cover them.

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Speaker 3: How about that burken bag money sell a pert seriously

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Speaker 3: play a windows on emay when he told me.

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Speaker 1: I almost had a heart attack. He said it was

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Speaker 1: alone and that she would pay him back, pay him

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Speaker 1: back right now. Yeah, by not taking money and spending her.

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Speaker 2: Own you have a ton. Maybe don't get a hairdo

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Speaker 2: once that week.

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Speaker 1: I still have law school debt to cover and we

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Speaker 1: have a larger than we should have mortgage. She made

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Speaker 1: a comment to him about how I would let her

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Speaker 1: freeze to death all winter, and he had to help her. Ah,

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Speaker 1: you have money, though we took out extra on the

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Speaker 1: mortgage on our mortgage to cover her windows.

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Speaker 2: Top of the line. Everything let her ask freeze right Seriously,

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Speaker 2: we still have yet to see a dime.

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Speaker 1: I suppose it went into her new gl class of

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Speaker 1: new Mercedes. Benz to quote the Bard, neither a borrower

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Speaker 2: B I am allergic to this mother. Same on to

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Speaker 2: number two.

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Speaker 1: Adam and I had a vacation planned the year after

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Speaker 1: the windows dilemma happened. We decided that we would go

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Speaker 1: to Europe for two weeks, as he has never been

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Speaker 1: and I lived there from the time I was three

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Speaker 1: until I came to America for school. We had set

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Speaker 1: our hearts down Spain and rented a lovely apartment in

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Speaker 1: Barcelona for two weeks. Sounds fantastic. She is great, right,

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Speaker 1: It was perfect for the two of us. We planned

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Speaker 1: all of our tours and outings around our interests. Adam

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Speaker 1: loves architecture, so we had a few tours solely planned

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Speaker 1: for that. Now, Now do you see what's about to happen?

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Speaker 1: Do you see the ICU in the comments?

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Speaker 2: I honestly don't see it.

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Speaker 1: His mother decided she she had, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, she's gonna be.

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Speaker 1: Like, oh, I'm actually cold traveling too. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: even better, can you give me twenty five thousand to

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Speaker 1: get new windows in my hotel?

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Speaker 2: God? And also, I want to snuggle. I want to

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Speaker 2: be the meet in the middle. Never mind, I'm just

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Speaker 2: godding with you. Thanks. Oh, and cuddles with my son alone.

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Speaker 2: That's right. I brought him into this world and I'm

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Speaker 1: She had never been to Europe either, so she invited

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Speaker 1: coming along. Oh my god, Well, coach was not good

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Speaker 1: enough for her, and she had to have tickets upgraded

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Speaker 2: They don't have the money, give it to Just give

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Speaker 2: it to me. Just give me the money.

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Speaker 1: But she didn't want to travel alone, so she pitched

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Speaker 2: Adam her son. Oh, I had to remain in coach.

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Speaker 2: There it is there, it is.

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Speaker 1: Then she didn't want to stay at the apartment because

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a vacation to her. No, she had to

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Speaker 1: stay at the W in Barcelona, and.

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Speaker 3: The W hotel is very expensive. They went to Beverly

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Speaker 2: It hg dang dude, where get ready for this? She

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Speaker 2: begged Adam to stay with her, but there was I

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Speaker 2: was jokidding. She walked out of to sleep with her,

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Speaker 2: but there wasn't any room for me, no room.

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Speaker 1: He tried to reason with her, but she cried and

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Speaker 1: said how sad she was without her husband, as he

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Speaker 3: Before they could ever get to Europe together. Bro, that

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Speaker 3: is cringe. That is cringe. My husband died, so can

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Speaker 3: you be his replacement? S God's son son husband, he

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Speaker 1: Years ago, so I stayed at the apartment alone while

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Speaker 3: Her husband was literally dying to get away put an ouch.

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Speaker 1: We were supposed to meet up for breakfast, but she

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Speaker 1: I definitely felt like a third wheel. That is, I'm

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Speaker 1: good dig so hard right now and questioned why I

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Speaker 1: I have to before we get into number three, Sam,

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Speaker 1: what are we doing?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god?

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Speaker 3: Like talk to this boy taken to the max, like, hey,

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Speaker 3: there is a healthy love for your mom. I have

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Speaker 3: this morning. Seemed lovely. But as soon as you're sleeping

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think like OPI in the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: story was like, oh, we have a great relationship. He

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Speaker 1: isn't the problem. However, he is enabling her. He's rolling

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, how could you.

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Speaker 1: How could you let your own mom like ruin this

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Speaker 3: I think he wants it. I think he wants it.

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Speaker 3: I think he's blaming things on his mom. I think

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think his mom is still crazy. But like he,

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Speaker 2: Giving in freaking thinks that this man's Oedipus. Wow, dude,

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Speaker 2: oh man, big old eddie piss and pieced.

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Speaker 1: Oh goodness, gracious god, someone asked for John's oh Gods

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh god.

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Speaker 1: So on to number three, Adam and I began to

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Speaker 1: discuss wedding plans. I would like to keep it relatively

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Speaker 1: Traveling is just not worth it for him, and I

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Speaker 1: a one day event. I told Adam that I would

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Speaker 1: just like a courtroom ceremony with his mother and sister,

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Speaker 2: His mother did not. I repeat, did not take kindly

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Speaker 2: to this. Why is she involved? She said that if

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Speaker 1: Have to be a grand affair for everyone to see.

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Speaker 3: She's a little too involved, way too involved, way too involved.

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Speaker 3: Like I bet you she'll like come over to his

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't know anyone who would do that. We

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Speaker 1: of Why did you.

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Speaker 2: Say that Riley's bagels were dude?

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Speaker 1: She has been planning the wedding. I told Adam I did.

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Speaker 2: Him that I just wanted a small, really really really

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Speaker 1: Hey, babe, you are important, But you know who's more

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Speaker 1: important than the planning of this wedding My mom my mom? Yeah, bro,

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Speaker 1: stop fog no go. She won't even hear him. She

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Speaker 1: how I think that I'm too good for a large

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Speaker 2: Mark, you think it too good for the US of

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Speaker 1: My family is American and my dad is Slash was

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Speaker 2: Damn, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Get more, literally more American than the ambassador number four.

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Speaker 1: This has been happening a lot recently, and this time

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Speaker 1: it's been one too many times. Lately, she's been asking

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Speaker 1: for more together family time. She lives quite close, but

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Speaker 1: friends and events that keep her busy. Not too busy

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Speaker 1: to plan the wedding, though. She has requested that we

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Speaker 1: Adam and I have a dinner with her three times

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Speaker 2: That is crazy.

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Speaker 1: Well, what has been happening is that she has been

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Speaker 2: I don't get home till six thirty. Much she's trying

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Speaker 2: to exclude is white. She has just been encouraging adding

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Speaker 1: I said that very explicitly with her, as I am

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Speaker 1: for him. It honestly doesn't bother me that he goes

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Speaker 1: How hard can Sam wave this flag? Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: So that's the four out of the four. There there's

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Speaker 1: Should she just leave Adam? Should you just leave the relationship?

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Speaker 1: Territory so so so deep, and it's crazy how not

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's like there's a massive amount of blame that

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Speaker 3: I mean, yes, the mom is crazy, but he's enabling

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Speaker 1: No, no, especially like it's one thing where it's like hey, like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Oh it is not. Is there a juicy update? There's

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Speaker 1: more to go, my friend, let's go. So we just

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Speaker 3: What did she like realize in writing this that I'm

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Speaker 2: That's what this feels like right here.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't explicitly stated that it was that, but that's what

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Speaker 2: Sometimes that's what you need.

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Speaker 3: I feel like these like people submitting this stuff to

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Speaker 3: But it's one thing to say you know it's over.

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Speaker 2: So that's a great point. Is op actually going to

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Speaker 1: So after I posted a comment on my own thread

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Speaker 1: Adam came home. Oh this was extremely late. He sat

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Speaker 3: He said, process everything, Like wait, did she tell him?

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Speaker 3: Or is this or do we not know what happened yet?

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Speaker 4: I think it was like the bar night, Like what?

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Speaker 2: Oh? What happened? Okay?

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Speaker 1: He said to me that whenever I wanted to do

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Speaker 2: Adam and I kissed. He told me that he loved me,

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Speaker 1: Sh man my mom because it is me better. I

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Speaker 1: I called Adam and told him my plans, and he

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Speaker 2: The reddit thread. Wow. I wonder how he's going to respond.

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Speaker 1: A large majority of you wanted him to read it,

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Speaker 1: so he has read all all of your comments to see.

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Speaker 2: I bet he feels terrible. Oh to he better? Better?

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Speaker 2: He doesn't, he's crazy.

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Speaker 1: He also read the part where I came to the

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Speaker 2: Is this how he finds out?

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Speaker 3: That's kind of crazy, But I feel like he was

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Speaker 1: I guess he could kind of like sense it, but like,

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Speaker 3: I have a feeling though, that the relationship isn't going

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Speaker 3: to end. That's my like, okay, so my prediction, my

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Speaker 2: Walk me through it, Like, why do you think that?

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Speaker 3: I feel like he might change his ways after reading this?

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Speaker 1: Like the same way that like if it felt like oh,

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Speaker 1: He asked me for a probability this is a joke

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Speaker 2: Oh so they're not married yet.

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Speaker 3: They're not married yet, but they're soon to be a

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Speaker 1: And deposited all the stuff on the stuff the mother

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Speaker 1: So basically like some sort of offer for the house.

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Speaker 2: So that's that.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, nothing really happened between Adam and I.

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Speaker 1: I do have more power though, thanks to my parents,

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Speaker 2: Enjoying my time with my family.

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Speaker 1: My mom and I have been shopping a lot, and

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Speaker 1: to see her. I wish you all a happy holidays

446
00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,000
Speaker 1: in a hopeful new year. Hopefully my next update will

447
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,880
Speaker 1: have a conclusion one way for another.

448
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,040
Speaker 3: I need the conclusion. But it is so amazing that

449
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,400
Speaker 3: the father is just like, Hey, I don't even want

450
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,200
Speaker 3: you to worry about money, worry about what you want

451
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 3: for your life without the like the complexity of intertwined financials,

452
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 3: because here's the other thing to consider, right, So he's

453
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,159
Speaker 3: buying her out of the house.

454
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 2: Great.

455
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,200
Speaker 1: She's relieved of having to kind of deal with Adam

456
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,560
Speaker 1: on matters of the house. The dad now has to

457
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,040
Speaker 1: deal with Adam on matters of the house because he's

458
00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:32,679
Speaker 1: a two thirds owner.

459
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,200
Speaker 3: I think what is happening is he's going to give

460
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,119
Speaker 3: her money and then he he's giving her two thirds

461
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 3: of cash for the house. So it's like if the

462
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,640
Speaker 3: if the house is worth one hundred thousand dollars, he's

463
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,760
Speaker 3: giving her sixty six thousand dollars, right, and then she

464
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 3: can use that money to buy Adam out of the house,

465
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,720
Speaker 3: I think. And so essentially he's just like unburdening her

466
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 3: from having to think about it because she can buy

467
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,960
Speaker 3: Adam out of the house, right, which is okay, believe

468
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 3: tell us if you think we're wrong, could.

469
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 2: Be wrong, could be wrong.

470
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 1: But yeah, like either way, like at at the barrist

471
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 1: of minimum, he would probably have to deal with Adam

472
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 1: and some sort of I mean honestly, probably all three

473
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 1: of them have to deal closing that out.

474
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, but still, and it's probably not like.

475
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 1: Sixty six thousand, It's probably like hundreds of thousands of dollars.

476
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,280
Speaker 1: But she also is the option for just walking away

477
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: from the house, giving in to Adam, and then taking

478
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 1: that money into getting something else. What she said, she

479
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,879
Speaker 1: also might deal totally totally huge, but I need to

480
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: hear this update.

481
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 2: Let's get into it.

482
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 1: February twenty sixth, around two months later, I wanted to

483
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 1: thank everyone again for their continued support and interest in

484
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:36,120
Speaker 1: my relationship issues.

485
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,480
Speaker 2: You're welcome, sincerely.

486
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 1: The advice and shared experiences have made everything a lot clearer. Also,

487
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 1: Adam has been following along. Firstly, I specifically wanted to

488
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 1: thank everyone who defended and supported Adam. I don't see

489
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 1: Adam as a bad guy, and I really wouldn't want

490
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 1: to be vindictive, so passive aggressive comments while leaving, or

491
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 1: making rude comments to him, or anything really mean hearted

492
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: I couldn't do to him me emotionally. Through getting my

493
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,880
Speaker 1: MBA helping me study for the LSATs, a very huge

494
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 1: and complicated test. He read over my essays to apply

495
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: to law schools. He did mock interviews with me, sat

496
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 1: through boring orientations, stayed up all night with me when

497
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: I was sick with nerves. Before I took the bar.

498
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 1: He was my cheerleader when I ran my first triathlon.

499
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: Bro Op's on top of her game, triathlete like.

500
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 2: Crazy, and he is my champion.

501
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: When I see a house centipede, I guess to squash

502
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: the mean bugs. He is my dream man and I

503
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: would never give up my relationship with him if I

504
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: didn't feel like I was fighting a losing battle.

505
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,640
Speaker 2: Now, are you guys in for a real shocker?

506
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, someone made a comment in the update that he

507
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 1: would be outside my parents' house if he really wanted

508
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 1: it to work. He took your advice to heart, and

509
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 1: he was outside with his bags and a rental on

510
00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 1: the evening of the twenty fourth. I was, uh, taking

511
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 1: it back. What do we think about that?

512
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 2: Real quick?

513
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 3: Christmas Eve? He's good that that that is rom com territory.

514
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 3: Do we think that's a good move?

515
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 2: I mean he listens at the comments.

516
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's having to fight for his I feel like

517
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 4: that's where I mean, it's weird.

518
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 2: If it's a stranger, it's weird.

519
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 3: If it's like someone they had a bad breakup, like

520
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 3: don't talk to me ever again. That there's this ten

521
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 3: percent like I'm not sure if I want to continue.

522
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 3: I think that's a fight for the relationship that is

523
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 3: that will be well rewarded. I think the showing up

524
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 3: there is great. Showing up with the bags on Christmas

525
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 3: Eve is and I guess to her romantic to her house,

526
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 3: to a parent's house, to the parents house. So he

527
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 3: showed up in Europe with his bags, I mean on

528
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 3: Christmas Eve saying here I am, I love you, rock me.

529
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 2: Like a hurricane. The only weird thing, the only thing

530
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 2: is like his bags.

531
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 1: It feels like he's expecting to stay over, which like

532
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 1: maybe op is not right.

533
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,239
Speaker 3: He's just expecting to say, somebody, just bro hey, I

534
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 3: have America.

535
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, just you know, have the tact with

536
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: with the grand job, but you have a romantic.

537
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 2: Boat of your body.

538
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 3: It's all business as.

539
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 2: It's all good work Johnson with me.

540
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 3: Okay, Riley, I could totally see Riley doing Riley never

541
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 3: get in a situation where that would happen, but I

542
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 3: could totally see Riley doing that.

543
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: We need to we need to make like an eighties

544
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 1: rom com movie with Riley, like I feel like.

545
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 2: Dude thrive.

546
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, Riley is the biggest quti this sat of the Mississippi.

547
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 3: Maybe that's our our book and movie.

548
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love chronicles rom com that we turned

549
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: into those.

550
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 4: Who knows Still I can't believe you do this.

551
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 2: You still can't believe that he I am down for it, Bro.

552
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 3: I am just saying I'm waiting for you to show

553
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 3: up to Sad Dan Christmas.

554
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: Bro in the middle of a horrendous civil war. I

555
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,479
Speaker 1: it's the bags. It's just the bags lead to like, Oh,

556
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna So you're saying you're going to sit Dad

557
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: without any bout no, no.

558
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 2: One of the bags bothering your Okay, let me break

559
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 2: it down. Expected to go. Let me break it down

560
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 2: for you.

561
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: Okay, So I go over there, I get a hotel,

562
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: I drop my bags off there.

563
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 2: What then I pull up to the spot in here.

564
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: Because I'm not going to assume because what if the

565
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: parents are like, yo, we don't want to we don't

566
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: want you to stay overnight. What if the woman is

567
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: like I don't want you to stay overnight. I'm like,

568
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 1: I'm here if you want me in any and everything?

569
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 2: Are you kidding? Yes?

570
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 4: No, dude, Okay, you just landed in Europe, person to

571
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 4: whichever one you want to pay.

572
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

573
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 2: Yeah.

574
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 4: The first thing I get there, I'm gonna go see

575
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 4: her because your relationships on the break.

576
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Bro. You said you're gonna drop

577
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 2: your bags off of the hotel. Love is on the

578
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 2: line didn't go straight there at the second cuts, I say,

579
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 2: on this moment, bro, bro, your relationships Eve.

580
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 3: Might be over and Christmas Eve is the most romantic Deshmas.

581
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 2: Eve is fire.

582
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: That's like, come on banger Day, banger dayanger Babe. By

583
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: the way, this has been like two months basically, Oh no, no, no,

584
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: this is this is Oh I'm just kidding. This was

585
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: like two days after the after the incident, because December

586
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: twenty second now December twenty fourth, so he almost immediately

587
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: turned around on a flight.

588
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 2: I think that's great.

589
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, guys, please in the comments, don't tell

590
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: me if I'm an idiot or help me out here.

591
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 2: You know.

592
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 3: If not, you're You're not an idiot, You're just not

593
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 3: a romantic dude.

594
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 2: To go the romantic is not gonna like I'm gonna

595
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 2: go to a hotel. I'm playing everything. No, it's gone.

596
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 2: I'm going with my boom box and my bag straight

597
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 2: to her door. And I'm saying, babe, all you it's

598
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 2: Christmas Eve. Fall in on the right. Don't love my

599
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 2: mom as much as you. My mom is back in

600
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:53,880
Speaker 2: the US. I'm here with.

601
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 1: You boombox and the bags. That's all I'm saying. That's

602
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. I'm digging my heels in at this point,

603
00:27:58,280 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: I'm standing on business.

604
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 3: Let us know if you would rather just leave it,

605
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 3: leave the bags at the hotel, or come with the

606
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 3: bags straight from the airport.

607
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: But for me, not assuming that I'm going to crash

608
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: with you and your parents. To be clear, hates but

609
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: I'm here. But I'm here, all right, Back to me

610
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: not hating, love and back to the story. So here

611
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: we go. Vindicated. Okay, here we go. So I blurted out,

612
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: what the f are you doing here?

613
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 2: See? No, no, no, no. She goes say you that.

614
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 2: She's like, what the f are you doing here? See

615
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 2: we'll see.

616
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 3: It's like I wanted to show you how much I

617
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 3: love you. And she's like, you can't be here, we

618
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 3: can't be together. And he is like, but it's Christmas

619
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 3: and I have a package right for you.

620
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: And she's like, oh, I thought you forgot.

621
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 3: And he's like, it's your hand in Nady Santa's guy,

622
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 3: this sad a come up with his sack, but I am.

623
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 4: She just reaches her hand in the box.

624
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 2: No bags, no bags bags.

625
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: He just laughed and said he wanted to talk about everything,

626
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: and it couldn't wait until I got back.

627
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't wait. I'm down for that good way.

628
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 2: I didn't have time to go to a hotel there

629
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 2: stop it.

630
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: He'd been reading all of the comments on the threads

631
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: and he felt like they were very eye opening. He

632
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: browsed r slash Raised by Narcissists and felt very moved

633
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: by the similarity some of the posters have with their parents.

634
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: He said that he spent the last few days thinking

635
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: about what went down at the restaurant with his mother,

636
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: and the look in my eyes when I looked at

637
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: him after I realized what had happened broke his heart.

638
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: What I didn't know was that he and his mother

639
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: got into a row after I went to sit at

640
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: the bar, fighting about me and how he doesn't feel free,

641
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: how his sister used to say she had the same problems,

642
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: but since she moved far away, it has died down

643
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: a lot. A lot of people ask me why I

644
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: put up with this for so long. I tried to

645
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: remember when this really started happening, when it stopped appearing

646
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: like regular mother in law don't want to lose my

647
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: son comments, and began to feel like isolation and vehemence.

648
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: We used to have an okay relationship when we first met.

649
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: Sometimes we'd go shopping together and once we got our

650
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: nails done. It was when Adam and I purchased a

651
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: house together that's when it really started to get bad.

652
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: She's taken my baby away.

653
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: The windows incident was the first really big issue. I

654
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: remember when she realized we were serious about each other.

655
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: So back to when we were at my parents' house,

656
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: we had a serious heart to heart. I thanked him

657
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: so much for saying that he didn't have to stay

658
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: at my place and not I'm just kiddingh I bared

659
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: everything to him and he did the same, so there

660
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: was no extreme confession of incest or physical abuse.

661
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 2: Well, thank god, Okay, swipe the brow. Yeah, it.

662
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: Was just that he thinks he was raised by a

663
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: narcissist who saw control of her son, her pride and

664
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: joy slipping away. We came to a decision. Here's what

665
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: we decided. On December twenty seventh, he went back to

666
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: the US after New Year's Day, a days before me,

667
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: and moved to stuff out of our place to a

668
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: friend's house. He didn't want me to have to be

669
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: inconvenience for changes he had to make.

670
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 2: We put our.

671
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: Engagement on hold for the time being. He canceled all

672
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: the plans his mother made. He has been seeing a

673
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: therapist since the middle of January pretty consistently, twice to

674
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: three times per week. I've been to four sessions with him.

675
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: His mother has not.

676
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 2: Oh, thank god.

677
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: We have sort of begun dating each other again, and

678
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: I have been talking to his sister and things that

679
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: his mother put her through. Adam is very lucky now

680
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: about his mother. He has decided to give her one

681
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: last chance to go to therapy with him, and he

682
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: stated that if she does not, he will be going

683
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: no contact with him.

684
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: Wow. We love an ultimatum.

685
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: We have a lot to rebuilds, but I know we

686
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: can do it together. So we have another Jersey update,

687
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: another one, another one.

688
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,239
Speaker 3: This feels like a great place to like end, But

689
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 3: I guess there's juiciness to me.

690
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 2: Squeeze. It ain't over.

691
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: So, since you're so enthralled by Opie's grain romantic gestures,

692
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: how are you feeling about everything and prediction? Do you

693
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: think the relationship will be saved or do you think

694
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: it will ultimately alter out?

695
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 3: I think op is like making a lot of strides

696
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 3: in the right direction.

697
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 2: You mean Adam.

698
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 3: Sorry, I think Adam is making a lot of strides

699
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 3: in the right direction. And also I think Op is

700
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 3: also making a lot of strides in the right direction.

701
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 3: I think are I mean, yeah, Op is saying, hey,

702
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 3: this does not.

703
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 2: Work for me.

704
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 3: Yes, here's what you can do to fix it. And

705
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 3: Adam is fixing it and doing the same. And he's

706
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:40,479
Speaker 3: literally traveling across the world saying, I will move wherever baby,

707
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 3: because I have brought all of my bags with me,

708
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 3: and these bags are evidence that I will pick up

709
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 3: and move wherever you want.

710
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 2: Because this relationship is the most important thing to me.

711
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: What about the bags? Bags?

712
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 3: But yeah, I actually I think it's going in a

713
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 3: great direction. I hope there isn't something weird that f

714
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 3: set up. Give me your final prediction.

715
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's gonna I think, is

716
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 2: my prediction. Yeah.

717
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna stay together. Yeah, but he's gonna

718
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 3: go no contact with his mom.

719
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 2: Mmmm. I think there's a little drama to ensue. Yeah.

720
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 2: I think at first I.

721
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: Was a little iffy on whether it would it would

722
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: work out, but it I mean, he he made drastic times,

723
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: called for drastic measures, and Bro.

724
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 2: Pulled the f up like he really did that.

725
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: And I think he's finally ready to cut out his mom,

726
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: like he's the glasses has been broken with his mom.

727
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 2: He realizes what's about to happen. Well, let's kick mom

728
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 2: to the curb. Let's see what does happen in this

729
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 2: juicy update. Get the Juice final Update.

730
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: December sixteenth, twenty fifteen, almost a full year later. It's

731
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: been a long time our slash relationships. We are all

732
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: a year older. Adam and I will be composing this

733
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: thread together. Huh oh No, I gave away the ending collapo.

734
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: Yes we are together woo. In fact, we're married. Yes,

735
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 2: Cayle Love wins. That's right. It's all because of the bag.

736
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: No no, the bags almost through everything. She's like, man,

737
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: this was going so great. The bags were the only

738
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: thing that gave me second thought.

739
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 2: Right in the comments, are you team bags or team

740
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 2: no bags?

741
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: Put the lick no emoji in bag of oji if

742
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: you were writing with your boy, Okay, and just put.

743
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 2: Three bags with this boy. We'll see, we'll see who

744
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 2: wins at the end.

745
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: Okay, give us, give us your final votes all right,

746
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: So here it goes. Last time we left off, Adam

747
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: was seeing a shrink still is to try and unwind

748
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: some of the damage his mother did. Yep, we were

749
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: living separately for the time being. Adam's mother tried to

750
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: end her own life, but no really, she called emergency

751
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: services before she tried, and didn't even have time to

752
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: swallow more than two pills. It's so scary to think

753
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: that within his mind there was such an abusive past

754
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: when he has always had such a happy exterior. My husband, man,

755
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,959
Speaker 1: that's fun to say, was basically traumatized by his own

756
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: mother his entire.

757
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 2: Your life, as was his sister.

758
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: I had eluded before in one previous thread that Adam's

759
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: sister had it a lot worse.

760
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 2: Than Adam when they were younger.

761
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:13,760
Speaker 1: But when Adam's father died, his mom locked in on him.

762
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 2: She had it worse. I cannot imagine. Imagine. That's insane.

763
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: So Adam's dad passed away because of kidney failure. However,

764
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: Adam had donated one of his kidneys to try to

765
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: save him. His father's body rejected the donation and passed

766
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 1: away about eleven years ago. This coming April, his mother

767
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: took it upon herself during this grieving process to manipulate

768
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: him into believing he killed his own father.

769
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 2: Oh, and she was alone now because of him.

770
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,439
Speaker 1: I feel so bad that she like attempted her own life.

771
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: But at a certain point, does someone become so destructive

772
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: that you just can't have them in your life. It's

773
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: it's such a hard thing because it's like what else

774
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: can you do? Like, oh, he is trying to just

775
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: truly live his life, and look, donated a kidney to

776
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: his own father, And she's like, he's the he had

777
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: a fighting chance.

778
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, a fighting chance. Your kidney wasn't good enough.

779
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 4: Imagine if he didn't, Like, what would you be saying?

780
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,919
Speaker 1: Probably like, oh, you're like he's he's still sick because

781
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: your kidney is like making him fail.

782
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 2: Like she would find some sort.

783
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 1: Of way, Yeah, some sounds awful, some sort of way

784
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: that if he wanted to repair what he did to her,

785
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: he would treat her better. Oh, every time he thought

786
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: he could get away and create his own life and

787
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 1: feel free, she would remind him the windows. For example,

788
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: I only heard this part where she blamed me, but

789
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 1: I tried to think back on the conversation and really

790
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 1: try to hear what Adam said.

791
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 2: It's about four.

792
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: Years ago now, but he was telling me at the

793
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: moment that the reason her house was falling down was

794
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: because she no longer had a man to take care

795
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: of it because he killed his dad.

796
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 3: Oh, this gives so much context to like why he

797
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 3: was bending over backwards.

798
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: Yes, true, so true, so true. He was trying to

799
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: tell me. I just wasn't able to understand what it meant.

800
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: Same with the vacation to Barcelona. She was doing it

801
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: in front of me.

802
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 2: Now. When he was younger, a.

803
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: Lot of these issues had been regarding academic success or

804
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: athletic success. She didn't have any issue then with his

805
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: girlfriends or anything. She just viewed her children as extensions

806
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 1: of herself.

807
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 2: It was bad.

808
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: Just wasn't this level of guilt inducing insanity. Let's get

809
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: back to the present day. Adam psychologist had suggested Adam

810
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: offer his mother a chance to come to therapy to

811
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: work out issues. He wasn't able to propose this to

812
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: her at the time because after her attempt to take

813
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: her life, she whisked herself away on a cruise to

814
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: get some much needed rn R whatever. Oh my god,

815
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: you'd think that he was asking her to murder puppies

816
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: the way.

817
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 2: That she went on. So that's that no contact. I mean,

818
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 2: I think it's the time, it's the time. It's the time.

819
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: She has tried, but Adam has either ignored all her

820
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: phone calls with unknown numbers. We had our locks changed,

821
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: and his work has strict instructions not to let her

822
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: pass the doors. We moved to where Adam's sister lives

823
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: in July, but I know his sister, we are close.

824
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: He has been no contact with her since she met

825
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: her husband. We wrote off the twenty five thousand. We

826
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: either get it back in probate, in court, in inheritance,

827
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: or not at all.

828
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 2: I'm not really choked up about it.

829
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: Not enough to do any extra work to get it

830
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: back right now, especially since Adam is worried that she'll

831
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: use it as leverage to buy back in. We ended

832
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: up getting married in September. I flew to be out

833
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: with his parents this week to renew our vows in

834
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: their house, and we're going to have our honeymoon in

835
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: Fiji come January.

836
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 2: Amazing.

837
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: That's oh God, you deserve Please don't let them huther

838
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: in lock com don't do it. My dad isn't doing

839
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: so well, but he always seems to fluctuate you like that. However,

840
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: my brother isn't optimistic this time. Anyway, we were wondering,

841
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: since you all have been so supportive, if you would

842
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,240
Speaker 1: do us one small favor. Adam and I are going

843
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: to have a grieving ceremony for his father so he

844
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: can process it correctly without manipulation. For any of you

845
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: who lost parents, what helped you get through it? Thank

846
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: you for everything. We wish we could have invited each

847
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: and every one of you to the wedding, but that

848
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: would be creepy.

849
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 2: Wow here we are.

850
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 3: I mean it went pretty dark, yeah, but I feel

851
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 3: like we came out with like a beautiful ending where

852
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 3: Op and her new hubby are happy.

853
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: Best possible out considering the circumstances, I would.

854
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 3: Say, and circumstances were rough, But I mean I guess

855
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 3: to Ope's question, like for anyone who has experienced the

856
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 3: loss of a parent, like what did you do Togree?

857
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 3: I would love to hear your answers to that, and

858
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 3: what do you think about how Ope went no contact

859
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 3: with his mother? Like I feel I would love to

860
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 3: know you think, John, But I feel like it was warranted.

861
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 2: I think that was or sorry not op, but Adam

862
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 2: went no contact with the mother.

863
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was. It was definitely warranted. Like

864
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 1: there kind of just comes a point where it's like,

865
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: I can't just completely give you my life to like

866
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: manipulate and destroy.

867
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,959
Speaker 2: It any At certain points, it's my it's my life,

868
00:39:59,000 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 2: and I can choose what.

869
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: To do exactly. I one hundred percent agree with that decision.

870
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 3: But Riley, you have a little bit of a story

871
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 3: time about my mom and your bagels.

872
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 4: So Sunday, Sophia was moving in and before she got there,

873
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 4: we had a little text thread going and she was like,

874
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 4: hopefully we have a clean kitchen because I bake a

875
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 4: lot and those who have a clean kitchen gets baked goods.

876
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, the kitchen is a mess.

877
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 4: I need to go clean it real quick. So I'm

878
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 4: like cleaning it and stuff and I say hey to Sophia,

879
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 4: and then your mom comes in and I'm like the

880
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 4: water's running because I'm like I'm like scrubbing the sink

881
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 4: because there's a lot of stuff in it. She comes

882
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 4: up to me, She's like, uh, you're from Tennessee, right,

883
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 4: And I'm like yeah, She's like, you know, here in California,

884
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 4: we're in a drought and like we try to conserve water.

885
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 4: So she's like shuts the water off. She's actually, we

886
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Speaker 4: need a big story man to help us out move

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Speaker 4: the stuff in the car. Can you come out and

888
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Speaker 4: do it? And I'm like, I'll do it after this,

889
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 4: like I'm almost done. She's like no, no, no. She like

890
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 4: takes it out of my hands, puts it down and says,

891
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 4: you need to come help me right now. I'm like, so,

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna be honest with you, Sam. That was

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00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 4: hard for me. So I was like I was like

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00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 4: I just took a second and went the only way

895
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Speaker 4: to like to get through this is if I just

896
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 4: like make fun of it or just like just whatever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So since then I was like, my mom is

898
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Speaker 2: a force to be reckoned with. Yeah, to be clear,

899
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 2: like there's.

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Speaker 4: No wageting around it. I'm just gonna like have fun

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00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 4: with it. So anytime she would say something and I

902
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 4: would like kind of keep it light, harder or whatever,

903
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 4: like there's no reason to get upset about it. And

904
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 4: then she looks at my bagels. I was like about

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00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 4: to make breakfast. She's like, are you eating these? And

906
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, my everything bangels. She's like these a

907
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 4: super process and they're not good for you. You don't need

908
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 4: to eat these. And I'm like, what are you do

909
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 4: make me a bagel? What do you want me to

910
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,439
Speaker 4: do and eat them? And she was like they're bad.

911
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 4: So that was that was funny. But she likes me,

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Speaker 4: she maybe.

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00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, she she likes all of us

914
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Speaker 2: in the apartment. But mom, chill, dude.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna end with they're like so

916
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: she threw the bls away and then I thought, that's

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Speaker 1: what you're about to take.

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Speaker 2: Us, bro. She threw our microwave away. She did. That's true.

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Speaker 4: In fairness, we have That's okay, we do already have one.

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Speaker 1: We need to clean that fridge downstairs. It's a gross

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00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 1: It's true. Do we have a hose here?

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Speaker 2: I think, so, yeah, I'm back. We have it. Spray down,

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Speaker 2: spray down.

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