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Speaker 3: My boyfriend lives with his ex, but I won't break up.

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Speaker 1: You should break up.

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Speaker 4: I've been dating a guy I'll call him Josh, male

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Speaker 4: twenty nine for about six months. He's so great and

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Speaker 4: we're so compatible and I female twenty four have definitely

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Speaker 4: fallen in love with him, even though we haven't said

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Speaker 4: the love word yet. I feel like it's just now

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Speaker 4: getting serious. He told me about his friend I'll call

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Speaker 4: her Sarah, female twenty nine early on when we started dating.

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Speaker 4: He said that she is his best friend and they've

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Speaker 4: been friends since.

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Speaker 3: They were nine.

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Speaker 4: They were next door neighbors growing up and lived together

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Speaker 4: for about a year after college. But she has been

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Speaker 4: working overseas for several years and he hasn't seen her

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Speaker 4: in a long time, even though they talk somewhat. I

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Speaker 4: assumed that she was like a sister, but now I'm

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Speaker 4: questioning that. By the way, this comes from Throwaway ninety

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Speaker 4: storytime separated it. So suddenly Sarah sides to come for

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Speaker 4: a visit and asks to stay with him for a week,

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Speaker 4: and he says yes without talking to me first. Then

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Speaker 4: when she gets here, she says that she's moving back

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Speaker 4: to the States, but.

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Speaker 3: Isn't sure where yet, but probably not our area right.

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Speaker 4: What bothers me is he's really different when she's around,

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Speaker 4: like as humor is different.

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Speaker 3: He's more standoffish with me.

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Speaker 4: He talks all about her and all of these great

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Speaker 4: things she's done, and they don't really flirt, but it

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Speaker 4: is obvious that they have a lot of history or

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Speaker 4: inside jokes. I stayed over on the first night she

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Speaker 4: was there, and he wasn't interested in having spicy sleep

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Speaker 3: He said he was too tired.

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Speaker 4: Yesterday, I was coming over in the afternoon and I

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Speaker 3: Front step well until he showed up with Sarah.

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Speaker 4: They had gone on a walk and out to lunch

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Speaker 4: and forgotten about me coming over. Apparently he left his

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Speaker 4: phone at home. I was pissed off, so I left

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Speaker 4: and he came to my house later, but only because

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Speaker 4: apparently she told him to. I don't think he's the

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Speaker 4: type to cheat, but it seems obvious that he's emotionally

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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm on the outs.

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Speaker 4: I know that they have a ton of history together,

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Speaker 4: like stories and memories and everything, but I can't shake

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Speaker 4: the sense that there's something more going on. She's supposedly

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Speaker 4: leaving in five days, but who knows where? Am I

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Speaker 4: being a crazy jealous girlfriend? Should I say something or

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Speaker 4: just wait it out? We do have an update, but

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Speaker 4: what do you think?

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Speaker 3: What should she do?

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Speaker 1: Somebody?

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Speaker 5: Well, first and foremost, your boyfriend is tunnel vision and

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Speaker 5: a little lost puppy dog or his friend. I don't

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Speaker 5: think he's I don't know because they have a really

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Speaker 5: long connection. They grew up pretty much throughout their entire lives,

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Speaker 5: but he seems like he dropped the entire world and

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Speaker 5: everything else around him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah for her, He called and asked me to come

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Speaker 4: over and talk last night after work. At first, I

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Speaker 4: thought for sure he was breaking up with me, but

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Speaker 4: that's not what happened, Although what did happen might be worse.

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Speaker 4: Sarah wasn't there when I got there. She apparently went

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Speaker 4: out somewhere for the night. Basically, Josh told me the

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Speaker 4: truth about Sarah. They're best friends and they talk and

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Speaker 4: text very regularly, probably.

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Speaker 3: More than I had realized. But yes, they.

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Speaker 4: Also used to be involved. He said she's more than

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Speaker 4: an ex, which was really confusing until he explained what

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Speaker 4: he meant. Apparently, after college, he and Sarah lived together

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Speaker 4: Apparently she got pregnant pretty early on in their relationship

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Speaker 4: and lost it. They only lasted about six more months together.

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Speaker 4: After that, she took a job overseas and they ended

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Speaker 4: up breaking up some time after she left. He said

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Speaker 4: that the two of them never really talked about what

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Speaker 4: move on. I asked why he didn't tell me this before,

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Speaker 3: But he never really told me about Sarah because she

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Speaker 4: He hasn't even seen her more than a few times

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Speaker 4: briefly since it all happened, which was almost eight years ago,

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Speaker 4: now I'm more confused. He said that he was really

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Speaker 4: sorry and asked for a few last days with Sarah

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Speaker 3: It sounds like he wants to move on.

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Speaker 4: It also seems like she does as well, because she's

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Speaker 4: the one who has been telling him to talk to me.

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Speaker 4: I have so many more questions, but I didn't ask

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Speaker 4: them last night because he seems so broken up about everything.

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Speaker 4: I've never seen him like that before. I ended up

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Speaker 4: staying over last night again after we talked. Yes, we

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure what to do now, though.

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Speaker 4: Should I back off or tell him how I feel

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Speaker 3: Sarah does go away and isn't an issue anymore.

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Speaker 4: But my biggest worry is that even if they move on,

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Speaker 4: he's not ever going to cut her out of his life.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: She has some sort of special place in his life

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Speaker 4: that I'll never have.

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Speaker 3: Not sure how to proceed, we do have a quick edit.

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Speaker 4: I sent a text I was advised to send, seeing

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Speaker 4: how I feel, and I got a response, too tired

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Speaker 4: good up, dude?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, boy, wow, too tired.

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Speaker 3: That was such an ominous ending to that edit.

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Speaker 4: I yeah, I'm taking Gavro She's fifteen's advice and sending

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Speaker 4: this text. This really sucks. I'm really in love with you,

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Speaker 4: Now I'm just confused. I should be comforting you and

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Speaker 4: not hurt. I should be at your place at night,

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Speaker 4: because I'm supposed to be the person you.

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Speaker 3: Love, not her.

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Speaker 1: Crap.

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Speaker 4: Well, he hasn't responded yet, and there is an edit.

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Speaker 4: Oh he just responded three hours later.

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Speaker 5: Okay, let's see what he's got to say. I mean,

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Speaker 5: that was a really good text.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's like poetic Hey, I'm sorry, I just

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Speaker 4: saw this now I put my phone down. I'm really

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Speaker 4: sorry this is happening, especially now. It's bad timing for us.

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Speaker 3: I know, I.

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Speaker 4: Understand why you feel that way, and if Sarah was

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Speaker 4: just my ex, I would totally agree with your feelings.

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Speaker 4: But she's been my friend for twenty years. We were

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Speaker 4: that chapter of our lives. I understand how you're feeling.

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Speaker 4: I know I've handled it badly. I feel really terrible

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Speaker 4: it more. Can we talk tomorrow and figure out a

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Speaker 3: I understand that this is too much to deal with.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry. Okay, Well, I don't know how to respond

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Speaker 5: And there is another update, all right, this is probably

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Speaker 4: After we exchanged texts, Josh and I didn't talk much

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Speaker 3: Next day, which was Saturday. I guess Josh and Sarah

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Speaker 4: So I went over there and took Sarah on a hike,

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Speaker 4: and it was actually really good. We talked a lot

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Speaker 4: Josh got really annoyed. He asked why I kept coming over,

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Speaker 3: So anyway, we started arguing.

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Speaker 4: Josh went upstairs to grab my bag, and while he did,

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Speaker 4: I was so angry and hurt that apparently she's his

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Speaker 4: He basically told me this week that he realized he's

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Speaker 3: Or I might not. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: My girlfriend kept making fun of my weight. Don't do that,

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Speaker 2: it's mean. I twenty three mail, gained almost seventy pounds

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Speaker 2: Here are some examples of things that she has done

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Speaker 2: She refers to me as her morbidly obese boyfriend to

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Speaker 1: I am morbidly obese. I think so.

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Speaker 2: She's not wrong, but it's very embarrassing. We had an argument,

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Speaker 2: like wow, I can't believe you've grown out of that already.

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Speaker 2: One time she made me come with her to the

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Speaker 2: have Spices sleep with me if I lost at least

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Speaker 2: extremely unattractive. I do understand that, and it's okay to

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Speaker 2: She isn't wrong, but she will make me food. Then

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Speaker 1: This isn't her fault.

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Speaker 2: Though obviously she is not responsible for my anxiety. It

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Speaker 2: She tries to control everything I eat. I'm want to

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Speaker 2: I really expected every comment to support how she treated

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Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy how.

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Speaker 2: She took time out of her day just to put

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Speaker 1: I called the locksmith to come and change the locks.

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Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah, I knew she would have an extreme

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Speaker 2: I changed the locks, so you will have to let

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year.

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Speaker 2: So to say she didn't respond well to this would

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Speaker 2: it out of love. She told me she loved me

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Speaker 2: It didn't take more than two minutes, yeah, for her

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Speaker 2: She screamed that she never wanted me and that no

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Speaker 3: Brother the scene.

445
00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:18,480
Speaker 1: Now, this is why I said, we don't need to

446
00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,400
Speaker 1: talk to her. Yeah, there's nothing to say.

447
00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,359
Speaker 2: You putting all of her crap in the hallway and

448
00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,800
Speaker 2: changing the locks speaks everything for it. It speaks for itself.

449
00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,679
Speaker 2: I guess she was just trying to say anything that

450
00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,520
Speaker 2: would hurt me. I blocked her number. She called me

451
00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:31,560
Speaker 2: back again on her friend's phone, screaming how dare I

452
00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,080
Speaker 2: block her? And how dare I leave her with no

453
00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,159
Speaker 2: place to stay on New Year's Eve. I didn't do that.

454
00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:36,800
Speaker 2: I would never leave her without a place to sleep.

455
00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:38,959
Speaker 2: She could go to her parents, and she has plenty

456
00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,199
Speaker 2: of money that I gave her so she could get

457
00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:42,960
Speaker 2: a taxi and stay in a hotel if she preferred.

458
00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,159
Speaker 2: She also said beforehand that she was staying at her

459
00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,840
Speaker 2: friends that night anyway. She posted on her Instagram story

460
00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,280
Speaker 2: that she was heartbroken and that her boyfriend had left

461
00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,880
Speaker 2: her homeless on New Year's Eve due to a little misunderstanding. Oh,

462
00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:55,240
Speaker 2: after everything he put me through, he still does this.

463
00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:56,919
Speaker 2: I loved him and thought he loved me, but I

464
00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,399
Speaker 2: guess I was wrong. I then received messages from her

465
00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,240
Speaker 2: friends tell her me I'm a horrible person and she

466
00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,359
Speaker 2: deserves so much better than me. Her mother, quite the

467
00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,760
Speaker 2: unpleasant person, called me, saying she was calling the police

468
00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,800
Speaker 2: on me and that I was a She also brought

469
00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,679
Speaker 2: up my weight and said that it was laughable that

470
00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:12,320
Speaker 2: I would break up with her looking the way I do,

471
00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,720
Speaker 2: and I would never get anyone better. My girlfriend's friend

472
00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,640
Speaker 2: ended up calling me on a different number and said

473
00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:18,760
Speaker 2: that she and her boyfriend weren't comfortable letting me my

474
00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,120
Speaker 2: girlfriends stay over at their house anymore. They were freaked out. Dude,

475
00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,199
Speaker 2: my girlfriend's screaming abuse at me on the phone, and

476
00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,359
Speaker 2: she was apparently screaming at them as well and saying

477
00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,080
Speaker 2: she was going to unlive me.

478
00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,240
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I see, And that's also a reason why, Like,

479
00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,520
Speaker 4: even though all of these other people are backing her up,

480
00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,920
Speaker 4: eventually they will figure it out.

481
00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,840
Speaker 3: You just have to know that you're right. Yeah, let

482
00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:39,800
Speaker 3: them let them be scared of her too.

483
00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,440
Speaker 2: All of her other friends at the house were freaked

484
00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,879
Speaker 2: out too, and she was effectively uninvited from their New

485
00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,840
Speaker 2: Year's Eve night, and they were trying to find a

486
00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,920
Speaker 2: way to get her to leave. She was telling them

487
00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:52,879
Speaker 2: that she had no money and no way of getting

488
00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,040
Speaker 2: to her parents. This was just a straight up lie.

489
00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,000
Speaker 2: I had given her five hundred pounds several days ago.

490
00:18:58,119 --> 00:18:59,879
Speaker 2: I sent her an extra hundred out of guilt.

491
00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:00,320
Speaker 1: Anyway.

492
00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:01,840
Speaker 2: I don't know where she went for a few hours,

493
00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,680
Speaker 2: but she came back to my house around two am

494
00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,520
Speaker 2: and started trying to break the door in. Iocked up

495
00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:08,520
Speaker 2: a rock and tried to smash the window. It broke

496
00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,240
Speaker 2: the window, but didn't smash it all the way. She

497
00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:12,720
Speaker 2: was screaming and crying through the letterbox. I ended up

498
00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,560
Speaker 2: caving and letting her in. She calmed down somewhat as

499
00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,560
Speaker 2: my brother was there with me to back me up.

500
00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,720
Speaker 2: She was wasted, and eventually she just started crying. I

501
00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,359
Speaker 2: felt really bad for her at this point and was

502
00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,040
Speaker 2: almost ready to let her stay just for the night,

503
00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,199
Speaker 2: but thankfully my brother ended up getting a taxi with

504
00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:26,719
Speaker 2: her to take her to a hotel for the night.

505
00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,720
Speaker 2: My mother came to collect her stuff yesterday and started

506
00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,960
Speaker 2: screaming at me, saying that I ruined her daughter's life.

507
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:31,920
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah.

508
00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:33,919
Speaker 2: I feel really bad, but you shouldn't because none of

509
00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,399
Speaker 2: that is on you. Your girlfriend sucks and you are

510
00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:37,159
Speaker 2: better off without her.

511
00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,879
Speaker 4: If you couldn't tell before from all the nasty comments

512
00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,520
Speaker 4: she did, you can definitely tell now.

513
00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,639
Speaker 2: With the weight loss, I am currently continuing my diet

514
00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,119
Speaker 2: instead of water fasting like I planned. I want to

515
00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,800
Speaker 2: try and do a sustainable diet instead of just starting

516
00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,680
Speaker 2: myself for a month and probably getting it back. I

517
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,000
Speaker 2: want to try a seven day water fast to detox.

518
00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,520
Speaker 2: Though I need to also stop relying on booze to

519
00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:57,520
Speaker 2: relax in the evenings.

520
00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,000
Speaker 1: It was a big reason I gained weight.

521
00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,479
Speaker 2: I realized I've been assuming at least six hundred calories

522
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,720
Speaker 2: a day and booze alone, Wow, three pints of Bruski.

523
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,960
Speaker 2: I definitely used it to cope with stress, and I

524
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,720
Speaker 2: need to develop better coping mechanisms.

525
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:09,280
Speaker 1: I'm going to.

526
00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,560
Speaker 2: Lose all the weight in twenty twenty, and I'm also

527
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,639
Speaker 2: going to get into therapy so I can sort my

528
00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,679
Speaker 2: head out. There are so many unhealthy thoughts I have,

529
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,600
Speaker 2: and I don't think hating yourself as much as I

530
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,520
Speaker 2: do is normal. I feel sad, but strangely relieved and

531
00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,639
Speaker 2: like I can actually make changes in my life without her.

532
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 1: And that's the end of that story. Yay, yay.

533
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 3: He's only an upswing.

534
00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,280
Speaker 2: He doesn't even realize how wonderful things are about.

535
00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:29,720
Speaker 1: To get for him.

536
00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh man, he's gonna go to therapy and like,

537
00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,920
Speaker 3: oh man, it'll be so much to process about everything

538
00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,919
Speaker 3: that she did. But holy crap, so much better without her.

539
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,440
Speaker 2: Brother's been dragging like two like ship anchors behind him,

540
00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,120
Speaker 2: just digging into the ground, just walking like man, why

541
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 2: is this feels hard? Yeah, he just let go of

542
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 2: those two anchors and now he's like whoa.

543
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,640
Speaker 6: My son refused to give free rise to his stepsister,

544
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Speaker 6: and I agreed with him.

545
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Speaker 3: She can walk.

546
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Speaker 6: I forty five mail share three kids with my sixteen male,

547
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,160
Speaker 6: fourteen male, and eleven female. We divorced ten years ago.

548
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 6: My ex d remarried eight years ago. She has another

549
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,680
Speaker 6: bio daughter, seven female and a step daughter fourteen female.

550
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Speaker 6: By the way, this comes from Hovercraft just fifty one

551
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Speaker 6: forty five And if you want to submit your own stories.

552
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Speaker 6: Go to the r slash Okay storytime subreddit. So my

553
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,399
Speaker 6: kids have never really gotten along with their stepsister. She

554
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,240
Speaker 6: pretty much gets whatever she wants. She has always had

555
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,199
Speaker 6: her own room and bathroom at their mom's house. My

556
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 6: daughter had to share with her brothers. She does not

557
00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 6: do chores and expects my kids to do whatever she

558
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,359
Speaker 6: asks them to do. Things have been really bad the

559
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,600
Speaker 6: last two years. And a little over a year ago,

560
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 6: my oldest came to live with me full time. A

561
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 6: few months later, his brother followed. My oldest turned sixteen

562
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 6: back in December. I bought a car for him. My

563
00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,239
Speaker 6: only request was that he would take his brother and

564
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Speaker 6: sister my kids to school, which he agreed to do.

565
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 6: My sons and their stepsisters go to the same school.

566
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 6: Not long after I got him the car, Dee started

567
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 6: asking that my son take his stepsister to and from school.

568
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 6: My ex's neighborhood is on the route to school from

569
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Speaker 6: my house. He refused. My ex tried to make him

570
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 6: do it. I refused.

571
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 3: Well.

572
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Speaker 6: Last month, we had a winter storm come in. The

573
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Speaker 6: first round was not supposed to be bad, so there

574
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 6: was school, but quickly the weather got worse than predicted,

575
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 6: so school let out early. My sons were walking to

576
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 6: their car with a friend head to my house. Their

577
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 6: stepsister was standing near the car with a friend and

578
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 6: was on her phone. She told my son, Mom says

579
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 6: she cannot come get us, so we need to ride

580
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,359
Speaker 6: with you. My son refused. She handed my son the

581
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,360
Speaker 6: phone and my ex was on the line. She demanded

582
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 6: that my son give his stepsister and her friend a ride.

583
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 6: She was across town getting groceries before the storm got worse.

584
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 6: He refused. His stepsister started yelling at him. He ignored

585
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 6: her and they got in the car to leave. She

586
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 6: and her friend got in front of the car so

587
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 6: he couldn't move. He honked his horn and told them

588
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 6: to get the f out of the way. They eventually did,

589
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,959
Speaker 6: and my son left her and her friend. At the school,

590
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 6: a teacher saw the incident, so we were called by

591
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 6: the administration about it.

592
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 3: We told them what happened.

593
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 6: My sons were not in trouble, but they said we

594
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 6: need to work out this family conflict. Afterwards, my ex

595
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 6: and her husband tried to talk to me and blamed me.

596
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,919
Speaker 6: I told them it isn't my fault. Y'all raised an

597
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 6: entitle entitled brat who no one likes. Y'all have enabled

598
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 6: her behavior for years. I have tried to get y'all

599
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 6: to address it, but I am done until you stop

600
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 6: being a worthless mother and stepdad. I do not want

601
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 6: to hear crap from either one of you. D your

602
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 6: own sons despise you. That is all on you.

603
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,880
Speaker 3: Then we left. Geez, that's rough. Yeah.

604
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 6: I she was so demanding in like the ride home

605
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 6: that it's like my initial thought was like, oh my god,

606
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 6: of course you like basically like rescue this person from

607
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 6: this snowstorm. Yeah, but it's also like the way that

608
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 6: she was handling it was just like, oh my god,

609
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 6: you're icky.

610
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I think the problem here is that the

611
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 3: brothers probably have had this experience of like, she gets

612
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 3: literally everything she wants, and this is a moment where

613
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 3: they're like you know what. No, yeah, no, it's just

614
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 3: a rough moment for it to have been.

615
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 6: Yeah. Sure, I have not spoken to my ex sens.

616
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 6: I do feel bad for my daughter because tensions have

617
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 6: been high at my ex's house and she is there

618
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 6: half the time. So am I the a hole? We

619
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 6: have some comments No Wiener Roach forty two forty eight. Uh,

620
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,120
Speaker 6: not the A hole. Your ex chose her stepdaughter over

621
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 6: her own kids, puzzle headed army three one six. She

622
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 6: chose her new husband over her own children. His daughter

623
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 6: is just an extension of him in her eyes, while

624
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 6: her children with OPI are an extension of him and

625
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,120
Speaker 6: an unwonted reminder to her new husband that he came

626
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 6: after op Opie's kid basically remind stepfather and mom that

627
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 6: he is getting op sloppy seconds. And of course she

628
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 6: doesn't want to lose another husband, so she is going

629
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 6: to favor his children over her ex's children, not the

630
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 6: A whole. Uh, Beth two one two eighty six X

631
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 6: is just disrespectful and rude. She couldn't have called op

632
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 6: and their son herself and said, I'm stuck just this

633
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 6: once in an emergency. Could you please help me out?

634
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 6: Who is the grown up here? The sixteen year old

635
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 6: or her Miami lawyered not the A hole. Sounds like

636
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 6: they have spent years cultivating a bad relationship between the kids, uh,

637
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 6: and want to blame you. That is on them. They

638
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 6: are at the FAFO stage of parenting. I do family

639
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 6: law and this seems plenty judgment, not the a whole.

640
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 6: We have an update seventeen days later with some answers

641
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,719
Speaker 6: to common questions. Looks like, at least until June fifth,

642
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 6: it would be illegal for my son to take his

643
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,879
Speaker 6: stepsister and her friend home. I am not going for

644
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 6: full custody for my daughter because she is highly attached

645
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 6: to her little sister and would be sad not to

646
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 6: see her every other week. But I take my daughter

647
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 6: to and from school every day. It is across the

648
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 6: street from my office. While things are tents at my exes,

649
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 6: it does not appear that she is being treated any

650
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 6: differently than before. There are no buses available for my kids,

651
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 6: and their stepsister are there on an interdistrict transfer.

652
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 3: A little over a.

653
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 6: Week ago, my ex reached out to try and see

654
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 6: what we could what we could compromise about the situation.

655
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 6: I told her that there was nothing to compromise about.

656
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 3: I explain that.

657
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 6: Until June he legally cannot take her anywhere. I do

658
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,880
Speaker 6: not want her in the car, and our son does

659
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 6: not want her in the car. My ex said, it

660
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 6: simply is not doable for her to take her or

661
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 6: her dad to take her to school every day.

662
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 3: Dude, that's your child. Figure it out. You can't just

663
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Speaker 3: be like, well, it just isn't. I don't know, I

664
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 3: just can't. I don't know, like find a carpool, find

665
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 3: a bus situation, figure it out. That's your kid. Don't

666
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 3: make your sixteen year old do it for you.

667
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 6: If our son could take her on tuesdays, they could

668
00:26:58,520 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 6: do the other days.

669
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Speaker 3: I told her no.

670
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 6: This Tuesday, their stepsister demanded a ride. My son told

671
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 6: her no, and she pushed him. A teacher saw it,

672
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 6: and she is facing possible in school suspension. Disciplinary issues

673
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 6: like this could compromise her interdistrict transfer. We have some

674
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 6: comments perpetually exhausted. What was their plan if he didn't

675
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 6: get his license? Non chalant enigma or if OPI didn't

676
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 6: get his son a car? And we have another update,

677
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 6: which is two point five months later. Some background. On

678
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,479
Speaker 6: June fifth, my son will be sixteen and a half

679
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 6: because he took his driver's at at that time. There

680
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 6: will be no restriction on number of passengers he can transport.

681
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 6: There is no bus available due to the school being

682
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 6: in a different district. Public transit is absolutely terrible where

683
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 6: we are, both in terms of safety and time. And

684
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 6: here's the second update. Contrary to popular belief my son's

685
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 6: car was not keyed or anything like that.

686
00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 3: Jeez.

687
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 6: After the incident in the update, my and their stepsisters

688
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 6: ignored each other at school. Since that incident, my ex

689
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 6: has tried to act sweet and kind when we have interacted.

690
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 6: All involved schools, oh, all involved schools let out last

691
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 6: week for summer. On Monday, I had a meeting run

692
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 6: long and I could not drop my daughter off at

693
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 6: my exes as I typically do, so I had my

694
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 6: son due to the drop off for me. When he

695
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 6: got there, my ex asked to talk to him for

696
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 6: a minute. She asked if she pays him, if he

697
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,959
Speaker 6: would agree to take his stepsister to and from school

698
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 6: starting in the fall.

699
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 3: I do think that is a little bit that should

700
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 3: have been pain it now. Yeah, that's a little bit

701
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 3: more reasonable to say, like, hey, I will pay you

702
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 3: to do this cause I yeah, I don't like there.

703
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,719
Speaker 3: Sometimes there are parents who literally like because of their

704
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 3: jobs they cannot drive and so, but that is your

705
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 3: responsibility to figure out how to get your child to school.

706
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, otherwise they go to the school in their district

707
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 6: that the bus can take them exactly.

708
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 3: So I think that the payment is a little bit more.

709
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 6: Fair I do think that the brother may still feel

710
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 6: as like a but then she's just getting her way

711
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 6: like she always does Zach Linsling. As mentioned in my comments,

712
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 6: my ex has switch shifts, so she cannot pick up

713
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 6: her stepdaughter from school. Her husband typically has to leave

714
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 6: work to get his daughter from the school. Uh, and

715
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 6: that is what has happened on most days, but it

716
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 6: is starting to cause issues at his job. My son

717
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 6: told her no and came home that night. She calls

718
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 6: me and asks if I would be interested in doing

719
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 6: joint family therapy with her and all three of our kids.

720
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 6: I told her before that can happen, she her husband

721
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 6: and her stepdaughter need to make a full and complete

722
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 6: apology to our kids for their treatment over the years.

723
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 6: She said, I do not know if I can make

724
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 6: that happen. I told her, well, that is what needs

725
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 6: to happen before I would consider your proposal. My kids

726
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 6: and I already do individual therapy.

727
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I do honestly think they kind

728
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 3: of do need family therapy just to figure out because

729
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 3: this is their mom and she's being super unreasonable. But uh,

730
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 3: you know, is still their mom, and maybe there's a

731
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 3: way we could figure this out. So everyone's a little

732
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 3: bit more.

733
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm kind of on the same boat as you, Like,

734
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 6: don't let the apology being the hill that like you

735
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 6: unblocking your family from going forward.

736
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 3: But and then also I think, like the for the sun,

737
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 3: like the sun not driving thing, I think it's more

738
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 3: fair that she offered to pay, But if he says no, yes, no,

739
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 3: it's still his choice.

740
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 6: This morning, she forwarded me some texts from one of

741
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 6: her friends, who is a teacher at the high school

742
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 6: my ex's stepdaughter would have to attend if she switches schools.

743
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 6: She was telling my ex that there are only a

744
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 6: few spots left in the few honors or ap courses

745
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 6: that sophomores can take, so if the step daughter wants

746
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 6: in those classes, she needs to enroll in the school now.

747
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 6: So my ex then said, I am desperate. I want

748
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 6: her to stay where she's at. That is only possible

749
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 6: if our oldest son agrees to take her. But if

750
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 6: I need to switch schools for her, I need to

751
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 6: know now, responded, this ain't got crap to do with

752
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 6: our kids, And the fact that you are bending yourself

753
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 6: into pretzels for stepdaughter is the problem, because you do

754
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 6: not do that crap for our kids. Do not contact

755
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 6: me unless it is about our kids, and that is

756
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 6: the update. We have some comments, though, Saggy Milk on

757
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 6: thousand and five says, good for you, She's desperate, but

758
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 6: not desperate enough to tell her husband and stepdaughter that

759
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 6: they need to give a genuine apology. I guess hubby

760
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 6: and stepdaughter are not desperate. Your ex is awful, pride

761
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 6: of Cape Town exactly. How stupid is the ex that

762
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 6: she can't ask one of her stepkids friends parents to carpool?

763
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was saying. Yeah, literally just carpool.

764
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, this isn't rocket surgery.

765
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 3: Rocket surgery surgery at the end of that story. Yeah,

766
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 3: I think that she is just so desperate to like,

767
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 3: I don't know, she really only cares about her stepdaughter

768
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 3: and her new husband, and so she wants to like,

769
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 3: she doesn't want to call them out, make them apologize.

770
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 3: She wants to make sure that the stepdaughter has a

771
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 3: car ride and stuff. Yeah, but yeah, it's just incapable

772
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 3: of standing up to her new family.

773
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 6: God is another sess kid too.

774
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: Yes, John, here, we're gonna get back to this juicy story,

775
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: but a quick three minute break of ads from our sponsors.

776
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 3: My father's wife is horrible to me. I need to

777
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 3: move out, get your own place. I'm an a fair baby,

778
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 3: and my dad's wife and two kids hate me for it.

779
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 3: I've always lived with my mom, so it was never

780
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 3: a huge problem. But six months ago she passed away

781
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,479
Speaker 3: and I sixteen mail, I had to move in with

782
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,479
Speaker 3: my dad, forty seven male and his family, and I

783
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 3: still feel like his wife and my half siblings despise

784
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 3: me just for being there. It's gotten so bad that

785
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 3: my half brother even destroyed all of the pictures I

786
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 3: have of my mom, which turn what was already a

787
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 3: crappy situation into something that is just killing me. By

788
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 3: the way, this comes from Overall Lack twenty one seventy nine,

789
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 3: and if you want to submit your own stories, go

790
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 3: to the r slash Okay. Storytime suppered it. So I

791
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 3: ended up sleeping on the couch for almost two months

792
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 3: because I couldn't stand the sight of my half brother,

793
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 3: Marty eighteen mail after what he did to my stuff,

794
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 3: and started carrying a backpack around the house with anything

795
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 3: personal that I had brought from my mom's apartment wherever

796
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 3: I went, so nothing else could be damaged. Marty ended

797
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 3: up apologizing to me, but it seemed more of a

798
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 3: show for my dad than an actual apology for me.

799
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 3: My dad's wife, Susan, forty eight female, and my half

800
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 3: sister uh Anica, now fifteen females, still barely acknowledged me

801
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 3: and still almost exclusively use French in the house, which

802
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 3: I'm only now starting to pick up words in conversation.

803
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 3: For I've always felt like a stranger in this house,

804
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 3: and while I understand why they don't want me around,

805
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 3: I don't know what I can do to try and

806
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 3: make things work. The worst of it came three weeks ago,

807
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 3: when I lost my keys to the house and got

808
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 3: stuck out in the rain. After I came home, I

809
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 3: tried calling my dad, but he didn't pick up, and

810
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 3: I rang the doorbell as many times as I could

811
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 3: because I saw Susan's car outside the house, so I

812
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 3: knew she was home. Isn't much close by us, so

813
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 3: I couldn't walk anywhere to wait. By the time my

814
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 3: dad got home an hour and a half later, I

815
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 3: was soaked and cold, and when we got inside, Susan

816
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,280
Speaker 3: just said that she was at a call and couldn't

817
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 3: hear the dartbell ringing. I couldn't even talk to her

818
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 3: and just went upstairs and cried in the bathroom before

819
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,720
Speaker 3: going to bed. And if that were true, she would

820
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 3: be a lot more apologetic than she seems to be.

821
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 3: My dad apologized later for not seeing my message sooner,

822
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,439
Speaker 3: but that's not really the issue here. I feel sick

823
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 3: living here and can barely eat or sleep half the time.

824
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 3: My grades are tanking, and I don't feel like I

825
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 3: can talk to anyone. I miss my mom and everyone

826
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 3: is pretending like she never existed, and I have to

827
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 3: basically do the same thing so nobody at home gets mad.

828
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 3: Main issue is a week ago, my dad's best friend

829
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 3: and his husband, who I've met a couple times and

830
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 3: stayed with the first couple nights after I reconnected with

831
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 3: my dad while he was trying to figure out how

832
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 3: to bring me home, heard about me being locked out

833
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 3: of the house and asked if I wanted to come

834
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 3: stay with them for a while.

835
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Speaker 6: Yay go Yeah.

836
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 3: I want to say yes so bad because anywhere has

837
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 3: to be better than where I'm saying now, but I

838
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 3: know it's going to cause issues with my dad because

839
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 3: he's he ruined his entire relationship with his family to

840
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 3: be able to bring me home so I wouldn't have

841
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 3: to go into foster care. And it's gonna seem incredibly

842
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 3: ungrateful that dare even.

843
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 6: Matter anymore, erasing everything and ruining your life.

844
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 3: I don't care if he like helped you out, you know,

845
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 3: got you out of the foster care system, he's not

846
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 3: how much should do because he's your father.

847
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 6: Because if he has the capability to, that's like the

848
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 6: most obvious decent human things are literally your dad.

849
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should take you in and go into the

850
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 3: foster care system. Uh, doesn't matter if he's treating you

851
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 3: like crap.

852
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: Now.

853
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 3: I know my dad's trying, he really is. But I

854
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 3: don't know what I'm going to do If I have

855
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 3: to keep living in his house until I turn eighteen?

856
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 3: How do I broach the subjects with him? Is trying

857
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 3: to move out even worth it at this point? Or

858
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 3: should I just toughen up and deal with it for

859
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 3: the next year and a half? Comments Comment one, You're

860
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 3: living in a hostile environment with time that will really

861
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 3: affect your health negatively. You've been offered a safe space

862
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 3: to live. Don't walk but run in that direction. Your

863
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 3: dad is the adult. Let him deal with all the

864
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 3: negative consequences. Put yourself first. I'm really sorry about the

865
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 3: loss of your mother, hope, he says. Honestly, I feel

866
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 3: like it probably already is. I'm so tired all the time,

867
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 3: but can't sleep, and somehow still can't get out of

868
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 3: bed in the morning. I feel like I haven't even

869
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 3: gotten a chance to breathe or process the fact that

870
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 3: my mom's passed away because there's been so much change

871
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 3: so quick, which is also kind of why I don't

872
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 3: want to have to move houses again. Comment to your

873
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 3: father's wife and your half siblings have a lot of

874
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 3: misplaced anger. Do they treat your father the same way

875
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 3: they've been treating you, Although in relation to the advice

876
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 3: you're seeking, that's neither here nor there. I would definitely

877
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 3: take your dad's friends up on the offer, even if

878
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 3: it's just for a short while. You need to get

879
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 3: out of that toxic situation. You also need to have

880
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 3: a frank talk with your dad. Is he backing you

881
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 3: up in these situations or does he stand by and

882
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 3: let them treat you like that. You're going through a

883
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 3: rough time and it must be terrible to feel like

884
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 3: no one is there to support you.

885
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: Opie says.

886
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 3: There was definitely a lot of tension between my dad, Anica,

887
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 3: and Susan, but that seems to have mostly gone away

888
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,240
Speaker 3: after the first couple of months. Marty seems still pissed

889
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 3: at him, but it kind of feels like they all

890
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 3: just turned all that anger on me. I tried talking

891
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 3: to my dad about it at least a little, but

892
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 3: there aren't a lot of times where where it's just

893
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 3: the two of us, and I don't feel comfortable saying

894
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 3: anything in front of everyone else. Nobody really does anything

895
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 3: to me in front of my dad except the language thing,

896
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 3: which he does try and stop every time he catches it.

897
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 3: But Marty and Susan usually just do things behind his

898
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 3: back to hurt me. And I think my dad doesn't

899
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 3: want to believe that his wife and kids are capable

900
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 3: of treating me like this.

901
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 6: That's okay, m He's got to know to an extent

902
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 6: because you're literally carrying all your stuff around in all

903
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 6: the time, and there's no way he's not seeing that

904
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 6: or or how it's affecting you. Yeah, So as much

905
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 6: as I'm still like, oh, sweet, maybe you have a

906
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 6: conversation with him about that, like maybe he would care

907
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 6: it's it's still get out.

908
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like, yeah, you've talked to him, your

909
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 3: situation hasn't changed, you have a safe option, and maybe

910
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 3: in moving out, he'll realize, oh wow, I've really yeah,

911
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:24,919
Speaker 3: did not realize what was going on here.

912
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 6: It could allow you to be closer with him after that. Yeah,

913
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 6: and if you're not, that's okay too.

914
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 3: Comment three. I am so sorry for your loss and

915
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 3: the hostile environment you're now in. I know it's hard,

916
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 3: but you are not responsible for the tension in your

917
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 3: dad's house. Your dad made these choices for you to

918
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 3: live with your siblings and his wife because he loves you.

919
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 3: It may hurt his feelings, but I'm sure he wants

920
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 3: to be able to give you what you need himself.

921
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 3: But I'm sure he'll want to support what's best for you.

922
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 3: I'd start off by pulling him aside and outlining that

923
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 3: you appreciate him taking you in, but you're not feeling

924
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 3: comfortable in the house and the problems you've just outlined.

925
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 3: You can then move on to say his friends have

926
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 3: offered to take you in and you think that would

927
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 3: really help. Would he be open to letting you stay

928
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,280
Speaker 3: with them for a while and reevaluate if that helps.

929
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 3: You could also set up standing hang out times so

930
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 3: you still see each other. That may help too. Good luck, honey.

931
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 3: I hope the new couple make you feel loved and welcomed.

932
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 3: Obie says. The thing that really sucks is that I

933
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 3: don't even know if he knows me enough to love me.

934
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 3: Before my mom passed away, I hadn't seen him in

935
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 3: almost a decade and had only met him twice before that.

936
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 3: I think he's trying to be nice and give me

937
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 3: a place to stay, but he's basically just as much

938
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 3: of a stranger as the rest of his family is.

939
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 3: We're going to have lunch with his friends tomorrow, so

940
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 3: I'm going to try and bring it up there so

941
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 3: at least they'll be there to help the conversation. And

942
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 3: there is an update. But do you have any thoughts?

943
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 6: I had totally forgot this, but Katera Rain is pointing

944
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 6: out the most messed up part is they're not even related.

945
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 6: This is the dad's best friend that's offering to take

946
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 6: her in.

947
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, this isn't like an anything. My dad

948
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 3: with friends together, heard how he was being treated and said, hey,

949
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 3: do you need a place to stay? Yeah, Like if

950
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 3: he's hearing about it, then the dad maybe is talking

951
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 3: about it, yeah, yeah to but like it's still not

952
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 3: realizing it to the point where someone outside the situation

953
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 3: who was not related to Opie at all is like,

954
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 3: you are you need to get out of there?

955
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 6: Like wow, yeah, which means the dad probably does see

956
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 6: some of this more than you think.

957
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 3: There is an update, though, folks. It's been about a

958
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 3: week since I talked to my dad and I've had

959
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 3: a couple people message about an update, so I figured

960
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 3: i'd give one for those who didn't see my original post.

961
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 3: I sixteen, Mail, had to move in with my dad

962
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 3: forty seven Mail and his family after my mom passed away,

963
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 3: and things have been extremely strained, the worst incidences being

964
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 3: my half brother ripping pics of my mom up and

965
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 3: my dad's wife leaving me locked at the house. So

966
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 3: I was given the offer to move out by my

967
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 3: dad's friend and his husband, both thirties. Mail. I followed

968
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 3: a couple people's suggestion and texted my dad's friend that

969
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 3: I wanted to leave, and they ended up suggesting we

970
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 3: all go out to lunch. I think they could both

971
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 3: tell how nervous I was around my dad, and my

972
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 3: dad's friend Jay ended up being the one to bring

973
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 3: up the idea of me moving out. My dad seemed

974
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 3: completely blindsided by it and asked why I wanted to

975
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 3: move out. Jay and his husband Benny reminded him about

976
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 3: everything that's been going on at home, and I just

977
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 3: kind of sat there. My dad seemed really upset, and

978
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 3: it made me feel terrible because I already felt guilty

979
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 3: about leaving. But then he just asked if I really

980
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 3: wanted to go. I said yes, and he just immediately agreed.

981
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 6: Oh, oh, and don't let that hurt the way that

982
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 6: I know it probably is.

983
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 3: But oh, but like, think about it this way. You

984
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 3: have two people who I'm assuming, like, no, you you know,

985
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 3: are in your life, know you, who want you yeah,

986
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 3: and are like you know and will probably want to

987
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 3: learn more about you. It kind of hit me that

988
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 3: I wanted him to try and fight for me, to

989
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 3: say sorry for everything that he's been letting happen, and

990
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 3: for my dad to try and keep me at home,

991
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 3: but he just let me go like it was nothing.

992
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 3: It's been hard after my mom passed away and my

993
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,280
Speaker 3: dad's the only family I got left, so it really

994
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 3: didn't make me feel any better about leaving, even though

995
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 3: I don't have to deal with my dad's family anymore.

996
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 3: Benny took me back to their apartment while Jay went

997
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 3: with my dad to get my stuff from the house,

998
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 3: and they had set up their extra room for me already.

999
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 3: He apologized that they hadn't been able to do this

1000
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 3: sooner and that they hoped I would like living with them.

1001
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 3: They came back with all of my things and they

1002
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 3: gave me time to decompress. I ended up sleeping for

1003
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 3: almost sixteen hours because I was so exhausted. Over the

1004
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 3: last week, they've been really nice about making me feel

1005
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 3: at home, and I've talked to me about getting into

1006
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 3: therapy to deal with losing my mom and everything that

1007
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,959
Speaker 3: happened at my dad's house. They're also trying to figure

1008
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 3: out how to move me into a different school so

1009
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 3: I don't have to deal with my half sister and

1010
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,919
Speaker 3: everyone that knew my half brother. It's the first time

1011
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 3: in months that I feel that I can actually breathe,

1012
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 3: and I don't feel like I'm constantly on guard. My

1013
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 3: dad hasn't texted me much or reached out in the

1014
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 3: last week, so I don't know what's going to happen

1015
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 3: with him, but for now I'm safe, I guess. So

1016
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 3: that's what happened so far. Thanks for everyone that gave

1017
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 3: me advice and wished me well. It's been really hard

1018
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 3: lately and it made me feel less alone.

1019
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 6: So wholesome pret these dads, I'm like, oh my god, I.

1020
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 3: Mean, you got these like amazing adult figures in your

1021
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 3: life you want, you are looking out for. You have

1022
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 3: created this space for you to be comfortable and feel safe.

1023
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 6: In, had the room set up, even like not knowing

1024
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 6: how that conversation would go if she actually end.

1025
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 3: Up going yeah, I mean, Opie, Like this is not

1026
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 3: something that happens for everyone in this situation, so like,

1027
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 3: uh yeah, I mean awful situation that you had to

1028
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 3: come from and like the heartbreak of losing your mother.

1029
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 3: But it's it's it's really amazing that you have these

1030
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 3: people in your life that care about you. But there's

1031
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 3: a little bit left to the story. Edits Wow, this

1032
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 3: unexpectedly blew up and I'm kind of stunned. My other

1033
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 3: posts never gained much traction, so I never expected this

1034
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 3: update to get so much attention. A quick update over

1035
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,280
Speaker 3: the last twenty four hours or so. Benny's sister somehow

1036
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 3: saw this and sent it sent it to him, so

1037
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 3: he and Jay came in and asked they never heard

1038
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 3: about the picture incident and apologized that they hadn't asked

1039
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 3: to get me out sooner. They had no idea how

1040
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 3: bad it was, and said I can stay as long

1041
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 3: as I want or need to. I realized then that

1042
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 3: I hadn't really said thank you to them because it's

1043
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 3: been so crazy, so I told them how much I

1044
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,919
Speaker 3: appreciated having the place to stay. It was a really

1045
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 3: emotional moment, honestly, and I'm glad it happened. They did

1046
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 3: think it was funny that they've been called everything from

1047
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 3: my roommates to my new landlords, so that's helped soften

1048
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 3: the mood a little. Sorry, I haven't been able to

1049
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 3: respond to many comments. This feels really overwhelming, but I

1050
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 3: just wanted everyone to know that the support means a lot. Thanks.

1051
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 6: My brother is freeloading off our parents. I'm sick of

1052
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 6: him treating them like garbage.

1053
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 3: Bake out the tresh So.

1054
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:54,439
Speaker 6: In the past month, my older brother's fiance left him.

1055
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 6: This meant he lost his house because the home they

1056
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 6: lived in was in her name, his vehicle because what

1057
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:05,320
Speaker 6: he was driving was her old car. He also lost

1058
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 6: his job because he was so focused on his breakup

1059
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 6: that he was constantly making mistakes. He moved in with

1060
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 6: our parents, who lived about five minutes away from my

1061
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 6: husband and me. By the way, this comes from green Light,

1062
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 6: and if you want to submit your own stories, go

1063
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:23,280
Speaker 6: to the r slash Okay storytime subreddit. So I do

1064
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 6: have a lot of sympathy for him. He literally has nothing,

1065
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 6: no home, no car, no job, no relationship. The problem

1066
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 6: is this is the third time that this has.

1067
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 3: Happened to him. That's right.

1068
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:39,280
Speaker 6: He has had three fiances leave him now and every

1069
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 6: time he winds up losing everything. He has had two

1070
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 6: cars impounded because he gets so upset over his breakups.

1071
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 6: He loses his job and can't make payments on his vehicles.

1072
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 6: My parents and I have bailed him out of these

1073
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 6: situations every time. I even paid his back payments on

1074
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 6: his car, paid for his dog's vet bills, and paid

1075
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 6: for some of his rent before. My parents and I

1076
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 6: have literally spent thousands of dollars trying to help him.

1077
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,280
Speaker 6: Each of the past two times, he winds up moving

1078
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 6: back in with my parents, who are in their late sixties,

1079
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 6: while we pay for everything for him. Whenever he goes

1080
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 6: through a breakup, he becomes a total knucklehead. He spends

1081
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 6: every weekend out with his friends, camping or vacationing. How

1082
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 6: he pays for it, I have no idea. After the

1083
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 6: second fiance, he took a trip to Fiji with his

1084
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 6: friends but couldn't afford to pay his rent. He mostly

1085
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 6: ignores me unless he needs money, which during all this

1086
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,879
Speaker 6: breakup I am refusing to help him out at all.

1087
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 6: The worst part is he treats my parents like garbage.

1088
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 6: If they ask him a question like have you been

1089
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 6: looking for a job, he will yell at them. He

1090
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 6: has no problem eating the food they provide for him,

1091
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 6: and living in their house rent and utility free, and

1092
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,720
Speaker 6: driving my mom's brand new car, which she got because

1093
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 6: he totaled her last car, but makes them absolutely miserable.

1094
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 3: My mom told me he will yell them.

1095
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 6: Call her stupid, trashes their house, sleeps all day, and

1096
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,280
Speaker 6: leaves the care of his dog up to them.

1097
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, uh, brother is thirty six.

1098
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 3: Thirty six and behaving this way? Wow? This man out.

1099
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you're just like, you're far too old to

1100
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 3: act like this.

1101
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 6: I can see maybe why you have been on fiance

1102
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 6: three times.

1103
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 3: Yes, understandably, and also your parents are like totally allowing

1104
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 3: this behavior by not taking him out and just saying, well,

1105
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 3: he always yells at us, but we're gonna let him

1106
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 3: stay here.

1107
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 6: Every time I see my mom lately, it's obvious that

1108
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 6: she's been crying. The most recent event took place on Sunday.

1109
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 6: In an attempt to get him out of the house

1110
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 6: for a while, I offered to take him out on

1111
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 6: our boat. He seemed super excited about it, and when

1112
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 6: he's excited, he can actually be a lot of fun

1113
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 6: to be around. He tells me he's hanging out with friends,

1114
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 6: but we'll be back in town Sunday afternoon. Sunday afternoon

1115
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 6: rolls around and he's nowhere to be seen. I get

1116
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 6: a text around six pm that he's decided to go

1117
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 6: to a local tourist destination with all his friends. They

1118
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 6: are going to tube down a river. I'm bummed because

1119
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 6: I was honestly looking forward to it, and because my

1120
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 6: brother has once again chosen his friends over his family.

1121
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 3: But it's whatever.

1122
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 6: I honestly don't rely on him for anything, so it's

1123
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,879
Speaker 6: not that big of a deal. But then I find

1124
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 6: out he's driving my mom's car and she has to

1125
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 6: be in her office early Monday morning. Then the peaceful

1126
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 6: protests in our town turn into full on riots, and

1127
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 6: my brother still is not home. At this point, he

1128
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 6: can't get home because they've blocked off access to our town,

1129
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 6: so he just stays with his friends and I wind

1130
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 6: up taking my mom to work. My dad tries to

1131
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 6: talk to my brother on Monday about how irresponsible he was,

1132
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 6: and my brother just yells at them and then locks

1133
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,399
Speaker 6: himself in my parents' basement for the rest of the day.

1134
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 3: My parents are miserable.

1135
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 6: They want to help and have always said they will

1136
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 6: do anything for us kids, but they are just enabling

1137
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 6: my brother every time they bail him out. My dad

1138
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 6: has major health problems that are being exacerbated by the

1139
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 6: stress my brother is causing. My mom has a history

1140
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 6: of severe depression that I see her slipping back into

1141
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 6: the longer my brother is with them. I'm really close

1142
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 6: to my parents and they are usually very fun people.

1143
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 6: The longer my brother stays with them, I am seeing

1144
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 6: them become depressed, short tempered, and miserable. I tried telling

1145
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 6: them to punt him out. One of his friends would

1146
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 6: surely take him in, but they insist that they don't

1147
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 6: want to leave him homeless. I can't convince them to

1148
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 6: punt him out. But is there anything else I can

1149
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 6: say or do that might get my brother to get

1150
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 6: his head out of his butt and get a job.

1151
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 6: How can I get my brother to see his behavior

1152
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 6: towards my parents is unacceptable?

1153
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 3: It just really sucks.

1154
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 6: I used to really look up to my older brother

1155
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 6: because he is outgoing and funny and the sort of

1156
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 6: person everyone just gravitates towards. Now I'm just pissed at

1157
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 6: him for how he treats my parents, and simultaneously scared

1158
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 6: for his mental health because he clearly has a lot

1159
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 6: of problems. We have some comments. Comment one, it's not

1160
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 6: a mistake that these women keep leaving him. I'm guessing

1161
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 6: mooches off of them too, until they break up.

1162
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: Uh.

1163
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 6: He will not change until he faces consequences for his actions,

1164
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 6: and you and your parents stop enabling him. He's almost

1165
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 6: forty and behaving like a teenager. That's appalling, but you

1166
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 6: can't fix him and we have a reply. Yep, this

1167
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 6: what's happening is likely due to super physically cute and

1168
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 6: a lot of fun.

1169
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 3: To be around.

1170
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 6: Charms the panties right off these women and they don't

1171
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 6: wake up from the spell.

1172
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 3: For a few years.

1173
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 6: I doubt this guy will ever change. It's worked for

1174
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 6: him his whole adult life. Just got to find himself

1175
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 6: yet another gal that doesn't mind being a sucker op.

1176
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 3: He says, you've sort of hit.

1177
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 6: The nail on the head. All his girlfriends slash fiances

1178
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 6: have also been substantially younger. The most recent was eleven

1179
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 6: years younger. He charms them and things are great for

1180
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 6: a couple of years. He's also really good at making money,

1181
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 6: like could have been an old timey con man in

1182
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 6: another life. So he'll find a new scheme and give

1183
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 6: the girls super fancy gifts, but inevitably things fall apart

1184
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 6: when the girls really start doing life with him. I

1185
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 6: hope that he changes. I would really like for him

1186
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 6: to change, but you're right, it'll probably never happen. I

1187
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 6: just want to keep my parents and an eye from being

1188
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 6: sucked into his up and down cycles.

1189
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 3: We do have an update, Holly, I think what you do? Yeah,

1190
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 3: stick with me here. Yeah, you send him a letter, okay,

1191
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 3: and you say, hey, it's your parents here. We want

1192
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:33,240
Speaker 3: you gone. Don't ask us about it because we're very sensitive. Yes,

1193
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:36,320
Speaker 3: we want you out of here by tonight. The parents

1194
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 3: mail it from their house to their house. Oh he

1195
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 3: mails it, I know, but it would yes, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,

1196
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 3: I'm on board. I'm on board. They slip it under

1197
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 3: the door. Yes, and uh, and they say, don't don't

1198
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 3: ask us about it because we're.

1199
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,399
Speaker 6: Too hurt, naturally, and he listens, and he listens, is.

1200
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 3: He goes what I guess, I can't ask them about it,

1201
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 3: gotta go.

1202
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,240
Speaker 6: And he leaves and like all solved.

1203
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 3: All problems solved, like that, that's done. There you go, solutions.

1204
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 6: Ten out of ten. I think that's exactly what this

1205
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:11,720
Speaker 6: update's gonna be.

1206
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 3: Yep, that's what I'm thinking.

1207
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 6: Thank you for the responses. A couple of things. I

1208
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 6: am in no position to psychoanalyze my brother or parents,

1209
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 6: but I do believe that mental health is a primary

1210
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 6: reason for how any human acts the way they do,

1211
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 6: and clearly my brother's mental health is not good. I

1212
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 6: am encouraging my family to see therapists, but I decided

1213
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 6: I will not be paying for my brothers because there

1214
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 6: is truly no telling if he would go or be

1215
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 6: willing to change. Also, my mom works for a not

1216
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 6: for profit for the elderly and specializes in elderly abuse cases.

1217
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 6: She told me that she knows what he is doing

1218
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 6: is technically elder abuse, but she does not want to

1219
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 6: report it or want me to report.

1220
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,399
Speaker 3: She's like, I'm super familiar with it.

1221
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 6: I know exactly how this goes. If things get any worse, though,

1222
00:52:58,360 --> 00:52:59,439
Speaker 6: I will go behind her.

1223
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:03,359
Speaker 3: Back, send send a letter in a letter, and they

1224
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 3: can't ask about it. I said, the letter, you can't ask.

1225
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 6: I went to my parents' house last night for an

1226
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 6: unrelated reason and had a brief talk with my brother

1227
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 6: that devolved into a shouting match. I started by showing

1228
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 6: him four different jobs I found online that he could

1229
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 6: apply for, but none of them were good enough for him,

1230
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 6: and he was insulted that I thought he would work

1231
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 6: these jobs. And that's and that's when the shouting match started.

1232
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,240
Speaker 6: I'm an educator. I know I shouldn't have let myself

1233
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 6: get into a power struggle with him, But siblings just

1234
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 6: know how to push your buttons, you know, I think.

1235
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 3: That your parents are adults. It really sucks that your

1236
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 3: brother's taking advantage of them. I think that you can

1237
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 3: tell them what you're seeing. You can tell them, hey,

1238
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 3: he needs to get a freaking life. Yeah, and stop

1239
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 3: mooching off you guys. Hopefully they want to let that

1240
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 3: keep happening. That's they're adults. They're seemingly in you know,

1241
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 3: their right mind. She's so aware that she knows it elsewhere.

1242
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 3: It's like at a certain point, you can tell someone

1243
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 3: that they're in a bad situation, but you can't force

1244
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 3: them to leave it. Yeah, that doesn't mean you have

1245
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 3: to like involve yourself to an extreme where you're or

1246
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 3: you know, to the point where you were like hurting

1247
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 3: your own mental health.

1248
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say give your parents that threat of

1249
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 6: like I will report this anonymously. Yeah, you guys should

1250
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 6: change something. I continue to not financially support him like

1251
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 6: that part too. Yeah, good, don't do that. But Yeah, anyway,

1252
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 6: I was able to talk to my mom one on one,

1253
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 6: and she is totally unwilling to do anything about him.

1254
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,839
Speaker 6: She will not even give him the deadline of when

1255
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 6: he has to have a job, nor will she stop

1256
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 6: lending him her car. She also reiterated how miserable she

1257
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 6: is in her own home with him being around, but

1258
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 6: she insists she feels so bad for him and she

1259
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 6: doesn't want to force him to do anything. So I

1260
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 6: told her that I am done with him and I

1261
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 6: will not be spending any time at their house as

1262
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 6: long as they continue to let him drain them of

1263
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 6: their health, finances, and mental well being. I told her

1264
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 6: she and Dad are welcome at my house anytime, but

1265
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 6: my brother is not. I have to tell you I

1266
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 6: have never felt like a crappier person. It is not

1267
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 6: in my nature to just give up on people.

1268
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 3: We have not given up on anyone. No, not, I

1269
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 3: have given up on themselves and fixing this situation. And

1270
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 3: that's not your fault.

1271
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 6: They are completely aware of the problem and are telling

1272
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 6: you flat out they don't.

1273
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 3: Want to do anything. Exactly, you cannot do anything if

1274
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 3: they don't want to help themselves.

1275
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,680
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Speaker 3: My friend's sister confessed her feelings to me, but I

1280
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 3: see her as a sibling. Uh oh, sorry, girl. I

1281
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 3: twenty four male. I have been friends with Alex twenty

1282
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 3: four male since our middle school, or more than nineteen years.

1283
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 3: We were so close that we were always together, to

1284
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 3: the point where people thought that we were siblings. We

1285
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 3: lived in a small village in our houses were really

1286
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 3: close together, so throughout high school, higher secondary, and college,

1287
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,399
Speaker 3: there were days we spent time and nights in each

1288
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 3: other's houses. I was literally like an adopted son to

1289
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 3: Alex's parents. By the way, this comes from need some

1290
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,680
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1292
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 3: Alex has a younger sister, Alena, twenty one female. I

1293
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 3: have no siblings, so the moment I met Alena, she

1294
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 3: has been like my own sister since I've always wanted

1295
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,439
Speaker 3: to have a sister. Whenever I was in Alex's home,

1296
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 3: she always came and spent time with us. Me and

1297
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 3: Alex studied in the same higher secondary school and college

1298
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 3: near our village, that even in our late teens, our

1299
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 3: friendships still continued. Alena was so close to me that

1300
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 3: whenever Alex or her father weren't free, it was my

1301
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,280
Speaker 3: job to take your shopping or to places she wanted

1302
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 3: to visit. So I was literally a second brother to her.

1303
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 3: We were so much like siblings that there were times

1304
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 3: I scolded and reprimanded her. She has always been obedient

1305
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 3: towards me, more than she has been to Alex. I

1306
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 3: wonder why so. Her parents always used to joke that

1307
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:03,840
Speaker 3: I am a better brother to her than Alex dang Man.

1308
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 3: There was an incident that occurred when I was in college.

1309
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 3: I went to a movie alone since all my friends,

1310
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 3: including Alex, were busy with something. When the movie finished

1311
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 3: and I was coming out of the theater, I saw

1312
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 3: Elena and two of her female friends coming out of

1313
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 3: the same theater. I was surprised and went to ask

1314
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 3: what she was doing there. She was completely shocked to

1315
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 3: see me and started crying. She didn't say a word

1316
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:32,439
Speaker 3: and continued crying, WHOA wow. When I saw that people

1317
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 3: were staring at us, I took her and her friends

1318
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 3: to a nearby cafe and started asking for details. They

1319
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 3: confess they cut their tuition class came to the movie

1320
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 3: without anyone knowing. I asked if they did this regularly,

1321
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 3: to which they said it was their first time and

1322
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 3: they'd never do it again. All this time, Alena never

1323
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 3: spoke a word, and she just continued crying. Oh my god,

1324
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 3: this is like when you do like something slightly bad,

1325
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 3: and then yeah, really, I'm sorry. I told them that

1326
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 3: this time I would help them to cover it up,

1327
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 3: but if I ever saw or knew about them doing

1328
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 3: it again, I would inform their parents. The girls agreed,

1329
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 3: and the two friends left. I bought Alena snacks for

1330
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 3: her to stop crying, and for some time she stopped

1331
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 3: crying and said she was sorry. I told her it

1332
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 3: was okay and to go home and never repeat this again.

1333
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 3: I never informed Alex or his parents. Three years ago,

1334
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 3: Elena got her admission in a college in a far

1335
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 3: away city that she had to move away. Her mother

1336
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 3: was so reluctant to send her away to a totally

1337
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 3: different city, Alena insisted it was her dream college that

1338
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 3: she wanted to study there, so she moved away to

1339
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 3: the new city. When I was in my last year

1340
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 3: of college. Two years ago, I graduated and got a

1341
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 3: job in the same city Elena was studying it. Alex

1342
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 3: got a job in another city, which is even farther

1343
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 3: away from both our village and the city. I got

1344
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 3: the job in. Both of us were sad that we

1345
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 3: had to separate after more than seventeen years of being together,

1346
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 3: but his mom was really happy about me getting a

1347
00:58:57,960 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 3: job in the city that Elena was in. She said

1348
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 3: she can finally be at ease since I was there

1349
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 3: to look after Elena if anything happened to her. So

1350
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 3: when I moved to the new city, Alena was there

1351
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 3: to collect me from the railway station along with her friends.

1352
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 2: Knowing this guy, Elena probably like wore something really cute.

1353
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. She was like, oh my god, I'm really

1354
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 3: pick him up from the station. Yeah, and all of

1355
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 3: her friends like.

1356
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: Did he get him a hug around his neck?

1357
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1358
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: And he's just like, h.

1359
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 3: How's a little I don't know, probably closes are.

1360
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: Like chicken chicken.

1361
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 3: That was a little chicken doon and she's like, ah ha,

1362
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 3: you know that's not my name. Alena and four of

1363
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 3: her friends lived together in a rented house near their campus.

1364
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 3: I introduced myself as Elena's brother's friend. All of them

1365
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 3: were communicating something through their eyes. Later I start Later,

1366
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 3: I settled at a place near my company. It was

1367
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 3: only thirty minutes away from Elena's campus. She and her

1368
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 3: friends took me to the major places in the city

1369
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 3: that evening. Since it was my first time here, I

1370
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 3: was really happy to be taken care of by them.

1371
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 3: For the last two years I have been living in

1372
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 3: the city. During Elena's vacations, we went back to our

1373
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 3: village together and came back together. I was gifted my

1374
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 3: own car a year ago by my parents. Now I

1375
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 3: am well acquainted with all of Elena's friends that I

1376
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 3: take them for shopping and movies during some weekends. There

1377
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 3: were times I was even called to the house they

1378
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 3: live in to move furniture or change lights. They even

1379
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 3: cooked for me and we ate together at their house

1380
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 3: on some holidays. I've already told them, no matter what

1381
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 3: the place or time is, if they needed help, be

1382
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 3: sure to call me. Today, when I reached my room

1383
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 3: after work, I got a call from Elena's number. I

1384
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 3: took the call and one of Alena's friends said she

1385
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 3: will share a location and asked for me to be there.

1386
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 3: I asked what happened and she said I will understand

1387
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 3: once I'm there. So I took my car and went

1388
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 3: to the location they shared dude. There, I saw Elena

1389
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 3: and three of her friends outside a pub. Alena was

1390
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 3: sitting on a bench outside, while all three other girls

1391
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 3: were standing next her. I went to them and asked

1392
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 3: what happened. They said they just came for some drinks,

1393
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 3: and Elena got withted. It was not a shock to me,

1394
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 3: since I knew these girls went out for drinks occasionally

1395
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 3: and I used to pick them up sometimes. They said

1396
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 3: they needed help to bring Elena back to their house.

1397
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 3: I went near Elena and asked if she could walk.

1398
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 3: She opened her eyes and looked at me. She called

1399
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 3: out my name loudly.

1400
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: Be why you here?

1401
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:30,600
Speaker 3: I told her I came to take her back home.

1402
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 3: She didn't reply. She screamed at her friends, asking them

1403
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 3: why they called me when she was this wasteed. Her

1404
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 3: friends were looking at each other and not knowing what

1405
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 3: to say. I carried her to my car and sat

1406
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 3: her on the front seat. Then I asked the rest

1407
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 3: of the girls to get in. They said they were

1408
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 3: not planning to turn yet and they were still friends

1409
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 3: waiting for them inside. I asked them how they planned

1410
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 3: to return. They said they don't plan on drinking anymore,

1411
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 3: and they'll call a cab. They said one of their

1412
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 3: friends is still home. She doesn't drink, so she decided

1413
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 3: to stay home and she will look after Elena. That

1414
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 3: all I have to do is take her home. I

1415
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 3: told him good night and started driving. Elena was still

1416
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:08,840
Speaker 3: sitting next to me, silent and was staring at me.

1417
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk, but decided not to since she

1418
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 3: was too wasted. After driving for about ten minutes, Elena

1419
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 3: told me to stop the car. I stopped it and

1420
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 3: Elena started throwing out through the window. I waited for

1421
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 3: her to finish. After finishing, she started crying and started

1422
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 3: bawling that she was sorry and asked me not to

1423
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 3: hate her. She kept on apologizing and asked me not

1424
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 3: to scold her. I turned the car off and told

1425
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 3: her not to worry. I told her this happened sometimes

1426
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 3: and there's nothing to be ashamed of even though I

1427
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 3: don't drink. I've had friends and coworkers who got wasted

1428
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,520
Speaker 3: and threw up a lot. But she still kept apologizing

1429
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 3: and told me not to hate her. I totally had

1430
01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 3: no idea what to do next. Then she started saying

1431
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 3: that it hurts the most when I scold her. She

1432
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 3: said she never gets this much hurt, even if Alex

1433
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 3: or her father scold her. I was happy to hear

1434
01:02:58,000 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 3: that she gave me that much respect to her.

1435
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's probably just because, I mean, we know that

1436
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:06,200
Speaker 7: she likes him yet, like also, like even if she

1437
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 7: didn't even realize that at first, Like, I'm sure that

1438
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 7: would kind of hurt. If it's like someone that you

1439
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 7: really care about her, you really want.

1440
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 3: To like like you back. Yeah, that would make sense.

1441
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 3: I understand why she thinks that, but it's to him

1442
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 3: being like, I love that she respects me so much. Yeah, well,

1443
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 3: the situation is just strange. So I didn't speak and

1444
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,240
Speaker 3: let her finish her ranting. She said she doesn't want

1445
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 3: me to hate or think she's a bad girl and wasted.

1446
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 3: It was then she started saying things I never thought

1447
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 3: I would hear from her. She said she's always had

1448
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 3: a crush on me since high school. She said she

1449
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 3: was so in love with me that she made reasons

1450
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 3: to go out with me for shopping those days. She said,

1451
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 3: you always love to spend time with me whenever I

1452
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 3: went there to their house. She said she loved the

1453
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 3: way I looked, I talked, I took care of her.

1454
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 3: She said she loved everything about me. She said she

1455
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 3: was devastated the day I caught her at the movie theater,

1456
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 3: not because she was afraid of her parents, but because

1457
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 3: she was afraid I would think that she's a bad girl,

1458
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 3: she said. She cried about it the following days after

1459
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 3: the incident. She said that all this time she knew

1460
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 3: that I only viewed her as my sister, and it

1461
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 3: hurts her a lot. She always wanted me to view

1462
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 3: her as a girl rather than my sister. This is

1463
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 3: such a rom com, dude, Yeah, yeah, m She said.

1464
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 3: She went far away from our village for college in

1465
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 3: order to get away from me and her feelings towards me.

1466
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 3: She called me an aole for following her to the

1467
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 3: new city just when she was trying to move on.

1468
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:33,680
Speaker 3: She said, seeing me at the railway station that day

1469
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 3: made all of her feelings for me flood back at her.

1470
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 3: She said that the last two years she enjoyed spending

1471
01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 3: time with me again, that all the weekend plans and

1472
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 3: household chores were planned for her to spend more time

1473
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 3: with me. She kept on bawling and weeping. She even

1474
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 3: said she rejected two guys who asked her out during

1475
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 3: the last three years just because of her love for me,

1476
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 3: She said, I'm so insensitive and cruel for treating her

1477
01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 3: like a sister. Actual drop bears smut prolonged. Yeah, yeah,

1478
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 3: she said. She tried to hate me as much as

1479
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 3: she could, but no matter how hard she tried, she

1480
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 3: couldn't find it in her heart to do so. She

1481
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 3: said I should at least give her a chance. After

1482
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 3: ranting all this time, she then continued crying for some time,

1483
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 3: and it slowly calmed down. I was frozen in my seat,

1484
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 3: searching for words. After she calmed down, we both stayed

1485
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:30,720
Speaker 3: silent for some time. I was totally confused, and never

1486
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:34,240
Speaker 3: in my twenty four years of life had I ever

1487
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 3: felt this lost. I asked her if I could start

1488
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 3: the car. She stayed silent. Wait what when?

1489
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 6: Oh?

1490
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 3: When she started throwing up. Oh okay, she's like.

1491
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: Literal wors Yeah, and she's explained.

1492
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:55,920
Speaker 3: He's like Miss Suzy says, the girl needs to lay

1493
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 3: off the romance. Not literally, the thing is that I mean,

1494
01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 3: I know she's a little tipsy. We both stayed silent

1495
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 3: throughout the drive. It was so tense that I could

1496
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 3: hear my own heartbeat. When we reached her house, I

1497
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 3: got out of the car and went to open the

1498
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 3: door for her, but she actually opened it and tried

1499
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 3: to storm out. I could see that she was angry, sad,

1500
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 3: and embarrassed. It didn't feel like she was wasted anymore,

1501
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 3: or so I thought. After taking two steps outside the car,

1502
01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 3: she fell down a losing balance. I ran and tried

1503
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:29,920
Speaker 3: to help her up. She shout it at me not

1504
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 3: to touch her and not to even talk to herver again.

1505
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 3: I stood there for a minute, not knowing what to do.

1506
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:37,960
Speaker 3: Then I went and knocked on the door of her house.

1507
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 3: Her friend came and opened the door. Seeing me, she

1508
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 3: was confused at first, Then seeing Alena sitting on the

1509
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,320
Speaker 3: ground in the front yard made.

1510
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 1: Her more confused.

1511
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 3: She asked me what happened, and I told her to

1512
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 3: help Elena get up and take her inside. Though she

1513
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 3: was confused, she nodded and took Alena inside. After two minutes,

1514
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 3: she came out and asked I told her we had

1515
01:06:57,760 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 3: a little fight and asked her to take care of

1516
01:06:59,880 --> 01:07:02,560
Speaker 3: her Lena that I told her good night and drove

1517
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 3: back to my room. Wow.

1518
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 7: He like he like closes the door in his bedroom

1519
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:09,800
Speaker 7: and then like puts his back against dor and sinks

1520
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 7: to the ground.

1521
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 3: Like he like slams his fist against the walls. Yeah,

1522
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 3: he's looking out the windows. He has his hand against

1523
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:20,280
Speaker 3: the windows.

1524
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 1: And then it's like.

1525
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 3: And then and then it cuts to transitions to her

1526
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 3: looking out the window too. Yeah, a bit different when

1527
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 3: she's up, she's.

1528
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 1: In the store, the rates pouring her.

1529
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 3: Her eyes. This is where I am now, sitting on

1530
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 3: my bed type in this, I tried to sort out

1531
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 3: all my thoughts and feelings. Nothing is helping me reach anywhere.

1532
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 3: I'm totally lost. It's not the first time that a

1533
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 3: girl told me she loves me. I was asked out

1534
01:07:57,200 --> 01:08:00,240
Speaker 3: by both in college and uh by one one of

1535
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 3: my coworkers. I kindly rejected them. I don't think I'm

1536
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 3: mentally mature enough for any relationship. I had crushes in

1537
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 3: high school, but never even thought about a relationship. I've

1538
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 3: been single my whole life, and I've never even held

1539
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 3: hands with a girl romantically. I always thought that the

1540
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 3: one I need would naturally come to me when it's

1541
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:19,040
Speaker 3: the right time. Wow. Knowing that the girl I've considered

1542
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 3: my own sister my whole life has been crushing on

1543
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 3: me is the biggest shock I've ever had. What should

1544
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:27,000
Speaker 3: I do now cut contact with her? Dang, But what

1545
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 3: will I tell Alex and her parents? Should I speak

1546
01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 3: to her? But what can I tell her other than

1547
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 3: the thing she already knows that she's like a sister

1548
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:36,080
Speaker 3: to me. I mean, if you're waiting for the one

1549
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 3: to come, maybe the girl's been in front of your

1550
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:40,719
Speaker 3: eyes this whole time.

1551
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's never out of relationship or held hands with

1552
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,479
Speaker 4: a girl. That just adds to the rom causes your time.

1553
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 4: Man hold hands with her.

1554
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 3: Hold hands with her. Maybe you'll feel that sparking. If

1555
01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:54,800
Speaker 3: you really don't have feelings for this girl, talk to her,

1556
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:59,440
Speaker 3: say hey, don't cut her off. Uh, say hey, I'm

1557
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:02,639
Speaker 3: really sorry. I see you as a sister. I will

1558
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 3: always love you as a sister. I think you're very

1559
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:07,920
Speaker 3: important to me. And then like, see what she needs?

1560
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 3: Does she need space? Does she need time away from you?

1561
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 3: I don't have to cut anything off. I don't think

1562
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 3: you even need to tell her brother this is her thing.

1563
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 3: Don't embarrass her. Just have a conversation with her exactly. Definitely,

1564
01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:22,720
Speaker 3: don't cut her off. Just maybe we shouldn't hang out.

1565
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:25,240
Speaker 3: I maybe we shouldn't hang out this much. I never

1566
01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:27,519
Speaker 3: knew this was what she was feeling all this time.

1567
01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 3: It's more than ten years. I feel guilty for hurting

1568
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:32,800
Speaker 3: a girl for this long. I want her to move on.

1569
01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 3: Knowing that she's refusing to be in another relationship because

1570
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:39,639
Speaker 3: of me is hurting me more. She's rejecting the love

1571
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:43,639
Speaker 3: she deserves for the love she may never get. Can

1572
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:45,760
Speaker 3: I ever give her a chance like she asked and

1573
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:48,880
Speaker 3: love her as a woman? Can a man change his

1574
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:51,679
Speaker 3: brotherly feelings yet towards a girl his whole life into

1575
01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:55,000
Speaker 3: romantic feelings overnight. I'm only even considering this option because

1576
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 3: I never want to lose her from my life. She

1577
01:09:56,880 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 3: is that dear to me. Even if I can, how

1578
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:01,600
Speaker 3: will I face out and his parents? Was it my

1579
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:04,160
Speaker 3: mistake that she felt this way? Should I realize that

1580
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 3: an adopted brother would never be the same as a

1581
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:10,240
Speaker 3: blood brother? Was I wrong to expect her to look

1582
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 3: the same way and I looked at her? Someone please

1583
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 3: get that line I think he's saying, like it was

1584
01:10:16,040 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 3: it wrong to think that like me, thinking that we

1585
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:21,840
Speaker 3: were had a sibling relationship was the same as her

1586
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:25,559
Speaker 3: actual sibling relationship. Okay, okay, I am totally lost. How

1587
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 3: should I move forward in my relationship with her, And

1588
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:30,479
Speaker 3: I've already said if you're not sure, go on a

1589
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:32,800
Speaker 3: date with her. I don't know. If you are sure,

1590
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:34,120
Speaker 3: don't date her and tell her.

1591
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:35,919
Speaker 1: That you questioning.

1592
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:39,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, tell her, tell her like, hey, girl, I don't

1593
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:41,760
Speaker 3: know if I like you. I've always seen you as

1594
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 3: a sister. I'd be down to go on a date,

1595
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:46,080
Speaker 3: but I don't want this to change. Like, can we

1596
01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 3: be careful about this or be like eah, girl, I

1597
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 3: don't like you at all. Like that, let's be friends.

1598
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 3: What do you need