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Speaker 4: I want to leave my fiance after my best friend

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Speaker 4: confess to me.

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Speaker 1: Confess to you that your fiance is actually an alien.

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Speaker 4: Bigger warning homophobia.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 4: My thirty two female wedding is a bit over a

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Speaker 4: month away. Me and my fiance forty seven male, have

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Speaker 4: been dating since I was twenty six, and we were

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Speaker 4: planning our wedding over this last year. My best friend,

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Speaker 4: thirty one female, lives pretty far away, but she has

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Speaker 4: been helping me through FaceTime calls and an occasional visit

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Speaker 4: with my wedding plans and picking all the cute things

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Speaker 4: for it to be the perfect day. She was going

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Speaker 4: to be my maid of honor. By the way, this

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Speaker 1: I'm Sophia, I'm Michael Douglas, I'm Kean, I'm Dakota.

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Speaker 4: And we're here to give good advice. Goofully Oh, we

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Speaker 4: don't have all the answers. We only know what we'd do.

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Speaker 4: Let us know what you would do in the common

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Speaker 4: and opisas. We have been best friends since we were

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Speaker 4: in our late high school years and went to the

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Speaker 4: same college, shared dorm, et cetera, basically as close as

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Speaker 4: we could get. My best friend is a sapphik, and

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Speaker 4: through my college years I identified as a by woman.

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Speaker 4: We never went further than a few kisses on a

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Speaker 4: night out, and I was never serious, or so I thought.

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Speaker 4: My best friend lives in a very queer friendly place

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Speaker 4: and has continued to engage with the community and live

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Speaker 4: as a queer life. I, however, kind of left that

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Speaker 4: behind in my college years, not saying being by as

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Speaker 4: and meeting my now fiance, that part of my life

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Speaker 4: kind of felt like a closed chapter that I did

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Speaker 4: not revisit often in my mind. During a late night

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Speaker 4: FaceTime call for all the planning and finishing touches with

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Speaker 4: my best friend, she confessed to me, Oh, it was

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Speaker 4: a deeper conversation than just that, reflecting on our young

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Speaker 4: lives together and all our experiences, how she has not

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Speaker 4: This led to a long confession of how she feels

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Speaker 4: she missed her chance with me, that she's sorry for

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Speaker 4: waiting until now to say it, but she needs to

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Speaker 4: love for me. It was kind of stunned. Didn't know

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Speaker 4: keeping secrets, so I felt like I needed to tell

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Speaker 4: So Op comes to you tells you, oh, hey, I

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Speaker 4: My friend just confessed to me. And then instead of

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Speaker 4: I'm leaving you literally just being honest about what just happened.

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Speaker 1: Blur out of my laughing slur.

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Speaker 4: That I was leading him on, and just some gross

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Speaker 4: this the whole time. Immediate breakup. The whole situation was

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Speaker 4: We have not ever really encountered any crazy bumps in

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Speaker 1: Makes me feel like this guy's probably been cheating or something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah and a react projection. It's not like you were like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: It was like she confessed to right, just crazy.

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Speaker 4: I do not know him. Reacting with anger is terrifying.

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Speaker 4: Him reacting with homophobia, he's terrifying. All of these things

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Speaker 1: I've never heard someone go, you know, sometimes your partner

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Speaker 1: a slur and yaels agen screams, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: it just means that they care. I have never heard that,

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Speaker 4: Regardless, I feel like I cannot stay with him because

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Speaker 4: I just feel so torn, worried I'll tell everyone I

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Speaker 4: would I be the ale for leaving him after all this? No,

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Speaker 1: This really just reads like you know, you know, but

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Speaker 1: you do want and should leave. But it's more like

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Speaker 1: I think you're looking for the strength to do so. Yes,

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Speaker 1: small town life exploding, blah blah blah. You know that

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Speaker 1: this is the right move, but hard.

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Speaker 4: I don't even think your friend did anything wrong, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do agree with that. Well, Gala's got a comment

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Speaker 1: It leads to the sort of intent of like, well,

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Speaker 4: Exposed exactly that's my point.

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Speaker 1: This that your husband is a just a horrific person

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Speaker 1: and this is not the life you want for yourself.

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Speaker 4: and revealing a lot of terrible stuff. Good timing.

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Speaker 4: Some people privately messaged asking for an update first to

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Speaker 4: address a few things. My title or maybe the way

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Speaker 4: I wrote the last post may have come off the

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Speaker 4: Woman, he was a line of that you and it'll

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Speaker 4: now seen in other posts that people fake name people

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Speaker 1: Clear some things up.

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Speaker 4: Typically, me and Sarah would have these wedding planning video calls.

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Speaker 4: If Ian wanted to watch the TV, you would pitch

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry you apologized to him.

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Speaker 4: You apologize to him? Honestly? Wow, I mean, like, I

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Speaker 1: Every way and you exactly.

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Speaker 2: That's my point.

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Speaker 1: Needs to be a tumor involved for this to have

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Speaker 2: The switch flipped immediately, and then he went tiny, big brain.

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Speaker 4: The thing is that I think that it's kind of

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's just crazy to be like, how is this

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Speaker 4: You never made passes on me, gave me hints or

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Speaker 4: any type of things like that. Before her confession. All

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Speaker 4: of my apologies were met with more slur calling, more

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Speaker 1: Weird.

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Speaker 4: Women are confused. This guy is disgusting and need to

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Speaker 4: My past with women outside of Sarah disgusted him, and

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Speaker 1: Wow, that is disgusting. This guy is just like and

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Speaker 2: That and that's Opie's just like the tip of the iceberg.

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Speaker 2: We're not giving you the full details here. That's crazy.

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Speaker 4: Now, this is where I stopped responding because that moment

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Speaker 2: That's the moment.

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Speaker 4: I think maybe op he just got to a.

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Speaker 4: I could understand, I'm getting angry. Maybe he let resentment

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Speaker 4: again called it's yeah, it's it's when it affects you

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Speaker 4: that people change. And regardless of if he says sorry

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Speaker 4: but all queer people. Ian never once apologized for anything

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Speaker 4: he said. There was no pleading for me to come back.

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Speaker 4: He seemed to believe he was completely in the right

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Speaker 4: best to proceed. It wasn't comfortable meeting with Ian in

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Speaker 4: family members in disagreements. Really keep an eye out for

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Speaker 1: You've got a little bit of it for color blindness

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Speaker 4: And I wasn't comfortable with him coming to my brother's

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Speaker 4: for anyone but myself. That the behavior he displayed on

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Speaker 1: Well, at least we have that clarity. That's good that.

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Speaker 4: And lastly, that his previous offer of getting therapy only

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Speaker 4: he decided to get help he clearly needs for his

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Speaker 4: can't control what story Ian decides to tell people. That's

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Speaker 4: his cross to bear. I've gotten no responses from him

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Speaker 4: I've gotten is unsavory messages from his mother saying similar

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Speaker 4: that men are naturally aggressive, what and then I needed

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Speaker 1: Like we're just Chippanzas.

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Speaker 4: I hate that. Yeah, I hate that logic of like, oh,

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Speaker 4: people from my side who I've dealt with already. My

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Speaker 4: you need to move. I honestly, I think this town

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Speaker 2: Move good for this town, Hopey.

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Speaker 4: So that's all that happened up to this point. I

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Speaker 4: Being able to connect with all my old friends who

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Speaker 4: to people letting them know the wedding has been called off.

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Speaker 4: I haven't really addressed her feelings towards me yet, or

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Speaker 4: She clearly gets this has been a crazy time for me,

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Speaker 4: and hopefully we can sort things out from there. I

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Speaker 1: But anywhere else, live, anywherewhere else.

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Speaker 4: I think it's also a great idea to not get

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Speaker 4: I'd love for you and Sarah to run off into

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Speaker 4: to heal from your relationship trauma before we do any

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Speaker 2: Yeah, take a breather, long breather.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're abos to get married.

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Speaker 2: To the Take a breather, Give yourself a vacation, take

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Speaker 4: But it is a little bit more. That's all for

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Speaker 4: he sent me. Those things made me think he'd continue

440
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,480
Speaker 4: after I ended things, but he didn't. I'm thankful that

441
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,640
Speaker 4: he seems to have just accepted it from my point

442
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Speaker 4: of view and hasn't been barred in me with anything

443
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Speaker 4: so far. I hope that behavior continues. He has to

444
00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,000
Speaker 4: the person who said to me that if I was

445
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,359
Speaker 4: to stay with him, what if we had queer kids?

446
00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,000
Speaker 4: Do I really think staying with this person will benefit

447
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Speaker 4: my life and our kids' lives. If I choose to

448
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Speaker 4: stay with him and have a family. Your comment really

449
00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,760
Speaker 4: helped me and made me realize that I simply couldn't

450
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Speaker 4: have kids and legally tie myself to him because I

451
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Speaker 4: don't want any future children of mine to live in

452
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,239
Speaker 4: a place where they might fear coming out. Thank you

453
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,879
Speaker 4: for your comment. It really helped me see the bigger

454
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 4: picture of what I was choosing for mine in my kids'

455
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,359
Speaker 4: lives if I chose. And that is the end of

456
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Speaker 4: that story. And I'm glad that you could.

457
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Speaker 1: Ever choose to stay at all.

458
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Speaker 4: I also don't with a person who just like hates

459
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Speaker 4: your identity, but you are not choosing Tuesday, so that's.

460
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Speaker 2: Great your identity, but also with that mindset of his,

461
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Speaker 2: like I didn't even want to repeat what the.

462
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,480
Speaker 4: Mindset was so disgusting, Like you have.

463
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Speaker 2: To hear to me because I'm a man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, discusting. I'm glad that you were out of that,

465
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Speaker 4: and I hope that you find yourself and you find

466
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,200
Speaker 4: a better place and you have a support system that's

467
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,560
Speaker 4: better than him, which I mean really anything's better than him.

468
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,880
Speaker 4: So that's the end of that story. You yourself op

469
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Speaker 4: so true, And we've got another one coming and write.

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Speaker 1: Up My boyfriend switched his relationship status from me to

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Speaker 1: his female friend.

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Speaker 4: What sounds like he's your ex boyfriend.

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Speaker 1: I twenty female feel really terrible right now. My boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: Michael twenty mail and I have been dating since April

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Speaker 1: twenty ten, when we were in eighth grade, so for

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Speaker 1: just over six years now. Up to this point, we

477
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Speaker 1: have had an amazing relationship. We are each other's best

478
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Speaker 1: friends through and through. You've definitely had our ups and downs,

479
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Speaker 1: but we've never officially broken up. We've always worked through

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Speaker 1: any issues we had, and he's never given me a

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Speaker 1: reason to distrust him until now. By the way, this

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Speaker 1: I'm ke On, and we are here to give you

486
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Speaker 1: good advice goofully, but we don't have all the answers,

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Speaker 1: so if you would do something different, let us know

488
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Speaker 1: in the comments. And no Peace says. We go to

489
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Speaker 1: different colleges. We're about six hours apart from each other

490
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Speaker 1: for most of the year. Spring break of last year,

491
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Speaker 1: my freshman year, I went to his college to visit him,

492
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Speaker 1: and I met his friend Kayla twenty female who was

493
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Speaker 1: very close to him. Yet he had never mentioned here before.

494
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting him to, and I'm not that jealous

495
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Speaker 1: girlfriend that won't let her boy fpy friends with other girls.

496
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: But given her behavior, I thought that me not knowing

497
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 1: about her was suspicious. She was very nice to me,

498
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: but she was openly flirty with Michael, even in front

499
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Speaker 1: of me. Yeah, this is one of those stories of

500
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Speaker 1: a relationship that doesn't survive college.

501
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, this is a relationship with the eighth grade.

502
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 4: Doesn't discredit your pain or the fact that he has

503
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 4: hurt you, but it is just like, this is a

504
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 4: relationship that's been going on since eighth grade. You were

505
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,919
Speaker 4: both very young, and I've seemingly grown apart.

506
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 1: In that time.

507
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Speaker 4: And yeah, it's time, I think, like to find someone

508
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Speaker 4: who you can grow with.

509
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Speaker 1: Baba. Yep, this guy, he was touchy with him, to

510
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,120
Speaker 1: mean suggestive comments, et cetera. Michael always looked extremely uncomfortable

511
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Speaker 1: and he never flirted back, but he never told her

512
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: to stop either. Several days into my visit, I confronted

513
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: him about this, and I asked him if she knew

514
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: I was his girlfriend. He said yes. I told him

515
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,159
Speaker 1: that her behavior was crossing the line and that he

516
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: needed to set boundaries with her, starting with telling her

517
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Speaker 1: to cut it out. He apologized and said he would.

518
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 1: After that, Kayla stopped flirting with him in front of me.

519
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: But the day I left to go back home, she

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00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 1: said one thing to me, and I remember her exact words.

521
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: You know, there was no need to worry. Don't you

522
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: trust him? That kept swimming around and around in my

523
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 1: head for weeks on end. He said it so cattily,

524
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: and it was coming from her, of all people. I

525
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 1: tried to shake it off and not think about it,

526
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 1: but it was really hard. She just said it in

527
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: a way that sounded so, I know something you down

528
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: get out of her, lady. Yeah. Well, apparently her stink

529
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: was the stink for Michael. Stank just right for him.

530
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Speaker 1: You don't shame people's stank.

531
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Speaker 4: That's so like what you said.

532
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: I'm shaming you.

533
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 2: I shame your stink. All the time.

534
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 1: I told Michael about it, and he said not to

535
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 1: worry about it. She was always saying things like that.

536
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,199
Speaker 1: I kept pressing it, but he insisted that it was

537
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: nothing more than just a jealous comment, so I dropped it.

538
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 1: Time passed and Kayla added me on Facebook and I

539
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: accepted just to be friendly. This was when I started

540
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of posts about her and Michael that

541
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: never came up on my feed before, because Michael never

542
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: posted about things they did together. They went to the

543
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: movies together, they went to games together, they went to

544
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 1: concerts together, they went everywhere. In every post, Kayla added

545
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 1: a caption that had a nickname. For a minute, I

546
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: could tell it was a special nickname because she used

547
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 1: it every time. In the pictures, I saw that Michael

548
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: always looked silently uncomfortable. He always had a weak smile

549
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: on his face. I know his uncomfortable facial expression, and

550
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: he was always wearing it in those posts. Yeah, uncomfortable

551
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: because he's like, Ooh, my girlfriend's gonna see this post

552
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: of my girlfriend. H Yeah.

553
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm uncomfortable.

554
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get exposed as having another girlfriend.

555
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 4: H to be the two girlfriend man.

556
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: Ooh, they call me the two girlfriend guy. Ooh. I

557
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 1: felt somewhat paranoid, but I didn't say anything because I

558
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,239
Speaker 1: didn't want to come off as the jealous girlfriend who

559
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: can't trust her boyfriend. Because he has a close female friend.

560
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: I also didn't unfriend Kayla because if I did, it

561
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: felt like drama would ensue. About half an hour ago,

562
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: I was scrolling through and I saw that Michael changed

563
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: his relationship status. Before it was in a relationship without

564
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: any specific person mentioned mine the same way, but now

565
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 1: it says in a relationship with Kayla, it's over right,

566
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: it's jover. It's a show over.

567
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 4: That's how you break up with people. You just say, oh,

568
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 4: change my Facebook status.

569
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Speaker 2: I feel like that's what it used to be back

570
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Speaker 2: in the day.

571
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, someone looked on the Facebook and they were like,

572
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 4: we know back in the day book, Yeah, they didn't

573
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 4: text you to break up with you, They just changed

574
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Speaker 4: their Facebook.

575
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Speaker 2: Do you remember that way? Like people were like, it's complicated.

576
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 1: I remember these.

577
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 4: I have never used Facebook in like an actual way.

578
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,880
Speaker 4: I have a Facebook because I have that one.

579
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,360
Speaker 2: It's like when you announce that you are no relationship

580
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 2: with somebody. Yeah on Facebook, everyone wan crazy in heights.

581
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 2: Never like, oh my god, they practically proposed like they're

582
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:04,199
Speaker 2: married now.

583
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: It was a big deal. Felt like my heart dropped

584
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: down into my stomach. The post was made ten minutes

585
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: before I saw it, and there were already several comments

586
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: on the post. I clicked to look at them, and

587
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: the first few comments were people saying congratulations and about

588
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: times and things like that.

589
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and that's what it is. Everyone goes crazy.

590
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: I don't know any of the people who made these comments.

591
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,120
Speaker 1: The second to last comment was Michael and it said

592
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: a joke. Guys, it's a joke. Don't take Kayla seriously, Kayla,

593
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: I hate you. And the last comment was Kayla saying

594
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: ha ha ah, sweetheart, dobe in denial, winky face, and

595
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: ten people liked your comment?

596
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 2: Is giving me such internet PTSD like Facebook PTSD back

597
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 2: in high school days, the old days of.

598
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: The olden eras.

599
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 2: I was there during the text.

600
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: I stared at that post for what felt like an eternity.

601
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: Then I checked my phone and I have several texts,

602
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: all from my friends and one from my mom, dad,

603
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: and sister, all of them asking you why Michael changed

604
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: his relationship status. And I haven't answered any of them yet.

605
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 4: How old is this post?

606
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: Michael hasn't texted me. It's from twenty sixteen.

607
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, that's actually pretty recent for this to all

608
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 4: be happening on Facebook.

609
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 2: This was on the decline.

610
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, two things. Is he cheating on me? Or is

611
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: this just a joke? As he said, No, he's cheating

612
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: on me. What do I do? Even if he's not

613
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: cheating on you, he's just like letting this Kla girl

614
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: run rampant through his life, which is the same thing

615
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: as like disrespecting your relationship.

616
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 4: He's disrespecting your relationship, and what do you do? You

617
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 4: break up with them? Then that's that.

618
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: It's that easy, folks, isn't that. Michael is home for

619
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: the summer. So I went over to his house. I

620
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: knocked on the front door and Kayla opened the door

621
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: wearing a bathroom.

622
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 4: So he's cheating on you.

623
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's over.

624
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 5: If it wasn't over now, it's definitely over now over.

625
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,239
Speaker 5: If it wasn't over then, it ever now definitely wasn't over.

626
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 5: Now it's definitely over now. Kayla lives four hours away

627
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 5: from us. Its strayed away.

628
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: I asked her what she was doing there, and she

629
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: smirked and said Michael wasn't home. I told her she

630
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: did get the wait.

631
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 4: I think it's even funnier if she's hacked Michael's Facebook

632
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 4: account and broken into his home all is an elaborate

633
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 4: ruse to make op think that Michael is cheating on

634
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 4: her and then try and steal Michael from her. Yeah,

635
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 4: Michael just doesn't know any of that.

636
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: Michael is just Yeah. I told her she didn't answer

637
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: my question, and her reply was I'm voted for the away.

638
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: I didn't have anything to say to that. I felt

639
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: absolutely destroyed inside. I turned around without another word and

640
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: started walking back to my car. He shouted after me, Sorry,

641
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: things had to end this way. F heard. Dude, Who

642
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: the F is she to say that to me? He

643
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: was cheating on me? And there's an update.

644
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, not much to be done other than

645
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 4: break up, I suppose. Yeah, that's about it. That's my advice.

646
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 4: Breakup be done, get off Facebook for a.

647
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 2: While, danger your relationships.

648
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 4: It's complicated, complicated, and then we're good. We're solid.

649
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: Man. I'm just trying to think of like the proper

650
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: avenue of justice, Brope, How should justice be dispensed? I mean, honestly,

651
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: this Kala girl sounds insufferable, so in a way, him

652
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: having to date her is already. Yeah, he's gonna get

653
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: of itself.

654
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 4: It's like it's like dating your own personal torture.

655
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna be awful.

656
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 4: I don't think he's gonna be happy long terms girls crazy.

657
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Speaker 4: He sucks too, and they can suck together.

658
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Speaker 1: WHOA, what are they doing?

659
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Speaker 2: What are they doing?

660
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Speaker 4: So I walked right into it.

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Speaker 1: Update Michael came to my house, Well get him out

662
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Speaker 1: of there. When I opened the door, I found him

663
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Speaker 1: crying his eyes out. I asked him what was going on,

664
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Speaker 1: and this was all I heard, and he like closed

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Speaker 1: the door on him that he slept with Kayla just

666
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Speaker 1: before they left for winter break freshman year. She was

667
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Speaker 1: indeed visiting him, and he didn't tell me because he

668
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Speaker 1: didn't know how to because he's a little cow would

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Speaker 1: baby boy. When I went to his house to talk

670
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Speaker 1: to him, he was indeed home. He was a very

671
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Speaker 1: very very very very very very sorry.

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Speaker 4: These people stink and I hope you don't let Michael in.

673
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know what, end them away. I'm

674
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Speaker 1: glad you stopped dating Michael because I'm pretty sure it's

675
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: illegal to date a baby. Yeah. Oh god. Here here's

676
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: my impression of Michael.

677
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 4: Baby. My ear hurts because of his complaining.

678
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: He's a little tiny diaper baby, baby baby, and that

679
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: diaper is loaded.

680
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Speaker 4: Oh, just like Roderick.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say to anyone in

682
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Speaker 1: my real life about this. My parents aren't home, my

683
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: sister isn't home. I haven't told any of my friends

684
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,479
Speaker 1: any advice now that it's true he cheated on me. Well,

685
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: you just break up with them to move on with

686
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Speaker 1: your life. Yeah, update number two. I just texted him

687
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: it's over, so I've dumped him bazah and we have

688
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Speaker 1: some comments, but op he doesn't reply, So that is

689
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Speaker 1: the end of that story. Yeah, it sucks to have

690
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: a breakup. It sucks to be cheated on. Yeah, the

691
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Speaker 1: good news is that you didn't waste any more of

692
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Speaker 1: your time on this pathetic little baby.

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Speaker 2: You just just play the potential breakup song by Ali

694
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Speaker 2: and Ajo.

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Speaker 4: Hey he cheats with the song. Nope, but we got

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Speaker 4: I accidentally proposed to my boyfriend last night and he

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Speaker 4: told me no.

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Speaker 4: severed my thirty seven female boyfriend forty three male. We're

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Speaker 4: been together for about seven months. Neither of us were

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Speaker 1: So, I'm Sofia, I'm Dakota, I'm Keon.

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Speaker 2: Wow oh wow, oh wow oee.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dakota.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I get to say I get to say.

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Speaker 1: He's sassy, look at it, He's sassy. To say he's sass.

721
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Speaker 2: I'm Keon. And every time you guys mess this up,

722
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Speaker 2: I feel like you buy me a drink.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, We're here to give good advice, caothfully, but we

724
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Speaker 4: don't have all the answers.

725
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Speaker 1: You certainly know what we do.

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Speaker 4: Let us know what you were doing. A comment and

727
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Speaker 4: no Pie says a little bit of background. We met

728
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Speaker 4: through my second ex husband, who I'll referred to as Jason,

729
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 4: interesting as they are cousins by marriage. Interesting. Max moved

730
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Speaker 4: in with Jason back in February. Around that time, I

731
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Speaker 4: broke up with my acts of six years and decided

732
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Speaker 4: that I wanted to be single for at least a

733
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Speaker 4: year to find myself again. I don't have many friends,

734
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Speaker 4: and I didn't realize how lonely coming home to an

735
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Speaker 4: empty house can be, so I started hanging out with

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Speaker 4: Jason a couple times during the week. Max worked afternoon shifts,

737
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Speaker 4: so we would only see each other maybe once a week.

738
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Speaker 4: I decided to have a couple of drinks one weekend

739
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Speaker 4: after a crap week at work and called my ex

740
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Speaker 4: Jason to vent. Max was listening and contributing to the

741
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Speaker 4: conversation as I went on speakerphone, and just before my

742
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 4: ex went to bed, we exchanged numbers and added each

743
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Speaker 4: other on social media. We talked until five am the

744
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 4: next morning on FaceTime, just about random things. The next weekend,

745
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 4: Max and I decided to hang out at my house

746
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Speaker 4: and we ended up hooking up. I thought it was

747
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Speaker 4: just going to be a one off thing because Max

748
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 4: is essentially at jack to the same gender with by tendencies,

749
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Speaker 4: as he likes to say. But we connected in so

750
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 4: many different ways and feelings began to slowly develop. I

751
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 4: realized that I was falling for him during a phone

752
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Speaker 4: call that lasted from about nine pm to seven am

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Speaker 4: the next morning.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be an indicator right there. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Max initially proposed being in a relationship while we were

756
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Speaker 4: drinking about four to five months ago at my house.

757
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Speaker 4: I asked him in the next morning, while we were sober,

758
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Speaker 4: if he meant it. He said he did, okay, but

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Speaker 4: he talked about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, mean it? Are you?

761
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Speaker 4: And then that was it. You started to introduce me

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Speaker 4: to the people most important to him in June and July,

763
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Speaker 4: which indicated that things were starting to get more serious,

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Speaker 4: especially after he asked my eight year old son first

765
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Speaker 4: thoughts about us being together?

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Speaker 2: Oh dude, that's Jimmy.

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Speaker 4: What do you think about your your mom? You mean

768
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Speaker 4: me and your mom being together?

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Speaker 2: Hey, little Jimmy, you want a new dad.

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Speaker 4: What do you mean your together?

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Speaker 1: What does that mean?

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Speaker 4: I don't know what it means.

773
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Speaker 1: I got nothing to the Jimmy combo.

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Speaker 4: He moved in with me in my spare room at

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Speaker 4: the beginning of August, as he and Jason were starting

776
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Speaker 4: to butt head. Interesting that you all moved in together,

777
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Speaker 4: But I mean, I guess, I mean, I'm always a

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Speaker 4: proponent for separate rooms so you can have a little

779
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Speaker 4: bit of privacy.

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Speaker 2: Privacy.

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Speaker 1: But obviously.

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Speaker 4: We had some ups and downs of learning how to

783
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Speaker 4: live together and navigate our relationship, and we've been cohabitating well,

784
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Speaker 4: which leads to last night. I've worked for twenty one

785
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Speaker 4: days straight between two different jobs, and I've just been exhausted,

786
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 4: as I sometimes have to work between eight to sixteen

787
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 4: hours a day. Ax didn't realize that I worked that

788
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Speaker 4: many days straight. We didn't even see each other yesterday

789
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Speaker 4: before I came home to change and leave for my

790
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Speaker 4: other job, and then I came home for the night

791
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Speaker 4: a little after nine pm. He has treated me better

792
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Speaker 4: than anyone else that I have been in a relationship with.

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Speaker 4: He helps around the house, He's there for me emotionally

794
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 4: encourages me to be a better person in mom Anne

795
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 4: loves me for who I am, faults and all, and

796
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Speaker 4: I feel the same way about him. Without really thinking beforehand,

797
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 4: I was looking at him, and we're talking and just

798
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 4: having a good time and unwinding. I sat on my

799
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 4: knees on the floor, looked up at him, and for

800
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Speaker 4: whatever reason, my brain and mouth kind of just accidentally

801
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Speaker 4: asked him to marry me.

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Speaker 2: Huh, how does that accidentally happen?

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Speaker 4: I think it's the way that like you accidentally tell

804
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Speaker 4: people that you love them.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I never accidentally said will

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Speaker 1: you marry me to somebody.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever accidentally said I love you

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Speaker 2: to somebody like that.

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Speaker 1: That's not really.

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Speaker 4: He told me no, which kind of surprised me. He

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00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 4: asked me why I wanted to get married and if

812
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 4: anything would really change afterwards, I mean, other than legalities,

813
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 4: nothing would really change. I did ask him why I

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Speaker 4: didn't want to, and he said that he just wasn't ready.

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Speaker 4: That's fair. It's only been seven months. There is a

816
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 4: little bit left to this story. I don't think this

817
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 4: is the end of your relationship.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be.

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00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 4: I don't think it has to be.

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Speaker 1: But if it's weird after this forever, it might be.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it really just depends on how y'all handle it

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Speaker 1: and move I think.

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Speaker 4: You can handle it maturely. I think that he's not

824
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Speaker 4: saying I don't want to be with you at all.

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00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 4: He's saying, it's only been seven months. Let's see where

826
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Speaker 4: this goes. Yeah, we ended up at a little bit

827
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 4: of a tiff afterwards, and I did bring up that

828
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Speaker 4: I think he doesn't want to marry me because I'm

829
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Speaker 4: not a man. Why did you bring that up?

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Speaker 1: Well, because that's a fair thing to think potentially, But

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Speaker 1: that has nothing to do really with you proposing after

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Speaker 1: seven months. It's more like, well you knew going into

833
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Speaker 1: this he literally was it him or y'all? Or did

834
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Speaker 1: you agree that he's essentially a gay man with by tendencies?

835
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Speaker 4: And I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think that is. If that's the case, then well

837
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,919
Speaker 1: maybe a relationship with you, is it something that's going

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00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: to be in the realm of I mean, it's I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's the issue here. I think that he's

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Speaker 1: said that he natural to have that thought though, I

841
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Speaker 1: think for.

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Speaker 4: Sure, but I don't think that's the issue here because

843
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 4: I think that he said I am more attracted to

844
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Speaker 4: men usually, but like he's attracted O P. He wouldn't

845
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Speaker 4: be in a relationship with a p unless he was

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Speaker 4: attracted to her.

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Speaker 1: But it's more of like, well, yeah, that could be why,

848
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: but it's also only been seven months, you know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's more so that. And I did

850
00:38:58,280 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 4: bring up one of his exes that he did it

851
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 4: one point want to marry, which was wrong and unfair.

852
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 4: I'm just a little surprised as to how hard I

853
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 4: took his rejection of my proposal. I'm just not sure

854
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 4: where to go from here. I don't think just because

855
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 4: he declined my proposal means the relationship is over. But

856
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 4: I think maybe I should just pull myself back a

857
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 4: little bit emotionally and prepare myself for the worst. I

858
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 4: don't know, what do you think?

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think that you should do that.

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00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 4: I think that you should have a conversation with him

861
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 4: and say like, hey, was it just because you're not ready?

862
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 4: Because I think I'm having a lot of insecurities, and

863
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 4: I think that you were already having those insecurities. I

864
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 4: think they were already festering. If you immediately brought it

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00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 4: up when you asked him to marry you after seven

866
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 4: months and then he had that reaction, I think that

867
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 4: was already there. So we need to have that conversation

868
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 4: and say I am feeling a little insecure because of

869
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 4: these thoughts, and then he'll probably say, that's not it

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00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 4: at all. I am, like in the past, have been more,

871
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 4: you know, percentage wise, attracted to men. That does not

872
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 4: mean that I'm not attracted to you. It's just a

873
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 4: timing thing. And I don't think pulling back is gonna

874
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 4: be the answer. I think if you wanted to marry

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Speaker 4: this guy, you need to have those hard conversations because

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Speaker 4: your relationship is not going to improve otherwise. That's my thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Yes, those are good thoughts.

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Speaker 1: the comments and op says. But then I discovered something

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Speaker 1: that completely broke my trust. He had this best friend

908
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Speaker 1: with whom he exchanged daily spicy photos with lots of

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Speaker 1: noodles included, and had conversations about the spices, sleep and

910
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Speaker 1: even talked about running away together daily. Daily, just the

911
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Speaker 1: same cycle.

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Speaker 4: Every day says, oh, I just want to run away.

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Speaker 1: To me, that was emotional cheating.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's emotional cheating.

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Speaker 1: It might go a little further, just emotional is crazy.

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Speaker 4: Every day he tells me he wants to run away.

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Speaker 1: I strongly suspect it was all so physical.

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Speaker 3: Yeah wait, wait, wait, wait, just be clear together wa

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Speaker 3: woit just be clear?

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Speaker 1: This guy is sending daily noodles two of the best friends.

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Speaker 2: And saying they want to run away together.

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Speaker 3: I mean that is both emotional cheating and cyber cheating

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Speaker 3: at the very least. Just let's just call it cheating cheating.

924
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Speaker 3: I feel like it's one step like insertion.

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Speaker 1: On Valentine's Day of the year we broke up. We

926
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Speaker 1: were fighting over something silly. Instead of working things out

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Speaker 1: with me, he went to see her at her mother's place.

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Speaker 6: Wait, see the friends, girl, why are we now? Do

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Speaker 6: get back together with this guy? What do you stayed

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Speaker 6: with him through all of this? He wasn't eat her

931
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Speaker 6: at her mother's house?

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Speaker 1: No, no, what the If you were telling me this

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Speaker 1: in person in front of me, I would literally be

934
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Speaker 1: like shaking you by the shoulders like, break up with

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Speaker 1: this person. You look like a muppet. When do you

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Speaker 1: do that? A few months later I found messages where

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Speaker 1: they were literally discussing meeting at her mom's house to

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Speaker 1: have spicy sleep.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna have spices sleep at your mom's house.

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Speaker 1: Oh maybe she's got a nice bedroom. Yeah she cooks

941
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Speaker 1: for the maps.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, here you go, sweetie with quite an Appetitean sounded

943
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Speaker 3: like you guys did a lot of work.

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Speaker 1: This whole thing went on for almost a year. Why

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Speaker 1: we eventually broke up because of it? And where is

946
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Speaker 1: your support system? Where your standard? Still?

947
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Speaker 3: Why are there people in your life saying leave shaking

948
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Speaker 3: you like a muppet? Little lady, I will shake you muppet.

949
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Speaker 3: I will make you into muppet style. Still, we tried

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Speaker 3: to reconcile with one condition. He had to cut her

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Speaker 3: off completely. But he didn't. I told him very clearly,

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Speaker 3: there's no space for both of us. It's either me

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Speaker 3: or her. He chose to keep her in his life,

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Speaker 3: that option. God, he did, so you didn't stay with him?

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Speaker 4: That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: He's got to be hot.

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Speaker 3: Also, just one technicality, there obviously was space for at

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Speaker 3: least a year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you had made space for this, You allowed space

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Speaker 1: for this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you were the one. You were the arbiter of

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Speaker 3: that space. You like gave a little like a shepherding

963
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Speaker 3: zone for that space.

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Speaker 4: It was like La traffic or no Ali parking laws

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Speaker 4: when they're like you can, you can stay here from

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Speaker 4: five am eight am, but then.

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Speaker 1: Arter no you and after you're getting told Yeah. Fast

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Speaker 1: forward two years. I'm twenty six now he's twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: We're still in each other's lives. Why and recently bought

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Speaker 1: a And he's been my biggest support through everything. What

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Speaker 1: always there when I need help?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess the devil's been my biggest supporter.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean? I know he still has feelings

974
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Speaker 1: for me and wants us to get back together. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I still have feelings for him too. My girl, we

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Speaker 1: are moving on. You have a house now. I bet

977
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Speaker 1: you he wants to use it to cheat on you with. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm still gonna make dinner afterwards. He's

979
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Speaker 1: gonna move his mom in your house. She can make

980
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: home cooked meals after he's done cheating on you. What

981
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 1: are we even talking about?

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Speaker 4: The thing is that, Opie, this man betrayed your trust

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Speaker 4: and cheated on you, and you were like, that's okay,

984
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Speaker 4: hey stop it. But that continued, and then you stayed

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Speaker 4: with him for a while, and then finally you were like,

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00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 4: you know what, there's only room in this town for

987
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 4: one of us. He picked the other girl. And then

988
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 4: you're like, well, I guess you can stay in my life.

989
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 4: Get him out of there. You got in your basement.

990
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: It's time for us to go to the back own

991
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Speaker 1: store and by the most robust unit they have for sale.

992
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: I'm talking all the vertebraates. Yeah, he won through seed whatever.

993
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: I'm a chiropractor.

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00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 3: I'm thinking like metal exoskeleton kind of vibe by the Wolverine.

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00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. Well, here's the here's Oh, here's the problem.

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Speaker 1: We just got to the problem.

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00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 4: Here's the problem, guys.

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00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: The last time we talked about reconciliation, I asked him

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Speaker 1: to prove that he had changed and that he wasn't

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Speaker 1: talking to her anymore. His response, he laughed and admitted

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Speaker 1: he still talks to her.

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Speaker 4: So there we have it. He asked for reconciliation. You said, well,

1003
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Speaker 4: you can't talk to her anymore. He said he is, so,

1004
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 4: then move's no reconciliation.

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00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 1: I agree, Op doesn't feel that way. Ope says, now

1006
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: I feel stuck.

1007
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 4: Why you can't keep giving your ultimatum.

1008
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 3: I feel like this is a person that is just

1009
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 3: like stepping in quicksand intentionally like she's like, I want

1010
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 3: to be stuck.

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00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:02,919
Speaker 1: I want to fall through the sand and never move.

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Speaker 2: This time quick piece of spaghetti that you throw in

1013
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:08,959
Speaker 2: the ceiling to Steve if it's good, and it's.

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Speaker 1: Just it's just it's just probably their only real relationship.

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Speaker 1: Somehow they feel whatever circumstances, that that this is just

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Speaker 1: the only person that they can have, that this is

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Speaker 1: the only person for them. And I don't know why,

1018
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: but that's how they feel. And it's not true. It

1019
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: ain't true, says part of me wants to sit down

1020
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:37,359
Speaker 1: and have a serious conversation with him, clear boundaries and rules.

1021
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: If we ever try again, don't try again under this

1022
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,399
Speaker 1: guy is captain. I know.

1023
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 3: I feel like she's just like touching a stove that's

1024
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,919
Speaker 3: on and it's like, oh, it's hot ow, And she's

1025
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 3: just like, wait, it's so hot?

1026
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:54,800
Speaker 1: Should I keep burning myself? And you keep choosing to

1027
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: burn her stove?

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00:47:55,640 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 5: Kindly, Sandler kept cheating on her.

1029
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 3: Old it would be doctor Curse movie that Oh my god,

1030
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Speaker 3: this is the Curse movie.

1031
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: Your girlfriend has Amesia. All right, here we go. This

1032
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: is part of you.

1033
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 4: That's what this is.

1034
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this part of you, OLP.

1035
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: Another part of me feels like he'll never change, and

1036
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: maybe the healthiest thing would be to move on completely,

1037
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 1: maybe even with therapy to process all of this that.

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00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to that on repeat. I

1039
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 1: want you every day.

1040
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 4: I want you to forget every other part of this

1041
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 4: story and focus.

1042
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 2: On that one sentence, get everything you know?

1043
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: What do you think Reddit? Is this worth giving another

1044
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,359
Speaker 1: chance under strict conditions? Or should I accept that I'll

1045
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: never let her go and finally move on for good?

1046
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: That one, that part.

1047
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 4: I just would be like, you've never told us anything

1048
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:48,839
Speaker 4: good about this guy.

1049
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: This man is a polar bear. And you're like, maybe

1050
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 1: if I give the polar bear a lot of sort

1051
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: of enrichment activities and I create a really nice habitat

1052
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 1: for the polar bear, the polar bear won't want to

1053
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 1: eat me.

1054
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, the polar bear is cute.

1055
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: The polar bear, by its nature, will always try to

1056
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: eat you because you are to be eaten. And over

1057
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: the course of your relationship with this man, it has

1058
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: become clear that you are to be cheated on. So

1059
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: you don't deserve find a different guy. To be clear,

1060
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: you do.

1061
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 4: Not deserve any of this.

1062
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: Now, need to leave.

1063
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 4: Don't subject yourself to it.

1064
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: This is not a thing to be reconciled. Is the

1065
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: thing to be moved on from? Yeah, and may you

1066
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: do that, dude? And don't you dare get back with

1067
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 1: this guy?

1068
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 2: No, just cut off contact with this guy.

1069
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 4: But that is the end of that story. But we've

1070
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Speaker 4: got some comments. Doish this episode off.

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Speaker 2: The comments are from the video I Banned my mom

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Speaker 2: from seeing my daughter. This was posted on October fourth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. This is gonna be the second story

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Speaker 2: of that episode, so keep that in mind. Here's a

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Speaker 2: quick little tilty are Opius a implicated, often hurtful history

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Speaker 2: with her stepmother. Share it. They've had ups and downs,

1077
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Speaker 2: sometimes rebuilding trust, especially around Opie's kids. Recent conflicts in as,

1078
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Speaker 2: especially timed party invite, leaves Opie torn between keeping peace

1079
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Speaker 2: for her kids or protecting them from emotional manipulation. If

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Speaker 2: you're curious to know the full story, you can go

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Speaker 2: watch the full video, and we do have some comments here.

1082
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Speaker 2: Do you guys remember the story? I don't, I don't,

1083
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 2: I don't, but if you want to watch it, you know.

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Speaker 1: Where to go.

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Speaker 2: And we have a comment here by Gaysa Hoorda one.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad y'all are confused on story two because that

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Speaker 2: means you haven't experienced it. It is very normal for

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Speaker 2: abusers to be nice sometimes and love bomb you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that is true. I'm not confused about that.

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Speaker 3: Very feel abuse or relationships are not marked by their highs,

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Speaker 3: but marked by their lows, like you like, usually abusive

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Speaker 3: relationships to keep you, they give you like the sweet stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's the cycle of abuse, the cycle of abuse.

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Speaker 2: And we have another comment here by Louren Murdy. I

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Speaker 2: am not seeing where Opie says they are to some

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Speaker 2: extent responsible for the drama with the father's wife because

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Speaker 2: it sounds like she is one hundred percent the a

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Speaker 2: hole and he's just as much a deadbeat as she

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Speaker 2: is a psychopath. I don't understand why Opie has any

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Speaker 2: contact whatsoever with those losers. Against that cycle, it's the cycle.

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Speaker 1: It's not good.

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Speaker 2: And we have one final comment here by Summarine IZ

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Speaker 2: five SW Sammarine says, dang, the mom and the second

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Speaker 2: story would have been great friends with my Momi faith.

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Speaker 4: Oh but those are the ends of those comments and

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Speaker 4: the end of this episode. So if you love us,

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