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Speaker 3: My boss is now dating my ex girlfriend. Did you

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Speaker 3: guys introduce them? My ex and I broke up around

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Speaker 3: four months ago after dating for a little over a year.

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Speaker 3: She was the one who broke up with me, but

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Speaker 3: at the time I agreed that it was for the best,

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Speaker 3: so we ended things on good terms. We're pretty chill

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Speaker 3: now and we have mutual friends so we often all

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Speaker 3: hang out together, so things between us are chill and friendly.

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Speaker 3: to the r slash Okay Storytime Separate it and I'm Angie,

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Speaker 3: I'm Carly, I'm Keon, and we're here to give good advice. Goofily,

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Speaker 3: But we don't have all the answers. We just know

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Speaker 3: what we would do in the situation. But let us

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Speaker 3: know what you would do in the comments. So Op says,

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Speaker 3: I work at a research lab at my university and

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Speaker 3: I just recently landed the position after a pretty long

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Speaker 3: and competitive application slash interviewing process. I met my boss,

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Speaker 3: who's a grad student, and we became buddies pretty fast.

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Speaker 3: He's a really nice and funny dude that knows what

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Speaker 3: he's doing. I see him every day since me and

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Speaker 3: the two other undergrads work under him and help with

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Speaker 3: his research while he helps us with our own. Fast

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Speaker 3: forward about two weeks and I see on my ex's

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Speaker 3: snapchot story a picture of my boss with a heart emoji. Hmmm, interesting.

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Speaker 3: I don't like that. I'm shocked as f so I

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Speaker 3: replied to her story, asking who her a new boy is,

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Speaker 3: and sure enough, she tells me she's dating my boss.

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Speaker 3: Wow if you got me, yeah, but you got me

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Speaker 3: back so good.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so insane. I feign happiness for her and

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Speaker 3: don't tell her that he's my boss or that I

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Speaker 3: know him in any way. Oh, so she doesn't know,

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Speaker 3: or it's possible that she doesn't know that this is

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Speaker 3: his Oh this is my chance. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I thought I was gonna be premeditated me too, Okay,

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Speaker 4: like I'm gonna get you bad.

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Speaker 5: And honestly, that makes it a little bit more just.

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Speaker 4: Like okay, then like it just kind of happened, happens

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Speaker 4: really awkward at work right now, in the like I'm

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Speaker 3: Yeah, dang mans, dang. I feel like someone just broke

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Speaker 3: my heart. I thought I didn't have feelings for her

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Speaker 3: after a breakup, and seeing her story hit me with

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Speaker 3: a pang of jealousy. Maybe it's because he's a major

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Speaker 3: step up for me. I'm a poor, disorganized undergrad and

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Speaker 3: he's a successful, young talent who has this crap together.

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Speaker 3: The next day at work, I'm basically on edge. The

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Speaker 3: so I'm not planning on leaving. I also feel like

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Speaker 3: How do I stop feeling like this? How should I

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Speaker 3: normalize the situation at work? And there are some comments,

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Speaker 3: but what do you think, Carly? What would you do

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Speaker 3: I don't like that.

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Speaker 4: The implication is at this job, I would be worried

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Speaker 3: That's right because her boss is right technically.

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Speaker 4: Oh god, I mean, at least it's like you're not

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean she came to have lunch at work,

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Speaker 4: It's like you're gonna have to be okay with that

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Speaker 5: Can you guys like go out to lunch? Like so

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Speaker 3: Ex every single day because it's only been four months,

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Speaker 4: And I feel like the boss is also not gonna

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Speaker 3: So you're not dealing with it as much.

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Speaker 4: Kind of right, right, If my ex came in and

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Speaker 3: Very yeah. Right, Oh yeah, that's just that's a bummer, dude.

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Speaker 3: but there are some comments. I'm deleted says it means

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Speaker 3: The fact you are jealous is because you believe they

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Speaker 3: position right now. Opie says, yeah, that it's pretty close

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Speaker 3: to home. Killer creen five says he is not a

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Speaker 3: people aren't ranked. He's just a person with achievements and

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Speaker 3: failures and flaws. Just like you. He's young and maybe

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Speaker 3: not an effective manager. You said, he orders you around,

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Speaker 3: a huge maturity difference at that age, especially for girls.

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Speaker 3: She's not perfect either, and it turns out you weren't

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Speaker 3: right for each other. Yeah, do we know their ages?

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Speaker 3: I didn't. I don't think I said their ages in here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, something about nineteen and twenty four, I guess perhaps.

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Speaker 4: But at nineteen and twenty four.

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Speaker 3: I think no Op and the girl are the same age.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure. And then the boss maybe is a

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Speaker 2: We don't know their ages as of right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yeah weird, Okay, I mean OPI said that, like the

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Speaker 3: you know whatever, don't try to be his best bud,

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Speaker 3: Focus on your work and yourself. You it worked so

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Speaker 3: hard to get this job, and it sounds like a

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Speaker 3: do have an update. We do have an update. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I feel like the whole boss thing, it definitely isn't

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Speaker 4: I could totally see though, that it could get personal,

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Speaker 3: Sure, when it's not, I wonder. Yeah, sorry, I don't no,

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Speaker 4: It's not able to then either way, like a conversation

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Speaker 4: as long as no one gets like power to their heads, right, like.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully the new guy doesn't get jealous and starts right,

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Speaker 3: pretty well. I started a painting and I'm pretty close

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Speaker 3: by staying late for two days in a row to

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Speaker 3: finish a really difficult experiment. During our lab meeting, my

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Speaker 3: hard work and dedication. Look at you go? What that

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Speaker 3: felt good? As for the situation with my boss and

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Speaker 3: your boss probably feels embarrassed that he's dating the girl

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Speaker 3: He says, Oh, dagg, I never thought about it that way,

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Speaker 3: I hate a bad joke. On advice website, Op says, Olaoh,

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Speaker 4: No, woun't not talking about our feelings like adults would

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Speaker 3: Commenter YEP. Singer Bell says, I'm glad you're doing better,

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Speaker 3: But if he's working at the university with you and

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Right, but that's the end of that story.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, like it really did seem like it was like

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Speaker 3: But that's the end of that story. We've got another

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Speaker 4: I discovered my girlfriend's lies about her male best friend

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Speaker 4: I twenty three mail met Nicole, one female, three years ago,

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Speaker 3: By the way, this comes from three years a lie.

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Speaker 4: And if you want to submit your own stories, go

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Speaker 3: I'm Carly, I'm Angie, I'm Keon, and we're here to

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Speaker 4: We only know what we would do, so let's know

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Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, you know it.

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Speaker 3: Honestly.

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Speaker 4: She always told me ahead of time, so I felt like.

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Speaker 4: It was fine, not ideal. It never really affected our relationship.

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Speaker 2: He became gay. I knew what you meant, you know.

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00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,960
Speaker 3: I knew what she meant, but I just like clarification

437
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:18,840
Speaker 3: for you because I love you.

438
00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:21,520
Speaker 5: Don't give it that look.

439
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:22,840
Speaker 3: You do it to me all the time.

440
00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,960
Speaker 4: And chat is all witnesses, all witnesses.

441
00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,919
Speaker 3: That's crazy. Yeah no, I mean where they chill that happened.

442
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:33,639
Speaker 3: Were they chill after that?

443
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:34,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're very chill.

444
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,680
Speaker 5: I don't think he's going to be gay in this one.

445
00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,239
Speaker 3: I think he is.

446
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:39,840
Speaker 2: I think that lies to come up.

447
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 3: Oh he is a woman, yes, yes, this is he's

448
00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:44,640
Speaker 3: a man.

449
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,200
Speaker 4: Oh he's dating a woman and that woman is best

450
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:47,920
Speaker 4: friends with a man.

451
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:52,400
Speaker 3: I see I thought this was no man. Okay, okay, okay, okay,

452
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,639
Speaker 3: But so this man has a girlfriend.

453
00:20:56,040 --> 00:21:01,720
Speaker 4: Opie has a girlfriend. Yes, that girlfriends may best friend. Okay,

454
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 4: she dated in high school and went to prom with

455
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,480
Speaker 4: and he did not know, and that's who she's staying

456
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,840
Speaker 4: over at his house and doing all these like seemingly

457
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 4: daty things with. But he's like, but they never dated.

458
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 4: They've just been like Bestie's fruit life, right, and now

459
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,200
Speaker 4: her female friend is like, I'm shocked that you would

460
00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 4: let like your girlfriends still hang out with her ex.

461
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 5: And he was like, she's not hanging out with her ex.

462
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,680
Speaker 5: She's hanging out with like her long time.

463
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 4: Now.

464
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,120
Speaker 5: It's like, and she's like, actually the receipts.

465
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,919
Speaker 3: I thought it was like the guy's girlfriend or something

466
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 3: like that was Opie was out of the two best

467
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 3: friends girl. I thought it was like, oh, she's the

468
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 3: guy's girlfriend. But wrong, I'm wrong.

469
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,240
Speaker 5: I was pretty lost as to what to do or

470
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:42,879
Speaker 5: how to feel.

471
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 4: I found out yesterday and all I could think was

472
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 4: that Adam could potentially be screwing my girlfriend at this

473
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 4: very moment. I trust her, or trusted her, but I've

474
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,439
Speaker 4: never seen exes hang out and be as buddy buddy

475
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 4: as them without hooking up before. As dense as it sounds,

476
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,640
Speaker 4: I almost I can't wrap my head around their level

477
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 4: of closeness and not doing it. I talked to my

478
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 4: older sister, and she told me I had to calm

479
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 4: down and that maybe there was a reason they never

480
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,159
Speaker 4: said anything. She said, if I trusted Nicole before knowing,

481
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,400
Speaker 4: she didn't see why I would suddenly accuse her otherwise,

482
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 4: I will say, I feel like that comes in of

483
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 4: the part of like, yeah, you didn't lie to me,

484
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 4: but you omitted like a really big truth.

485
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally. It's like, well, why you would hide that? Yeah? Yeah,

486
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 3: because I feel like if I, like, I feel like

487
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 3: it would just be right to kind of like let

488
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 3: them know, just like hey, by the way, like I

489
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 3: just want to go out there. We we dated for

490
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,120
Speaker 3: a while in high school. High school thing, but it's

491
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 3: like totally over. This is how it is now. Yeah,

492
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 3: but like we're still friends, and it's like, ChIL, I

493
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,360
Speaker 3: just don't want you to worry, you know. Yeah, Yeah

494
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 3: that's simple. Yeah, save all this like super nonchalant.

495
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 5: Spiraling that ope's about to go.

496
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly exactly.

497
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 4: She said, If I trusted Nicole before knowing, she didn't

498
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 4: see why I would suddenly accuse her otherwise, even if

499
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 4: her best friend is her ex. But I feel like

500
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 4: that logic is so flawed because My entire foundation of

501
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 4: trust for this relationship stemmed from the fact that Adam

502
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 4: was her childhood best friend, not her ex. Honestly, if

503
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 4: she would have told me before we started dating, I

504
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 4: think I probably would have walked away from the relationship.

505
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 4: She's a great and nice girl, but getting with someone

506
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 4: who is still so heavily involved with their ex is

507
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 4: a roller coaster. I don't think I would have ever

508
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 4: willingly signed up for Am.

509
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 3: I thinking about this the wrong way.

510
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,360
Speaker 4: Is it crazy that I'm already considering ending the relationship

511
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,680
Speaker 4: over this, whether she cheated or not. I haven't brought

512
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 4: it up to her yet. I want to talk in

513
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,400
Speaker 4: person rather than on the phone. I'm going to hide

514
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 4: the fact that I know until she comes back to

515
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 4: campus on.

516
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 3: Friday to spend my Birthday weekend with me.

517
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,400
Speaker 4: But I don't see any logical explanation that will keep

518
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 4: me committed, except for the one that Kean said. We

519
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 4: have some comments, but uh, any advice before we get

520
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 4: into this.

521
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it's interesting. I wasn't expecting

522
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 3: him to say that, like he would have walked away

523
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 3: from the relationship if he knew right away. I thought

524
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 3: he was about to say like I would have been

525
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 3: fine with it if if she told me straight up,

526
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 3: like at the beginning of our relationship. But I mean,

527
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 3: I guess some people some people I guess are just

528
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 3: not comfortable with that. But but yeah, it just it

529
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 3: is very suspicious. It is very suspicious. Yeah, I think

530
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 3: I'd just be like, why didn't you tell me?

531
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 4: Like this is really weird and uncomfortable, Like, and they're

532
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 4: early in college, so it's not like this is the

533
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 4: high school relationship. It's pretty recently. Yeah, this was so

534
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 4: forever ago in the past maybe, but right right, because

535
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 4: it's like it's like a couple of years old, potentially

536
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 4: gay went to prom.

537
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 3: This is like less than four years yeah, yeah, and

538
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 3: if it was all throughout high school, it's like that.

539
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 3: I feel like the further you get away from high

540
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 3: school relationships like that, it's like, okay, right, it was

541
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 3: a long time, but like in high school everything seems

542
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 3: like so much longer. But yeah, if it's so recent,

543
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,360
Speaker 3: then they probably still recognize it as like a long

544
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 3: time and like super meaningful, so weird. I also want

545
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 3: to know why they broke up. I feel like that's important.

546
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 3: That is important too.

547
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:16,120
Speaker 4: I'm curious relevant comments empty Whiteboard. The lying is problematic.

548
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 4: I made a comment already detailing what I think the

549
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,719
Speaker 4: lying was done for. But the lying is the crux

550
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,679
Speaker 4: of the issue. Your trust is shattered and if you

551
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 4: pit yourself up against Adam, I am positive she will

552
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,159
Speaker 4: choose Adam over you every single time. That is the

553
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 4: real crux. Now, before you thought that you would be

554
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 4: a bigger priority than him, it never had to be

555
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 4: that way because of the history as you understood it.

556
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,439
Speaker 4: Now that you know the truth, it will either be

557
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 4: something you get over after hearing her reasons, which I

558
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,479
Speaker 4: detailed in another comment, I would bet money on it,

559
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 4: or you push and she chooses Adam over you. Lastly,

560
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 4: you could try to get over it and just not

561
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 4: be able to. I would personally find it very hard

562
00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 4: to be okay with their friendship after this lie, OPI responds.

563
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 4: The lying is what really makes me just want to

564
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 4: leave altogether, not only her lying, but his lying, as

565
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 4: well as their families. I've met all of them, and

566
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 4: none of them have ever said a word about it,

567
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 4: though maybe their families don't know. Emotionally invested or not,

568
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 4: I'd never be up for having her pick between Adam

569
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 4: or myself. I'm not that type of person. Those ultimatums,

570
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 4: in my opinion, never result in anything but more issues. Also,

571
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 4: they do have a lot of history and families are connected.

572
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm the one and the wrong for

573
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,959
Speaker 4: even stepping into her life. I've been thinking about this

574
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 4: too much.

575
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:36,640
Speaker 3: Although I should be studying instead.

576
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 4: But I feel like it's either she's loyal and faithful

577
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 4: but I knew I wouldn't have even begun a relationship

578
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,719
Speaker 4: with her in the first place, or she's hooking up

579
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 4: occasionally or something like friends with benefits.

580
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 3: Either way, I see it as a wrong.

581
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,439
Speaker 4: If she's loyal, which honestly I think might be the case,

582
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,719
Speaker 4: then it's wrong of her to omit information and manipulate

583
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 4: my choice to begin dating her in the first place.

584
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 4: If I had any skeletons in my closet, I would

585
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 4: be open and clear about it before I engage in

586
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 4: a relationship with someone, letting them make a clear and

587
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,439
Speaker 4: honest decision about it it was a deal breaker or not.

588
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 4: As for getting over it, I don't think I can,

589
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 4: or even if I can, I feel like it's almost

590
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 4: not worth the effort. I feel like it's going to

591
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 4: mess with the dynamic of our relationship, and then I

592
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 4: have to deal with her feeling guilty or always having

593
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 4: to check in with me, or sending Adam to talk,

594
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 4: or any of the other.

595
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 5: Stuff that I don't even want to have to deal with.

596
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 4: I'm probably saying this out of convenience, but once I

597
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 4: finished this summer semester, I'll be done. I could have

598
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 4: a clean break, move back home with my parents for

599
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 4: a few months, and move on with my life.

600
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 3: We have an update three days later. I mean, Okay,

601
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 3: I feel like if you knew this at the beginning

602
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 3: of the relationship, and just knowing that at the beginning

603
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 3: would make you walk away. I feel like you should

604
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 3: just walk away, Like I feel like, yeah, because you

605
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 3: know it now, Yeah, you know it now. It seems

606
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 3: like he's trying to make up his mind.

607
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 4: Well I think he's just like, do I bother getting

608
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 4: the reasons that they're still friends?

609
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 3: Yeah?

610
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 5: Or do I just be like nope, can't get over

611
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 5: it now?

612
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 3: By I feel like you should do that one. Yeah.

613
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 4: I mean, well, okay, I feel like you can get

614
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 4: the reasons anyway, but ultimately I think you're gonna leave still.

615
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

616
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 4: Update three days later, whoa Nicole showed up Thursday night

617
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 4: after my exams to surprise me for my birthday weekend.

618
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 4: We hung out and talked, and I tried my best

619
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 4: to just be normal with her. When I asked her

620
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 4: about Adam, she was extremely reluctant and borderline defensive to

621
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 4: even discuss it.

622
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 5: You'd never brought it up before, or why do you

623
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 5: want to know about it now?

624
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 4: When she realized I wasn't dropping it, she pretty much

625
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 4: broke down and.

626
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 3: Told me everything. Oh Man.

627
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 4: Adam was the one who convinced her not to tell

628
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 4: me about their past relationship. The last few guys she

629
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 4: dated were scared off by her being best friends with

630
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 4: her ex, and he didn't want me to leave in

631
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 4: the same way. It was only so supposed to be

632
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 4: for a little while. She didn't plan on staying that

633
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 4: close to Adam while being in a relationship. Adam's dad

634
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 4: was in the process of getting a promotion when Nicole

635
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 4: and I started dating, which would move him and his

636
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 4: family to the Midwest, but the promotion fell through. She

637
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 4: said Adam became more direct once he found out he

638
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 4: wasn't leaving, constantly insisting that she hang out with him

639
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 4: without me even to the point where she would be

640
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 4: canceling plans with me. For most people, I'm sure that

641
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 4: would have been a red flag. But I've been taking

642
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 4: six to seven course semesters.

643
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 3: Where's Riley? Oh my gosh, Riley are.

644
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 4: You watching six seven mentioned for the past two years

645
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 4: in attempts to graduate early and get the most out

646
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 4: of my scholarship. If I wasn't studying or with Nicole,

647
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 4: I always had a million other things to catch up on.

648
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 4: She blamed me for not setting boundaries or being more

649
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,959
Speaker 4: strict with her, which led her to become comfortable with

650
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 4: her freedom with him. No, wow, Yeah, I can't blame someone.

651
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 3: Else for your dirty, dirty cheating. Yeah, absolutely not.

652
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 4: You should have told me straight out that I couldn't

653
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 4: cheat on you, right, You should have told me I

654
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 4: couldn't have spend more time with the guy.

655
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's your fault that I slept at his house.

656
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 3: You weren't telling me to come home.

657
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 4: Right, It's like, uh huh, Well, maybe you should have

658
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 4: told me the information that you used to date him.

659
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, dude, come on, John here og host.

660
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 3: We're gonna get back to these stories. But a quick

661
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 3: three minute break from as for more sponsors.

662
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 4: Adam still had really strong feelings for her, though she

663
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 4: said she didn't feel the same way about him. She

664
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 4: admitted that Adam grew to resent me and became very

665
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 4: jealous of our relationship and how effortlessly happy I made

666
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 4: her feel. She told me she never cheated on me,

667
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 4: despite Adam's advances and flirtation, and yet somehow I feel

668
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 4: as though you staying in his room counts. I feel

669
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 4: like knowing that making advances, I feel like staying over

670
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 4: at his apartment counts.

671
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 3: I do not trusts emotion. When you say that you

672
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 3: didn't cheat, you know if you're staying over.

673
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 4: At this point, she was crying and desperate, begging for

674
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 4: forgiveness and promising to cut all ties with Adam. She

675
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 4: swore she wouldn't ever talk to him or hang out

676
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 4: with him again. She told me I was the only

677
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 4: person she wanted to spend her life with, and poured

678
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 4: out a bunch of other ridiculousness I could hardly even

679
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 4: listen to. I was angry and probably didn't phrase it

680
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 4: the way I should have, but I told her it

681
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 4: was the perpetual lying and deceitfulness that had me so angry,

682
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 4: and that was the reason I was breaking up with her.

683
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 4: That's pretty much how it ended, with me telling her

684
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 4: she could leave. Adam sent me some hateful texts, which

685
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 4: I ignored. Yesterday night, I was an emotional wreck. I

686
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 4: felt ashamed and angry at myself for crying over someone

687
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 4: so stupid. But this morning I didn't feel nearly as

688
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 4: bad as I expected. I spoke to my best friend

689
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 4: and he helped me put it into perspective. I'm going

690
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 4: home tonight for my birth up a weekend, and then

691
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 4: I'll just focusing on finishing school and finding a job.

692
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 4: I'm glad it's over, and even more glad I don't

693
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 4: live in this state anymore.

694
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 3: We have some comments, first one being a down voted comment.

695
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 3: So interesting, let's read it.

696
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 4: So. There's no time frame on when Adam found out

697
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 4: that he wasn't leaving. It could have been way more recent.

698
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 4: You have no idea how she rebuked his advances or

699
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 4: what their conversations were like. She could have rebuked him

700
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 4: several times and didn't want to bring it up with

701
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 4: her boyfriend because it would just be unnecessary drama in

702
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 4: her life since she no longer saw Adam that way.

703
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 3: Where I can.

704
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 4: See being upset breaking up with her over it just

705
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 4: seems really extreme, especially since when she one comes clean

706
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 4: and two admit she was wrong, and three is willing

707
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 4: to fix it. Do people not get second chances anymore?

708
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 5: Is that just not a thing that is done?

709
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 3: No? Three years in That was from Adam. Adam made

710
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 3: that comment.

711
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 6: She I'm a man of second chances, but if you

712
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 6: were lying to me for three years and yeah, dude,

713
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 6: I don't know, that's.

714
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 3: Second chances on cheating. Yeah, like, second chances are chill,

715
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 3: but not in every situation. Yeah, like come on. Op

716
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 3: expands on the timeline.

717
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 4: When I first found out about her and her best

718
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 4: friend being excess from high school.

719
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 3: I was ready to end it immediately.

720
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 4: I was upset that I got lied to, and even

721
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 4: more angry that I had to hear it from a

722
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 4: friend and not from her. I took some time and

723
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 4: thought about it, and before I spoke with her last night,

724
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 4: I was fully willing to forgive her if her reasoning was.

725
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 3: To avoid drama.

726
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 4: I do believe in second chances, but trust is hard

727
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 4: to win back. Adam found out six months into my

728
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 4: relationship with her that his dad wasn't getting promoted that's

729
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 4: basically two and a half years for Nicole to take

730
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 4: responsibility and separate herself from him, especially if he liked her,

731
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 4: whether she felt the same way or not. In my eyes,

732
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 4: it's wrong to keep hanging out and sleeping over with

733
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 4: someone who has such strong feelings for you when you

734
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 4: have a significant other. She only came clean after I

735
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 4: confronted her. Her land was to never tell me.

736
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 5: After the year mark, she admitted she realized she was

737
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 5: into deep.

738
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 3: And that was the only way.

739
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 5: She blamed me for everything, saying it was my fault

740
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 5: for not setting boundaries, for trusting her decision making skills,

741
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 5: and for not recognizing what was appropriate. She only wanted

742
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 5: to fix it once she realized I was one hundred

743
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 5: percent done with the relationship.

744
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 4: She tried to guilt me, as if her hiding this

745
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 4: and me not playing detective was my fault, even if

746
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 4: I was willing to forgive her. Our relationship dynamic is ruined.

747
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 4: I don't want to be the controlling boyfriend and I

748
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 4: can't be with someone I don't trust. And we have

749
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 4: some vital information from Ope courtesy of Queen Levine. Sounds

750
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 4: like she really likes you and she wants to try

751
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 4: to make it work. The thing about it is that

752
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 4: I really liked her as well. I wanted to.

753
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 3: Make it work more than anything in the world. I

754
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 3: really did.

755
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 4: It's something that I couldn't really convey in my post

756
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 4: is that I always saw this girl as.

757
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,280
Speaker 5: Like my escape away from everything.

758
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 4: I've been in study mode since I was eighteen, and

759
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 4: I haven't really had much time for the simple things

760
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 4: in life, like hanging out with a girlfriend or going

761
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 4: out to parties or anything like that.

762
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 3: I didn't want a.

763
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 4: Relationship at first because I didn't think I would have

764
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 4: the time or be able to time manage properly when

765
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 4: I was busy. I always encourage her to have fun

766
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 4: with other friends. There was a mutual trust there, especially

767
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 4: with Adam. It was rough at first, but eventually she

768
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 4: convinced me nothing would happen between them and that he

769
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 4: was just a childhood friend. But I made it explicitly

770
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 4: clear way back when we started dating. She had concerns

771
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 4: about her freedom and being able to do as she wanted,

772
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 4: and she wanted to know why I trusted her since

773
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 4: her other boyfriends didn't and gave her so much space.

774
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 4: And I told her that I had no reason not

775
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 4: to trust her. She's my girlfriend, after all. All I

776
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 4: ask is that you tell me the truth, even if

777
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 4: it'll hurt my feelings or get me upset. I realized

778
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 4: my school schedule is an ideal, but I think we

779
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 4: can work through just about anything. But I don't think

780
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 4: people owe their significant other their entire dating history, including

781
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 4: the people you know, and I strongly disagree with this statement.

782
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 4: If you guys have mutual friends that when disclosing pasts

783
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 4: are the most important, Especially when you don't disclose your

784
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 4: past with someone because you'll know it'll alter their decisions

785
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 4: and other aspects of your relationship. That's not cool on

786
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 4: a bunch of levels. Omitted to tell someone about a

787
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 4: neighbor who you slept with three years ago isn't the

788
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 4: same as keeping an ex under your significant other's nose.

789
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 3: Maybe if her and Adam saw.

790
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 4: Each other occasionally or weekly or monthly, it wouldn't have

791
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 4: been a big deal, But were hanging out with someone

792
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 4: pretty much four to five times a week, it becomes

793
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 4: a problem. You owe it to your significant other to

794
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 4: tell them about people you interact with often. Maybe you're

795
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 4: different than me and have yourself and your relationship with

796
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 4: your significant other all figured out. But that's a really

797
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 4: big deal in my book, she's being honest about everything

798
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 4: that's happened during your relationship. I could no longer trust

799
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 4: what happened during our relationship. I didn't know what was

800
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 4: truth and what was alive. However, I spoke with her

801
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 4: today and she actually came to visit me in my

802
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 4: apartment unannounced, and although we are broken up, she felt

803
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 4: the need to tell me more about it. She apologized

804
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 4: on how she acted, letting her disappointment, shamefulness, and guilt

805
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 4: get the better of her. She apologized for Adam's text

806
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 4: messages and some other things she did. But she did

807
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 4: in fact cheat on me day day the truth comes out,

808
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 4: ah Man, who saw that one coming? Not me?

809
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 3: Really? No, it was very obvious. I was like, Angie, what,

810
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 3: I'm blind? But she didn't fact cheat on me.

811
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 4: It happened two different occasions throughout different parts of our relationship.

812
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 4: Every occasion mixed with booze and then being alone for

813
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 4: the night, all initiated by Adam. I don't like that

814
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 4: it was all mixed with booze and initiated by him.

815
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 4: The same suspicious our legs back legs are back, Hello,

816
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 4: legs legless.

817
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 3: You should be.

818
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 5: They also have kissed, or, as she told me, Adam

819
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 5: would kiss her.

820
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 4: Frequently on the lips, taking advantage of her. Oh, hang on,

821
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 4: hang on, what row new information? Bad new information, very

822
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 4: bad new information. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie too, Like

823
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 4: that changes the terms she cheated on me for me? Yeah,

824
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 4: because it's like, yes, she did, and I do think

825
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 4: she's still withheld stuff and there was a lot of

826
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff, and I'm sure she didn't necessarily

827
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 4: maybe realize what was happening or like.

828
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 3: All right, you guys, I need to think and process it. No,

829
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 3: I agree. I think she was.

830
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 4: Being taken advantage of, Like you don't want to be like,

831
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 4: yeah she yes, she one percent still cheated. But this

832
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 4: adds like a whole new spin of like, well, Adam's

833
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 4: an icky, yucky person.

834
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I wonder because some of the situation seemed consensual,

835
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 3: I thought, but with that information, like it very well

836
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 3: could be that reading was not.

837
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 4: The stuff that is consensual was mixed with booze them

838
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 4: being alone and initiated by Adam that is, which then

839
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 4: really sounds a lot less consensual.

840
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does. So it's like I honestly wouldn't even

841
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 3: call that cheating then, and she probably is calling it

842
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 3: that because she feels guilty, and you know, there's obviously

843
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 3: so much, like I.

844
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 4: Think, the guilt and the like shame of it, which

845
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 4: she doesn't need to have. I think that it could

846
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 4: have come forward and told her boyfriend about all this,

847
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 4: like right, maybe they could have worked through it. There

848
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 4: was still that like lying in admitting of truth, but

849
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 4: that changes things a lot.

850
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, it totally does. I wonder how op he feels

851
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 3: about that.

852
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm just gonna keep reading, guys. Yeah, my brain's

853
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:43,959
Speaker 4: not gonna process this one.

854
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 5: So based off that alone, I'm two thousand percent done.

855
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 3: Ah, not our favorite way to deal with that. Yeah,

856
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 3: I had my doubts.

857
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 4: You know, maybe she really did just lie about them

858
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 4: being exes. But when she confirmed that she cheated, that's

859
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 4: when I knew I made the right decision to move on.

860
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 4: Has it been a rollercoaster it? Did it affect your

861
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 4: relationship in any way before you found out?

862
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 3: I'm assuming this is a comment trask.

863
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 4: All for this, All I can say is that ignorance

864
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 4: is bliss. Looking back on it now, I can vividly

865
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 4: see periods that would have made me question everything, freedoms

866
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 4: and things that I was okay with.

867
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 3: I would have freaked over.

868
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,439
Speaker 5: Letting her sleep at his house was a big deal.

869
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 4: Having to split my limited free time up with him

870
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 4: was a huge issue for me. Despite the cheating and lying,

871
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 4: I do care for her, but I can never be

872
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 4: with her again. She either has to date Adam or

873
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 4: get the f away from him. She used to get

874
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 4: the f away from him, definitely. Oh, I just had

875
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 4: a thought and it just like I basically I feel like, one,

876
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 4: you can still end this relationship. Like no one is

877
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 4: ever saying like, because it happened in this way, you

878
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 4: have to stay in this relationship. But I feel like

879
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 4: that changes enough things that you can like, I don't know,

880
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 4: it doesn't have to be like you don't have to

881
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 4: be like and she like like, I'm not sure she

882
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 4: cheated on you, my dude, Like, honestly, I think by

883
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 4: a technicality she did.

884
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 3: I think it depends on your definition of cheating, yea,

885
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 3: because some you know, people have different definitions. I feel like,

886
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 3: you know, some people think holding hands is cheating or

887
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 3: something like that, or kissing isn't cheating, you know, I

888
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 3: think my definition would be like if you would be

889
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 3: consciously cheating, Like if something is just you were in

890
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 3: a relationship and something just like happened to you against

891
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 3: your will and without your consent, I feel like I

892
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 3: would not blame my partner for that at all. Cheating

893
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 3: to me, Yeah, at all. Yeah, that's why I'm.

894
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 4: Like, I don't know if she realizes if Yeah, like

895
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 4: the way that she's saying it, I want to be

896
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 4: like like, are you okay? And yeah, I'm like, let's

897
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 4: not because I'm not sure that you cheated, And I

898
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 4: don't think we need to jump right to that.

899
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 3: I need to jump to like are you okay? Totally? Totally.

900
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 3: I think maybe the relationship should still end based on

901
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 3: how you are acting. I don't actually, I don't think

902
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 3: she should have you in her life, but.

903
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 4: I think she should get some help and yeah, get

904
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 4: away from him.

905
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 3: She needs to be away from Adam.

906
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, she either has to date Adam or get

907
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 4: the f away from him. But that's not something I

908
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 4: can be a part of right now. Like I told

909
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 4: someone else before I leave back to my hometown for good.

910
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 4: Maybe I'll sit down with her and give her a

911
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 4: new perspective on things. No, stop, No, I don't like

912
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 4: your perspective on things, op, not at all. But right

913
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 4: now she can learn on her own and that's the

914
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 4: end of that story.

915
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 3: Hikes, dude, I don't like Uope yikes, sang wow the

916
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 3: man in that story. Yeah, geez, yeah, I think I Yeah,

917
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 3: I still stand by I don't think you guys should

918
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 3: be together because I don't think you should be in

919
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 3: a relationship with her. I think, uh I it sucks though,

920
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 3: because even with that, she's gonna take out so hard

921
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 3: and so yeah, like internally, like she if she already

922
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 3: like if she had been with past boyfriends who didn't

923
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 3: like that she was best friends with her ex and

924
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 3: broke up with her because of that, and now she's

925
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 3: in this relationship, and now it's a problem that she

926
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 3: kept it secret, right, she's already probably yeah, she's already

927
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 3: probably like stressed and confused about that. And then of

928
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,280
Speaker 3: course you know the factor of the essay, and it's

929
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 3: like that's huge and she's probably thinking so much guilt

930
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 3: there exactly. So it's just so many layers to this

931
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 3: this problem, and I feel so bad for her.

932
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm concerned for the level of coercion and

933
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 4: like control that Adam has over her.

934
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 3: Totally that she's not realizing.

935
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 4: Oh, he's not going to realize because she's not able

936
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 4: to tell him right right.

937
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 3: The fact that he was like you have to hide

938
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 3: this from Yeah, he convinced her to do that. That

939
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 3: already is like a raisin, a red flag of their dynamic.

940
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 3: So I also want to I do still want to

941
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 3: know why they broke up initially, like if they broke up,

942
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 3: but Adam still you know, has this hold on her

943
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 3: and wants to use her, Like I wonder.

944
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 4: It sounded like whatever it was, she ended things with

945
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 4: Adam okay, which is because it was like Adam's still

946
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 4: in love with her, She's doesn't want anything to do

947
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 4: with him, is what the original?

948
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I mean obviously she doesn't want I would

949
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 3: not blame her for not wanting anything to do with

950
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 3: him after he's doing this stuff. Ikey iky ach ikey

951
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 3: ikey ikey. I really hope that she is okay now.

952
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,320
Speaker 5: I hope somewhere else there with Adam.

953
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope someone She felt comfortable enough to go

954
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 4: to someone and not.

955
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 5: Feel shame for something that she should not feel shame about.

956
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 3: At all and then she can get help. Hopefully, we're

957
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 3: just gonna pretend that that's what happened. Now we're just

958
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 3: going happy endings.

959
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 4: Adam got all the bad karma he deserves and so

960
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 4: did Ope.

961
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 3: Honestly, just for those comments at the end, Yeah, didn't

962
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 3: like it. Didn't like it, but you know what I

963
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 3: do like the fact that we've gotten another story coming up.

964
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,600
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965
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967
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Speaker 3: My HR boss is obsessed with my life.

968
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 5: It's not a very good HR boss.

969
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 3: Hi, but let me tell you about how my HR

970
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 3: coworker became obsessed with me. I need to get this

971
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 3: off my chest because I don't know if I'm overreacting

972
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 3: anymore or if this has really turned into a weird

973
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 3: level of obsession. My name is Claudia, I'm twenty five, female,

974
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 3: and I work at a company where, unfortunately, professionalism seems

975
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 3: to be absent. What started as something small has spiraled

976
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,919
Speaker 3: into something creepy. And by the way, this comes from

977
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 3: deleted And if you want to submit your own stories,

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Speaker 3: go to the r slash Okay, story time is Supreddit

979
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 3: and I'm Angie.

980
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 2: I'm Carly, I'm Keon, and we're.

981
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 3: Here to give good advice goofully, but we don't have

982
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 3: all the answers. We're just gonna guess what we would

983
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 3: do in this situation. But let us know what you

984
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 3: would do in the comments. So Opie says. It all

985
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 3: began when a colleague, my age, Victor, twenty five male,

986
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 3: showed interest in me. I have a boyfriend, so I

987
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 3: turned him down lately, professionally and without any drama. But

988
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 3: his ego didn't handle the rejection well. He sulked to

989
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 3: act a distant and spent a solid week behaving like

990
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 3: a teenager who had just been left on red. Eventually,

991
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 3: he seemed to move on, but unfortunately, the drama didn't

992
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 3: end there. That's when Addison, a forty five year old

993
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 3: woman who works in HR, started showing interest in Victor.

994
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 3: Since she had told half of the office that he

995
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 3: liked me, Addison decided that she hated me for no reason.

996
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 3: I have never had any problems with her before, but

997
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 3: suddenly she was giving me dirty looks, ignoring me, or

998
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 3: being outright rude without any explanation. I could have stopped

999
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 3: there and just been a petty office situation, but no,

1000
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 3: it escalated into something straight up creepy. I have a

1001
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 3: very defined personal style. I think think preppy, dark academia,

1002
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 3: long dresses, boots, tights, layers, and a yellow umbrella that

1003
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 3: I carry because I'm a huge How I'm at your

1004
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 3: Mother fan.

1005
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 5: You carry an umbrella even when it's not raining.

1006
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 3: I suppose has anyone seen How I'm at your Mother?

1007
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,439
Speaker 4: No? I know there's a yellow umbrella, but just carry

1008
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 4: it all the time, all the time.

1009
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 3: That's so funny. I also had blonde hair until recently,

1010
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 3: when I died it a rich brown, got long extensions,

1011
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 3: and added a wispy fringe. Addison, who was always had

1012
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 3: short orange hair and dressed in plain jeans, suddenly showed

1013
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 3: up with brown hair dyed to match mine. Identical long extensions, bangs,

1014
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 3: and even the same yellow umbrella. That's wild. Behab That

1015
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,760
Speaker 3: is wild. Yellow umbrella is not something that everyone.

1016
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 2: She also likes How I met your mother?

1017
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 3: That's all guys, just each other. Just watched it exactly,

1018
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:30,280
Speaker 3: watched it, watch watched it. She began copying my outfits, boots, tights, skirts,

1019
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 3: the whole look I'm not exaggerating when I say people

1020
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 3: noticed immediately. At least You're not the only one then

1021
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 3: that noticed. I feel like I was expecting you to

1022
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 3: be the only one and everyone was just like, I

1023
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 3: don't know.

1024
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 5: She loo hair brown. Yeah, that was the problem.

1025
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 3: But it didn't stop there. She started spreading lies about me,

1026
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 3: flaunting swimsuit pictures of herself in front of Victor's friends

1027
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 3: right where I could see, and loudly laughing or touching

1028
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 3: Victor's face whenever I walked by.

1029
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 4: I even like Victor though, yeah, what is this doing?

1030
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 3: Victor just likes ope, like, calm, calm down, weird.

1031
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 2: I would be like, could I reach out to HR?

1032
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 2: But you can't You're HR?

1033
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, can I get a new HR? It felt like

1034
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 3: high school drama, except for adults in an office. And

1035
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 3: to top it off, she stalks me online, Oh my god,

1036
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 3: I've caught her on my TikTok and LinkedIn repeatedly. Even

1037
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 3: after I blocked her, fake accounts kept popping up, all

1038
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 3: linked back to the same email patterns. Classic. It was unsettling,

1039
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 3: to say the least. I've tried to remain professional through

1040
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:37,479
Speaker 3: all of this. I don't want to stir up any

1041
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 3: unnecessary drama, but she constantly throws passive aggressive comments my way.

1042
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,359
Speaker 3: She claims, I don't do any real work, even though

1043
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 3: I'm literally one of the most needed people in the company.

1044
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 3: Flex She talks loudly about her spicy sleep life inappropriate,

1045
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,280
Speaker 3: especially whenever Victor is nearby, making it clear she wants

1046
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 3: me to hear it. Just search. Okay, story time, and

1047
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 3: there is a little bit more to the story. But yeah,

1048
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 3: this is very clear. What is happening.

1049
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,280
Speaker 6: Yikes, I say you got to reach out to someone,

1050
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 6: like a higher up or something like this.

1051
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 3: This is not you gotta go past HR? Yeah? Is

1052
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 3: there are there more people in HR?

1053
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 2: Is there?

1054
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 3: I feel like h for this HR. I feel like

1055
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 3: HR would be like, you know, usually more than one person,

1056
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 3: although I guess in the office it was just Toby. Yeah,

1057
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 3: actually they higher up though. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure.

1058
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 5: I'm sure things can get escalated past AGR.

1059
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, go there definitely there is a little bit

1060
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 3: more to the story. What makes us worse is that

1061
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 3: Addison has already engaged in harmful behavior with other coworkers.

1062
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 3: Several people have quit because they couldn't handle her. Oh

1063
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 3: my gosh. One younger colleague, Ali, twenty four, female, lost

1064
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 3: her grandmother and asked her a couple of days off

1065
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 3: to attend the hospital and then the funeral. Addison, showing

1066
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 3: no empathy, told her that she didn't believe her. Alie

1067
00:49:55,239 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 3: ended up resigning shortly afterwards, completely devastated. Nobody dares confront

1068
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 3: Addison because as HR, she holds power and people prefer

1069
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 3: to avoid conflict. So now I'm stuck in this toxic loop.

1070
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 3: I love my job, I'm good at it, but I

1071
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 3: constantly feel watched, harassed, and disrespected, and since the problem

1072
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 3: is HR itself, I don't even have a safe place

1073
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,240
Speaker 3: to report it. At this point, I don't know whether

1074
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 3: to laugh, cry, or just start dressing differently every week

1075
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 3: to see if she keeps trying to copy me. And

1076
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 3: that is the end of that story.

1077
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, yee, yeah, escalate that totally.

1078
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 3: That's wild, I know. Yeah, definitely talk to your boss, yeah,

1079
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 3: for sure, because I'm sure there's like a manager of

1080
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 3: your department. They can help you gun around HR. Yeah,

1081
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 3: because I feel like in a lot of workplaces anyway,

1082
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 3: it's kind of like you can talk to the boss anyway,

1083
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 3: and then they might like refer you to HR, but

1084
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,240
Speaker 3: like you can definitely heard of them first.

1085
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no way that HR is holding all the

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Speaker 4: power in this company totally, which would be just like

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Speaker 4: a crazy way.

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Speaker 3: It makes you think of like Game of Thrones. It's

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Speaker 3: like you don't have to be on the throne to

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Speaker 3: have power.

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Speaker 2: All right, little finger, calm down.

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Speaker 3: No, it's okay. I feel like she does that pretty

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Speaker 3: early on. But anyway, Yeah, that's the in that story.

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Speaker 3: That's I'm honestly relieved that other people notice that she's copying. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: me too.

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Speaker 5: So yellow umbrella is such an easy giveaway, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: It's like it's, first of all, it's already weird that

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Speaker 3: you're doing that, so it's like extra weird. If someone

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Speaker 3: else does that, people will notice. People will notice. So

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