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Speaker 3: I uninvited my grandma from wedding dress shopping because she

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Speaker 3: always insults my body.

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Speaker 2: Grandma.

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Speaker 3: Trigger warning, we got some body shaming happening here. Buckle up,

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Speaker 3: might be a long one, lots of context. My wonderful

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Speaker 3: fiance twenty eight mel and I twenty nine female, recently

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Speaker 3: got engaged. We do not want anything super fancy or extravagant,

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Speaker 3: and we do not want to be engaged for an

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Speaker 3: incredibly long time, so we're aiming for our wedding to

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Speaker 3: be in June. By the way, this comes from Connect

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Speaker 3: Garbage fifty three on the R. Slish Owkay story. Tom

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Speaker 3: sobred and so my family is extremely excited, and of

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Speaker 3: course I am as well. I love my fiance and

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Speaker 3: I am so blessed to have him in my life.

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Speaker 3: His family is lovely, he is lovely. Everything's seem to

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Speaker 3: be going well for the most part so far. That

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Speaker 3: was until today, let's back up and collect some context,

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Speaker 3: shall we. I was an outgoing kid until about the

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Speaker 3: age of twelve, when I entered middle school and underwent

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Speaker 3: a lot of bullying. I became an insecure and shy

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Speaker 3: kid who never smiled and never left my room. My

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Speaker 3: mother was concerned, so she put me in community theater,

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Speaker 3: like that's gonna help. There, I met the woman who

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Speaker 3: would change my life. I went to keep names out

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Speaker 3: of this, so let's just call her fairy godmother. She

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Speaker 3: is basically in charge of the arts department in my town,

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Speaker 3: and she is an absolute legend of a human being.

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Speaker 3: She saw something special in me, took me under her wink,

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Speaker 3: mentored me, prayed for me, and all around built me up.

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Speaker 3: She taught me that I could be anything and do anything,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you do that, you do.

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Speaker 3: I feel beautiful and loved when I'm around her, and

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Speaker 3: she has been in my life ever since. Meanwhile, there

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Speaker 3: is my grandmother, Nana. Don't get me wrong, I love

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Speaker 3: my Nana very much. I do, but I have strong

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Speaker 3: suspicion that she is a narcissist. She has long been

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Speaker 3: a person who shamed my mom for being an introvert,

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Speaker 3: and has shamed me for it ever since I became one.

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Speaker 3: She talks about the matter as if there's something wrong

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Speaker 3: with us for not wanting to be around people all

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Speaker 3: the time. Furthermore, I've had to watch for years as

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Speaker 3: she body shamed my mother, who has been struggling with

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Speaker 3: obesity caused by a myriad of health issues. She has

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Speaker 3: done the same shaming to me in regards to my

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Speaker 3: chronic acne. The only time she ever called me pretty

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Speaker 3: is when I do my makeup, which I rarely ever do,

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Speaker 3: and she has publicly made such a big show to

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Speaker 3: tell me how bad my skin looked or how large

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Speaker 3: my mom was in front of everyone. Shut up, Nana,

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Speaker 3: will you been so messy? Evil grand mother? God forbid

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Speaker 3: you call her out on these things and say these

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Speaker 3: actions hurt your feelings because nothing could ever be her fault.

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Speaker 3: She responds by belittling your feelings, minimizing the comment, and

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Speaker 3: then she makes attempts to guilt trip to you by

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Speaker 3: threatening self harm or making you feel like you were disrespectful. Well, fine,

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Speaker 3: I'll shut out forever. I'm just gonna disappear. None of

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Speaker 3: you would care. I'm an old lady. When I'm gone

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Speaker 3: your regret disrespecting me.

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Speaker 2: It's like the most like gross like manipulative behavior you

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Speaker 3: These people exist to Knam. When I was an insecure teenager,

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Speaker 3: I did not want people taking pictures of me and

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Speaker 3: her take pictures. Earlier this year, she reposted it as

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Speaker 3: a Facebook memory. Yeah, we have learned nothing, Loki. That's

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Speaker 3: actually hilarious. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I know that it's a breach of your like privacy,

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Speaker 3: My mom is a sweet and non confrontational person who

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Speaker 3: Most people do because there's really no point in arguing. I, however,

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Speaker 2: You have to convince them that the ideas that you

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Speaker 3: That's still Carnegie principle number five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. If you flip it around on Nana and be like,

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Speaker 2: these boundaries are actually good for you. They're not even

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Speaker 3: I have convinced so many people to go to the

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Speaker 3: it think it was their idea. So let's fast forward

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Speaker 3: to now, about five years ago. At my younger brother's wedding,

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Speaker 3: I was a bridesmaid. The bridal party had all filled

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Speaker 3: up on pizza at my sister in law's grandparents' house

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Speaker 3: In the car ride to the church, I laughed and

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Speaker 3: felt a pop. The zipper tract had split open. This

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Speaker 3: I tell them what happened, so they ushered me to

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Speaker 3: I started to cry. I have struggled for years to

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Speaker 3: about those sort of things, you know. But what really

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Speaker 3: But she didn't. She did the same kind of minimizing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, this really feels to me like the

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Speaker 2: grandma is one of those people who it's just like, Oh, well,

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Speaker 2: because I'm the grandma, I get to do literally whatever

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Speaker 3: The argument grew my mother told me to stop talking

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Speaker 3: I never forgot that argument. Fast forward to today. I

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Speaker 3: life to be there, and I want that list to

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Speaker 3: be filled with nothing but women who are going to

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Speaker 3: make me feel spectacular and confident. As I work to

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Speaker 3: choose address, the list I chose is as follows my mom,

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Speaker 3: and fairy godmother. Note the lack of Nana being on

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Speaker 3: this list. Well, today, at lunch, I explained this to Mom.

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Speaker 3: I told her I cannot feel body positive with her there.

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Speaker 3: I just can't. I'm incapable after everything that has happened.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know if she would cause a big

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Speaker 3: being put on display in front of her giving her

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Speaker 3: opinions about how I looking address on any sort of platform.

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Speaker 3: My mother was very upset. She tear it up, saying

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Speaker 3: and I will miss these moments. Oh no, no, no

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Speaker 3: no no no no no no no no. Nana still

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Speaker 3: come to the wedding. Nana can still be at other functions.

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Speaker 3: It's just dress shopping. It's like like, oh yeah, we

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Speaker 2: If she wants come dress shopping for another dress, that's

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Speaker 2: not as important because I can't have my Nana body

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Speaker 2: shaming me into negativity today. That is not what today

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Speaker 2: if she wants to figure out why she's been excluded backs.

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Speaker 3: She told me, this is a big deal for a

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Speaker 3: my mom's only daughter, there will not be another chance

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Speaker 3: for her to get to do this. She also said

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Speaker 3: that by inviting fairy godmother, who is not blood related,

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Speaker 3: instead of my Nana, I will be driving the insult

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Speaker 3: even deeper. And you will always insult us if you

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Speaker 3: don't join us live every weekday at three pm PSD.

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Speaker 3: Where do we go live to go to?

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Speaker 4: To be fair?

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Speaker 4: But we won't be.

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Speaker 2: Mad if you miss you know one every now and then.

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Speaker 3: Right, No, you will insult me if you don't tourin

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Speaker 3: every single one.

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't want Riley to be insulted, so make

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Speaker 2: sure you pull through every weekday at three pm PST.

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Speaker 3: We got a little bit left. Nana doesn't have a

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Speaker 3: much time. Are we a viner or not?

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Speaker 2: I bet this is like a person who'd lived to

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Speaker 2: be one hundred and seven. The haters always seem to

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Speaker 2: persist the longest. I just don't like that. It's, you know,

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Speaker 2: the idea, you're forced to have somebody who makes you

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Speaker 2: feel bad in this specific context like present, like of course,

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Speaker 2: the person who's body shaming you all the time is

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Speaker 2: going to make you feel bad when you go to

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Speaker 2: you know, find a dress, and it's like, of course

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Speaker 2: you want the fairy godmother who like built you up.

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Speaker 2: And if Nana wants to figure out why she's not coming,

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Speaker 2: look to fairy godmother as an example of a positive

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Speaker 2: force from a mentor in her life, which you know

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Speaker 2: you're Nana's kind of to be. But it doesn't sound

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Speaker 2: like she's positive at all. It sounds like she literally

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Speaker 2: has zero respect for you, or your boundaries, or your

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Speaker 2: feelings or your experience as an individual.

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Speaker 3: I concur, I concur. We had an argument about it,

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Speaker 3: which ended in my mom mildly giving in with tears

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Speaker 3: in her eyes. My decision has been accepted, but I

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Speaker 3: obviously hate to see my mom upset, and I certainly

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Speaker 3: don't want to hurt Nana. This is not a malicious

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Speaker 3: or vengeful decision. This is purely based on my comfort.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know. Am I wrong? It's true that

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Speaker 3: I won't have my grandparents forever and I don't want

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Speaker 3: to hurt her. Should I stick to my decision? Or

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Speaker 3: am I the a hole? One comment? While sorry, she

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Speaker 3: can't mind her manners long enough to create a happy

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Speaker 2: My dad's new family stole my inheritance after he passed

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Speaker 2: That truck is in my name. It was left to

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Speaker 2: There's multiple layers in this family, Lasagna right now. This

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Speaker 2: it would make them depressed if she took it away

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Speaker 2: from them. This person needs to go to the sun immediately.

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Speaker 2: Who do you think you are? Girlfriend?

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Speaker 2: Based on some of this stuff I've heard, This girlfriend

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Speaker 2: She said that her report shows that she asked both

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Speaker 2: She said that her database also does not show any relatives.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, we don't really care whatever whatever you

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Speaker 2: We're making an assumption there. But people in active addiction

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Speaker 2: But honestly, such a messy situation.

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Speaker 3: We just have a party where everyone makes a will.

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Speaker 3: That would be so fun. They've got to have those already.

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Speaker 3: We have a party with all of our friends. We're like, hey, guys'

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Speaker 2: I guess the only thing was really the truck. It's

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Speaker 2: blowing my mind that the girlfriend is like, you can't

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Speaker 2: Part of this is also like how much of this,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but these people can't be getting wait

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Speaker 2: This is a messy story. When my dad was sober,

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Speaker 2: being lied to, stolen from, and completely forgot. Do I

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00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 2: have a case here or are my feelings just hurt?

439
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:45,480
Speaker 4: No?

440
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,760
Speaker 3: I think I mean, try to do the best you can.

441
00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,399
Speaker 3: It sounds like a little. You're gonna have to have

442
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 3: a lot of patience with this. Yeah, don't let these

443
00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:53,199
Speaker 3: people get away with this.

444
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 2: In terms of a case, it sounds like if they

445
00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,880
Speaker 2: told officials that y'all didn't exist. I think that definitely

446
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,600
Speaker 2: gives you a case. But we're not lawyers. No, but

447
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 2: generally when people ask you, did he have any next

448
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,159
Speaker 2: of kin and they go nope, nope, those people don't exist,

449
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,520
Speaker 2: and you both exist in this plane of reality, I

450
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,719
Speaker 2: think you'll have a case there, but I don't know

451
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,640
Speaker 2: what the timeline will be because stuff moves pretty slow

452
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,640
Speaker 2: like that, especially when there's not a lot of documents

453
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 2: backing it up. But that is the end of that story.

454
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,439
Speaker 2: My mom wants to save her marriage, but my father

455
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,919
Speaker 2: has a mistress. Oh little obstacle course here apologies in

456
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,159
Speaker 2: advance for how long this is. But the backstory on

457
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 2: this definitely matters, and it just gets worse and worse.

458
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,639
Speaker 2: I twenty seven female, want to ban my father's fifty

459
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 2: seven male mistress who will call Patty also fifty seven

460
00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,919
Speaker 2: female from a family trip I'm planning with my sister

461
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 2: thirty one female and our mom fifty eight female. By

462
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,840
Speaker 2: the way, this comes from user Acceptable Health nine zero

463
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Speaker 2: one on the r slash Okay storytime subpred it So

464
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,679
Speaker 2: mind you they are. They're still married, not legally separated,

465
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 2: but living apart, and my mom does not want to divorce.

466
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 2: She wants to work on their marriage of thirty five

467
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,639
Speaker 2: plus years, but he has refused at every turn to

468
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,719
Speaker 2: attempt to reconnect. Here's the background. My father has been

469
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 2: quote unquote best friends with his now mistress since childhood.

470
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:21,680
Speaker 2: Is that a true love scenario?

471
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 3: Probably like a first love theory kind of thing.

472
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 2: Ooh. She is also my godmother. She divorced her ex

473
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 2: husband fifteen plus years ago and they have two boys

474
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 2: and a girl. When they divorced, my father was constantly

475
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,399
Speaker 2: driving four hours away to her home to help her

476
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,959
Speaker 2: with everything from window replacements to painting her walls because

477
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 2: she doesn't have anyone else to help her, while her

478
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 2: boys were in high school and junior high and perfectly

479
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 2: capable to help when she needed it.

480
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 3: Is that what we're calling it these days?

481
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 2: Yeah? I know your dad's been cheating on your mom

482
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 2: since that painting the walls.

483
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 3: Ooh, but I thought she's just painted him like three

484
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:00,400
Speaker 3: months ago. Oh.

485
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,480
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, he was always gone when me or my mom

486
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 2: needed help with something. My mom was basically a single

487
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 2: mother my entire high school career because he was traveling

488
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 2: for work during the week and spent most weekends at Patty's.

489
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 2: My mom confronted him a few times about how it

490
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 2: looked with him spending so much of his time with Patty,

491
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 2: but he blew her off, saying Patty was too crazy

492
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 2: and mentally unstable for him to ever be with her

493
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 2: in any capacity except friendship. Yeah, that was a lot.

494
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 2: Fast forward to when I was in junior year of

495
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 2: college and my grandfather on my father's side had a

496
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 2: stroke and needed someone to be living with him, especially

497
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 2: at night. My father and I split the week at

498
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,120
Speaker 2: my grandfather's house so someone was always there with him,

499
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 2: which I didn't mind at all because my grandfather was

500
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 2: a wonderful person. He was eighty eight when this happened

501
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 2: and not in the best of health when this started.

502
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 2: My father had a talk with my mom that he

503
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 2: wasn't feeling connected to her and that he was thinking

504
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,479
Speaker 2: of see it. My mom said that he had a

505
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,439
Speaker 2: lot going on with his dad at the moment, so

506
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 2: he should focus on taking care of him and after

507
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 2: he passes they can really start to work on their

508
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 2: relationship because he'd be around to actually work on it.

509
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 2: He agreed that that would be best and never brought

510
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 2: it up again. At this point, I was hearing from

511
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 2: Patty that she and my father were not friends anymore

512
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 2: because he did something to make her upset and she

513
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 2: wasn't going.

514
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 3: To forgive him.

515
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 2: I had a gut feeling something was up, so I

516
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 2: talked to my sister, who was very close with our father,

517
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 2: and she said it was probably nothing. That he would

518
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,360
Speaker 2: have said something to her if there was something more

519
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 2: going on between Patty and him, So I dropped it.

520
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 2: A couple years went by, and I got married, moved

521
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 2: in with my husband, and had a baby girl a

522
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,679
Speaker 2: few weeks before COVID hit, and that's when everything changed.

523
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 2: Uh oh wow, that's.

524
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 3: A lot of shake up, right a movement?

525
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,160
Speaker 2: Golly, new baby girl, COVID hits and you find out

526
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 2: that your dad has an affair. My father was now

527
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 2: living with my grandfather full time as I was states

528
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 2: away with my family. About halfway through twenty twenty, Patty

529
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 2: calls my father and they started talking again. She has

530
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 2: long COVID and her daughter just can't help her the

531
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 2: way she needs to be helped. Her daughter was eighteen

532
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 2: at the time and perfectly capable of helping her own mother.

533
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 2: So my father's bright idea was to take Patty into

534
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 2: my grandfather's home and take care of them both.

535
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, take care of them both, and I don't think

536
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 3: here giving them both the same treatment.

537
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 2: I would hope not. Meanwhile, my mom is alone in

538
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 2: the house I grew up in that my father still

539
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 2: owns and has all of his stuff in taking care

540
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 2: of the house and family dog while also working full

541
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 2: time and overtime in healthcare. One of the big reasons

542
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 2: my mom didn't move into my grandfather's house with my

543
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 2: father was that she couldn't work from home and would

544
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 2: most likely bring home COVID or the flu, and added

545
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 2: stress of a dog that could knock my grandfather over

546
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 2: was too much. I asked multiple times where Patty was sleeping,

547
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 2: and he kept saying she would sleep during the day

548
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 2: and he would sleep at night. That way, they were

549
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 2: never sleeping together in the same bed. I call the

550
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 2: BS so many times, but was told I was being

551
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 2: dramatic and that I needed to drop it. After two

552
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 2: months of Patty living with my father, my mom wanted

553
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 2: to retire and spend more time with my father and

554
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 2: have time to travel and see me and her new granddaughter.

555
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 2: She asked him if it was financially possible for her

556
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 2: to retire, and he said that it wouldn't be an

557
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 2: issue since finances were good. Two weeks after my mom

558
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 2: officially retired, he had his lawyer send a letter of

559
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 2: intent to divorce through the mail. My mom called him crying,

560
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,239
Speaker 2: asking why you would do this. His response was, I

561
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 2: just don't want to be married anymore.

562
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 3: Oh wow, you.

563
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,679
Speaker 2: Have a long term affair with Patty while your wife

564
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 2: is expecting you to reconcile your relationship. Ye, and then

565
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 2: you send her a divorce letter through the mail right after.

566
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 2: If you're telling her it's time to retire and give

567
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 2: up your life, there was no setup.

568
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 3: For success here.

569
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 2: This is so icky, He went out of his way.

570
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 2: It feels like to do this in the worst possible way,

571
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 2: trash man. So he then asked her not to tell

572
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 2: me or my sister until he's had a chance to

573
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 2: speak with us. She spent three months quietly being a mess,

574
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 2: yet masqueraded like everything was fine around me, my sister,

575
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: and our extended family. For Thanksgiving and Christmas.

576
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 3: U uh uh, you get to the end of the

577
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 3: week before she can spill the me that is crazy

578
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 3: the end.

579
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 2: Of the day. For God's sake, she should be able

580
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 2: to say it whenever she feels like it. Yes, Oh

581
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 2: my god. She finally told me when I pushed forward

582
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,439
Speaker 2: to tell me what was wrong, and I was livid.

583
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe he would stoop so low and lie

584
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 2: straight to my face. Of course, I called my sister

585
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: and told her what happened. She was horrified as well,

586
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 2: but decided to give him a chance to come clean

587
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 2: and hear his side of the story. She got him

588
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 2: to tell her what happened and why he decided to

589
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 2: end them marriage. It then took him another month to

590
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,719
Speaker 2: face me, and I knew he was being a coward

591
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: when he did finally talk to me and tell me

592
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 2: what happened. I then responded with, have you tried to

593
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 2: reconnect with mom? What about couples therapy? When's the last

594
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 2: time you and her went on a date? Is this

595
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 2: happening because of Patty? And he was just refusing to

596
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 2: talk about it left and right, coming up with excuses

597
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 2: like therapy wouldn't have worked. And I would never be

598
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 2: with Patty. She's too crazy. Meanwhile, I had been talking

599
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 2: to one of her sons about this, and he confirmed

600
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 2: that they were in a relationship. I felt so disrespected,

601
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 2: not just because he'd lied to me or that he

602
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 2: blindsided my mom, but also on behalf of my grandfather,

603
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 2: who was every night sleeping right across the hall from them.

604
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 2: At this point. My grandfather was deep into his dementia

605
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 2: and didn't really know what was going on around him,

606
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 2: but I know for a fact he thought cheaters were

607
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 2: the scum of the earth, which just adds insult to injury.

608
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 2: My grandfather passed away peacefully a year later, and at

609
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 2: the funeral, Patty avoided me like the plague. Granted I

610
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 2: was pregnant, hormonal, and grieving, so everyone knew I was

611
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 2: a one side common away from throwing down. Yeah, well,

612
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 2: shouts to you for not.

613
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 3: Throwing down right.

614
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: Yeah. After the funeral, my sister and I went back

615
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,719
Speaker 2: to the house to see just how comfortable Patty had

616
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 2: made herself in my grandfather's home. The bed her and

617
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,719
Speaker 2: my father slept inn now had twinkly lights on the backboard.

618
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 2: Oh god. The room had all her furniture in it,

619
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 2: and on her bedside table there was an eight y

620
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 2: eleven framed picture of my father from his high school's

621
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: senior year. I could feel the white hot rage radiating

622
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 2: through my body. I called it out and stood my

623
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 2: ground for an answer from him. I said, does she

624
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 2: sleep facing you or facing your senior portrait at night?

625
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 2: Seems to me that you're either in a relationship or

626
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: she clearly has an obsession with you. And he raised

627
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 2: his voice, saying drop it now. I always love the

628
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 2: typical dad move of just raising the voice saying to

629
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: drop it. My sister's jaw dropped and she backed me up, saying,

630
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 2: she's right, that's weird, and then he walked out of

631
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 2: the room. I was ready to cut off all ties

632
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 2: to him if it weren't for my mom saying wait

633
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 2: until we're through our divorce, because she had hope that

634
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 2: maybe he'd come to his senses and reconnect. Oh poor woman.

635
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 2: I went low contact and only spoke to him when

636
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 2: it concerned buying a house from my mom near me

637
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 2: and selling the family home since he wasn't even living

638
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 2: there and had no plans on moving back. About a

639
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 2: year later, my therapist told me I needed to talk

640
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 2: with my father and get everything off my chest if

641
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: I wanted to truly get past everything. So I did.

642
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 2: We talked for three hours and I told him every

643
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 2: damaging thing he's done to me personally and then to

644
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 2: the family, all the lying and gaslighting and making me

645
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 2: feel like the crazy one. He apologized to me and

646
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: agreed to do family therapy with me, but that has

647
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 2: yet to be followed through on, which isn't a surprise

648
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 2: to me. Now. This brings us to the present. It's

649
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 2: been seven months since that heart to heart and my

650
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: father is still not admitting that him and Patty are together,

651
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 2: yet they still live together in my grandfather's house. To

652
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 2: go no contact if it makes you uncomfortable and he's

653
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 2: still lying to you, call him out that he won't

654
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 2: stop lying and go no contact, and to be clear,

655
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 2: maybe not permanently, but definitely until he comes clean with

656
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 2: the truth. My mom now lives a few houses down

657
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 2: from me and her two grandchildren and is a big

658
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 2: part of their lives, whereas my father has only seen

659
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 2: them two times a year. Nothing legal has happened since

660
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 2: giving my mom the letter of intent to divorce, which

661
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 2: tells me he's either too broke to divorce or is

662
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 2: not ready to let go of the thirty five plus

663
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 2: year marriage, which to me it sounds like he already

664
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 2: did because he's been sleeping with Patty for years. Let's

665
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 2: be honest. My husband is now going to be away

666
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 2: for training for roughly the next year for his new

667
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 2: job and won't have many opportunities to see me or

668
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 2: are kids. So I'm planning a trip to Disney World

669
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 2: since it's kind of close to my husband's training center

670
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 2: and we can see him on the weekend and then

671
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 2: at his graduation later in the week. It also happens

672
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: to be a good time for my sister to travel

673
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 2: as well, and my daughter has been asking to see

674
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 2: her papa for a while now, so my sister and

675
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 2: I think a family trip wouldn't be a bad idea

676
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 2: since our mom is civil with our father while he

677
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 2: acts as if nothing has happened between them. What a

678
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: hard secret to keep. I can't imagine I'd have to

679
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 2: tell her immediately, just like I want to tell all

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00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 2: of you right now that every weekday at three PMPST,

681
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: we go live on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and Twitch, so

682
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,959
Speaker 2: you can join us on any one of those platforms

683
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 2: by just tapping our profile and you're in the live.

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Speaker 2: We might even be live right now. But before you

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Speaker 2: go check on that, we are going to finish this story.

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Speaker 3: That just needs to come clean. He's being big coward,

687
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 3: not maning up. I mean, come on, the least you

688
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 3: can do is to come clean to everyone and move

689
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 3: on with your life.

690
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 2: Just come out with the truth for everybody knows it.

691
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 2: She's got your high school picture on the bedside table.

692
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 2: If you already want the divorce, just be honest. Let's

693
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 2: finish off the story. Now. Here's where I might be

694
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 2: the ahole. I have no problem with my father joining

695
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 2: us on the trip. However, I do not want Patty

696
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: anywhere near me or my children. I want to invite

697
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 2: my father with the ground rule of no dirty mistresses allowed.

698
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 2: I personally feel she's an incredibly toxic person, and I

699
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 2: don't want my kids knowing or asking who that lady

700
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 2: is with Papa, because it'll open up a whole can

701
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 2: of worms. I do realize my father is also toxic,

702
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 2: but I can't cut him off completely because my daughter

703
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 2: knows him enough that she wants to see him, but

704
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 2: is too young to understand why we don't see him

705
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 2: as often as Grammy my mom. So would I be

706
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 2: the a hole for telling my father he can't bring

707
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 2: Patty to the family trip.

708
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 3: No, it's for family, not a fair partners.

709
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, which he'll probably just deny that she is

710
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: that he'll go no, no, no, we're just friends and I

711
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 2: can never date her. She's too crazy and regardless. Even

712
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 2: if you did come out with the truth, then she

713
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 2: definitely shouldn't be on the trip.

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

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Speaker 1: But here's three minutes bads from our sponsor.

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Speaker 3: My mother in law threw a tantrum at our wedding,

717
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,280
Speaker 3: so now we won't let her near our baby.

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00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 4: If you gotta act like a baby, can't be me

719
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 4: and the baby.

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Speaker 3: Me twenty five female and my husband twenty three mel

721
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 3: got married this past January. We had a beautiful winter

722
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:23,720
Speaker 3: themed wedding with pine garlands, gold accents, and even snow

723
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 3: for hours so off. Our wedding went off without a

724
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 3: hitch and was absolutely gorgeous. We were happy and so

725
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 3: in love. Frat By the way, this comes from Junior

726
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 3: Reindeer eighteen on the r slash. Okay, storytime, slfrid it.

727
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Speaker 3: So the only thing about our wedding day that was

728
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 3: sour was a look on my mother in law and

729
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 3: father in law's faces the entire day. We literally have

730
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 3: a picture of me happily walking down the aisle and

731
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 3: in the background, my father in law looks like he

732
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 3: wants to pass me. Mother in law was not in

733
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 3: the camera view, but people told me she also looked

734
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 3: this way, so weird. They proceeded not to talk to

735
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 3: us the entire day. This was a happenstance that me

736
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 3: and my husband were doing our rounds and we happened

737
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 3: to bump into them as they left our reception. My

738
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 3: husband pettily held out his hand to his dad and

739
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 3: asad curtly said congratulations. His mom kept walking while opening

740
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 3: the door to exit. She looked back and snotedly said.

741
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 2: I hope we're happy.

742
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 3: So yeah, they were very supportive. Why you ask for

743
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 3: things like this? Me and my husband decided together only

744
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 3: weeks before our wedding that my mother in law would

745
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 3: not light the unity candle before the service. The unity Okay, wait,

746
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 3: for those unfamiliar about the unity candle, a unity candle

747
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 3: at a wedding is three candles placed at the alter.

748
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 3: The idea for two people of the bride and grooms

749
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 3: choosing to light one candle. Then during the ceremony, the

750
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 3: bride and groom light the middle candle with the single

751
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 3: candles and blow theirs out to signify their unity. It

752
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 3: is common that people choose their mothers to do this,

753
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,760
Speaker 3: but it is obviously up to the bride and groom.

754
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 3: Our desire was for both our mothers to light the candles.

755
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 3: Just a little fun fact for later. When I initially

756
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 3: told my mother in law about her desire for her

757
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 3: to light the candle, she whined profusely and acted like

758
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 3: I needed to talk her into it. So what happened

759
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 3: that we would revoke the privilege of lighting the candles?

760
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 3: Hold on to your seat. There were so many details,

761
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 3: and I honestly could write a book about all the

762
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,479
Speaker 3: crap we had to put up with in our only

763
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 3: three month engagement. To put it simply, my mother in

764
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 3: law lost her mind when she realized that her precious

765
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,760
Speaker 3: baby boy was actually going to move out and get married.

766
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 3: She demanded that we come over to her house for

767
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 3: dinner every other day. I was still living with my

768
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 3: family and my fiance with this or else. She would

769
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 3: literally cry and act like she was neglected.

770
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,760
Speaker 4: Oh my god, she just sounds like a nightmare.

771
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:46,240
Speaker 3: We put up with this for months, alongside her also

772
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 3: being emotionally and verbally abusive to my fiance. It caused

773
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 3: a lot of stress between us because my fiance literally

774
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 3: thought this behavior was normal. I strongly disagreed. Well, two

775
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 3: weeks after Christmas, me and my fiance we're off work,

776
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 3: so we spent every spare moment we could redoing our house.

777
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 3: This started a down hill spiral that resulted in her

778
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 3: sending a text message to my fiance that said, just

779
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 3: letting you know, we will not be hosting or paying

780
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 3: for the rehearsal dinner. We will also not be able

781
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 3: to attend. Ah, don't let her light that candle. Keep

782
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 3: that candle away from her. You let her light that candle,

783
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 3: You're burning your marriage.

784
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, your marriage is burning to the ground.

785
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 3: Love is like a fire. It can consume you or

786
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 3: it can keep you warm. I just came up with

787
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 3: that hold the cow. Wow, I'm running out on the

788
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 3: top of my book.

789
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 4: Love is why.

790
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 3: My fiance handled it very well and said that we

791
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 3: would take care of it. But we still wanted him there.

792
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 3: She then said that he didn't want them there, and

793
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 3: that he had abandoned his family and that they were

794
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 3: all heartbroken. The next day, he tried to go over

795
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 3: to his parents' house to talk to them, and you'll

796
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 3: never guess what had happened. My mother in law literally

797
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 3: ran up to my fiance and punched him repeatedly in

798
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 3: the chest, screaming that he was an effing jerk.

799
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 4: Oh my god, these are nightmare parents that, like you,

800
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 4: honestly should cut off contact with.

801
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 3: My father in law soon joined her by verbal abuses

802
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 3: their son. An argument ensued as my fiance tried to

803
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 3: explain to them that they had made our engagement so

804
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 3: stressful that he was just trying his best to make

805
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 3: the transaction easy for them. They were still hearing from

806
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 3: him every day at this point, and they would not

807
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 3: hear this. Holy cow. Arrest Yeah, arrest your mother probably, dude.

808
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 4: I mean, you can arrest anyone.

809
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 3: Charge if they're guilty. Yeah, dude, that is wild. Oh

810
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 3: she's so manipulative, dude. My mother in law told my

811
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 3: fiance that she was praying that we broke up. Keep

812
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 3: in mind, this is three weeks before our marriage, and

813
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 3: that she would object to our wedding. She called me

814
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 3: a psychopath, fing b word, and a master manipulator.

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00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 4: Look in a mirror. I think there was a mirror,

816
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 4: but I think she was looking at a mirror when

817
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 4: she was saying all that stuff.

818
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 3: Apparently I had been scheming to destroy their family and

819
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 3: tear her precious baby boy from her clutches. Lol. Long

820
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 3: story short, they never apologized for anything they said to

821
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 3: my fiance, anything they said about me, or on top

822
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 3: of that, or the things that they did to your fiance.

823
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, the literally pretty house.

824
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 3: We both decided that my mother in law should not

825
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 3: lie the unity candle. Ye, she was not unified with us.

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00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 4: She's freaking hate you guys.

827
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 3: Well, five days before our wedding, they showed up at

828
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 3: my fiance's house. He had moved out of their house

829
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 3: a month before, and my father in law told my

830
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 3: fiance that if you let another woman like that candle,

831
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 3: it will destroy your mother. My fiance promised that he

832
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 3: wouldn't replace her, meaning that we would not put another

833
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 3: woman up there. Our solution was to just have my

834
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 3: mom light both candles so as to not draw attention

835
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 3: to the fact that mother in law was not up there.

836
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 4: Well.

837
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,240
Speaker 3: Mother in law didn't like this arrangement. Who going of guests,

838
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 3: And to this day she said that my husband chose

839
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 3: a new mom because she let my mom liked the

840
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 3: unity candle. We have tried to explain to her over

841
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 3: and over that we did what we thought was best

842
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 3: under the circumstances and that we weren't trying to hurt her.

843
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 3: She does not believe us and calls us liars because.

844
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: We knew it would pass her away.

845
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 4: Sometimes you got really exhausting people in your lives like this.

846
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 4: They just want to make everything about themselves and just like,

847
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 4: ignore her. We have a good wedding, and let your

848
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,919
Speaker 4: op's mom light that candle, and do give this mother

849
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 4: another thought.

850
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 3: Do the entitlement that's happening here. So ently, freaking audacity

851
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 3: of this witch.

852
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 4: This is crailing over them because of this audacity.

853
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 3: We would have been married for nine months now, and

854
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 3: we just tried to talk to my mother in law

855
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 3: a few weeks ago about this. Anna guess how we

856
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 3: went badly. It was old in her screaming at us

857
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 3: because she believes we are just trying.

858
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 2: To hurt her.

859
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 4: You know what, Yeah, so yeah, we should have.

860
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 3: Just let her light the dumb candle thing. Me and

861
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 3: my husband and everyone but my mother in law father

862
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 3: in law think we made the right choice. And you

863
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 3: can make the easy right choice when you go live

864
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 3: with us every week day at win Sophia.

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00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 4: Three pm PSD.

866
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 2: And where can they join us?

867
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 4: Facebook, TikTok, Twitch and YouTube?

868
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 3: And how do you do thatol?

869
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 2: Easy psy?

870
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, low contact.

871
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 4: Low contact, for sure. I'm actually that they're like screaming

872
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 4: at you every time this comes up.

873
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 3: No contact?

874
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 4: No contact?

875
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 2: Is this?

876
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 4: I mean like low or no contact? One of those

877
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 4: needs to be the decision. I'm pushing no contact. So

878
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 4: if you're like paunching your kid, yeah, that's ridiculous.

879
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 3: And they can't even stand the sight of your wife, Yeah,

880
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 3: and your partner.

881
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to be around those people.

882
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 2: Heck.

883
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 3: No, Looking back, I think we should have told them

884
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 3: not to come to the wedding. But I don't know

885
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 3: if that's too far. Frankly, I don't think it's fine.

886
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 3: No no. After that freaking response, Frankly, I think it's

887
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 3: funny she's still crying about it nine months later. This

888
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 3: poor victim baby has never been held accountable for her actions,

889
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 3: and it's pretty ironic that her son and daughter in

890
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 3: law are the first to tell her that the world

891
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,919
Speaker 3: doesn't revolve around her. We are expecting our first baby now,

892
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 3: and me and my husband will not be allowing her

893
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 3: anywhere near the baby until she seeks counseling. There's the baby. Okay,

894
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 3: here's a real baby. Play.

895
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 4: Oh, there is a baby, Because dude, don't let her

896
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 4: near the baby.

897
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 2: She's gonna come crawling back.

898
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:19,760
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, oh my gosh, nah, not with this baby.

899
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 4: Terrible terrible people.

900
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 3: Terrible, absolutely terrible, terrible. But we have another story for you,

901
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 3: lovely people.

902
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 4: And then we're going to get into it. My in

903
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 4: laws are turning everyone against me, but I.

904
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 2: Simply don't care one one hundred. She doesn't write them all.

905
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 4: I have to apologize for how long this is. I

906
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,240
Speaker 4: didn't know I had this much to say. No real names. Okay.

907
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 4: I want to start by letting you all know that

908
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 4: I'm Muslim, so some things may actually not make sense

909
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 4: to you if you're not. Also, there was some tension

910
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 4: between me and my in laws since my marriage because

911
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 4: my husband chose me himself and did not ask his

912
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 4: family to arrange a marriage for him, but I have

913
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 4: no idea if it relates to how they behaved with

914
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 4: me or not. By the way, this come from the

915
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 4: tall dummy on the Okay storytime separated. So my brother

916
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 4: in law's wedding was in July, and since the wedding

917
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 4: it's almost December. Now I have cut off all contact

918
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 4: with all my in laws, just me. My husband and

919
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 4: children still visit weekly and are very familiar with their family. FYI.

920
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 4: Muslim weddings usually separate women from men where I'm from

921
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 4: because usually women won't wear jobs at the celebration and

922
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 4: very few people are allowed to see each woman, so

923
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 4: it would not work. My brother in law's wedding consisted

924
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 4: of two parties. The first is a traditional cultural party

925
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 4: where the bride's family basically parties like a bachelorette. The

926
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 4: groom's family welcomed the bride, and the second party is

927
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 4: a lot like a reception in non Muslim weddings, white dress,

928
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 4: food and drinks, and lots of dancing. At the first party,

929
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 4: I showed up ten minutes late, which wasn't an issue,

930
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,720
Speaker 4: but everyone was already there, seated or dancing. I greeted

931
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 4: my mother in law and took my seat with my

932
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 4: baby girl in my lap. A little while later, my

933
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 4: mother showed up and held my baby for me and

934
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 4: told me to go party and dance with the girls

935
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 4: if I wanted to, so I did. There were my

936
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 4: sisters in law three in total, and two wives of

937
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 4: my other brothers in law, as well as the bride

938
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 4: and other guests. I didn't formally greet anyone while dancing,

939
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 4: just nodded, waved and smiled at everyone until Laura fake

940
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 4: name of the wife of my first brother in law

941
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 4: came up to me and wanted to dance with me.

942
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 4: She was very enthusiastic and showing everyone that she and

943
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 4: I got along together very well, which honestly we do

944
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 4: because I'm a private person and don't give my honest

945
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 4: opinion on anything I hear, specifically from my family in law.

946
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 4: Now that provoked the entire family due to some drama

947
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 4: we'll explain below that had occurred between Laura and the

948
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 4: family a week prior to the wedding, which I had

949
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 4: no idea of. The rest of the party, it went

950
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 4: on for three more hours. Not one person of the

951
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 4: family even looked at me, let alone spoke to me,

952
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 4: so about thirty minutes in when Laura came to sit

953
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 4: near me, I didn't object or leave the table, and

954
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 4: so the family basically considered.

955
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 2: Us a team.

956
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 3: Mmmmmm, so they're not.

957
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 4: So they hate Laura and now they're like hating on

958
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 4: Opee because Laura kind of like hung out with Opie.

959
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 3: Weird.

960
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 4: The night ended and I went home and told my

961
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 4: husband what had happened. He of course thought it was weird,

962
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 4: but told me not to mind them because they were

963
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,959
Speaker 4: crazy and just try to remain respectful the next day

964
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 4: at the second party. I show up the next day

965
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,760
Speaker 4: and everyone is frowning when they see me, except Laura,

966
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 4: and no one is greeting me. I mean, okay, I'm

967
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 4: willing to consider myself family, but you do greet family

968
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 4: when they show up to your wedding, your son's wedding,

969
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 4: or your brother's. I listened to my husband's advice and

970
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 4: didn't mind them and kept myself busy with my three

971
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 4: children and my mom, who showed up again. But I

972
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 4: really got red in the face when I noticed them,

973
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 4: my mother in law and sister in laws dancing with

974
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 4: and celebrating because her birthday was the next day. Julie,

975
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 4: the wife of my second brother in law, and I

976
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 4: basically started to figure out that their whole attitude is

977
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 4: about me and Laura and not the wives of their brothers.

978
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 4: At the end of the wedding, the women usually do

979
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 4: wear a job so the men could come in and

980
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 4: we all would take family pictures and stuff. So when

981
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 4: this happened, my father in law came in, of course,

982
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 4: and I noticed that when I went to greet him,

983
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 4: he brushed me off and pretended not to have seen me.

984
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 4: My husband saw this and told me to get my

985
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,280
Speaker 4: things so we could leave. We did in almost thirty

986
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 4: minutes after we arrived home. Everyone else did. We live

987
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 4: in the same corner of the neighborhood and we can

988
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 4: see and hear each other mostly when we park out

989
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 4: our garages. I asked my husband not to cause trouble,

990
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 4: but to understand what was going on, and so the

991
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 4: next morning he went to his parents' house for breakfast

992
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 4: and returned no longer than fifteen minutes later, fuming, calling

993
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 4: them sick and mentally ill people and not inconsiderate in

994
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 4: kind words. What apparently the week before the wedding, my

995
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 4: father in law went to visit Laura's husband at home

996
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 4: because they had work to do together, and basically he

997
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 4: came into the house without knocking and Laura was lying

998
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 4: on the couch indecently. Her father in law is allowed

999
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 4: to see her without a job, but to some extent. Basically,

1000
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 4: she was in shorts at a crop top, which is

1001
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 4: not very appropriate in our religion to be wearing in

1002
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 4: front of your father in law. She was shocked and

1003
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 4: didn't have anything on hand to cover herself, and he

1004
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 4: sat there for five minutes waiting for his son and

1005
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 4: then left with him. The point is he didn't apologize

1006
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 4: or tell her that she can excuse herself if she liked,

1007
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 4: not that she needs his permission, but he's basically a

1008
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,280
Speaker 4: guest in my opinion, and everyone who knows the stories.

1009
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 4: She waited a couple of hours and then called Carly's

1010
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 4: sister in law and told her what happened. Carly denied

1011
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 4: that her father would ever do such a thing.

1012
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 3: It happened, Yeah, it happened. That's so weird.

1013
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 4: Yeah. I got very loud about this, causing everyone at

1014
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 4: home to hear the story. All sisters in law, mother

1015
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 4: in law, father in law, who had come home earlier

1016
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 4: than Laura's husband, and my second and third brother in law,

1017
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 4: Julie's husband in the group. There was a lot of

1018
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 4: chaos and basically everyone started texting and calling Laura and

1019
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 4: cussing her out for accusing him of doing this. Laura's

1020
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 4: husband got home at some point and stormed to his parents'

1021
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 4: home very pissed, and argued and fought with everyone and

1022
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 4: told them that he will only show up to the

1023
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 4: wedding so people don't understand what's going on, but this

1024
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 4: will be the last family event he will attend. And

1025
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:01,919
Speaker 4: I had been on a road trip at the time

1026
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 4: with our three children, so we didn't know anything, and

1027
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 4: nobody told us anything. Well, at least you know you

1028
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 4: were on the right side Unknowingly, Laura was hanging out

1029
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 4: with you, and you didn't necessarily know that she was

1030
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 4: getting backlash or anything. But she's the one in the right.

1031
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 4: So apparently they thought I believed and supported Laura against

1032
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 4: their dad, my father in law, when none of them

1033
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 4: had told me or my husband anything, And this specifically

1034
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 4: pissed my husband off even more and he fought with them.

1035
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 4: A few weeks later, I advised him to take the

1036
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 4: kids over for dinner and he did, fixing the whole

1037
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 4: awkwardness between him and his family. What about Laura, Like,

1038
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 4: I feel like no one's hating on Laura when she

1039
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 4: was the one impacted by this, But since then, I've

1040
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 4: crossed paths with them like a million times, and not

1041
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 4: one of them even nodded in my direction, including Laura. Laura.

1042
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 4: Now Laura's on their side.

1043
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 3: They have to put somebody out that like someone else

1044
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 3: has so Laura's trying to get out of there.

1045
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you can cross paths with us every weekday

1046
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 4: at three PMPSD.

1047
00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 3: Where Riley on YouTube, TikTok, Twitch and Facebook.

1048
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, just ta her profile and there is a little

1049
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 4: bit more to the story, But yeah, it does. It

1050
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 4: does seem like Laura was, you know, getting all this

1051
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 4: backlash and so then she threw Op under the bus.

1052
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 3: Maybe so then now Op has a backlash. It seems

1053
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,959
Speaker 3: like this family needs someone to blame. It's a bad guy.

1054
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. He's like, I wasn't even here when

1055
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 4: everyone was getting mad.

1056
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1057
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 4: I told my husband that I deduced that Laura had

1058
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 4: done this in a diabolical move to turn them against me,

1059
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 4: And it had nothing to do with me believing her

1060
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 4: or not, she just wanted more drama and that they

1061
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 4: specifically didn't want to tell me because it would make

1062
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 4: their dad look bad, whether I was on her or

1063
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 4: his side. My husband agrees, thankfully, and now I strut

1064
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 4: into or out of my house whenever the heck I want,

1065
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 4: and no one can even make eye contact with me.

1066
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 3: Lol.

1067
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,879
Speaker 4: The latest stunt they pulled was convincing that the new

1068
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 4: life of my third brother in law that I'm horrible

1069
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 4: or something, because dang, this girl's behaving like I will

1070
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 4: take her to heck or something. So I don't know

1071
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 4: what are your thoughts, lol, I mean, it seems like

1072
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 4: your husband's on your side. Yeah, so just takin I

1073
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 4: guess you have to ignore these people because during up

1074
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 4: trouble whenever they can.

1075
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Just wait six months, someone else is

1076
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 3: gonna be under the bus and you'll be good.

1077
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 4: You'll be yeah, you'll be fine. They'll blow over it seems,

1078
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 4: I mean, if this is if they're well, actually we

1079
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 4: don't really know. If Flora's back in, you know.

1080
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 3: Then good and good races, Yeah, I assume she is.

1081
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 3: That's so funny because Opie's and the bad races because

1082
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 3: she supported Laura, No, they're mad at OPI and that

1083
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 3: it seems like they forgot.

1084
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, but we're gonna swap out this story with another one.

1085
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 3: Let's go and we'll see eh at that John here, We're.

1086
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 2: Gonna get back to this juicy story, but a quick

1087
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 2: three minute of break of ads from our sponsors.

1088
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 3: My mother in law's disrespectfulness has been going on for years.

1089
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 3: It was even shown at my wedding. Now this story

1090
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 3: is about my wedding about thirty four years ago and

1091
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:47,280
Speaker 3: the subset decades of insults and disrespect we have endured

1092
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 3: from my in laws. So back when I thirty three,

1093
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 3: Mel and my wife, twenty one female, met in Germany

1094
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 3: when I was stationed there and she had gotten a

1095
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 3: grant from her university to work on a research project there.

1096
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 3: We met dated Hellen, and I asked her to marry

1097
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 3: me over there. By the way, this comes from ordinary

1098
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 3: bed eighty six on the r SO I show. Okay

1099
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 3: story Tom subread it. So our wedding bands were bought

1100
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 3: in Germany. Her parents came over to visit her and

1101
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 3: her sister and brother in law, who was also stationed there.

1102
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 3: From the very beginning, they did not like me like

1103
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,720
Speaker 3: that to them. I was beneath them at the time.

1104
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 3: I was not of the same religion. Me a Baptist,

1105
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 3: they Catholic. They had a plan in their mind and

1106
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 3: what type of man she would marry, and I did

1107
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 3: not fit that mold. This caused my wife a lot

1108
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,919
Speaker 3: of worry and terreful nights. I bought an engagement ring

1109
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 3: when we got home. She wore it where we lived,

1110
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 3: which was about an hour away, but she wouldn't wear

1111
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 3: it around her parents. One Thanksgiving we were going to

1112
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 3: their house for dinner, and about halfway there I noticed

1113
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 3: she wasn't wearing the ring. I turned the car around

1114
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 3: and had her get it and put it on. No

1115
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 3: one noticed it for a while until we were having dinner.

1116
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 3: Her sisters were asking questions about everything, as they do,

1117
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 3: but the rents were not saying anything. The parents, I

1118
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 3: could feel the rising in them, and they waited till

1119
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 3: they got us alone, and then they let us have it,

1120
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,879
Speaker 3: both hollering at us the same way, how dare we this?

1121
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 2: How dare we that?

1122
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,800
Speaker 3: On the drive home, I was fuming. She was in tears.

1123
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 3: What should have been a happy moment turned into a scolding.

1124
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 3: Twenty nine year old daughter and her thirty three year

1125
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 3: old fiance, but we didn't let that deter us.

1126
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 2: Well.

1127
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 3: Fast forward about a year and the wedding day was

1128
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 3: rapidly approaching. Venue picked out, flowers, catered DJ, dresses, tuxes, everything.

1129
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,479
Speaker 3: The wedding was beautiful. The reception went off without a hitch,

1130
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,720
Speaker 3: or so we thought. We had the typical father daughter

1131
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 3: mother son dance, our first dance, and a dollar dance.

1132
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 3: These were the dances that the DJ suggested when we

1133
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 3: met and planned the music. The food was great, and

1134
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 3: we left on our honeymoon, happy and on top of

1135
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 3: the world.

1136
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: Whoo.

1137
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 3: Little did we know the storm that was brewing before

1138
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 3: us at home.

1139
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 4: Oh no.

1140
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 3: When we got home, we called everyone saying that we

1141
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 3: were back in town, safe and sound. When we talked

1142
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 3: to her parents, we were told in no uncertain terms

1143
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 3: that they would be over to our home following to

1144
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 3: discuss something, okay whatever. The next day, Oh boy, we

1145
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,399
Speaker 3: get it, mother in law. Father in law came over.

1146
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 3: Mother in law planted her butt in a chair, arms

1147
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 3: folded across her chest, and her resting, bothered face on

1148
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 3: full display. Then father in law harrained us about how

1149
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 3: we insulted mother in law and ruined her night. Thirty minutes,

1150
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 3: he continued to dress us down for insulting and purposefully

1151
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,359
Speaker 3: not including her in any of the events of the night.

1152
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 3: We sat there and stunned disbelief. We had just returned

1153
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 3: home from a wonderful honeymoon and we're on cloud nine.

1154
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 3: But from this diatribe, you would have thought we had

1155
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 3: tied mother in law up and stuck her in a

1156
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 3: closet somewhere, all the while mother in law had not

1157
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 3: moved or said a thing. Was that this gross offense?

1158
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 3: What had we done to offend her so much? Did

1159
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 3: we forget to serve her dinner? Something gets spilled on

1160
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 3: her dress? No, it was something infinitely more eagerious. We

1161
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 3: didn't schedule a mother in law son in law special dance.

1162
00:53:57,880 --> 00:53:58,800
Speaker 2: Oh the horror.

1163
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 3: Neither of us have heard of that before me growing

1164
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 3: up Baptists certainly never heard of it. We had gone

1165
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 3: to several weddings prior to hours, and since then there

1166
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 3: has never been that special dance. We even called her

1167
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 3: dj after that, and as if he's ever heard of it,

1168
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 3: he said that that was news to him. Just to

1169
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,240
Speaker 3: make sure, we reached out to a few other DJs,

1170
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 3: and none of heard of that either before, so we

1171
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 3: were baffled about why, in her delusion mind was this

1172
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 3: the heel that she chose to pass away on for

1173
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 3: that entire day.

1174
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 4: She just wants to make it all about herself.

1175
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was her special day.

1176
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 4: It was her special day, and you guys didn't do

1177
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 4: anything for that. That's pretty rude.

1178
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,919
Speaker 3: We were stunned. My wife was in tears. I was dumbfounded.

1179
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 3: The mother in law was still mute and had it

1180
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 3: moved one and a half hours after dropping that bomb.

1181
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 3: They left. To this day, the memory of that day

1182
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 3: was how much we in salted this grown sixty year

1183
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 3: old something woman and not having her special dance that

1184
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 3: she cooked up in her little mind. But that was

1185
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:54,240
Speaker 3: just the beginning of decades of insanity by her parents.

1186
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 3: For example, when she would come over, she would rearrange

1187
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 3: pictures on our wall, rerange our kitchen drawer how she

1188
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 3: thought it should be arranged. We, of course move everything

1189
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 3: back the way we had it, but this woman had

1190
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 3: no boundaries. She continually did this for years until one

1191
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 3: day when we were at their house, I rearranged pictures

1192
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 3: on her wall. She never did it again. Dude, o P.

1193
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 3: He's thinking. Oh, he's thinking fort each other.

1194
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 4: I like, oh, PE's got it up and.

1195
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:22,280
Speaker 3: Out for entire married life until they passed away. Whenever

1196
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 3: they would call us, if I answered the phone, it was.

1197
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 4: Can I speak to waife's name?

1198
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 3: Nut? Hello? How are you? How are the kids? Nothing

1199
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 3: to me? One weekend after we bought her home, I

1200
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 3: was away on National Guard weekend. We had purchased a

1201
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 3: nice mailbox and I was going to install it when

1202
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 3: I got back. I know this sounds petty, but it

1203
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 3: is just an example of how intrusive they were. I

1204
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 3: felt that, as a man of the house, it was

1205
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,439
Speaker 3: my job to put that first mailbox up. But when

1206
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 3: I returned home, father in law had put it up.

1207
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 3: I was beyond pissed.

1208
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 4: I was oh Pie's mailbox.

1209
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 3: It wasn't his mailbox, it was his manhood.

1210
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 4: It was his manhood, and you trampled all over it.

1211
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 3: You know what, I respect it.

1212
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes sometimes you got it's got one moment

1213
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 4: in your life where you got to prove yourself that

1214
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 4: was his. That was it, and now he's never gonna

1215
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 4: have that moment again.

1216
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 3: In my opinion, as a man, there are a few

1217
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 3: milestones that you want to accomplish in life.

1218
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 4: I've literally, yeah, you nailed it. You said that, Oh,

1219
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 4: I said that, said I nailed it.

1220
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 3: This is the last one of the day. Guys. Find

1221
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 3: a wonderful woman, get married, check, buy a house.

1222
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 2: Check, stoll a mailbox, have.

1223
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 3: Children checks check, get your first recliner check, and put

1224
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 3: up that home's first mailbox.

1225
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 4: Nope, personally didn't know that was on the agenda. And

1226
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 4: I'm not a man, so I guess you know. I

1227
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 4: didn't know that was the thing either, But is it

1228
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 4: not gonna be a thing for you?

1229
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 2: I feel like.

1230
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 3: Any house I'm move in will already have a mailbow.

1231
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 4: That's what I thought, But you know, I don't know

1232
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 4: where they live.

1233
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 3: First bird feeder though, Oh yeah, little.

1234
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 4: Hummingbird kind of deal. Yeah.

1235
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 3: Mother in law, father law, never their dying days accepted me.

1236
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 3: I was never good enough for their daughter, even though

1237
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:57,720
Speaker 3: my life unintentionally married her dad's. Wow, he was a veteran,

1238
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 3: I was veteran. He sold life asurance, show life inssurance.

1239
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 3: Even the four plans of our home were very close

1240
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 3: and four our wedding day. I converted to Catholicism when

1241
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 3: my wife's sister passed away. I went to her mother

1242
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 3: and knelt down in front of her and expressed my

1243
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,839
Speaker 3: condolences and sorrows for her loss. I later found out

1244
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 3: that she had taken her hearing aids out and did

1245
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 3: not hear anything. I said, oh my god.

1246
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 4: He's like, I'm so sorry for your loss, and she's

1247
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 4: like that, so rude, but so funny, incredibly rude of her,

1248
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 4: so funny.

1249
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 3: Oh you know what's funny is when we go live

1250
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 3: every weekday at three pm? Where do we go love

1251
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 3: to Sophia?

1252
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 4: I YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Twitch. What time of day

1253
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:34,919
Speaker 4: three PMPSD.

1254
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 3: How can you join us?

1255
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:37,560
Speaker 4: Just tap that little profile.

1256
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 3: That was pretty funny. I cannot stand here in aids. Once.

1257
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 3: I was at a church in the back, yeah, and

1258
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 3: like probably like three like maybe like you have, you know,

1259
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 3: I have like sections of churches like two sections down.

1260
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 3: I heard people see her in aids. I could hear

1261
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 3: the pastors in her an aid from where you would

1262
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 3: hear them, like they cranked it up so loud that

1263
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 3: you could hear there's like speakers going off.

1264
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 4: If you medically need hearing aids rightly that for you?

1265
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it was just a bunch of

1266
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 3: old people with their heir and it'd synced up, and

1267
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 3: I was just like, and you're like a Even though

1268
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 3: my ears are small, they're very sensitive. I can hear

1269
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 3: pretty well with them too. I feel like since they're smaller,

1270
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 3: they like they like the noise goes into it more,

1271
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 3: it follows them more. I think that's the same for me.

1272
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,959
Speaker 3: There have even been countless instances of when my wife

1273
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 3: got off the plane with her mom that she was

1274
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 3: in tears over some imaginary slide that had done something

1275
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 3: that I should have done, or something one of her

1276
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 3: sisters related to her mom that was told her sister's

1277
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 3: in confidence. Eventually, we learned not to say anything that

1278
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 3: would be disorted and turned back on us. Her mother was,

1279
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 3: to me, the stereotypical mother in law. I could go on,

1280
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 3: but this is starting to become a short story. Thanks

1281
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 3: for letting me post this. It was cathartic.

1282
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 4: I love that the ops like, well, I was gonna say,

1283
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 4: I love that, Like ope, you know, it's still not

1284
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 4: over this wedding story from thirty years ago, but it

1285
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 4: does seem like it followed him throughout his entire life.

1286
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 3: So she did not give them a break.

1287
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 4: No, didn't let him put up his mailbox.

1288
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, the good thing for staf In together. I would

1289
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 3: have a hard time with that.

1290
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 4: That would be hard to have your entire partner's family

1291
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 4: hate you. But that is the end of that story.

1292
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 3: Yep. So if you love us, make sure to subscribe.

1293
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 2: We love you and see you tomorrow.