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Speaker 1: My fiance invited his ex situationship to our wedding without

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Speaker 2: The more the merrier, as they say.

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Speaker 1: Especially all the situationships, as they also say, I twenty

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Speaker 1: three year old female, I'm getting married in January and

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Speaker 1: just found out my fiance, Mark twenty five year old

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Speaker 1: male fake name, invited his old situationship to our wedding

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Speaker 1: without consulting me. Well she's a who right, Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: why she's a good time. By the way, this comes

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Speaker 1: from you dash No Nectarine two nine to nine on

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Speaker 1: the r okay storytime subredit. So for context, me and

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Speaker 1: Mark met on a dating app two years ago after

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Speaker 1: he broke up with the relationship. To be honest, it's

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Speaker 1: quite confusing what he and Tracy, twenty two year old

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Speaker 1: female had. They met because of a mutual friend and

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Speaker 1: started to develop feelings for each other. Mark told me

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Speaker 1: they never dated or slept together, but it was more

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Speaker 1: than friendship. Until today, he keeps her love letters, gifts

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Speaker 1: and talks about her. Okay, So they had like a

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Speaker 1: romantic relationship. There was love letters. Supposedly, they never like

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Speaker 1: dated or slept together.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like she didn't want to get in a relationship,

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Speaker 2: you think so if he was writing love letters? Oh wait,

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Speaker 2: who was writing the love letters? Both parties?

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Speaker 1: He keeps her love letters, so.

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Speaker 2: He didn't want the relationship.

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Speaker 1: Well, we don't know. Like, yeah, that's a good, good question,

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Speaker 1: Like why didn't they date if they were sending love

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Speaker 1: letters to each other. Tracy and him try to stay

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Speaker 1: in contact after the breakup, so they didn't date according

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Speaker 1: to the story. But they had a breakup staying friends,

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Speaker 1: but she ghosted him after finding out we started to

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Speaker 1: date from when I saw on her social media. She's

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Speaker 1: in a relationship, so I'm not worried about her trying

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Speaker 1: to get with my fiance again. They haven't been in

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Speaker 1: contact for two years, but he still has her number

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Speaker 1: and email. I found out about him inviting her after

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Speaker 1: I checked again our guest list and finding her name.

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Speaker 1: I know Tracy's not a threat to our relationship, but

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Speaker 1: Mark inviting her behind my back makes me feel bad

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Speaker 1: about our whole wedding. He told me he doesn't feel

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Speaker 1: anything for her, yet he made sure to send her

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Speaker 1: an invitation. This is probably me being insecure, but my

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Speaker 1: fear of him not getting over her is slowly creep

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Speaker 1: inside my heart. I don't want to lose him, she said.

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Speaker 1: My fear of him not getting over here is slowly

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Speaker 1: creeping inside my Oh. Okay, after reading the comments and

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Speaker 1: talking with some friends, my heart finally understood Mark never

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Speaker 1: really got over Tracy. In the beginning. I was in denial,

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Speaker 1: but I went out with Tom, twenty four year old male,

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Speaker 1: his best friend of years, to understand about what really

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Speaker 1: happened between them. Tracy and Mark met because of some

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Speaker 1: friends in comment. Okay, we're gonna get the whole backstory.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, here we go.

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Speaker 1: So she just got into the university and was seventeen

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Speaker 1: at the time, while Mark was already almost graduating. They

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Speaker 1: stayed of friends for two years and feelings started to blossom.

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Speaker 2: Ok.

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Speaker 1: Mark was already working while she was still in college.

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Speaker 1: She only wanted to formally date her after her graduation.

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Speaker 1: He was the one limiting it from being a real relationship.

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Speaker 3: Got it.

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Speaker 1: It was never a thing, even though they shared love letters, gifts,

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Speaker 1: everyone from their old friend group thought they would marry

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Speaker 1: since they were so sweet together, So their breakup was

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Speaker 1: really unpredictable. So the breakup was really unpredictable. Tracy was

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Speaker 1: In the end, they decided it was better to go

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Speaker 1: separate ways and maybe try again after a few years.

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Speaker 1: But after me and Mark started to date, Tracy realized

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Speaker 1: that it was pointless to wait for him and started

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Speaker 1: to see other people, so she blocked him and everything

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Speaker 1: except email, just to have a clean beginning.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but this was the girl.

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Speaker 1: In the end, I finally realized Mark is just hopeful

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Speaker 1: so much as I loved him so much. I still

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Speaker 1: don't know if this marriage will happen. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: update once I calm down and confront him. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: there isn't another update I wanna. I just want to

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Speaker 1: say there are so many assumptions going on on Op's part. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: him about. It's more of just like checking if these

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Speaker 1: the last update, and I'm here to announce the wedding

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Speaker 1: has been called off. My parents are the one canceling

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Speaker 1: everything for me. It's like I returned to my childhood

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Speaker 1: when mom and dad had to solve my problems. I

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Speaker 1: of everything I've been dealing with. His reaction at the

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Speaker 1: trying to escape from the situation. In the end, we

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Speaker 1: don't know how she brought it up to him, but

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Speaker 1: it could possibly have been very blaming, don't We don't know.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the way it was.

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Speaker 1: In the end marks that he never loved somewhat. You

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Speaker 1: were right the first love theory. It is yes, pracy

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Speaker 1: because it was pure and innocent.

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Speaker 2: He dunked it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jesus Christ, Oh my god. So she reminded him

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Speaker 1: that not everything is about carnal desire and in the

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Speaker 1: darkest moments of his life. Tracy was like the sunlight

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Speaker 1: Jesus godle Hearing the man you love admitting how much

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Speaker 1: he loved a woman is so hurtful. So one Opie

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Speaker 2: This isn't always the case. Okay, don't follow this rule book.

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Speaker 2: This is the only sestion. Yeah, like you do a

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Speaker 2: math problem, yeah, and you do it wrong. We get

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Speaker 1: During the talk, I started to cry, balling my eyes out.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's so sad. Dude. Mark had the audacity to

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Speaker 1: say he loves me, but it's a different kind of low.

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Speaker 1: I asked why he invited her to our wedding, and

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Speaker 1: he was speechless. Why he had to throw away our

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Speaker 1: future for something in the past. This hurts so much.

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Speaker 1: Mark told me he knew Tracy didn't block him on

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Speaker 1: Tracy's pregnancy, a red alarm started echo in my head.

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Speaker 1: How did he know about her pregnancy? You said? She

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Speaker 1: blocked talk to you everywhere. I could see panic in

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Speaker 1: I made him give me his phone and I found

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Speaker 1: out more than five accounts to stalk Tracy. My stomach

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Speaker 1: the end, I decided to call off the engagement since

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Speaker 1: he was a creep. Mark threw himself on the floor

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Speaker 1: asking for forgiveness, and he loves me, just a different one.

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Speaker 1: So he's on the floor. I love you so much, baby,

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Speaker 1: but like not like I love Tracy's much, So it's

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Speaker 1: hurt that she gave herself to another man while he

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Speaker 1: begged her countless times for a spicy sleep. This made

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Speaker 1: me feel even more disgusted with him because he felt

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Speaker 1: entitled to her virginity and body. Yeah, it's never a

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Speaker 1: good look to beg someone to sleep with you. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, I left without taking even a bag with me.

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Speaker 1: Everything is just too much. I can't believe I spent

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I also told Tracy everything and his accounts.

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Speaker 2: That's what I was about to say. You can be

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Speaker 2: a girls girl here and let Tracy know. Damn.

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Speaker 1: So, I don't know if she saw my messages, but

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Speaker 1: I hope she does. The jealousy I once felt for

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Speaker 1: what Mark has done. Mark wants to meet up with

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Speaker 1: so tired. Small update Tracy messaged me and wants to

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Speaker 1: get a coffee with me. This is like that one

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Speaker 1: movie with kay Upton which like they all the girlfriends

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Speaker 1: Update three. I think this is my last update, since

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Speaker 1: I've already met up with Tracy and talked about what happened.

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Speaker 1: Me and her med at a cafe. In the beginning,

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Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful women I saw. Oh wow,

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Speaker 1: she's pretty on the pictures, but personally she looks better.

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Speaker 1: Tracy said hell out of me and asked if I'm

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Speaker 1: now let's talk about what she told me. First of all,

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Speaker 1: which I assured her is not her fault. Tracy said

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Speaker 1: the breakup and it's the polar opposite of her behavior.

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Speaker 1: Tracy was extremely uncomfortable with this question, but still explained

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Speaker 1: Mark started to beg her for spicy sleep, so much

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Speaker 1: to avoid him. Scary, she just didn't want to sleep

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Speaker 1: sixth sense telling her not to do it. She was

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Speaker 1: sleep was off the table. This led to a fight,

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Speaker 1: so the spicy sleep was the soul. Oh, I guess

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Speaker 1: did you mentioned that earlier?

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Speaker 2: He thought it was a religious thing. Yeah, but it

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Speaker 1: Like pressuring her to have a spicy sleep, and she

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Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, yeah, like her body was just

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Speaker 1: saying no. So but two weeks after they started to

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Speaker 1: he helped her get a job in a prestigious company

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Speaker 1: and he spent a lot of money on her with trips, foods,

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Speaker 1: This one is living in Mark's head rent free like

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Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy. She opened up and talked to

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Speaker 2: I may be a bit of a denial phase right now,

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Speaker 2: But you can come and play with us every weekday

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Speaker 2: at three pm PhD. Just tap a profile I'm not

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Speaker 2: trying to advise that to others. To do this, it

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Speaker 1: That's a little that much for like five psidekicksuse.

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Speaker 2: You're a student, you can choose either phone or web chats.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to link the specific path form our use.

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Speaker 2: What I can say is that it can be quite.

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Speaker 1: She's really shouting them out.

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Speaker 2: She really is without it was shouting up. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 2: see how you can very easily happen. So please be

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Speaker 2: careful if you ever use the service like this, Try

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Speaker 2: not to use them if you are in a strong

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Speaker 2: I personally don't think I'll be using them again, especially

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Speaker 2: gone a bit crazy, But what girl has it gone

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Speaker 2: crazy over? Surviving a situationship with a straight guy? Thanks

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Speaker 2: for reading so you can get over a breakup with Azager.

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Speaker 2: He cheated on me, but he.

437
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Speaker 1: Says we were on a break to give some contact.

438
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Speaker 1: My ex and I broke up in August after ten

439
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Speaker 1: months together because I noticed he started drinking more and more.

440
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Speaker 1: He was a drug addict, so I saw his use

441
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Speaker 1: as substance switching. Okay, I thought it was because he

442
00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,720
Speaker 1: was going through a tough time in his life. He

443
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Speaker 1: lost both of his jobs and was living on the

444
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Speaker 1: poverty line during this time. He found another job, but

445
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Speaker 1: it was super low paying and high stress. I paid

446
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Speaker 1: for all shared things for the both of us during

447
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Speaker 1: this time. I planned all the dates and I made

448
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Speaker 1: quality time for him. Often, to my frustration, he would

449
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Speaker 1: come home and fall asleep on me. So this guy's

450
00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 1: just like super stressed exhausted, I'm not able to be

451
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Speaker 1: fully engagement with the relationship. By the way, this comes

452
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Speaker 1: from you dash just keep swimming twenty seven on the

453
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Speaker 1: r okay storytime subreddit. So however, when he did find

454
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Speaker 1: a new and much better job, he continued the same behavior. Example,

455
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Speaker 1: the amount of drinking follows asleep on me. During this time,

456
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 1: he could have spent on me or plan dates instead

457
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Speaker 1: of me doing other planning. Because he now has the time, money,

458
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Speaker 1: and emotional capacity. He instead spent money on a bunch

459
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Speaker 1: of for himself.

460
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Speaker 2: Hey, party for me and I myself.

461
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Speaker 1: Party for one. I kept asking him to treat me

462
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Speaker 1: for once. We started going to bars as our main outing,

463
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Speaker 1: where we started off playing pool, and where he would

464
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Speaker 1: buy himself drinks in front of me and still not

465
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Speaker 1: buy me a meal or a drink, all while I'd

466
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Speaker 1: be paying for pool too. I kept trying to tell

467
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Speaker 1: him I didn't feel like a priority to take me

468
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Speaker 1: out for ones, that his past dick caused trust issues,

469
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Speaker 1: and I want us to get help. I requested that

470
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Speaker 1: he get individual therapy. I'm in individual therapy as well. Amazing,

471
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Speaker 1: we love therapy, we love good therapy. There's bad there

472
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Speaker 1: out there, and that we do couples therapy during couples therapy. Okay,

473
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Speaker 1: so he agreed it.

474
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's good, that's really good.

475
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Speaker 1: That's great. A lot of people would not.

476
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

477
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I discovered I can no longer continue like this.

478
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,359
Speaker 1: I was stressed every night before sleeping, wondering if he

479
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Speaker 1: was okay, wondering if he was drinking too much, and

480
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Speaker 1: wondering if he was one day be coming out. I

481
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Speaker 1: was also hurt that I was the only one putting

482
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Speaker 1: in all the effort, where I planned all the dates

483
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Speaker 1: and paid for everything. I broke it off and we

484
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Speaker 1: didn't see each other for over a month. Wow, Okay,

485
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Speaker 1: so broke off and then we ended up running into

486
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Speaker 1: each other thirty five days after the breakup, when he

487
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Speaker 1: dropped some things at my house. We decided to spend

488
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Speaker 1: just the night together with the condition of absolutely no

489
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Speaker 1: drinking during our time together. Then the night turned into

490
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Speaker 1: a week, and then a week turned into two. However,

491
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Speaker 1: he had expressed a desire to get back at together

492
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Speaker 1: about five days in. I reciprocated because we both made

493
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Speaker 1: each other very happy during these two weeks, just doing

494
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Speaker 1: mundane things and being in what I consider a real partnership.

495
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Speaker 1: So she like got the relationship that she was wanting

496
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Speaker 1: all this time, and it like finally got it. He

497
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Speaker 1: said that he wanted to give up drinking because he

498
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Speaker 1: felt so good with me for the first time in

499
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Speaker 1: decades without substances altering his reality. He said he felt

500
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Speaker 1: a renewed desire to experience life from things that bring

501
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Speaker 1: him intrinsic joy, like sports, music and dancing. Oh, this

502
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,919
Speaker 1: is wonderful. He wanted to continue feeling like this again

503
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: for a long time, at least how he could learn

504
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Speaker 1: how to take on moderation. We had the most wonderful

505
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Speaker 1: two weeks where every day felt almost magical. He mentioned

506
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Speaker 1: that getting back together was on his mind, and I

507
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 1: reciprocated that sentiment. We decided that since we were both

508
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Speaker 1: thinking of getting together, with the promise that he wouldn't

509
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Speaker 1: be drinking for his own sake, we should make lists

510
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Speaker 1: for each other about all the things we need to

511
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Speaker 1: address if we were to try again to see if

512
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Speaker 1: we were compatible. If we were not compatible, we would

513
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Speaker 1: see if there was any room for accommodation. This seems

514
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Speaker 1: like they're being responsible, and like, what are the things

515
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Speaker 1: I could block us from having a good partnership?

516
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Speaker 3: Yeah?

517
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: We set a date for negotiating. Negotiating on whether we'd

519
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Speaker 1: get back together planned after an individual therapy session with

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Speaker 1: my therapist, since he wanted to make sure I had

521
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Speaker 1: all the information I could possibly have, and we set

522
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Speaker 1: a date.

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Speaker 2: Wow, very proactive too.

524
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Speaker 1: He said he wanted to be with me, but would

525
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Speaker 1: see if we could actually be together depending on our combatibility.

526
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Speaker 1: And accommodation ability. Okay, now, okay, this is a sweet story.

527
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Speaker 1: Right now, I feel like we're about to get into

528
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Speaker 1: toxic territory. During this time, I was completely exclusive. I'm

529
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Speaker 1: a very monogamous person and can only hold feelings and

530
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Speaker 1: relationships with one person at a time. My ax is different.

531
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Speaker 1: He sees himself as a being. These past two weeks

532
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: have technically been a situationship since we never defined the

533
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Speaker 1: actual boundaries on exclusivity. While we were discussing getting back

534
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Speaker 1: together during these past two weeks, he told me he

535
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Speaker 1: slept with someone during this period, about ten days into

536
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Speaker 1: our situationship while we were talking about seeing if we

537
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Speaker 1: could get back together. He said he knew I'd be hurt,

538
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Speaker 1: but to what degree he didn't know, And yet he

539
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: did it anyways, because we were not committed to each

540
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Speaker 1: other and he would not change who he is being

541
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Speaker 1: his general everyday behaviors without being fully committed to me. First,

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Speaker 1: I would be prioritized sla shul accommodate my feelings if

543
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Speaker 1: we were not exclusively together. My logic was that if

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Speaker 1: we were together together by the end of this, why

545
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Speaker 1: would he want he want him hurting me to be

546
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Speaker 1: the starting point of our relationship. He said that, no,

547
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Speaker 1: this wouldn't be the starting point since we weren't exclusive

548
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Speaker 1: at this time and it wouldn't be behind us we

549
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Speaker 1: were on a break.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so how it just feels like lawyers debating like

551
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Speaker 2: a certain detail, like WHOA technically, but then also.

552
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the starting way. He's like, technically, the

553
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Speaker 1: starting point was the date. We said.

554
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Speaker 2: This feels like two all years debating a certain topic,

555
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Speaker 2: and this one's like trying to find a way to

556
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Speaker 2: get through this loophole because it's like the technicality thing.

557
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Speaker 2: But then this other lawyer's like, but your intentionality towards

558
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 2: this relationship said one thing, and your action said another.

559
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Speaker 2: I think he's in the wrong.

560
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Speaker 1: He said. He told me how to respect and that

561
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Speaker 1: technically he had no obligation to tell me it was

562
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Speaker 1: safe a spicy sleep, but just wanted to be honest

563
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Speaker 1: about it. He did tell her, yeah, he didn't have

564
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Speaker 1: to do that.

565
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Speaker 3: True.

566
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Speaker 1: He also told me that this is how the real

567
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: world works. I'm new to relationships. This is my first

568
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Speaker 1: serious relationship. While he said he's had six before, he

569
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: said that generally people of the world would have no

570
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Speaker 1: expectations and that he had done nothing wrong since we

571
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Speaker 1: never to find any boundaries or exclusivity. He also said

572
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Speaker 1: that this is my boundary to draw and that if

573
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Speaker 1: I'm not able to get over this, then this then

574
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: we are incompatible, since he wouldn't mind the same thing

575
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Speaker 1: being done to him since we weren't exclusive.

576
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Speaker 2: I don't like the getting over this wording for sure.

577
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: It's like you're hurt and that's your problem, and especially

578
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 1: the context of like they're trying to transition into a relationship.

579
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Speaker 1: Such a good job making a comeback. He was making

580
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Speaker 1: a comeback. Also did say that the spicy sleep with

581
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Speaker 1: the woman was just spicy sleep and nothing more.

582
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Speaker 2: Oh that helps?

583
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Speaker 1: Are you being sarcastic? Yes, I mean, honestly, it kind

584
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Speaker 1: of in my eyes, it's better than that if it

585
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: was a romantic I.

586
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Speaker 2: Would not even touch on that subject.

587
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like he's capable of truly desiring me and only

588
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: wanting to be with me, but also sleeping with other people,

589
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: which he would completely cut off if we were to

590
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: become exclusive. He said that if we were, if we

591
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: became fully exclusive, there'd be no other relationship with anyone else,

592
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: and that he would take the time to put in effort,

593
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Speaker 1: both organizationally and financial, And if you would like to

594
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: put an effort into us, you can join us live

595
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: on YouTube every week they at three ampst. Just tap

596
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: our profile. I'm a very anxious human being. I asked

597
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: for a lot of reassurance during this time, to which

598
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: you said, I can't give you one hundred percent to

599
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: you right now. So the whole point of this period

600
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: is just to compare list to see if we're compatible.

601
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: If you need that from me, then I think you

602
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: already have your answer that in that we're not compatible,

603
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: that we don't owe each other anything, that any effort

604
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: I've put into these last two weeks was all my

605
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: own choice, and that we were just seeing if we

606
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: could work it out in the long run, after which

607
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: he'll be in full effort. I'm so heartbroken and torn

608
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 1: about this. I see where he's coming from, but also

609
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: that same time, I would never have done the things

610
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: he did. Yeah, I don't know how to feel about this.

611
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 1: Please one Like you guys have very different ideas around

612
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 1: like icy sleep, around exclusivity, around agreement of relationship, and

613
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: so that's like, if you're making the list, that's places

614
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: that you're incompatible. He also views relationships a very certain

615
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: way and feel like very strict like like takes that

616
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: as reality and kind of dismisses Op's version of relationships.

617
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Speaker 1: And so there, you know, there is a lot of incompatibility.

618
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: There's also like substance abuse, not like making him wrong

619
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: for that, and he's.

620
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Speaker 2: Coming on the comeback, but you have had to do

621
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Speaker 2: a lot of work with him with that part. Yeah,

622
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Speaker 2: And I feel like we're kind of forgetting that because

623
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Speaker 2: he owes Op a good relationship and he's done so

624
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 2: much work, and it's just it's hard to see who

625
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: do all this work and then make this mistake and

626
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 2: then not even own up to the mistake.

627
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're so right. It could have just been so

628
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: easy to be like, Yeah, while at the time I

629
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Speaker 1: thought it was right, I could totally see how crappy

630
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 1: that is for you. Your pain makes so much sense.

631
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.

632
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Speaker 3: The girl who stole my fiance also stole my boyfriend.

633
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Speaker 4: That's a villain origin story right there. What that's your

634
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Speaker 4: That's a nemesis.

635
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Speaker 1: If I've ever heard one. Yeah, that is that's your rival.

636
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Speaker 3: Be ready with your popcorn and your iced coffee. Y'all

637
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 3: are going to be mad at me at some point

638
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 3: during this story.

639
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Speaker 4: Oh no, I don't like how you're calling this out.

640
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 4: You're calling yourself out already.

641
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Speaker 3: I twenty nine female, was engaged to my now ex fiance,

642
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 3: who we will call Asher twenty nine male in twenty twenty.

643
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 3: We were best friends up until we started dating in

644
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Speaker 3: our second year of high school. By the way, the

645
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Speaker 3: story comes from user recovering people Pleaser on the r

646
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Speaker 3: slash okay storytimes I've read it. So we dated for

647
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Speaker 3: only three days and I broke it off immediately as

648
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 3: I was too scared of being in a relationship while

649
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Speaker 3: trying to maintain my academic standings in school. For context,

650
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 3: where Asians and Asian parents are a bit more strict,

651
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Speaker 3: especially when it comes to school. We stopped talking for

652
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Speaker 3: a few months until we became best friends again after him,

653
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Speaker 3: I had been in a physically and mentally abusive relationship too.

654
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Speaker 3: To be exact, Asher and I eventually rekindled our romance

655
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 3: on my last year of college. All of my friends

656
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 3: were very happy for me, as they said, this has

657
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 3: been the best relationship decision I have done so far. Well,

658
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,479
Speaker 3: they'rein for a surprise. Asher and I. I had a

659
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 3: smooth relationship for a year up until I had to

660
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 3: take my licensure exam. A day before traveling to the

661
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 3: exam center, I went over to his house and we

662
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 3: were just hanging out watching movies, and everything was fine

663
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 3: until his mom came over to us and asked him

664
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 3: if he had told me yet.

665
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: He said no.

666
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 3: I was confused, but at the time Asher just brushed

667
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 3: it off. After an hour, his mom asked to talk

668
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 3: to me alone inside his room. I remember feeling so

669
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 3: scared and started overthinking like maybe I've.

670
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: Done something wrong.

671
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 3: She started off by asking if I knew of this

672
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: certain girl who I'll call Michelle from what I knew.

673
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 3: Michelle was an acquaintance of Asher's from his training club.

674
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 3: I told his mom, yes, I did know her. Her

675
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 3: next sentence almost made me lose my mind. She said

676
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 3: Michelle just gave birth and reached out to them because

677
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 3: she's claiming Asher got her pregnant.

678
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: Oh, oh, my lord, I was at a loss for words.

679
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 3: She said the baby was born with a medical condition

680
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 3: that puts his life at risk. Oh God, that's terrible,

681
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 3: his mom said. She wanted to let me know as

682
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 3: Asher didn't have the guts to tell me, but she

683
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 3: emphasized that Asher strongly denied being the father. She gave

684
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 3: us the chance to talk and to sum things up.

685
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 3: I believed him. The next day, I was already on

686
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 3: my way for my Life Insure exam, which is a

687
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 3: two day intensive exam, when I received a message just

688
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 3: as I was about to enter the exam room. It

689
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 3: was from Michelle. She was asking me to take pity

690
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 3: on her child and to convince Asher to pay for

691
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 3: child support since the child is currently fighting for his

692
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 3: life at the hospital. I didn't get the chance to

693
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 3: reply as I was already seated and the exam was

694
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 3: about to start. The exam is an eight to five

695
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 3: exam with only one lunch break aloud. I tried my

696
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 3: best to get it out of my head, as this

697
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 3: exam was to make or break the entire course of

698
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 3: my life. Yeah, God, what an unbelievable thing to get

699
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 3: right before one of the most important tests of your life.

700
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is wow.

701
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 4: Ohp She's like, this is my this is like my

702
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 4: make or break right here, and wow, you get this context.

703
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 3: I managed to keep my cool until the end of

704
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 3: the second day, and I talked to Asher immediately about

705
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 3: what Michelle told me. He said his parents already sent

706
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 3: some money to her out of pity for the child,

707
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 3: but not because he admits he's the father, which was

708
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 3: kind of suspicious, but whatever, it wasn't my money. I

709
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 3: then responded to Michelle saying how sorry I was about

710
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 3: her and her baby situation, and that I've tried talking

711
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 3: to Asher but he still denies it and I wouldn't

712
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 3: get involved any further because I'm just a girlfriend. I

713
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 3: told her i'd pray for her and her baby. She

714
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 3: still kept bothering me through messages, but I didn't know

715
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 3: what to say it to her at this point. The

716
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 3: sad thing was is the baby passed a few days

717
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 3: after that, which totally broke my heart and also breaks ours.

718
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 3: You never want that, you hate to see it every time.

719
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 3: Fast forward after the Michelle drama, I passed the exam,

720
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 3: amissed the stress of it all. Asher and I were

721
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 3: still together and he went back to college. He started

722
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,719
Speaker 3: later than me because he was to video games. I

723
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 3: haven't ever heard that as a reason to start school late,

724
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 3: but I'm not gonna judge. Our whole relationship was a

725
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 3: long distance one after that, where we only got to

726
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 3: talk to each other every weekend and see each other

727
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 3: on Christmas and New Year's because he's in military school.

728
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 3: And even after all the time constraints, he still managed

729
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 3: to cheat on me multiple times, too many to count

730
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 3: on my fingers. And the funny thing is I stayed yes,

731
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 3: I stayed why, well, I what there might be an

732
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 3: explanation here.

733
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: I don't.

734
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 3: I'm probably a walking red flag myself because of this.

735
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 3: After three years into the relationship, I decided to move

736
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 3: abroad for a job opportunity. I didn't think it would

737
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 3: be much of a problem for us, as we were

738
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 3: already in a long distance relationship for quite a while.

739
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: Boy was I wrong about that.

740
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 3: A month after moving abroad, I had this feeling that

741
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 3: I get whenever he's cheating on me. Mind you, for

742
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 3: all the times he's cheated on me prior, I would

743
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 3: always catch him in the act, like I probably would

744
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 3: make a good FBI agent. At this point, I couldn't

745
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 3: shake the feeling that I was being cheated on. I

746
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 3: shared my thought to the wife of his best friend,

747
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 3: let's call her Eve, who I became friends with after

748
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: we got together. She told me to look for more

749
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 3: signs until one morning, as I was getting ready to

750
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 3: go to work, Eve messaged me, and before I opened

751
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 3: her message, I already had the feeling it wouldn't be

752
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 3: good news. She said she knew who he's cheating with,

753
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 3: and she sends me a photo of them in a

754
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 3: mirror selfie to a place where we once went on vacation.

755
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 3: I was at a loss for words on who the

756
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 3: girl was. She is the star of this story. Let's

757
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 3: call her Megan. Meghan was the mistress of Asher's best friend.

758
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 2: What is going on?

759
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 3: Yes, Eve and I are flabbergasted. We had no idea

760
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 3: that our partners were so close that they managed to

761
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 3: screw one girl and make them their mistress. Asher's best

762
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 3: friend had her first and a year after that, Asher

763
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 3: I was furious and did something petty. As the photo

764
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 3: that Eve showed me was posted on Facebook, I commented

765
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 3: and tagged Asher's mom and said, this is what he

766
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 3: was doing when he asked for your permission to go

767
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 3: to his senior in military. Immediately after that, Asher started

768
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 3: calling me non stock and kept gaslighting me that I

769
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 3: was crazy. I broke up with him after.

770
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: That, Yes, finally, thank god.

771
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, his whole family was consoling me, but nothing eases

772
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 3: the pain. What's worse, I learned about the affair a

773
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 3: few weeks before taking another licensure exam for the country

774
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 3: I moved to my God. I still fortunately passed the

775
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 3: exam and stopped communicating with Asher way before I took it.

776
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 3: Fast forward to seven months after that, Asher and I

777
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 3: started talking again. No, he was apologizing until eventually we

778
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 3: got bitter. Now I am beyond stupid at this point,

779
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 3: which I'm sorry, Op.

780
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: I agree. Oh if he did call herself out earlier

781
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: in the story in your.

782
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 3: Own words, Op, that was stupid of you to do.

783
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 3: Our relationship was okay for another year, but I could

784
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 3: tell the damage was already there. He then posed to

785
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 3: me online in a very public Facebook post where he

786
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 3: tagged me in our parents with a photo of a

787
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 3: ring and mushy messages asking me to marry him as

788
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 3: we were still in different countries, and I stupidly said yes.

789
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: Why anyone watching this?

790
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 3: Anyone watching this, please use this as a blueprint as

791
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 3: what to never ever, ever ever do in a relationship.

792
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 3: If someone proposes to you over Facebook, first of all,

793
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 3: you block them, because that is never acceptable way to

794
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 3: propose to somebody.

795
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: I don't care how far away you are. That's your

796
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: first who ever ever proposed to somebody, your first red

797
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: fly You're like, Ah, that's the briggest refly.

798
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 3: It should have been like, I'm not gonna accept this

799
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 3: at the very least, no, propose to me a better way.

800
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 3: I'm not doing this.

801
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: But the consistent cheating.

802
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, being cheated on literally the entire time you're in

803
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 3: a relationship with somebody.

804
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: Don't marry that person. You have the evidence.

805
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 3: A few more months after I accepted his proposal, I

806
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 3: was already nearing the end of my contract in my

807
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 3: workplace and plan to go home to my home country

808
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 3: to have our wedding. We started wedding planning and with

809
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 3: the help of my besties, who I knew were secret

810
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 3: questioning my sanity because of my decision to say yes

811
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 3: to his proposal. He was in another country due to

812
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 3: the nature of his job, and said we'd meet in

813
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 3: our home country in a few months, but his contract

814
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 3: ends earlier than mine. Everything was great up until he

815
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 3: arrived home. He started messaging less and I started getting

816
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 3: the ugly feeling again. Whenever I brought up the icky feeling,

817
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 3: he would guesslight me saying he's only been back for

818
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 3: a few days and had just started hanging out with

819
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 3: the dudes, and I was just over thinking. Well, my

820
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 3: female instincts never failed me. I caught him cheating again

821
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 3: and guess what it.

822
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 1: Was with Megan?

823
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 3: Ah ah like mad Megan. At that point, I was

824
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 3: already so fed up and so tired. I called off

825
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 3: the engagement and blocked him on all social medias he

826
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 3: could even try to contact me on, thank god, even email.

827
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 3: I started going to therapy and hanging out with my

828
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 3: friends and tried to make myself better until I reached

829
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 3: the end of my contract. A few weeks before my

830
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 3: flight back home, I met this guy from our hometown

831
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 3: let's call him Mark, and we started talking to each other.

832
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 3: He was nice and started making plans of what we'd

833
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 3: do once I arrived home. Shortly after I finished my

834
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 3: contract and flew back home, Mark and I were still

835
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 3: talking and we were very much interested with each other.

836
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 3: I didn't get to see him until ten days after

837
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 3: my arrival, though, as it was COVID time and I

838
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 3: had to undergo mandatory quarantine. Mark was a nice guy.

839
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 3: He treated me far differently from how Asher did. We

840
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 3: started dating, and I was happy and stress free, or

841
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 3: so I thought.

842
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 4: I really hope, I really hope, I really hope.

843
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 3: When I arrived at our hometown, I met with Mark

844
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 3: and we started hanging out with my friends and we

845
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 3: were all happy. One day, Mark started being shady about

846
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 3: his whereabouts, though I asked him if he wanted to

847
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:49,919
Speaker 3: hang out, but he said he was sick and would

848
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 3: rather stay home. I started to have the ugly feels again,

849
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 3: but I brushed it off, thinking it was just the

850
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 3: trauma that my past relationship gave me. And then me

851
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 3: and my friend had plans to go out. I didn't

852
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 3: have my own car yet, so I used a public transport.

853
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 3: When they tell you God has his favorites, I must

854
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 3: be one of them, because as I stepped in lo

855
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 3: and behold, it was Megan, And boy was I not

856
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 3: surprised when I heard she told the driver to drop

857
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 3: her off where in front of Mark's house. She tried

858
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 3: to whisper it, but girl, I have good hearing, So

859
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 3: after I heard that, I told her, Oh, you're gonna

860
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 3: see Mark. Well, tell him to feel better soon. By

861
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 3: the way, I would feel better soon if you joined us.

862
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 3: Every weekday at three pm PST when we go live

863
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 3: on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, TikTok. Just tap our profile and

864
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 3: you're in. Mark and I broke up after that, thank god.

865
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 3: He was still trying to make amends and tried to

866
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 3: make stupid excuses, but I wasn't having it anymore. I

867
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 3: told him to f off. Next thing I heard was

868
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 3: Megan and her friends were spreading rumors that I was

869
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 3: the one who stole her man talking about Asher, which

870
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 3: is why they broke up, and that stealing Mark was

871
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 3: her getting back at me. I was so speechless at

872
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 3: that point that I didn't even give the rumor an

873
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 3: ounce of my energy. I was a bit confident brushing

874
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 3: off the rumors because our whole hometown knew how long

875
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 3: Asher and I have been together, so nobody would believe

876
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 3: all the crap that she's been spewing. Asher reached out

877
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 3: to me saying he and Megan broke up because she

878
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 3: was having an affair with another guy, Shocker, who was

879
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 3: apparently my boyfriend. I did not reply. That is the

880
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 3: end of that story. Ope, it is good that you

881
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 3: are cutting off Asher and not reply, just don't from hometown.

882
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm glad that No Moore broke up with Mark, the

883
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,919
Speaker 1: fact that it's happened with three men.

884
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 3: She's clearly got it out for you. But I also

885
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 3: I like that you're not giving it any energy. Do

886
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 3: not give any of your energy no more. Megan's being

887
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 3: a demon.

888
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: Megan is a like.

889
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 3: So you either got to exercise it or get out

890
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 3: of the house. Right If you live in a haunted house,

891
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 3: key on.

892
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 4: You stay and you fight the ghosts, you get out

893
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:55,720
Speaker 4: of that house.

894
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 3: Leave, dude, leave, you gotta get out anyway, that's the

895
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,280
Speaker 3: end of the story. My male friend cheated with another friend.

896
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 3: Now I'm revealing the truth to his ex.

897
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: You got no male friends.

898
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 3: Now, I'm gonna keep it as brief as possible, and

899
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 3: hope I'm conveying myself clearly enough. I will put my

900
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,879
Speaker 3: fear of being misunderstood to the side. By the way,

901
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 3: This comes from user aggravating Heat nine thirty eight on

902
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 3: the r slash okay storytime subreddit. So first some context

903
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 3: about me and my friend, then the main situation, and

904
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,879
Speaker 3: then the dilemma that I require your help with, Oh,

905
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 3: great and powerful Reddit, I thirty four female and my

906
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 3: friend s forty two male have been friends for twelve years.

907
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 3: We're gonna call him Steve. We studied together, sometimes work together,

908
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 3: went on camping trips and weekends away, and generally are

909
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 3: good friends, have good times, and are quite enmeshed and

910
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 3: involved in each other's lives. We definitely have had our

911
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 3: TIFFs along the way with feelings being involved, and often

912
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 3: I just want to talk through a situation where he

913
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 3: prefers to sweep it under the rug the past is

914
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 3: the past type of thing. For the most part, he's

915
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 3: a fun, loving and caring person, full of positive and

916
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 3: energy and jokes.

917
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: He is sharp and witty.

918
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,280
Speaker 3: Everybody loves him and his charm, but there are times

919
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 3: when he's just kind of an a hole. Often to

920
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 3: me sure he thinks his a holary is justified, because

921
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 3: if it often comes out when I have said something

922
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 3: to someone else that he's deemed private or not necessary

923
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 3: to share with people, not that he's ever communicated that beforehand.

924
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 3: Over the years, I've learned how he prefers things, and

925
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 3: I usually want to keep the peace, so just kind

926
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 3: of fell in line. Personally, I don't see the need

927
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 3: to hide or keep information from people, and not that

928
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 3: I would want to tell everyone every bit about my life,

929
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 3: but I do understand and see the point that sometimes

930
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 3: being a bit dishonest can have benefits or it makes

931
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 3: things less complicated, small white lies that don't hurt anyone,

932
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,760
Speaker 3: But it's not generally how I prefer to operate anyway.

933
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: Context done. Time for the situation.

934
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 3: Steve started dating a girl after a long term relationship

935
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 3: ended abruptly that really crushed him. He wasn't ready for

936
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 3: anything serious, but the girl was super nice and sweet

937
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 3: and made him feel good. Let's call her. We're gonna

938
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 3: call her Rebecca.

939
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 4: Ah.

940
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 3: She was much younger than him and he was her

941
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 3: first great love. COVID happened and they lived together for

942
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 3: a few months, so that catapulted their relationship quickly. She

943
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 3: was deeply in love with him and started picturing their

944
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 3: life together, although she was a bit more conservative aka

945
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 3: and Ospasislipi before marriage and thus wanted to get married soon,

946
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 3: which she told him upfront. He, on the other hand,

947
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 3: since I met him, said he's not the marrying type,

948
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,800
Speaker 3: but he really cared for Rebecca, so the relationship continued.

949
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 3: I remember telling him early on, if he knows they

950
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 3: are not on the same trajectory or that he feels

951
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 3: she wants to make things too serious too soon, that

952
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 3: they should talk and perhaps take a break or even

953
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 3: break up before anyone gets more hurt down the line.

954
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 3: But he just said sure, sure, and carried on. In

955
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 3: the time that they were dating, he and another longtime

956
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 3: friend w thirty three female who we will.

957
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: Call Whitney Wimberly No do Whitney.

958
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 3: No do Whitney rekindled their friendship. They have had had

959
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 3: some on again, off again type of thing going for years.

960
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 3: At times they didn't speak for months and that at

961
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 3: other times, he has been her support and cuddle buddy

962
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 3: when she and her boyfriend were going through rocky patches.

963
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: I don't like that.

964
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 3: I don't think you're supposed to have a male cuddle

965
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 3: buddy cold time.

966
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is cuddle buddy? Yeah? Where is that job description? Yeah?

967
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 3: Okiden immediately says you can see where this is heading, right,

968
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 3: which we can.

969
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

970
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 3: Anyway, So Steve and Whitney began hanging out often. Rebecca

971
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 3: had a job and tourism, which meant that most weekends

972
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 3: she had to work. So there were several weekends when Steve,

973
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 3: Whitney and myself would hang out. Although I was not

974
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 3: allowed to tell Rebecca, although there were more weekends where

975
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 3: it was just the two of them. Several times I

976
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 3: suggested that perhaps he and Rebecca should break up because

977
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,760
Speaker 3: clearly there are other things going on, and that women

978
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 3: have a good intuition to pick up on things aka

979
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 3: spidy senses. At this time, I was told to stay

980
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 3: out of his business, he's handling it and that there

981
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 3: is nothing going on, so there's nothing that the spidy

982
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,479
Speaker 3: senses need to pick up. I also found out later

983
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 3: that I was his cover up slash alibi on several

984
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 3: occasions aka Rebecca would ask Steve what he did this weekend,

985
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 3: and he would say he was hanging out with me. Now,

986
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, in an ideal world, nobody would

987
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 3: lie or would have to be sneaky. But unfortunately, this

988
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 3: isn't an ideal world, and we aren't perfect individuals, and

989
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,280
Speaker 3: sometimes crap just happens. I get that, and I'm always

990
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 3: willing to help out a friend, but then I do

991
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 3: kind of expect that friend to keep me in the

992
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 3: loop a bit and also to set things right somewhere

993
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 3: down the line.

994
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,320
Speaker 1: For example, one of the more colorful.

995
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 3: Situations, part of the main situation was I walked in

996
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 3: on Steve and Whitney going at it on a weekend away.

997
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 3: And that was after the morning when I raised concerns

998
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 3: again that he looked me straight in the eyes and

999
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 3: said that I know him and he would never cross

1000
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 3: that line, so there's nothing to worry about.

1001
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, Steve's a lie. That's that's just a little white lie.

1002
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 3: Steve is a big fat lie. I believed him because

1003
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 3: before that point I have always thought of him as

1004
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 3: someone with a high integrity and a very strong moral compass,

1005
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 3: although he did find joy in blurring some lines every

1006
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 3: now and then, even with me. Anyway, after the walk

1007
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 3: in incident, he didn't want to talk about it or

1008
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 3: clear the air, and I thought surely he would now

1009
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 3: break up with Rebecca in the following week. Ope, you

1010
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 3: little angel baby, that is so sweet of you to assume.

1011
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: Nope. They dated for another six months after that, shocking.

1012
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 1: But then, Ope, why didn't you tell Rebecca.

1013
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 3: Because a little white line never heard anybody? Six months crazy?

1014
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 3: Six months is a little half a year crazy, dude. Yeah,

1015
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 3: come on, it's code. You tell the girlfriend. At that point,

1016
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 3: you tell the girlfriend. I'm sorry, it's not even code anymore.

1017
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,240
Speaker 3: It's just logistics, Why am I saying sorry? I'm not sorry?

1018
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 3: Tell your friend that she being geated on. My friendship

1019
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,919
Speaker 3: with him took a severe knock in these months. More

1020
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 3: often than not he was a wiener head to me,

1021
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 3: except when he needed something Simultaneously. He had me sworn

1022
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,760
Speaker 3: to secrecy and that it was none of my business

1023
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 3: how his relationship with Rebecca was going.

1024
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: Is that how it works?

1025
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 4: Now? You swear secrecy and then that's your life Like that,

1026
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,280
Speaker 4: it's over. Like if I tell Rebecca I'm done.

1027
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: No, I don't understand that.

1028
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 3: I had started making peace with the fact that this

1029
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 3: is how our friendship would end, and I would be

1030
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 3: very sad. But this whole situation gave me sleepless nights

1031
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 3: due to anxiety, dishonesty, and secrecy. It made it so

1032
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 3: that I couldn't trust him and actually felt unsafe in

1033
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 3: his presence, which is the one thing that I truly

1034
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 3: love in my male friendships is that sense of safety.

1035
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 3: And it was gone. Eventually Steve and Rebecca broke up.

1036
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 3: She phoned me in tears, asking all the right questions,

1037
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 3: and I, with my warped sense of loyalty to him,

1038
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 3: just said that I can't tell her anything and that

1039
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 3: I'm really sorry she was so broken hearted. Why why

1040
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 3: they're already why? I mean, at least the only thing

1041
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 3: I can respect out of this is that when Ope

1042
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 3: says she's gonna keep a secret, I guess she means it.

1043
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,280
Speaker 3: It seems like Ope, you can trust her with a secret.

1044
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: At some level. You gotta let the truth.

1045
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 3: The truth shall set you free.

1046
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1047
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 3: I felt terrible. This poor girl was deeply in love

1048
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 3: with him and he.

1049
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,879
Speaker 4: Was reckless with her heart Like Steve sucks, But op

1050
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 4: you are literally just helping Steve get away with it.

1051
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's the.

1052
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 1: Loyal But I feel so bad for Rebecca.

1053
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 3: Fast forward a year or two. My friendship with Steve

1054
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 3: is in a good place after several more TIFFs. Each

1055
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 3: of us also lost a parent in the past year,

1056
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 3: so we were a great support to each other. We

1057
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 3: still have not really spoken about what had happened, and

1058
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 3: the few times I tried to get some clarity, he

1059
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 3: bit my head off and shut the conversation down.

1060
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: What are you doing, Opie?

1061
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 4: What does he add to your life other than stress

1062
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 4: and shame and loyalty?

1063
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,240
Speaker 1: That's not good loyalty.

1064
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,280
Speaker 3: He adds nothing. He's taking your honesty.

1065
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: You can't get away with this. He's literally taking your

1066
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: your morals from you. Somehow.

1067
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 3: We have staid friends, and he has expressed numerous times

1068
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 3: how much I mean to him, and we generally always

1069
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 3: have good times together as long as I never.

1070
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: Bring up anything from the past.

1071
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 3: He and Whitney started dating, and they are kind of

1072
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 3: made for each other because they have their own special

1073
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 3: kind of narcissism between them, obsessed with their reputations and aesthetics.

1074
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 3: But Steve seems happy, and that is what I want

1075
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 3: from my friends. They're getting married in six months. I'm

1076
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 3: sure that won't end in flames.

1077
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: This relationship was built on lies.

1078
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am a groomsman a grooms lady if you will.

1079
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 3: By the way, if you want, you can join us

1080
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 3: live every weekday when we go live on YouTube, Facebook,

1081
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 3: TikTok and Twitch at three PMPST. Just tap our profile.

1082
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,439
Speaker 3: If you're watching this in the future, we might even

1083
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 3: be live right now. So it's okay to cut bad

1084
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 3: people out of here.

1085
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 1: I want to know who's a bigger ale here.

1086
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 3: I think op is clearly not getting away with like, oh, p,

1087
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 3: you are partially responsible?

1088
00:49:58,320 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: You are?

1089
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 4: I think Steve is the ba the biggest a hole,

1090
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 4: But Opie, you are you are literally supporting that, and

1091
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 4: you're making him into a bigger a hole. It's making me,

1092
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,240
Speaker 4: making us lose our piece of minds right now, because

1093
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 4: like it just there's a missing puzzle piece here, and

1094
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 4: I just can't seem to figure out what that missing

1095
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,280
Speaker 4: puzzle piece is of why op is so loyal to Steve.

1096
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 4: I get it, your friends, I get that, but you

1097
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,280
Speaker 4: don't deserve like this is not a friendship. It seems

1098
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 4: like he's above you exactly and like he's taking full

1099
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 4: control of you.

1100
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: I don't get that.

1101
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:30,879
Speaker 3: It's not a friendship, because what did you just say?

1102
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 3: You were like every time we hang out, we have

1103
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 3: a great time as long as I abide by all

1104
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:35,399
Speaker 3: of his.

1105
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 1: Rules and whatever he says. And if I say something else,

1106
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: I'm out of line and he'll make me feel bad.

1107
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:40,919
Speaker 1: He'll can't be real with him.

1108
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 3: Recently, Rebecca contacted me because she wanted to return a

1109
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 3: book that she borrowed from me. She also rightfully said

1110
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 3: that I was in the wrong and that I should

1111
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 3: have told her because her spidy senses were tingling like crazy.

1112
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 3: She felt like she was the last to find out

1113
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 3: and she feels humiliated, but she understood it came from

1114
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 3: a place of loyalty. I apologized for my part in

1115
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 3: it and said, I think we should go for a

1116
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 3: glass of wine or five to have a chat. So

1117
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 3: here's my dilemma. Would I be the A hole if

1118
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 3: I told Rebecca everything that happened during that time that

1119
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 3: they were dating. She said she also had some stories

1120
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 3: to tell, for example, that she once came to eat

1121
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 3: at the place that she worked. He admitted to her

1122
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 3: that he and Whitney were dating, but that Whitney didn't

1123
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 3: compare to her, and then he tried to kiss her.

1124
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 3: What the frick anyway? So would I be the A

1125
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 3: hole if I played the open cards with his ex girlfriend?

1126
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 3: W with that jeopardize my and Steve's friendship. So bat news, Op,

1127
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,760
Speaker 3: you're already the a hole like I said, Sorry, buddy,

1128
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 3: like I said, you're already an a hole in this situation.

1129
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 3: I don't think you would be an a hole by

1130
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,280
Speaker 3: telling Rebecca the truth of her relationship, because you should.

1131
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: Have told Rebecca the truth that the very get go.

1132
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 3: But it's blowing my mind that Rebecca apparently already knew

1133
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 3: about Whitney at some point here and again continue to

1134
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 3: stay with Steve. What is going on with Steve here?

1135
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 4: Is my thing with this. I would put myself in

1136
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 4: their shoes. So in case like OP, if I were OP,

1137
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 4: I would have put myself in Rebecca shoes. I would

1138
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 4: have loved to known if I was being cheated on

1139
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 4: during my relationship, and especially like after we broke up,

1140
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:12,240
Speaker 4: would I would have wanted everything.

1141
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is not a The Weekend type situation. I

1142
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 3: do want to know if you're playing me. That's the

1143
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 3: end of that story.

1144
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: Let us own the comments. I think both Op and

1145
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: Steve and Whitney all a holes.

1146
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 4: Is my comments. Who's the biggest ale here? Let us

1147
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 4: know in the comments I want to see. That's the

1148
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 4: name of that story. Guys, let us own the comments.

1149
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 4: We'll see you in the next one.

1150
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:33,800
Speaker 3: I caught my husband using a spicy dating app.

1151
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 4: I got them arrested from apps to handcuffs true love story.

1152
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 3: I all using a throwaway account because I don't usually

1153
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 3: use Reddit. I've literally just.

1154
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 1: Found this out, so apologies if this is a bit scattered.

1155
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,280
Speaker 3: I thirty four male have been with my husband Richard

1156
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 3: forty one male for just over ten years married for

1157
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 3: a year. We've been on holiday in Spain tore Moos

1158
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 3: for a month. As most probably know, tore Moinos has

1159
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 3: a big gay scene. It's twenty five percent of the population.

1160
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 3: I did not know that.

1161
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: In some context, we were thinking of moving here, more.

1162
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 3: Difficult because of Brexit. We're British. By the way, this

1163
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 3: comes from user aggravating Act eighty three ninety seven on

1164
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 3: the r slash Okay storytime subreddit. So Richard loves going

1165
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 3: to the bars in the evening. I though, have very

1166
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 3: bad social anxiety, so I don't enjoy it so much.

1167
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 3: Most nights he goes out without me, which was fine

1168
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 3: because I had one hundred percent trust in him. Tonight,

1169
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 3: after dinner, he brought me back to the apartment we've

1170
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 3: rented and he was going to go out like usual,

1171
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 3: but he dozed off in the bedroom. I heard him snoring,

1172
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 3: so went to check on him. His phone was next

1173
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 3: to him with grinder open, with a bunch of messages

1174
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 3: to some Spanish guy. The spicy picks intimate words of

1175
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 3: what would be done. I'm trying to keep this PG,

1176
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 3: but you get the basic idea. Hopefully. Richard was saying

1177
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 3: how long he was there for, and I think they

1178
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,919
Speaker 3: might have been arranging to meet up. I'm not exactly sure, though,

1179
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 3: because as soon as I saw the Grinder messages, my

1180
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 3: head was spinning and I felt sick and betrayed. It

1181
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 3: was such a flip of emotions, going from ah, my

1182
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 3: lovely man has fallen asleep to extreme distress. I woke

1183
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 3: him up immediately. He claims he was just bored and

1184
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 3: needed some validation and wasn't actually going to do anything.

1185
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 3: Richard has had some confidence issues since turning forty, even

1186
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 3: though I regularly tell him how gorgeous he is. I

1187
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 3: don't know what to think. It's late at night now,

1188
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 3: so I don't want to get into a full blown

1189
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 3: discussion about it. I don't know if I'm being paranoid,

1190
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,879
Speaker 3: but even in England, every time I even went near

1191
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,399
Speaker 3: his phone, he would freak out. I just thought maybe

1192
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,360
Speaker 3: he was worried about me dropping it. I have dyspraxia,

1193
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 3: so I'm pretty clumsy.

1194
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: Richard would also.

1195
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 3: Regularly forget to wear his wedding ring. He does have exema,

1196
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 3: so he takes it off when he's using ointment. I'm

1197
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 3: just all over the place right now, not even going

1198
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 3: to bother trying to sleep. I'm here venting because I

1199
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 3: don't know what else to do right now. Here is

1200
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 3: the update. Hell, lovely ladies and gents. Thanks for the

1201
00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 3: advice on my original post. It's been a crazy couple

1202
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:00,760
Speaker 3: of days.

1203
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:01,760
Speaker 1: But I have an update.

1204
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 3: Sorry it's a bit long, but a lot has happened.

1205
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 3: In the morning, after getting zero sleep, I asked Richard

1206
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,400
Speaker 3: to show me all the messages he had sent. He

1207
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 3: said he deleted grinder, but I got him to re

1208
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 3: download it. Richard was sitting across the table from me,

1209
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 3: and suspiciously it was taking it a while to download. Well,

1210
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,800
Speaker 3: I'm not stupid, I could tell he was deleting stuff.

1211
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 3: Little did he know I had taken screenshots. Sure Enough,

1212
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 3: when he handed me the phone, all of his responses

1213
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 3: had miraculously vanished. Only the stuff the Spanish guy had

1214
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 3: sent was still there. This idiot tried to gaslight me

1215
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 3: into thinking he hadn't responded. Well, I showed him the evidence.

1216
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,399
Speaker 3: He said he didn't remember it because he was wasted.

1217
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 3: He was full of apologies, saying he would never actually

1218
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 3: do anything, blah blah blah. When that didn't work, he

1219
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 3: said I was overreacting and needed to get over it.

1220
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 3: Then he got angry and nasty, saying because of my anxiety,

1221
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,399
Speaker 3: I would be nothing without him.

1222
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:53,879
Speaker 1: Finally, he stormed off and.

1223
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:57,240
Speaker 3: Left the apartment. Weirdly, after all of that, I didn't

1224
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 3: even feel sad, just empty, and shortly after her petty Oh.

1225
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:06,479
Speaker 3: I sent the screenshots to his mother so she knew

1226
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 3: the type of band she had raised. I blurred out

1227
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 3: the graphic parts of the pictures. She didn't need to

1228
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 3: see that.

1229
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: Wow, oh piece, get on that part for you, Good

1230
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 1: for you.

1231
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 3: Then I noticed that the Spanish guy, who we will

1232
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 3: call Senor P had used his full name. After some

1233
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 3: social searches, I found out he had a boyfriend. Turns

1234
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 3: out I actually sort of knew the boyfriend. We'll call

1235
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 3: him A for Alejandro.

1236
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: Quick context.

1237
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 3: Me and Richard were thinking about buying and running a

1238
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 3: bar when we moved to Spain. We've had several trips

1239
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 3: to Torreminos prior to the month's day, so we were

1240
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 3: asking people who own bars for advice and getting to

1241
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 3: know them. Alejandro has owned a very successful bar for

1242
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 3: five years. He's British and speaks fluent Spanish. As he's

1243
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 3: our generation compared to most of the other bar owners.

1244
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 3: Alejandro is thirty five, and we got to know him

1245
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 3: very well. He's a lovely guy and very forthcoming with advice. Anyway,

1246
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 3: back to the tea, I decided to let Alejandro know

1247
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 3: exactly what Senor Pa had been up to.

1248
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: The bar works as a cafe.

1249
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 3: During the day, and Alejandro usually is around, so I

1250
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 3: headed down there. I'm pretty proud of myself. I haven't

1251
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 3: really gone anywhere here on my own due to my

1252
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 3: social anxiety, but my determination overcame it. Alejandro was there,

1253
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 3: so I asked to have a quiet word with him

1254
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 3: and showed him the screenshots. He was livid. He'd only

1255
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 3: been with Senor P for around six months, but he

1256
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 3: was living with him. He knew Sennor P was at

1257
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 3: his home that day, so he went to confront him.

1258
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 3: After I told him how Richard had stormed out, he

1259
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 3: suspected he might have been there as well.

1260
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 4: Oh wow, oh boy, extremely dramatic. Right now, I'm excited.

1261
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 4: But also, let's see how petty I want to see

1262
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:50,919
Speaker 4: how petty opiking really gets.

1263
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 3: Let's see let's see where this is.

1264
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: I feel like this that's the tip of the iceberg.

1265
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: He offered me to come with.

1266
00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 3: I was nervous because I'm really bad at confrontation, but

1267
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 3: Alejandro can. He has plenty of staff at the bar,

1268
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 3: so him leaving it wasn't a problem. We hopped in

1269
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 3: his car and drove down to the house. Alejandro has

1270
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 3: a three bedroom home and it's really nice. Anyway, you

1271
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 3: can probably guess what we found, Richard in bed with

1272
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 3: Senor Pe.

1273
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: Oh wow, my act, Oh my god.

1274
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 3: Now Alejandro is a six foot four muscular guy, so

1275
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 3: he had no trouble dragging them both out of the house,

1276
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 3: stark nake and throwing them out. Richard tried to fight

1277
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 3: back and ended up with a bloody nose. When Richard

1278
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 3: saw me, he said, since I assumed he had cheated,

1279
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 3: he might well have gone done it now since our

1280
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 3: relationship was over. It's again so pathetic, dude, Richard, suck

1281
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 3: you suck pathetic like Rachel from Friends. I said, well,

1282
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 3: you had a heck of a time at the funeral.

1283
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 3: I'm not usually that quick. I'm a pretty quiet guy,

1284
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 3: but I was fuming. Alejandro called the cops, saying there

1285
00:58:57,240 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 3: were some crazy naked guys outside, and Richard and Signor

1286
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 3: p got arrested.

1287
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: Nice. Nice.

1288
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 3: I am only here for another week, so I was

1289
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 3: thinking of getting a cheap hotel room, but Alejandro offered

1290
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 3: for me to stay with him. Like I said, there's

1291
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 3: three bedrooms, so plenty of room. And Alejandro says that

1292
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 3: he needs to get rid of the defiled bed, so

1293
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 3: I'll help him out with that. Alejandro is going to

1294
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 3: help me get my stuff from the apartment. Hopefully he

1295
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 3: can get it done before Richard's out and about not

1296
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 3: sure about how long he'll be held for. I might

1297
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 3: update as things progress. There's a lot going on in

1298
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 3: my head right now, so hopefully people won't mind if

1299
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 3: I don't do it for a while. And there is

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Speaker 3: an edit. Okay, some of you seem to think that

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Speaker 3: because of my anxiety, I couldn't have done any of this.

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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Speaker 3: You sound like Richard. Yeah what that's not well?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Why are people saying that?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 3: Thanks it it's called overcoming your obstacles. I have social

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Speaker 3: anxiety when it comes to larger groups of people, but

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Speaker 3: when it's one on one or people I know, it's

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Speaker 3: not as bad. Like I said, I know Alejandro pretty well. Also,

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Speaker 3: that's the with anger and adrenaline in the moment. It helps.

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Speaker 3: If you think I was completely calm and collected while

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Speaker 3: all this was happening, you couldn't be more wrong.

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Speaker 1: I was breaking it.

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Speaker 3: I pretty much let Alejandro handle everything. And here's a

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Speaker 3: second update. Hello everyone, I have a small update. I'm

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Speaker 3: still in Spain. I was meant to fly back Tuesday,

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Speaker 3: but I've extended my stay. The idea of flying back

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Speaker 3: on my own is terrifying at the moment. I'm self employed,

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Speaker 3: so it's slightly more flexible until I need to go back.

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Speaker 1: I assume Richard has gone back.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, though, since I've blocked his number, I've

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Speaker 3: let family and friends know the whole situation. Alejandro helped

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Speaker 3: me get my stuff while Richard was detained, and I

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Speaker 3: had a friend get my stuff from the house in England.

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Speaker 3: I just left my wedding ring behind, just.

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Speaker 4: Like how Richard leaves it behind with the exema and

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Speaker 4: go ahead and leave that behind you a too. Alejandro

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Speaker 4: is like a very understanding guy and understands OP situation.

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Speaker 1: Good friend, Alejandro.

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Speaker 3: A'll support Alejandro and OP. Today Alejandro confessed that he

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Speaker 3: has feelings for me, which was a surprise because honestly,

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Speaker 3: I just thought he was being kind. Richard used to

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Speaker 3: say he could tell Alejandro liked me, but I just

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Speaker 3: thought Richard was being silly. There's definitely a traction there,

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Speaker 3: but I'm not in the headspace to start anything new,

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Speaker 3: especially after being in a ten year relationship. It would

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Speaker 3: have been eleven this Saturday.

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Speaker 1: No wow.

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Speaker 3: But we'll always support you guys rushing into our live

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01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 3: streams whenever we go live every weekday at three PMPST

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Speaker 3: on Facebook, on YouTube, on Twitch, on TikTok. Just tap

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Speaker 3: our profile and you're in.

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Speaker 4: Richard's out, Opie's gone. It's just not the situation with

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Speaker 4: Opie and Aljandro. Where does that go? As long as

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Speaker 4: Alejandro is understanding, great, you're about to hit your eleven mark,

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Speaker 4: your eleven year anniversary.

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Speaker 1: That's rough.

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Speaker 3: Alejandro is not putting any pressure on me. He just

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Speaker 3: wanted to say how he feels, so that I know

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Speaker 3: emotional maturity.

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Speaker 1: Richard, Alejandro.

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Speaker 3: Yes, good Alejandro. He's also just had a relationship end,

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Speaker 3: but he wasn't in love with Senior P so it's

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Speaker 3: a bit easier for him. I'm just very curffluffled in

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Speaker 3: my head right now. I let him know that the

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Speaker 3: feeling is mutual, but that I'm not in the right

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Speaker 3: place at the moment. He's very understanding of everything and

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Speaker 3: very lovely about it. He's even offered to fly back

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Speaker 3: with me so I don't have to go on my own.

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Speaker 3: He was planning to see family in England anyway, since

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Speaker 3: it's nearing Festive time. So yeah, just a small update

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Speaker 3: to let you all know how things are progressing. I

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Speaker 3: might update once I'm back in England and feeling less overwhelmed.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the nice comments people have been leaving. I

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Speaker 3: very much appreciate it. And that is the end of

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Speaker 3: that story. I really hope there is an update at

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Speaker 3: some point that they have a very successful, thriving bar

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Speaker 3: in Toreminos.

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Speaker 1: And just have a good time. Yeah, and that's what

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Speaker 1: we want. That's into that story, guys,