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Speaker 3: I divorced my husband during his mental health crisis. What

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Speaker 3: I mean best time Right August seventeenth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 3: Me thirty eight female and my husband, thirty eight mal married,

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Speaker 3: have been married since two thousand and nine, and we

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Speaker 3: have a preteen daughter. Last three years have been really

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Speaker 3: tough on us because of my husband's bad working conditions

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Speaker 3: that started to affect his mental health. I noticed signs

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Speaker 3: him regularly. He's very dismissive and refused to see his

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Speaker 3: situation and refuse therapy. By the way, this comes from

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Speaker 3: thought willing and if you want to smit your old stories,

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Speaker 3: we started becoming distant and often isolated himself and was

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Speaker 3: regularly butting heads with our daughter. Eventually told me that

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Speaker 3: he had met a woman at work. Their relationship was not,

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Speaker 3: according to him, physical, but he was in love with

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Speaker 3: her and felt that she was his soulmate and best friend.

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Speaker 4: Oh dude, dude, come on.

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Speaker 3: My working theory of why nurses sheat a lot. My

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Speaker 3: working theory is because they go through so much craziness

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Speaker 3: day to day that it's like a bond. It's like

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Speaker 3: a trauma bond.

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Speaker 4: Today. Yeah, I mean you're seeing those people every day,

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Speaker 4: like literally for hours on end. You're probably sleep deprived.

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm, sleep deprived and the only person that will

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Speaker 3: make you feel better is someone that might make you

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Speaker 3: laugh for giggle, and then you're like, I'm in love

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Speaker 3: and you're gonna make them cheap.

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Speaker 4: That's not your excuse. You need to figure that out, man,

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Speaker 4: I'm just throwing that out there, conspiracy theory. He said

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Speaker 4: he was very sorry that he could not decide which

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Speaker 4: woman he would ultimately be happiest with.

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Speaker 3: I don't like that dud someone.

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Speaker 4: If someone told me that they were like, I don't

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Speaker 4: know who to choose, they'd be like, not me. I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna make that choice easy on you.

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Speaker 3: If you there, you go. There's just like saying that

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Speaker 3: if you fall in love with two women, you should

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Speaker 3: go with the second woman, because if you truly love

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Speaker 3: He spoke out about this at home whilst I was

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Speaker 3: having the toughest time in my life. I cried alone

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Speaker 3: over my dreams and plans, everything we had together. He

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Speaker 3: also told me that in order to clear his head,

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Speaker 3: time on his own. That coworker had offered him her

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Speaker 3: exactly where he was going with this, dude.

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Speaker 4: Come on, come on, you're you're not trying to work

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Speaker 3: I asked for his help organizing the rest of the

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Speaker 3: have the house to himself for his healing. I found

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Speaker 4: Nikes, nice, don't be the other woman. No, he already

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Speaker 4: He already told you that he's going to live with

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Speaker 4: He's done, he's done.

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Speaker 3: Out of here. He absolutely lost his crap and left

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Speaker 3: week later, he told me the coworker is pregnant and

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Speaker 3: he was angry that I didn't want to even try

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Speaker 3: and fix our marriage. Sophia, how long does it How

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Speaker 4: It's around like a six eight.

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Speaker 3: Weeks six eight weeks, okay, so yeah, sometimes you can

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Speaker 3: find her earlier, but like that doesn't make that doesn't

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Speaker 3: make sense, Like you're mad at her, really, like three.

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Speaker 4: Weeks maybe six eight weeks is when you tell the people.

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Speaker 4: But like two to three weeks.

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Speaker 3: Basically you did something three weeks earlier and there's proof

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Speaker 3: of that, and you're mad that your wife didn't What

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Speaker 3: if she did want to fix your marriage and then

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Speaker 3: Co workers pregnant, that's what. Yeah, So like like you're

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Speaker 3: the other one, you're like the wife and you're like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna fix it out and boom cok, Like that

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Speaker 5: Now, your actions also have to line up with your words.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Since then, he has gone increasingly more hostile and

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Speaker 4: Of course he is.

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Speaker 3: He blames me for breaking up the marriage and abandoning

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Speaker 4: Dude, he's the one who literally chose another person.

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Speaker 3: He says he was not himself and has no idea

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Speaker 3: abandoned our relationship long before, more than three years prior.

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Speaker 3: He tells me, I'm cold and calculating and clearly not

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Speaker 4: That's insane to have the audacity to tell your partner

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Speaker 3: You know what, this this career, just like working here

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Speaker 3: because like divorces are like fifty six percent. Like I

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Speaker 3: feel like men need to like figure out what's going

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Speaker 3: Us this doesn't happen, yes, And dude, like I'm even

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Speaker 4: Like, ah, yeah, men don't. Men don't do any interior

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Speaker 3: It's true, it's true.

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Speaker 4: And then they're like, I wonder why it's not working out.

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Speaker 5: It's not me.

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Speaker 4: It couldn't possibly be me.

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Speaker 5: It's not me, And I haven't talked about any of

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Speaker 4: Not to me. I never told them about any of

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Speaker 3: I will say I have some really solid friends here

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Speaker 3: I'm vulnerable, and I tell them what's up and they listen,

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Speaker 3: and like, yeah, they'll give me some insight, but they'll listen.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's the biggest thing. And thank you

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Speaker 3: Keon thank you, Dakota, thank you, Sam, thank you John,

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Speaker 3: thank you Christian and Maly You're always there. I'm talking

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Speaker 3: about my sorry, but also Sophia, my rock solid galfriend

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Speaker 3: through all this and feel I honestly the key for

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Speaker 3: get to the insight on like the woman mind and

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Speaker 3: like you know, you're always helping me. I do think

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Speaker 3: like having a girl best friend does help out with

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, they know howthy females work.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's my best guy friend.

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Speaker 5: And do you listen to him?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Do you listen to us when we give you advice? Sofia, Wow,

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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm listening. I'm listening now.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'll hold you to that one, sister.

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Speaker 4: If I make different mistakes in the future, don't worry about.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna go Nana Nana boo boo. That you smell

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Speaker 4: Don't worry about that.

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Speaker 3: I understand that he is not well. He finally did

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Speaker 3: go to therapy. Yes, I explained a lot of his

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Speaker 4: You're literally not the a hole. I don't understand he's

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Speaker 4: gaslighting you. He's gaslighting you. Yeah, he betrayed you.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I think big Basin, that's a good comment here.

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Speaker 3: You took your daughter and yourself from an unstable living

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Speaker 3: gave it a lot of time. His mental health crisis

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Speaker 3: may mean he's out of his mind, but either he's

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Speaker 3: still responsible for his actions or he's not. If he is,

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Speaker 3: you left him because of his actions seems recent. If

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Speaker 3: because he's deeply in crisis for an extended period and

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Speaker 3: you can't continue to live that way, or have your

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Speaker 3: goes out to the most, your daughter and your husband's

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Speaker 3: new child. Because everyone else ahle or not with some

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Speaker 3: form of volunteer for this. The kids get no choice

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Speaker 3: but all the consequences. But I don't think leaving your

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Speaker 3: husband while he's in crisis is unacceptable, especially giving the

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Speaker 3: long duration and terrible experience for you of that crisis,

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Speaker 3: not the ahole ope response. Honestly, it's our daughter I'm

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Speaker 3: mostly worried about in this situation. He's clearly has changed

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Speaker 3: a lot, no matter how much his mental health plays

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Speaker 4: Frank the Bug says, this is the AMMO for a divorce.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, get the receipts going, get them lined up, ducks

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Speaker 3: This is so messed up. I'm sorry. She'll never watched this.

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Speaker 3: But Thanksgiving, Riley, they never do. They never bring up

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Speaker 3: Oh I remember that one time you said this on.

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Speaker 5: And you know you have to do it at your wedding,

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Speaker 5: and the code is gonna be, like I told you.

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Speaker 3: So, something bad's gonna happen. A code is gonna be

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Speaker 5: He told me so. He told me so.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna be like, you should have had it with

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Speaker 3: So many of you have encouraged me to do this

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Speaker 3: what okay?

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Speaker 3: I have certain texts like vibrations of certain family members,

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Speaker 4: Why are you talking about us?

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Speaker 3: It was my brother. He was saying he could visit

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Speaker 3: the may Maybe that's nice. I have finally opened up

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Speaker 3: just like the community did thank you from the bottom

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Speaker 3: of my heart. I feel like my daughter and me

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, people like have seen the relationship progress and

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Speaker 4: Because also he was like, yeah, it was only an

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Speaker 4: He was like, but you don't want to fix the marriage?

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Speaker 3: Ope, Honestly, at this point had already made up my mind,

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Speaker 3: You need to do this for yourself. You owe that

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Speaker 3: He gives me excuses I know are false. But since

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Speaker 3: and how insurmountable insurmountable small things can become, I find

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Speaker 3: it so difficult to do this and go back on

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's tricky because you're trying to get divorced,

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Speaker 4: which will make custody agreement really difficult. Later on, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: redd it, it's been months since my original post and update.

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Speaker 4: People were very nice to me and offered me some

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Speaker 4: really good advice and a lot of emotional support and criticism.

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00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,480
Speaker 4: I took a lot of it to heart. I finally

440
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 4: separated the rest of our finances, stopped paying his bills,

441
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 4: and made official agreements on child support in custody, which

442
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,919
Speaker 4: remained shared for now as he went back on his

443
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 4: word to give it to me. I'm contested he did

444
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,840
Speaker 4: not agree to sign an official visitation agreement because he

445
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,679
Speaker 4: cannot commit to it right now. God can can't commit

446
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:54,959
Speaker 4: to seeing his child.

447
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 5: He can commit to cheating.

448
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, he can't commit to anything right now.

449
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 3: He can commit to make a new baby.

450
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.

451
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,719
Speaker 3: I offered him every other weekend and a half of

452
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 3: all holidays. He has started to meet our daughter more often,

453
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 3: though since nowadays she actually visits him on her own

454
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 3: free will. It seems like their relationship has gotten a

455
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 3: bit better lately, which I'm of course happy about, as.

456
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,919
Speaker 4: Long as he's not freaking saying bad things about you.

457
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,679
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he better not be better not be. He has

458
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,880
Speaker 3: been absolutely terrible towards me, though. He started a campaign

459
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 3: of passive aggressive texting after I asked him to be civil.

460
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 3: Now every message is overly syrupy and filled with overflowing apologies.

461
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 3: I ignore this until he decided to talk to me

462
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 3: face to face. When he went to sign the agreements,

463
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 3: he told me his therapist told him to talk to

464
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,240
Speaker 3: me for closure and speak his mind, so he did.

465
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 3: He once again just explained to me how hard the

466
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 3: last year has been, and how I tore the marriage apart,

467
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,439
Speaker 3: how he was not ready to accept this divorce and

468
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 3: never will be, how nothing in his current life is

469
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 3: what he wanted or asked for, and considers it an insult.

470
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 3: If I congratulated him over the upcoming baby, et cetera.

471
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,920
Speaker 3: This felt really off, considering he just had moved in

472
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 3: with his affair partner. He originally tried to hide this

473
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 3: too and was evasive, but of course our daughter found

474
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 3: out the next time she visited him, and he also

475
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 3: told me, I know it is pointless, but I feel

476
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 3: I needed to say something, so I told him that

477
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,919
Speaker 3: he completely continues to ignore all my pain in your

478
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 3: mental work. I had to do over this whole thing,

479
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 3: and I can't help the fact that my love passed

480
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 3: away in the process. He says, I didn't even.

481
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 4: Try this man, the audacity of this man. All you

482
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 4: had to do was try and keep it in your pants,

483
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 4: but you couldn't couldn't do that, and now you're blaming

484
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 4: your wife.

485
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 5: It's my wife's fault that I'm jeeves.

486
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 4: Fault that I couldn't be faithful.

487
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 3: He even said my parents were more supportive of him

488
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 3: because they had exchanged pleasure trees, having met briefly a

489
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 3: few weeks prior. His coworkers were more supportive than me.

490
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 3: I told him to look in the mirror and that

491
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:13,199
Speaker 3: his little passive aggressive game was so obvious. Clearly hit

492
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 3: home because he stopped immediately after. He has been snooping

493
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 3: over my dating life through our daughter and is very

494
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 3: jealous say so and gets very verbally aggressive over it.

495
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 4: How hypocritical. He's like, I know I cheated on you

496
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 4: physically and had a baby with someone else, but you

497
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 4: can't have your own love life.

498
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's just taking l's left and right. He's such

499
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 5: a loser, el l. It's an l seven WEENI Now.

500
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 3: The thing that brought me back to you here tonight

501
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 3: is that despite my life having turned so much better

502
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 3: than the last few months, and me and my daughter

503
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 3: have been happier in a long while, I fell into

504
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,880
Speaker 3: an unexpected hole today. He was supposed to have her

505
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 3: over this weekend but ended up canceling. The reason he

506
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 3: gave me was different than what he had gave her daughter,

507
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 3: so I knew he'd lied to someone. Yesterday, he blew

508
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 3: up on me over texts that originally started as a

509
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 3: discussion over our daughter's visits. He stated the same old

510
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 3: song of me being so petty over such a minor

511
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 3: thing as his affair that was apparently not even a

512
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 3: real affair at first.

513
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 4: It wasn't even a real affair at first, like I

514
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 4: only am physically cheated with her like later.

515
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 5: This guy's delusional, bro man is crazy.

516
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 4: He's like it was just an affair. It's like, no biggie.

517
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 4: He's like, you did the worst thing. You left me.

518
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 3: You gave up on me.

519
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 4: He gave up on this after I had a little affair.

520
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 3: He wrote that my parents were right about me being

521
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 3: too sensitive. He knows how low of a blow this is,

522
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 3: since he has been supporting me through my issues with

523
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 3: my parents, invalidating all of my gripes my whole life

524
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 3: with you are too sensitive. I told him how low

525
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,719
Speaker 3: that was and that he does not get to quantify

526
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 3: my pain, and he totally lost his marbles, to the

527
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 3: point where I had to stop reading his messages because

528
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,360
Speaker 3: I was afraid I would start to cry. In the office.

529
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 3: This morning, our daughter runs to me crying happy tears

530
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 3: and jumping of joy. Our father had center pictures of

531
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 3: the newly born little sister. I congratulated the new official

532
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 3: older sister when we gushed over the pictures a little.

533
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 3: Throughout the day, my mood has just been awful. I've

534
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 3: gotten messages for my family asking how I am, because daughter,

535
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 3: of course told everyone, which is totally okay, but it's

536
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 3: starting to weigh on me. I have been tired and

537
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 3: easily irritated. All of a sudden, I felt like I

538
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 3: had no one to talk to, no one who had

539
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 3: really understand someone unbiased and adult to talk to. Those

540
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 3: have been my hardest moments in all of this, because

541
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 3: because I lost my best friend when we fell apart.

542
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 3: Whenever I feel like I really need to open up

543
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 3: and spin my heart, it reminds me of how alone

544
00:26:58,560 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 3: I feel.

545
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 4: All stop, just let just let Opie live. You need

546
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 4: to get this divorce and get custody of your kid

547
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 4: and leave this man.

548
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 3: She just feels so lonely. Is this a normal reaction?

549
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 3: I've been fine and very emotionally cut off from him

550
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 3: for so long, and somehow the birth of his baby

551
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 3: send me into sudden nose doc today.

552
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 4: Of course that's normal. You found out this, like, you know,

553
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 4: really big news that your ex partner just had a

554
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,719
Speaker 4: baby with the person that he cheated on you with.

555
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 4: That's that, of course, is going to bring back old feelings.

556
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 5: Regardless of how of cour as well. Don't forget that.

557
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,919
Speaker 4: Gaes sighting you and it's still like harassing you and stuff.

558
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 4: Of course, that's going to bring up feelings.

559
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 5: I guarantee you. What happened with op is like all

560
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 5: the emotions firally subsided and like she's like, okay, I'm okay,

561
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 5: I'm doing great with for my own and doing great

562
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 5: by myself. And then the baby made all those emotions

563
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 5: come up again, and it's rins in real.

564
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 4: You find out new information and it frickin hurts.

565
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I needed to sell all of

566
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 3: this in my lowest point in a long while. So

567
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 3: thank you for reading. If I fell at linking my

568
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 3: previous post here, please look into my profile. They're my

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Speaker 3: only post. Thank you. We got another update ooh nine

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Speaker 3: Hello redditors, been a while since I've posted. Honestly, at

575
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 3: this point, I feel that the title no longer fits

576
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 3: as I have realized my error, but I will keep

577
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 3: for Clarity's sake. First of all, to everyone who offered

578
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 3: help and advice or just reached out to give virtual hug,

579
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 3: thank you so much. I remember the last time I posted,

580
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 3: I was feeling a sudden setback due to my daughter's

581
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 3: little sister being born. My girl has been so happy

582
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 3: over her and loves her dearly. I really hope the

583
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 3: sister gets to keep a relationship with her no matter

584
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 3: what happens with their dad. Most of my personal life

585
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 3: is going great. I finally managers just save enough to

586
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 3: buy us an apartment and have been busy renovating it.

587
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 3: My work life is great. I really love my job

588
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 3: and I got a promotion which really helped on the

589
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 3: house hunt. And for my siblings and friends, they have

590
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 3: truly saved me and my mental health during this journey.

591
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 3: I'm very happy where I am in life and have

592
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 3: no real drive to find a partner. All right, that's great, dude.

593
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 4: And that's you know, when you're happy and you're not,

594
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 4: you know, in a bad place, then you can you

595
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 4: know love will come, but you don't have to focus

596
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 4: on that right now. Just focus on yourself now.

597
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 3: Sometimes I do feel that maybe a bit too jaded

598
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 3: and harsh when it comes to love. I don't like that,

599
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 3: but I guess it too will heal over time. All

600
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 3: this hurts my ax as I gets here. After he hears

601
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 3: from these things from our daughter, he wrote to me

602
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 3: that it feels like he was just dragging me back,

603
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 3: and his absence has now allowed me to thrive. My

604
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 3: ex husband is not doing well, of course, all I

605
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 3: hear of him is what he tells me and what

606
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 3: my daughter tells me. In passing, we had to make

607
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 3: a new child support agreement as the one we made

608
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 3: originally at a fixed period, and that hearing I got

609
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 3: to hear a lot about his current state of affairs.

610
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 3: And I have to say, the new woman of the

611
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 3: house is not playing around. Oh. She has made him

612
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 3: pay all the utilities and groceries and all miscellaneous household fixes,

613
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 3: whilst she just pays her home loan. I was impressed.

614
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 3: He did complain during the hearing that he barely has

615
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 3: money for going to therapy as it is, and when

616
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 3: it turned out that the child support had been miscalculated

617
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 3: last time Stay paid for him, he went to total

618
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,719
Speaker 3: despair over the amounts. Oh. He started messing me right

619
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 3: after the hearing and applied he no longer has money

620
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 3: for therapy and that I should know that he is

621
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 3: the only breadrunner in the house and that he will

622
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 3: not be able to have her daughter over so much

623
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 3: now since she eats like a horse and he can't

624
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 3: afford it. I reminded him that she eats on the

625
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 3: other twenty eight days of the month too, and not

626
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 3: just two weekend she spends with him. This summer. He

627
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 3: agreed to have over for a few weeks during his

628
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 3: holiday because I agreed he wouldn't have to pay child

629
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 3: support for that month. The situation is sad and it's

630
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 3: not getting better. Oh that sucks. That's on him though. Yeah,

631
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 3: what is his mental health crisis that he's going through.

632
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 3: I don't understand people go through hard times.

633
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 4: Well, I think that, honestly. I think in part he is.

634
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 4: I'm sure he may be going through mental health crisis,

635
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 4: but he is blaming every action that he makes on

636
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 4: this mental health crisis, which you can't do. You have

637
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 4: you have to take a certain amount of responsibility for

638
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 4: your actions.

639
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 3: I really do. I think it's the time I have

640
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 3: to take this off.

641
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 5: You're hot to take it off. Take it off? He's

642
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 5: taking it off.

643
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 4: Oh not the not the ripped whole shirt, dude.

644
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 5: I love this. That's his favorite shirt.

645
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 4: Someone stitches. We need Angie to stitch it up a

646
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 4: little bit.

647
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 3: I love my shirt.

648
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 4: I got holes in my shirt holes.

649
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 5: Oh show me your holes.

650
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 3: I love it so much. It's my favorite shirt. I

651
00:31:58,320 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 3: got it for two bucks, dude.

652
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 4: This is like Linus Linus blanket, Charlie Brown.

653
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 5: Wait Rightley, let me see that other hole of your Oh.

654
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 4: Okay, keep reading.

655
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 5: No, let me see your right hole. Why because it's

656
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 5: really big.

657
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 3: It is really big.

658
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 4: Okay, keep reading.

659
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 3: Well, we'll figure it out. This is the last straw

660
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 3: for me. The last straw for me came a few

661
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 3: weeks ago, when she was spending time at his place.

662
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 3: He had already picked a fight a few days prior,

663
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 3: but I had refused to engage, so he stormed out,

664
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 3: meaning he left my message unread for three days. The

665
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 3: silent treatment I used to get when we were still

666
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 3: together was exactly like this too. He clearly had been

667
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 3: building up steam during those days, and then all of

668
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 3: a sudden blew up my phone with text messages after

669
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 3: message telling me how bad I was at this, meaning

670
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 3: arguing I assumed, and twisting everything I had said into

671
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 3: a version that made me look like a total a hole.

672
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 3: I once again refused to engage and told him that

673
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 3: this no longer concerns me and that he should find

674
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 3: someone else to argue with. That angered him so that

675
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 3: he swapped tactic and told me that he had shown

676
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 3: her daughter these messages to prove that I am not

677
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 3: so nice, I pretend to be. That he got me

678
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 3: from zero to furious in an instant, though not for

679
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 3: the reasons he implied. I told him that this was

680
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 3: hands down the most selfish thing he could have done,

681
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 3: and that this is his daughter he is damaging with

682
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 3: this behavior. Shit, why are you weaponizing her? I told

683
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 3: him I'm absolutely dumb with him, and I will not

684
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 3: be in contact with him anymore apart from issues directly

685
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 3: related to our daughter and her matters. When he totally

686
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 3: swapped personality, it felt like and started with these really whiny,

687
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 3: self pitning why are you being so mean to me?

688
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 3: Messages that then talked with I still love you and

689
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 3: weird bs ew, this is horrible. I was no longer answering,

690
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 3: so the last message he sent was to say that

691
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 3: he in fact had not shown her any of my

692
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 3: messages and that my sanctity was intact. I went to

693
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 3: pick up my daughter the next day as I really

694
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 3: felt uneasy and really needed to personally be there and

695
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 3: maybe I could get her to talk to me during

696
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 3: the car ride if he had been talking his truths again,

697
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 3: And as he took up his stop and had some

698
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 3: ice cream, she quietly asked me to please don't take

699
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 3: me away from dad. He's manipulating everyone goodness gracious.

700
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 5: And he's never being accountable for it is. You can't

701
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 5: keep getting away with this poorable sound like a Pokemon?

702
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 3: What is that? Uh? Toad? That's toad, that's.

703
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 5: The butterfree was pretty good.

704
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 3: My heart absolutely broke. I asked her why she would

705
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 3: think that, and she revealed to me that my ex

706
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 3: husband had told her about our custody disagreements in the

707
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: form of mommy wants full custody.

708
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 4: Of course he freaking dead. Of course he freaking dead.

709
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 4: And he's like, I don't want to leave you, but

710
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 4: mommy wants full custody, So I probably won't be able

711
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 4: to see you anymore because mommy doesn't want me to.

712
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 3: Dude, if you were playing the same game as him,

713
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 3: you would make him look like the absolute worst person

714
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 3: on this way.

715
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 4: You're a good person and you're trying to make sure

716
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,720
Speaker 4: that he has a good relationship with his daughter.

717
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 3: You'd be like, oh, yeah, as your dad try to

718
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 3: feed you, hay yet because he says you eat like

719
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 3: a horse. He thinks you're a horse playing that game.

720
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 4: But you can't do that.

721
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 3: I explained to her that even if I had full custody,

722
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 3: it would not take visitation if it was deemed to

723
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 3: be good for her. She said she wanted her dad

724
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 3: to be there for her school graduation, and I said

725
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 3: her father has all the rights in the world to

726
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 3: be at the school of him, and all she needed

727
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 3: to do was to make sure she invited him. And

728
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 3: I know this will now work in my favor and

729
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 3: not his. I have invited him to her birthday parties too,

730
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 3: and he never comes. I haven't told her this now.

731
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 3: I made sure that she knows I'm not a against

732
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 3: any of this, and by making sure she invites him,

733
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 3: he can now make excuses directly to her. Part of

734
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,439
Speaker 3: me hates having to be in this war at all,

735
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 3: but I feel like he leaves me no choice. A

736
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 3: few days later, she asked me why I'm so mean

737
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 3: to Daddy. I asked her, why does she think that?

738
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 3: She revealed that Dad shown her some of my messages.

739
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 4: Dude, So yes.

740
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 3: His last message to me was once again alive.

741
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 4: You need to get custody of your kid because this

742
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 4: is insane, This is wild, This is insane that he

743
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 4: is doing this.

744
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 3: Like, why are we playing these games. Why aren't we

745
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 3: doing this to her?

746
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 4: Stop using your child.

747
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 3: Now, as many of you have been warning me this

748
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 3: parental alienation and downright mental abuse on her. I called

749
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 3: the local CPS to ask for advice on how to

750
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 3: proceed and if I should file a complaint on him

751
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 3: and what would follow. My daughter has already been seeing

752
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 3: the school counselor, and as she has now started in

753
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 3: a new school, I will be seeking the same help

754
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 3: from there too, for them to evaluate and refer her

755
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 3: to therapy. I was told by the CPS worker that

756
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 3: this will be documented and that I should weigh now

757
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 3: on the possible consequence. They are totally for me finally

758
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 3: an official complaint, but as we have shared custody, what

759
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 3: will follow is a session for both parties individually for

760
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 3: discussion and then evaluation on the severity of the situation.

761
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 3: The CPS worker said that two things can happen. One

762
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 3: he takes it to heart because someone else brings it up.

763
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 3: Or two he gets mad and makes our already strain

764
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:41,720
Speaker 3: communication even worse and possibly retaliates knowing him. It's the latter.

765
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 3: They also told me that if I get more evidence

766
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 3: on him manipulating our daughter than I should just file anyway.

767
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 3: Like I have mentioned before, all of our communication is

768
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 3: in rioting, and I have saved all of it. So

769
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 3: I'm currently torn between trying to figure out what kind

770
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 3: of damage my poor daughter will have of being cut

771
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 3: from her father and little sister, or the trauma of

772
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 3: being mentally manipulated against another parent and being used as

773
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 3: ammunition in a war that is not her, making I.

774
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 4: Feel like that's much that's worse than being taken away

775
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 4: from the dad. Yeah, is hard being used. Yeah, she

776
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 4: needs to be out of that situation. I think it's

777
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 4: always better to have to be out of a situation

778
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 4: with a manipulated person and then stay in it because

779
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 4: you don't want to like hurt your kid's feelings in

780
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 4: the short term exactly exactly.

781
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 3: Oh, that's that's so tough. But then the short term

782
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 3: questions are where's daddy? Why can't you let me see daddy?

783
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 3: You are mean to daddy, and those things are going

784
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 3: to come in because he's warm, tongue's worm tongued, whichever

785
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 3: it will be. I know she will blame me, and

786
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 3: that probably is just my punishment too. I failed to

787
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 3: protect her, and those who say I should not protect

788
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 3: my ex and just tell her everything. It's not him.

789
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 3: I've been trying to protect.

790
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 4: Her, yeah, but for her. But yeah, you're trying to

791
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 4: not like use her, which is what he's doing. You're

792
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 4: trying not to stoop to his level, which is hard

793
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 4: to do when you see him at crap talking you.

794
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 4: But it is the right decision.

795
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 3: She should not be in this situation, but I admit,

796
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 3: due to his actions here we are anyway. He mocked

797
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 3: me for being so naive that I really thought amical

798
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 3: co parenting was stuff that people can do well. I

799
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 3: sure as crap can't do it alone, and children are

800
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,760
Speaker 3: very perceptive. She knows her father got another woman pregnant,

801
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 3: as she puts it, but she is also being fed

802
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 3: this weird narrative by her dad while I clocked out

803
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 3: of that marriage years ago and was just pretending to

804
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 3: be All he needed was a hug. But I turned

805
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 3: my back on him and abandoned him like I abandoned

806
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 3: my parents because I just couldn't get over it, like

807
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 3: everyone else in this planet could. Whoa all his words

808
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,760
Speaker 3: from his rent messages And she does talk to me still,

809
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 3: so I can verify he does us really tell these

810
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 3: things to her and we will tell you more stories

811
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 3: just like this. If you go to your favorite freaking

812
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 3: podcast platform, search up Okay story Time and we have

813
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 3: a plethora of stories just like these. Take this one sovia.

814
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 3: What are your final thoughts before we get to the

815
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 3: update here?

816
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 4: Ah, this is so frustrating because again, Nope, he's trying

817
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 4: to be the best parent that she can in a

818
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 4: very very tough situation. Linda says it's hard to say

819
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,280
Speaker 4: her dad is lying without calling him a liar. Yeah.

820
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 4: I really just wonder if there's any way that you

821
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 4: can get lawyers in on this, because you need someone

822
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 4: else to mediate this. It's getting it's getting out of hand.

823
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 3: You can talk to me through my lawyer. A lot

824
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 3: of people do that, Yeah.

825
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 4: I think maybe that's it. It's like, if you can't,

826
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 4: if you can't be court like, you know, cordial and

827
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 4: you know, talk to our daughter in a respectful way

828
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 4: about me, then we need to get a lawyer involved.

829
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 3: I have to. Here's the rest of the story. So

830
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 3: here we are the good, the bad, and the backcrap insane.

831
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 3: All I can hope is that I can make the

832
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 3: right decision from my daughter and that she could grow

833
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 3: to be healthy and a happy adult. If that requires

834
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 3: her to come to me one day and ask for

835
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 3: me to justify the things I did and say, then

836
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 3: I'm happy to have the conversation with her. Thank you

837
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 3: everyone for your messages, support and criticisms. And that is

838
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 3: the end of the story.

839
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 4: That's the end of the story. Wow, what a tough,

840
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 4: tough situation.

841
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 3: That is a very tough situation. Parents protect your children,

842
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 3: and this parent is.

843
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's doing her best, and it's just getting very

844
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 4: hard because you're working with someone who is actively trying

845
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 4: to sabotage you at every turn. Aleana Bain says CPS

846
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 4: is the way to go. The guardian ad litem needs

847
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 4: to desire the safe place for the kid. It might

848
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 4: be neither of them agreed, it's true.

849
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 3: Agreed.

850
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, And every day Loser says you need to desperately

851
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,760
Speaker 4: get supervised visitations only for the dad.

852
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 3: Yes, guys, we're gonna read another story. I'm gonna read

853
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 3: these donos. I'm gonna let you read that one. That's

854
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:55,439
Speaker 3: a big word.

855
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 2: Hey, it's John here, og host of the show. We're

856
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 2: gonna get back to these juicy stories. But here's a

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Speaker 4: miss Ray, thank you for the twenty bucks. This last

860
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Speaker 4: two weeks has been hard. I really don't want to

861
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 4: move to PNW Pacific Northwest. This has been my home

862
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 4: since I migrated. I hate goodbyes and I love my

863
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,479
Speaker 4: job and friends. I'm glad I'm able to catch up today. Riley,

864
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 4: don't cut your hair. It's cute.

865
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Speaker 3: Thank you, mistery, and hopefully you can work out a

866
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 3: situation where you don't have to do that.

867
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 4: My twin sister tried to force a double wedding and

868
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 4: almost got me arrested.

869
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 3: My cousins tried to do this once.

870
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 4: What's no joke. Is this your story?

871
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 3: This is not my story, but my cousins try to

872
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 3: do this once.

873
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 5: Are your cousins twins?

874
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 3: They are, and they marry twins.

875
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 4: I'm a twenty two year old. That's insane.

876
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 5: That's insane.

877
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 4: I'm a twenty two year old female. Here is my story.

878
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 4: I got engaged four years ago. Yeah that might sound crazy,

879
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 4: but I was. When I got engaged, I was still

880
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 4: in college and planned on finishing before getting married. By

881
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 4: the way, this comes from radiant anywhere fifty three to

882
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 4: fifty four on the Arslash Shokey storytime Separate It. So

883
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 4: my fiance, at twenty five year old male, decided to

884
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 4: wait until I graduated, which happened this year, and we

885
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 4: immediately started wedding planning. My graduation was in March and

886
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 4: my wedding was supposed to be in July. I was

887
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 4: happy to be. I was so happy to be married

888
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 4: to the love of my life. But this is where

889
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 4: everything went wrong. I have a twin sister and she

890
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 4: got engaged last year twenty twenty three, and she and

891
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 4: her fiance were not planning to get married anytime soon

892
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 4: until I announced my wedding date. I and my sister

893
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 4: are not close at all. Even though we were twins,

894
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 4: we shared everything from clothes to a house to even

895
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 4: at one point boys oh huh. But we grew apart

896
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 4: because she was angry when I got engaged without her anyway.

897
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 4: We just stopped talking until last year when my mom

898
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 4: told her about her engage, told me about her engagement,

899
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 4: and we went out to celebrate it. We did not

900
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 4: even speak to each other. I told my family about

901
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 4: my wedding date at a family dinner at my parents'

902
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 4: house and everyone was excited except my sister. But I

903
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 4: didn't let anything ruin my night. So preparations for my

904
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 4: wedding started, and I already found the perfect dress, the

905
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 4: perfect venue, and my invitations were already out. All that

906
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 4: was left was for that day to come. Little did

907
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 4: I know my sister had other plans. Oh, three weeks

908
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 4: before my wedding day, I get a call from my

909
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,760
Speaker 4: wedding planner saying, my sister is asking what my dress

910
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 4: looks like and what my fiance suit looks like. I

911
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 4: was like, uh, why is she asking? I thought maybe

912
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 4: she needed ideas for her own wedding, but boy was

913
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 4: I wrong. Two weeks before my wedding, my sister's fiance

914
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 4: texts me and says how happy he is for me

915
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 4: to agree to a double wedding and how he's excited

916
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 4: to make memories with me and my fiance. I was like,

917
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 4: I don't even know about it and I never agreed

918
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 4: to it, but he kept saying. My sister said, so.

919
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 4: I called my mom and she knew, but felt like

920
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 4: it was the right thing to do because we were

921
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,720
Speaker 4: twins and we should do everything together.

922
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 5: This is so weird.

923
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 4: That's weird. This is so wed, it's weird. I called

924
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 4: my sister, but she didn't answer, so I drove to

925
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 4: her house and confronted her about it. She just said,

926
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 4: we're twins and we should do everything together and it'll

927
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 4: be a new memory for me and her. She told

928
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 4: me I should stop being a bee for not wanting it.

929
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 4: You're not invited the wedding anymore. You're gone, mind you.

930
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 4: I paid for everything, I mean everything, and all she

931
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,720
Speaker 4: paid for was her wedding dress. I told my fiance

932
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 4: and he said, to me, do whatever you want. I'll

933
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 4: support you. So I told my dad and he told

934
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 4: me the exact same thing. I moved my wedding to December,

935
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 4: but didn't inform my mom and sister. I informed all

936
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,240
Speaker 4: my vendors and my guests, My fiance, and I decided

937
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 4: to take a trip to Spain, and I turned my

938
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 4: phone off so no one could reach me. When I returned,

939
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 4: my mom and sister were furious. They called me selfish

940
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:48,760
Speaker 4: and said I'm an a hole for doing that without

941
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 4: informing them, and they will not be intending my wedding.

942
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 4: Am I the a hole? And there is an update?

943
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 4: Oh no, you're not gonna be attending my wedding.

944
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 3: No, I feel like the just set this up so

945
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 3: they can have a reason not to. It's in your wedding.

946
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 4: They chose the craziest thing. Yeah, why would we want

947
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 4: you at the wedding.

948
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 5: I don't know that I would anyone want them. Twin

949
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 5: seems like she wants to do everything together.

950
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 4: She's weird. She's weird.

951
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 5: Literally, Oh, she wants to have babies together. It sounds

952
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 5: like too, like she would get to that point, not

953
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 5: with you, not with the twin, but like Yoike's man,

954
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 5: let's coordinate with have babies together.

955
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 4: But there is an update. Hi everyone. First of all,

956
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 4: I want to thank you guys for the support and ideas.

957
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,959
Speaker 4: I have an update. My wedding was three days ago.

958
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 4: I am currently in Thailand for my honeymoon. But let's

959
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 4: dive into the update. You guys were right. My sister

960
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 4: tried to crash my wedding. Of course she frigging did.

961
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 4: Of course she did. She probably showed up in the

962
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 4: wedding dress, try to walk down the aisle, and not

963
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 4: just that, she almost got me arrested on my wedding day.

964
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 4: So the weeks leading up to my wedding were silent

965
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 4: from both my sister and my mom, so I thought

966
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 4: nothing would happen, But I was wrong again. My fiance

967
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 4: and I planned a small get together the night before

968
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 4: our wedding with just our bridal party. Everything seemed fine

969
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 4: in the beginning. We made reservations at a restaurant. We

970
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 4: got to the restaurant and found out we were already there.

971
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 4: How is that possible if we just got there. The

972
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 4: manager was called and he told us we already checked

973
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 4: in for our reservation. He swore he saw me evil twin,

974
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 4: and my fiance was like, there was no way he

975
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 4: saw me. We continue to argue with my manager with

976
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 4: the manager, and as we were our friends started to

977
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 4: show up. We explained the situation to them and they

978
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 4: too were shook. At this point, it has not hit

979
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 4: me yet that there is only one person who also

980
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 4: has my face. Security was called and we were let

981
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 4: out of the restaurant. We were in the parking lot

982
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 4: when it hit me that my sister was the only

983
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 4: one who could do this. But my friend said I

984
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 4: should leave it and we could still make the best

985
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 4: of the night, and we did.

986
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 3: Dude, if you're evil and you have a twin and

987
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:50,720
Speaker 3: you get up to no good.

988
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 4: There's so much you could There's so much damage you

989
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 4: could do.

990
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,720
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's so scary. It is very scary.

991
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 3: You could ban someone, yeah, from everything.

992
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could just go to every store and you're like,

993
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 4: I mean you also have to be okay with getting

994
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 4: banned as well.

995
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 3: You could go to their workplace get admired.

996
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,439
Speaker 4: Absolutely, everything was smooth. Oh, this is the wedding day.

997
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 4: Everything was smooth going until it was time for me

998
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,240
Speaker 4: to walk down the aisle. When I saw my sister

999
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 4: wearing the same dress as me, and hair and even makeup.

1000
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 4: You could not tell us apart even if you knew

1001
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 4: us for years. Security checkarity. There's gonna be a moment

1002
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 4: where they're at the wedding and they're like, no, I'm

1003
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 4: the real lope and the husband's like, oh no, how

1004
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 4: do I choose?

1005
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 3: It's weird, you know, it's really weird.

1006
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 4: I immediately asked her what she was doing, and she

1007
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 4: looked me in the eye and said I was an

1008
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 4: impostor and she was the real me. I called it.

1009
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 3: I'm freaking called it.

1010
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,320
Speaker 5: ID bring your birth certificate right security.

1011
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 4: It didn't I thought that I was joking. I was joking.

1012
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 4: I was so confused that I lost words. When my

1013
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 4: husband noticed I was not coming down the aisle, he

1014
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 4: walked to the entrance and could not tell us part

1015
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 4: at first glance. How did we nail this story? Why

1016
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 4: didn't even approve this story? How did I nail this one?

1017
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 3: Oh?

1018
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,760
Speaker 4: My god. My sister started shouting, which drew the attention

1019
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,919
Speaker 4: of my family and guests. Because it was getting too much.

1020
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 4: Someone had called the police. When they arrived. They were

1021
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 4: also confused about who was who. My sister kept yelling,

1022
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 4: saying I wanted to ruin her day and I couldn't

1023
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 4: be happy for the police had asked us if we

1024
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 4: had anything that could prove I was me, and she

1025
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 4: was lying. This is insane, This is insane. Luckily, my

1026
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 4: best friend, also my maid of honor, had my phone

1027
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 4: and my idea with her. I showed the police and

1028
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 4: they were about to arrest my sister when she said

1029
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 4: I would have exchanged the ID and our phones. The

1030
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 4: police decided to cuff both of us. This can't be

1031
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 4: real and take us down to the station for more questioning.

1032
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 4: When my now husband said that his wife has a tattoo,

1033
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 4: shell bouces. Please tell me, oh, he has a tattoo.

1034
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 4: This is not this can't be real that we both

1035
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 4: got I forgot about that. When my sister heard that,

1036
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 4: you could visibly see fear in her eyes. Note we

1037
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 4: got this tattoo last year and is hidden and it's

1038
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 4: hidden from the eyes of other because of where the

1039
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 4: tattoo is located. A female officer had to follow me

1040
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 4: to the washroom to see if it matched with my

1041
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 4: husband's tattoo. After it was confirmed, my sister was taken away.

1042
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 4: What this is on her wedding day? My wedding commenced?

1043
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 4: What after a long mental break from what had just happened?

1044
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 4: What do you mean you your wedding kept.

1045
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 3: Going after this this big day.

1046
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 4: We gotta keep it going. I guess we're gonna get

1047
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 4: But now I am happily married to the love of

1048
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 4: my life. I love when you guys listen to full

1049
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,320
Speaker 4: episodes of stories just like this. Just go to Apple podcast,

1050
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 4: Spotify or your favorite podcast st app and search a

1051
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 4: Pokes story time. This was crazy, dude?

1052
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 3: Why did we read this one first?

1053
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 4: This was crazy?

1054
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 2: What?

1055
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 4: This was crazy?

1056
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 3: Holy cow?

1057
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:51,839
Speaker 4: I don't know if I buy it, but if it's true.

1058
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 4: It's crazy.

1059
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 3: We have to buy it.

1060
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 4: It's gonna have to buy it because it's so good.

1061
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 3: It's a good story.

1062
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 5: It's so good that it sounds too good to it's

1063
00:50:59,000 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 5: but you know.

1064
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 4: What, I'm taking it because this was the best story

1065
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 4: of the day.

1066
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 3: If we think about it, there are eight billion people

1067
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 3: in this freaking world. This had to happen once.

1068
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 4: Someone's got to have this base, you know, like the

1069
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,800
Speaker 4: movies have to base it off something. Yeah, this definitely

1070
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 4: happened context. Yes, I did put security and the main

1071
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 4: entrance of the venue. Don't know how she passed them. Yes,

1072
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 4: I did change my venue from the last one my

1073
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 4: mom was in it on to two. She helped my

1074
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 4: sister get the same dress. And yes, my sister and

1075
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 4: my mum were the ones that checked in at the restaurant.

1076
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 4: And no, my sister's not in jail. I did not

1077
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 4: press charges against her. She is still my sister. But

1078
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 4: I do plan on getting a restraining order on her.

1079
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 4: Good my bridal party, my and my husband's friends. So

1080
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 4: I don't know how my sister will know about that

1081
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 4: restaurant observation. I know this might be crazy and it

1082
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 4: might sound like it only happens on TV. But I

1083
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 4: too was shocked that anyone could think of us. And

1084
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 4: that is the end of that insane story. Oh crazy, crazy, Wow,

1085
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 4: you have an insane sister. I mean, you got a

1086
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,760
Speaker 4: crazy sister. What would have happened if they got married? Yeah,

1087
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 4: Like what happens if Opie gets taken away? Is she was?

1088
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 4: She just planning on, like like starting a new life

1089
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 4: with OPI's husband.

1090
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 5: The husband, the husband will be like something's off, something's

1091
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:13,800
Speaker 5: a little when you put on like somebody else's shoes.

1092
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 5: But also but I feel like twins don't have the

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Speaker 5: same voice.

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Speaker 3: Whatever. My grandfather on my dad's side died. He wasn't

1095
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 3: really close to me, so he was okay. My dad

1096
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 3: found out that he had a half sister, and that

1097
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 3: half sister had six kids, five girls, one boy, well

1098
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 3: one you know, I think back in twenty twenty two,

1099
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 3: they have twins and then they have another one. So

1100
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:45,720
Speaker 3: one twin got engaged and then one of the sisters

1101
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 3: that has been with her boyfriend for like, I think

1102
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Speaker 3: five years at this point, she was kind of like, ah,

1103
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 3: why are you not getting married? Me and the twins

1104
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 3: were only like together for like a year, and a

1105
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 3: half two years. So then that sister then got engaged

1106
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 3: because the boyfriend was like, well I got engaged right now,

1107
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 3: And then the other twin engaged. Mind you that the

1108
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:08,240
Speaker 3: twins are dating twins. The twins then are now marrying twins.

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Speaker 4: Dang.

1110
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Speaker 3: So one twin had was getting the wedding together, you know,

1111
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 3: had a location, everything was good, everything was looking great.

1112
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 3: And this one Sally, and Sarah seemed like she wanted

1113
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 3: to do a double wedding because she didn't want to

1114
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 3: pay double. She didn't want to do everything she I

1115
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 3: thought the concept was cool, but she kind of seemed

1116
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 3: like she was pigging backing off of Sally. Sally kind

1117
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 3: of seemed chill with it. I don't really know what

1118
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 3: was happening behind the scenes, but they ended up doing

1119
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 3: separate weddings. And like even the twins brothers weren't even

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00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 3: the best men in each other's weddings because they had

1121
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 3: to save money. Apparently they didn't want to pay for

1122
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 3: like suits or something insane. Yeah, but the twins were

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00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 3: like made of honors at each other. Yeah, so it

1124
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 3: was wild. And then they recently both had kids and

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00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 3: and those are.

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00:53:57,800 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 4: Like those are dicipling. I think those are like siblings.

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00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to see him genetically? Yeah, I barely.

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00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 5: Talk to really. Oh wow, that's you're right.

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00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 4: Because they're twins.

1130
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know which ones which and I don't

1131
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:13,800
Speaker 3: know their names. And I feel like a bad cousin

1132
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 3: because as soon as I left for l A, they

1133
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 3: start having kids. And I'm like, so much happens in

1134
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Speaker 3: the

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Speaker 4: Year, but dang, that's the end of that story.