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Speaker 3: I cut off my longtime friend because she made my

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Speaker 2: Ooh, that's just normally the right move. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Your wife is on hard mode.

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Speaker 3: Recently, I forty mail cut off contact with one of

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Speaker 3: my good friends a we'll call her Allison forty female.

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Speaker 3: I have known Alison almost sixteen years, long before I

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Speaker 3: met my wife. We met in college and were part

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Speaker 3: of the same friend group. By the way, this comes

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Speaker 3: from throwaway MSI on the Okay Storytime subured it. So

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Speaker 3: after Allison and I graduated college, we both moved to

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Speaker 3: the same city for a job. We found apartments close

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Speaker 3: by and would hang out regularly. We would do grocery

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Speaker 3: shopping together, hang out at each other's apartments, and go

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Speaker 3: out for dinner. One day, Alison told me that she

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Speaker 3: loves being time with me and that maybe we should

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Speaker 3: officially date. I told her that I liked her as

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Speaker 3: a friend too, but we were very different people. And

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Speaker 3: I did not think of her in that way. She

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Speaker 3: told me that since we already spent so much time together,

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Speaker 3: she just assumed I was interested in her and hence

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Speaker 3: asked me. And she also felt we were very different people.

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Speaker 3: She's like, no, no, no, I totally get it. I

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Speaker 3: wasn't actually interested in you either. I thought you were

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Speaker 2: The classic Oh no, I'm just kidding a jiggy Yeah, dude,

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Speaker 2: that's so funny.

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Speaker 3: We never discussed this. After that, nothing changed between us,

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Speaker 3: and we've remained close friends. One year later, I met

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Speaker 3: my wife. We started dating, and I couldn't be happier.

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Speaker 3: I remember thinking after our first date that she was

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Speaker 3: exactly the person I wanted to be with. She's smart

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Speaker 3: and caring, and I can't help but feel lucky I

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Speaker 3: found her. We both got married and are now happily

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Speaker 3: married for eleven years with one cute kid.

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Speaker 1: See that you were like first date, Like, yeah, there

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Speaker 1: she is, there's my wife. That's crazy. Can't imagine.

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Speaker 3: Allison also met her husband around the time I was

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Speaker 3: dating my wife, and she also married a few months

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Speaker 3: after me. We all remained good friends to this day.

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Speaker 3: My wife has asked me when I was dating. If

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Speaker 3: Alison and I ever dated, I was honest with her

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Speaker 3: and told her about that one night when Alison asked

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Speaker 3: with Alison, and they both also went shopping together. The

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Speaker 3: issue started happening one year ago. Alison told my wife

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Speaker 3: and me one night that she was not happy with

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Speaker 3: her marriage and felt her husband did not treat her well.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to go into specifics, but four months

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Speaker 3: after that they filed for divorce and amicably separately. Alison

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Speaker 3: as we were her emotional support. However, as time went by,

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Speaker 3: Alison started texting me and telling me how sad she was.

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Speaker 3: I always told her she was happy to visit us

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Speaker 3: not like that she was messaging me and not in

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Speaker 3: group chat, as she was as much of a friend

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Speaker 3: to Alison as I was. She also felt that it

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Speaker 3: was okay to be her support as a couple, but

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Speaker 3: didn't want her to see me along as her emotional

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Speaker 3: I did follow what my wife said, as I feel

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Speaker 3: as a married couple. We should have boundaries with how

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Speaker 1: How long, like fifteen years?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I see it kind of both ways. And there

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Speaker 3: is more because I do kind of understand what OPI's

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Speaker 3: wife is saying of this girl bad.

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Speaker 1: Feelings for you.

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Speaker 3: She's you know, her marriage is not working out, and

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Speaker 1: Wait, was it her who had the feelings?

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Speaker 3: I thought it was OP Alison other feelings or op Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I know. Alison asked Op out and no.

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Speaker 3: People was like, hey, I don't see you like that,

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Speaker 3: but when I told Alison about this, she lost it

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Speaker 3: I tried to explain to her that it's just boundaries

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Speaker 3: sure I would do the same if my wife's friend

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Speaker 3: out to Alison. She also has not messaged me since then.

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Speaker 3: My college friends are now calling me and telling me

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Speaker 3: I am an a hole for ignoring Alison in such

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Speaker 3: a vulnerable moment and that I'm a bad person, which

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Speaker 3: is not what happened.

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Speaker 2: No, it's really more like you got you were trying

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Speaker 2: I think you could still be there for Allison.

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Speaker 1: I was just not in the middle of the night,

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Speaker 1: That's all he was saying. I think that's it. That's

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Speaker 1: all either in the middle of the night.

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Speaker 3: My wife, of course, supports me, but feels like I

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Speaker 3: let the situation go too far. I do miss Allison,

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Speaker 3: but I am not comfortable talking to her if she

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Speaker 2: You just mention is that as soon as she started

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Speaker 2: bashing your wife, she's good. That's when it's like, all right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: now back been married for eleven years.

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Speaker 1: Do not talk bad on my wife. I'm my wife,

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Speaker 1: my wife.

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Speaker 3: Do you think I offended Allison when I told her

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Speaker 3: were in my situation, how would you tell your friend

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Speaker 3: to respect your boundaries? And there is an update?

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Speaker 1: Is that literally all that they say?

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Speaker 3: I think that's all of these. I think he was like, Hey,

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Speaker 3: my wife's a little bit uncomfortable with this, do you

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Speaker 3: mind just like texting me in my business hours? Thanks

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Speaker 3: everyone for all your opinions. I don't know who to

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Speaker 3: talk to about this, since everyone around me seems to

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Speaker 3: think I was overreacting. I showed the post to my

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Speaker 1: A bit mad at me.

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Speaker 3: Rightly, according to her, I did omit some key facts

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Speaker 3: from the story that make Allison sound like a bad guy.

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Speaker 3: Here are some of the things I should have mentioned,

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Speaker 3: according to her. Number one, let's get it and asked

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Speaker 3: about dating once thirteen years ago. I should let it go.

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Speaker 3: She has been a great friend to us and a

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Speaker 1: Number two.

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Speaker 3: Alison and I only hang out in social settings, mostly

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Speaker 3: My wife is in charge of my social calendar in

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Speaker 3: the way of like she's like, hey, we're going to

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday at three pm, she calls Elizabeth. I've arranged

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Speaker 1: a playdate with all husbands. They can hang out today.

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Speaker 3: Hence, she talks to Alison more than I do. She

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Speaker 3: has been a close friend of Alison for a long time,

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Speaker 3: with her even when I'm not around. Number three, Alison

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Speaker 3: has told my wife that she sees me as an

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Speaker 1: This is true.

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Speaker 3: I have very few good friends, and I do care

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Speaker 3: a lot about all. Before the messaging at night happen

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Speaker 3: only twice, we have do not disturb, but there is

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Speaker 3: a list of people as an exception, and Alison is

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Speaker 3: one of them. However, we only expect them to message

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Speaker 3: if there is an emergency. When Alison messaged me, my

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Speaker 3: annoyed since we're both sleeping. Hence, when it happened again,

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Speaker 3: She also mentioned why she was messaging me and not

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Speaker 3: the group chat. Number five. Our fight happened three weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: My wife has been telling me every day to call

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Speaker 3: Alison and sort things out. We both still care about her.

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Speaker 3: My wife also thinks that Alison and I have huge

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Speaker 3: went too far. She called Alison this evening after reading

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Speaker 3: the post. They're meeting on Sunday for brunch. I am

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Speaker 3: not going as I'm not going to talk to her

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Speaker 3: until she apologizes to my wife. Let's see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Go get brunch. What do you think you're chill? Is

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Speaker 3: I think he's what's reacting a little bit after reading

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Speaker 3: like we're not up after you know, ten pm? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: because it sounds says it woke her up. Was just like, hey,

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Speaker 2: other shoe to drop of, Like, so here's the points

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Speaker 2: my wife said, I forgot to mention it. And they're like, no,

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Speaker 2: it was all exceptionally normal things.

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Speaker 3: It seems like fine. Maybe I think she did a react,

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Speaker 2: But I do think that it's it's weird that she's

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Speaker 2: once thirteen years ago.

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Speaker 3: So the TLDR is my wife now thinks I have

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Speaker 1: He's like, I don't know what I'm supposed to.

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Speaker 2: My eyebrows are my eyebows are raised.

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Speaker 1: My eyebrows are raised at.

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Speaker 2: The wife right now because it feels like she's like

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Speaker 2: low key manipulating him.

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Speaker 3: I think he's just really confused. My wife read my

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Speaker 3: She's also good friends with Alison and told me that

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Speaker 3: she cannot stop being her friend just because of our misunderstanding.

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Speaker 3: She met Alison on Sunday for brunch. I took my

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Speaker 3: This is my wife's description of what happened. She said

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Speaker 3: that Alison met her and looked sad. She immediately apologized

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Speaker 3: to my wife and told her that she said some

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Speaker 1: That she did not meet.

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Speaker 3: They hugged it out and had a nice brunch. I

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Speaker 3: also heard that a lot of tears were shed. Alison

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Speaker 3: told my wife that it has been feeling that she

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Speaker 3: has been feeling down since Thanksgiving since it was her

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Speaker 3: first Thanksgiving without her ex after many years, and was

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Speaker 3: overwhelmed with the prospect of being alone during holidays. Hence,

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Speaker 3: she wanted to talk to someone. Since she lost most

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Speaker 3: she wanted to talk to us that night. She knows

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Speaker 3: my wife and I sleep early, and hence didn't message

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Speaker 1: Hens is dropping a lot of hands right now.

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Speaker 3: You guys messaged me after ten am, so I chose

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Speaker 1: Wrong.

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Speaker 2: No, it sounds like it sounds like the wife is

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Speaker 1: And I would bet you ten to one she's already

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Speaker 1: But wasn't there just a moment where you kind of

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Speaker 3: After reading the comments, I am curious as to what

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Speaker 3: And there is another final update I will say really quick.

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Speaker 2: But like, wasn't I feel like the reason that he's

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Speaker 3: This is my final update and hopefully my life will

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Speaker 3: On Thursday night, I was talking to my wife before sleeping,

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Speaker 3: To be honest, She did not say anything bad about

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Speaker 3: leftovers for my wife and her parents. Overall, you guys

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Speaker 3: But it would be creepy of you guys to not

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Speaker 3: search up. Okay, sorry time, this is all little bit suspicious, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Everything, and I don't think we're gonna get into any

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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm on the edge of a cliff.

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Speaker 1: Girl, No, my wife told you to do that. I've

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Speaker 3: She scared my wife into thinking something was off. That

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Speaker 1: I freaking knew it.

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Speaker 3: However, I told him there was nothing to worry about,

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Speaker 3: We had a great weekend and just returned today. Sorry

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Speaker 3: New Year. Something's wrong with his wife who was feeding

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Speaker 3: that information to the wife the mother, so the mother

441
00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,960
Speaker 3: in law and in law so her mom, no, no, no.

442
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,000
Speaker 3: The wife was talking to the mother in law and

443
00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,800
Speaker 3: being like I don't know, like I talking to his mom.

444
00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,320
Speaker 3: No to her mom, to her mom, to her mom.

445
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Speaker 3: So Opie's goes over to Alison. Wife goes talks to

446
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Speaker 3: her mother in law and it's like I don't know,

447
00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 3: like it's this is weird. Allison's gonna try something and

448
00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,119
Speaker 3: it's like putting, you know, talking so in the mother

449
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Speaker 3: in law. I gets mad at Ope when the freaking

450
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,359
Speaker 3: wife told Ope to go over to Alison's house, was like, no,

451
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Speaker 3: do any encourage shit?

452
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Speaker 1: And op replied he would be sexist if he didn't.

453
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,399
Speaker 2: I'm upset with my husband because he always ruins my

454
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Speaker 2: birthday plans.

455
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Speaker 3: He's a hater and he needs to get out.

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Speaker 1: Hey, you heard it here first.

457
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Speaker 3: For that's all I have to say about that.

458
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Speaker 1: Long story short.

459
00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:39,359
Speaker 2: I thirty four female, am low on paid time off

460
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,560
Speaker 2: at a newish job that I started in February. Step

461
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 2: son got married in August and a lot of my

462
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,879
Speaker 2: paid time off was used for this, as well as

463
00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 2: a few mental health days and a few sick days

464
00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,200
Speaker 2: over the course of the year with good reason. And

465
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Speaker 2: by the way, this comes from user buffalo chedd or

466
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Speaker 2: biscuit on the r slash Okay storytime subreddit, where you

467
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:06,440
Speaker 2: can submit your stories. So, my boss has already said

468
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,680
Speaker 2: that they can't make exceptions based on my circumstances when

469
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,959
Speaker 2: it comes to attendance. They know my step son has

470
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Speaker 2: a brain tumor and stepdaughter has kidney issues as I

471
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Speaker 2: have had to use sick time to take stepdaughter to

472
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Speaker 2: the hospital.

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Speaker 1: Dang, and they can't make exceptions that not like a

474
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Speaker 1: excused absence kind of thing.

475
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that sounds that sounds a little

476
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Speaker 2: extreme to be like, we can't make an exception for

477
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:30,080
Speaker 2: your son's brain tumor.

478
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Speaker 1: I had a lot of doctor's visits and I.

479
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,120
Speaker 2: Am genuinely loving the job most days and so far,

480
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 2: despite the attendance, my work seems to like me and

481
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 2: my background does well. I come from a quality background

482
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,639
Speaker 2: in aerospace and metal shops. This is a corporate inspector

483
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:51,400
Speaker 2: for a jewelry retailer, so Fancier Metals. Similar principles of manufacture,

484
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 2: but different processes to get to final goods. Stepdaughter is

485
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Speaker 2: twenty one female, step son is twenty four male, and

486
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Speaker 2: husband is forty four male. A couple of weeks after

487
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 2: getting back from stepson's wedding, stepdaughter called and talked to

488
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 2: husband and I about a business trip in October to Vegas.

489
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Speaker 2: She is afraid to go alone to a conference, and

490
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Speaker 2: I can't blame her. She's very fit, but she has

491
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 2: a very small frame. She looks young, and she sometimes

492
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 2: gets hassled for this. A couple of weeks ago, she

493
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 2: had a fender bender well alone and the other driver

494
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,880
Speaker 2: was very aggressive trying to intimidate her, and it's left

495
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,439
Speaker 2: her a little shaken. Stepdaughter wanted her father and or

496
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 2: I to accompany her on her business trip, her first

497
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,199
Speaker 2: being far away because she didn't want to be alone

498
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 2: in such a large city. Immediately after the call, I

499
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 2: told my husband that I thought they should go together.

500
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Speaker 2: He's been feeling more distant from his daughter, and she

501
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 2: is in the throes of adulthood and has a boyfriend,

502
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 2: school and her job. She is very busy and works

503
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 2: very hard. I thought it was a great time to bond.

504
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Speaker 2: Husband was adamant that we both go. Fast forward to

505
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 2: this week. I put in my paid time off, but

506
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 2: found out it's a longer stay than we were originally told.

507
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 2: And I have also been asking this week to book

508
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Speaker 2: tickets with husband. But he's been getting home late after

509
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 2: seven PM, doesn't come inside from the garage until after nine,

510
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 2: and takes a long shower. What is he doing in

511
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 2: the garage for two hours? He got projects in this Hey,

512
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 2: I got projects in my garage.

513
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,199
Speaker 1: Garage and you're doing for two hours, building up to.

514
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,359
Speaker 2: Two hours of jetpack time in the garage.

515
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Speaker 1: Something's going on in that garage.

516
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,199
Speaker 2: I am a sleepy gal, so I'm usually asleep by

517
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Speaker 2: the time he gets out of the shower. I'm riding

518
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Speaker 2: this at three am because my husband just told me

519
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 2: he doesn't intend on going. He thinks we should use

520
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Speaker 2: this opportunity to bond, which would be nice if our

521
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 2: relationship was in need of more bonding.

522
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like, I've already bonded with her. You bond with.

523
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,159
Speaker 2: Your daughter exactly. Opie says that my stepdaughter and I

524
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Speaker 2: are tight.

525
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Speaker 1: Yeah tight point, Oh really this.

526
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 2: I don't want to leave her in a large city

527
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 2: where she's going to be afraid by herself. I've also

528
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 2: never felt a desire to go to Vegas. I hate

529
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,679
Speaker 2: large cities, and the only reason I wanted to go

530
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 2: was because my husband has friends out there that I

531
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 2: wanted to meet in person and to go on a

532
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 2: few desert hikes with Hubby while stepdaughter was doing work

533
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 2: stuff during the day. It is a huge opportunity for

534
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 2: stepdaughter's career. I also barely drink and don't gamble or

535
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 2: go shopping. While I like food, I don't have the

536
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 2: budget for the better restaurants. I told him I wasn't

537
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,199
Speaker 2: comfortable that he made this decision, and I don't have

538
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 2: enough paid time off to cover all the days, and

539
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 2: I was angry that he made the decision without consulting me.

540
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 2: He started getting heated, saying he didn't do anything wrong,

541
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 2: but he kind of did.

542
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Speaker 1: You kind of did, just because the time with your daughter.

543
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,919
Speaker 2: Another factor. My birthday is four days before the trip.

544
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Speaker 2: My husband has a history of either awful get gifts

545
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Speaker 2: or no gifts, and I get very anxious in the

546
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 2: days leading up to my birthday because Hubby always picks

547
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 2: a fight because he either didn't plan anything and feels

548
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,439
Speaker 2: guilty or he calls me ungrateful.

549
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: This guy sounds like a keeper.

550
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 2: A few memorable birthdays include painting my car, which sounds

551
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 2: nice in theory, but husband painted it himself with a

552
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 2: very fancy professional paint system, three stage paint with base color,

553
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 2: catalyst and blue sparkle additive. Hubby is not professionally trained, however,

554
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 2: and the car that was supposed to be a dark

555
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 2: blue ended up with legit rag marks in the paint

556
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 2: and deep scratches, varying degrees of sparkle who some areas

557
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 2: had a ton, some had none, and you could see

558
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 2: the old silver paint through the blue. It ended up

559
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 2: terribly orange peeled, and it was an and it was

560
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 2: a laughing matter at my work. I tried to give

561
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,239
Speaker 2: him the benefit of the doubt while he was doing it,

562
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,679
Speaker 2: and then found out that was the gift. When my

563
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:02,120
Speaker 2: birthday rolled around. If there was a plan, he said,

564
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 2: my car was the only plan. I was angry, as

565
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 2: this destroyed the value of my car. I hadn't even

566
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 2: indicated that I wanted my car painted, and he went

567
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 2: ahead and started, so I couldn't tell him no. He

568
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 2: confirmed this the day he started painting, that he started

569
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 2: so I couldn't say no. Literally from the horse's mouth,

570
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 2: this guy.

571
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,880
Speaker 1: Is self centered. I don't like this guy.

572
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 3: Oh p and you're one of our family, and I

573
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 3: don't want you to be treated this way.

574
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: He deserved someone who cares about your birthday, about him.

575
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 3: And he's making you take I mean, like, even if

576
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,679
Speaker 3: you have a close relationship with his daughter, like with

577
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 3: your stepdaughter, it's still not okay for him to just

578
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 3: kind of like put the whole trip on you. And also,

579
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Speaker 3: I mean, it seems like there's gonna be a lot

580
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 3: of time where you're kind of.

581
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Speaker 1: By yourself because she's working.

582
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 2: Two years ago, he got me no gifts, not the

583
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 2: first time of no gifts, but this time was memorable

584
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 2: because of the following. He asked me where I wanted

585
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 2: to go, and I said, my favorite sushi restaurant in

586
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 2: the city, which is about a twenty minute drive, because

587
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 2: I had just discovered it and really loved the cucumber salad.

588
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 2: To this day, they know me as the cucumber salad girl,

589
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 2: and the chef always puts out extra that's incredibly cute. Yeah,

590
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 2: oh it's a girl here, go home. Gom husband then

591
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 2: takes me to a random sushi restaurant in our town

592
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 2: that had just opened because he wanted to try it

593
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 2: and thought it was a nicer restaurant than my favorite.

594
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: It's not your birthday. He picked a.

595
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 2: Fight with me about me being ungrateful because I didn't

596
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 2: want to eat at another sushi restaurant on my birthday

597
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 2: and I wanted to eat it my favorite. He went

598
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 2: outside to cool down, and I quietly cried at the table.

599
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 3: I've been freaking watching Last five or listening to the

600
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 3: Last five Years album.

601
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: This is that, This is that.

602
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 2: The owner of the other sushi restaurant brought me a

603
00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 2: birthday diikon radish dish that was covered in cinnamon and

604
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 2: sugar because I had no birthday cake. The owner was

605
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 2: super sweet and got me to stop crying and to

606
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: note this was the year I told my husband, I'm

607
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 2: done planning my own birthdays. I told him in advance

608
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 2: because I was tired of planning my own celebrations and

609
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 2: cooking the meal and cleaning the house, and that he

610
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 2: could figure it out. This was the celebration that he planned.

611
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 2: No family was invited or even asked to come. Last year,

612
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 2: I left town to visit my half sisters, first time

613
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 2: meeting them in person.

614
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: They're twins.

615
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 2: They were born twelve years before me, but birthdays were

616
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 2: two days apart. Husband had been upset I was leaving

617
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 2: town for my birthday, and I pointed out that I

618
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 2: was trying to avoid the usual blow up and he

619
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: never planned anything. He still blew up because I was

620
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 2: running away and he was worried I might not come back.

621
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 3: Trader right, yeah, m maybe trader better and she'll come back.

622
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: Made me think.

623
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: About why would be worried about that and then take

624
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 2: steps to address it. I told him that his reactions

625
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 2: were why I wanted to celebrate away from him, because

626
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 2: I wanted a nice birthday for once, no gift, but

627
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 2: he did send me a Vemo for the trip, and

628
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: I accepted that this was an improvement. Four years ago,

629
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 2: I had planned my own birthday party, did the cooking

630
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 2: and cleaning things. Sister in law brought me cupcakes. Mother

631
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 2: in law bought me some very nice jewelry, and I

632
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 2: was happy. Hubby got nothing, and when everyone asked what

633
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 2: he got me, I admitted nothing. After the party, he

634
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: was upset and picked a fight. I stood my ground

635
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 2: that if he felt bad for not getting a gift

636
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 2: yet and he should have gotten.

637
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 4: Me a gaft, are you a fool? You know the

638
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 4: song Where Is My Mind by the Pixies.

639
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 2: He doesn't get to be mad at me because he

640
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 2: didn't get me a gift, and I wouldn't lie to

641
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 2: his family. He admitted he had wanted to get me

642
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 2: the jewelry, and when he saw his mom had actually

643
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 2: got me some, he was upset.

644
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you want it isn't doing oh a thought

645
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: about it? Who cares? This isn't middle school. It's not like, oh,

646
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't believe I wore the same.

647
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 2: Outfit as that other person. It's like you can get

648
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 2: her jewelry as well.

649
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: We aren't in your mind palace.

650
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 3: Your thoughts don't actually form into physical objects, nice things.

651
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 2: He told me that he was upset and that it's

652
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: the thought that counts. I told him that applies to

653
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 2: when you get a gift and it's not the best

654
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 2: fit for the recipient, not because you thought about getting

655
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 2: a gift and decided not to.

656
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: Yeah.

657
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 2: I joked that I was thinking about getting him a

658
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 2: trip to Paris for Christmas, and since I told him

659
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Speaker 2: I didn't have to get him anything for Christmas or

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Speaker 2: the trip, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Throw it right in his face.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, throw that stinky, illogical nonsense back back on his plate.

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Speaker 2: He was mad at that one for a while and

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Speaker 2: was upset that I might not get him Christmas gifts. Dude,

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I.

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Speaker 1: Canna give me a creamy. I'm not gonna get you

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Speaker 1: a Christmas giving? Who cares?

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Speaker 2: By the way, I wanna teach you something, which is

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Speaker 2: that you can listen to full episodes with stories like this.

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Speaker 2: All you gotta do is go to Spotify or Apple

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Speaker 2: Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts from and search.

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Speaker 1: Okay, storytime. So this brings me to this year.

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Speaker 2: I just had a conversation while typing this out with

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Speaker 2: husband about admitting he wasn't going to Vegas. He admitted

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Speaker 2: it was a test because he wanted to see my reaction.

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Speaker 2: I told him that is a red flag, yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 2: and that these kinds of tests are designed for me

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Speaker 2: to fail. It removes any possibility of communicating. And while

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Speaker 2: he was angry, I had told him I was angry

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Speaker 2: with him. I wasn't okay with his manipulative behavior. I

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Speaker 2: don't feel safe going to Vegas, nor have I ever

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Speaker 2: wanted to go there, let alone with the added responsibility

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Speaker 2: of parenthood. He said it was an honor he was

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Speaker 2: trusting me with going with his daughter. Told him it's

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Speaker 2: a responsibility and making decisions without me, and that it's

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Speaker 2: unfair to test me like that. So am I the

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Speaker 2: a hole. Things took a weird turn, And yes, I'm

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Speaker 2: aware my husband is coming across as very toxic he

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Speaker 2: can be. But this is a frustrating moment and description.

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Speaker 2: While I am upset and frustrated, I'm very concerned with

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Speaker 2: your husband's behavior, I.

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Speaker 3: Am also really concerned with your husband's behavior. I don't

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Speaker 3: like it. And I think the fact that like, we

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Speaker 3: haven't heard all of the other stuff in your relationship,

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Speaker 3: we're only going off what you've given us, yes, which

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Speaker 3: you should kind of take that in and be like,

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Speaker 3: why did I only write.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Sam. We're gonna get back to the stories.

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Speaker 3: My mother in law thinks she's the mother of my

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Speaker 3: kids and even tried to make it legal.

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Speaker 5: Stop I'm gonna make that illegal because that's wrong.

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Speaker 3: So I understand that s O should have made an

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Speaker 3: active attempt to keep mother in law at a distance,

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Speaker 3: but I truly believe he has only now woke up

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Speaker 3: to her and her actions, and he now he realizes

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Speaker 3: how truly messed up the situation is. By the way,

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Speaker 3: this comes from I'm Edel, and if you want to

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Speaker 1: Stories, go to our slash Okay storytime Separate It.

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Speaker 3: My partner, male twenty four, and I female twenty one,

712
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Speaker 3: share one biological child together, male four months, and my stepson,

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Speaker 3: male three. My partner and I got pregnant early into

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Speaker 3: the relationship.

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Speaker 1: Oops.

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Speaker 3: We have been together for one and a half years.

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Speaker 3: I understand this isn't long, but I didn't realize the

718
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Speaker 3: absolute crap show of a family I was getting myself

719
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Speaker 3: into before I felt pregnant. My partner at the time

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Speaker 3: did not see his son my stepson often, and when

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Speaker 3: he did, his son would go to mother in law

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Speaker 3: for the sleep side of things, as she insisted. This

723
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 3: arrangement was something created between s SO and mother in

724
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 3: law before my arrival into the relationship. So used to

725
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Speaker 3: live in an airbnb when he and stepson's mom broke

726
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 3: up and stepson's mom still lived in the granny flat,

727
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Speaker 3: refusing to see so Todd is Op's s O. During

728
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Speaker 3: this time, when stepson's mom couldn't look after him, mother

729
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 3: in law would step in instead of Todd.

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Speaker 1: Todd is now in court for.

731
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Speaker 3: Custody orders between him and stepson's mom, and they're able

732
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Speaker 3: to communicate well regarding stepson now. We have him fortnightly

733
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Speaker 3: from Thursday to Sunday. Early into the relationship, I helped

734
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Speaker 3: Todd clean up rooms filled with step son's mother's dirty

735
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Speaker 3: clothes in the granny flat to create a room for

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Speaker 3: step son to live in and feel at home. And

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Speaker 3: we're to call step son, we'll call him Billy Lee.

738
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Speaker 3: I pushed Todd to work with Billy's mother to establish

739
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Speaker 3: some kind of care agreement. I went out and bought

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Speaker 3: Billy clothes, toys, posters of bed, et cetera. With Todd

741
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Speaker 3: so that he had a place to feel like he

742
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 3: belonged while he was over. This also gave Todd more

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Speaker 3: confidence to care for Billy alone and not rely on

744
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Speaker 3: mother in law. Mother in law never let Todd figure

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Speaker 3: things out on his own before I was around. She

746
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Speaker 3: would constantly try to tend to Billy at any given

747
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Speaker 3: moment and offered to look after Billy for the night

748
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Speaker 3: so Todd could sleep. She would cry and beg until

749
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Speaker 3: Todd aloud or to take him. This later created a

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Speaker 3: horribly toxic relationship between Billy and mother in law, which

751
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 3: would become a recurring issue. We currently live with my

752
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 3: mother in law. Early in the relationship, she convinced Todd

753
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Speaker 3: and me to move in with her to save money,

754
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Speaker 3: claiming I was wasting money by renting. She has always

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00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 3: been frugal believes everything is value. She's also a significant

756
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 3: order with the backyard completely run down and cluttered with

757
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 3: items everywhere.

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00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: Oh, this is going to be an ICU for her.

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00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 3: She has a tendency to take out loans and never

760
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 3: repay them or go on payment plans for unnecessary items.

761
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 3: One is a massage chair where she makes one payment

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Speaker 3: and then ghosts the company. She taught Todd not to

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Speaker 3: pay back his car.

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Speaker 1: Loan to the bank, convincing him that it was the

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Speaker 1: people's money and that debt collectors couldn't do anything if

766
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: he just never answered their calls. I'm sorry, no.

767
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 3: She would ask about the loan constantly and get upset

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00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 3: when he told her he made a payment. She would

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Speaker 3: then create some kind of debt he oweder, rent, phone bills,

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00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 3: et cetera that needed to be paid urgently, blaming his

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Speaker 3: bank repayment for why he couldn't pay her, and that

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Speaker 3: he should do what she's been telling him to do

773
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 3: and just ignore all of her calls and not pay

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Speaker 3: her back. As simple as that, she convinced Todd to

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00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 3: transfer most of his important assets, car phone, et cetera

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Speaker 3: into her name, and made her self a nominee on

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00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 3: his bank clothes to speak on his behalf. I have

778
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Speaker 3: since convinced Todd to start making repayments, explaining the legal

779
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 3: reality to him because we are now considered to facto.

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00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 3: If debt collectors came after him, my belongings could also

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00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 3: be seized to make up for the outstanding balance. Confirmed

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Speaker 3: with a lawyer.

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Speaker 1: Oh fun, good, great, great payod debts man.

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Speaker 3: We have since removed her as a nominee on the loan.

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Speaker 2: Good.

786
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Speaker 3: My credit score is fantastic good. I always pay my

787
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Speaker 3: bills in a dance. Todd's credit score, on the other hand,

788
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 3: is the gutter with unpaid bills that have been forgotten

789
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 3: for years and the debt collector problem. I didn't know

790
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 3: any of this before falling pregnant. Mother in law moved

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Speaker 3: into the granny flat into the backyard while I was

792
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 3: around seven months pregnant, and Todd and I moved into

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Speaker 3: the main house to prepare for our family again.

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Speaker 1: This was her idea.

795
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Speaker 3: At the time, I was beyond grateful for the opportunity

796
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 3: to have a house to live in and grow my

797
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 3: family and while we search for rental. Well, what an

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00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 3: aft up idea that turned out to be. Over the

799
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 3: last few months, I've realized all of her so called

800
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 3: good deeds and offers were ill intended. I didn't even

801
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,439
Speaker 3: know one eighth of what I know now regarding her,

802
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 3: her relationship with Todd and the kids, and the true

803
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 3: state of the home we now live in. Todd grew

804
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 3: up with mother in law shielding him from his father

805
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 3: until just a few years ago. Mother in law is

806
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 3: kept Todd around to fill her own voids, ghosting all

807
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 3: her friends and other family members. She makes comments such

808
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 3: as here my baby to Todd, and I do everything

809
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 3: for my grandchildren. Whenever Todd stands up to mother in law,

810
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 3: she runs to Todd's dad, who then asks, why is

811
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 3: your mom upset. Todd is always made to feel wrong

812
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 3: or guilty and ends up apologizing for my baby shower.

813
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 3: I had a message board where everyone could write notes

814
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Speaker 3: for the baby. Mother in law was the only one

815
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Speaker 3: who drew a massive heart around her name and wrote

816
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 3: forever love from mother in law mom Nana. She truly

817
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 3: believes she is the mother to Todd's kids, or at

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00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 3: least tries to be. My baby was in the nice

819
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 3: you for his first month. When he came home, I

820
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 3: was beside myself, terrified of hurting him and struggling with

821
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 3: p and D. Made worse by the lack of sleep.

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Speaker 3: Mother in law offered to babysit, let's name him Tommy,

823
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 3: my bio son. I just said, fine, I know, just

824
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 3: is shocked for a few hours so Todd could sleep.

825
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: Never me.

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Speaker 3: Of course, she kept offering, and Todd except I asked

827
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 3: her to only stay for a few hours if she

828
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 3: was comfortable not all night, and constantly reassured her that

829
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Speaker 3: I'd be back in three to four hours to take Tommy.

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00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 3: Mother in law insisted, getting upset and saying she'd stay

831
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 3: all night because she left it. I told Todd I

832
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 3: wasn't comfortable with this, but he gave me an ultimatum.

833
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 3: Unless I planned to stay up all night, I should

834
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 3: let mother in law do it. What mother in law

835
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 3: looked after Tommy nearly every night for two weeks.

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Speaker 1: I regret this heart.

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Speaker 3: I forgave Todd for a lot during late pregnancy, labor,

838
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 3: and postpartum. I was afraid of arguing, so I pushed

839
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 3: a lot aside. He slept in my bed a few

840
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 3: hours after I gave birth while I sat in a

841
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 3: chair rocking our baby to sleep, too afraid of what

842
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 3: would happen when he woke up. While Tommy and I

843
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 3: were in the hospital him for breathing issues and I

844
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 3: see you me for preclamcia, Todd kept making points about

845
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 3: needing to go home to feed and walk the dog,

846
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 3: go to the gym, et cetera.

847
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: He hated sleeping on the recliner bed.

848
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 3: We had a plan for what to do with Billy

849
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 3: if I went into labor while he was at our house,

850
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 3: we agreed he would go back to his mom. Mother

851
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 3: in law, however, cried and begged Todd on the phone

852
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 3: while I was being induced keep Billy, promising to look

853
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 3: after him. Todd gave in I now resent Todd and

854
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 3: don't know if we will stay together. I'm terrified of

855
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 3: what that means for Tommy because I believe Todd will

856
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 3: make amends with mother in law and when Tommy visits him,

857
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 3: mother in law will be around to take Recently, Todd,

858
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 3: his dad, and stepmom have had a falling out with

859
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 3: mother in law. We have been searching for homes and

860
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 3: trying to cut ties with her. She started going through

861
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 3: our bins, googling my medications and telling me not to

862
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 3: take them, name calling and manipulating Billy, fake crying when

863
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 3: he wouldn't give her a hug, then laughing when he did.

864
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 3: Mother in law has not seen Tommy in nearly two

865
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 3: months since the major falling out. She also hasn't seen Billy.

866
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 3: Now she is threatening Todd, claiming she has grandparent rights

867
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 3: to see both children. She insists she has the right

868
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 3: to see Billy because she had a more yet says,

869
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 3: I'm respecting your space and boundaries and waiting for you

870
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 3: to let me know when I could see them. But

871
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 3: you can see us right now or in the future

872
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 3: if you listen to full episodes with stories just like this.

873
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Speaker 3: Just go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or iHeartRadio and search

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Speaker 3: a book a storytime. But there is a little bit

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Speaker 3: left to the story.

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Speaker 5: I think this is like a reality check for the

877
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 5: mother in law. Yeah, the world is falling apart. Yeah,

878
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 5: what she already had and it was already falling apart.

879
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 3: Finally, Opie's partner is way like Todd is freaking waking

880
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,959
Speaker 3: up because I'm sure Opie has been trying to say, like, hey,

881
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 3: your mother is getting too involved.

882
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 1: Keep in mind too, Opie is very young.

883
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 3: Oh he's twenty one, but also acting a lot more

884
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 3: mature than the twenty four year old.

885
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean these you see her.

886
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 5: I can see the mother in law manipulating what she

887
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 5: did in the very beginning, manipulating and like, no, this is.

888
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: What adults do, Like you're in a little you know,

889
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:33,959
Speaker 1: I got this. And don't get me wrong.

890
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 5: With the right people in the right in laws or

891
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 5: just parents and grandparents, they want to help.

892
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm also sure like because Todd was nigh

893
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 3: it was probably twenty when he, yeah, met his father,

894
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 3: twenty when he became a father.

895
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: He became a father and also a medicine and met

896
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 1: his father crazy.

897
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 3: Not only does she see Todd as her child, but

898
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 3: she also manipulates and dumbs him down to keeping him

899
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 3: attached to her. She's now treating the kids as hers

900
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,280
Speaker 3: and is willing to fight us in court for visitation.

901
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,479
Speaker 3: I am trying so to make this work, to pull

902
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 3: Todd out of the financial and emotional mess mother in

903
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 3: law created. But with everything happening, I think this relationship

904
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 3: will fail, and if it does, mother in law may

905
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 3: end up raising my son with me having no real

906
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 3: leg to stand on. I think you just have to prioritize,

907
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 3: not really, honestly, I feel like right now you can't

908
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 3: really prioritize helping Todd get out of his financial situation.

909
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: The only thing you can do.

910
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 3: Yourself and make sure you have a great place. You know,

911
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 3: you have a place to live, you have a job,

912
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 3: like make sure all of that is as that is,

913
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 3: so that you can get access to your or you

914
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 3: can get custody.

915
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: Of your kids.

916
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 5: That's because you thought mother in law would have been

917
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 5: like a like a safe haven, like we.

918
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: Get a house. We have actually have a roof over

919
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: my head. No such thing as a free lunch.

920
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 5: Get away from that situation. Take your kids away from

921
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 5: that situation because that is very toxic.

922
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that is the end of that story.

923
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 3: My brother ditched us for his fiances lifestyle.

924
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: Now he doesn't want us at his wedding. Sorry, I'm too.

925
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: Rudemysrena a little bit of background.

926
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 3: I thirty six female, have twin siblings, thirty female and

927
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 3: thirty male. We were very close growing up. I did

928
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 3: a lot of the parenting of them due to Dad

929
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 3: having terminal cancer and mom having to be his career.

930
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 3: By the way, this comes from examination number sixty four

931
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,760
Speaker 3: sevent nine and if you want to spit your own stories,

932
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 3: go to our Sashoke storytime subbured it. So when dad

933
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,479
Speaker 3: passed away when we were twenty and fourteen, it brought

934
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:25,720
Speaker 3: us even closer together.

935
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: We leaned on each other.

936
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 3: Always went to festivals in gigs together every year, and

937
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 3: were actively involved in each other's lives until about eighteen

938
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:34,359
Speaker 3: months ago.

939
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: Wow.

940
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 3: I would also like to point out that he has

941
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 3: invited all of my stepfather's family from Scotland, some of

942
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 3: whom he hasn't seen or spoken to for seven years.

943
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 3: I believe this is referring to the brother now who's

944
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 3: getting married.

945
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:49,439
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean Scottish hey, Scottish ties, they run deep.

946
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 3: Invited all of them to the day, but not our

947
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 3: local uncles, Mom's brothers, both of which played a huge

948
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 3: part in supporting us whilst Dad was poorly. They have

949
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 3: also excluded our mom from wedding dress shopping, despite her

950
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 3: offering to help financially with the wedding, and our stepfather

951
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 3: was gutted to learn that he has now decided against

952
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 3: kilts for the men. He's a proud Scotsman and he

953
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 3: has been left out of suit shopping. Also, that sucks, dude,

954
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 3: No kilts for the Scotts.

955
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,240
Speaker 1: Were we doing? Dude?

956
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 3: Am I overreacting or am I justified in being upset?

957
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 3: I am seriously considering not attending at all at this point?

958
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 3: Would that make me an a whole? Also for information,

959
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 3: our sister, his twin, was supposed to be his best

960
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 3: woman and hasn't been given a plus one. She's also

961
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 3: considering either stepping down or not attending at all.

962
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 1: And there is a long at it, so we'll stop there. Guys. Firstly,

963
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: have we spoken to brother? Yeah, that's my question. Have

964
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: we sa Have we communicated this anger? Have we discussed

965
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: what we want to see here? Have you given him

966
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: a list of demands and said unless these are met,

967
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: I'm not going to the wedding. Kilts for all Scott's,

968
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: kilts for Scott, Tori, Scott's for.

969
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 2: Killing He's most that's upset that the uncles aren't invited.

970
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 1: The other uncles op. He is upset about that. I believe, Yes,

971
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: that's the main point. Yeah, I don't know. I think

972
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: at that point, well, we got uncles aren't invited, no

973
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: kilts for Scott's.

974
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 3: The is it this sister who is the best woman

975
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 3: can't bring up plus one that is whackers.

976
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 2: That's the only thing I've heard so far that would

977
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 2: I think justify like a threat to back out. I

978
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 2: think I think realistically like the uncle stuff is probably

979
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,959
Speaker 2: not ideal, But I don't know. I think you pulling

980
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 2: out of the wedding would just make everything a bigger deal.

981
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 1: Um. But there is an edit. My sister is recovering

982
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: from an ed and has worked hard to recover. Di

983
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: has told her that she has to wear the same

984
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: dress as the maid of honor, and the maid of

985
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: Honor is choosing the dress. The maid of honor is

986
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: a very different body type to A and I is

987
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 1: a I guess the sister. Let's call her Alissa?

988
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, and an ill fitting dress, which she would

989
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 3: have to pay for, would set her back months, if

990
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 3: not a year in recovery. This is another reason she

991
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 3: is thinking of stepping down. Would I be the a

992
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 3: hole and edit add information ied, I mean eating disorder,

993
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,959
Speaker 3: not a rectile dysfunction. She has struggled with this since

994
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 3: she was around five. Wow, But thanks to our amazing

995
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 3: NHS and incompetent GP, we were told children.

996
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 1: Cannot get eating disorders.

997
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 3: So she was only diagnosed officially around two years ago.

998
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 3: She has worked amazingly hard to get to a better place,

999
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 3: but this is a lifelong struggle and we all try

1000
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 3: very hard to help her stay healthy, or I thought

1001
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 3: we all did. She's amazing and I am her biggest cheerleader,

1002
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 3: and that's why it hurt so much that not everyone

1003
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 3: has her health in mind. This is my brother's first relationship.

1004
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 3: I don't know if this explains more about his thinking

1005
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 3: and unwillingness to voice his own opinions and personality. I'm

1006
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 3: unsure if he was worried about losing what took him

1007
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 3: so long to find my mom. Mom is a hard

1008
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 3: one to explain. There's always been an element of favoritism

1009
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 3: for the only boy. My sister and I grew up

1010
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 3: in the knowledge that our brother was the golden child

1011
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 3: and could do no wrong. I feel my mom is

1012
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 3: grieving for the relationship she once had with d and

1013
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 3: let's call him Daniel. Myself and my sister have always

1014
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 3: had a difficult relationship with her. She loves us and

1015
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 3: we know she does, but there is always a little

1016
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 3: bit of woes me I can't do anything right when

1017
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 3: we try to speak to her about how we feel.

1018
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1019
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,959
Speaker 1: I feel like that's a common thing for likes moms. Moms. Yeah,

1020
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: I'm just a terrible mother. Ah you should They know

1021
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: how to play hard, Yeah, they play it a lot.

1022
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 3: She seems to be stuck between a rock and a

1023
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 3: hard place. She wants to stand up for us girls

1024
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 3: and for what she feels is right, but also does

1025
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 3: not want to risk losing what little relationship she still

1026
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,919
Speaker 3: has with my brother. Mom's brother is the other sad

1027
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 3: part of this. Earlier in twenty twenty four, he was

1028
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 3: diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that had spread

1029
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 3: rapidly through his body. He's already very weak and will

1030
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 3: almost certainly not make it to the wedding day.

1031
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: All three of us have a brilliant relationship with him.

1032
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 3: He took me to my first football match and sparked

1033
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 3: a lifelong love for my team, And we have all

1034
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 3: cried with my mom about this. I think she was

1035
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 3: hoping for at least a symbolic invite to the wedding,

1036
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 3: but that hasn't happened either.

1037
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: But you know what should happen you watching full episodes

1038
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: with stories just like this.

1039
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 3: Just go to Apple podcast, Spotify or iHeartRadio and search

1040
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 3: a Pokey story time.

1041
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: But there is a little bit left. Do you have

1042
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: any final thoughts on this? I mean honestly final thoughts.

1043
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 2: I'm canceling the wedding because dude, like you didn't let

1044
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 2: the scotsman wear kilts or why are we even inviting

1045
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 2: the Scots At that point.

1046
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 3: It's like, if you're not gonna let the Scottsburg kilts,

1047
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 3: then get out of.

1048
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: Scotland, you know, don't don't know, they're not Scotland, all

1049
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: the Scots metaphorically.

1050
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 2: You know, what are we doing not inviting the terminally

1051
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 2: ill father.

1052
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 3: Uh brother, the uncle. Oh yeah, that mother's brother also

1053
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 3: super messed.

1054
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: Up, super messed up. I mean this is you know,

1055
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: this is.

1056
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 3: A person who's not gonna be around for a long

1057
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 3: like a long period of time, even if he couldn't

1058
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 3: necessarily make it to the wedding, just as Op said,

1059
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 3: like just having that symbolic invite of saying like we

1060
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 3: want you to be there and we understand if you help,

1061
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 3: your health does not permit you to. But yeah, uh,

1062
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 3: it's just being invited to things. That's nice sometimes even

1063
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 3: if you know someone's.

1064
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: Busy, it's true even if you don't go.

1065
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 3: My sister has decided that when she is less upset,

1066
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 3: she will write him a letter to explain how she

1067
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 3: is feeling. She's a very good and a mode of

1068
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 3: writer and feels that she can edit and explain herself

1069
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 3: better in writing than in person, as she will get

1070
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 3: flustered and forget to mention things when she gets upset.

1071
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 3: I will update if and when my sister sends her

1072
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 3: letters to him and with his reaction, and there are

1073
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 3: some comments to finish this story off. Comment one, is

1074
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 3: your partner upset she wasn't invited? If so, don't go oh,

1075
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 3: he says, my partner is blissfully happy in most circumstances

1076
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 3: in life, and that's why we are happy. I feel

1077
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 3: that I am more frustrated by the inequality of it all,

1078
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 3: and I am even more angry and sad for my

1079
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 3: sister than myself and my partner, as we are older

1080
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 3: and have had more life experience and understand that some

1081
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,320
Speaker 3: things aren't worth the fight or the argument.

1082
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: But she is his twin.

1083
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 3: They have always been amazingly close and supportive for each

1084
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 3: other and have always said cradle to the grave. So

1085
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 3: for this to be you ripping them apart is heartbreaking.

1086
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 3: That is really, especially because Opie said that they were

1087
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 3: so close up until eighteen months ago. Yeah, and like

1088
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 3: I mean the bond between like twins especially, I'm sure.

1089
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, this ah messed up, dude, messed up.

1090
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 3: Comment two not the a hole, But I hope you

1091
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 3: can stand some contact with him in case she is abusive.

1092
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 1: If he ever.

1093
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Speaker 3: Decides to leave, he may need to have someone in

1094
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 3: his corner. Opie says, the door will always be open

1095
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:27,959
Speaker 3: for him. I would never turn him away. I've told

1096
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 3: both of my siblings before, no matter what, I will

1097
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 3: always leave the light on for you.

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00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: Ah.

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00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 3: Comment three, not the a whole. Your poor mom, she

1100
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 3: must be heartbroken over how her youngest son is behaving

1101
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 3: towards his family.

1102
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 1: Please go.

1103
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 3: If your sister decides to remain as best woman, she'll

1104
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,479
Speaker 3: need you. Also suggest to her to get the dress

1105
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 3: altered to fit her body properly. She needs to look

1106
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 3: amazing in photos. Your brother is being an absolute a hole.

1107
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 3: Don't lower yourself to his level. They may be of

1108
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 3: a higher socioeconomic bracket, but that doesn't equate to class.

1109
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 3: And Opie says, I will absolutely be there to supporter

1110
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 3: if she goes, regardless of my opinions on the matter.

1111
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 3: I will make sure she looks amazing and most importantly,

1112
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 3: feels amazing, and I will make sure that we all

1113
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 3: have an amazing day. And that is the end of

1114
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:11,760
Speaker 3: that story.

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00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,760
Speaker 1: I mean, that's about all you can do at that point.

1116
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: I also, I mean, it doesn't seem like you've had

1117
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: a conversation yet with the brother. Yeah, so it's up

1118
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: with that.

1119
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 3: Try Yeah, if you have cool, but if you haven't,

1120
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 3: you know, attempt that. See if you can get him

1121
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 3: to change his mind on any things, and just tell

1122
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 3: him how you feel, how your family feels.

1123
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: Start with the kilks. Yeah, start with the kilts. Start

1124
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 1: we're small John here.

1125
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 2: We're gonna get back to this juicy story, but a

1126
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 2: quick three minute break of aths from our sponsors. I

1127
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 2: excluded some family members from my wedding because of their

1128
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 2: discriminatory past. Getady the throwaway, but I'm ninety nine percent

1129
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,720
Speaker 2: sure the family will find this anyway. Recently, my boyfriend

1130
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 2: twenty five mail and I, twenty four male of four years,

1131
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 2: got married. I come from a very traditional, if not stereotypical,

1132
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 2: let you know family the chief may or the gossip

1133
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 2: is deeply ingrained in the whole family. By the way,

1134
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 2: this comes from user tax Dude to twenty twenty three

1135
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 2: and if you want to submit your own stories, go

1136
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Speaker 2: to the Okay storytime subredding.

1137
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: So.

1138
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 2: I have about seven uncles, one of which is also

1139
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 2: by like myself. He got married some time ago, and

1140
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 2: when he sent out invites to the whole family, a

1141
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 2: large majority of them declined because of religious reasons, which

1142
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 2: really saddened him. I kept this in mind when it

1143
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 2: came time to send out my invitations and those particular

1144
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 2: family members did not get one. About a week ago,

1145
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 2: my husband and I went to my dad's house for

1146
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 2: the annual family reunion. I really didn't want to go

1147
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 2: because I knew in the back of my mind this

1148
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 2: absolutely was going to get around despite the lack of

1149
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,399
Speaker 2: posting on any social media.

1150
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: But my dad and mom really wanted me there. They

1151
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 1: are very supportive and.

1152
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 2: The be loud and proud type of people, and I

1153
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 2: love them to the grave for it. Even if it's

1154
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 2: a little obnoxious. The spirit is what counts, right. I

1155
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 2: voiced this concern to my dad and he was very

1156
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 2: insistent that if crap goes south, he'll be right there

1157
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 2: with me to laugh about it. The entire time. My

1158
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 2: husband and I are getting some intense side eye. The

1159
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 2: family that didn't attend didn't even try to hide the

1160
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 2: fact that they were whispering about my husband and I.

1161
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: About two hours.

1162
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 2: Later, as I am six or so, whiskeys in the

1163
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 2: straight uncles took initiative and decided to ambush me and

1164
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 2: ask why they weren't invited.

1165
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, what could it? Be Do you know why they

1166
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:30,240
Speaker 1: were invited?

1167
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dora say it turns into Dora.

1168
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 2: I was polite and I reminded them that they turned

1169
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 2: down the Bye Uncle's wedding for religious reasons.

1170
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 1: They responded with it least wanting to be thought about

1171
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: and being invited. That's insane. Technically you were okay, retro.

1172
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 3: I know, we just said in the last story, like, oh,

1173
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 3: you know, invite because even if they don't go, not

1174
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 3: in this case. Well, yeah, these people were not in

1175
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:01,360
Speaker 3: this case because they're biggots. Because I'm sorry, Oh, we

1176
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 3: weren't gonna come, but we wanted you to invite us

1177
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 3: so that we could say.

1178
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: We're not coming to your wedding. What. Yeah, we wanted

1179
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: you to invite us so that we could tell you that, yeah.

1180
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 3: We wanted you to invite us, so that we had

1181
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 3: a chance to be biggots to your face, that's not fair.

1182
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 2: I told them that I did think about them, and

1183
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 2: I decided they weren't worth the fifty seven cent postage

1184
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,240
Speaker 2: to be told they weren't going to attend for bigoted reasons.

1185
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 2: It would be understanding to say that their reaction was

1186
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 2: less than pleased. Crap hit multiple fans. My uncles went

1187
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 2: off for being compared to a postage stamp. My dad

1188
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 2: was eating it up. My mom was a little pissy

1189
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 2: at me for causing a disturbance in her house, though,

1190
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 2: which unfortunately made me question everything in the moment.

1191
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: My grandma was giving me the judges in Spanish. Look.

1192
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 2: My husband kind of grabbed my hand and said, let's

1193
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 2: get out of here before you piss off any more

1194
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 2: people in a laughing manner, and proceeded to drive us home.

1195
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 2: My dad sent me a that's my boy, good on

1196
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,280
Speaker 2: you for standing up yourself text. My mom was still

1197
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 2: less than thrilled about how things went down. My buye

1198
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 2: uncle sent me a text saying thank you for standing

1199
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 2: up for me. But now my relationship with my brothers

1200
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 2: is strained to hack and I didn't want to.

1201
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 1: My phone and.

1202
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 2: Social media have been blowing the heck up ever since then,

1203
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 2: but I'm kind of ignoring it. I do feel bad

1204
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 2: for my uncle because he just wants to be close

1205
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 2: with all his brothers and not just one. So Reddit

1206
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:26,439
Speaker 2: am I the a hole for the how things went down?

1207
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 2: And there's an edit to broadly state this. I have

1208
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 2: apologized to my uncle for using him as an example

1209
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 2: in what happened, and I truly didn't mean to make

1210
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 2: things harder for him with his brothers. I also expressed

1211
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 2: that it isn't exactly healthy for his well being to

1212
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,439
Speaker 2: want to put up with them, knowing how they feel

1213
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 2: about him before any of this happened. He kind of

1214
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 2: remains silent on the topic, so I'm trying to leave

1215
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 2: it alone and not force him.

1216
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 1: I would say, not the a hole, dude, And I

1217
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 1: think you're at all the a hole.

1218
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 2: Your your uncle who's buy is just upset that his

1219
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 2: you know, manufactured piece is being broken.

1220
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like the freaking military, you know. I feel

1221
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 3: like it's that kind of thing with this family, especially

1222
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 3: with uncles of like, oh, we're fine right now, we're

1223
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 3: chill with our Bye brother, uh, because we're not talking

1224
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 3: about it.

1225
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:14,759
Speaker 1: He doesn't bring it out.

1226
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 3: We didn't go to his wedding, And as long as

1227
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 3: we don't even think I have to think about it,

1228
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 3: then we're gonna let him be near.

1229
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 2: They're just like, yeah, I'm talking to the straight half

1230
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 2: of my Bye brother.

1231
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: Which is a really frustrating.

1232
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:28,879
Speaker 3: I think the Bye brother is now having to kind

1233
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 3: of reckon with like, oh, the second that anything about

1234
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 3: my sexuality comes up, They're going to ostracize me and

1235
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 3: blame me, even though I'm not even part of it.

1236
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 3: I wasn't even part of that conversation.

1237
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like talking to someone over here, and then

1238
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 2: they go, you should hear this too. Here's some some comments.

1239
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 2: Number one, I'm curious why did they want to be invited?

1240
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 2: Do they really get so much enjoyment out of being like, no, nephew,

1241
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 2: I don't support your lifestyle, so I'm not going. I

1242
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 2: would have asked if I had invited you, would you

1243
00:55:59,160 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 2: have come?

1244
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: OHP responds.

1245
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 2: While there is no for sure way of knowing why

1246
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 2: they wanted to be invited, they are very loudly anti LGBT.

1247
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 1: It's no secret.

1248
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 2: About half of their Facebook posts and Instagram posts are

1249
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:13,359
Speaker 2: them making it loud and clear that it's not right.

1250
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,360
Speaker 2: My favorite one was the one that circulated in June

1251
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,280
Speaker 2: with the family under the umbrella protecting them from the rainbow.

1252
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,879
Speaker 2: So between that and my uncle's wedding, I decided it's

1253
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 2: not even worth inviting them. Comment to not the ahole,

1254
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 2: but go ahead and apologize to your uncle. You did

1255
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 2: not really need to bring him up at all.

1256
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,320
Speaker 1: That's a no. I disagree.

1257
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 3: I mean, like, I understand what they're saying, but also

1258
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 3: I think it's kind of silly because OPI was saying,

1259
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 3: you didn't go to this wedding, so why would you

1260
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 3: have gone to the mind.

1261
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 2: The uncle contextually, Yeah, is what makes his argument in

1262
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 2: that moment. Yeah, the spirit is what counts though, Right.

1263
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 2: So it sounds like he agrees and loves you for it,

1264
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:52,840
Speaker 2: but thought that it was a little obnoxious.

1265
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 1: Hope.

1266
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 2: He says that I did apologize to him, but I

1267
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 2: expressed to him that this was kind of unhealthy to

1268
00:56:57,800 --> 00:56:59,720
Speaker 2: want to be close to people who are so against

1269
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 2: some thing you can't control. As for the whole obnoxious thing,

1270
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 2: I think you may have misunderstood me.

1271
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: Haha. He's the one that's obnoxious about it.

1272
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 2: He's gotten me several several purple shirts and various articles

1273
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 2: of clothing that are purple. A couple of years back,

1274
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 2: we were watching football I don't know sports, and I

1275
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 2: asked him.

1276
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 1: What a bye week is.

1277
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 2: His response was along the lines of the week where

1278
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 2: football ares sleep with men, So you better get on

1279
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 2: over there and get your pick. That kind of obnoxious.

1280
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: Haha.

1281
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 2: I'm glad he didn't turn out like my uncles. And

1282
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 2: there is an update here let's get into him W

1283
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 2: two's and ten ninety nine. So I finally done. I

1284
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 2: finally have a break to post this. As I guessed,

1285
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 2: family did indeed find this Between seven uncles. One of

1286
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 2: my cousins likely showed them the post I originally made.

1287
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 2: It was obviously not received.

1288
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: Well. Anyways, I'm just going to go down the list

1289
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 1: and order of things or events that have happened with

1290
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 1: my dad. First off, he wanted me to tell you

1291
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: all that he loved all the support and that he

1292
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: wishes to dad all of you as well.

1293
00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 2: His words quote it took two of us to make

1294
00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 2: you And I gotta say I love my work. Any

1295
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 2: parent that doesn't should never have tried.

1296
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: Well, your dad sounds like such a crazy walking double Yeah.

1297
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 1: I love that.

1298
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 2: My mom she has called me asking why I brought

1299
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 2: up the events of my uncle's wedding. I told her

1300
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 2: that I was simply having a good time with my

1301
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 2: husband and everyone else, that my uncles made the conscious

1302
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 2: decision to want to start a problem. She got mad

1303
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 2: and said she just wanted to have a good party.

1304
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 2: I told her that I didn't want to be attacked

1305
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 2: for my spicy proclivities and not inviting blatant bigots to

1306
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 2: my wedding. But that I'm glad to hear that the

1307
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 2: party meant moretier. Oh, I mean, well, let's I think

1308
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 2: maybe pump the brakes on that.

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00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: As a host. Yeah, but as a host you understand

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00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: to a certain extent.

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00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 3: But also if one of my you know, the people

1312
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 3: at my parties was being attacked for their identity, I'd

1313
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 3: be like, the other person, get out of there, Like

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00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 3: I would blame the uncles more than the person being attacked.

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00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: That's true, But you're also not like the Latino elderly mother.

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00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,439
Speaker 3: Which yeah, this is yeah, this is a different type

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00:58:55,480 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 3: of you know, probably just explicitly as a host, strip

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00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 3: your personality.

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00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: Someone's making drama, someone's involved in drama. Anyway, let's just continue.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 2: We got into a shouting match over the phone. I

1322
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 2: told my dad what happened, and he's livid with her.

1323
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 2: They got into a fight, and now she's staying at

1324
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 2: my grandma's. I've apologized profusely to my dad, but he's

1325
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:16,959
Speaker 2: telling me to let it go and that I've done

1326
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 2: nothing wrong. Above all else. This is what hurts the most.

1327
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 2: She was always very supportive of me, and it feels

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00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 2: like a massive bombshell was just dropped out of nowhere.

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Speaker 3: You can just have another conversation with her, because if

1330
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 3: she's you know, she's not not supportive of you now,

1331
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 3: I'm sure she just doesn't really understand that this was

1332
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 3: a thing that needed to be said right and that

1333
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 3: this wasn't something that you were trying to create drama over.

1334
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: It was just you were defending yourself.

1335
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 2: And that is a much more eloquent way of saying,

1336
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 2: just pump the brakes, because there's a lot of politics

1337
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 2: that go into how she's feeling about this, and it's like,

1338
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 2: I'm sure she supports you and your decisions.

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00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 1: My bye uncle. Unbeknownst to me, my husband invited him

1340
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: over so he and I could have a heart to

1341
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: heart about what happened.

1342
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 2: It annoyed me a little bit, but I'm glad he

1343
00:59:57,800 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 2: invited him over. We talked about the post I May

1344
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 2: and he saw everyone's comments. According to him, it kind

1345
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 2: of opened him up to the crap he was just

1346
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:07,479
Speaker 2: ignoring so he could pretend to have a close bond

1347
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 2: with all his brothers. At the same time, though he's

1348
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:10,919
Speaker 2: still not sure what to.

1349
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 1: Do from here.

1350
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 2: We talked for a few hours and had a good

1351
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 2: cry hug about it. Everything is good on that front,

1352
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 2: and it makes me happy. He'll be seeking therapy to

1353
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 2: help him deal with his feelings on this and the

1354
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 2: other uncles. Obviously, they are livid with me. They couldn't

1355
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 2: believe that I post something like that, blasting them on

1356
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 2: the internet. They said they didn't like being painted the

1357
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 2: way I posted them.

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01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 3: Oh no, then maybe you shouldn't have sat for that

1359
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 3: painting the way that you did.

1360
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no? Why wait? Why did you tell

1361
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: everyone that we're biggods? We like to keep that low key?

1362
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:48,800
Speaker 1: Why'd you do that? I didn't want everyone to know.

1363
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 2: I just straight up asked them if they thought my

1364
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 2: bye uncle was going to the Lake of Fire because

1365
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 2: of his marriage, and to my shock, they had no

1366
01:00:55,880 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 2: problem saying yes. They didn't even try to dance around it.

1367
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 2: In the end, I told them if they didn't want

1368
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 2: to be painted as bigots, to lose the religious bigoted act,

1369
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 2: plain and simple. My husband has been NonStop trying to

1370
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 2: comfort me after the shouting match with my mom. He

1371
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 2: can see the immense pain I'm in. I love that

1372
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 2: man very much, though he took me out for.

1373
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 1: Steak and old fashions the other night to help get

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01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 1: me relaxed. That's all, folks. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: By the way, if you want to listen to full

1376
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 2: episodes with stories like this, all you have to do

1377
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 2: is go to iHeartRadio or Spotify or Apple Podcasts, wherever

1378
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 2: you listen to podcasts, search Okay, story Time and you

1379
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:33,840
Speaker 2: will find.

1380
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 1: The entire collection, the entire archive.

1381
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 2: It's over twelve hundred hours now, so have fun listening

1382
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 2: to that.

1383
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 1: There is a little bit of story left. Sophia, do

1384
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: you have anything to any final comments that here? Don't

1385
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: listen to your uncles.

1386
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 3: They're gonna, they're gonna, you know, dude, like I've got,

1387
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 3: I've got a lot of religious family and have heard

1388
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 3: have heard things over the years. You just gotta kind

1389
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 3: of tune those people out. And maybe you know, you

1390
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:00,920
Speaker 3: don't have to be a them if you don't want

1391
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 3: to be around them and if they're.

1392
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 1: Not going to be supportive. But yeah, I think you

1393
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: could definitely have a conversation with your mom about this,

1394
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 1: And that's my final thought.

1395
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, I'd say number one thing is like,

1396
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 2: I think, just try to salvage the situation with your

1397
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 2: mom right now, because it really if and it's probably

1398
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 2: her brothers, yeah, which is probably why she's a little

1399
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:20,480
Speaker 2: more defense about it. But it's like, I don't know,

1400
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 2: I think, make her understand why you did what you

1401
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 2: did and where you're.

1402
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:26,439
Speaker 1: Coming from, and then try your best to forgive.

1403
01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 2: Her because it was, like, I don't know, it just

1404
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 2: feels like if it continues to go downhill from here,

1405
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,800
Speaker 2: it's you don't want your uncle's stupidity to be why

1406
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 2: your relationship with your mom has gone downhill, you know

1407
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 2: what I mean? Like, I don't know, but you know,

1408
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 2: you're also in the right to be Like you didn't

1409
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 2: stick up for me when I needed you to.

1410
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: What's up with that? Like, you're your right to be upset,

1411
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: but I it's your that's a that's a pickle for sure.

1412
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:50,960
Speaker 1: Let's finish off this story.

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01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 2: Though, Hello everyone, this blew up way bigger than the

1414
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 2: original post did.

1415
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: God dang.

1416
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 2: I definitely appreciate all the love and support I've received

1417
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 2: from everyone in the comments. As of this edit, I've

1418
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 2: decided to put some distance between myself and a lot

1419
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 2: of family My dad is in support of this and

1420
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 2: will be coming over to my place more often than

1421
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 2: me going over to his and my mom's to visit.

1422
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 2: As for everything else, I've got my husband, magic, the gathering,

1423
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 2: and a nice bottle of Crown winter wheat to help

1424
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:20,480
Speaker 2: deal with everything else. Seriously, thank you everyone. Words cannot

1425
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 2: express how awesome all of you are. And that is

1426
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 2: the end of that story.

1427
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: Well there we go. I I have it. I feel

1428
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 1: like I feel like you. You know what to do. Maybe, Yes,

1429
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: the heart's in the right place. You got a great part. Now,

1430
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: you got a great dad, you got a good great uncle,

1431
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:35,240
Speaker 1: and you know this one. And we just send mom

1432
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 1: to the moon. We just gona take a little little think. Yes,

1433
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:41,439
Speaker 1: come come back, come right back.

1434
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 3: It's gonna be like, hey, sorry about that. My brother

1435
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 3: stole from me. Now he wants back.

1436
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:50,479
Speaker 1: In my life. Oh uh, it's too bad, so sad

1437
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: to try to steal your way back in.

1438
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 3: Most of this happened very recently, so for background, my

1439
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 3: brother Andrew and I used to work for the same

1440
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 3: company which was contracting. I did all the scheduling, advertising,

1441
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 3: and relayed any complaints that came my way to the

1442
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 3: right person By the way. This comes from Just Winter

1443
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 3: eighty three seventy nine, and if you want to submit

1444
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 3: your own stories, go to r slash. Okay, Storytime suppered it. So,

1445
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 3: for instance, if a customer complained about the paint bleeding through,

1446
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,960
Speaker 3: which happened once because the guy had electrical problems that

1447
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 3: caused a fire and gave the walls smoke damage, I

1448
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:22,120
Speaker 3: had to handle it. The guy bought the wrong paint

1449
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 3: and the wall's bled. Needless to say, it was a

1450
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,439
Speaker 3: nightmare job. I did all of that for a few

1451
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 3: years with BS pay and all kinds of nonsense, like

1452
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:33,240
Speaker 3: the boss blowing off estimates, make me lie to customers

1453
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 3: because they wouldn't leave in time, or making me lie

1454
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 3: for some other reason. It was complete BS to be honest.

1455
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 3: After a while, the boss gained an unhealthy habit, so

1456
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 3: my brother and I took over for a little while.

1457
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 3: Andrew didn't like to go to estimates, so I had

1458
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 3: my boyfriend go and we would split a percentage. Andrew

1459
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:50,640
Speaker 3: would then get upset if too many things came in

1460
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 3: at once and he had to figure out a lot,

1461
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 3: but he would also complain if nothing came in. Whenever

1462
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 3: my boyfriend was busy and couldn't go. I'd ask Andrew

1463
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 3: and he would cuss me out, asking why there were

1464
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 3: so many I was he even working here?

1465
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 2: Man?

1466
01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 1: He's like, why are there things for me to so

1467
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: people are just employed with no explanation. He would then

1468
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: ask why my boyfriend couldn't go, even when my boyfriend

1469
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: was already out or working. Andrew never understood that.

1470
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 3: So I had to make a plan where we used

1471
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 3: street view to look at houses to see what was wrong.

1472
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: Sometimes Andrew would tell.

1473
01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 3: Me, oh, well, I'd have to see it, then proceed

1474
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 3: to not see it, but still ask me where the

1475
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 3: work was. I had to do that song and dance

1476
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 3: for like two months, at least for once, I got

1477
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 3: paid correctly whenever he would work. One day, Andrew did

1478
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 3: a job that I had gotten him, ceiling and fixing

1479
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 3: a lady's gutters. He got paid by the lady, but

1480
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 3: I never saw my cut. Later, he borrowed gas money

1481
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:42,600
Speaker 3: from me, promising he would have my money for both

1482
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 3: later that week. I still haven't seen it to this day.

1483
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,560
Speaker 3: Now to the backstabbing part of the story, Andrew and

1484
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 3: I live together with my boyfriend, our dad, and his girlfriend.

1485
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 3: It was easier since we all worked for the same company.

1486
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 3: We used our work money to pay rent, utilities, et cetera.

1487
01:05:57,520 --> 01:05:59,560
Speaker 3: Most of the time the boss just paid and said

1488
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 3: it was taken out of our pay. But when the

1489
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 3: boss developed that that habit I mentioned before and stopped paying,

1490
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 3: we had taken on all the financial responsibilities. Let's just

1491
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 3: say Andrew didn't like that. He preferred to party and

1492
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 3: go out drinking instead of paying what needed to be paid,

1493
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 3: and we got behind with the landlord, causing a lot

1494
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 3: of stress in the house. I liked to party and

1495
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 3: drink from time to time too, but I always made

1496
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:24,640
Speaker 3: sure work came first. I also made sure I only

1497
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 3: did it on weekends so it wouldn't interfere with anything important.

1498
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 3: I even helped Andrew build a home bar so we

1499
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:32,600
Speaker 3: and our friends had somewhere to drink. I also paid

1500
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 3: for most of the stuff so Andrew could have a

1501
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 3: Halloween party.

1502
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:36,240
Speaker 1: I ended up making.

1503
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 3: A Hail Mary ad because work wasn't coming in. I

1504
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 3: basically told people that bills were piling up, which they were,

1505
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 3: and that we had skills, just needed work to get

1506
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 3: through the holidays.

1507
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 1: Needless to say, Andrew hated this. Did he did he now.

1508
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 3: Even though it brought in at least thirty estimates. He

1509
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 3: told me, why would you post this? It hurts my

1510
01:06:58,400 --> 01:06:59,720
Speaker 3: pride as a man.

1511
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: Oh, it hurts my human pride. No, it should motivate

1512
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 1: you to change. Yeah, maybe you should do better, dude.

1513
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, It's a wake up call. Come on.

1514
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 3: Andrew begged me to take the ad down. I refuse

1515
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 3: because the bills needed to be paid and nothing else

1516
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 3: was working. He eventually relented because of all the estimates

1517
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 3: coming in, but then proceeded to blow off all the

1518
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 3: ones he needed to see in person. I like, can

1519
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:23,800
Speaker 3: you fire him? Can you kick him out?

1520
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 1: What does he have? Tenure?

1521
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 2: Like? What is this?

1522
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:28,000
Speaker 3: I ended up with only a little money to pay

1523
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 3: the landlord, so I called him and gave him what

1524
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:32,320
Speaker 3: I had. I told the landlord he would get the

1525
01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 3: rest when we had it, and assured him we had

1526
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 3: other estimates that would help cover the rest. Everyone in

1527
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 3: the house was responsible for paying three hundred dollars. Since

1528
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 3: rent also covered gas, sewage, garbage and water, cable, internet, phone,

1529
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 3: and electricity was separate, Andrew continued to not pay his share.

1530
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:48,200
Speaker 1: One time, I.

1531
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:50,480
Speaker 3: Was lucky to get fifty dollars off him, and I

1532
01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 3: practically had to beg for it. Now, this is the

1533
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 3: day before Christmas, Andrew and my father conspired a plan.

1534
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,479
Speaker 3: The landlord came by to check on things and talk

1535
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:02,040
Speaker 3: those to talk to him. I don't know what was said,

1536
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 3: and then came in and told me, thanks to you

1537
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 3: talking all kinds of bs the landlord, now we all

1538
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 3: have to move.

1539
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 1: They refuse to tell me what was said.

1540
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 3: I mean, oh my gosh, well, but they're probably just

1541
01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:18,600
Speaker 3: being you know, super awful and being like we're not

1542
01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 3: gonna pay or something like that.

1543
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure that's not your fault telling you what

1544
01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 2: happened get into there, just.

1545
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:25,599
Speaker 1: Like this is your fault.

1546
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:27,960
Speaker 3: You're the one pang. He's not Bang, or Andrew isn't Bang.

1547
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:30,520
Speaker 3: It stressed me out, and if it weren't for my boyfriend,

1548
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:32,200
Speaker 3: I don't know how I would have handled it.

1549
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: He helped a lot.

1550
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:37,000
Speaker 3: After calming down, I called the landlord and asked him

1551
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:39,280
Speaker 3: what the issue was. He just said I don't want

1552
01:08:39,320 --> 01:08:41,640
Speaker 3: any drama. I just want ret paid and told me

1553
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 3: I did nothing wrong. At that point, I felt so

1554
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:47,680
Speaker 3: betrayed by Andrew and my father. I started packing my

1555
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 3: stuff because I couldn't take the drama anymore. I guess

1556
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 3: Andrew and my father didn't take it seriously. But when

1557
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 3: they saw me taking my things out to the truck,

1558
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,639
Speaker 3: they realized I was actually leaving and tried to tell

1559
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 3: me they loved and would before I left. I ran

1560
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,040
Speaker 3: one more ad and set up all the scheduling. Then

1561
01:09:04,080 --> 01:09:05,680
Speaker 3: I told them I was quitting and that.

1562
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 1: They were on their own from now on. They didn't

1563
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 1: believe me. My father said, you could just work remotely,

1564
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: and I said, nope, I'm done with all the constant

1565
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 1: work drama. I think that is the pausing for a second,

1566
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: that is the best move, because it seems like working

1567
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 1: and living with these people is a nightmare.

1568
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you can remove half of your exposure, that's great.

1569
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 2: I mean work drama a place where you work where

1570
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 2: it's constantly dramatic. This sucks anyway, like let's and it's

1571
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 2: I'm mostly thinking, I'm no, I'm not thinking about this

1572
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:34,559
Speaker 2: at all.

1573
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about specifically the restaurant industry.

1574
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:42,720
Speaker 2: It's like working at a dramatic restaurant is the most annoying,

1575
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 2: draining thing, like on top of the work already. Yeah,

1576
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 2: it's just like I mean, it's sales. It can get bad,

1577
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:52,599
Speaker 2: but like I haven't done as many all the restaurant jobs.

1578
01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:54,600
Speaker 2: As soon as it gets like drama, drama, drama, it's like,

1579
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:55,760
Speaker 2: just go get a different one.

1580
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, Because ever I heard everyone's always into each

1581
01:09:59,280 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 3: other too.

1582
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:00,559
Speaker 1: At the restaurant.

1583
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:03,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, their Kimio was eating kim The day I was leaving,

1584
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 3: Andrew was in shock. I asked him if the bills

1585
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 3: were paid and he told me, yeesh, when they weren't.

1586
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 3: I found that out later. Andrew also got upset that

1587
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:15,960
Speaker 3: I was taking my dog, who had been in the

1588
01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 3: family for ten years at that point, but they didn't

1589
01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:20,800
Speaker 3: take care of her well since they all had their

1590
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,320
Speaker 3: own dogs. They let their dogs pee and poop all

1591
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:25,879
Speaker 3: over the house, and I was always the one cleaning.

1592
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 3: At Yoicks, they dirtied all the dishes and I had

1593
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,519
Speaker 3: to clean them. My boyfriend helped, but Andrew would cook,

1594
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 3: leave the dishes out and not even put them in

1595
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 3: the sink or put away the food he used. Then

1596
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 3: he would ask.

1597
01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 1: Me, why can't you do any dishes today?

1598
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 3: I always made sure I cleaned mine, but Andrew never did.

1599
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:43,080
Speaker 1: It always fell on me.

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01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:45,680
Speaker 3: After I left, Andrew kept checking in on me and

1601
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 3: asking where I was moving. I didn't want to tell him,

1602
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:49,720
Speaker 3: but he wouldn't drop it, so I made sure my

1603
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 3: boyfriend was okay with it first, and then told him.

1604
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 3: My boyfriend didn't like Andrew because Andrew would always hit

1605
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 3: on him when I was asleep and Andrew wasted. Even

1606
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 3: though Andrew claimed he was straight, he would only do

1607
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:01,520
Speaker 3: it when intoxicated.

1608
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:07,320
Speaker 1: Wait, whoa, Andrew, what are you doing? That's your sister's boyfriend.

1609
01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:07,920
Speaker 1: Hold up.

1610
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 3: He also had a self centered, arrogant attitude that rubbed

1611
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 3: my boyfriend the wrong way. Later, my boyfriend told me

1612
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 3: that Andrew had thousands hidden away but couldn't help pay rent.

1613
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:20,840
Speaker 3: A few days after the move, Andrew called and just

1614
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,439
Speaker 3: so happened to be going on a vacation where I

1615
01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 3: had moved.

1616
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:24,880
Speaker 1: I didn't buy it.

1617
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 3: My boyfriend didn't want him coming by, so I didn't

1618
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,120
Speaker 3: give him a yes or no. I sent Andrew our

1619
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 3: house rules. No smoking inside, cleanup spills if you break it,

1620
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,960
Speaker 3: you buy it, don't be too loud, keep food and

1621
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 3: drinks off the couch, and no booze inside. He never responded,

1622
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:40,559
Speaker 3: so I guess you didn't like them. That was a

1623
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:42,599
Speaker 3: big no no for me, since I keep thous clean

1624
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 3: and don't want him or his friends messing it up.

1625
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:47,960
Speaker 3: But you guys would never mess anything up if you

1626
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:50,559
Speaker 3: listened to full episodes with stories just like this. Just

1627
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 3: go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app

1628
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 3: which might be iHeartRadio as.

1629
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:58,839
Speaker 1: Well, and search a bunky storytime. But there's a litttle

1630
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 1: bit left of this story? Do you have any This

1631
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:06,400
Speaker 1: guy is a terrible roommate. Yea your brother so you know, coworker.

1632
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 2: If you take away the brotherness, it's like, yeah, take

1633
01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 2: the kid gloves off, just treat him like a normal guy.

1634
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 1: But let's finish the story.

1635
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:16,479
Speaker 3: I ended up going no contact after that because I

1636
01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 3: didn't want to deal with any drama he might bring.

1637
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 3: I also asked for my back pace since he obviously

1638
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:23,960
Speaker 3: had the money, but he never responded. So am I

1639
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,680
Speaker 3: the a hole for going no contact and not trusting him?

1640
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 1: Also?

1641
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 3: Should I discuss him and his friend's visiting if my

1642
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 3: boyfriend doesn't like him?

1643
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 2: I think, Uh, if you go no contact, you should

1644
01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 2: make it explicitly clear why you don't just go no

1645
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 2: contact like and don't explain explain why you're doing.

1646
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:44,559
Speaker 1: It like, here's what you could do to fix it.

1647
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:49,200
Speaker 1: Here's what you could do to address You're part of

1648
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:52,120
Speaker 1: the equation. Here what seems like.

1649
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 3: And then he offered, you know, pretty reasonable boundaries for

1650
01:12:56,360 --> 01:12:59,200
Speaker 3: the brother coming to visit, saying like hey, okay, you

1651
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:00,240
Speaker 3: can come visit, but these are.

1652
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 1: The rules, and you never responded. It's like, okay, you've

1653
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 1: done You've done what you can