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Speaker 2: Hmmm, my husband is starting to gross me out. He's

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Speaker 2: not doing anything about it. Ew I forty female, my

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Speaker 2: husband forty male. Have been together since high school. We've

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Speaker 2: built a financially stable and respectful relationship. He is a

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Speaker 2: great father, a role model to our young children. He

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Speaker 2: does the equal share around the house laundry, cooking, parenting, etcetera.

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Speaker 2: to the rsash Okay Storytime suber it. So for the

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Speaker 2: past three to five years, I'm continuously finding him less

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Speaker 2: and less attractive.

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Speaker 1: Ooh.

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Speaker 2: We've been to counseling together over this, and we've had

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Speaker 2: many peaceful conversations, but nothing seems to improve from my perspective.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to listen a few exams and before Reddit

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Speaker 2: jumps on me like a group of feral doughts saying

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Speaker 2: these things are stupid, please understand we've been together for

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Speaker 2: a long time, and all the little things eventually snowball

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Speaker 2: into big things.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready's do it? He forgets about seventy percent

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Speaker 1: of our conversation. Why is this talking about me?

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Speaker 2: I'm having to give him reminder receipts on everything we've

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Speaker 2: talked about. Man, that sounds me, that sounds like me.

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Speaker 2: I forget so many conversations. He stores wall awake. Oh

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Speaker 2: that's me, bro, Oh, that's me Ali. When we were

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Speaker 2: together in that I was reading and she like looked

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Speaker 2: at me and was like, are you still awake? Because

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Speaker 2: I breathed so heavy because I can't breathe through my nose.

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Speaker 1: Our boy was gonna get fixed soon. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting my kim K nose job in a bit.

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Speaker 2: Yep, yep. Anyway, he stores wall awake. Literally, his face

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Speaker 2: and hair smells so bad to me. Anyways, I'm pretty

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Speaker 2: sure it's just as bodily oils.

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Speaker 1: Are you zooming it of you? Again?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: He's it on me. I'm like, dang, dude, get wrecked.

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Speaker 1: John Effort.

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Speaker 2: When he wants attention, he gets really immature and starts

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Speaker 2: talking in a baby voice.

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Speaker 1: Do Bobby, does he not? He does do it sometimes

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Speaker 1: for a joke set. He leaves flickers and skin flakes

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Speaker 1: in it around the don't do it.

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Speaker 2: I could go on with more examples, but let's not

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Speaker 2: keep you here forever. We've talked about every single one

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Speaker 2: of these things and more. If there could be a

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Speaker 2: medical issue, He's been to a doctor. Everything is fixable,

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Speaker 2: but it's not being fixed. I know I'm not perfect,

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Speaker 2: but these things seem to irritate me to my core.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm screaming at the top of my lungs,

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Speaker 2: bashing my head through a wall. That's about it, but

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Speaker 2: I feel desperate. This cannot be the rest of my life.

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Speaker 2: How do I get over this? Or what can we

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Speaker 2: do to further live halfway the rest of our lives?

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Speaker 2: We got an edit, We got an update. We are

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Speaker 2: less than a tenth through. But what do we think

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Speaker 2: about this laundry list of grievances?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is uh you you are. We

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Speaker 1: are venturing into like gray area right where it's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: like how much someone like showers or whatever. But it

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Speaker 1: does come to a point where it's like, okay, if

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Speaker 1: you can't like live with that person. Also, I think

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Speaker 1: like the baby voice and the.

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Speaker 2: One's worse to you guys. Also, like of the laundry lists, right,

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Speaker 2: like which which one? Which one is the worst one?

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Speaker 2: Because we got snoring, wall awake.

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Speaker 1: That one that's light.

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Speaker 2: We got smelly face and hair, we got boogers and

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Speaker 2: skin flakes in the sink.

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Speaker 1: Seventy percent of conversations for conversations.

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Speaker 3: Was another one.

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Speaker 1: There's another one. There's another one, smell to head smells. Smell.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we already said baby voice, yeah, baby voice and

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Speaker 1: Maybe either baby voice or head smell, because like you're

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're like I think honestly, like

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Speaker 2: be like thee we will baby one your takeo Bath

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Speaker 1: But he's an angry baby voice. He's like we space,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you does.

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Speaker 2: It too well he's been practicing. Oh yeah, A lot

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Speaker 2: of people are saying baby voice. I didn't know baby

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Speaker 2: h I could get everyone's got skin flakes.

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Speaker 1: Ye, true, true. But if it's like I look at

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Speaker 1: it's like but it's then the same thing.

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Speaker 3: We can help get some shampoo or something. Let's like

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Speaker 1: You know, I to solve.

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Speaker 2: But I think if you solve the hair and face

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Speaker 2: smele you saw the skin flake, ooh yeah, probably ming

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Speaker 2: mag safety probably does it use soap, unlike this guy

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Speaker 2: who has eighteen and one shampoo now makes to chat

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Speaker 2: all the soap eighteen one. Yeah, dude, I even tried

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Speaker 2: brushing my teeth that if you watch a live you

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Speaker 2: know what's up.

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Speaker 1: You know what's up.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Edit, this is really blowing up, and I'm thankful

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Speaker 2: for everyone's comments. Keep commenting. I think a lot of

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Speaker 2: us are finding community and can resonate with one another.

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Speaker 2: Even in the disagreements. There's a lot of valuable information.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of actual items that I am considering

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Speaker 2: as I plan my next move. So more medical checkups,

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Speaker 2: specialist appointments, therapy HRT, and big girl conversations, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Many balls are up in the air, and we'll come

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Speaker 2: back at June update once I have the ducks in

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Speaker 2: a row. We got some all the comments. But John,

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Speaker 2: what do you think OP should do to remedy this

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Speaker 2: smelly baby man?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like they said they had been

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Speaker 1: in like counseling, and she's kind of like laid out

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Speaker 1: this list right.

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Speaker 2: This is like the proposed methods of getting to greener pastures.

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Speaker 2: So these have not been these have not been enacted,

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Speaker 2: but they are in the process of potentially being enacted.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest, like bottom line

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Speaker 1: things like if you literally just smell bad twenty four

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Speaker 1: like these are just not things I can live with forever.

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Speaker 1: I can't just like sit here while you smell like

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Speaker 1: so let's work together to figure out what to do

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Speaker 1: about it. If you want to, you know care and

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Speaker 1: work on a relationship.

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Speaker 2: Also, I feel like, I mean, they're they're a spicy sleep.

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Speaker 2: Life must be in the toilet to be right. Gotta

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Speaker 2: be the toilet. Yeah, what are you thinking?

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Speaker 1: The thing? I have no idea what you're thinking. Man,

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Speaker 1: he uses the baby voice?

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Speaker 2: Oh god, Yeah, how do you ask someone to stop

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Speaker 1: I don't like it. Stop music, baby voice. Stop using

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Speaker 1: a baby voice too much? Yeah, there it is.

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Speaker 3: Give him another voice to use in another context, like hey,

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Speaker 3: when you're needy, I don't like the baby voice, but

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Speaker 3: if you're ever happy, he was like a Russian accent,

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Speaker 1: It's a lot. There we go. That's the only voice

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Speaker 1: I want to hear in bed.

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Speaker 2: Oh all right, we got the the comments, so go

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Speaker 2: under one. Why only the last three to five years

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Speaker 2: is this irritating you? You've been together a lot longer,

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Speaker 2: So this his behavior suddenly change to this? Or something

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Speaker 3: Like like I was thinking that too, Like medication changed

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I did she get off birth control? And

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Speaker 2: that's twice so smelly, because do you know about that?

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Speaker 1: John changes like the way you perceive smell and stuff.

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Speaker 2: So birth can If you're on birth control and you

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Speaker 2: you may not be attracted them anymore because your hormones

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Speaker 2: have changed and stuff. Yeah, but Opie said, we had

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Speaker 2: In commenter two and before Reddit heard jumps in and

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Speaker 2: saying these things are stupid. Please understand we've been together

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Speaker 2: things are stupid. I worry that you frame your concerns

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Speaker 2: that way at all, Like him never remembering conversations. It's tiring.

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Speaker 2: despite you likely bringing it up in counseling. Josie's really

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Speaker 2: not taking any steps forward. These are all absolutely valid problems.

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Speaker 2: the start, but you pushed through and now you just

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Speaker 2: more blunt and direct about your burnout, especially in therapy.

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Speaker 2: that feels a little bit much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's just like, I mean, we kind

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Speaker 1: of well, I feel like it talked about earlier. It's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I can continue. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I like for the rest of my days in this

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Speaker 1: relationship with this, so there comes a point, Hope.

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Speaker 2: He responds, I appreciate the validation and calling me out

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Speaker 2: for downplaying it. Sometimes I feel so embarrassed trying to

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Speaker 2: explain this to close friends who have husbands who are

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Speaker 2: not equal partners. And you're right, I do need to

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Speaker 2: be more blunt with him. Downplaying it isn't going to

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Speaker 2: make him realize how irritated I am. And there is

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Speaker 2: a question is there any chance that Ope's husband did

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Speaker 2: not switch out of his party lifestyle? And Ope responds,

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Speaker 2: we didn't party in the way that's being implied. The

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Speaker 2: fun we had was travel, hiking, sports. He does partake

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Speaker 2: in thhc oil at night, and we do have social

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Speaker 1: You won't know until you have it. This is true.

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Speaker 2: Miss Jaybird says, nothing says super sexy like having the

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Speaker 2: Based on what happened tonight, I don't think he could

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Speaker 2: So I will be making skincare suggestions, but will not

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Speaker 1: Sorry so long. It was like talking to a child.

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Speaker 2: I've been giving you suggestions for a while and now,

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Speaker 3: Another thing that I didn't like was he's gonna have

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Speaker 3: What I was thinking is like it seems like it's

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Speaker 1: Then you tell him what that is.

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Speaker 2: told him this because I think if it's in writing,

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Speaker 2: at least he can go back and reread and remind himself.

437
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Speaker 2: This is why I don't talk to him in person anymore.

438
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Speaker 2: I think, you know, I don't know if this has been.

439
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Speaker 1: Surface to him. It seems like the first like honest

440
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:11,159
Speaker 1: conversations they're having. I can see that. Yeah, I think it,

441
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Speaker 1: and I get it can be hard to fully communicate

442
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Speaker 1: and have someone download how severe maybe say out of

443
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Speaker 1: like a scale of ten, you know, ten, being like

444
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Speaker 1: I'm divorcing you like right now, you know, and I

445
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Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, yeah, I agree, though.

446
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Speaker 2: This is why I don't want to talk to him

447
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,200
Speaker 2: in person anymore. He deflected again by saying he thought

448
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,840
Speaker 2: we texted more because the kids aren't around and it's

449
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,679
Speaker 2: easier to focus and have a conversation. He thought I

450
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Speaker 2: wasn't talking to him in person because I'd rather be

451
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,439
Speaker 2: on my phone or reading. I told him I do

452
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Speaker 2: those things because I don't want to talk to him

453
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 2: in person. By the way, you can always talk to us,

454
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, in person virtually by listening to full episodes

455
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Speaker 2: of stories just like this. Go to Spotify app podcast

456
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Speaker 2: or your favorite podcast app and search Okay, storytime. I

457
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Speaker 2: swear these are place aggressively. I love it. There's another

458
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 2: relevant update. But yeah, John, what do you think about

459
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 2: where we are?

460
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Speaker 1: I mean, again kind of echoing what we've been saying,

461
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Speaker 1: like it is definitely possible that she's already communicated this,

462
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Speaker 1: but I am like, have we really truly fully sat

463
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 1: him down and understood like how important these things are

464
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Speaker 1: to you, especially before going on the offensive and like

465
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Speaker 1: trying to prescribe and getting angry at all these things

466
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Speaker 1: he's not doing. You know, Oh you said you'd work out.

467
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Speaker 1: Why aren't you working out? It's like, no, that's I

468
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Speaker 1: feel like we're getting away from the point at that

469
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Speaker 1: at that juncture.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm glad that there is communication happening. Yes, yeah,

471
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Speaker 2: it is frustrated communication. Yes, that will get him closer.

472
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Speaker 2: I think, you know, even frustrated communication can be better

473
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 2: than no communication. Absolutely, So I'm glad that you're taking

474
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Speaker 2: this step. But he's definitely I mean like, I feel

475
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Speaker 2: like hearing this, it's gonna be a you're just gonna

476
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Speaker 2: put on on the offensive, yeah, which yeah, may not,

477
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 2: may not produce the results that you desire. So I

478
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 2: finally said, he needs to figure this out because I

479
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Speaker 2: can't live like this. It's lonely and isolating. I can't

480
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,400
Speaker 2: talk about anything from silly, meaningless things to more serious issues.

481
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Speaker 2: I need a partner who's stepping up for me and

482
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Speaker 2: wants to have an integrated life. When I feel disconnected

483
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Speaker 2: from him, it seeps into every other aspect of our

484
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Speaker 2: relationship and there's no connection happening anywhere. Because of this,

485
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Speaker 2: I reminded him to choose what solution he wants to explore,

486
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Speaker 2: but I won't be providing any more suggestions. This is

487
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Speaker 2: a hymn thing to fix, and if it doesn't get

488
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Speaker 2: figured out, I don't think I can survive the relationship.

489
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Speaker 2: I left it at that. He rolled over and didn't

490
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Speaker 2: say anything, so I'd asked the decision is on him now.

491
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Speaker 2: I hope my message was clear. I don't know if

492
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Speaker 2: he'll actually pursue anything, but I know if nothing changes,

493
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Speaker 2: I am done with this marriage. I didn't truly feel

494
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Speaker 2: how lonely I am until I was trying to express

495
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Speaker 2: that to him tonight, And there are some relevant.

496
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Speaker 1: Comment sentence that I feel sums up my entire feeling

497
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Speaker 1: on the story. It's a hymn thing to fix. Is

498
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Speaker 1: he broken? Yeah? I think, like, yes, these are things

499
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Speaker 1: that you don't want in the relationship. But I don't know.

500
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Speaker 1: It implies at a baseline that he is like wrong,

501
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 1: like like his breathing like Bro's got breathe, you know,

502
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Speaker 1: So I think that attitude is just going to not

503
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Speaker 1: be conducive to actually getting to the bottom of this.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I I think there is a lot of

505
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Speaker 2: work that he needs to do. Totally, totally would I

506
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Speaker 2: would echo what John's saying in that I think when

507
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Speaker 2: you phrase when you phrase relationship issues as a you problem.

508
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Speaker 2: You know you're not coming to a relationship, you know

509
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Speaker 2: you're like I think, yes, he does have to do

510
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 2: heavy lifting, But I think relationship should be in terms

511
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Speaker 2: of like us, like we're going to work on this together,

512
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 2: like you know, I want to support you in getting better.

513
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Speaker 2: At least that's how I would want to feel relationship,

514
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Speaker 2: a healthy relationship.

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Speaker 3: But I think where's the line, where's the line of

516
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Speaker 3: we we we and whenever you are the ones taken

517
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Speaker 3: initiative and they're not taking up their end.

518
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Speaker 1: It's like the equal yoke thing.

519
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I agree. I think there's a point he

520
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Speaker 2: has to He has to. He has to pick pickup

521
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Speaker 2: slack for sure. But I just I would love I

522
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Speaker 2: would love the the.

523
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Speaker 1: The language to be a little bit more more. We

524
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Speaker 1: Tempest says OPI needs therapy two.

525
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Speaker 2: In my opinion, Sam the Caterpillar says his unwillingness to

526
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Speaker 2: change is on him, though Kat says so much for

527
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 2: in sickness and health and good times and bad. Sophia

528
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Speaker 2: Kallen says he won't change because she's been trying for

529
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Speaker 2: years and never left him. He knows she'll stay.

530
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Speaker 1: Which I mean that totally could be the case, and

531
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Speaker 1: it's like, all right, well this isn't this isn't gonna work.

532
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we got some relevant comments. So has Opie's

533
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 2: husband been tested for any medical conditions since he seems

534
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 2: to forget or doesn't want to remember details, OPI responds,

535
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 2: he hasn't been tested for anything. In my original posts,

536
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 2: I did mention he's been to the doctor and nothing

537
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 2: came of it. But now that I think of it,

538
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 2: he probably fed the doc the same line about working

539
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,679
Speaker 2: out losing weight, and we know our docs like to

540
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,880
Speaker 2: blame a lot of body size, so probably went along

541
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Speaker 2: with it. I stood up late last night reflecting on

542
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,160
Speaker 2: a lot, and I realized he's fine at work New Development,

543
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 2: but also makes this all the more pathetic for me.

544
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 2: He manages a lot of moving parts through multiple ongoing projects.

545
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 2: He seems capable from what he tells me about work.

546
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 2: One of the execs just came back from stress leave

547
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 2: as his memory was failing, and my husband had a

548
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 2: lot to say about that. So it's not looking good

549
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 2: for us. Someone else suggested maybe he's weaponizing this, like

550
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 2: weaponizing cont and competence totally. OPI responds to the comments

551
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 2: about leaving her husband, and OPI responds, I'm not leaving

552
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 2: him because of his memory loss after going through all

553
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 2: the medicals, if nothing is discovered and he just sucks

554
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 2: at prioritizing us, I'm leaving him because I'm lonely and

555
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 2: don't have a companion. I don't need to stay with

556
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 2: someone who doesn't want to connect with me and only

557
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 2: wants to help pay bills and raise kids. I can

558
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 2: do all of that on my own while finding someone

559
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 2: who wants to share a meaningful life together.

560
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: And OP responds.

561
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 2: Clarifying on lifestyle abilities her husband has, OP says, he

562
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 2: can drive a vehicle, he can work, he can play

563
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 2: and care for our kids. He can cook, he can clean,

564
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 2: he can fix things, he can hang out with friends,

565
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 2: he can make a doctor's appointment.

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Speaker 1: And that's where it ends. That's it. Yeah, I don't

567
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Speaker 1: know if it's gonna work out. Yeah. Wait, read this one.

568
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Speaker 2: How long can the flakes of yesterday fall down on

569
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Speaker 2: her tooth?

570
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: Oh? What is that? Man? Skin flakes?

571
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 2: Skin flakes? How long can the flakes of yesterday fall

572
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 2: down on her toothbrush?

573
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 1: Because he won't clean up after himself. That reads like

574
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Speaker 1: a It's deep that is deep flakes of yesterday and

575
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: sleepy saying says this wants me to really read this.

576
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 1: Opie said, they've been in therapy for years about it. Yeah,

577
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: I mean that is a long time. And I'm assuming

578
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: he's been in therapy for together, Yeah, for years about it.

579
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: That's I think so. And that's also assuming that there's

580
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Speaker 1: like a like a couple's counselor with them. So I

581
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: mean he yeah, you get to a breaking point, you

582
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: get Yeah. I think I think it's recent breaking point,

583
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: which is fine. You know, like I think she's she's

584
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: well within her right to be like, hey, this is

585
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: just not it for me.

586
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 2: It is interesting how like the rhetoric towards the husband

587
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 2: has gone like like it was kind of like more

588
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 2: positive in the beginning. Yeah, then it like really turned

589
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 2: like like like the resolve towards ending the relationship was

590
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,360
Speaker 2: kind of like strong at the.

591
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Speaker 1: End, and maybe it's like, hey, we've we've gone on

592
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: too long, so it's like all right, we're both just

593
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: like frustrating ourselves where we could just rebuild as like

594
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: he parents and relationship that way. I don't know.

595
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Speaker 3: I was also wondering about this, is he functioning at work, like,

596
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 3: what is his work life like?

597
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: Seems good, It seems good. It seems like he's doing well.

598
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: Also, just a reminder, we have talked about every single

599
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 2: one of these things and more. This is what she

600
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 2: says in the beginning.

601
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: You know, So maybe maybe it has been communicated enough

602
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: where it's like you're just not getting it.

603
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 2: I can't do this totally within it, right, Yeah, I

604
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 2: think some of I think, like if I was to

605
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 2: amend some of my comments before, it seems like she is.

606
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 2: She has been bringing it up a lot. Yeah, and

607
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 2: this is just a ranking point. Maybe I wasn't brought

608
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 2: up in like as director of a way and this

609
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 2: was like finally the most direct way. But even his

610
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: response to her bringing this up was turning over yep,

611
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, which I think is like honestly a

612
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 2: metaphor for what he's been doing the whole relationship.

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00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think I think it got to the

614
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: point where she's like, Okay, now I'll just try to

615
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: fix it for you, and it's like it's at that

616
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: point it's unfair to everyone because now you're trying to

617
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: like force someone to do something, and also it's just

618
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: not going to work for you.

619
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Speaker 2: So yeah, slivey TOA says, I've been in this situation before.

620
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 2: You start by asking for help as nicely as possible

621
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 2: because it's awkward and uncomfortable. Then you straight up tell them.

622
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 2: Then you exacerate a fight, then you're numb poetic, but

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Speaker 2: uh yeah, accurate. That's yeah, yeah, I feel like I'm coming.

624
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 2: I think, you know, rereading some of the bits from before,

625
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Speaker 2: it feels it feels like just end of the rope

626
00:29:59,360 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 2: kind of thing.

627
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah's which just makes sense. You know, that's a

628
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Speaker 1: lot to have to deal with, but ideally you don't

629
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Speaker 1: get to the point where you're, you know, on the offensive.

630
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650
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: wasn't around. What the heck, Oh my god, we gotta

651
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: get a hubby to be like yo, mom, chill, dude,

652
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: that's ouch. That is time out there, that sandwich worthy.

653
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: Oh dear, oh my god. She denied. He sympathized with me,

654
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: but nothing was ever truly done. Since I gave birth.

655
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: My husband's just been clueless. When I was there recovering,

656
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: he would go home and sleep and leave me all

657
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: alone because the couch was uncomfortable. So we wouldn't hang

658
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: out with her on the couch because like, oh baby,

659
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: the couch, that's crazy. I had to call him twenty

660
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: times to get him to wake up and come back

661
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: to the hospital because I was lonely. He wasn't at

662
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: the hospital with you. He was tired.

663
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 3: Oh god, I gotta take care of himself. You get

664
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 3: the power of two, you like I only have one?

665
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. Then when he left, he was asking me

666
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: to carry things to the car with him. Do you

667
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: not understand how child birth works?

668
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 2: I mean, like, but babe, you were carrying all this

669
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 2: extra weight. I mean, I just want to make it

670
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 2: the same. Yeah.

671
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just say, you know, give you in

672
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: your routine, this is not the same. But my dad

673
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: famously started boiling a pot of coffee when my mom

674
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: went into labor with me, and my mom was like,

675
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: get into the car, drive me to the hospital. The

676
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: nurse had to tell him that I shouldn't be carrying anything.

677
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: I just given birth, because I was gonna say, oh

678
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: if this was his hospital another time, but yeah, it

679
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: was right after sheha birth. When we got home, he

680
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,959
Speaker 1: complained about his lack of sleep. I was struggling learning

681
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: how to nurse. He was my cheerleader through nursing. I

682
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: have to give him credit there as the first two

683
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: months went. I was consistently bawling about how sleep deprived

684
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: I was, while he was getting eight to ten hours

685
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: of uninterrupted sleep every night.

686
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 2: I mean, just because you're not good and sleep doesn't

687
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 2: mean I can't get my zees.

688
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: Golly. It caused a lot of fights because I couldn't

689
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: hear him tell me he was exhausted without having a meltdown.

690
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: Then his mom would come over and they'd leave a

691
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: huge mess for me to clean. On more than one occasion,

692
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: he complained about the basement being messy, so I helped

693
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: him lift things and clean up. It caused me to

694
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: start bleeding heavily, and my doctor told me I shouldn't

695
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: be lifting anything heavy. What does this not understand about

696
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: medical professionals telling you not to do things that cause

697
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: you to bleed?

698
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 3: Dude, I feel so bad for this guy. He's trying

699
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 3: to like rearrange his basement and his wife just keep.

700
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: Doing it all alone. Yeah. Now I used to clean

701
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: up blood. No, no, Yeah, it's just so unfair. Yeah, bro,

702
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: he's he's trying to be a good manager, you know,

703
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: and delegate effectively, and his his his subordinates start doing

704
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: their work properly. Once crying. The other one's like bleeding,

705
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: I got a useless team. Oh god, he's a poise, right,

706
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: I tell you that's how he's seeing it. This is

707
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: the point of contention because my husband continuously asked me

708
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: to help him lift heavy things and I couldn't, so

709
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: he would get annoyed. Then he'd complain about it all day.

710
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Now we're at month three and I

711
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,959
Speaker 1: think my marriage is over. Oh man, I mean just now, dude.

712
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 3: It would have been over when you asked her, Like

713
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 3: if I was a girl, it would have been over

714
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 3: the moment you asked me to take something to the car.

715
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, the old things. What. We've been distant ever since

716
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: the baby arrived, and I haven't wanted to have spicy

717
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: sleep or be affection you. I mean, haven't you just

718
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: been bleeding out? Yeah? I guess this is three months later. Yeah,

719
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: three months later. Three months later, you know, literally she

720
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: goes and she's like, hey, babe, how you doing. He's like,

721
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: it's basically clear he got you got those two boy

722
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: fours out of the way. What did that little guy

723
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: help me out? Or was he just sitting there a

724
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: laund just looking around and shaking and say, oh God.

725
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: So husband has been asking I'm all right a lot

726
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: and I say I'm fine. Boys, what happens when a

727
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: woman says she's fine? Not fine, She's not fine. I

728
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,280
Speaker 1: don't know what else to say, but I feel miserable

729
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: in tents up every time he walks in the same

730
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,399
Speaker 1: room as me. Today he was on my case about

731
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: walking our dog. I'm so exhausted from my exclusively my

732
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: front airbag beating, and I don't have the energy to

733
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: walk our dog. I had been up since two thirty

734
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: am with my baby and just couldn't handle anything else

735
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: on my plate. So he whined and moaned about doing it,

736
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: but promised me I could nap. I snapped and remind

737
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: him that I hadn't slept the full eight hours and months.

738
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: He got pissy and stormed off.

739
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 2: Man is doing nothing. This is the worst husband and

740
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 2: father ever.

741
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,919
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't get it. Like when you don't get

742
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: it that you're like terrorizing your wife with lifting two

743
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: by fours and sleep deprivation. Dude. He avoided me the

744
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: entire day and locked himself in his office. Real mature.

745
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: I spent the rest of the day randomly breaking down

746
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 1: into full blown sobs because I was so tired. Eleven

747
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: PM hits and he hasn't come out of his office.

748
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: So I finally break go get him. He gives me

749
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: the cold shoulder and I just break down. All of

750
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: the lack of support just broke me. I told him

751
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: I hated him. I wish I could go home. I

752
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: even mentioned divorce. I mean, at this point, I feel

753
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: like that is warranted. He's not a partner.

754
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 2: Breaking breaking point, breaking point, Yeah, like to a ridiculous

755
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: degree if you're.

756
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: Like sleep deprived, And not only is he not like, oh,

757
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 1: figure something out and watch a baby, he's like locking

758
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: himself in his office. So the only option is basically

759
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: leaving the baby unattended or you continuing to just be

760
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: insanely sleep deprived.

761
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, you can properly just go f off yep,

762
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 2: like like May locking himself away, making her walk the dog,

763
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 2: and then forcing her to rearrange the basement.

764
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: Yeah. Next up, he's like, uh, hey, I think we

765
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: need a redesign in the in the living room, Can

766
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: we like, could you like move the couch and just like,

767
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: you know a little bit more sure that it looks good?

768
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: You know, you just keep moving a little bit more

769
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: to the left left. Actually, let's go to the ride.

770
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: The pros trying to make it on HGTV over here.

771
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: So he calmed down and I apologized for being selfish.

772
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: When I asked what he did all day, he said

773
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: he napped. Oh, he locked himself in his office. But dude,

774
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,760
Speaker 1: I feel like this is the evil version of my brother.

775
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: He loves to sleep. I feel like the evil Tait

776
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: would do this for sure. Yeah, evil naps are crazy, dude.

777
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: Why it takes such a great thing and destroy it.

778
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: He napped the whole day. Well, I was struggling to

779
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: keep myself standing. He wasn't napping. Oh boy, I broke down.

780
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: I cried and cried. He was very apologetic and showering

781
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: me in sories, and I love you. For the first

782
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: time ever, I couldn't tell him I loved him too.

783
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: Now it's two am, and I can't sleep because I'm

784
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: so distraught. How do we get this woman some sleep?

785
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: We need to figure this out. He's snoring next to

786
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: me and I just hate him. Right now, he's rubbing

787
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: it in her face. Just give him a little whack. Also,

788
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: he slept all day and now he's like knocked out gold, Like,

789
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 1: does bro have like some sleeping like disorder?

790
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 2: I want, you know, like in like the Freddy Krueger

791
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 2: movies where they like try to keep themselves awake by

792
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 2: like splashing water on their face, like sticking like needles

793
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 2: in their arms.

794
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what she needs to do. We gotta We

795
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: just dropped the two by four from the basement on

796
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: his lap. Yeah. Yeah, they get the work to stay up.

797
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 1: I want to take my baby and run away. I

798
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: don't want to live her anymore. Being a single mom

799
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,240
Speaker 1: seems easier than dealing with all of this emotional stress

800
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: and to collect. That's how you know. That's that is

801
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: how you know.

802
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 2: Once you believe that raising the kid alone is better

803
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 2: than raising the kid with this guy, that's how you

804
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 2: know it is over. Wow, this guy is a but.

805
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: Yeah good good like test Yeah, like marriage test right,

806
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: their marriage test? Marriage test? Is it?

807
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 2: Like what what's easier? Well, but like I mean I

808
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 2: feel like that's like I feel.

809
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: Like maybe logistically, is it logistically easier to like care

810
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: for the baby, do all the stuff together or apart?

811
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: And it seems like I've thought about a.

812
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 3: Date idea where we baby Angie and I babysit kids

813
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 3: for an evening, just a se I have.

814
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: An idea for you. You should foster a dog together

815
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: for a day, for a day. Yeah, you can.

816
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 2: You can take you can take dogs called like happy

817
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 2: Friends or whatever. You can take dogs and foster them

818
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 2: for a day. Puppies.

819
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: Oh that'd be sick. You could.

820
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you can take them out. Yeah, be

821
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 2: cute thing. I'm gonna look that up. Sounds fun.

822
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: Yeah right this couple years. Actually, actually not, they don't

823
00:39:53,040 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: need God, it's a foster dog take care of. So

824
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: I brought ten of them. Yeah, I love the ball,

825
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: brought the whole little babe. I'm really tired from taking

826
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: it over. I'm gonna go nap, go babe, go walk

827
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: the real qui de no no. Remember they have their

828
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 1: own dog as well. So she has eleven dogs just

829
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,439
Speaker 1: like just like she takes it and they all run

830
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: a different She's also holding the baby because he's not

831
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: watching the baby. He's lapping, she's bleeding.

832
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 4: Fleeing and is like the chair of the cake. She's

833
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 4: moving from the basement. Oh, they don't move the couch.

834
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 2: Now you have a bunch of sled dogs at your

835
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 2: disposal and should be.

836
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, we gotta compose myself here. We got we

837
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: got more boys. There's keep imagining insane like three Stooges

838
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 1: scenarios are here. Okay, So what am I supposed to do?

839
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: I just can't believe I'm ready to leave him all

840
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: because he took a nap.

841
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 2: I mean, girl, is not just a nap. That is

842
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 2: the tip of the iceberg. It is so much more.

843
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 2: This is the most incompetent straw man's scarecrow of a

844
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 2: husband you have. Yeah, man stands in the field. It

845
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 2: does nothing. I think you gotta I think you gotta

846
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 2: gotta kick him over and leave him.

847
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chad is right with Fury. You should be. Should be.

848
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 3: We ride on.

849
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: When my rizzle says my rizzle, my rizzle, yeah, is

850
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 1: it mirrors all? I feel like that's what it is. Yeah,

851
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: but I also like my rizzle my Rizzle's fun too.

852
00:41:58,360 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 1: Mirrors all.

853
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 2: I choose your an adventure, Yeah, let us know how

854
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 2: to pronounce your but yeah, I think like I think honestly.

855
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 2: The first thing I would do is if op has

856
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 2: parents or something in her life, call the parents and

857
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: be like, hey, can I literally go to your house

858
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 2: and freaking sleep please.

859
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 1: Yah yeah, yeah, just like watch my kid for like

860
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: if you you know, just like be hanging out, have

861
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: the kid around.

862
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 3: And just like let me sleep, cause this is important

863
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 3: after surgery to you know rest. But surgery and having

864
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 3: a baby's the same thing. So she needs to rest

865
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 3: in order to get herself back.

866
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 1: It's insane the levels of like he doesn't care respect

867
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: her needs at all. These needs we're not talking about, like,

868
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: oh I need to like go out, you know with

869
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: my girls and I whatever. We're talking like I'm bleeding

870
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: lifting your freaking lumber bro falling asleep.

871
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean I think like leaning a

872
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 2: little bit on parents or family would be good.

873
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: Yes, we have an update. Oh my god, let's hear it.

874
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: Let's dive into it here. So updates. I fixed the FtM.

875
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: It means first time mom, uh, not be able to

876
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: make I guess that was an abbreviation use. So we talked, well,

877
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: I talked and he listened. I told him I couldn't

878
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: do this anymore and something needed to change immediately or

879
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: I was going back home and I was going to

880
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: take my baby with me. He stared at me, confused, Uh,

881
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:21,959
Speaker 1: whoa I don't go, And then he realized I had

882
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: two bags packed by my dresser ready to leave. Oh wow,

883
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: I finally was able to articulate all the resentment that

884
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: had been built his mom's cruel and careless behavior. I

885
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:33,439
Speaker 1: forgot even about his crazy month.

886
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 2: That wow, I forgot to again as a reminder to everyone,

887
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 2: his mom would say.

888
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: Dead baby, dead baby, dead.

889
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 2: Baby when he wasn't around two op. While she's pregnant.

890
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 2: While she's pregnant, she would like, literally the mom was

891
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 2: trying to like manifest freakin' beetlejuice style a miscarriage, and

892
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 2: he did nothing. That yeah, and this man did nothing,

893
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 2: is wow? I forgot about that? Is so bad? Yeah,

894
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 2: it was so bad.

895
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 1: His mom's cruel and careless behavior. Feeling abandoned at the

896
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: hospital and now at home. How it feels that everything

897
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: falls to me so he can bring a paycheck home.

898
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: I realized after saying all this, I hadn't really told

899
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: him how I was feeling, but just continued to bottle

900
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: it up. He was defensive at first, and I gave

901
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: him one warning that if this conversation was filled with excuses,

902
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: I'm walking out you, sister. So he stopped and truly listened. Okay,

903
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: this is the first thing this guy has done all day.

904
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: But bro has walked three miles in the wrong direction,

905
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: and this is his first step back, don't. I don't

906
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: think it's a step. This is the first time he's

907
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: just stood still. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, he's not

908
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: walking in.

909
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 2: The wrong walking in any direction, but he is he

910
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 2: is maybe preparing to maybe make one right step.

911
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 1: Ope. He says he was genuinely remorseful. He only said

912
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: sorry once at the end, but he meant it. Then

913
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: he started asking me what I needed him to do.

914
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: We made a plan and I finally feel like I

915
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:03,720
Speaker 1: can breathe a little easier.

916
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay again again, you know, a plan is

917
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 2: all is great? But who said was it like Winston

918
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,959
Speaker 2: Churchill that was like plans or something.

919
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 1: Something like that, you make a plan and God laughs

920
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 1: or something? Yeah? Yeah, who is that? Who said that?

921
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: I don't know? Yeah, I don't know who he's saying.

922
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, plans often you know, don't go how

923
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:25,959
Speaker 2: you thought.

924
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: Indeed, what was it?

925
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 3: What the quote is you make a plan God laughs

926
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 3: a yibbish proverb?

927
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,359
Speaker 1: What Yiddish Yiddish proverb? Yeah? There you go. There it is.

928
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,360
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929
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,000
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931
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Speaker 1: So he made a plan, and I finally feel like

932
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: it can breathe a little easier. He has dog walks

933
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,240
Speaker 1: handled indefinitely. Mother in law is banned from the house

934
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,280
Speaker 1: and to have no contact with me or the baby.

935
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: Once husband's off work. I'm off duty for the day.

936
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: I'm still front air bag feeding because I want to

937
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: do that. Feed with them front airbags. I get a

938
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: lot of fulfillment out of it. And if you saw

939
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: the way that my baby pats my front air bag

940
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: when she nurses, you you would too. Her big hazel

941
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 1: eyes are like substance, an addictive substance that I can't

942
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: say because of censorship. I'm typing this while soaking in

943
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: a warm bath. I've been promised the weekend to deepcompress

944
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: and sleep until my heart's content. I'll pump instead of

945
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: nurse this weekend, and we have a stash of frozen

946
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: milk he's planning on using. He knows what needs to

947
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: be done her routine, how much to feed her, so

948
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: I know he's capable. I can actually hear him unloading

949
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: the dishwasher right now. It's a miracle. We are planning

950
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: on doing something as a couple one day out of

951
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 1: each weekend, so I don't feel like just a mom.

952
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: I can be a person too. You're not a mover,

953
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: You're not a dog walker, a dog walker like.

954
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 2: Little baby making machine. We did just hire you on

955
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 2: Rover to just be there.

956
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: We are going to couples counseling and I'm going to

957
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: start individual therapy. He's already in therapy. Well it ain't

958
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: working well. He didn't have a dad who showed him

959
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 1: what love looked like. He had an adult toddler as

960
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: a father who would throw tantrums and verbally mistreat him

961
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: and his mother. My husband often comments on how my

962
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: dad dropped everything in a nanosecond for me, and how

963
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: he wants to be like that, but he's not. He's

964
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 1: failing me and his daughter. That was really tough for

965
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: him to hear.

966
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, hey, but hey, direct communication. We

967
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 2: got direct You're saying this is what you're doing. I

968
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 2: got my bags packed. Aggressive, but I think like we

969
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 2: finally got to reach a point you reach a point,

970
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 2: and sometimes you need your communication maybe to cut through

971
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:39,720
Speaker 2: the noise.

972
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit.

973
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 2: Especially if you've if you had this conversation so many times, like.

974
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: And even like I feel like the packed bags is

975
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: like it was a communication tool, but also like, I'm

976
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: literally just exhausted and I'm gonna get sleep. So now

977
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: we can take it day by day if he's actually

978
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: capable of change. I have to wait and see. My

979
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: bags are still packed and by the door. My guess

980
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: I have them there as a reminder to myself that

981
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: leaving is an option at any moment. I please. That

982
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: makes me feel a little bit better. I'm hopeful, but

983
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: not delusional. I know we might not be able to

984
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: come back from this, and that's okay. I have to

985
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: take care of myself. So my little girl has a

986
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: mama who smiles at things besides her. I have an

987
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: appointment scheduled for a postpartum depression screening, and my mom's

988
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,800
Speaker 1: planning on visiting the start of next month. That's smart idea.

989
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: My family is ready with their door wide open when

990
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 1: I choose to come home. Made me cry to hear

991
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: my dad tell me he'll be on the first flight

992
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: when I'm ready so I don't have to fly home alone.

993
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: That's so cute, horrible. Thank you all for letting me

994
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,840
Speaker 1: spill my guts, and we have an update number two.

995
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a little hesitant about this plan because usually

996
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 3: when couples havel like big arguments like this guy will change,

997
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 3: the girl will change about a week or two and

998
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 3: then right back at it as if nothing happened.

999
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: It's hard to change.

1000
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, habits are hard to change old habits. Die Hard

1001
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 2: and Winston Churchill said plans are indeed, so the likelihood

1002
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 2: of it going through low.

1003
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do, we are. We all on He's going

1004
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:11,720
Speaker 1: to fail.

1005
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 2: I am, I mean, I am so like I'm I

1006
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 2: love that this story has the possibility, yes, of live

1007
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 2: being with a happily ever after.

1008
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: I love a happy ending, But I'm not hopeful. I'm

1009
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: not I'm not hopeful.

1010
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 2: That you know that this is going to lead to,

1011
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 2: you know, the places you wanted to you know what.

1012
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: I'm going to be different. I'm going to be on

1013
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: the side of hope. Today leads a gentleman, and I

1014
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: hope he hasn't earned it, but I'm gonna I'm gonna

1015
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: give it to him for some reason, I'm giving hubby fail.

1016
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:50,720
Speaker 1: John's given Hubby success.

1017
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 3: Let's see, because on one hand he is going to

1018
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 3: therapy trying to be a better person, but the other hand,

1019
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 3: habit's a hearty sang.

1020
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:00,879
Speaker 1: Well, we've got update number two, so let's find act.

1021
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to update, but I've been scared. I

1022
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,240
Speaker 1: felt so overwhelmed and haven't ma sure what to write.

1023
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: The post I wrote was me at my lowest. I

1024
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: wish I could take the version of me in time

1025
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: and just hug her. I was broken down. I needed

1026
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: anyone to be real with me. Those comments feel like

1027
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: a slap in the face and way too much to

1028
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,959
Speaker 1: handle all at once, so I needed time to read

1029
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: through and digest it all. Thank you everyone. I was

1030
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: diagnosed with postpartum depression and anxiety shortly after I made

1031
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: my post. To the people who pushed me to talk

1032
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: to my doctor, thank you. My life has improved tenfold

1033
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: after getting proper treatment. I feel like in normal updates,

1034
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: people dive into their lives and the details of what's happened.

1035
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:39,919
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. I want to say

1036
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: something that's more important than me in my life, to

1037
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: the moms and their loved ones. If you or anyone

1038
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: you know has just had a baby, check in on them.

1039
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: If you've just had a baby, make sure you have

1040
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: someone who's tuned into you. Although you have brought new

1041
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,839
Speaker 1: life into the world and it should be joyous, you

1042
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: are allowed to feel whatever you feel. Please, even if

1043
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,879
Speaker 1: you feel fine, prioritize your mental health and wellbeing because

1044
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: your baby depends on you to be healthy so they

1045
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 1: can be healthy. What you're going through is valid and important,

1046
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: and you need someone to look out for you while

1047
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: you look out for the baby. Someone needs to look

1048
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: out for you with the same love and care. By

1049
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: the way, I want to know how to love and

1050
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: care the best possibly freaking can two thousand knee slapping,

1051
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: brain tickling episodes full of relationship advice. That is, if

1052
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: you go to Spotify, Apple I search Okay, story time,

1053
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: listen to our huge calog of the podcast. It's a

1054
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: good time. But boys, we do have I think a

1055
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: little a little bit of a I can't believe.

1056
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, your message was important, but I want to

1057
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 2: hear the tea. Yes, I want to hear the update.

1058
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 2: That's important too.

1059
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,919
Speaker 1: Did he follow through? Did he follow through?

1060
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 2: That is the question like op, he doesn't really want

1061
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:47,359
Speaker 2: to talk about it.

1062
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: Oh maybe it's too traumatic. Oh maybe it didn't happen. Well,

1063
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,839
Speaker 1: I think we're getting at least a little bit. All right,

1064
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: let's say them a night. As for me, my life

1065
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: is turned around. Taking care of myself. The was what

1066
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: I need. I know. People told me to leave my

1067
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: husband and how horrible he is, and like every other

1068
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: excuse post, you don't understand because you're not living it.

1069
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,479
Speaker 1: I'm happy, safe and healthy, but most importantly, my daughter

1070
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: is thriving. It took a lot of work and it

1071
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: will continue to take a lot more. I love my

1072
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: husband and he has shown through time that he can

1073
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: be reliable and hasn't faltered. Okay, I really thought he

1074
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: would fail and it was expect to get most dace.

1075
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: I thought it too, But John might be right ah ah,

1076
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: but he hasn't. That's right. He actually turned it around,

1077
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Speaker 1: and that feels better than winning the lottery. I guess

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Speaker 1: people can change when they really want to, can't they.

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Speaker 1: I could go on and on, but things are better.

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Speaker 1: My daughter's happy and healthy. She's feisty like me, and

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Speaker 1: nothing's going to stop her. She loves her daddy as

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00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: much as I do, sometimes more and now with a

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Speaker 1: clear head, I can see things are okay because we

1084
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Speaker 1: have and continue to learn how to communicate with one another.

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Speaker 1: If I could pass anything on, check on your loved ones.

1086
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't even know how hard they're struggling until

1087
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Speaker 1: you pull the wool from over their eyes. Thank you

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Speaker 1: to everyone posting with the push I needed and some

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Speaker 1: quick notable comments. Commentar asked if Opie's husband apologized. Opie

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Speaker 1: says yes, he has. He continues to and has acknowledged

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Speaker 1: how his selfishness came at my expense in the most

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Speaker 1: vulnerable time in my life. It's a shame that follows

1093
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Speaker 1: him and he asks randomly if I really do forgive him.

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Speaker 1: It's uncomfortable to see how awful he feels about what happened,

1095
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Speaker 1: because all I wanted to say is it's okay, but

1096
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Speaker 1: we both know it's not and never will be. So

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Speaker 1: it's icky going to live with that. But I also

1098
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Speaker 1: know that it's for the best, which is a pretty

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Speaker 1: powerful thing. It's like, hey, your behavior did was not okay.

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Speaker 1: I can't just say it's okay to it, but hey,

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Speaker 1: we're building and growing from here, and hey, it is okay, now,

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Speaker 1: it seems and then another commentary, you're letting yourself down

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00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: by staying as someone else. A downthread said, your rose

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00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: colored glasses must be glued to your face. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that's fair. That's a little little much, Opie says, maybe,

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Speaker 1: but I really think so. It's easy to judge. I'm

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Speaker 1: not too interested if people support my choices or not.

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Speaker 1: I really only posted this in hopes that if anyone

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Speaker 1: else is struggling with PPD or PPA, this could help

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Speaker 1: push them to seek help. And that's pretty much it.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Wow, I mean I am.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy that it ended well. Yeah, I mean that

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Speaker 2: it ended well. I'm still like nervous about the husband,

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Speaker 2: but it does seem like he's been showing some good sprites.

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Speaker 1: I feel like at this point, and you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: she was able to like with the proper treatment, like

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Speaker 1: it's easier to give him an excuse because she's just

1118
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Speaker 1: feeling better in general, give him a pass. But it

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Speaker 1: seems like from all that she was going to the

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Speaker 1: first one. If he wasn't kind of holding his end

1121
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Speaker 1: to the bargain, she'd be more vocal about about it.

1122
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Speaker 1: And she didn't really say anything, ye like, oh, he's

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Speaker 1: not really She said that he's doing well.

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Speaker 2: So let us know what you think. Put your answers

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Speaker 2: in the comments below. All right, I think that's where

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Speaker 2: this episode.

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