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Speaker 1: My husband kept telling me that I'm too masculine for him.

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Speaker 1: This is honestly kind of crazy, and he's gotten a

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Speaker 1: little obsessive about it. Basically, in the past year, my husband,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven mail, has been talking a lot about traditional

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Speaker 1: roles and how the Bible portrays them. I twenty seven female,

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Speaker 1: will stay here that I don't mind this and love

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Speaker 1: the idea, but our bills say otherwise. So I told

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Speaker 1: him that when he makes enough for us to live

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Speaker 1: solely on his income, we will implement this completely. By

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Speaker 3: I'm Riley.

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Speaker 4: I am Paul Roseberry relationship expert here to tell you

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Speaker 4: whatever you want to know about how to make relationships flow.

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Speaker 3: Didn't mean to rhyme like that, but that's what we're

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Speaker 3: doing for now.

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Speaker 1: I work from home and care for our one and

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Speaker 1: a half year old son, and everything else is second priority.

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Speaker 1: My husband works in an office and goes to the

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Speaker 3: I cook all the mills.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't cook. We both do laundry and clean when

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Speaker 1: we can, usually together before or after dinner. I feel

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Speaker 1: like this is already more favored on his side because

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Speaker 1: I still am with the baby all night and I

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Speaker 1: usually work after bedtime too, But I don't complain because

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Speaker 1: at least he gets up and makes his own lunch

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Speaker 1: and breakfast if I don't prep anything. I usually have

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Speaker 1: large stock of homemade food in the freezer too, and

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Speaker 1: he cleans when he comes home. Problem is that he's

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Speaker 1: unhappy about it, though, and he really wants me to know,

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Speaker 1: like slamming things around and cursing in the morning, coming

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Speaker 1: home and complaining about every little thing. Why aren't the

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Speaker 1: dishes washed? Why is it laundry done? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: maybe because our child is teething and I've been at

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Speaker 1: work during the same time as you. Then randomly he

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Speaker 1: will bring up that he's been listening to some Christian podcast,

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Speaker 1: and I'll start off by saying that it explains how

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Speaker 1: Christian men need to act, and I'll listen and say, grey,

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Speaker 1: that's some good stuff. And he'll take that cueue to

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Speaker 1: start talking how Christian women need to act, which is fine,

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Speaker 1: except he'll start pointing out certain behaviors that I do

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Speaker 1: or don't do. Also, I'm a Christian man, Sure I

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Speaker 1: am boiling alive on the inside right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. For example, here's one. He keeps saying

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Speaker 1: that he needs to be in charge and the wives

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Speaker 1: he'll say that I'm too masculine.

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Speaker 3: This guy can't be wrong. Have you noticed that he

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Speaker 3: can't be wrong?

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Speaker 4: Like this guy and his entire persona that he has

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Speaker 3: Well, these people say that this out.

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Speaker 4: Should be But didn't he say something about did I

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Speaker 4: hear leadership.

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Speaker 3: Or some leadership? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he should be eating in charge, in charge.

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Speaker 3: Yeah he's not. He's not. Do you know what a

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Speaker 3: leader does? Was that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? They lead?

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Speaker 4: So just because you have some idea of something you

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Speaker 4: saw written somewhere, it's like a dude who reads an

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Speaker 4: how it should be, and you're the one dropping the ball.

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Speaker 4: I don't care, dude, get a grip. Run your house like,

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Speaker 1: It seems like this is a leader that you're working

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know that's a good way to put it.

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Speaker 1: it just man. I'm a stubborn person. I'll admit that,

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Speaker 1: Can't rely on him. He has so much to say

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Speaker 1: I find it very frustrating that he has more expectations

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Speaker 1: He will make a mistake, or he'll be too tired

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Speaker 1: But if I do the same, he blows up. He

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Speaker 1: hope it makes sense. He's never been reliable. If I'm

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Speaker 1: at night when I'm sick last night because I'm actually

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Speaker 1: worked fifty hour weeks before our daughter, and yet I've

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Speaker 1: So I can't be vulnerable around him. Anymore, Paul, it's

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Speaker 1: just getting worse every sentence.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and unfortunately this isn't unique.

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Speaker 1: Really, No, does this happen a lot, a lot, Probably

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Speaker 4: There was some miscommunication right now where he may have

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Speaker 4: Maybe he just didn't feel that he got the support.

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Speaker 3: He wants a cheerleader, wants a woman to cheer him on.

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Speaker 4: He's the man, like, just the coolest guy in the world.

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Speaker 4: This is where guys blow it.

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Speaker 3: They don't know how to confront it.

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Speaker 4: Oh, guys will put up with a situation that doesn't

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Speaker 3: Say if you're oh my gosh, dude all the time,

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Speaker 1: Because a lot of the times we read stories and

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Speaker 4: Yes, but go a little further, say she's super hot

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Speaker 4: and he never felt that cool before. You ever seen

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean? He wants you to know.

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Speaker 4: This guy's got the gold rolex that makes shirt, you

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Speaker 3: Like because he needs something else.

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Speaker 4: To vouch for his value. He doesn't feel valuable on

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Speaker 3: Wow, huh, And that's what a beautiful woman will do.

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Speaker 3: You get a hot wife, you won. Yeah, that's it,

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Speaker 4: You're the coolest guy. You're you're in the cool club.

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Speaker 4: But is that why you did it? Because she was

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Speaker 1: Did you do it because you loved her? Because of that?

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Speaker 3: You can't love her.

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Speaker 4: You can't if you get in a relationship based on need,

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Speaker 4: it can't have anything to do with anything else because

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Speaker 1: Now, today he was so pissed, he was slamming every

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Speaker 1: He tells me angrily that I had better do laundry

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Speaker 1: have no idea what set him off. I've been trying

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Speaker 1: She's very patient with him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she's got to you know, I hate to compare

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Speaker 3: You're gonna pay the most that sticker costs. You need it,

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Speaker 4: But you roll in in a nice car and you're like, well,

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Speaker 4: I'm thinking about picking up something second for the summer.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, I could take it or

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Speaker 4: leave it. You know, i'ven't decided if I even want

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Speaker 4: what I mean. They just want you to buy something

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Speaker 4: at ay because you might not even buy it all,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So the comparison here is

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Speaker 4: that and it's really again, this guy probably didn't have

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Speaker 4: going way back, because we got to dig into this,

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Speaker 4: We got to dig in there's scar tissue.

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Speaker 3: This is deep, this is deep.

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Speaker 4: The initial conflict was so long ago that neither of

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Speaker 4: because there's no place in negotiation for whining. What it

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Speaker 6: My mom tried to take over my wedding, so I

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Speaker 8: I think they had said that before, and it was like,

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Speaker 7: It's like your mom is being like that's wrong.

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Speaker 8: I know, that's weird, and it's probably like right in

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Speaker 7: So it's like, dude, what are you doing?

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: It's like going to a restaurant and like loudly being

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and everyone's like it's.

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Speaker 7: Like, okay, pipe down.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean you're not the A hole, but I

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Speaker 8: So now she's gonna go spinning the whole story your

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Speaker 5: Yeah there's an update though. Hello everyone.

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Speaker 6: I took all of your advice to heart, and me

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Speaker 6: We then invited my mom to dinner and told her

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Speaker 5: Just not me.

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Speaker 5: I know you. Your mom's just trying to do what's best.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't have to come out rude. Just be like this.

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Speaker 6: This is honestly how me and my fiance feel. We

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Speaker 6: You are welcome to enjoy the wedding. You are welcome

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Mama.

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Speaker 7: The wedding that you have to plan has to be

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Speaker 7: it's your wedding. Like, so the taste can't be what

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Speaker 5: You can still do it.

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Speaker 8: But if you can't agree to that, you cannot help

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not help, it's hinder.

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Speaker 6: She didn't take it very well and started crying no, no,

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Speaker 5: Nice try, but that's called manipulation. Gass lining to say.

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Speaker 8: You could also just be like I ran a five

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Speaker 8: like not that none of that matters, completely irrelevant.

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Speaker 5: It's true.

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Speaker 6: That put me over the edge, and I told her

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Speaker 6: She had a full on tantrum, So me and my

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Speaker 6: fiance paid and left her to cry and scream in

441
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Speaker 6: the restaurant. I mean, I think that it's gone past

442
00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,960
Speaker 6: the point of no return, as they say the earth.

443
00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,480
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's kind of got It's unfortunate it's

444
00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,679
Speaker 8: gotten here. But there's not really anything you can do

445
00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,000
Speaker 8: other than just keep her on the outside of the planning.

446
00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,159
Speaker 8: She's literally looking at your relationship with your fiance as

447
00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,640
Speaker 8: a thing about her, where it's like I've given up grandkids,

448
00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,720
Speaker 8: where it's like you actually never had a deciding vote

449
00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,160
Speaker 8: in what's going on here. Yeah, so you didn't give

450
00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,520
Speaker 8: up anything because that was never your decision.

451
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Speaker 6: And it's true she put that expectation on herself and

452
00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:34,920
Speaker 6: it all came crashing down.

453
00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:35,680
Speaker 3: Right.

454
00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,760
Speaker 6: That was all fine and dandy until her Flores called

455
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Speaker 6: to tell us my mom had called to try and

456
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Speaker 6: get the flower arrangements changed behind her back. Come on,

457
00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,840
Speaker 6: I called her and she tried to lie until she

458
00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,080
Speaker 6: realized she was backed into a corner and admitted to

459
00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,600
Speaker 6: doing it because she knew what was best and was

460
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Speaker 6: trying to help. Needless to say, I've now uninvited her

461
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Speaker 6: from the wedding with the full support of my fiance

462
00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,880
Speaker 6: and my soon to be mother in law and father

463
00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,840
Speaker 6: in law, and that's it.

464
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, if she's not gonna listen.

465
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Speaker 6: She's gonna just you know, cause like disruption and un

466
00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:13,960
Speaker 6: needed stress, like, then yeah, just get rid of her.

467
00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,160
Speaker 6: I guess I feel bad because, like, obviously she wants

468
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,800
Speaker 6: to be a part of it, but she ultimately ended

469
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Speaker 6: up like pushing so hard that she got left. So

470
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Speaker 6: I don't know, you kind of did it to yourself, mom,

471
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,359
Speaker 6: But also I'm not really sure, you know, like you

472
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,120
Speaker 6: could have just settled down.

473
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Speaker 8: There probably was a way to go about this that

474
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Speaker 8: would have made everyone happy. But at the end of

475
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Speaker 8: the day, it's not your responsibility to deliberately craft the

476
00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:48,720
Speaker 8: perfect set of words and circumstances to allow your mother

477
00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,640
Speaker 8: to help you plan your wedding in a positive way.

478
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,800
Speaker 8: If she can't just hear the words we don't want that,

479
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,520
Speaker 8: then there's nothing she can do. Yeah, she just wanted

480
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:04,239
Speaker 8: to plan the wedding. She wanted for you, which is

481
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,920
Speaker 8: not how weddings they work.

482
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 5: And that's the end of this story.

483
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 3: We're gonna go on to the next one.

484
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,000
Speaker 2: My aunt loves to gossip about our family, so we

485
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 2: gave her nothing to talk about.

486
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Speaker 5: I'm zipping my lips to the end of dinner.

487
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Speaker 2: For a bit of background, my parents are a bit

488
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 2: older than most parents are when having a child. I

489
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,880
Speaker 2: was adopted at the age of five weeks and at

490
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,040
Speaker 2: the time, my dad was forty two and my mom

491
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 2: was thirty seven. This is important to note because my

492
00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 2: dad is the youngest child in his family and his

493
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 2: youngest sister. He was the only boy out of four kids,

494
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 2: was sixteen when he was born. So that being said,

495
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,439
Speaker 2: my aunts are all very old now and they aren't

496
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Speaker 2: the friendly old lady types.

497
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Speaker 5: Sadly. By the way, this comes from a Blackfire.

498
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Speaker 2: Phoenix And if you want to submit your own stories,

499
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Speaker 2: go to the r slash Okay story time subreddit.

500
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Speaker 5: I'm Angie, I'm Savannah, I'm Dakota, and we're here to

501
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 5: give good advice Googly. But we don't have all the answers.

502
00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,159
Speaker 5: We just know what we would do in these situations.

503
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,480
Speaker 5: So let us know what you do.

504
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 2: In the comments, Opie says they've always been greedy, nosy,

505
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 2: and loved to gossip and spread rumors about the in

506
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,639
Speaker 2: laws of the family. My mom has gone through a

507
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 2: lot of torture because of them, which is the case

508
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 2: with the story, and now so have my husband and I.

509
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 2: Two of the three have gotten nicer over the past

510
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,159
Speaker 2: couple of years, but the middle sister, who is in

511
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 2: her eighties now, I believe, has always been the worst

512
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,119
Speaker 2: and continues to be to this day. This story is

513
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 2: about her. I'll call her Rosie, though I honestly don't

514
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 2: care that much if she were to find out that

515
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 2: I wrote this so well still, I'd rather not risk

516
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,119
Speaker 2: that for my dad's sake, because he'd never heard the

517
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,200
Speaker 2: end of it. I have many other stories about my

518
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 2: three aunts, but this one came to mind recently. Aunt

519
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 2: Rosie has lived right next door to my parents all

520
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 2: of my life, and to convey how nosy and how

521
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 2: much of a witch she is, I'll give a few

522
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 2: examples of the outrageous things she's done in the past

523
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,680
Speaker 2: before I start the story of one of my many petty.

524
00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:58,440
Speaker 5: Revenges against her.

525
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Rose, she has on multiple occasions crept up

526
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 2: to our kitchen window to peek in.

527
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 5: What she's peeping through your window? What so?

528
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 2: Anyway, since that window is higher up due to the

529
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 2: sink below it, she has always gone to that one,

530
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 2: since it'd be harder for anyone to notice her appearing

531
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 2: in from below unless they were using the sink. More

532
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 2: times than I could count, she's scared the heck out

533
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 2: of me while I was washing dishes.

534
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,120
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I can't believe it.

535
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 2: She's too old to do this now, but she would

536
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,959
Speaker 2: creep up and then I'd usually catch her a movement

537
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 2: in my peripheral. I've broken a few dishes due to

538
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 2: her window jump scares.

539
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I know letter would pay you back

540
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:39,680
Speaker 5: for those.

541
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 2: Still, she topped that level of privacy invasion several times, unbelievably.

542
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 2: During a hurricane one year, she was so intent about

543
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 2: seeing how badly my mom's flowers were damaged.

544
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 5: She loves to rub that kind.

545
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 2: Of thing in my mom's face just to get her upset,

546
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 2: that she walked to our house and stood outside in

547
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 2: the downpour and high winds just to see how damaged

548
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 2: the flowers were.

549
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 5: How damaged was she.

550
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,120
Speaker 2: After being in that weather? If I hadn't noticed her,

551
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 2: and my dad hadn't got out to make her come inside,

552
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 2: she would have been crushed by a pecan tree not

553
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,199
Speaker 2: five minutes after she came in. It fell across the

554
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 2: spot that she had been standing and onto her roof.

555
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 5: Crazy right.

556
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 2: Well, Instead of being shaken up by the fact that

557
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 2: her life came so close to being taken by the tree,

558
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 2: she was just amused and rubbed in the fact that

559
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 2: our sunroom roof was effed up, as well as bringing

560
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 2: up my mom's ruined flowers.

561
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 5: Great thinks thinks your nice? Oh my god.

562
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,680
Speaker 2: There are so many stories like that, but this should

563
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 2: be enough to convey what kind of person she is.

564
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 5: Anyway, onto the story. Rosie is obsessive.

565
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 2: About cleanliness as well, and our house was usually a

566
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 2: bit messy when growing up. My dad worked long shifts,

567
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 2: my mom had been diagnosed with MS and battled care

568
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,679
Speaker 2: for three years on top of that, and though I

569
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 2: did chores, I could only do so much more whilst

570
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 2: going to school. Of course, Rosie would take any chance

571
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 2: that she could to come in and point out any mess,

572
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 2: sometimes just letting herself in when she thought that no

573
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: one was home so she could later rub it in.

574
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 2: She often insisted on helping out just so that she

575
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 2: could go gossip to my dad's other sisters about how

576
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 2: quote worthless my mom was, or talk about how lazy

577
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,439
Speaker 2: of a daughter I was, unlike the other nieces and

578
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 2: nephews in the family.

579
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 5: She loves to.

580
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 2: Speak poorly of me because I was adopted and now

581
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,719
Speaker 2: because I'm the black sheep of the family.

582
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 5: I'm a wickan and a nerd.

583
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 2: Who doesn't conform to the preppy, snobbish behavior that the

584
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 2: rest of my cousins have. So one day she came

585
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 2: over and actually rang the doorbell instead of just waltz

586
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 2: it in, and I answered the back door. At the time,

587
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,719
Speaker 2: I was probably thirteen or fourteen years old. She had

588
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 2: brought us some home cooked food, as she did quite

589
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 2: a bit. That seems like a sweet gesture, but in reality,

590
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 2: she'd usually do it she could brag about what a

591
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 2: good Christian she was and how she helped such a

592
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 2: poor family whoa oh, my good, a poor family. My

593
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 2: dad has always tried to stand in good terms with her, though,

594
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 2: so I had been instructed to accept the food at

595
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 2: the door while my mom napped and my dad was

596
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 2: at work. It's important to note that my mom had

597
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,959
Speaker 2: just been diagnosed with EMMAS a month or so before

598
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 2: this incident. See I made a bit of awkward small

599
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 2: talk with Rosie and then was saying goodbye when she

600
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 2: caught the door and stuck her head into our back porch.

601
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 2: Just to clarify, it's a closed porch. I was already

602
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 2: angry with her that day, as it had come around

603
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 2: to us earlier in the week that she had been

604
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 2: telling people that my dad should just leave my mom

605
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,439
Speaker 2: because of her decline in health.

606
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 5: But I brought the poor yeah, poor family food. So

607
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 5: I'm a good Christian. But also, you should divorce your

608
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 5: wife because she's sick. That's insane.

609
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 2: So I felt my blood boil as I watched her

610
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 2: silently survey the entire room with a look of disgust.

611
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 5: She didn't speak for around a minute, just stood there,

612
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 5: steering everything.

613
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 2: Finally, she pulled her head back and looked at me

614
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 2: in the most condescending and disgustingly sweet voice she could muster.

615
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 2: She said, oh, Pete, how about you clean this porch today? Now,

616
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 2: I admit, the back porch was always the messiest room

617
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 2: in the house. The far side of the room was

618
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 2: cluttered with boxes that we didn't have proper storage space for.

619
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 2: We would temporarily put trash bags by the door, and

620
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 2: there was always quite a bit of dirt that constantly

621
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 2: tracked in from the garden several times a day. This

622
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 2: particular day, we hadn't cleaned up the porch for about

623
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, so it was worse than usual.

624
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: Even still, I did not want her sticking her nose

625
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 2: in our business and bossing me around in my own home,

626
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 2: especially since I was helping take care of.

627
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 5: My mom too. I had a lot on my plate.

628
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 2: It was on a Saturday, and I just wanted to relax,

629
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 2: and cleaning would have been the furthest thing from relaxation.

630
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 2: I was stressed out, and I wanted a day to

631
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: just be a kid. I tried to smile and said, Oh,

632
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 2: don't worry at Rosie, I'll clean this up tomorrow.

633
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 5: So this was a lie.

634
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 2: I had already planned to clean the porch the next day,

635
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 2: but I desperately wanted some time to myself to unwind

636
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 2: before tackling the mess.

637
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 5: Of course, she refused to listen to me. Oh, but

638
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 5: wouldn't your dad feel so nice coming home?

639
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 2: Tonight and seeing how clean it can be having to

640
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 2: help your mom.

641
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 5: It takes quite a toll on him with the amount

642
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 5: of work he already does. It's not easy on him

643
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:22,479
Speaker 5: having a crippled wife.

644
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 2: Oh, it is your responsibility now to do most of

645
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 2: the cleaning, right. She tempted to sound solemn as she

646
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 2: spoke like that about my mother too. Now she had

647
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 2: pissed me off more. She knew how sensitive of a

648
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 2: subject my mom's condition was, and she knew how badly

649
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 2: I wished to make my dad happier with everything he

650
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: had been taking on, and knowing that she had been

651
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: telling everyone that my dad was suffering having to deal

652
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 2: with my mom and that he should leave her, it

653
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 2: was difficult to hold my temper and force myself to

654
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 2: be polite. I somehow managed to calmly say no, it's

655
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 2: not easy on any of us, as you so well know.

656
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 2: With the way I said this, I.

657
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 5: Made it clear to her that I knew what she.

658
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 2: Had been saying behind our backs. You're very right, it

659
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 2: is my responsibility. I'll clean this up today. That her

660
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 2: expression briefly changed at my implication that I knew of

661
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: her nasty gossip, But she continued on as if I

662
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 2: hadn't called her out. She sticks her head in again

663
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 2: and tuts at the mess. Oh no, this would take

664
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 2: you several hours to properly clean on your own.

665
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 5: How about I help later today? It be no trouble.

666
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 5: This just must be cleaned up today. Now.

667
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: I could barely endure a five minute conversation with the woman,

668
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 2: much less a couple of hours. Again, I told her

669
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 2: that I'd handle it myself, but it was obvious that

670
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 2: she wasn't going to back off, as she kept going

671
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 2: on about everything that needed to be done, So I

672
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 2: finally agreed, though I had already decided that she.

673
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 5: Wasn't going to win this.

674
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: She'd only go talk crap to the rest of the

675
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 2: family if I actually had her help, and I knew

676
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 2: that I would definitely snap if I had to be

677
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: around her and hear her passive aggressive comments about my

678
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 2: mom for that long. She gave me a large, satisfied

679
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 2: grin and told me that she'd be back in three

680
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 2: hours to help me. She was so troubled by the

681
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 2: mess in my house and wanted to make it spotless asap.

682
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 5: I'd happily do it right away without her, After all,

683
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 5: she said it was my responsibility.

684
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 2: This is so bizarre, I know, but I knew that

685
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: if she were to come back to find that I

686
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 2: had already cleaned the porch without her now, she'd be furious.

687
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 2: She wouldn't get to rub anything in, she'd be unable

688
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 2: to hold it over our heads, and in her eyes,

689
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 2: she'd have already lost her own petty game. I would

690
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: be getting her back in a weird way for the

691
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 2: things that she had said about my parents. She was

692
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 2: not going to f with us over an untidy old porch.

693
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 2: Before her instance to help me, she had only said

694
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: that I should tidy up, so I chose to comply

695
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 2: with her original demand. As I type this out, I'm

696
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 2: realizing more and more how ridiculous this was.

697
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 5: But she's crazy as.

698
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 2: Heck, and this is really something that she would be

699
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 2: pissed about. So as soon as the hag started her

700
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 2: walk back home, I jumped into action, letting my anger

701
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 2: fuel me. My mom stopped me for a moment as

702
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 2: I passed by her, lying on the couch. She asked

703
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 2: me what was going on, and I explained the situation

704
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: to her. She was pissed that Rosie was yet again

705
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 2: sticking her nose where it didn't belong.

706
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 5: Literally, she's like peeking in literally to the room.

707
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 2: My mom had been so upset by Aunt Rosie's gossip,

708
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 2: and I knew she did not want to see her,

709
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 2: but I asked her if she could possibly enter.

710
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 5: The door when Rosie came back.

711
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 2: My mom hesitated, but finally nodded, saying she would like

712
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 2: to see the look on the old witch's face. So

713
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 2: for the next two hours, I cleaned as fast as

714
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 2: I possibly could, making sure not to leave a spot

715
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 2: of dust or dirt. I was already worn out that

716
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 2: day from helping my mom out so much after school

717
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 2: each day. I was straining myself from running around so

718
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,719
Speaker 2: much when I finally finished, but I didn't care. I

719
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 2: had been scared that Rosie would show up before I

720
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: was done, so I was just smug that I had

721
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: beat her.

722
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 5: Now I just had to wait.

723
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 6: Uh pause, I isn't didn't you just do exactly what

724
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 6: she wanted? That's what I'm kind of thinking too. I'm like,

725
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 6: what is this revenge blot of doing? Ooh, I'm gonna

726
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 6: do exactly what she says. Yeah, she's gonna be like, oh,

727
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 6: what how dare you?

728
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 2: I mean, Opie did say that, like now that she's

729
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 2: agreed to help, then uh, she would be like pretty

730
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 2: mad if she came back and there was like nothing

731
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 2: left to clean.

732
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 5: So maybe we just gotta trust Ope on this one.

733
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 2: Right on time, Rosie rings the doorbell about an hour later.

734
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: There's a little set of windows looking out onto the

735
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 2: porch from the kitchen, so I quickly hid behind them

736
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 2: so I could discreetly peek out at her at an

737
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 2: angle where.

738
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 5: She wouldn't be able to see me.

739
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 2: My mom took a deep breath to calm her nerves,

740
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 2: grabbed her cane, and went to answer the door. I

741
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 2: had told her what to say ahead of time if

742
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 2: she was asked where I was. The conversation went something

743
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: like this, Mom, Hello, Rosie, what brings you back by today?

744
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 2: Rosie is silent for a long while, and I take

745
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 2: a peace to see her leaning forward into the porch.

746
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 5: Her mouth is a.

747
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 2: Gape, and she's looking at the entire room over with angry,

748
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: wide eyes. She has a very distinct tone to her

749
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 2: voice when she's pissed, and she couldn't hide it. When

750
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 2: she finally responded, I ducked back down and just listened.

751
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: Rosie well, Oh, p and I were supposed to clean

752
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: this porch up together today. Mom, in a very innocent voice,

753
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 2: Oh well, she seems to have already done it, Rosie.

754
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 5: I can see that I offered my help, but I

755
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 5: guess my help isn't wanted. Mom. I'm sorry you feel

756
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 5: that way.

757
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 2: I think she wanted to just get it done quickly,

758
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 2: since it's Saturday and she has plans later.

759
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 5: I had no such plans, I.

760
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 2: Will, and you did tell her that she should do

761
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: it today, right, It was her responsibility, right, Rosie stuttusmit, Well, yes,

762
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 2: but then I told her i'd be back over to

763
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 2: help out. She said nothing to me about having plans.

764
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 2: I walked all the way back up over here to help.

765
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Rosie, but she did say that she could

766
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 2: do it on her own, didn't she? Yes, But I

767
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: thought y'all would appreciate my help. I thought she would

768
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 2: appreciate my help. Where she at now, huh, I'd like

769
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 2: to speak to her. She's taking a shower right now.

770
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 2: She was going to help me clean this up tomorrow anyway,

771
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 2: but since you insisted she do it today, I guess

772
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: she just did as you told her. So she's old

773
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 2: enough now to do this on her own anyway. But

774
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 2: we do all appreciate everything that you do for us.

775
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 5: Rosie.

776
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 2: Well, yes, but I oh, thank you, by the way

777
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 2: for the food earlier.

778
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 5: Oh yes, you're we're welcome. In an overly exhausted voice

779
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:38,760
Speaker 5: cuts off Rosie.

780
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, but I need to go sit down

781
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 2: because I'm crippled, as you know.

782
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 5: But thank you for your offer. We appreciate the thoughtfulness.

783
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 5: Have a good day, Rosie.

784
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: Rosie began to say something, but then quickly realized that

785
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 2: my mom was closing the door on her, so she

786
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 2: muttered a strange you too, and the door closed in

787
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 2: her face. Let's freaking go. Yeah, we got her.

788
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 5: We you got her with her own idea.

789
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, Like that's so, I guess to me,

790
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 6: we did just need to trust Ope, I.

791
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 5: Guess so we knew what would grind her gears, Yeah,

792
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 5: jostle her droleans. Yeah. Anyway, there is a little bit

793
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 5: more to this story. My mom came back in and

794
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 5: we quietly stood.

795
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 2: There until we could see Rosie stomping home in a huff,

796
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 2: and then we looked at each other and burst out laughing.

797
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 2: I know this is a very strange revenge, but with

798
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 2: someone like Rosie it really ruffled her feathers.

799
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 5: Oh well.

800
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 2: She told my dad later that she was disappointed in me,

801
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 2: which only made me laugh more. She didn't come back

802
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 2: over for about a month, which was an even bigger

803
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 2: bonus for us. It felt so good to stand up

804
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 2: to her like that, even though it wasn't direct, and

805
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 2: it cheered my mom up to Ah.

806
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 5: How lovely good. That is so funny. It's like that

807
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 5: really did seem like such a weird way to get revenge.

808
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 5: But yeah, I ope, he recognized that.

809
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 2: And reminded us how yeah, how much she knows her

810
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 2: own aunt?

811
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, she does know her aunt really weird. Yeah

812
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 6: that balthered her but all right, but I guess the

813
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 6: aunt is just weird anyway.

814
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's just weird. So and that's the end of

815
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 5: the story. We're going to go on to the next one.

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Speaker 9: My sister took over my birthday plans, so I hung up.

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Speaker 5: It's my birthday now? I think it was the birthday

821
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:41,280
Speaker 5: before to come. It's my birthday plans.

822
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Speaker 9: No. I twenty nine female have a complicated family dynamic.

823
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,280
Speaker 9: My middle sister, Rebecca thirty female, and my mom seventy

824
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 9: six female are very close and Rebecca has always been

825
00:36:56,200 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 9: what I call the golden child. My older sister, Vanessa

826
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Speaker 9: thirty one female, and I, on the other hand, are

827
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 9: very close, but she doesn't have a good relationship with

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Speaker 9: my mom and Rebecca. By the way, this comes from

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Speaker 9: I'm Sophia, I'm Angie, and I'm Savannah and we're here

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Speaker 9: to give good advice. Goofy, but we don't have all

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Speaker 9: the answers. We only know what we'd do, So let

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Speaker 9: us know what you would do in the comments.

835
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Speaker 5: And Obie says, my.

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Speaker 9: Birthday is coming up, pisces gang and I made plans

837
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 9: with my mom and dad seventy eight seventy eight male

838
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 9: and a husband in twenty seven male to go to

839
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,240
Speaker 9: brunch to celebrate. Your parents are on the older side,

840
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 9: just a seventy eight.

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00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, just.

842
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 9: Noticing my dad's birthday is two days before mine, and

843
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 9: he genuinely doesn't care about celebrating his his own words,

844
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 9: so I suggested we celebrate together as we always had

845
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 9: in the past. My dad also has dementia. Sorry, no,

846
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 9: I'm just thinking you were really sad. He's like, I

847
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 9: don't care about my birthday. I don't even know what

848
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 9: it is.

849
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 5: We don't need to celebrate. I didn't even know what's happening.

850
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 5: Oh sorry.

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00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 9: What started the drama, I guess was that I had

852
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 9: mentioned I wanted to invite Vanitha and her family. My

853
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 9: mom just made a face but didn't say much. I thought,

854
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 9: that's that everything's planned, and I continued normal day today activities.

855
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 9: The next day, my middle sister, Rebecca called me and

856
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 9: my mom on a three way call. She told me,

857
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 9: not asked me, that instead of brunch, we were going

858
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 9: to cook at home because they Rebecca and her girlfriend

859
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 9: didn't want to pay for two weekends of brunch in

860
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 9: a row. I said, but it's my birthday. She said,

861
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 9: don't interrupt me. Yikes, but I let her continue. She

862
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 9: then said, since herner my mom aren't on good terms

863
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 9: with Vanessa, it would be a problem if she came.

864
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 9: I said, I hadn't even officially invited her yet, it

865
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 9: was just a suggestion.

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Speaker 5: She told me to stop cutting her off.

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Speaker 9: Okay, I didn't like the way she was speaking to me,

868
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 9: so I hung up on her.

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00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 5: That's it. I just hung up. Wow, Click, you're so cool. Yeah,

870
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 5: Oh my god. Oh, he said, I don't like the

871
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 5: way you're speaking to me. Click, just did it. That's

872
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 5: how I did. And oh my god, what did I do?

873
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 5: What have I done?

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Speaker 9: What followed was chaos. She sent me a flood of

875
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Speaker 9: messages telling me not to contact her ever again.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god. This woman is intense. All I said

877
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 5: was cool.

878
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 9: Then she started sending messages saying that I need to

879
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 9: fix myself and that I have issues.

880
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 5: The universe is punishing me because I'm not working.

881
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 9: On myself, that there's a reason that she and I

882
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,959
Speaker 9: don't hang out, and that this is why people don't

883
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 9: mess with me like that's a good thing.

884
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 5: I've had to cut friends out of my life because

885
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 5: they were toxic.

886
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 9: She also said it's not all about me, since it's

887
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 9: my dad's birthday too, even though my dad himself had

888
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 9: already told us he doesn't care about celebrating his birthday

889
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 9: and It's just another day to him.

890
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 5: I have so many sad jokes to make I won't

891
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 5: make them.

892
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 9: Remember I was the one who wanted to include him

893
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 9: in the first place. She then started bringing up things

894
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 9: that I only told my mom during a difficult and

895
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 9: vulnerable time in my marriage. I had gone to her

896
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 9: for wisdom, advice, and comfort, as she is my mom.

897
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 5: Big mistake.

898
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 9: I started to block her Rebecca on every platform after

899
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 9: she set me at this point aggressive messages, even though

900
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 9: I never responded to her once after my initial quilt.

901
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 9: She then continued to anyway with even more vile messages.

902
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 9: She sent multiple audio messages saying the same things. She

903
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 9: went after Vanessa too and said that she corrupted me.

904
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 5: This lady sounds pretty crazy. Lady shows whack. Yeah, I

905
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 5: don't like her. Those are my thoughts. I don't like it.

906
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, I feel like we just you know, she says,

907
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 9: don't ever talk to me again.

908
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 5: What am I gonna do this weekend? I'm not listening

909
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 5: to you? Had me right?

910
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 2: If I If I'm not gonna just spend my time

911
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 2: being hung up by you?

912
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 5: Oh me, I'm so bummed. Whatever shall I do me?

913
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 5: If I if I were lying?

914
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly, but says my mom was on that three

915
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 9: way call and said absolutely nothing. So Mom is spreading

916
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 9: all this information that OP told her in private, and

917
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 9: also is just like, yeah.

918
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 5: Just like, I don't know. I didn't say anything. I'm

919
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 5: just the messager. Why you didn't hear it from me?

920
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 9: Did? I?

921
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 5: Exactly? Ill her?

922
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 9: Six times afterward, she ignored every call I was sending

923
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 9: her screenshots of everything my sister was saying, and my

924
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 9: mom just left me on red multiple times. Two days later,

925
00:41:58,200 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 9: she texted me asking me to fix her.

926
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 5: Tes like nothing happened.

927
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 9: All of the previous texts in that text conversation are like, Mom,

928
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,720
Speaker 9: pick up, we need to talk about this. This is serious.

929
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 9: I can't believe you would do this. It's just like

930
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 9: a bunch of those texts, and then it's.

931
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 5: Can you fix my TV? Yeah exactly. It's like just

932
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 5: like scroll up a little bit and see what you've done.

933
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 9: For context, I am currently twenty days sober, congratulations, nice

934
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 9: in therapy, congrats and working actively on myself. But she

935
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 9: nor my mom know that. But according to my sister,

936
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 9: I'm the one who needs to fix herself. Am I

937
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 9: the AO for hanging up?

938
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 2: You are so sweet No, No. I really love how

939
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 2: she explained that part too.

940
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

941
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 5: She was like, I just I hung up the phone

942
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 5: just like that. I just did it. You know, she

943
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 5: was attacking me verbally and I hung up the phone.

944
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 5: That's great, monster.

945
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, clearly, just the way that you're talking

946
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 2: about it, clearly you don't do stuff like that all

947
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 2: the time. Oh yeah, and here I am to tell

948
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 2: you you're okay, come on okay by me exactly if

949
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 2: anyone tries to challenge you on.

950
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,439
Speaker 5: That and just be like hey, uh yeah.

951
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 2: I just didn't really feel like sitting there while she

952
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 2: like attacked me like that. Yeah, I'm good, So I

953
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 2: just shung up. There was nothing in that conversation that

954
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 2: I think I needed to be a part of. She

955
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 2: did not seem like she wanted any sort of response

956
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 2: for me anyway, so.

957
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 5: She probably kept going after yeah.

958
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, she probably didn't realize you hung up, yeah, because

959
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,720
Speaker 2: she was just so so feel anger and insults.

960
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 5: So, yeah, you're fine. I just watched the Hannah Montana

961
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 5: movie for the first time. Oh the movie. Oh my god,

962
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 5: great movie.

963
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 9: Yeah.

964
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 5: I watched it on the plane.

965
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, nice, dude, I haven't watched that

966
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 2: since I was a kid.

967
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 5: I will say she's a brat in it is she

968
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 5: she's a brat.

969
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 9: Really, I remembered I watched the show growing up. I

970
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 9: just never seen the movie. Yeah, and I didn't remember

971
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 9: her being that much of a brat. But the whole

972
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 9: plot of like the movie is that she's a brat

973
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 9: and then she goes to Tennessee and like learns to

974
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 9: not be a brat.

975
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 5: But's so she literally like doctor fills it, goes to

976
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 5: the ranch.

977
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 9: Yeah, and he goes to the rag And I'm like,

978
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 9: I don't remember her being this much of a brat.

979
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 2: So because we were when we were kids, were probably like,

980
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 2: I mean, she's got a point.

981
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's got a point. And that's the end of

982
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 5: the story. We're gonna go on to the next one.

983
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 6: My wife secretly gave my food to her sister, so

984
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 6: I took it back.

985
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 5: Give me back my food.

986
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 6: My wife, thirty, has a younger sister, twenty eight, with

987
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 6: four kids. My sister in law is a mary stay

988
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 6: at home mom, and her husband, thirty one, works thirty

989
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 6: five hours per week. Money is tight for them, but

990
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 6: they still go on annual vacations. Drive newer cars, et cetera.

991
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 6: My wife and I keep separate finances except for a

992
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 6: joint credit card and household bill. I also do most

993
00:44:58,400 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 6: of the grocery shopping.

994
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:01,280
Speaker 5: This is relevant for later.

995
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 6: By the way, this comes from kptyyc. And if you

996
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 6: want to spend your own stories, go to our slash

997
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 6: Okay storytime subredded.

998
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 5: I'm Savannah, I'm Sophia.

999
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 6: And we are here to give some good advice, but

1000
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 6: in a little goofy manner. But we don't have all

1001
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 6: your answers, so you should tell us what you would

1002
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 6: do in the comments, and we're gonna tell you what

1003
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 6: we're gonna do right now. As Opie says, a couple

1004
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 6: of years ago, I found out my wife had been

1005
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 6: buying groceries for my sister in law on our joint

1006
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 6: card about one hundred and fifty dollars to two hundred

1007
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 6: dollars per month for a few months.

1008
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:31,439
Speaker 5: She said that her.

1009
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 6: Sister had come to her saying they were tight on

1010
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 6: money and that she needed help feeding their kids. This

1011
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 6: is about a month after they had got back from

1012
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 6: their most recent vacation in Mexico. I told my wife,

1013
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 6: in no uncertain terms that I am not supporting their family.

1014
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 6: She argued with me, saying that we could more than

1015
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 6: afford it. I replied that I don't care if she

1016
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 6: wanted to support them, but that's her business. My wife

1017
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 6: stopped buying them groceries on our joint card after but

1018
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 6: I'm sure she told her sister because sister in law

1019
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 6: has been stand office since In the last few months,

1020
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 6: grocery costs have been increasing things to inflation. At a

1021
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 6: cost saving measure, I bought a whole cow for about

1022
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 6: four K, which works out to about nine dollars per

1023
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 6: pound and will last us more than a year, and

1024
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 6: my wife and I split the cost. Yesterday, I went

1025
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 6: to the freezer to pull some steaks and saw the

1026
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 6: amount of beef was visibly lower. I checked our security

1027
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 6: cameras and saw my wife leaving the house with a

1028
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 6: big box. I texted her, demanding to know if she

1029
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 6: had taken a bunch of our meat to sister in law, and.

1030
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 5: She replied yes.

1031
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 6: I grabbed sister in law's keys we have a copy,

1032
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 6: drove to their house, knocked on our door, and when

1033
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 6: sister in law answered, I told her that I was

1034
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 6: taking back what my wife brought over sister in law protested,

1035
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 6: saying I was taking food out of her kid's mouths,

1036
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 6: but I said I don't care. Ooh, she already had

1037
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 6: one roast in the oven. I went to their freezer

1038
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 6: and they had about forty to fifty pounds of ground beef,

1039
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 6: steaks and roast from our cow, including a couple prime

1040
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 6: rib roasts. I grabbed it all except the roast in

1041
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 6: the oven and drove home. My wife yelled at me,

1042
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 6: saying she couldn't believe how selfish I was, and that

1043
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 6: sister in law called her crying. She also said that

1044
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,919
Speaker 6: she paid for half of it and so she could

1045
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 6: do whatever she liked with it. I yelled back, saying

1046
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 6: you don't get to decide to give away anything that

1047
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 6: we pay for together, and said she acted like a

1048
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 6: sneak thief for doing it behind my back.

1049
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 5: I agree with that.

1050
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 6: My wife is still angry at me and says until

1051
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 6: I apologize to her sister returned the meat that I

1052
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 6: took back and apologize for calling her a thief, she

1053
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 6: won't speak to me. I may be the a hole

1054
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 6: because my wife pays half the groceries.

1055
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 5: There's an update. I don't know. It just feels like

1056
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 5: you guys have a really unhealthy marriage. I think like

1057
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 5: kind of putting aside a holes.

1058
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 9: You both sound like just it's constantly tis for tat.

1059
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,919
Speaker 9: There is no working together. There is no figuring out

1060
00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 9: problem solving or anything. It's just I get my way

1061
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 9: or you get your you know, or you're trying to

1062
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 9: get your way, and that's not the way that I want.

1063
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 9: And you know, she steals the food that you already said, like, hey,

1064
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 9: we're not sharing that, and it's just not healthy.

1065
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1066
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 6: I just don't really like there's a lot going I

1067
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 6: think this goes deeper than the meat.

1068
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1069
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:22,479
Speaker 6: This, uh, this seems like it should have been worked out, yes,

1070
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 6: a long time ago. I think there's other issues that

1071
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 6: are also buried in this, but this is just the

1072
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 6: issue that everything's coming out.

1073
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 5: Oh big tibe. Let's see there's an update.

1074
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 6: Thanks for all the comments, suggestions, criticisms. Regardless of the vote,

1075
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 6: consensus is my reaction and behavior was suboptimal, which I

1076
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 6: agree it was. I apologize to my wife for calling

1077
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 6: her a thief, and then I would apologize to her

1078
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:48,760
Speaker 6: sister for going over to her house in a huff

1079
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,399
Speaker 6: and upsetting her. But said I won't apologize for taking

1080
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 6: back the meat, which we paid for jointly. I laid

1081
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 6: it all out and set my position on me not

1082
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 6: buying groceries for their family hadn't changed. I said her

1083
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 6: husband only worked three days a week, twelve hour shifts,

1084
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 6: and if they're struggling for food, he needs to pick

1085
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 6: up more ships. I also said, taking vacations and having

1086
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 6: new cars is a luxury they can't afford if I

1087
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 6: have to do cards. Yeah, they have new cars.

1088
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 5: Well, they actively can't afford food.

1089
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:21,479
Speaker 6: Yeah, they sell your car brand new cars and they

1090
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 6: go on trips to Mexico.

1091
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 5: Genuinely.

1092
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 9: I don't think that you can say that your kids

1093
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 9: are starving until you don't have cars.

1094
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1095
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Speaker 6: I also said taking vacations and having new cars is

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Speaker 6: a luxury they can't afford if I have to pitch

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Speaker 6: in to pay for their food. As some of you suggested,

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Speaker 6: I asked my wife, why aren't you buying groceries with

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Speaker 6: your own money if you want to support them? Yeah,

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Speaker 6: my wife responded she's been buying them groceries for the

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Speaker 6: past couple years with her own money because they're up

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Speaker 6: to their eyeballs in the loans and credit card debt,

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Speaker 6: but inflation means their groceries have been costing her more

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Speaker 6: and more. She then admitted to putting some things on

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Speaker 6: our joint credit card in the last few months in

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Speaker 6: small amounts then two years ago, so I wouldn't notice.

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Speaker 6: As for the beef, sister in law called her this

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Speaker 6: past week and crying, saying they needed help to the

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Speaker 6: end of the month with food because one of the

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Speaker 6: kids broke their iPad, which they used to keep the

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Speaker 6: kids entertained, and so.

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Speaker 5: They replaced it.

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Speaker 9: I would actually like throw a fit. Yeah, if someone

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Speaker 9: called me and said that, can you out I can't

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Speaker 9: afford to eat food because I just bought a new iPad.

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Speaker 5: I can't afford to eat No.

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Speaker 9: No, like sell the iPad yep, no yeah, or oh oops,

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Speaker 9: you broke your iPad.

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Speaker 6: Guess you don't have one now? Yeah, why aren't the

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Speaker 6: kids more careful with it?

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Speaker 5: Like so weird?

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Speaker 6: You'd be like, we can't afford to get you another one,

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Speaker 6: so you need to be careful with this. If you

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Speaker 6: break it, you break.

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Speaker 5: It, you don't get a new one.

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Speaker 6: I'm a story because guess what I have to feed you?

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Speaker 6: And that comes first, not iPad, but instead, or are

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Speaker 6: doing it backwards, so weird. She didn't ask me about

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Speaker 6: taking the beef because she knew I would say no

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Speaker 6: if she told me about the iPad and didn't think

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00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 6: I would notice since we have so much beef. She said,

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Speaker 6: I have no idea how hard it is to raise

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Speaker 6: four kids, and they need the iPad. I told her

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00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 6: we need to go see a counselor because we're on

1135
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Speaker 6: different planets if she thinks an iPad is a necessity.

1136
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 6: So yeah, we're going to do therapy. Until then, I'm

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Speaker 6: sleeping in the basement. There are some answers to common questions.

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Speaker 6: Why doesn't sister in law's husband work more or sister

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00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 6: in law get a job? He does shift.

1140
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 5: Work three days a week, twelve hour shifts. He likes it.

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00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 6: Because it frees him up to spend more time with

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00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 6: the kids. Sister in law has never had a job

1143
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 6: beyond serving as a teenager. Why don't you put a

1144
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 6: lock on your freezer? I would like to stay married,

1145
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 6: and I'm certain if I did this, I wouldn't be

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Speaker 6: married for very long. I think that counseling's gonna help

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Speaker 6: you guys.

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Speaker 5: Maybe, yeah, I hope so she uh, yeah, it is bad. Yeah,

1149
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 5: that is not good what she's doing.

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00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:03,839
Speaker 6: Yeah, it seems like they had kids and didn't really

1151
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 6: plan it out and now they're like struggling for money, which.

1152
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 5: Like it's all their own fault. Yeah too.

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Speaker 9: None of this is like like it feels like they're yeah,

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00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 9: just completely I mean we've talked about this with other

1155
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 9: people we know, but like completely living out of their means.

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00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, And it's like you just can't like I'm

1157
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 6: not gonna go and buy a new car, yeah, when

1158
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 6: I still have to like buy like I just moved,

1159
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna go get a new car.

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00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 5: Well, I still have to like, yeah, I don't know,

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Speaker 5: like buy.

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Speaker 9: Groceries, like me like buying a first class ticket somewhere

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00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 9: and then being like I don't have any money to

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00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:43,439
Speaker 9: afford my friend Now, yeah, I just couldn't survive without

1165
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 9: the first class ticket, right.

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00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just.

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Speaker 6: Like I I've never never done that. I've always just

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Speaker 6: been very mindful.

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Speaker 9: Yeah. I think I have been raised maybe too mindful

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Speaker 9: of money. I think I have a lot of like

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Speaker 9: financiallyingknxiety ever spending money because of how I was raised.

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Speaker 9: But I don't Yeah, I don't fully understand that, like

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00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 9: just like spend it spend it mentality.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, like you have it. I've never been like spend

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Speaker 6: spend spend like safe.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: My dad is very generous with money, I will say

1178
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Speaker 6: he had, and I'm also very generous.

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Speaker 9: I think generous is different than spend it all. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 9: I think that is, Yeah, because I would. I mean,

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00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 9: like I try to be. Yeah, I try to, you know,

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00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 9: like I like to buy my friends things.

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00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 5: I like to you know, uh, treat them when I can.

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00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,280
Speaker 9: But I think that's different than the mentality of spend

1185
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 9: money that you on yourself. Yeah, I agree, Yeah, because

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00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 9: typically people who are spending money on their friends aren't

1187
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 9: exorbitantly Yeah.

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00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 6: Hopefully not doing that unless they're just spending it to

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Speaker 6: like get something out of you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Did sister law and her husband pay for their vacations

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00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 6: and cars them selves? I still don't know, but my

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00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 6: guess would be credit cards and car loans. If they're

1194
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 6: up to their eyeballs and dead. As my wife said,

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00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 6: why don't you compromise on helping them? A fair compromise

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00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 6: to me, if I were to pitch in, would be

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Speaker 6: for them to better manage their money, example, not going

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Speaker 6: on annual vacations to Mexico. The last time I raised that,

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Speaker 6: my wife said I was being judgmental. Maybe I'll propose

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Speaker 6: it again. In counseling.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, you need heavy counseling.

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00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think also the sister law needs counseling.

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Speaker 9: Everyone needs everyone, everybody, and it's counseling and.

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Speaker 5: Counts everybody his counseling. Yeah, yeah, I did a different

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00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 5: different notes. I forgot where it was. Everybody is counseling

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Speaker 5: and can sell it. Yeah, there we go. Anyway, that's

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Speaker 9: My husband was upset with our baby's last name, and

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Speaker 9: the reason surprised me.

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Speaker 9: My twenty nine female husband twenty nine male, and I

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Speaker 9: are pregnant. We're happy about it, but it's all happened

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Speaker 9: so fast, so we didn't discuss details before today. While

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Speaker 9: we were fantasizing about our future, I kind of wistfully

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Speaker 9: said the full name of our baby, gender neutral first

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Speaker 9: name we chose and my last name. He was upset

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Speaker 9: and asked why I assume they would take my name.

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Speaker 9: I said it was because I thought he didn't care

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Speaker 9: about his last name, whereas my last name was very

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Speaker 5: I'm Savannah, and we're here to get good advice gooofully.

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Speaker 9: But we don't know everything, so let us know if

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Speaker 9: you know some things in the comments, and Opie says context.

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Speaker 9: I never changed my last name when we got married

1232
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:14,879
Speaker 9: because in my culture this is uncommon, and my name

1233
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 9: also has very heavy cultural and historical significance. I am

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00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:22,240
Speaker 9: extremely proud of it, and I am also very close

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00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 9: with my extended family. My husband has no relationship with

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00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 9: his family, as his parents left him with his uncle.

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Speaker 6: Oh.

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00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 5: It was awful to him for years whoof until he

1239
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 5: moved in with me. When we were getting married.

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Speaker 9: He wanted to change his last name to mine because

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00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 9: he feels like my family is his real family, which

1242
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 9: I was okay with, but eventually we decided he doesn't

1243
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:45,720
Speaker 9: need to go through that hassle since he's.

1244
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 5: A part of our family.

1245
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:50,319
Speaker 9: Regardless, he's never expressed any type of interest in his

1246
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 9: heritage Irish and even when I suggested we go visit Ireland.

1247
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:57,919
Speaker 5: He was uninterested. But now he said people will think

1248
00:56:57,920 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 5: the kid is.

1249
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 9: Not his and that it's disrespectful to have kids not

1250
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 9: take the father's last name. I was confused because he

1251
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 9: has never expressed any such sentiment before. I told him

1252
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 9: my last name is non negotiable, so he can hyphenate it.

1253
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 9: He was resistant, since both our last names are clunky

1254
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 9: and long, but eventually he said, only if his name

1255
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 9: comes first. I got really annoyed at his implication that

1256
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 9: there's something wrong with taking the mom's last name. So

1257
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 9: maybe I was a little petty and said, suits me

1258
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 9: that way, people will think your name is just a

1259
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 9: middle name and mine is their last name. He told

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00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 9: me I was being an a hole and left the house.

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00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 9: It's been a couple of hours and he's responding to

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00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 9: my text with one word responses edit. I'm seeing some

1263
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 9: misunderstanding about why he never changed his last name to mine.

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00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 9: I thought it was a good idea, and so he

1265
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 9: was doing research on the process, but ended up complaining

1266
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 9: to me that the process seemed like a big hassle,

1267
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 9: after which I told him that my family loves him

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00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 9: regardless of which name he has, so he decided to

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00:57:58,040 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 9: not go through with it. Yeah, it is a hassle too,

1270
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 9: that women have to go through all the time. Right now,

1271
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 9: we decided to discuss this whole thing in the morning

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00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 9: after we get some sleep, and I will try to

1273
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 9: offer some of the suggestions people made in the replies

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00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 9: up date. But before we get into that, too many

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00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 9: other thoughts.

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Speaker 5: I mean, let's see, what can I say? Am I thinking?

1277
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 5: What am I thinking? Who am I? Get it together?

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00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 5: Get it together? I don't think it really matters.

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00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 6: I guess, like cause he the thing is, he didn't

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00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 6: have a problem with it, and he actually was going

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00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 6: to change it, and but then he's like, eh, that's

1282
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 6: a lot of work. And so now she's just like, oh, well, like,

1283
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 6: since you didn't care before, I'm just gonna like, you know,

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00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 6: you know that there is significance to my name.

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00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 5: So and then he all of a sudden, he's like,

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Speaker 5: huh what No, so kind of wanted that one. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I agree.

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Speaker 9: I feel like there's gotta be some sort of mature

1289
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 9: compromise here that neither of you were taking or.

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Speaker 5: We had a iphonated one.

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Speaker 9: And then you were like, well, they'll think that it's

1292
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 9: a middle name, and he was like, well, I want.

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Speaker 5: The first name. It just feels very Yeah, that's kind

1294
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 5: of petty. It's like, who cares which one?

1295
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 6: Like at least I'm thinking I'm considering hyphenating it, Like

1296
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 6: you should be happy that I'm even considering.

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Speaker 5: Hello everyone.

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Speaker 9: Some of the responses from the original post gave me

1299
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 9: ideas for how to approach the issue with my husband,

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Speaker 9: so I wanted to give an update. After my husband

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00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 9: came home, we decided to talk in the morning as

1302
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 9: he was tired and still a little upset. Next morning,

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00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 9: he was really trying to push the topic aside and

1304
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 9: said he didn't care what name we chose anymore. He

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00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 9: just didn't want to keep talking about it. I didn't

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00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 9: think that was a good idea, but I was worried

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00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 9: he'd get angry if I just pushed it, so I

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Speaker 9: asked him if we could just cuddle for a while.

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Speaker 9: I brought it up again by apologizing for my comment

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Speaker 9: that I made about the hyphenated name, and he said

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00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 9: he didn't want to hyphenate our names anyway. We talked

1312
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 9: for a while about a lot like my family, culture,

1313
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 9: his family, et cetera. But basically he felt like the

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Speaker 9: odd one out.

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Speaker 5: Then let's change your last name to mind dude, let's

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Speaker 5: start that process. I'll help you. Yeah.

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Speaker 9: I reminded him again about how much my family, especially

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01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 9: my parents and brother, love him and treat him like

1319
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 9: a son and brother. They really do treat him like

1320
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 9: the baby of the family, because that's how they always

1321
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 9: treated me as the youngest. My extended family loves him

1322
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:22,840
Speaker 9: as well, he said he feel like He said he

1323
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 9: felt like he was still stuck with his crappy family

1324
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 9: even though he hasn't talked to any of them in years,

1325
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 9: and if our baby has his name, it would be

1326
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 9: like he was connected with the baby through that name and.

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01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 5: Not his family.

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Speaker 9: I was dreading asking him this, but based on comments

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01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 9: in my other post, it made too much sense not

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01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 9: to at least ask, so I asked him if he

1331
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 9: thinks he would like taking my last name so he

1332
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 9: didn't have to share his last name with them anymore.

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Speaker 9: He said that he was too embarrassed to suggest this

1334
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 9: again to my family because he felt like it would

1335
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 9: look bad that he kept changing his mind on the topic,

1336
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 9: like he didn't respect the decision or my family's name.

1337
01:00:57,800 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 5: I feel I.

1338
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:00,240
Speaker 6: Kind of feel bad for him because I can see

1339
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 6: where he's coming from with the like, well, I didn't

1340
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 6: want to bring it up again and be like, oh,

1341
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 6: I you know, like it's not that big of a dealer,

1342
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 6: like disrespect you know, your family. I think he just

1343
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 6: is kind of like internally struggling with it and just

1344
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 6: like has hoisted.

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01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 9: I'm glad we got to the real thing of it, though, yes,

1346
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 9: because that was was one of the other things I

1347
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 9: suggested you could do. And it feels like he was

1348
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 9: just waiting for someone else to bring it.

1349
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 5: Up because he didn't.

1350
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,440
Speaker 6: I also kind of like how they went about it,

1351
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 6: like she's just like we don't have to talk about it.

1352
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 6: Can we just cut a little bit and then just

1353
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 6: like bringing up like it was true. I always tried

1354
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,800
Speaker 6: to do that, like whenever I was mad, yeah, or

1355
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 6: like I knew, like we were men at each other.

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Speaker 5: All I wanted to do.

1357
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 6: I was like, I just want to like hug first,

1358
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 6: hugg and kiss first, and then let's get down to

1359
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 6: the issue. Yeah, like just know that I do love

1360
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 6: you in the beginning, and I'm probably gonna love you

1361
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 6: in the end, but I'm just you know, but you

1362
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:56,960
Speaker 6: know this is the end of all.

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01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 9: I think sometimes like when I'm like or upset, like

1365
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 9: I'll kind of go a little bit silent or like contemplative.

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01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:06,920
Speaker 5: My boyfriend like, are you upset ry? Man? I'm like,

1367
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 5: I am a little bit like, you know, I'll voice

1368
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 5: the feeling and I'm like, I just need a minute.

1369
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 5: I don't want to verbalize that on you, so just

1370
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 5: give me a minute.

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01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 6: Which is very very smart and mature things, so you

1372
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 6: don't project things onto your loved ones.

1373
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone can take a minute.

1374
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 9: I convinced him that they wouldn't feel that way, and

1375
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 9: then I would help him with every step of the

1376
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 9: name changing process if he wants that. We ran it

1377
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:34,760
Speaker 9: by my parents to prove to him that they were

1378
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 9: okay with it, and they were super supportive. He seems

1379
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 9: really happy about this decision and even excited while we

1380
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 9: were gathering all the info to make sure it's a

1381
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 9: smooth transition. I'm also planning to have some more detailed

1382
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 9: discussions with him about other things. We never really discussed

1383
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 9: specifics of so we don't catch each other by surprise again. Ah,

1384
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 9: thank you again everyone for the perspectives and for the suggestions.

1385
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:01,320
Speaker 5: And that's the end of the story. So it turned

1386
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 5: out good. Yeah, I love when that happens.

1387
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 9: When we're mature, we take a minute and we realize

1388
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 9: what's the real issue. There seems to always be a

1389
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 9: compromise and usually just got to communicate it.

1390
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 5: It's true.

1391
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 9: But that's the end of that story and the end

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01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 9: of the episode. We love you and see you tomorrow.