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Speaker 3: My friend's husband pretended to be her to ask me

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Speaker 3: to be their third Oh.

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Speaker 4: I don't understand what's going on, but I don't think

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Speaker 4: I like it.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: This is an our slash Okay Storytime subreddit submission.

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Speaker 4: So this is one of y'all okay wow wowee.

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Speaker 2: Uh, this is a doozy.

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Speaker 3: I am a twenty seven year old female and this

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Speaker 3: friend is also twenty seven and female. So my friend

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Speaker 3: at the time, let's call her Jessica, started seeing this

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Speaker 3: guy toward the end of twenty twenty. No one in

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Speaker 3: our friend group liked him.

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Speaker 4: She knew this.

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Speaker 3: After about a year of them seeing each other, they

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Speaker 3: got engaged. This guy pretty much only is with her

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Speaker 3: for spicy time.

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Speaker 2: Don't like that.

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Speaker 3: By the way, this comes from Witchy Woman nineteen ninety eight,

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Speaker 4: Separate it.

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Speaker 3: So one of our mutual friends came to me and said,

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Speaker 3: how Jessica's man asked her for a double sloppy toppy repeatedly,

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Speaker 3: even though she says no, we're reading this story. I

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Speaker 3: always get these stories because she was in a relationship.

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Speaker 3: You tried bribing her with victorious secret. All right, I'll

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Speaker 3: talk about that later. When she yelled at him saying no,

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Speaker 3: he said it was just a joke. A few days

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Speaker 3: after she told me about this, I get a text

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Speaker 3: from Jessica's number asking if I would do a double

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Speaker 3: sloppy toppy or just spicy time in general with her

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Speaker 3: should know better than ask me. I'm not into that

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Speaker 3: type of spicy time. I would never consider it with

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Ever, the next day I get a FaceTime from her

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Speaker 3: and I mentioned that I'm super irritated that she.

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Speaker 4: Sent that text. She swore she didn't know what I was.

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Speaker 3: Talking about, but the look on her face went red

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 3: After this, I had run into them both, and he

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Speaker 3: tried asking me again and tried telling me each spoiled

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Speaker 3: me with Victoria's secret seems to be his gotu.

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Speaker 4: I've lat out said no.

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Speaker 3: I told her that I didn't believe she didn't know

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Speaker 3: that I don't support them getting married and wouldn't attend

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Speaker 3: the wedding do to now being uncomfortable around her fiance.

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Speaker 3: Valid so valid, she didn't believe me and kept asking

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Speaker 3: me to be your wedding photographer. Two piasa pod Yu,

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Speaker 3: keep asking you to do things for them and telling

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Speaker 3: want to do pictures. When it came to her actual

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Speaker 3: like him. Since then, we all distanced ourselves from her

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Speaker 3: irritated we never wanted to hang out with her, never

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Speaker 3: not going to her wedding, saying we didn't support the marriage.

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Speaker 3: I would be civil with her, told her I was

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Speaker 3: without telling her to get home. She went off on

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Speaker 3: biggest a hole for not showing up to our wedding

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Speaker 3: since I had known her the longest in our friend group.

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Speaker 3: Instead of responding, I blocked her number in all of

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Speaker 3: she tried getting a hold of me on my business

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Speaker 3: Instagram account, as well as her husband trying to talk.

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Speaker 3: I told her to stop getting a hold of me,

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Speaker 3: to her five paragraph text of all the reasons as

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Speaker 3: to why I am an.

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Speaker 4: A hole, comments comment one, you made the right call.

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Speaker 3: As for your friend, she's heading towards one of those

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Speaker 3: open marriages, which I don't know if she's heading towards it.

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Speaker 3: I think she's in I think she's already in it

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Speaker 3: where he pushes for it. But it's really just an

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Speaker 4: He's already cheating. He's already cheating. He's propositioning woman. They're

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Speaker 4: just not accepting. He's trying to. He's just feeling at

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Speaker 4: it because no one likes him. He's just weird and creepy.

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Speaker 3: Eventually, she'll be on Reddit sharing how her husband drove

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Speaker 3: her away from all her friends by being creepy and

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Speaker 3: using the open marriage to sleep around. She'll become a

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Speaker 3: hollow version of herself, not realizing why she can't seem

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Speaker 3: to maintain any lasting friendships with other women. Until then,

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Speaker 3: stay away from her and her husband as long as

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Speaker 3: you can, including no contact. This guy will only cause

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Speaker 3: more trouble down the line, Opie says in her last

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Speaker 3: text of her telling.

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Speaker 4: Me how I was an ale.

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Speaker 3: She tried telling me she didn't understand why everyone uses

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Speaker 3: her husband as an excuse because he's only for her.

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Speaker 3: Yet he has asked more than just me and the

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Speaker 3: other friend I mentioned in the story. For this, he

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Speaker 3: actually got hit in the face by the one friend

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Speaker 3: that showed up at the wedding for asking her while

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Speaker 3: she was pregnant. Comment too, I'm sure once she catches

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Speaker 3: him in bed with one or two of her new friends,

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Speaker 3: she'll reach back out to you and ask for support.

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Speaker 3: He sounds like a total creep. And I don't blame

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Speaker 3: you for keeping your distance. Oh, he says, I probably

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Speaker 3: finds a way to contact me if slash when that happens.

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Speaker 3: This is just the tip of the iceberg with drama

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Speaker 3: when it comes to this friend. She's cheated on past boyfriends,

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Speaker 3: stolen friend's boyfriends, stolen things from multiple friends.

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Speaker 4: Oh, can't another friend money?

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Speaker 3: There's always job hop and yet complains when she struggles

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, Okay, she sounds delightfit. There's quite a

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Because to University of how to become a better person,

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Speaker 5: One on one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Seem like he's the only problem in this relationship, not

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Speaker 3: want to do. I sat there and mentioned going into

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Speaker 4: She started taking courses less than a week later, then

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Speaker 4: her she'd be a horrid realtor because she can't control

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Speaker 4: her mouth or her fists. Common three.

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Speaker 3: I would definitely end that friendship. Opie says it's been

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Speaker 3: ended for a bit now, not planning on re kindling

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Speaker 3: it ever. Update my ex boyfriend left me just to

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Speaker 4: Less than a week later. Whoa, this is a whole

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Speaker 4: nother story. This is all another story.

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Speaker 2: What uh?

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Speaker 3: This is my second post in here. My ex friend

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Speaker 3: from my last post title is the along the lines

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Speaker 3: of am I aol for not going to my friend's

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Speaker 3: Set me up with a guy let's call him Chris,

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Speaker 3: she considered to be like a brother back in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Anyone this woman considers to be a very close friend

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Speaker 3: cannot be great yep. I twenty two at the time,

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Speaker 3: don't really date. Guys don't really seem attracted to me.

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Speaker 3: I'm a bigger woman with HG DSPCS pots among other issues.

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Speaker 3: What guy seem interested only seems to be interested to

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Speaker 3: the relationship basis.

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Speaker 4: Oh. Chris twenty three at the time, had a child

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Speaker 4: from a previous marriage, and my ex friend thought he

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Speaker 4: was looking for someone to settle down with after the

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Speaker 2: She was violent.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I was ify due to the last guys

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Speaker 3: I tried dating with kids, leading me on just to

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Speaker 4: We talked and hung out for a few weeks to

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Speaker 3: He said he wasn't sure if he wanted a relationship.

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Speaker 3: What was hoping he would be soon. I told him

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Speaker 3: him lead me on. About a week after he told

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Speaker 4: He used right.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so either.

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Speaker 4: About a week into us dating, he decides he wants

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Speaker 4: me to meet his family. A week red flags? Red flags?

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Speaker 4: A week into a man? What is't it talking into? Like? No,

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Speaker 4: they just started dating?

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Speaker 2: Is really?

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Speaker 3: I think in this relationship, I think he's like ok

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Speaker 3: I was going over there quite often.

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Speaker 4: That makes a little bit of sense.

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Speaker 3: All of his family seemed to love me, except for

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Speaker 3: his sister Lola. That weekend I met his family. His

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Speaker 3: best friend. This was Chris's first time meeting Lola's best friend, Grace.

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Speaker 3: As I was talking to Lola before they left, I noticed,

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Speaker 3: for some reason, when Grace said bye, she hugged onto

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Speaker 3: Chris for an awkwardly long time.

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Speaker 4: Oohoo.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Chris looks sort of uncomfortable with how long

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Speaker 3: given me any reason to really not trust him. A

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Speaker 3: couple days later, my ex friend tells me Grace thought

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Speaker 3: and found her social media and messaged her to let

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Speaker 3: reason to not trust Chris. For some reason, Chris at

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Speaker 3: this point had gone radio silent on me. We went

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Speaker 3: Three to four days after that, I get a message

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Speaker 4: Want to be our girlfriend. He's sure. When you're not ready, don't,

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Speaker 4: You are being selfish.

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Speaker 3: Two days later he blocks me on everything. About two

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Speaker 3: The only good thing that came out of this relationship

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, she loved to hear it.

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Speaker 3: Look at that Wow from my ex's younger sister not Lola,

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Speaker 4: What would he do to you? Whaharude?

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Speaker 3: My boredom got the best of me, and I went

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Speaker 4: She had blocked me on Facebook when I laugh reacted

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Speaker 3: Well, she unblocked me. I immediately noticed her profile picture isn't

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Speaker 3: Looked up my ex's second Facebook, the one I wasn't

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Speaker 3: let's go on. I'm sorry that the concept of this

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Speaker 4: Is going on with that family? Common one says, wow,

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Speaker 3: You dodged a bullet with Chris. Trust me, he is

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Speaker 3: not the one. I'm sorry that happened to you, and

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Speaker 6: My fiance will take my last name. It did not

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Speaker 4: Parents ooh so bad that he wanted to forget their

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Speaker 6: Alex and I female twenty two have been together for

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Speaker 6: I never cared much about my last name, but after

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Speaker 6: Alex doesn't mind and chose to change his last name

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Speaker 6: so we'd match.

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Speaker 2: Heck.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, by the way, this comes from throwway my last name.

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Speaker 6: to the our slash Okay storytime Separate Yeah. Upon finding

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Speaker 6: out Alex's parents, Lisa and Luke yelled at him. Lisa

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Speaker 4: Of winter break. We were hall on break from college

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Speaker 6: Lisa and Luke say Alex is destroying and disowning his

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Speaker 6: It's political too, they said, the queer community is the

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Speaker 4: We're sa scept them all to this. Transgender people are

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Speaker 6: Alex has gotten plenty of texts from Lisa calling him hateful, cruel,

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Speaker 4: One meeting involved both sets of parents. Lisa and Luke.

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Speaker 6: Talked to ninety percent of the time before getting up

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Speaker 6: Wow, and that it's worse than if Alex had gotten

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Speaker 6: Their main reason seemed to me that it is tradition

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Speaker 4: It's not an uncommon last name. Certainly he doesn't want

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Speaker 6: I also learned that Lisa Borderline tried to talk Alex

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Speaker 6: They said that they get a say until Alex is

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Speaker 6: before you have achieved financial independence from your parents. This

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Speaker 6: is just the first issue that will come from this.

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Speaker 6: You're too young anyway. Opie says, I appreciate the insight,

447
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,240
Speaker 6: but we don't need their financial support. Just thought it

448
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 6: was worth mentioning that money offered without strings clearly does

449
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 6: have strings. We have a solid plan in place financially,

450
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Speaker 6: but came to this sub for the relationship aspect. Someone

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Speaker 6: else responds, if you and your fiance don't need their

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Speaker 6: financial support, why have you guys been taking it? I'm

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Speaker 6: sure this isn't the first time that they've shown they're

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Speaker 6: not good people. So you both have agreed to benefit

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Speaker 6: from their finances despite the kind of people that they are.

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Speaker 6: Hope He responds, it hasn't been a trade of money

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Speaker 6: for control up until now. If your parents wanted to

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Speaker 6: give you money, would you not take it if it

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Speaker 6: was truly out of kindness? Alex surely isn't the only

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Speaker 6: college student being put through by his parents.

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Now, silly common Yeah, that is now that it is

463
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Speaker 6: money for control, we're planning not to accept it anymore.

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Speaker 4: He guess what we've gotten updates, let's freaking jump in.

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Speaker 6: Alex and I got married last month and everything was

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Speaker 6: absolutely beautiful Since my original post. After more months of

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Speaker 6: emotional and verbal abuse, Alex made the difficult decision that

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Speaker 6: his parents were no longer welcome at our wedding. He

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Speaker 6: explained that he couldn't trust them to respect his boundaries,

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Speaker 6: respect us at all, or respect what the event was about.

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Speaker 6: As expected, they freaked out, asking if he was trapped

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Speaker 6: and needed help, saying everything had become about me ope,

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Speaker 6: and telling him that he'd been isolated from everyone that

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Speaker 6: he loves.

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Speaker 4: We're not sure what.

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Speaker 6: Story they told Alex's extended family. Alex reached out to

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Speaker 6: everyone to explain what had been going on, but every

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Speaker 6: response that he received was more discussed towards his name choice,

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Speaker 6: refusal of wedding invitations, and saying that he needed to

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Speaker 6: apologize and grovel.

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Speaker 4: And fix the family. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 6: Most of Lisa's family were the ones talking the most

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Speaker 6: about how dishonorable he was and how he was breaking

484
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Speaker 6: apart the family interesting seeing none of them share Lisa

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Speaker 6: and Luke's last name. Luke's family does. Luckily, only one

486
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Speaker 6: invitation was returned with nasty notes inside, but the rest

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Speaker 6: of the digital responses took Lisa and Luke's side, berating

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Speaker 6: Alex for doing this near the anniversary of the passing

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Speaker 6: of Lisa's first child and called him cool and hateful.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, God's so not the same at all.

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Speaker 4: This is just so insane. He might need to go

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Speaker 4: very limited to no contact.

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Speaker 2: With these people.

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Speaker 4: Sorry about that boy.

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Speaker 6: For context, Lisa's first child passed away a few days

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Speaker 6: after birth, over twenty five years ago. Alex says there

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Speaker 6: has never been any remembrance that he knows of, and

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Speaker 6: they do nothing on the anniversary.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't even know the date of the anniversary.

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Speaker 6: Lisa and Luke explained what happened once when he was

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Speaker 6: young and never mentioned anything again. We're unsure why it's

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Speaker 6: all coming back up now after presenting this is trying

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Speaker 6: to tell him he exactly after presenting as generally unimportant

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Speaker 6: his whole life. Apparently, this drama being four months from

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Speaker 6: the anniversary was disrespectful. Four months a third of the

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Speaker 6: year away from mandilsary too soon.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, what what is not soon? Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 4: His sister Alice also went off the rails.

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Speaker 6: After checking in to see how Alex was doing, Alice

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Speaker 6: got angry that he wanted to discuss things over text

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Speaker 6: instead of on the phone.

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Speaker 3: They're just grasping at straws at anything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: It became obvious that she wanted him on the phone

515
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Speaker 6: to braid him because she ranted about how he was

516
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Speaker 6: steamrolling their parents and wasn't really an adult because he

517
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Speaker 6: wasn't married yet.

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Speaker 4: About what you get married? How don't you get married?

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Speaker 4: And also that's silly, that's silly, that's stilly.

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Speaker 3: Clear, but it's also funny because like they're actively trying

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Speaker 3: to stop him.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I know because the parents mentioned that earlier, Like

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Speaker 6: we can't tell him what to do, like unless he's

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Speaker 6: or we can't.

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Speaker 4: We can tell him what to do until he gets married.

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Speaker 4: So strange stray people.

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Speaker 6: She said that she had encouraged Lisa and to cut

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Speaker 6: him off long ago and that I Opie wasn't acting

529
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Speaker 6: like family since I stopped letting her follow my Instagram account.

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Speaker 6: This was after she'd dropped out as a bridesmaid and

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Speaker 6: made it clear she didn't support our marriage. I decided

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Speaker 6: not everyone gets full access to my life. Good yeah, exactly.

533
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Speaker 6: As his only sibling. It was devastating for Alex to

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Speaker 6: watch Alice spiral into fully taking their parents' side after

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Speaker 6: initially leading him to believe that she had his back

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Speaker 6: and being supportive after saying not to expect her and

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Speaker 6: Alex's brother in law at the wedding. There's been no

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Speaker 6: further contact since Alice refuses to speak to him unless

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Speaker 6: he'll talk on the phone. At this point, he won't

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Speaker 6: do any phone calls, as we'd rather have record of

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Speaker 6: everything that goes down. Many people tried to talk to

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Speaker 6: Lisa and Luke, my own parents', mutual friends, etc.

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Speaker 4: To encourage them to choose the relationship.

544
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Speaker 6: And explain the damage that they were causing wasn't worth

545
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Speaker 6: the loss that they door.

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Speaker 4: It seemed to have no effect.

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Speaker 6: Alex was quick to become no longer financially dependent on

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Speaker 6: his parents. We've changed his phone plan, reclaimed all of

549
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 6: his bills from Lisa and Luke, fully moved him out

550
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 6: and finished college. We're not sure if they attended graduation.

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Speaker 6: They texted Alex the day before to say that they'd

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Speaker 6: be there, but then turned off their location services. Graduation

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00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 6: day was stressful and nerve wracking, with Alex not knowing

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00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 6: if they'd make a scene or corner him. He left

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Speaker 6: as soon as he walked across the stage and made

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Speaker 6: it to his car, with no interactions since then. As

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00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 6: most redditors suggested, we've been nearly no contact with Lisa

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Speaker 6: and Luke. We spent the first six weeks of summer

559
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Speaker 6: finishing wedding details, and our day last month was gorgeous.

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00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 6: Alex received no communication between graduation and the wedding and

561
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Speaker 6: has no plans to continue the relationship without an apology.

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Speaker 6: Lisa and Luke did not show up to the wedding

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Speaker 6: or say anything the day of. The only reason change

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Speaker 6: Lisa on following and unfriending both of us and my

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Speaker 6: family on all social media. And by the way, you

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Speaker 4: Just search Okay Storytime. Do it do it for me.

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Speaker 6: My in law relationships are basically over apology or not learning.

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Speaker 6: They'd never supported our engagement, ignoring my existence and hating

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Speaker 6: me because.

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Speaker 4: Of my political and religious beliefs is.

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Speaker 6: Enough for me not to keep contact. Good Thank you

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Speaker 6: editors for your kind help and good wishes. Our day

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Speaker 6: was truly perfect and straight out of a fairy tale.

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Speaker 4: And we're looking.

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Speaker 6: Forward to the next chapter of our lives with hopefully

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Speaker 6: less drama.

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Speaker 2: And that is that. Hey's John, you og host here.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna get back to the stories, but here's a

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Speaker 5: quick three minute break of ass from our sponsors. My

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Speaker 5: wife refused to stop tying my EMT boots.

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Speaker 2: I ended up hurting her feelings.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I know this title is bizarre and I can't

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Speaker 5: believe I'm actually writing this. My wife is a neat

587
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 5: fore always has been. She throws notes on my desks

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00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 5: out assuming their garbage. My belongings get rearranged to the

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Speaker 5: point where it takes me hours to find them. It's

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Speaker 5: something I have come to accept. I'm not happy about it,

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00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 5: but we have a pretty happy marriage on the whole.

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Speaker 5: By the way, this comes from Thoroughway Shoes And if

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Speaker 5: Storytime Celebretta. Now, I am a volunteer EMT and I

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Speaker 5: keep my boots unlaced up against the wall next to

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Speaker 5: my clothes hamper, so that way I can throw them

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Speaker 5: on along with my uniform if a call comes in

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00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 5: during the middle of the night. Well, my wife has

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00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 5: been taking to tying the boot laces when she sees

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Speaker 5: them untied. Not only does she tie them, but she

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00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 5: tightens them and double knots them to the point where

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00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,479
Speaker 5: I need to undo the not open up the boots,

603
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 5: let a little slack out to fit my feet into them.

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Speaker 5: I ignored it the first two times, but the third

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Speaker 5: time she did it, I made a point to bring

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Speaker 5: it up to her. The next day, I very calmly said, Han,

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Speaker 5: I appreciate that you want everything neat, but please do

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Speaker 5: not touch my boots in the future.

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Speaker 2: Time is of the essence.

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Speaker 5: When I'm going on a call and it two am

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Speaker 5: in the morning, I don't have time to unlace them

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Speaker 5: and open them up. It's not just a minor inconvenience.

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Speaker 5: It's people's lives. So I would appreciate it if you

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00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 5: let them alone. She rolled her eyes and said I

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00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 5: was being dramatic and that she wouldn't help me out

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Speaker 5: by keeping my things.

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Speaker 2: Neat in the future.

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Speaker 5: Well, she never stopped, no matter how many times I

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Speaker 5: asked her, told her, begged her. She just laughs and says, well,

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Speaker 5: you know how I am. The other night, a page

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Speaker 5: went out for a CPR in progress. I went to

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Speaker 5: throw my boots on and they were once again tightened

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Speaker 5: beyond recognition. So I'm sitting there on the edge of

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Speaker 5: the bed, cursing, trying to get my boots open, and

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00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 5: fumbling due to the stress of the situation. My wife

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Speaker 5: opened her eyes groggily, looked at me and said, don't

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Speaker 5: you need to go on that call. I slammed the

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Speaker 5: boot into the ground and yelled, yes, I do. I

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Speaker 5: would have been out the door five minutes ago, except

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Speaker 5: some stupid mother effort. Fed with my god dang boots again,

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Speaker 5: my wife got up without another word, walked into the

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Speaker 5: bathroom and slammed the door. I got my boots open,

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Speaker 5: went to the call. By the time we arrived, the

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Speaker 5: police had gotten her back, so I didn't have to

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Speaker 5: do CPR, but I was sweating and shaking, thinking the

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Speaker 5: delay have cost a life.

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Speaker 2: I got home and my wife isn't talking to me.

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Speaker 5: She ignored me the entire day until we finally sat

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Speaker 5: down and talked She said I had scared her with

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Speaker 5: how angry I got. That she thought that I was

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00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 5: going to harm her, and she didn't know I was

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Speaker 5: capable of getting so angry.

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Speaker 2: Note I have never raised anne to her, nor if

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Speaker 2: I ever yelled at her before.

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Speaker 5: I am absolutely not a violent person in any way,

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Speaker 5: shape or form. I apologized for yelling at her and

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00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 5: acknowledged that I hadn't meant to snap at her. I

648
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 5: was frustrated with the situation, as I needed to get

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Speaker 5: to the person in need of CPR as soon as possible,

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Speaker 5: and it was a delay that didn't need to happen.

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00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 5: I once again pleaded with her to not touch my

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Speaker 5: boots because lives were literally on the line. She told

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Speaker 5: me that if I was going to overreact and make

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00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 5: her afraid, that she would never touch my boots again

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00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 5: because she didn't want to live like that. Last night,

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Speaker 5: before I got into the bed, I had a sinking feeling,

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00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 5: so I went over and I checked my boots. I

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00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 5: was very disappointed to find them tightened up again, so

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Speaker 5: I decided to show her how it felt. I went

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Speaker 5: over to her closet and put pulled out her running shoes.

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Speaker 5: I unlaced the both of them, removed them from the

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Speaker 5: shoes completely, curled them each into a little coil and

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Speaker 5: put them inside the shoes and put them back and

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00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 5: went to sleep. At six fifteen, I was woken up

665
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 5: by my wife screaming, how could you? Why would you

666
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 5: do this, holding up both laceless shoes with tears in

667
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 5: her eyes. My wife likes to go for an early

668
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 5: morning run, and I knew she would want to go

669
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 5: out the door as soon as possible.

670
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 2: I smiled and said, you know how I am.

671
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 5: I just like things neat. She continued sobbing and walked

672
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 5: out of the room. So by the time she was

673
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 5: all laced up again, it was raining, so she missed

674
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 5: out on her run. I actually feel pretty terrible about that,

675
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,959
Speaker 5: because I really only wanted to delay her and not

676
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 5: ruin her plans entirely. At this point, she's alternating between

677
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 5: prying that I went out of my way to hurt

678
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 5: her and ignoring my presence. I acknowledge that what I've

679
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 5: done has been pretty childish and not at all constructive.

680
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 5: I just don't know what to do. I mean, I do,

681
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 5: I do feel for ope in that Like you tell,

682
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 5: like you said before you tell someone once, Hey, this

683
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:56,959
Speaker 5: is a life or death thing.

684
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: Please don't do this.

685
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 5: Unless again, there was the know the military sonic noise

686
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 5: disruptor going off like one would hope and pray that

687
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 5: they would just get the message. Yeah, right, little burb

688
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 5: says cheater in chat I see a.

689
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 2: Lot of people it's like, Oh, it's like she's trying

690
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 2: to find a reason. She's trying to make him leave

691
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 2: so that she doesn't get caught cheating or something interesting.

692
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: Op's being like, I know this isn't like mature and

693
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 2: it's childish, but it's like you already did the mature thing.

694
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 2: You've done all of the mature options and they did

695
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 2: not work.

696
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 5: Like I feel like he's kind of almost losing his

697
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 5: mind as a little bit because he's like, what can

698
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 5: I possibly do to tell you that this is this

699
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 5: is crazy?

700
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 2: Okay? So she said, through tears.

701
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 5: You admitted you were totally in the wrong for yelling

702
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 5: at me, and then you turned around and took it

703
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 5: out on me in a different way.

704
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 2: What is wrong with you?

705
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 5: The problem is, to her, an apology means taking on

706
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 5: one hundred percent of the faults when I apologize for

707
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 5: blowing up. She took that to mean that she was

708
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 5: one hundred percent in the right and that my feelings

709
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 5: were completely unjustified. So at this point I haven't apologized

710
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 5: for ruining her because she'll take that to me, and

711
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 5: she wasn't wrong to touch my boots. I've tried to

712
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 5: have these discussions, but it's win one ear out the other.

713
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 5: We have such good relationships otherwise, but I feel like

714
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 5: this issue has reached a tipping point and it's going

715
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 5: to continue to result in arguments until we resolve it.

716
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 5: How do I make things right with my wife while

717
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 5: still letting her know that I won't tolerate her disrespecting

718
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 5: my property anymore?

719
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: Edit?

720
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 2: Wow, this blew up.

721
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 5: I went through comments for six hours last night and

722
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 5: it still have eighteen hundred to get through. I promise

723
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 5: you I'm reading every one of your comments, and I

724
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 5: appreciate the advice. A couple of things to address that

725
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 5: keep getting brought up. My wife has never been a

726
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 5: diagnosis having OCD as an EMT. I'm very careful about

727
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 5: labeling someone as having a disorder, as I don't have

728
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 5: the proper qualifications to make that diagnosis. I do agree

729
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 5: that it's time for her to see somebody and get

730
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 5: a proper diagnosis and address these issues. My boost lay

731
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 5: put lace up in the front and zip her on

732
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 5: the side. They're not a full unzip, but rather an

733
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 5: unzip to open them a bit. The way my wife

734
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 5: is tying them makes them impossible to get on even

735
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 5: with the zipper down. Their weather proof and great for

736
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 5: standing on rough terrain or the highway after after accidents.

737
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 5: They're only about a year old and we're actually a

738
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 5: gift from my wife. I've not considered velcro before, but

739
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 5: I'm a bit hesitant to do that as I don't

740
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 5: know if that if they wouldn't catch on things or

741
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 5: wear out quicker. I tucked the laces in, but she

742
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 5: still tied them up. This is a bit of compulsive

743
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 5: behavior on my parts. I don't leave my boots in

744
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 5: the garage because my mother was a smoker growing up

745
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 5: and that's where she would smoke. So I ended up

746
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 5: with ashes in my shoes and having them wreak of

747
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 5: tobacco afterwards. So I developed a bit of a habit

748
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 5: of wearing them into my home. If I leave them there,

749
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 5: they're likely to get moved to someplace safe where it

750
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 5: will take me even longer to find them, putting the

751
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 5: boots in the closet, you found them and tied them,

752
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 5: putting them under the bed or out of sight until

753
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 5: they were found, tied, or moved to the closet. I

754
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 5: honestly believe that if foot locker or any other kind

755
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 5: of box would get moved to where I would have

756
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 5: to wake her up to find it if it's locked,

757
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 5: then my keys would likely go missing for some reason.

758
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 5: Sitting them on my dresser is not appropriate, but in

759
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 5: the pocket of a jacket downstairs in the closet is.

760
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 2: I am likely going.

761
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 5: To start putting my boots in the car though I

762
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 5: had to laugh at the people suggesting decoy boots.

763
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 2: Dude, what are you talking about? That's like that honestly

764
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 2: sounds like the best suggestion I've heard so far. Yeah, yeah,

765
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 2: the decoys ready to go.

766
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 5: But also like thinking about the ridiculousness of the scenario

767
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 5: we've reached, you know what I mean, As much as

768
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 5: it may seem like it, I'm not living in a

769
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 5: spy versus spy cartoon.

770
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 2: I am a volunteer EMT.

771
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 5: We respond from home to answer some of the chat

772
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,240
Speaker 5: comments I saw before too. We don't have sleeping quarters

773
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 5: and I work the overnight shift, so I sleep during

774
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 5: my shift, get out of bed when a call comes in,

775
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 5: drive to the building and take an ambulance to the

776
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 5: seame scene. This is typical of volunteer organizations. Paid EMS

777
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 5: is more likely to have sleeping quarters or even require

778
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 5: EMTs to be in the truck throughout their shift.

779
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 2: Community based EMS is.

780
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 5: More likely to take nine one one calls and respond

781
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 5: to emergencies, whether paid or volunteers. Private EMS is likely

782
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 5: to take transport requests such as to and from dialysis

783
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 5: or chemotherapy, as well as the hospital to nursing facility

784
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 5: discharge to those who have told me that I don't

785
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 5: have the right to use the word life saving. On

786
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 5: my dress uniform, I have pins for three defibrillator saves

787
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 5: and four CPR saves.

788
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 2: I've crawled into a car wreck.

789
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 5: I've crawled into a car wreck to open someone's airway

790
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 5: and bag.

791
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 2: Them until we could get them out.

792
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 5: While transporting a patient, I recognize silence of an internal

793
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 5: injury and ordered we divert to a trauma center where

794
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 5: he was put directly into surgery that changed his life.

795
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 5: Did I do those things entirely by myself? Yes, no,

796
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 5: of course not. I would never claim that I was

797
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 5: the sole reason someone lived. However, I am, at my

798
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 5: very basis level as vital a link in the chain

799
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 5: of survival. So while I can't claim credit for any

800
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 5: of the things that I've done, I would certainly put

801
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 5: a lot of blame on myself if someone didn't live

802
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 5: because of something I failed to do. I have a

803
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 5: full time job that I work eight to five Monday

804
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 5: Friday outs Monday to Friday outside of EMS. That is

805
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 5: why I volunteer on the night shift. My wife works

806
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 5: as a payroll manager for a mid sized office earned

807
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 5: I earned about ten thousand dollars a.

808
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 2: Year more than her.

809
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 5: We've been married for two years, and when I lived

810
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 5: on my own before we were married, she didn't move

811
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 5: into the apartment until we got engaged, so I think

812
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 5: to her that was my place, not ours, and she

813
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 5: didn't really touch my things. I was with another EMS

814
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 5: organization until we moved to a new town after our engagement.

815
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 5: When we bought the house, I joined the local volunteer

816
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 5: squad as an EMT. My wife regards my job as

817
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 5: part of my identity, while she sees the EMS as

818
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 5: something I volunteer to do. She would say, this is

819
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 5: my husband, he is job title. Not this is my

820
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 5: husband he is an EMT. And we have an update.

821
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 2: I want to poll.

822
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 5: Poll not if you think they should divorce or not?

823
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,280
Speaker 5: If you predict divorce? NA, are we predicting divorce?

824
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 2: NA?

825
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 5: Are we predicting divorce or not? Dakota, I am curious

826
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 5: what your predictions are.

827
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: I vote yes, you vote yes, I vote definitely divorce.

828
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 5: I think it might take a lot for him to well.

829
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 2: I think he absorbs all the opinions of the internet,

830
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 2: and they mostly go, hey, I think your a wife

831
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 2: means like therapy. If you guys are gonna stay together,

832
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 2: she needs to figure out how to be healthier about

833
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 2: this stuff. Yeah, about that learning that there's such a

834
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 2: thing as a gray area, and that just saying sorry

835
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that you're just like flee. Oh nothing you've

836
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 2: ever done is wrong Now because I said sorry, I resolved,

837
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 2: it's okay. Yeah. I think she's gonna go no, what

838
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 2: are you a baby? And then he's gonna go okay, goodbye. Yep. Yeah.

839
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 5: So if our eighty two percent of chat is saying

840
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 5: that Opie will divorce, but we got an update, Amen, brother,

841
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 5: here we go, let's go.

842
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 2: My wife and I started talking again.

843
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 5: We had a very serious conversation, and I did apologize

844
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 5: for what I did to her running shoes. Then I

845
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 5: told her that I had to speak some truth, and

846
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 5: I wanted her to promise me that she wasn't going

847
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 5: to roll her eyes, interrupt me, scoff or get sarcastic

848
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 5: with me, which she did. I told her that I

849
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 5: was not kidding about my boots. That while most of

850
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 5: the time I caught geriatric transports balls nausea, there were

851
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 5: other instances where a response time was of the essence

852
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 5: and I didn't have time to play around with my

853
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 5: boots in the middle of tonight. I told her that

854
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 5: there have been times where my intervention has been critical

855
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 5: in saving a life, when my training has helped me

856
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 5: recognize an underlying emergency, or when a call I made

857
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 5: ensured that a patient was prioritized upon arrival at the hospital.

858
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 5: I explained that a lot of crap I see I

859
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 5: don't tell her about because I don't want to give

860
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 5: her nightmares or make her worry about me. She actually

861
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 5: listened and didn't dismiss what I had to say. She

862
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 5: responded that she was trying to help by keeping things neat.

863
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 5: I responded, but you're not, sweetie. I'm not trying to

864
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 5: be mean, but you're not helping. You're hindering me. One day,

865
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 5: it may be the difference between life and death. I

866
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 5: need you to not touch my gear. It's where I

867
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 5: know it is. It's where I can easily find it

868
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 5: in a short amount of time, and if you move it,

869
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 5: you're impeding an emergency process. I don't care if it

870
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 5: looks neat. It serves a function, it doesn't look pretty.

871
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 5: You want to help me, please leave my gear where

872
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 5: I put it. A few nights later, I had my friend,

873
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 5: Officer Rich come over. Officer Rich was one of the

874
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 5: two cops that did CPR that night on the victim.

875
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 5: The three of us sat on a deck had a

876
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 5: few social distancing bus He talked about getting there, doing

877
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 5: the CPR, giving narcan, waiting for the ambulance, and getting

878
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 5: her back. Shortly before we got there, he pulled out

879
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 5: a few of the photos of car accidents that I

880
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 5: had work. He showed them to my wife and pointed out,

881
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 5: this car went into a tree, your husband crawled into

882
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 5: the wreck, put a collar on the driver and stayed

883
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 5: in there while giving him oxygen until we could get

884
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 5: him out. Dude, Oh, your husband pulled a three year

885
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 5: old out of this wreck.

886
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 2: I hope it's just ex husband though, it's like this person,

887
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 2: I don't care. There's certain things where it's like I

888
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 2: don't If you don't get this, like I don't, I

889
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 2: have no time in my life or my heart for you. Dude. Yeah,

890
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 2: if you don't get like, don't touch my stuff because

891
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 2: I'm trying to save a light like lives and you

892
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 2: still do it. And then you're like, ooh, you're so overreacting.

893
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 2: You yelled at me. I thought you were gonna kill me.

894
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 2: It's like, all right, leave bye, goodbye. Yelled at you,

895
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 2: Okay bye. Yeah.

896
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 5: We we even still in this, like in the most

897
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 5: like the best conversation they've had a quote unquote that

898
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 5: they've had so far. I feel like she's still she's

899
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 5: just like, oh, I just want to keep him meet.

900
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 2: It's like, no, don't. You're not listen. You're not like

901
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 2: or at least you're not like acknowledging you know.

902
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 5: Anyways, So your husband, your husband recognized that the driver

903
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 5: had a stroke and took her to a stroke center.

904
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 2: Which literally which likely saved her life. After that, I told.

905
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 5: Her I had something I wanted to show her, and

906
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 5: I asked her for the same promise I'd ask for earlier.

907
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 5: When she agreed, I showed her a video on YouTube

908
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,240
Speaker 5: of a police bodycam from an od The video showed

909
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 5: how critical time is in getting someone back and the

910
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 5: training someone goes through in order to give someone that assistance,

911
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 5: do CPR and.

912
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 2: Utilize a AED.

913
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 5: I told her, I'm not trying to attack you. I

914
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 5: don't want to have a fight, but I want you

915
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 5: to understand what I go through. That I hope every

916
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 5: call I go on is transporting a booboo, because otherwise

917
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 5: it means that if I don't do everything right, someone

918
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 5: could pass away. If I don't get at that door

919
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 5: as quickly as possible, someone could suffer brain damage while

920
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 5: they're waiting for me to give them oxygen. If I'm

921
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 5: upset and shaking because I had to waste time opening

922
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,439
Speaker 5: my boots, I might miss something critical and someone might

923
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 5: not make it. She acknowledged that she understood and told

924
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 5: me that she hadn't really thought about the danger of

925
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 5: what I had to do until the other night when

926
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 5: she saw the photos of the Rex.

927
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 2: Again. This is like I've said, I've used this example before.

928
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 2: I broke up with someone because they didn't know there

929
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 2: were two world wars, but they knew about World War Two.

930
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: They knew that World War two existed, but they didn't

931
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 2: know they were two world wars. And after that came

932
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 2: to light, I said, I can't. I can't. I can't

933
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 2: keep dating you. I can't. I didn't make it about that,

934
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 2: but in my own head I was like, oh my god,

935
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 2: this is so over. I can't. And this is one

936
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 2: of those moments where it's like, what did you think

937
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 2: you think we wrote around the neighborhood giving people candy

938
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 2: and lollipops? Like what what did you think? The EMT

939
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 2: did well?

940
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 5: And well, the thing is he's already explained to her, like, hey,

941
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 5: this is life or death.

942
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 2: He said it. He said it's so many like oh man.

943
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 5: So I told her that I think she has OCD

944
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 5: and needs to see a therapist because it's hurting our marriage.

945
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 5: I listed examples of her throwing important things out, moving

946
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 5: things without permission, and messing with my gear. I offered

947
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 5: to go together in staid I'd be willing to work

948
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 5: on things together. After I point out the pattern, she

949
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 5: agreed that it was time to speak to someone. She

950
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 5: wants to think about whether she wants to go together

951
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 5: or go by herself. But she promised me that she's

952
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 5: going to try to change her patterns. I brought up

953
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 5: her saying she thought I was going to hit her,

954
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 5: and she acknowledged that she'd been with guys who flew

955
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 5: off the handle with little provocation and scared her that

956
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 5: she'd never seen ME get that angry, and it triggered

957
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 5: her because she didn't think I was capable of blowing

958
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 5: up like that, which I I will give her that,

959
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 5: like like how you you had this reaction and I

960
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 5: was afraid. I totally get it out. But it's like

961
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 5: all of the other all of the other things we

962
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 5: need to address it, acknowledge and like truly truly, like that's.

963
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 2: I would understand this, or if it was if it

964
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 2: had nothing to do with her, like it's it's her

965
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 2: literally just being like poke poke poke poke poke poke

966
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 2: poke poke. And then the most annoying thing I've straight

967
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 2: up ever heard, which is after tying the boots over

968
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 2: and over and over again, he's trying to go on

969
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 2: that call and he's untying the boots, like, and she goes,

970
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 2: shouldn't be like going to that. Oh my god, I

971
00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 2: would have disintegrated. Actually. So however, all this to say,

972
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 2: I also really question her ability to be truthful based

973
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 2: on what we're hearing. Yeah, because she's seeing a lot

974
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 2: of stuff that is just actual nonsense. I think I

975
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 2: think you totally could be right.

976
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 5: I think I think she might be just kind of

977
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 5: giving maybe O people he wants to hear in this

978
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 5: moment or something like that. Also, Alina says trauma responses

979
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 5: are so scary. I think think like, I think I

980
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 5: kind of view her response to that and this like

981
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 5: in a vacuum a little bit. But it's like she

982
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 5: just again she just doesn't acknowledge. It doesn't seem to

983
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 5: me like she actually friendly gets it.

984
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 2: Now.

985
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 5: She's been very emotional lately and has been going through moodswings.

986
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 5: She's been worried about me going out on calls. The

987
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 5: other day she started crying and said, I hope you

988
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 5: know how much I appreciate what you do.

989
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 2: You know what I appreciate? Oh, I have a feeling

990
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 2: I do I appreciate people.

991
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 5: They go to Spotify, Apple and iHeart and search Okay,

992
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 5: story time and listen to it because it's there for

993
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 5: you to listen to pleasure while you're doing the dishes.

994
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 2: Two thousand episodes. It's a treasure trove.

995
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 5: Of content that you literally would have to spend fifty

996
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 5: three fifty four days listening straight too. I wish other

997
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 5: other shit I listened to you had fifty four days

998
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 5: straight of content that ichlists.

999
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 2: Do you know? I think there's there's a conspiracy out

1000
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 2: there were up to fifty eight Wow, regardless, is this

1001
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 2: really a divorced situation? Like I can't say that because

1002
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 2: I'm not in it, but like, I don't think. I

1003
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 2: think this is something that would fundamentally shift the way

1004
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 2: I look at my wife and I don't know if

1005
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:23,919
Speaker 2: it'll ever go back.

1006
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 5: I think like if I'm if I'm in op shoes,

1007
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, I literally can't communicate with this person

1008
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 5: because I'll literally say something and something very serious and

1009
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 5: it'll just be complete, whether it's ignored, whether she doesn't

1010
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 5: understand whatever the means of it not being received, she's

1011
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 5: not gonna receive. It will be completely misaligned, and it's

1012
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 5: just going to cause all kinds of all kinds of

1013
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 5: Uh right, we still have a little bit of the

1014
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 5: story left. We'll see knock on wood. Since we've had

1015
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:56,320
Speaker 5: the big talk, she hasn't touched my boots. Is everything resolved?

1016
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 5: Not by a log shot, that's what Hope actually said,

1017
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 5: but she seems avenue of appreciation for what I do.

1018
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 5: Thank you for all your responses. I wound up not

1019
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 5: showing her the thread because it was a lot of

1020
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 5: pretty harsh things towards her. I recognize I cherry picked

1021
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 5: incidents that didn't put her in the best light. And

1022
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 5: there's a lot more to her in our marriage than that.

1023
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 5: She is the person I chose to the rest of

1024
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 5: my life, and I want us to work.

1025
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 2: Oooh all right, divor wow wow, Okay, yeah, dude, okay,

1026
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 2: but that's the end of that story. That's it.

1027
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,120
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1028
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1029
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Speaker 2: He cheated on me while I was pregnant. I don't

1030
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Speaker 2: need him.

1031
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Speaker 4: You don't need him, that's right, gig about.

1032
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Speaker 2: You don't need that piece of trash.

1033
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Speaker 4: No one needs them.

1034
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Speaker 2: In April, when I was twelve weeks pregnant, I found

1035
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 2: out that my female twenty eight husband male twenty eight,

1036
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:49,399
Speaker 2: had recently started cheating on me with a girl at

1037
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 2: his work, and I still haven't gotten over. And by

1038
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 2: the way, this comes from someone who's not a trash person.

1039
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 2: It comes from user falling for you and on on

1040
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 2: on the r slash Okay, storytime subredding. We've been married

1041
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 2: since summer of twenty eighteen, but together since summer of

1042
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen. It's nearly our nine year anniversary now, and

1043
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 2: I'm currently thirty weeks pregnant with our first child. I

1044
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 2: always thought that if my partner ever cheated on me,

1045
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 2: I would be out the door in a hurry, because

1046
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 2: it's a type of disrespect I could never stand for. However,

1047
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,760
Speaker 2: I never thought it would happen to me, let alone,

1048
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,240
Speaker 2: after I had put eight and a half years into

1049
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 2: this man, plus a house, two cars, two dogs, a cat,

1050
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 2: and a baby we both wanted for as many years

1051
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 2: at that point. I know I am more sensitive right

1052
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 2: now due to the pregnancy, but it's now August and

1053
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: I am so tired of waking up hurting every day.

1054
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 2: After I found out about the cheating, I confronted him

1055
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 2: and he admitted that he had started sleeping with her

1056
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 2: and at the time had done so three times. I

1057
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 2: was in my first trimester, and he knew how sick.

1058
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 2: I had been literally spending all day every day barfin

1059
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 2: my morning sickness lasted until about dinner time usually and sleepin'

1060
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 2: hope he's just barfing and sleeping. He has a job

1061
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,439
Speaker 2: that has always kept him pretty busy, but he would

1062
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 2: always check in with me throughout the day. I work

1063
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 2: from home and am self employed, making much less money

1064
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 2: than him, but was something we had discussed in depth

1065
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 2: after the loss of my first pregnancy and agreed that

1066
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 2: me being home and dealing with the house in pets

1067
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 2: was something we should try. Plus we both wanted me

1068
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 2: to be a stay at home mom for whenever we

1069
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 2: did have a baby, so while I made less, it

1070
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 2: was something we fully agreed on together. When he would

1071
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 2: check in, it was always so sweet. He called me

1072
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 2: in between meetings on the road driving anytime he was free,

1073
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 2: and he would text me to announce his safe arrival

1074
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 2: every time he had to go anywhere. It was never

1075
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 2: a burden that I asked for him to check in,

1076
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 2: because we both just naturally wanted to talk to each

1077
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,439
Speaker 2: other all the time during free moments in the day,

1078
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,760
Speaker 2: which is how our relationship had been for the entire duration.

1079
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 2: There was no asking at all. Really, it's just how

1080
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 2: it was with us. I gave him another chance when

1081
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 2: I confronted him because I was so blindsided. It didn't

1082
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 2: make sense to me, and now it still doesn't. But

1083
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 2: I was twelve weeks along with a baby I had

1084
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 2: been wishing for for years. We struggled with conception, and

1085
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 2: I had a vision in my head of our family

1086
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 2: that I couldn't let go up. We agreed that he

1087
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 2: would go into work and end it with her the

1088
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 2: next morning, which he didn't think would be an issue

1089
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 2: because it was just the passest sleep and they had

1090
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 2: no feelings involved. Yeah, oh that makes it okay. Yeah,

1091
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 2: you can cheat on your well pregnant wife, well pregnant wife.

1092
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 2: I didn't feel anything emotionally.

1093
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 4: So's fine.

1094
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 2: I'm actually in the clear. I'm actually a cold hearted psychopath, so.

1095
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 4: I have no emotions at all.

1096
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 2: Let it be known that this girl knew about me,

1097
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,720
Speaker 2: and I had stopped in at his office many times

1098
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 2: for lunch visits with my husband, and he had photos

1099
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 2: of me on his computer and desk so they were

1100
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 2: constant reminders that I was real for the both of them.

1101
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 2: He told me in later conversations that before the affair started,

1102
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 2: she would joke with him that I'm too hot for

1103
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 2: him and she planned on stealing me away. She apparently

1104
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 2: is by with a heavy lean towards women, and when

1105
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 2: my husband would talk about her before the affairs, I

1106
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 2: was told she was lesbian and that he and all

1107
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 2: the guys at work besides one found her highly unattractive.

1108
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 2: What happened when he ended it with her is I

1109
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 2: guess she took it all right, left and then a

1110
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 2: few hours later came back and begged him not to

1111
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 2: leave her. He told me that she was crying and

1112
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 2: clinging onto him, and there was something about abandonment issues

1113
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 2: that I truthfully do not care about because I was

1114
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 2: his partner of almost nine years and carrying his child.

1115
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 4: Letterly, who cares about this girl? You are their party, babe.

1116
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 2: She has abandonman issues, babe? Was I supposed to do?

1117
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 4: She would have been really upset if I had left her.

1118
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 2: Do you know I was trying to be nice?

1119
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 5: Nah?

1120
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 2: Don't you want a nice husband like you?

1121
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 4: Can't?

1122
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 3: You can't be mad that you started dating a spade

1123
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:51,720
Speaker 3: if you knew it was a spade.

1124
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 2: He told me that he had ended their relationship. Next

1125
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 2: he went on to get tested. There was no crossover

1126
00:51:57,880 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 2: at all while this was going on, and he was clean.

1127
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 2: He showed me all the test results, as this was

1128
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 2: an important stipulation obviously. For the next month, I watched

1129
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 2: him leave early morning and broke down as soon as

1130
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 2: he left, sometimes begging before he went to work for

1131
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 2: him to call and sick and stay home with me.

1132
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 2: I was a wreck. We had a vacation plan for

1133
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:19,280
Speaker 2: months before coming up in May, and I somehow thought

1134
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 2: it would be good for us to get away and

1135
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 2: just be the two of us. I was counting down

1136
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 2: the seconds until that trip, keeping everything I was going

1137
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:31,439
Speaker 2: through just to myself and quickly deteriorating. In that month,

1138
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 2: I lost twenty two pounds because I could not eat,

1139
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 2: and every time I did, I would barf. My husband

1140
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 2: watched me in agony, a complete shell of who I

1141
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 2: once was, trying to grow our child and not being

1142
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 2: able to stomach food literally at all. It got so

1143
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 2: bad that my whole face broke out and what looked

1144
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 2: like hives from how hard my body was trying to

1145
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 2: throw up when there was nothing left inside me. Every day,

1146
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,320
Speaker 2: like the little blood vessels popped all over my skin

1147
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 2: from sobbing and puking all day.

1148
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 3: O'spen aten separation from this man, because clearly, like even

1149
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 3: if you know, oh, it's like, oh, I don't know

1150
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 3: if I can do it alone right now. Your safety

1151
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 3: and your health is at risk because of him, So

1152
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 3: you need to get out of there.

1153
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. We went on our trip what

1154
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 2: girl Girl Hospital. I hope it was a trip to

1155
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 2: the hospital, and it was painful. There were good times,

1156
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 2: but also I was still so broken and I had

1157
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 2: no trust in him this whole month long period. I

1158
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,720
Speaker 2: felt something was still off, but he gave me access

1159
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 2: to his phone and I would check it in front

1160
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 2: of him, and also whenever he was asleep or in

1161
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 2: the shower, just to be sure. After the vacation, it

1162
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 2: got really really bad for me. The intuition in my

1163
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 2: head that I felt back in April had never really

1164
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 2: gone away, but it was so incredibly loud that I

1165
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 2: felt like I was going crazy. He was telling me

1166
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 2: he loved me, reassuring me that it was really over

1167
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 2: with her and that he was going to be a

1168
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 2: good husband to me and the best father to our daughter.

1169
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 2: No matter how much I wanted to believe him, there

1170
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 2: was something in me telling me he was lying. While

1171
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 2: he showered one morning, I went into the bathroom to

1172
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 2: pee and his phone was sitting on his pile of

1173
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 2: work clothes for when he got out. I grabbed it

1174
00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 2: and brought it with me while I peed, thinking it

1175
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 2: would be like every other time where I looked at

1176
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 2: his phone and found nothing. Instead, in his WhatsApp there

1177
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,880
Speaker 2: was a thread of messages with her from the night before. Well,

1178
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 2: you need to leave him. I guess he proved you

1179
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 2: wrong now, like it's literally.

1180
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,839
Speaker 3: Not helping you out all to be with us. Man,

1181
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 3: I feel like she's somewhat staying with him for the kid.

1182
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 4: But you need to leave him for the kid.

1183
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, A hundred percent day before it was a long

1184
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 2: workday for him, something I dreaded even before the affair,

1185
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 2: because being apart from him for crazy hours made me

1186
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 2: miss him, but I knew there was no way to

1187
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 2: avoid it. I remember I had offered to bring him

1188
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 2: food for lunch even though we lived an hour away

1189
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 2: from the office, and he told me not to worry

1190
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 2: about driving that he'll bribe one of the guys into

1191
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 2: bringing him something so I didn't have to waste the

1192
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 2: gas money. In reality, she was bringing him lunch and

1193
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,439
Speaker 2: he was texting her about it at the same time

1194
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 2: he was texting me. Those texts haunt me so badly.

1195
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 2: Even now she has told him I missed you and

1196
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 2: he replied the same. So clearly they had only progressed

1197
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 2: more in the last month.

1198
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 4: I thought it wasn't emotional. I thought it was just

1199
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 4: a physical relationship.

1200
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,479
Speaker 2: This guy has already earned the black hole treatment for me. Yeah,

1201
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 2: when she was bringing him lunch, he told her I

1202
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 2: just want you and a burgher. And then there was

1203
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 2: some hours later messages where they laughed about getting everyone

1204
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,760
Speaker 2: out of the office and conspicuously so they could be alone,

1205
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 2: and she said, now I get to have you. And

1206
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 2: reading those messages sixteen weeks pregnant and the first thing

1207
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 2: in the morning quite literally made me want to cease existing.

1208
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 2: When confronted, he promised me that they didn't have the

1209
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 2: spie to sleep, even though it sounded like it would

1210
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 2: happen in those messages, but that he has still been

1211
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 2: sleeping with her, just not that day. I guess the

1212
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 2: horrible thing to have to read for OP. I just,

1213
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 2: oh yeah, it's like the most nightmare text was making

1214
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 2: my stomach flip even thinking about this man. This was

1215
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 2: back in May. I left him the next day, yes

1216
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 2: after I confronted him again and he admitted that he

1217
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:51,959
Speaker 2: never actually stopped. He tried, and his story was half true.

1218
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,319
Speaker 2: He says that when he spoke with her, she came

1219
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 2: back crying and begging and then apparently forced him into

1220
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 2: an empty office where she tried to add some I

1221
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,720
Speaker 2: say things to him. He promised me that he stopped

1222
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 2: her and shoved her away. Lie, but that she had

1223
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 2: gotten his pants down and gotten this This is the

1224
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 2: dumbest lie of all time. Okay, well, was like, uh,

1225
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 2: nothing happened, It's just one time my pants were accidentally.

1226
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 3: Seems like he's a freaking liar. And he's like, oh yeah,

1227
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 3: she pulled my pants down and we had a little

1228
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:20,839
Speaker 3: bit of spicy to sleep.

1229
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 2: But uh so he says nothing happened that day. He

1230
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 2: swore to me, but that in his mind it was

1231
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 2: over then, because in our initial conversation I told him

1232
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 2: I would give him a second chance, but if he

1233
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 2: did this again, I would leave him. He counted this

1234
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 2: as doing it again, even though when he broke down

1235
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 2: and told me this, it sounded more like she did

1236
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 2: the SA on him while he was saying no, rather

1237
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 2: than him cheating another time. Which again I'm fully convinced

1238
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 2: this guy's lying, but he didn't see it that way

1239
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 2: at the time and thought I'd leave if he told me,

1240
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 2: and figured he might as well not stop if I

1241
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 2: was just going to find out and leave him in

1242
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 2: the long run, because he had already messed up. Now

1243
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 2: fast forward to August. I've been living alone since May.

1244
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 2: I left him the day after I found out the

1245
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 2: second time, going to stay with my aunt for a

1246
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 2: few days with my dogs. I ended up coming back

1247
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 2: to the house and kicking him out because it didn't

1248
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 2: seem fair to me that everyone besides him had to suffer.

1249
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, fine, job, get your house, take that ouse, gehady.

1250
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 3: I hope he has to go find like a full

1251
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 3: of new house, and you get the house, and you

1252
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,439
Speaker 3: get all the money and we never have to see

1253
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 3: him again.

1254
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 2: Me being pregnant and hauling around two six year old

1255
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 2: dogs who are very used to being homebodies and were

1256
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 2: confused and stop eating due to this dress plus our cat,

1257
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 2: who has deeply bonded to me and is used to

1258
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 2: me being home with her all day, was now left

1259
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 2: alone while he was working for ten plus hours, and

1260
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 2: all of our animals, our friends, So it was really

1261
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 2: effed up for everyone but my husband, who was the

1262
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 2: one who did the wrong thing. Anyways. So now I'm

1263
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 2: thirty weeks pregnant, preparing to sell our house and move

1264
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 2: back into my dad's house with the three animals and

1265
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 2: my daughter when she's born, and I'm still so so hurt.

1266
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 2: I really felt like this man was the love of

1267
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 2: my life and my soulmate. All of our friends who

1268
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 2: I've spoken to about our separation. I cannot afford a

1269
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 2: lawyer until the house sells, and I'm unfortunately a sorry

1270
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 2: excuse of a woman and sob whenever I think of

1271
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 2: the word divorce, even though I know that has to

1272
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 2: be the one of the steps I take down the line.

1273
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 2: I have been absolutely shocked due to how out of

1274
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 2: character this was of him. We were known as the

1275
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 2: couple that could handle anything together. My family was the

1276
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 2: same way because of how wonderful my husband was to

1277
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 2: me for eight and a half years. He was so

1278
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 2: emotionally supportive and sweet, and I like to think I

1279
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 2: was to him as well. I lost my mom, who

1280
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 2: was my best friend, and we together lost our first child,

1281
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 2: and he dealt with going no contact with his mother,

1282
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 2: and we were truly each other's rock for so long

1283
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,439
Speaker 2: through all of those moments, just to name a few.

1284
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 2: And I'm carrying his daughter, who I love deeply already.

1285
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 2: I know he hurt me and changed me as a person,

1286
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 2: but it's so incredibly hard to forget the years of

1287
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 2: happiness I had with him and see that they're seemingly

1288
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 2: over now. The crappy thing is I would probably take

1289
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 2: him back if he came to me and set all

1290
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 2: the right things and made the right promises and made

1291
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 2: me believe him. But instead I live alone, while growing

1292
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 2: this baby and taking care of the animals we pick

1293
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 2: and have raised for six and two years together, dealing

1294
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 2: with this trauma by myself, and he is all but

1295
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 2: living with the girl he cheated on me with. Every

1296
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 2: time I drive past his apartment, her car is there

1297
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 2: sometimes when even his car is gone.

1298
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 4: Obviously, you know, when there is kind of like an

1299
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 4: asset thing, you can have kind of emotional trauma. But

1300
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 4: I think going based off of his past lies and

1301
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 4: his behavior, the fact that he's living with her, like

1302
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 4: he definitely lied about that.

1303
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 2: Of course he would lie about that because he's a

1304
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 2: liar with no conscience for his lies. And it was

1305
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 2: like the most like first grade, like, how did you

1306
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 2: get myself out of this?

1307
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 6: Oh?

1308
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't me at all, It was just all her. Yeah,

1309
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 2: And then grazed my knee and I was like, oh,

1310
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 2: I remember if she said that I touched her again,

1311
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 2: it would be over. So I just decided to then

1312
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 2: fully cheat on you. What he promises that she doesn't

1313
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:48,919
Speaker 2: have a key, and that when the baby is born,

1314
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 2: she won't get in the way of him being a father.

1315
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 2: She hates children and babies, cats and dogs, so clearly

1316
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 2: she's a super great person on top of knowingly effing

1317
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 2: a married man. But at this point, it's been months

1318
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 2: of him knowing he's hurting me, still publicly married. His

1319
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 2: friends have no idea about any of this. Only our

1320
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 2: mutual friends and my family know any of what's happened.

1321
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 2: Though not with all the details I've put in this post,

1322
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 2: I should mention that when I did come face to

1323
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 2: face with this girl, only once she laughed at what

1324
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 2: she had done. Ooh, and when I told her that

1325
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 2: she broke apart my family and took my daughter's father

1326
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 2: away before she was even born, she literally shrugged and muttered, yeah, I.

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Speaker 4: Know, cheesy evil.

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01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 2: I only say this because I know people will say

1329
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 2: not to blame me a fair partner, but only blame

1330
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:31,520
Speaker 2: my husband, who was the one who broke his vows

1331
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 2: to me. But I fully blamed them both.

1332
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 4: The person who broke the vow with you is the

1333
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 4: person that you should direct your ire the full like

1334
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 4: anger and argument should be directed towards your partner. But

1335
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 4: you know her, and you had a conversation with her.

1336
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 3: You're allowed to be mad at her and direct some

1337
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 3: ire towards her.

1338
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 2: Some yea all, she knew what she was doing, and

1339
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 2: so did he, and she seems to like knowing how

1340
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 2: powerful she was in this situation. He tells me often

1341
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 2: that he doesn't want to end our relationship, that right

1342
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 2: now he isn't right for me, that he can't be

1343
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 2: who he was because he effed up so badly that

1344
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 2: he doesn't know how to fix it. And now he's

1345
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 2: saying that going with monogamy just isn't for him, even

1346
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 2: though he and his affair partner are living together, recreating

1347
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 2: the life we had, living very obviously in monogamy.

1348
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 4: No, he's just.

1349
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:20,959
Speaker 3: Saying he doesn't want to do monogamy because he wants

1350
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 3: an excuse to like cheat on this girl too.

1351
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 2: He's a bad he's a bad lier, worst liar. So

1352
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 2: it hurts so much because he's already replaced me with her,

1353
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 2: some twenty year old girl is sleeping beside my husband

1354
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 2: and having meals with him and sitting in his passenger seat.

1355
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,320
Speaker 2: It just isn't how my life was supposed to go.

1356
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 2: I wish so much that I could stay firm on

1357
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 2: hating him, because, trust me, I do, and I've had

1358
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 2: several hours over the last few months where I make

1359
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 2: sure he knows what he did to me and how

1360
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 2: much I hate him for ruining the woman I was

1361
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 2: before this betrayal. But I also love him still and

1362
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 2: I want the family I was all but promised we

1363
01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 2: couldn't get pregnant for nearly three years, and the month

1364
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 2: I I did get pregnant, I literally told him if

1365
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 2: it doesn't happen for us, it doesn't happen. I wanted

1366
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 2: to be a mom, but if it's not in the cards,

1367
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 2: I will come to terms with it, and I know

1368
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 2: I can be fulfilled in our relationship without a baby.

1369
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 2: And then I shockingly did get pregnant, and I felt

1370
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 2: like it was all falling into place finally, that we

1371
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 2: would be happy and us like I pictured, but now

1372
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 2: with a little baby we both day dreamed about for years.

1373
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 2: I'm really unsure how Reddit works, and I know this

1374
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 2: post is so long, so no one probably read it,

1375
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 2: and I don't really know why I wrote it here. Anyways,

1376
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 2: I know in this situation, he's in the wrong, and

1377
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 2: I don't need anyone to point that out to me.

1378
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 2: And I also don't want anyone calling me names for

1379
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 2: still loving this man who had disrespected and mistreated me

1380
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 2: so immensely over the last four months. It's just coming

1381
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 2: up on our anniversary and I'm desperately lonely in this

1382
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 2: quiet house that I now have to pack up all

1383
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 2: by myself, and I wanted a place to put my feelings.

1384
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 2: If you comment, please be nice. I feel stupid and

1385
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 2: weak enough as it is. I've been with him since

1386
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 2: we were both barely nineteen, and moved straight from my

1387
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 2: childhood home into an apartment with him. I've not spent

1388
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 2: a single adult year alone, and I'm just really sad

1389
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 2: all the time and don't know what to do. I

1390
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 2: try to go no contact with him, but we're selling

1391
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 2: a house and am in my third trimester with his baby.

1392
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 2: I just hate him and I hate myself. I want

1393
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 2: him to wake up and see what he's doing, but

1394
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 2: I don't think he ever will because he has to

1395
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 2: avoid the accountability of his actions. Yeah, don't wait for that,

1396
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 2: that'll never happen. And don't hate yourself because you haven't

1397
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 2: done anything wrong with your It's not like I could

1398
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 2: ever trust him again anyways, But now I have to

1399
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 2: co parent a child with him for the next several years,

1400
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 2: and I don't feel strong enough for any of the

1401
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 2: future anymore. I don't know how he could do this

1402
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 2: to me. Tiodr. I am a sad, pregnant lady who

1403
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:38,440
Speaker 2: doesn't know how to move on from my husband of

1404
01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 2: nearly a decade cheating on me, and I needed a

1405
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 2: place to share what I'm going through. And we do

1406
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 2: have some comments.

1407
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 3: Regardless of how much time you're with someone, whether it's

1408
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 3: one month or nine years, there's gotta be a time

1409
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 3: period of just getting over them and sometimes it feels irrational.

1410
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 3: Sometimes you're like thinking about a person for two months

1411
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 3: and you're like, why am I still thinking about them?

1412
01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:59,919
Speaker 3: It takes time. Grief is not a linear thing.

1413
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, comments Happy Banana one three four. I am a sad,

1414
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 2: pregnant lady who doesn't know how to move on for

1415
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:07,440
Speaker 2: my husband of nearly a decade cheating on me. You

1416
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 2: need to add in strong. Seriously, you're super strong. Deciding

1417
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 2: to leave is really really hard, and you've absolutely done

1418
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,479
Speaker 2: the right thing here. Things are going to seem bleak,

1419
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 2: but they will get better. One day it'll hurt less,

1420
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:20,720
Speaker 2: and then one day it won't hurt at all. He

1421
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 2: is the one losing here. He's thrown away a loyal

1422
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 2: partner and what could have been a happy family unit.

1423
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 2: All you've lost is someone you could never trust. Op

1424
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 2: He says. It's very hard for me to feel strong

1425
01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 2: because it seems like this is the only thing I

1426
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 2: can think about every day. So thank you. It's difficult

1427
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 2: not to be hard on myself in this situation, but

1428
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 2: I do think you are right. I know that he

1429
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 2: is the one losing here. I just wish my daughter

1430
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 2: could have the life we both wanted for hers. For

1431
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 2: so many years, but he decided to ruin it for

1432
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 2: her nihilistic fish stick. I wanted you to know I

1433
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 2: read every word. You're a human being and nobody reasonable

1434
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 2: would expect you to be a robot. I left my

1435
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 2: relationship of twenty one years almost three years ago, and

1436
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 2: even though I ended it for my own own mental

1437
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 2: health and for my kids and have a fantastic partner now,

1438
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 2: there isn't a day that goes by that I don't

1439
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 2: get a random thought about him. The conversations we had,

1440
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 2: our routine, the dinners he cooked, the intimacy we had,

1441
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:13,120
Speaker 2: all the family videos are still way in the back

1442
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 2: of my phone's gallery to this day. Your feelings are

1443
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 2: completely normal and it will get better. I promise you

1444
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 2: are the main priority at the moment, and you have

1445
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 2: to keep being strong to get yourself ready to move

1446
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 2: on and be there for your baby girl. The hard

1447
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:26,840
Speaker 2: part is over, friend, and you survived it. You got this,

1448
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 2: OPI says. I hope that one day I will be

1449
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 2: able to find a fantastic partner who will show my

1450
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:34,800
Speaker 2: daughter the way a woman is supposed to be treated.

1451
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 2: I really thought I had that already, or else I

1452
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 2: wouldn't have pro created with him. Your story gives me hope.

1453
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:42,440
Speaker 2: I'm in no place to go looking being seven months pregnant,

1454
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 2: moving and emotionally fed up beyond belief. But maybe one

1455
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:48,200
Speaker 2: day and by the way, one day could be today,

1456
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 2: could be tomorrow, could be every day for the rest

1457
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 2: of your life, for every day, every week, as long

1458
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 2: as it's a week day. Yeah, you can join us

1459
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 2: when we go live on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Twitch

1460
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 2: at three p mpst. All you have to do is

1461
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 2: tap on our profile and you're in the live top ben.

1462
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 2: If you're watching this in the future, you might even

1463
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 2: be live right now. Check update ten months later if

1464
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 2: you don't want to read the whole post. The synopsis

1465
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 2: is essentially that my husband cheated on me after eight

1466
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:18,800
Speaker 2: and a half years together while I was twelve weeks

1467
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 2: pregnant with our first child. That was a great synopsis. Ope.

1468
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 2: It's now June eleventh and my daughter just turned eight

1469
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 2: months old. My water broke and I drove myself to

1470
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:31,040
Speaker 2: the hospital and then labored and gave birth alone. Who

1471
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 2: My daughter was born two weeks early only, and she

1472
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 2: was completely healthy and had no issues. She's doing amazing

1473
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 2: and the love I have for her is so all

1474
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 2: encompassing that sometimes I don't even know what to do.

1475
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 2: She is a great baby and is so loved by

1476
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 2: not just myself, but my dad, my brothers, my aunt.

1477
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 2: She's adored by my whole family, and because we lived

1478
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:54,080
Speaker 2: with my dad, her birth has brought all of us

1479
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 2: closer together than we've been in a long long time.

1480
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 2: I absolutely love being her mom. My ex husband was

1481
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 2: served divorce papers in February by my dad, who volunteered

1482
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 2: to be the one to do it, and our divorce

1483
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 2: was finalized in May. The way that my feelings for

1484
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 2: him changed almost in an instant after I had given

1485
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 2: birth to my daughter was shocking. But it was like,

1486
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:16,240
Speaker 2: as soon as she was born, just the thought of

1487
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 2: this man disgusted and no.

1488
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 3: And sometimes there is that weird switch where, like you

1489
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 3: find out information or something like this happens where you'd

1490
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 3: give birth to a child and you're like, oh, I

1491
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 3: actually hate that man, Yeah, I actually hate that person.

1492
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 3: I don't know why I was so hung up over them.

1493
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 2: Psychological switch flipped. He visits for about an hour a week,

1494
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:38,680
Speaker 2: once a week, and has done that since she's been bored.

1495
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:40,800
Speaker 2: We have a parenting plan in the works, but every

1496
01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 2: time it's drawn up by my lawyer, he finds something

1497
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 2: else that's wrong with it and chooses not to sign.

1498
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 2: It's been very irritating having to deal with this man

1499
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:49,439
Speaker 2: who I once loved and now don't recognize, and watch

1500
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 2: as he pretends on social media that he is an active,

1501
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 2: attentive father when I've done quite literally everything for this

1502
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 2: baby and he does the barest minimum he can get

1503
01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 2: away with. The next part may be very shocking, but

1504
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 2: the girl he cheated on me with and moved into

1505
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 2: an apartment with directly from our marital home, ended up

1506
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 2: cheating on him literally within the same week that our

1507
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 2: divorce finalized. It took about a year, but he did

1508
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 2: come back groveling after all, which was absolutely wild to me.

1509
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 2: Now for the actual shocking part of this update.

1510
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 4: I have met a man.

1511
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:27,719
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, get the After spending my entire pregnancy alone

1512
01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 2: and heartbroken, I had sworn off men in relationships, and

1513
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 2: then this one just kind of appeared in my life.

1514
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 2: I have horrible trust issues now, and it's been really

1515
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:39,600
Speaker 2: really hard considering the deep betrayal that happened to me

1516
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 2: last year. But my boyfriend is the most gentle, calm,

1517
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 2: understanding guy I could have found. We met when my

1518
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 2: daughter was two months old, and he started taking me

1519
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:49,559
Speaker 2: on little weekend dates for just a couple hours at

1520
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:51,800
Speaker 2: a time, and was always very considerate of me having

1521
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 2: a newborn, which he reassured me several times over that

1522
01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 2: was not an issue and he actually has experience working

1523
01:08:57,080 --> 01:08:58,800
Speaker 2: with kids in the past. And then in March we

1524
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:02,400
Speaker 2: had the conversation and find the relationship. In these past

1525
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:05,240
Speaker 2: six months, he has met my family and has become

1526
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 2: one of my daughter's favorite people.

1527
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 4: Yay. Oh, I'm so happy. What a positive twist to

1528
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 4: this story it is.

1529
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:13,240
Speaker 2: I was like, is this gonna be the first story

1530
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 2: where we're like, ah, it's not a good one. No,

1531
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 2: we have like all good bangers for stories. Today, I've

1532
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,120
Speaker 2: met his brother and sister in law, and when his

1533
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:23,760
Speaker 2: parents come into town later this month, he's introducing me

1534
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:26,320
Speaker 2: and we're all getting dinner together. I feel lucky to

1535
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 2: have this man in my life and a stable father

1536
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:30,640
Speaker 2: figure for my daughter, and I'm really hoping he is

1537
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,599
Speaker 2: actually who he's been showing me he is. Obviously, when

1538
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 2: my ex husband came to apologize and cry for what

1539
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 2: he'd done to me. I was already very locked in

1540
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 2: with my boyfriend. But even if I hadn't been, the

1541
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:43,600
Speaker 2: answer would have been a big n oh.

1542
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 4: Because you did the work.

1543
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 3: You did the self work to get over this man,

1544
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 3: and you know, sort out your own life and your

1545
01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 3: own you know, self love journey, and I.

1546
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 2: Don't need them. Our house has not sold yet, and

1547
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 2: I'm kind of losing my mind about that, but there's

1548
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 2: nothing to really be done to help that matter. I

1549
01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:00,960
Speaker 2: know this may sound like revenge corn on the cob,

1550
01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 2: but I promise it's not. Karma has just been working

1551
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:06,360
Speaker 2: hard for me and my little bean. My boyfriend dotes

1552
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:08,479
Speaker 2: on us and makes me believe in love again. He's

1553
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 2: so handsome and so sweet and the complete opposite of

1554
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 2: who my ex husband ended up being. I am really

1555
01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 2: hoping he's a good egg because I accidentally fell in

1556
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 2: love with him when I didn't mean to. But I

1557
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 2: do now know that I was strong enough to leave

1558
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 2: a marriage with a baby on the way, So if

1559
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,760
Speaker 2: he does end up scroomy over I, now I'll be

1560
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:28,679
Speaker 2: strong enough to leave him too. You don't need a man, Nope,

1561
01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:29,599
Speaker 2: don't need no man.

1562
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 4: You don't need a man.

1563
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:32,639
Speaker 2: The fact that my ex is a fair partner cheated

1564
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:35,720
Speaker 2: on him absolutely tickles me, to be completely honest. I'm

1565
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 2: still living with my dad and two dogs and a

1566
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 2: cat that he abandoned me with during my pregnancy, but honestly,

1567
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:44,639
Speaker 2: it could absolutely be worse. My dad helps as much

1568
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 2: as he can and loves his grandbaby so much, and

1569
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:49,960
Speaker 2: it's been so sweet watching him turn into this absolute

1570
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:52,919
Speaker 2: softy of a grandpa. I don't know if anyone remembers

1571
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 2: me or my post, or if this update is necessary

1572
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 2: at all, but here it is. I am big time

1573
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:00,240
Speaker 2: not in love with a guy who cheated on me

1574
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 2: me and is an absent father to the baby I

1575
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:04,479
Speaker 2: grew all on my own and raise all on my

1576
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:07,639
Speaker 2: own TLDR. I'm a single mother with a gorgeous baby girl,

1577
01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 2: and we're both doing really really well while I watch

1578
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 2: my cheating ex husband's life slowly crumble into pieces. Zah,

1579
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 2: I love it. Yes, you have to see it, and

1580
01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 2: we do have some comments.

1581
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 4: That's freedom.

1582
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 2: Libby's mom says, yay, you not only landed on your feet,

1583
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:23,240
Speaker 2: but he got a taste of his own medicine. A

1584
01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 2: truly satisfying update. Ben Zoma says, it's not irony when

1585
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 2: if they cheated with you, they'll cheat on you comes

1586
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:34,519
Speaker 2: to pass, but it sure is hilarious and satisfying to see. Congrats, Ope,

1587
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,760
Speaker 2: keep on living your best life, and some mowers says,

1588
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,600
Speaker 2: good job you survived. It's all gravy from now on.

1589
01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 2: He pretends on social media that he's an active, attentive father.

1590
01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:45,800
Speaker 2: Can you get some relative to be on watch out

1591
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,080
Speaker 2: and shoot him down every time he still hasn't even

1592
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:50,639
Speaker 2: signed a parenting plan or sold the house. Good luck,

1593
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,679
Speaker 2: you can do this. I believe in you. And that

1594
01:11:54,200 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 2: is the end of that story.

1595
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:56,920
Speaker 4: Wealth.

1596
01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:00,679
Speaker 2: Okay, I can see that my mind's eye right now.

1597
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that guy's hot. Dang, that guy was so

1598
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 2: hot that one