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Speaker 1: This is intergalactic John. This is Alien Sam on the

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Speaker 2: My sister in law disrespect to my wedding request. She

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Speaker 2: was asked to leave. You need to leave before we

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Speaker 2: get into my wonderful wedding day. Here's some backstory. I'm

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Speaker 2: the second child and baby in my family. While this

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Speaker 2: has its perks at first, it quickly became the worst.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, this comes from you, Dash No

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Speaker 2: Tastes thirteen eighty. If you want to submit your own stories,

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Speaker 2: go to Roka Storytimes, so Breddit. So my older brother

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Speaker 2: less his heart is considered golden and untouchable. He was favored,

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming, because they only wanted boys, and because of it,

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Speaker 2: he got all he wanted. I was totally fine with

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Speaker 2: that because that meant I was able to grow and

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Speaker 2: be my own person today. Sure, but I'm a wonderful,

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Speaker 2: lovely aunt. I've never missed a debate tournament. That being said,

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Speaker 2: here comes a problem. My brother has been in a

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Speaker 2: relationship with Lauren twenty six female for almost sevenish years.

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Speaker 2: They have stated that they don't want a wedding or

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Speaker 2: even to really get married, as they love their dynamic now,

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Speaker 2: which is great for them, but for me, I've had

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Speaker 2: my dream wedding plan for years. I met my now

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Speaker 2: We had known when we were getting married for a while,

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Speaker 2: We had made a separate savings account specifically for our

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Speaker 2: dream wedding because we knew when we would want it.

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Speaker 2: When I came out with my engagement, it was clear

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Speaker 2: my brother and his girlfriend weren't happy with the attention

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Speaker 2: I was getting from our media and extended family. I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't say his jealousy was obvious, but looking back, it

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Speaker 2: was clear he was mad I would be getting married first.

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Speaker 2: But they said they never wanted to get married.

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Speaker 3: Why would you be jealous? Why are you making a problem?

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Speaker 2: Fast forward to the day we announced our save the date.

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Speaker 2: Literally right after we sent them out, my brother finally.

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Speaker 2: While I was a little confused, I still offered them

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Speaker 2: that step. Now, if you think they decided to get

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Speaker 2: married the same day, I'm happy to say, thankfully, no,

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Speaker 2: that would have been crazy. That would have been crazy.

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Speaker 2: They did not. They are waiting and hoping for the

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Speaker 2: perfect day to just arise. Shortly after, my brother came

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Speaker 2: goes into being a bride. While I had some reservations,

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Speaker 2: I ultimately decided to let her become a bridesmaid to

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Speaker 2: try to bond. Horrible bad idea. She was a mess

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Speaker 2: to work with. When it came to days to meet

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Speaker 2: up for bridesmaid dress shopping, she suddenly became sick every

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Speaker 2: single time. It's a miracle that she's alive. With how

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Speaker 2: know we needed to get her dressed soon. I wasn't

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Speaker 2: was not not black. I've always had this dream of

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Speaker 1: But black, very emo. I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 2: My husband chose a beautiful red tooksito. So we decided

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Speaker 1: The one time where you can actually wear white to.

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Speaker 3: A wedding, you can wear Yeah, live your dreams.

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Speaker 2: My future sister in law I hated that idea. It's

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Speaker 2: so funny that, yeah, it's just crazy. That's like not

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Speaker 2: it's literally the wedding.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to do that.

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Speaker 2: Every time it was brought up, she never failed to

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Speaker 1: That is so rude.

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Speaker 2: Why in front of the future bride to be like,

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Speaker 2: your wedding decision is taki.

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Speaker 2: I didn't mind because it was my wedding, not hers.

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Speaker 2: and I planned a weekend get away for all of us.

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Speaker 2: My maid of honor, Emmy, would stand up for me

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Speaker 2: and did her very best to find things that Lauren

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Speaker 2: again into two months before my wedding. Lauren comes to

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Speaker 2: She sent me the link to a black semi lace

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Speaker 2: I felt she was deliberately doing this to make me

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Speaker 2: I was upset at this, so I called my brother

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Speaker 2: my day to be perfect. Feelings, that seems very reasonable.

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Speaker 2: He said he had no clue what the big deal was,

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Speaker 1: Mean? I care?

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Speaker 2: It's my wedding.

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Speaker 3: She's out.

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Speaker 2: I repeated my previous choice. If she didn't pick a

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Speaker 2: While I was bummed she didn't want to pick a

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Speaker 2: Boy was I wrong. The day my wedding is here.

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Speaker 2: The morning starts off wonderfuly. Everyone is happy until Lauren

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Speaker 2: Security Security, Security, I don't know who that woman is.

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Speaker 4: Security, Seary, get this woman out of my ballroom.

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Speaker 2: I immediately started crying and was so disappointed this was happening.

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Speaker 2: Everyone around me was so confused and lost. My maid

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Speaker 3: Get over yourself.

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Speaker 2: I managed to get myself together, because I'll be danged

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Speaker 2: if I little miss Lauren ruins my wedding to the

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Speaker 2: Mind you, many guests opposited for a white outfit to

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Speaker 2: My aunt wasn't having any of this, though, and told

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Speaker 2: it is what it is. The rest of the wedding

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Speaker 2: went beautifully as I danced and partied until I literally dropped.

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Speaker 2: There are plenty of photos of my husband carrying me

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Speaker 2: after my wedding, I was bombarded with messages from Lauren

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Speaker 2: The messages became phone calls and voicemails about how I

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Speaker 2: with one message, Hi, Lauren, I'm sorry to hear your

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Speaker 2: one major request. I do not hate you or my brother,

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Speaker 2: and I want you guys to have a very happy wedding.

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Speaker 2: It hurts you might not want me there, but ultimately

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Speaker 2: it's all right. I wish you the best, but for

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That seems like just perfect, great, perfect, straightforward to facts. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and the only lie is that you I'm mature.

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Speaker 1: I hate her, No, but you don't play her mind

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just clear cut. There we go. I never got

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Speaker 2: and how she was still so hurt. This gained some

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Speaker 2: pity comments, but mostly people saying they were on my side,

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Speaker 2: so the post was removed. My lovely husband advised me

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Speaker 2: to just block and be done and take a break,

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Speaker 2: So that's what I will be doing. However, my brother

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Speaker 2: That left me wondering if I was ale for just

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Speaker 2: I did miss having my brother there, but I can't

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Speaker 2: but feel she deliberately wanted to hurt me with that choice.

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Speaker 2: So potatoes, tell me? Was I the a whole again?

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Speaker 1: Update.

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, First off, thank you for all the support

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Speaker 2: on my past posts. You guys are wonderful and made

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Speaker 2: me laugh about an unfortunate situation. So thank you. Now

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Speaker 2: on to the real reason we're here, the update on

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Speaker 2: my drama. Sister in law Lauren and my brother Kurt

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Speaker 2: have decided to split up for a little bit, a

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Speaker 2: permanent type of break, if you will. I hear no

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Speaker 2: shock from yo, Sopha.

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Speaker 3: What sorry?

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Speaker 1: Why there we go?

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Speaker 2: My brother called me a little bit of go to

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Speaker 2: inform you of this choice. Somehow he got a hold

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Speaker 2: of my posts and read many responses. Good for him.

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Speaker 1: True.

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Speaker 2: But if you want to be our baby mama, you can.

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Speaker 2: She only found out she was pregnant a week before

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Speaker 3: That's true. Oh, be had a good wedding.

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Speaker 4: My mother in law is manipulative, so we started recording

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Speaker 4: When she took Adam and John to town to get

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Speaker 4: to the army, but came back because of personal reasons.

441
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Speaker 4: His mother did not like that he decided to come

442
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Speaker 4: back at all.

443
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Speaker 2: Oh, we're going to go to the army and leave

444
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Speaker 2: your partner and child with your mother.

445
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Speaker 4: His mother did not like that he decided to come

446
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Speaker 4: back at all. From the moment we picked him up,

447
00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,760
Speaker 4: she didn't even look in his direction and refused to

448
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,560
Speaker 4: speak to him unless she wanted something done or wanted

449
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,640
Speaker 4: to ask him if he found a real job. Yet,

450
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,760
Speaker 4: according to her, it was because it was peaceful without

451
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,679
Speaker 4: him there. Jeez, But it was peaceful because I couldn't

452
00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,439
Speaker 4: object to anything John or Karen did because I was

453
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,920
Speaker 4: too scared that it would be me against the two

454
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Speaker 4: of them, and I have my daughter to protect.

455
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Speaker 3: Now.

456
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,240
Speaker 4: Karen is not letting go of the real job thing.

457
00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,960
Speaker 4: For instance, she was holding our daughter and only when

458
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,880
Speaker 4: she was sure I was asleep in the other room

459
00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,200
Speaker 4: I was sick, did she try to pick a fight

460
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Speaker 4: with Adam about our jobs. He told her she couldn't

461
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Speaker 4: yell while holding our daughter and if she wanted to

462
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Speaker 4: have a respectful conversation they could do it later.

463
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Speaker 3: She got so.

464
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Speaker 4: Mad she handed our daughter over to John, a guy

465
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Speaker 4: we're uncomfortable with due to his aggressive, short tempered nature,

466
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 4: and because John even comments on her timeouts, which we

467
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,280
Speaker 4: actually take for her to calm down while we sit

468
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Speaker 4: with her and explain why she couldn't do what she did,

469
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:53,400
Speaker 4: speaking calmly to her and breaking generational trauma. John likes

470
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Speaker 4: to point out that she's just one years old and

471
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:56,960
Speaker 4: it won't work, and we just don't want to make

472
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Speaker 4: the effort. When Adam tried to reclaim our daughter from John,

473
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Speaker 4: who was in the kitchen around the corner, Karen physically

474
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Speaker 4: blocked the doorway and tried to push him away, Wow

475
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Speaker 4: yet to push past her. Then John held her for

476
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Speaker 4: a minute or two with his back to Adam, even

477
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Speaker 4: though Adam kept asking for her, and then handed her back. Then,

478
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 4: when Adam took our daughter for a walk outside, Karen

479
00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:23,000
Speaker 4: followed him around the entire house twice. The moment our

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Speaker 4: daughter saw her, she yelled from around the corner something

481
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Speaker 4: like I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to be with you

482
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,240
Speaker 4: right now, trying to make it seem as if Adam

483
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Speaker 4: was keeping our daughter away from her, even though just

484
00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 4: minutes before she was the one keeping him from his child.

485
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,360
Speaker 4: She even whispers outright lies to our daughter, petty manipulations

486
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Speaker 4: meant to distort her perception to a two year old.

487
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Speaker 2: You need to get out of there, as like a side.

488
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Speaker 4: We moved on to another section of our very small business,

489
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Speaker 4: and it is struggling to bring in money. However, we

490
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 4: still contribute to the house the way we should. We

491
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,159
Speaker 4: created a back buddy to raise funds for the business,

492
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Speaker 4: which is a recycling business, and we planned to sell

493
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Speaker 4: we made for that cause. But Karen is still not

494
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,360
Speaker 4: happy that we do not have real jobs. So we

495
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Speaker 4: decided to buy our own things for the house since

496
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Speaker 4: we're not allowed to use their stuff anymore. Now, Karen

497
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 4: wants us to use our stuff for everyone, but none

498
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Speaker 4: of theirs to make things for everyone. Meanwhile, we only

499
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 4: have enough for ourselves, and they make ten times more

500
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Speaker 4: money than us. She doesn't like that we buy our

501
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 4: own things now and have an opportunity to work from

502
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Speaker 4: home for a little while, so she tries to pick

503
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Speaker 4: fights with everything we do. When we don't engage, she

504
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 4: says Adam is turning his back on her and his family.

505
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Speaker 4: A few days ago, we had a big fight, and

506
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Speaker 4: whenever we made valid points, she said.

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Speaker 3: We were being disrespectful.

508
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, she was yelling at us and interrupting us, and

509
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Speaker 4: we stayed calm, keeping our cool and explaining how we

510
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Speaker 4: feel about things. She went as far as to say

511
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Speaker 4: that I do not have enough experience to be a

512
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,960
Speaker 4: good mom to our daughter, even though it's been two years.

513
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 4: Yet she has to respect our boundaries and has gotten

514
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Speaker 4: better at it, but she's still.

515
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 3: Not good enough for us.

516
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,640
Speaker 4: Apparently, I nearly asked her, so, why can you take

517
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,639
Speaker 4: more than two years to learn basic boundaries? But I

518
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,479
Speaker 4: have to know how to be a perfect mother at

519
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 4: two months because apparently she had to be one because

520
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 4: she had to go back to her real job.

521
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Speaker 3: She loves to bring.

522
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Speaker 4: Up the fact that I will never be a good

523
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 4: mother like she is because she had it harder than

524
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Speaker 4: me and did it on her own.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

526
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Speaker 3: But she forgets that.

527
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 4: She's allowed people in her life to abuse Adam and

528
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,159
Speaker 4: actually joined in sometimes. When I told her that she

529
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Speaker 4: is not doing right by Adam by not listening to

530
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Speaker 4: him when he is talking to her about how he feels,

531
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Speaker 4: she said, ah, shame, how will he ever live? In

532
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 4: a sarcastic tone. My boyfriend told me we should just

533
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 4: leave because it is useless talking to her when she

534
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 4: closes herself off to anything and the conversation goes in circles.

535
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 4: She constantly tells us we're disrespectful, yet she insults, manipulates,

536
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 4: and fights with us at every turn. If Adam tries

537
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 4: to have rational conversation, she either with our words, changes

538
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 4: the subject, or sarcastically says, oh, though, now I'm just.

539
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 3: The worst mother ever. Yes, yeah, and that's what you say.

540
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you're terrible to you are not a good mother.

541
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Speaker 4: There's no winning now. She's saying he does not care

542
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 4: about her and tries to send a messages saying that

543
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 4: we are not contributing, but she got mad when we did.

544
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 4: She's also mad that we are more independent than before.

545
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 4: She even asked for our daughter's birth certificate and then

546
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Speaker 4: said it's because she will be the only one to

547
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Speaker 4: inherit anything from her.

548
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 3: Don't give her the birth certificate.

549
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 4: We refuse to give it to her because we do

550
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 4: not trust her with it, and she got mad. She

551
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 4: then took the gift we got her for her birthday

552
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 4: and put it on our bed. Adam said it gently

553
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 4: at her door because he is not allowed to go.

554
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Speaker 3: Into her room.

555
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 4: We gifted it to her and we are not the

556
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Speaker 4: type of people to take gifts back, even though that

557
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 4: is what she has done. She then punted the box

558
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 4: and the gift away from her door and expected us

559
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Speaker 4: to pick it up. He bought her a dishwasher when

560
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 4: he was younger with his inheritance money from his grandmother

561
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 4: to make it easier for her because she has a

562
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 4: medical condition that makes it hard for her to do

563
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 4: certain things. He does not want to take it back,

564
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 4: but if she is going to give it back, we

565
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 4: are going to take it. This morning, she sent him

566
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 4: a prayer message after she picked a fight over us

567
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Speaker 4: not being comfortable driving with her to another town. After

568
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 4: everything he said, does it not make you realize how

569
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 4: wrong this is? If I have to record everything for

570
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 4: me and my family's safety. She then proceeded to say

571
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 4: that God would reveal the truth to him and set

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Speaker 4: him free because he has the Ahab and Jezebel's spirit.

573
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 3: In his life.

574
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 4: For those unfamiliar, this essentially means she believes I am

575
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 4: a manipulative, deceitful woman leading him into sin Jezebel while

576
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 4: he is a weak, well, he is weak and passive

577
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 4: for allowing it.

578
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 3: Ahab.

579
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Speaker 4: Now, I have apologized to him and her if I

580
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 4: ever tried to control the situation, but it was hard

581
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Speaker 4: for me to accept that.

582
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Speaker 3: Adam gets yelled.

583
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 4: At for everything and he just has to take it otherwise,

584
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 4: He will get a punishment, but now that we have

585
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 4: a child, I will not back down when things get

586
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 4: out of hand.

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00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 2: What's your punishment, I don't know. Yeah, you're an adult

588
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 2: with a child twenty weeks spanking.

589
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 4: But one thing she needs to understand is that Adam

590
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 4: is not weak and not passive anymore.

591
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 2: You say it.

592
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 4: He let the things she did go because it was

593
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 4: easier than trying to defend himself. But now he is

594
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 4: more adamant with his boundaries and ours. By the way,

595
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 4: I'm adamant that you can listen to full episodes with

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Speaker 4: stories just like this. Just go to Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

597
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Speaker 4: or your favorite podcast app and search up okay story time?

598
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Speaker 4: Are we just being spoiled and unreasonable? Even in that

599
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,439
Speaker 4: first thing, it's like Opi is being gaslet so hard

600
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 4: that she thinks that that she thinks that this terrible

601
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 4: behavior is normal. It feels like we cannot have any

602
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 4: say in anything because they have helped us a lot

603
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 4: with finances and our daughter, and she let us stay

604
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 4: in her house even when we got pregnant, and she

605
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 4: says we're lucky she didn't punt us out.

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Speaker 3: It just feels like she's so good distorting.

607
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 4: Reality and everything that happens, and she does not allow

608
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 4: us to have any boundaries with our daughter or for ourselves,

609
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 4: and everyone in our lives are telling us that she's

610
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 4: trying to make it harder for us. Maybe we are

611
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 4: just being dramatic, but we need a second opinion or

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Speaker 4: a bunch.

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Speaker 3: Are we the ales? And that is the end of

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Speaker 3: the story.

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Speaker 1: Here's janirog host here. We're gonna get back to the stories,

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Speaker 1: but here's a quick three minute break of ass from

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Speaker 1: I'm vegetarian.

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Speaker 3: Betrayal, betrayal, bizest form, the ultimate betrayal?

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Speaker 1: You what are you have fought? What are you in?

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Speaker 1: Fifth grade? The guy I'm dating is sort of a

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Speaker 1: good old boy. I live in an area where most

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Speaker 1: of the guys would probably describe themselves as that phase.

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Speaker 1: I am a vegetarian and I have been since I

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Speaker 1: tried to unlive a chicken when I was fifteen and

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Speaker 1: couldn't go through with it. By the way, this comes

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Speaker 1: from user no Meat Please. And if you want to

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Speaker 1: make your own stories, go to the r slash Okay

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Speaker 1: storytime subreddit and submit them there. So I don't mind

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Speaker 1: that other people eat meat, but on a moral level,

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Speaker 1: it's not okay for me. I'm not the vegetarian police,

632
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Speaker 1: but I also get tired of having to explain to

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Speaker 1: people around here that I do get enough protein. I'm

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Speaker 1: small framed and one hundred and eighteen pounds, and that

635
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Speaker 1: I'm not eating vegetables they cooked in lard. My boyfriend

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Speaker 1: and for reference here, op is twenty seven female. Her

637
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: boyfriend is thirty male. My boyfriend teases me about being

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Speaker 1: a vegetarian, but behind closed doors he is actually really

639
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: accommodating about it, or at least he used to be.

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00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: He cooks meat vegetarian food and says eating less meat

641
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: has helped him take off a couple of pounds. He

642
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: had me and some of his friends over the other night,

643
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Speaker 1: and he made pork chops for them and a big

644
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Speaker 1: old salad for me. While I was eating my salad,

645
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: I kept thinking something was off. The dressing was so

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Speaker 1: oily and had a really strong flavor. He always makes

647
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 1: his own salad dressing, so I asked him what he used.

648
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: We had all been drinking, and at this point his

649
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Speaker 1: two friends start cracking up. I'm sort of clueless, so

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00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: I wait for him to answer. He tells me that

651
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: he mixed in lard for extra flavor and he didn't

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Speaker 1: think I would notice. At this point, I just freeze

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Speaker 1: mid two. When he sees my reaction, he starts to

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Speaker 1: tell me it's not a big deal, it's just a joke,

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Speaker 1: don't get upset, etc. I calmly spit the food into

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Speaker 1: my napkin, placed the plate down, and got up to leave.

657
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: Everyone's gotten quiet. At this point, his friends start apologizing,

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00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: saying it was their idea, and my boyfriend starts telling

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Speaker 1: me not to go f that. I don't say a word,

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Speaker 1: and I walk home. I know that vegetarians get a

661
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: bad rap, but believe me when I say I'm not

662
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: one of those people. I work in a rural community

663
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: involving agriculture. I would never survive out here if I was.

664
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: I packed my own lunches for conventions and never make

665
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: a big deal out of it. But having someone I

666
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: care about essentially trick me into eating meat without my

667
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: permission is crossing a huge line for me. I haven't spoken, call,

668
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: or text to him for three days now. He's apologized

669
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: and sent flowers, but in one of the texts he

670
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: told me I was overreacting, which for me was the

671
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: deal breaker. My parents really like him, and when I

672
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: told them what happened, my dad got upset and told

673
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: me I'm making too big of a deal out of

674
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: something silly. He says, I'm letting my ridiculous eating habits

675
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: dictate my life. Reddit, I'm really hurt. I feel like

676
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: tricking me into eating lard was really cruel. But everyone's

677
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: attitude here is that I need to get a sense

678
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: of humor. I'm out of town at a conference and

679
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to discuss this with him when

680
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: I get back. Am I just being too sensitive? Sideways face?

681
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: There is an edit, but quickly, I'm gonna throw this

682
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Speaker 1: to you, Angie.

683
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Speaker 3: How do you feel I don't think so, because it's

684
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 3: not about the fact that she ate some lard. It's

685
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 3: about the fact that he totally.

686
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: Like it's the deception.

687
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and that's that's not okay.

688
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: Yeah true, And it's like it was my friend's idea.

689
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: It's like, brother, grow a backbone. You made the salad.

690
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: You could have said no, your friends, You're being stupid.

691
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: Just a fundamental, complete breach of trust.

692
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 3: Exactly.

693
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Speaker 1: Edit dang I did not believe I would come home

694
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: to all this feedback. Thank you guys so much for

695
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: making me feel like less of a crazy. My dad

696
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: always thought that my vegetarianism was a phase that i'd

697
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: grow out of, but I think he and I are

698
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: going to have a talk when I get back home.

699
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: As for the boyfriend, we're also going to have a talk.

700
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: He's made some other comments that I've let slide about

701
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: cyclists in particular, so it's time for me to lay

702
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: it all out there. Another edit here, I probably should

703
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: have mentioned this in the original. I was leaving the

704
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: following evening for a conference, so I did send him

705
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: a text when I woke up that I was angry

706
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: and didn't want to talk until I got back. And

707
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: here comes the update.

708
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 3: Oh boy, let's get.

709
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: On into it. Well, we had our little come to

710
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: Jesus talk when I got back about what happened. I

711
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: explained to my boyfriend how tired I was of defending

712
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: being a vegetarian to people. It feels like my social identity,

713
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: Like if someone was trying to describe me to a coworker,

714
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: they'd say, you know, the vegetarian girl. And I really

715
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: dislike that because I never bring it up. And when

716
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: I say defend, I mean you get questions from all over.

717
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: People seriously take you to task. I mean one of

718
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: the commenters on my last thread compared my actions to

719
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: letting a child starve in the third world country. As

720
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:47,479
Speaker 1: I've gotten older, my defiance flag just doesn't flying as

721
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: high anymore. I don't want to sit down to every

722
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: lunch with co workers and to hear the bad hunter choke,

723
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: or have the rude secretary tell me that she read

724
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,479
Speaker 1: vegetarianism is usually a cover for an eating disorder. So yeah,

725
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: I obviously have a chip on my shoulder about all this.

726
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: Everything I said above I laid out to my boyfriend,

727
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: all of it. He explained he didn't think the joke

728
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: would be a big deal because something similar happened at

729
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: a potluck. One of my friends made a pasta side

730
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: and used chicken stock. She didn't think about it, and

731
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell when she realized. Later on. I shrugged

732
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: and told her sometimes it happens no reason to be

733
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: angry with an honest mistake, big keywords right there, honest mistake.

734
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 3: And not yeah we know for a fact that's not true, right, That's.

735
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: Not what your boyfriend did opie. I was pretty exasperated

736
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: by all his comparison and explained the difference using all

737
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: of the examples you guys raised hit very heavy on

738
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: the respect subject. We argued about this for a bit,

739
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: and at one point he said, I basically became a

740
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: vegetarian for you. I bristled up over this comment because

741
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: I've never asked that of him or anyone I've ever dated.

742
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: I also pointed out that he was nowhere near a vegetarian,

743
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: which was admittedly sort of petty. Girl's not petty. You're

744
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,760
Speaker 1: just being like, you just said something that's factually not true.

745
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're just proving him wrong. It's not petty at all. Yes,

746
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 3: standing up for yourself.

747
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: He's a babe. I'm basically I with vegetarian for you.

748
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: You're like, you eat meat every day? What are you

749
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: talking about? This went back and forth for a while.

750
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: Finally I just threw my hands up and asked why

751
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: this was such a big deal. Why couldn't we sit

752
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: down and talk about boundaries and move forward. He said

753
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: he was worried about the future. He wants marriage, kids,

754
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 1: and a stay at home mom. His mom told him

755
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: that I need to eat meat during the pregnancy for

756
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: the baby to develop properly, and that the kids need

757
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: to eat meat to grow up big and strong. I

758
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: just stared at him, mouth open, completely blanked out. He

759
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: said that he loved me, but it was time for

760
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: me to grow up and compromise. Honestly, I didn't know

761
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 1: what to say. This was the first time he'd said

762
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: he loved me, but he was also talking about a

763
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: future that I didn't remember signing up for. I'm pretty

764
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: lukewarm on kids, and I definitely have no interest in

765
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: being a stay at home mom and compromise. What are

766
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: you talking about. You can be vegetarian while pregnant and

767
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: have a perfectly healthy child. I think I was just overwhelmed,

768
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: and I said something along the lines of I think

769
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: you have the wrong girl, and I went home pretty defeated.

770
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like it. Also, my mom was vegan

771
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 3: when she had me. Or like, what, she's pregnant me

772
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 3: and look how perfect.

773
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: She's made it all the way to twenty two.

774
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 3: Whoo. Yeah.

775
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: The next night I went to talk to my dad

776
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: about what he said. Initially, he claimed he was worried

777
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: for my health and brought up my bad run with veganism,

778
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: fair point, whoa calling out your mom immediately.

779
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa there was going on here.

780
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: But after some poking and prodding, he finally said, I'm

781
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: just worried you're never going to find someone. Sigh. Deep down,

782
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: I think I knew that was his main concern. All

783
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: the rest of my siblings are married and have children,

784
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: so I'm already the odd man out. Add onto that

785
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: the liberalism, the college degree, the atheism, the vegetarianism, irog.

786
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: I told him that my boyfriend and I broke up

787
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: and burst immediately into tears. But he gave me a

788
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: big hug and told me he supported and loved me,

789
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: but he wanted to be able at the end of

790
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,879
Speaker 1: his life to know I would have someone to take

791
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: care of me. I went home and stared at a

792
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: wall for three hours. Oh my gosh, that's a lot

793
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: to process. But you can stare at a wall for

794
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: three hours and listen to full episodes of stories like this.

795
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: You can also do other stuff. You don't have to

796
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: stare at the wall for three hours, but if you

797
00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: just go But to make it even better, right, if

798
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: you just go to your podcast platform choice, be that iHeartRadio,

799
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: Apple podcast, Spotify, whatever. Just search okay, story time, and

800
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: there you will find a plethora of episodes to peruse

801
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: and choose at your leisure. Okay, and we do have

802
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of story left here. I think I'm

803
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: just gonna dive into it here for I'm okay, but

804
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: I'm still sorting all my feelings out. I had a

805
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 1: heavy night of whiskey drinking, a long morning of yakking,

806
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: and then I bought some anti aging cream. Nice. My

807
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: friends are taking me on a trip next week, which

808
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: I am really looking forward to. And that's about it.

809
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: And there's a little edit here. You guys, reading all

810
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: these comments made me teary eyed. Thank you. I live

811
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: in rural Mississippi, helping run a four age extension program.

812
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 1: The work is so rewarding, but the city itself, eh.

813
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: My parents live in Alabama, and my family is scattered

814
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: in Alaba. I'm a Georgia and Kentucky. I was trying

815
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: to find an article about the values around here, but

816
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: I found this video instead, and it is linked. I'm

817
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,720
Speaker 1: not sure if it's the best example, but it'll probably

818
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: give you a better idea on how conservative the Deep

819
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: South is. Well, that is the end. Of that story. Wow, Wow,

820
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: it gets pretty conservative down here in a belt. That's

821
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: what I've heard. Yep, it can be it can certainly

822
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: be very.

823
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 3: I'm glad this she's going on the trip, glad that

824
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 3: the comments are supporting her. Yes, they're gonna look up.

825
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 3: You're gonna find someone who is much better than this

826
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 3: guy than this this crazy. Yeah.

827
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: You just enjoy your life. You don't have to hunt

828
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,959
Speaker 1: for it. When when the right thing comes along, you'll

829
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: know it, and it will come along and all you

830
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: have to do is be open to it when it happens.

831
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 3: My roommate's girlfriend berated my large just girlfriend for not

832
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 3: wearing a.

833
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: Bra at her own home, my house. That's my rules.

834
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 3: Get out of here, leave her bed, let her hang freely.

835
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 3: So roommate himself is twenty three male. We have a

836
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 3: very quiet and comfortable living situation. I lived with Troy

837
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 3: the roommate for about a year before Hannah girlfriend moved in.

838
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 3: By the way, this comes from Big Boopit Girlfriend for

839
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 3: to four and if you want to submit your own stories,

840
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 3: go to the our slash Okay story time sepread it.

841
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 3: It was an unexpected permanent move rather than temporary, but

842
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 3: everyone gets along, and in the fact, and in fact,

843
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 3: Troy and I are closer because Hannah is the type

844
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 3: of girl who is very outgoing and brings quiet, shy

845
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 3: people out of their shelves. Hannah's front airbags are very large. Nice,

846
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 3: that's a great way to put it. They seem even

847
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 3: larger than they may be due to the fact that

848
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 3: Hannah is only four eleven. Oh my lord, this is

849
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 3: a great story.

850
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: Oh my god.

851
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 3: Wait yet, four eleven's teen tiny whoa with some big bazangas.

852
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 3: She jokes that she's two thirds front airbag. Even her

853
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 3: biggest bras say thirty.

854
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: Two k what like thirty two carrots? What is it

855
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: solid gold? Because I know that that's not that's not real.

856
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: That's not real.

857
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 3: Never have I heard last time I heard of like

858
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 3: the biggest process I'd heard of last was h But

859
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 3: h ijk that's.

860
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: Three letters above. This is crazy. She's two thirds boob.

861
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 3: What it is the smallest say thirty two double g.

862
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 3: She's typically modest with them as she doesn't enjoy a

863
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 3: lot of male attention. My heart goes out to you

864
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 3: and your back and your back holding up those big pasangas.

865
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 3: Oh my god, not that I try to, but if

866
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 3: I were to ask her to wear something revealing, I

867
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,240
Speaker 3: don't even know that she'd have anything in her closet.

868
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 3: She typically takes off her bra in the evening. Troy

869
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 3: usually stays in his room and doesn't really socialized with

870
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 3: us most of the time. No negativity, He's just a

871
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 3: loner type. Anytime he does come out, we all chat happily.

872
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 3: There's never been any complaint about her bralessness. For the record,

873
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 3: I can definitely say that Hannah isn't Troy's physical type.

874
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 3: Jesus size sixteen, and he has a big preverence for

875
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 3: some very skinny women, not fit, but just very skinny,

876
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 3: So I honestly doubt that he's looked at Hannah in

877
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 3: any spicy related way to begin with, not to mention.

878
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,879
Speaker 3: Like I said, she's genuinely modest and doesn't have them

879
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 3: flopping around or anything. Troy and his girlfriend Jenna are

880
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 3: a new thing of the past four months. He's brought

881
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 3: her over and we all hung out, and Jenna and

882
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 3: Hannah got along extremely well. But a few days after,

883
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 3: Jenna sent Hannah a message on Facebook asking her if

884
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 3: she'd mind wearing a bra when Troy was around citing

885
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 3: that it was inappropriate and kind of sleazy. Oh no,

886
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 3: now she's just saying that it's sleazy. Just have no bra.

887
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: That's not fair. That's not fair.

888
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 3: That's so not fair. That's so not fair. Hannah just

889
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 3: shrugged it off and said sure, why not, So to compromise,

890
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 3: she started wearing a very flimsy sports bra. Things seemed

891
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 3: like they were fine until Jenna came over again and

892
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 3: Hannah just happened to be coming home from the gym,

893
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 3: was walking between our bedroom and the bathroom without a brawn,

894
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 3: but was otherwise clothed. Jenna lost her crap and started

895
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 3: yelling at Troy about this and then called Hannah a tramp,

896
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,240
Speaker 3: a sleeze, etc.

897
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:38,280
Speaker 1: Oh wow, relas, she's just crazy. Man, Where is Troy, Troy?

898
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: Where are you, Troy? This person needs to be exiled

899
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: from your domicile if she's gonna be saying this stuff.

900
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 3: Absolutely, she's just like a jealous person in general, and

901
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 3: then it's extremely more jealous now that she's got this

902
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 3: this person around. She brought up the way that she

903
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 3: lopes around and dresses and lets her butt hang out,

904
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 3: et cetera. I'll admit that sometimes Hannah's dresses right up

905
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 3: when she's ground on the couch with the book, which

906
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 3: is pretty much always, but since day one, anytime she

907
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,359
Speaker 3: heard Troy moving around the apartment closer to the living room,

908
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 3: she sits up and straightens herself out to cover herself up.

909
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 3: She does not like being looked at by men. Like

910
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 3: I said, Hannah didn't hear anything because she was in

911
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 3: the shower, and when she got out, she asked where

912
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 3: Jenna went, and I had to explain that they had

913
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 3: a fight. Hannah asked what happened, and Troy told her

914
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 3: that it was just nothing. Jenna ripped into Hannah on Facebook,

915
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 3: calling her all kinds of names and telling her that

916
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 3: she's trying to steal Troy from her. Hannah was hurt,

917
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 3: and she went to Troy to apologize about the bra

918
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 3: thing and asked him if he's always had a problem

919
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 3: with it, and Troy said something like I didn't even

920
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 3: know I was supposed to care. I don't know how

921
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 3: to handle this. Obviously, I'd prefer my girlfriend to be

922
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 3: comfortable and not be attacked, but I do want to

923
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 3: know Jenna's tiraight aside. Is it inappropriate for her to

924
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 3: not wear a bra in her own home, and I

925
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 3: do have an update, But what's her answer to that?

926
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 3: It's your home, it's your home. I think that's kind

927
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 3: of the thing where it's like it's like people with

928
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 3: smaller airbags have like they can wear like like v

929
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 3: Nex and stuff, and it's like it's not a problem,

930
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 3: nothing is showing, you know. But then it's it's with

931
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 3: people who've you know, got larger bra sizes. It's kind

932
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 3: of like, well, you don't really have a choice to, like,

933
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 3: you gotta show cleavage if you want to wear that

934
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 3: kind of thing. It's kind of just like it's not

935
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 3: their fault. It's just unfair that that's just how it is.

936
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: I really hope Troy breaks up. I really hope Troy

937
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: breaks up with her.

938
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,919
Speaker 3: Me too, Me too. A few things to address before

939
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 3: I go into the actual update. I did not confront

940
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 3: Jenna when she was going on on her tirade because

941
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 3: they were in Troy's bedroom. I have no reason to

942
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 3: barge into someone else's bedroom to start a fight. You

943
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 3: can stop with the pitchforks about how I was awful

944
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 3: for not immediately wrestling Jenna to the floor in a

945
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 3: show of manliness. Waiting for the event to pass was

946
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 3: a much better way to handle this. Hannah does not

947
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 3: need you to tell her that she's wearing the wrong

948
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 3: size bra. She has been to a bra that fits

949
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 3: for fit checks, and she measures herself frequently and knows

950
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 3: what works on her body. She has a wide range

951
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 3: of sizes from when she was figuring out her fit size.

952
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 3: If the measurements really don't make sense to you, I

953
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 3: can't help you. All I can say is that she's

954
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 3: a fat bottom girl. And don't we know that they

955
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 3: make the world go around? Have I right to go to? Yeah?

956
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 3: So to the actual update, I talked to Troy about

957
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 3: Jenna's outburst. He said that he would handle it and

958
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 3: he was extremely apologetic and said that it would not

959
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,439
Speaker 3: happen again. He said that he was glad Hannah didn't

960
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 3: hear Jenna's tirade, and I agreed that it was for

961
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 3: the best if we tried to handle this maturely. Hannah

962
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 3: was still hurt from Jenna's comments on Facebook, but Troy

963
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 3: asked Jenna to apologize, and that's what happened. We let

964
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 3: Troy know that Jenna wouldn't be allowed over again if

965
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 3: she continued to behave like that. He agreed and said

966
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 3: that he would be reconsidering their relationship.

967
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 1: Oo, let's go.

968
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 3: Let's freak go, Let's freaking go. Sometime past and here

969
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 3: we are, Hannah has gone back to just being comfortable

970
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 3: in her own home, taking her broth when she gets home.

971
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 3: She is respectful of Jenna and Troy's space and where's

972
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 3: a broth? Jenna is over? But things changed the other night.

973
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,359
Speaker 3: Hannah and I were cooking dinner. When Jenna came over

974
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 3: to wait for Troy. She hung out in the kitchen

975
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 3: and talked to Hannah. They seem to get along a

976
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 3: little better. At least. Hannah is very sweet and doesn't

977
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 3: hold many grudges. I was chopping up Brussels sprouts to

978
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 3: roast while Hannah was making some herb and palm crusted

979
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:44,439
Speaker 3: chicken or something and some cucumber tomato salad that I love.

980
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 3: She coated some huge chicken breasts that she pounded, and

981
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 3: that's when Jenna piped up and said something like, Wow,

982
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 3: that's so much food. You're not gonna eat all that,

983
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 3: are you? To Hannah? Ha ha, That's like, my god,

984
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 3: how much food You're not like going to eat that? Right?

985
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 3: Hannah laughed and said, yeah, she was going to eat

986
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 3: it all. It was her dinner. Jenna scoffed and made

987
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 3: some comment like that's so much food. I could never

988
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 3: eat that much. But well look at me. Ah, you're

989
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 3: literally that's crazy. You know what she needs to do

990
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 3: And I don't know if this is necessarily, but she

991
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 3: needs with her with her thirty two k bra. She

992
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 3: just needs to go knock her out with her knock

993
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 3: her down, dude, Yeah, it takes.

994
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: One blow knock her down.

995
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 3: Ah. She got up to try to get our attention

996
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 3: and show off her figure. Boom didn't say anything, but

997
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 3: I could tell but the look on her that she

998
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 3: was starting to panic. Hannah has a long history with

999
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 3: the ede ns and one of her only triggers is

1000
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 3: people paying attention to what she eats like that. Yeah,

1001
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 3: that's like a that's so bad for you to do.

1002
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: Come on, man.

1003
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 3: She used to not be able to eat at restaurants

1004
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 3: because she was afraid of people judging her. Jenna took

1005
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 3: it a step further and said something about how she

1006
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 3: goes to the gym every day because she loves keeping

1007
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 3: her figure and she knows Troy loves it. She pointedly

1008
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 3: asked Hannah when the last time she went to the

1009
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 3: gym was, and then asked me if I thought Hannah

1010
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 3: should do some kind of yoga or something. Wow, it

1011
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 3: just keeps going.

1012
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: Man. If she has me that, I'd be like, I

1013
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: think you need to shut your big, stupid mouth. Girl,

1014
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: get out of my apartment.

1015
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 3: She made some comment about how sad it is when

1016
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 3: girls let themselves go after they get boyfriends. For the record,

1017
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 3: Hannah didn't. I was starting to get very angry because

1018
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 3: it sounded like she was implying that I do not

1019
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 3: love Hannah's figure or something. I put my hand on

1020
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 3: Hannah's shoulder and told her to go to our bedroom

1021
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 3: I could finish up. Oooh, I feel I feel fun coming.

1022
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:15,280
Speaker 3: She had the fakest smile and said good night to Jenna.

1023
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 3: I let Jenna have it. I don't want to go

1024
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 3: into what I said because it was not my best moment. No, please,

1025
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 3: please go into it. But I could not accept her

1026
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 3: trying to intimidate or make Hannah feel bad. I especially

1027
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 3: could not take her implying at all that I wasn't

1028
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 3: attracted to Hannah. It all felt too surreal. I never

1029
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 3: met someone who would just say mean things about a

1030
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 3: girl who was perfectly nice to her like that, especially

1031
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 3: not about her weight. Jenna left and told me that

1032
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 3: she was going to have a talk with Troy. I

1033
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 3: consoled Hannah, who said she was okay, but ended up

1034
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 3: not eating dinner. Oh no, we watched some TV together,

1035
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:01,240
Speaker 3: and about two hours later, Troy come. He just stands

1036
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:02,959
Speaker 3: in the doorway and looks at us, and he looks

1037
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 3: right at Hannah and says, I broke up with her. Yes, yes, Troy. Yeah,

1038
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 3: we love Troy. Oh, he continues, I'm so sorry she

1039
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 3: is never coming back. Yeah, we love Troy. And you

1040
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 3: know what Troy would love. You know what I bet

1041
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 3: Troy would like.

1042
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 1: I know Troy's doing it right now, dude.

1043
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 3: I know. I just know that Troy is listening to

1044
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 3: full episodes with more stories just like this one on iHeartRadio, Spotify,

1045
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:33,240
Speaker 3: Apple Podcast, whatever. So he chooses okay whatever he loves,

1046
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 3: and he's searching Okay story time. He's listened to more

1047
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 3: stories just like this.

1048
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 1: All it takes is one search Okay story Time and

1049
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: you you've got fifty days worth of stories.

1050
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 2: To listen to.

1051
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 3: Just search Okay Storytime and you can be like Troy too,

1052
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 3: but there is a little bit more. She would just

1053
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 3: jump in.

1054
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think let's get in it. I think we're

1055
00:50:58,360 --> 00:50:59,439
Speaker 1: in consensus here.

1056
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jenna is gone and done. Troy later said that

1057
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 3: Jenna was convinced that Hannah was trying to steal him

1058
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 3: and that she was just jealous of her body. It

1059
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 3: was all because one day when Jenna came over and

1060
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 3: Hannah gushed over the dress she was wearing, Jenna thought

1061
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 3: that that meant she was in love with her or something.

1062
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,479
Speaker 3: I have no idea where this came from. It's never

1063
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 3: about the bra I guess, yeah, and that's the end

1064
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 3: of that story.

1065
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: It's just because Jenna's terrible and it's so insecure. She

1066
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: can't allow other people to exist.

1067
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 3: Honestly, I feel like with just so many things like

1068
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,399
Speaker 3: this too. Wait, it's like about the weight and it's

1069
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:41,240
Speaker 3: all this like super like superficial things that someone's projecting.

1070
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 3: It's like I actually heard someone like talk about it,

1071
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 3: and it was like people like that have some sort

1072
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 3: of shame inside themselves that they can't be like whatever

1073
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,359
Speaker 3: they're mad about, they can't have this certain body type

1074
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 3: or whatever. They can't not go to the gym and

1075
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 3: like let themselves go or whatever. And so when they

1076
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 3: see people who are comfortably living like that because it's

1077
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 3: not an issue, they get mad and then they project

1078
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 3: like this.

1079
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a super interesting that's Hannah psychological concept there, right.

1080
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, but by good Androy.

1081
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: Good on Troy. Because it's over. It's over, just like

1082
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: this story is over.

1083
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:22,839
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1086
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Speaker 1: my education over a funeral. It ruined my relationship. Oh

1087
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:35,320
Speaker 1: oh boy.

1088
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1089
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know if there is a right thing

1090
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: to do in this situation. I think you're just screwed.

1091
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,720
Speaker 1: Before everything happened between us, we were solid. I thought

1092
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: this guy was my forever. We've lived together for the

1093
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: past three years and I always loved him and the

1094
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: way we supported and helped each other. He used to

1095
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: say we were family and we would always look after

1096
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: each By the way, this comes from user, so throwaway

1097
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: one and if you want to submit your own stories,

1098
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: go to the r slash Okay storytime subreddit and do

1099
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: it there. So this year was my final year in

1100
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: UNI to get my March and my part two exemption

1101
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 1: to become an architect. In March this year, the final

1102
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: printed copy of my research project was due, basically a

1103
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: culmination of the past seven years of my education. Unfortunately,

1104
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: in this time, my partner's grandmother passed away, and this

1105
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,879
Speaker 1: woman basically raised him when both of his parents could

1106
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: not deal. They were incredibly close. In her final years,

1107
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 1: she got dementia, but she always remembered him and their

1108
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 1: little inside jokes. He loved her so much, probably more

1109
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,800
Speaker 1: than anyone else in the whole world. As a heavy,

1110
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: terrible loss to deal with. Over those few weeks after

1111
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: she passed away, I tried to spend a lot of

1112
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: time with him. I took him to the archdiocese and

1113
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: we lit candles and walked through the gardens and talked

1114
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,280
Speaker 1: about his grandmother. His friends came up for a visit

1115
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: that weekend, and I spent the weekend with them to

1116
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: keep him happy. Even though I should have been working

1117
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: on finishing my research project. I took care of him

1118
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: all that week, letting him rest and try to mourn. Unfortunately,

1119
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: his boss is a huge wiener and it was a

1120
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: struggle for him to get any time off to properly

1121
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: rest and take care of himself. His grandmother's funeral was

1122
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: scheduled to be four days before my research project hand

1123
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,280
Speaker 1: in date. The problem with that is that I still

1124
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: needed to get everything printed and do final editing, and

1125
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: the funeral was happening on the other side of the country.

1126
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: This was a two hundred page research project. I worked

1127
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: my butt off to get everything together beforehand so that

1128
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 1: I could go with him, but in the end I

1129
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: didn't have the time, and the reality was that I

1130
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,359
Speaker 1: was editing and adding to the project up until two

1131
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: days before my hand in. I did skype with him

1132
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: in the mornings and evenings so we could talk about

1133
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 1: how he was doing. After the funeral, he returned home,

1134
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: but he was incredibly sad. After my hand in, I

1135
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: tried to talk with him about it. He showed me

1136
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: some pictures and I read the eulogy that his sister

1137
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 1: read at the funeral. I cried a bit after reading

1138
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 1: the eulogy, and that's when my boyfriend got angry. He

1139
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: said that I didn't have a right to cry or

1140
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: be upset because it was his grandmother and because I

1141
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: had chosen to forego the funeral. Oh no, look buddy,

1142
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: I get it right. We can have feelings, but like,

1143
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: come on, dude, if that's how you felt, why are

1144
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: you showing her the eulogy in the first place.

1145
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, if you don't want them to be sad.

1146
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 3: I feel like you would get mad at someone for

1147
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 3: reading the eulogy and me like, oh wow, that's crazy, man.

1148
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 1: It's like you're asking her to what to blow up

1149
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: her entire career path potentially by like flunking her ARCT, Like,

1150
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: come on, come on to line. It wasn't her fault.

1151
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: Things have just gone downhill since then, It's been two months,

1152
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: which is that's a shock to me. I can't imagine.

1153
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: On top of my research project, I also had my

1154
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: regular work to finish over the past two months. It's

1155
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: just been a very busy time in my life. My

1156
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 1: boyfriend went through a similar experience the year before, where

1157
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: I helped and supported him through his work, and he

1158
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: tried to help and support me through mine, But the

1159
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 1: entire time he was cold and distant, and at one

1160
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: point he even admitted to me that he didn't want

1161
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 1: to help me and he couldn't be bothered. So this

1162
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: all came to a head recently when I confronted him

1163
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 1: about how he's been distant and the way that he's

1164
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: been treating me, like ignoring me all day, being rude

1165
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: and distant and sometimes downright nasty to me. He basically

1166
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: said he can't forgive me for missing his grandmother's funeral,

1167
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: and he doesn't think he ever will. At this point,

1168
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 1: I'll admit that I lost it. I was put in

1169
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: a situation where I had to choose between my relationship

1170
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: and my education, and it's only in hindsight that I

1171
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 1: see it. I was so overwhelmed and upset that I

1172
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: hit my head against the wall hard oh and screamed,

1173
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: but only because I've never been in so much emotional

1174
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: pain in my life, and I don't know how to

1175
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 1: handle it, so I handled it poorly. Since then, things

1176
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 1: have not gotten better. We've tried to talk it over calmly,

1177
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: but a few days ago he lost it and went

1178
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 1: on this rant about how terrible his life is and

1179
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: how hurt he is. There's a lot more going on

1180
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: with his family than I knew, including that his father

1181
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: used to be physically obive and his grandmother would protect him.

1182
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: I never knew this about his father, though I knew

1183
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: they had an incredibly strained relationship. I've suggested therapy, but

1184
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: he has said he's not up for it. We talked

1185
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 1: about a solution, and he thinks I need to go

1186
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: back to my home country by myself for a few

1187
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: weeks and be with my family, and to leave him

1188
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 1: alone for that time so we can think and mourn alone. Son, Wow,

1189
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: the solution is therapy. He also said that he is

1190
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 1: thinking about moving out of our flat at the end

1191
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: of the summer to go live with some friends, but

1192
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: he said that he wants us to stay together. I

1193
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: think at this point that the relationship might be over.

1194
00:57:57,960 --> 00:57:59,959
Speaker 1: I don't know how to show him that I'm sorry

1195
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: or I missed the funeral, but there was no other

1196
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: option for me. I love this guy so much, but

1197
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: if this is how our relationship is going to be,

1198
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: I don't think I can do it. I need perspective

1199
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: on this issue, maybe some advice on how to apologize properly,

1200
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 1: and if not, maybe some advice on how to end

1201
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 1: a long term relationship. And there is an edit. A

1202
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: lot of people have been mentioning this. I did ask

1203
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: for an extension from my academic advisor. He told me

1204
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: that the school does not grant extensions under any circumstances.

1205
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: The way my university handles mitigating circumstances for graduate projects

1206
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: is that they expect you to turn in whatever work

1207
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: you have completed by the deadline, and then they allow

1208
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: you to resubmit the completed project at the next grading cycle. However,

1209
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: this would mean that I would not be allowed to

1210
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: graduate this year and would have to wait until the

1211
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: next graduation cycle. Also, I should mention that we usually

1212
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 1: returned to my home country for a few weeks in

1213
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 1: the summer to visit my family. A trip wasn't planned

1214
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: or set for this summer, but we had discussed a

1215
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: possibility of it, and that's why it's not a completely

1216
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: unreasonable request that I go home for a while and

1217
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: we do have an update.

1218
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just that's hard because I mean, he's obviously

1219
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 3: going through it. You know, obviously this is a huge

1220
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 3: loss for him, and you know, of course that's fine

1221
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 3: for him to go through, and that's fine for him

1222
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 3: to have these emotions, but taking it out on this

1223
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 3: person is like, is not.

1224
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: Okay, that doesn't make any sense. I just wanted to

1225
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: first say thank you very much for all of your

1226
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: advice It was very helpful, and it made me feel

1227
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 1: like less of a terrible person and made me realize

1228
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: that my boyfriend is still mourning the loss of his grandmother.

1229
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 1: My SOO and I had a long discussion the night

1230
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: I posted for advice on Reddit, and we agreed that

1231
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 1: we wanted to be together, but that something needed to

1232
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 1: change in our relationship. We set some basic ground rules.

1233
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: We both agreed to start seeing separate therapists. Great good

1234
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: him for his grief and troubles with his dad and

1235
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 1: me for my lack of confidence and stress management. He

1236
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 1: again asked for space, so he moved out of our

1237
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: bedroom into the spare bedroom in our flat. I also

1238
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: booked to flight home for a few weeks to visit

1239
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 1: my own family, and I'm set to leave in four days.

1240
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: We were making some good progress this week, enjoying time

1241
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 1: with each other, going to the park, just generally trying

1242
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: to reconnect. After sleeping in the spare bed for five days,

1243
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 1: he decided to move back into our room and I

1244
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: was very happy about that. Up until two days ago,

1245
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: I genuinely thought that we were going to make it

1246
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 1: through this, but things came to a head last night.

1247
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,439
Speaker 1: I received my grades back from the school, and I'm

1248
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 1: very proud to say that I got an A on

1249
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 1: my research project.

1250
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, this year, it was gonna be a bad grade,

1251
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 3: and then this whole thing was, yeah.

1252
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: Not worth it. Imagine you would just flunk anyway.

1253
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 3: That would be so hard.

1254
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: So not only did I get an A on my

1255
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 1: research project, but one of my urban design proposals has

1256
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: also been nominated by my school for a Gold award

1257
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: from the RIPA. Wow. I am incredibly proud. This year

1258
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: was definitely the most difficult in my entire life, and

1259
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: I didn't expect to do as well as I actually did.

1260
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: I literally just wept when I got my results. I

1261
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 1: sent myso a long message letting him know how I

1262
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: did and about the nomination, but more importantly, thanking him

1263
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 1: for being there to support me through my degree. I

1264
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 1: told him I loved him and that I was glad

1265
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: we were working together on our relationship. Brother, how do

1266
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 1: you fumble the response to that? I'm sorry, how do

1267
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: you mess that one up?

1268
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 3: He's just gonna be so mad that she's doing anything

1269
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 3: with her education. It's gonna be like, oh, well, well great,

1270
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 3: and my grandma's still which like, can we have multiple

1271
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 3: things going on in our lives. Please please.

1272
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 1: He came home that night fuming. He was so angry.

1273
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: He just yelled at me for basically an hour about

1274
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 1: my lack of confidence in my own work and about

1275
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: how I didn't need to miss his grandmother's funeral. He

1276
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: told me he hated me, and after that I sort

1277
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 1: of just numbed out. I don't really remember much of

1278
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: what he said after that, I just stopped talking and listening. Wow,

1279
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,919
Speaker 1: my final end of your show is happening this week.

1280
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: It's a huge celebration of the student's work. I filled

1281
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 1: an entire wall to exhibit my architectural work and my

1282
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 1: research results. During the end of years show a lot

1283
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 1: of people find jobs, so it's important for us to

1284
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 1: be there to network and talk about our projects with

1285
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 1: people in the industry. I did this for my boyfriend

1286
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 1: last year when he exhibited his own work. I spent

1287
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 1: six hours at that event talking to different people about

1288
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: how amazing his work was. Wait a minute, so this

1289
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: guy's also an.

1290
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 3: Architect, I guess, so so he should not.

1291
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 1: You're how selfish could you be?

1292
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:40,400
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, my heart is being so fast too angry?

1293
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: Also dummy? Maybe if she did go to the funeral,

1294
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: she wouldn't have gotten the a are you? Are you?

1295
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: Are you? What's wrong with you? I mean, this guy's

1296
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 1: clearly blinded by his a grief. But more than that,

1297
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't think, no matter how much grief

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Speaker 1: you could have, there's just something fundamental twisted about the

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Speaker 1: way you're viewing your relationship for you to be able

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Speaker 1: to speak to your partner like.

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Speaker 3: This, yeah, to be able to yell for hours about

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Speaker 3: how she didn't have confidence.

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Speaker 1: This morning, he told me not to expect him to

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Speaker 1: come tonight because he needs to go to the gym.

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Speaker 1: I'm flying home in four days, and I can tell

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Speaker 1: that he just wants me to leave and never come back,

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Speaker 1: which is what I'm doing. I've stuck with all my

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Speaker 1: promises that I made to him. I supported him as

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Speaker 1: best as I could, and I've begun seeing a therapist.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't even called his GP to get a referral

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Speaker 1: to a therapist. Yet. He doesn't want to fix our relationship.

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Speaker 1: He just wants to keep me around, to pay half

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Speaker 1: of our rent and use me as a punching bag.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, you are so much more than that,

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Speaker 1: op And just because this guy's going through the loss

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Speaker 1: his grandma doesn't give him any right to treat you

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Speaker 1: this way. You are perfectly justified in your decision to

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Speaker 1: leave him in your past, and you will be better

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Speaker 1: off for it. Yeah, and you would also be better

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Speaker 1: off if you, in addition to watching our show, listened

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Speaker 1: to full episodes with stories just like this. All you

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Speaker 1: gotta do is go to iHeartRadio or Apple Podcasts or

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Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts and search Okay story Time,

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Speaker 1: and there you will find our complete catalog and you

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Speaker 1: can browse your heart's content. We do have a little

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Speaker 1: bit of story left here. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I have anything else to say other than like,

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Speaker 1: it's only up from here.

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Speaker 3: Op only up here. The love of your life wouldn't

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Speaker 3: do this to you. The love of your life would

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Speaker 3: not yell at you, no matter how much he's grieving,

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Speaker 3: no matter how mad he is, no matter like just

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Speaker 3: no matter, unless you like we're violent or something like that,

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Speaker 3: then sure that would be a lot. But I don't

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Speaker 3: think you. I don't think that's what's gonnadpen ever.

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Speaker 1: So there's no justified yelling in this story, that's for sure,

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Speaker 1: Not at all, so let's finish it off. So we're over.

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Speaker 1: I just paid my final half of the rent and

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Speaker 1: I'm moving back to my home country. I was originally

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Speaker 1: only planning on returning for a few weeks, but with

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01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: this Brexit vote looking so graham, I don't really see

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Speaker 1: a point of being in the UK anymore when I

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Speaker 1: return and find a job here, when I'll most likely

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Speaker 1: be asked to leave in a year. I like the

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Speaker 1: UK and I love my boyfriend, but it seems neither

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Speaker 1: want me. So I'm going home to take care of myself.

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Speaker 1: Take care of yourself and become a nice successful architect. Op. Yes,

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Speaker 1: don't sweat it, you know. Yeah, you're your your gold star,

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Speaker 1: your gold star student.

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Speaker 3: Gold Star and a plus a plus.

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Speaker 1: Student gold star ap plus.

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Speaker 2: I wish you nothing but success.

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Speaker 3: And you're gonna find.

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Speaker 1: It, you know. I think you've made the right call here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just inexcuseable what he's doing to you.

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Speaker 1: That is the end of that story.