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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Carly and this is Keon, your favorite

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Speaker 3: I told my sister she'd be a terrible mother, and

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Speaker 2: I think that would make anyone angry.

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Speaker 1: I seventeen male, have two sisters, Alice twenty nine and

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Speaker 1: Miranda thirty three. I am much closer to Alice than

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Speaker 1: I am to Miranda. Miranda is also not on good

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Speaker 1: terms with our parents. Alice has four kids and is

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Speaker 1: currently expecting child number five, while Miranda can't have children,

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Speaker 1: which her ex divorced her for. I'm sensing a very

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Speaker 1: eight And if you want to submit your own stories,

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Speaker 1: I'm Carly, and we're here to give you good advice Goofley,

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Speaker 1: but we don't have all the answers. We only know

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Speaker 1: what we would do, So tell us all the things

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Speaker 1: that you would do down in the comments. As Op says,

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Speaker 1: Miranda is very successful in life. She has a nice apartment,

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Speaker 1: works a good job, and earns a decent amount of money. Alice,

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, is struggling financially yet because.

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Speaker 3: She's got five kids.

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Speaker 1: She had her first kid right out of high school

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Speaker 1: be it childcare or money, whatever she needs. I love

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Speaker 1: Miranda doesn't help out with them, saying she's too busy. Well,

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Speaker 1: she works long hours, but she doesn't have kids, so

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Speaker 1: I don't know what she does on weekends. She also

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Speaker 1: where I may have been in a hole. I was

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Speaker 1: at Miranda's place last week as she baked muffins and

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Speaker 1: as well as some new boots and jackets for her kids.

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Speaker 1: I was a little stunned she didn't have more for Alice,

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Speaker 1: so I asked, why do you only get Alice the

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Speaker 1: bare minimum you can afford to help out more, and

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Speaker 1: Drop the subject or get out. I got really frustrated

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Speaker 1: Miranda got very quiet and told me to leave and

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Speaker 1: and though I don't agree with her not helping out,

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to feel guilty for what I said. So

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Speaker 1: am I the a hole? Comment one says you are

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Speaker 1: the a hole. You went way too far with that comment.

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Speaker 1: Shame on you, and Miranda is completely right. It's her

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Speaker 1: her sister that can't afford her lifestyle is greedy. Yes,

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Speaker 3: It's not fair. Miranda is right.

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Speaker 1: Alice is old enough to understand how to use Wiener wrappers.

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Speaker 1: If she's struggling with money at the third kid, then

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Speaker 1: struggling more at the fourth, why on God's green earth

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Speaker 1: did she get pregnant with a fifth. There's the selfish

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Speaker 3: At all, zero percent. This is where filling in gaps.

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Speaker 2: Why are we putting this in her mouth?

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Speaker 1: I mean I will say, when you're financially struggling to

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Speaker 2: Right. There's also the possibility that there's other circumstances that

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Speaker 4: Right because she has just got children.

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Speaker 1: You know how many people have kids they can't afford

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Speaker 1: a lot. By the way, you are not just cruel

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Speaker 3: Entitled and childish.

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Speaker 1: You made an active decision to help Alice in her kids,

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Speaker 1: But you don't cry about That's not fair when someone

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Speaker 3: And there is an update. It's been a while. I know.

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Speaker 1: I haven't answered any comments because I was too ashamed,

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Speaker 1: and I still am. When my parents and sister found

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Speaker 1: Alice shouted at me so long my ears were ringing.

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Speaker 3: My family also.

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Speaker 1: Never painted Miranda as the big villain that was all

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Speaker 1: My parents also didn't really pester Miranda that she should

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Speaker 1: I apologized a hundred times to Miranda. I wrote her letters,

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Speaker 1: her right to do so. I hurt her deeply, and

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Speaker 1: she doesn't owe me forgiveness. But the reason I made

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Speaker 1: this update in the first place is some hopefully good

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Speaker 1: news for you. Miranda has since moved away with her ex.

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Speaker 1: I don't have the whole picture, but they are still

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Speaker 2: Miranda moved away with the ex that divorced her for

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Speaker 1: This sounds about right, okay, and you know maybe, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I hope so because she sounds lovely. Yeah, she bagan muffins.

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Speaker 4: She made she made you muffins.

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Speaker 3: Man, that's crazy. You were entire You were an entitled,

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Speaker 1: You think you can walk into someone's house who just

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Speaker 1: made you muffins, major muffins and is talking about what

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Speaker 4: You can go.

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Speaker 3: It's no wonder your husband divorced you.

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Speaker 1: Whoa even that alone is crazy and then bringing in

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Speaker 3: Kid, which you can't have, you'd be a bad mom.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if you're not hearing Miranda

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Speaker 4: Ever, Yeah, I'd say at least ten years, that's how

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Speaker 1: That's ten years worth of Like, I don't even want

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Speaker 2: Because also you say it's been a while, I don't

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Speaker 3: Yeah, how much of a while I'll be talking about.

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Speaker 2: Right, I am sure I would personally still think you

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Speaker 1: Check in with Miranda when you're twenty seven. You might

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Speaker 1: Horrible, which I never knew. My parents said Miranda didn't

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Speaker 1: of growing to do. I deserve everything you said in

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Speaker 2: My mother pushed to see my brother's newborn after being

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Speaker 2: So I twenty female, am about to be in the

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Speaker 2: ant soon. My brother and sister in law are expecting

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Speaker 2: I'm Carly, I'm Dakota, and we're here to give good advice. Goofully,

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Speaker 1: I think the funniest thing you could do here would

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Speaker 2: For one, you would not be the A hole if

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Speaker 2: If you tell your brother and they still decide to

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Speaker 2: They deserve to decide whether visits are allowed with all

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Speaker 2: We have an edit, but it's also kind of an update. Ool.

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Speaker 4: Oh, what'll we get there?

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Speaker 1: I agree with all the comments being like, just let

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Speaker 2: Edit. I just let my brother know that my dad

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Speaker 2: My parents plural went to see the baby a few

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Speaker 3: I can't believe these sickies held that baby. What was

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Speaker 2: I really hope that your brother told his wife.

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Speaker 3: I would hope, so I would hope. One can hope.

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Speaker 2: I hope the baby's okay.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how to feel about all this. Am

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Speaker 2: I still feel my parents shouldn't have gone to see

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Speaker 2: I'm just really confused. Me too, And that's the end

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Speaker 3: My sister blamed me for not helping her after she

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Speaker 4: Well tell her not to do that.

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Speaker 1: I forty female, have a sister thirty eight female, who

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Speaker 1: this comes from user lost in Paradise forty seven, forty eight,

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Speaker 1: I'm Carly, and we're here to give you good advice.

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Speaker 3: Goofully. But we don't have all the answers.

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Speaker 1: We only know what we would do, So just tell

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Speaker 1: Everyone was saying how wrong it was for me to

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Speaker 2: There's obvious receipts here and if people aren't gonna read those,

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Speaker 3: Yeah. It's like this, I mean, and it was whose idea, right, let.

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Speaker 2: Me let me it was her idea, because.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the sister asked about switching it to her house.

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Speaker 2: And then the sister insisted that she cooks still. So

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Speaker 2: I'm like, if we have those texts, i'd fully just

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's anything to like get super hung

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Speaker 1: and she responded with, irregardless, No, not, irregardless, is your

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Speaker 2: I was fine with having it where we originally were

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Speaker 2: having it.

441
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Speaker 1: And again, and if you just wanted me to help

442
00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,359
Speaker 1: you get the house ready, all you had to do

443
00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:49,040
Speaker 1: was ask.

444
00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,960
Speaker 2: I would have come over and maybe opia you also

445
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,920
Speaker 2: could have been like you want me here earlier.

446
00:20:55,119 --> 00:21:01,119
Speaker 1: But still, irregardless, irregardless, my mom will not fight with

447
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,679
Speaker 1: my sister because she's afraid of losing access to the grandchildren.

448
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 1: I'm upset and embarrassed at the dysfunction, and no, I'm

449
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,960
Speaker 1: not going to get an apology. My sister will just

450
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 1: avoid me and then want to act like nothing happened

451
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 1: as per her usual mo o am I the ahole?

452
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 3: And there are some comments I think that your sister's

453
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:21,440
Speaker 3: m O is fine here.

454
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, did she explode a little bit for no reason?

455
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 4: Yeah?

456
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,399
Speaker 2: Can we probably move on without an apology for this

457
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Speaker 2: one from your very heavily pregnant sister.

458
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think you can.

459
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Speaker 1: I think it's something you can just I think we

460
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 1: can just let that drift off into the sunset.

461
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 2: Maybe after she has a baby. You can be like,

462
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 2: remember when you freaked out of me for where you

463
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Speaker 2: want to have the party, and you guys can go

464
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:45,879
Speaker 2: ha ha ha.

465
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, now you can make the jokes that you can

466
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: always ask you any help. Yeah, all you gotta do

467
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 1: is ask would just ask me want to help?

468
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 2: I would. I wouldn't be surprised if you did eventually

469
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 2: get that apology. But I also think that we can

470
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 2: move on with less of one than we're needing.

471
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 1: Right off into the sunset. We do have some comments,

472
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 1: come on one not the a hole. Call everyone immediately

473
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: and say, hey, this is overwhelming for sis, so let's

474
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: move it back to the restaurant. She doesn't get to

475
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 1: demand it be done at her place, demand to cook,

476
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: and then turn into an utter nightmare because she can't

477
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 1: do what she demanded to do. A reply says this,

478
00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 1: this is the way I'm in a similar situation to up.

479
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 1: My sister is a mom to three while I don't

480
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: have any children. There have been so many times over

481
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,160
Speaker 1: the years where she uses her mom card to dictate

482
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 1: and demand things, and in her eyes, no matter what

483
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,400
Speaker 1: I do, I'm always wrong because she's a mom and

484
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: I'm not. Some days it's absolutely wild, and even our

485
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,160
Speaker 1: family is blown away by how fast she'll woin eighty

486
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 1: on us using her role as a mom as her

487
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,119
Speaker 1: go to excuse. Basically set the precedent now instead of

488
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 1: letting her get away with this behavior. From my experience,

489
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 1: these actions will only get worse over time.

490
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Speaker 3: Hope, He says.

491
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Speaker 1: It happens a lot with us too, and I can't

492
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 1: believe it. I've listened to her vent many times about

493
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 1: the in laws, our family and whoever and whatever. Even

494
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 1: if I'm busy, I make the time. Then when it's

495
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,639
Speaker 1: my turn, she is always too busy and plays that

496
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 1: you're not a mom, so you don't get it. She's right,

497
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: I'm not a mom and can't possibly fully understand her struggle.

498
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: But that doesn't make me any less intelligent or important.

499
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: Second comment says, I swear being a parent must flip

500
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 1: a switch in some people's brains. My old boss literally

501
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: saw managing an office is parenting. He told me, I

502
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,879
Speaker 1: can't understand managing people and never will until I have kids.

503
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: That is going to be a long wait. Even when

504
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,919
Speaker 1: I was in a meeting with him the GM and

505
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: my union rep over the way he'd been treating me.

506
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,719
Speaker 1: He doesn't go if a boss says to their employee,

507
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 1: he says if a parent says to their child, I

508
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: cut him off at the very point there are no

509
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: children here. I'm the youngest in the room and I'm

510
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: nearly forty, not the ahole. So your sibling moved the

511
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: location of the meal because it would be easier for her,

512
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: and is now making a fuss because of all the

513
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: work involved. Your sister made a series of decisions that

514
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 1: created the situation, and at no point said anything or reached.

515
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 3: Out for help. This is all on her. You're not

516
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 3: a mind reader.

517
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: You could not know, and at every turn you offered

518
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: solutions that would have in fact made things easier. Her

519
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: sister needs to get over herself. And that is the

520
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: end of that comment and the end of that story.

521
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 2: My sister's bachelorette is turning into a nightmare. I might back.

522
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: Out, the nightmare will follow you.

523
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 3: You cannot leave the nightmare.

524
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,440
Speaker 2: My sister is having a bachelorette party. I'm the maid

525
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 2: of honor. She also has a matron of honor. And

526
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 2: this is my first time ever being in a bridal party,

527
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 2: so I'm in uncharted territory here. She told me which

528
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,959
Speaker 2: flight she wanted and said she was going to let

529
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 2: the other bridesmaids know. I said I was going to

530
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,880
Speaker 2: book it, and she said bet so I booked them.

531
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 2: I got insurance, but it only covers illnesses, passing or

532
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 2: severe weather. By the way, this comes from Separate Payment

533
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Speaker 2: seventy fifty eight. And if you want to submit your

534
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Speaker 2: own stories, go to the r slash Okay storytime Separated It.

535
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 4: I'm Carly I'm Dakota, and we're here.

536
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 2: To give good advice. Goofully. We don't have all the answers, though,

537
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 2: we only know what we would do, so let us

538
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 2: know you would do in the comments, and Op says.

539
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 2: Last night, she tells me we might be changing it

540
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 2: to someplace else in the same state because none of

541
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 2: the airbnbs accept parties. There are six of us. I

542
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 2: found a place that allowed parties eighteen hundred, so it

543
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 2: was still nice. I sent it to her. She responded

544
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 2: with haha, sadly a no for me. I asked why,

545
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 2: and she said she didn't like it. She thought it

546
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 2: was dark and looked like it smelled. It had a

547
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 2: downstairs bar space that actually looked really cool. It was

548
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 2: dimly lit, but it did not look like it smelled

549
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 2: at all. I thought it looked like a vibe. I said,

550
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 2: that's only the downstairs. The upstairs looks nice though, and

551
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 2: we probably won't be in the basement much anyway since

552
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 2: we'll be going out. But heard she responded, the couch

553
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 2: looks like it's about to break lol. The couch looked fine.

554
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 2: I suggested, maybe message the host for the other places

555
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 2: you were looking at if they accept six guests, maybe

556
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 2: it won't be an issue. She said. The guests aren't

557
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 2: the problem. It's the rules in the airbnb. They say

558
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 2: no bachelorette or no parties. They may have my aunts

559
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 2: and moms come and they are not guests, so they

560
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 2: are considered a party if they come over. I responded with, okay, well,

561
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 2: I already got my plane ticket. I got insurance, but

562
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 2: that only covers illness, passing, and severe weather, so I

563
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 2: don't think I'll be able to get that money back.

564
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 2: Did you send that message about booking those flights to

565
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 2: everyone else? Has anyone else got their flight yet? She

566
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 2: had mentioned telling them. She said, no one has gotten

567
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 2: their flights, only you so far. Earlier, when I mentioned

568
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 2: buying my flight already, she was just like.

569
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, no, rip. I don't know.

570
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 2: It just seems like she is zero consideration or doesn't

571
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 2: care that I already bought the flight light after she

572
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 2: gave me the go, and that I might be out

573
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 2: that money.

574
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 4: Not to mention, I.

575
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:10,479
Speaker 2: Found airbnbs from twelve hundred to eighteen hundred for three nights,

576
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: and the places she's been looking at are like twenty

577
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 2: five hundred to five thousand. I'm on a budget. I

578
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,959
Speaker 2: can't afford to buy another ticket or pay for an

579
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 2: airbnb at that rate. If I'm going to be paying

580
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 2: that much for the airbnb, then I don't want to

581
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 2: leave that airbnb at that point. That's the activity for

582
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 2: the trip. This has been a stressful situation and I'm

583
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 2: contemplating sitting the trip out comments comment one. In my experience,

584
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 2: most fights start because people are wishy washy and don't

585
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 2: set out clear boundaries. She wants a high cost party,

586
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 2: you don't have the means to handle it. One way

587
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 2: to handle this might be to text or tell your

588
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 2: sister that you hope she has an outstanding time at

589
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 2: her bachelorette party and you absolutely understand if she'll need

590
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 2: to replace you as the maid of honor, But unfortunately

591
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,959
Speaker 2: you don't have enough money to buy a second plane ticket,

592
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 2: so you'll have to sit this one out. Low key

593
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 2: bickering over the various costs involved are likely going to

594
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 2: cause a lot of hard feelings, So just pull the plug.

595
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 2: She can have whatever party she sees fit, so long

596
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 2: as you're not having to fund it. Commuch to two

597
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 2: so on flights and lodging, everyone's going to be anywhere

598
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 2: from one thousand to fifteen hundred for this that's absurd

599
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 2: and inconsiderate unless the bride is paying for dresses, hair, makeup, flights,

600
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 2: hotels for the wedding itself. If not local, you're easily

601
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 2: looking at twenty five hundred to three thousand for a

602
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 2: wedding that isn't yours when the average American makes less

603
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 2: than sixty two k pre tax. I'm from a low

604
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 2: cost of living part of the country and move to

605
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 2: a high cost of living area. When I did my

606
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 2: bachelor party, it was more important to me to have

607
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 2: everyone together than to have the dream house or location.

608
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 2: We got an airbnb in a hidden gem town in

609
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 2: the low cost of living area, so my friends that

610
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 2: don't make as much could drive in and not have

611
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 2: to take PTO, while my high cost of living friends

612
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 2: loved how cheap the trip was because we didn't do

613
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: a well known or expensive place.

614
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

615
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: And the funny thing about that average yeah of like

616
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: sixty two thousand a year is that it's also averaged

617
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: against the people making like a billion dollars.

618
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 3: It's even so.

619
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, the in reality, it's probably somewhere close to like forty.

620
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 2: Yeah flights and four nights. Lodging was five hundred dollars

621
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 2: a person, and my local friends paid two hundred and

622
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 2: twenty five dollars for four nights. A lot of people

623
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 2: may disagree with me about this, but the bachelor party

624
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 2: isn't just for the bride or groom. It's a chance

625
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: for the people who got you to this point to

626
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: celebrate a big moment in your life. It also, it

627
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 2: seems extremely inconsiderate to me to not consider the limitations

628
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: of the people that you want to be with you.

629
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 2: Comment three. When did such expensive trips or bachelorettes become

630
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 2: such a thing. In my day, the bachelorette was a

631
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 2: one night event with dinner and bar hopping. It's like

632
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 2: brides have no consideration for their friends and expect them

633
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 2: to spend wild amounts of money and participate in activities

634
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 2: they might not even like, just because it's the bride's wedding.

635
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 2: In my mind, the bachelorette, wedding shower, and all associated

636
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 2: things are about having your friends with you to celebrate

637
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 2: with you, not to make them go into debt for you.

638
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 2: If you measure your friendship on how much money someone

639
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 2: is willing to spend, then you the bride are the

640
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 2: bad friend for not being willing to scale back to

641
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 2: allow your friends not to be overly burdened. But then,

642
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 2: don't get me started on the actual cost of weddings,

643
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 2: as I fail to see the point of spending excessive

644
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 2: amounts of money and going into debt for a one

645
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 2: day event. And we have an update. But yeah, great comments.

646
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, back in my day used to be one dinner,

647
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: everyone ate a baked potato.

648
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 3: And shook my hand.

649
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: And now everyone's flying to Tahiti baked potato.

650
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do during the fame and the potato fight.

651
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 3: That's where we'ren't a lot of bachelorette parties.

652
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I think, what what do they say that

653
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous and inconsiderate.

654
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 2: It is to make it like.

655
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 3: Too grand a person is insane. You will not catch

656
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 3: me there.

657
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: I don't have that money. I'm not going to that.

658
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 3: Even if I did have that money, I'm not spending

659
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:16,479
Speaker 3: on that.

660
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's crazy, that's crazy.

661
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: Crazy. Update. I found a bunch of places that would

662
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 2: allow us to stay there after I mentioned them and

663
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 2: explained the situation.

664
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's almost like just explaining, you know, to someone

665
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: can do a whole lot. Yeah, I do agree with

666
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: the comments of being like I think you might just

667
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: pull the plug on this now, because if this turns

668
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: into like a big squabble drawn out, then it could

669
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: just do more damage than if you just were like, hey, pulling,

670
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: I'm pulling out.

671
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:47,959
Speaker 3: I can't do it.

672
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think you're can be straight up and

673
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 2: be like, it's money. I mean, who knows, maybe your

674
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 2: sister will be like, listen, I understand you're like my

675
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 2: younger sister.

676
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 4: I want you.

677
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 2: There's still I'll pay for your flight or something. Yeah.

678
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're already do in the most not personal

679
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: like thing to do with you. I just can't make

680
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: the numbers work.

681
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 2: Yeah for me, she said, we will stick to the

682
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 2: place we're going. I'm down for those they look cute.

683
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 2: But last thing, just wanting a pool. If we are

684
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 2: spending that much money on a place, it's cold in May,

685
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 2: so a pool would be nice. I know some airbnbs

686
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 2: are charging a heat fee, but divided by six, it's

687
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 2: not too bad. I'll check more tonight. We will finalize

688
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 2: by Sunday. I said, Okay, sounds good. I'm game for

689
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 2: a pool, but ideally i'd like to spend no more

690
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 2: than four hundred to four fifty per person on the Airbnb.

691
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 2: With the flights and the Airbnb, that should be right

692
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: around one thousand dollars, she said. To be honest, the

693
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 2: places probably will be closer than six hundred, I said,

694
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 2: I mean, if it's under twenty five hundred, it will

695
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 2: work out. I just don't think we need to be

696
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 2: spending thirty five hundred plus for three nights. At that point,

697
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 2: we could each buy our own hotel room for three nights.

698
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 2: I don't know where other people stand financially, but it

699
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 2: might be good to ask them how much they're willing

700
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 2: to spend. Also, so pretty much, I'll be able to

701
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 2: use the flight still, but I'll be spending out my

702
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: butt for everything else. Live, laugh, love, And that's the

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Speaker 4: Why?

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Speaker 2: Generally not much rattles me. My friends call me a stoic,

710
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Speaker 2: girlfriend for eight years and have known her for ten.

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715
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Speaker 2: and we're here to give good advice goofy, but we

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Speaker 2: don't have all the answers. We only know what we

721
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:05,880
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722
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 2: the comments. She's silly, shy, goofy in the best ways

723
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 2: and loves to poke fun. I love all of it.

724
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 2: I love her more than I've ever loved anyone in

725
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 2: this lifetime. But last night something happened that I can't

726
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 2: let go of. My phone was charging, so I was

727
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 2: scrolling Instagram reels on hers like I usually do. One

728
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 2: of her friends DMed her and normally I'd send back

729
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 2: some dumb reaction photos so they'd know it's me, just

730
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 2: a thing in our circle. But it wasn't a joke.

731
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 2: It was screenshots my girlfriend had sent her friend, and

732
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 2: the friend was trying to comfort her. I hesitated, then

733
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 2: opened the screenshots to read better. I'm glad I did,

734
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 2: and I don't even regret it anymore because what I

735
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 2: saw were multiple messages from my mother, cruel ones. The

736
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 2: timestamps weren't all from the same day, so I don't

737
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 2: know how long this has been happening. A week longer,

738
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 2: no idea. Some of the messages my mom sent included

739
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,720
Speaker 2: maybe he hasn't proposed because you haven't given him a child.

740
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 2: Men don't marry placeholders. This one makes me see red.

741
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine how my baby felt. Others included

742
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 2: if you stop dressing like a teenage boy and put

743
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 2: on some makeup, maybe he'd see you as a wife

744
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 2: instead of one of his little friends. You're keeping him

745
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 2: from his family he used to visit for clarity. I'm

746
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 2: the one who pulled back because of her behavior towards

747
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 2: one of my sisters. Nothing to do with my girlfriend.

748
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,720
Speaker 2: Additional messages were you think you're so special, you're lucky.

749
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 2: He even brought you home. Girls like you don't get

750
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 2: commitment from men like him. You're not good enough for

751
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 2: the life he deserves. Reading them made my stomach drop.

752
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: They were hateful and completely false. My girlfriend didn't tell

753
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 2: me about any of them and has just been carrying

754
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 2: this alone, smiling and laughing with me all while this

755
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 2: garbage was sitting in the back of her mind. My

756
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 2: girlfriend avoids conflict and hates upsetting anyone.

757
00:35:58,880 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 4: I get it.

758
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 2: It's easier to talk to a friend first, and my

759
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 2: mom can be intense. She probably didn't want to put

760
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 2: me in a position where it looked like choosing sides.

761
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: But I've chosen and it's not her. I'm angry with

762
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 2: I'm furious at my mother. I'm exhausted by this. She

763
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 2: knows how much my girlfriend means to me. She hears

764
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 2: me talk about her constantly. I really thought she might

765
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 2: actually be happy for me. At the same time, I

766
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 2: don't want to make this harder on my girlfriend or

767
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 2: make her feel exposed. Here's where I need advice. Do

768
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 2: I tell my girlfriend gently that I saw the messages,

769
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 2: that I'm on her side, and that she doesn't need

770
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 2: to shield me from my own mother, or do I

771
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 2: handle my mother privately and not bring it up unless

772
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 2: my girlfriend does. I just want her to feel safe

773
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 2: and supported, and it makes me sick that she's been

774
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 2: dealing with this alone. I'm actually sick watching her make

775
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 2: breakfast while just feeling helpless. And we have some comments,

776
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 2: but what what is your advice there? What would you do?

777
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 4: I think I would bring it up to girlfriend just

778
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 4: because I feel like it is their relationship and like

779
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 4: whatever makes her feel more comfortable. If she wants to

780
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 4: ignore it, you know, that's on her. But I feel

781
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 4: like I was, you know, in that position, Like I like,

782
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,720
Speaker 4: if I was the guy in this, if I was opee,

783
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 4: I would have a talk with my mom like privately

784
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 4: and be like, what is wrong with you? You know? So

785
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 4: I would I would bring it up to girlfriend like

786
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 4: be like, hey, just so you know, I know about

787
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 4: this and I know what's going on. You know, how

788
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 4: would you like to deal with it? Do you want

789
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 4: to deal with it? Whatever? Blah blah blah, and whatever

790
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 4: she says, you know, go along with it whatever. But

791
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 4: I would still have like a talk with my mom,

792
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 4: be like, yeah, what is wrong?

793
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 2: I think you kind of have to start with girlfriend

794
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 2: because I think Mom's immediately texting girlfriends.

795
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 4: Oh for sure, we have some of the comments.

796
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 2: Biopepe I'm in this like in between of shock and rage,

797
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 2: and I took a walk, realized I can't function, and

798
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: made this post.

799
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 4: I think this is just it for me.

800
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 2: I'll be talking to my girlfriend today and I have

801
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 2: to figure out how to approach this. I'm upset, but

802
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 2: I can't imagine how upset my girlfriend has been and

803
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 2: for how long. All I know is that when me

804
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 2: and my girlfriend do get married, I don't want my

805
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 2: mother there. I'm the last of her kids that put

806
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,839
Speaker 2: up with her as her son. I thought I had

807
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 2: a duty, but this is just a line that has

808
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 2: been triple crossed behind my back. And knowing my girlfriend,

809
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 2: she's going to figure out a way to forgive and forget,

810
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 2: but I won't. I can't. I feel like a dumb

811
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 2: butt sitting on the curb looking at all these replies.

812
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 2: But thank you, that seems to be the consensus. Off

813
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 2: to my girlfriend first. I just need to figure out

814
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 2: a way to bring this up to her. I just

815
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 2: hate the timing. You know, she's grading things and preparing

816
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 2: for finals, and I don't know I hate that this

817
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 2: is something she's been going through by herself, when she

818
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 2: already deals with so dang much. I hate my mom

819
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 2: so much right now. This is insane. I don't know

820
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 2: how I'd face her at all without blowing up. I'm

821
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 2: leaning terribly to no contact at the moment. And yeah,

822
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 2: I will be talking to my girlfriend. Someone mentioned I

823
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 2: should probably cool off first. I will be talking to

824
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 2: my girlfriend once I try to cool it. I don't

825
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 2: want to approach to this wrong and with anger in

826
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 2: my heart, because what if she thinks that anger's directed

827
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 2: at her in any way? Okay, so this got overwhelming

828
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 2: really quick. I appreciate everyone's replies and their advice. Truly,

829
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 2: I thought only like twenty people would be here. But

830
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 2: I'm going to walk away from my phone. Probably wasn't

831
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 2: even the healthy move to begin with seeking advice from strangers,

832
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 2: but I just wanted to get out of my head

833
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 2: and at least find options that weren't call my mom

834
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 2: and tell her to go to Heck. I'll be swimming

835
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,240
Speaker 2: in a bit, but I need to step away. Plus

836
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 2: breakfast is ready. Thank you all, Thank you so much,

837
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 2: and we have an update two days later after he

838
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: talks with his girlfriend.

839
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 4: Oh, I kind of just want to get into it.

840
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 2: Two days later, I talked to my girlfriend the same

841
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 2: night that I made that original posts. We're working through

842
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 2: everything together right now and things are headed in a

843
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 2: good direction. I'm not ready to I write the full

844
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 2: update yet, since there's a lot to sort out privately

845
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 2: before I come back with all of the details. But

846
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 2: I did want to say something to the people who

847
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 2: reached out when I was clearly not in the best

848
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 2: headspace for transparency. I told my girlfriend exactly what happened

849
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 2: that I panicked, had what I'm pretty sure was some

850
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 2: kind of anxiety attack, and ended up here on Big

851
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 2: Beautiful Reddit asking a question that, in hindsight, had a

852
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 2: pretty obvious answer. Not my finest hour, considering I'm usually,

853
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 2: you know, the calm one between us, I guess I

854
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 2: was bound to pop at some point. I even ugly

855
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 2: cried on the side of the road. I also showed

856
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 2: her this account, and she looked at me and the

857
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 2: comments and up votes and hit me with that you

858
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 2: wish your actual account got this much engagement. Huh destroyed

859
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 2: me in seconds.

860
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 4: But so very accurate.

861
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 2: A lot has happened since, and some of it was

862
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 2: super eye opening. Turns out my mom has a pattern

863
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 2: of this behavior. After my girlfriend and I talked, I

864
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 2: reached out to my siblings and my younger brother opened

865
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 2: up and told me she did the same thing to

866
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 2: his new wife years ago. Okay, they both moved far

867
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 2: away and kept their distance because of it. That was

868
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 2: a hard thing to hear, but it explains so much. Also,

869
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 2: my girlfriend is super close with my siblings too, so

870
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 2: she knows. She knows.

871
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 4: Anyway.

872
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 2: To sum it all up real quick, my girlfriend and

873
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 2: I are solid. We're talking, we're being honest, and we're

874
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,720
Speaker 2: on the same team. I'm taking care of the rest.

875
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 2: I just wanted people to know things are okay and

876
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 2: we're moving forward, and I appreciate a lot of you.

877
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 2: I'm too anxious to open up any of the comments

878
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 2: on the original post. Some of y'all are brutal, but real.

879
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 2: My girlfriend has been peeking for me though. Happy holidays, everyone,

880
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 2: stay safe. We have some comments by Opie. After her

881
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 2: most recent comment, I've realized she might just have a

882
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 2: superiority complex of sorts. Either way, this is totally crazy

883
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 2: to me. The amount of people who can't fathom either.

884
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 2: Folks who don't want to get married or haven't after

885
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 2: a certain amount of time, like there's a time limit

886
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 2: of sorts. Well, I guess I get the time. People

887
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 2: don't live for long and things happen. But even if

888
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 2: I passed or something before we get married, there will

889
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 2: be plenty of more proof out there pertaining to my

890
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 2: love for my girlfriend than just a ring and some papers.

891
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 2: It seems to me that a lot of people think

892
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 2: of marriage as some sort of end goal anyway, and

893
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 2: then the love just stops because they race to that peak,

894
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 2: you know. At least that's what I've seen and taken

895
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 2: note of. I wonder how the same people would react

896
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 2: once they find out my girlfriend doesn't want a diamond

897
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 2: ring due to blood diamonds, and she won't be wearing

898
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 2: a white dress because of its origin too. Also, she

899
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 2: will probably be wearing a suit. I might effing wear

900
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 2: a dress than what people as of now. I've told

901
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 2: my mother to go e f herself, and that the

902
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 2: grandkids she already has don't even like her. And on

903
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 2: top of not wanting kids personally, if me and my

904
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 2: girlfriend were to have any, they would not be coming

905
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 2: anywhere near her and her crappy behavior. Also, the day

906
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 2: there is a wedding. I don't even want her in

907
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 2: the same dang state. I've spoken to my girlfriend. I

908
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 2: did not sugarcoat it, told her I I saw the

909
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 2: screenshots and read everything. She knows. I'm on her side,

910
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 2: and well, it seems my mother lost her last kid. Also,

911
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 2: we've all blocked her, all of us. I feel sad

912
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 2: knowing that this is the life she cultivated for herself,

913
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 2: but I'm happy in knowing that moving forward, me and

914
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 2: my girlfriend have gotten closer, so have me and my siblings.

915
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 2: I'm still trying to accept that I have a mom

916
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 2: but don't have a mom, if that makes sense. But

917
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 2: I've got good people in my life who are helping

918
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,760
Speaker 2: me through that. Thank you again, and have a happy holiday.

919
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 2: Well I'm glad it worked out. I mean, not for mom,

920
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:35,760
Speaker 2: but she seems like a nightmare anyway.

921
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 4: So that's the end of that story.

922
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 2: Oh we got another one.

923
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 4: My sister's boyfriend shushed me while watching a movie, so

924
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 4: I went off on him.

925
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't talk during a movie, dude.

926
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 4: My sister's boyfriend, Derek, has been staying at our house

927
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 4: since March. It has honestly been one of the worst

928
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 4: parts of never being able to leave the house. I

929
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 4: didn't even meet him before my parents allowed him to

930
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 4: stay with us. They met him when they visited her

931
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 4: at Call. By the way, this comes from Shush movie,

932
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 4: and if you want to submit your own stories, go

933
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,320
Speaker 4: to the r slash okay storytime subreddit. I'm Savannah on Carly,

934
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 4: and we are here to give you some good advice Goofley,

935
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 4: but we don't have all the answers. We would only

936
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 4: tell you what we would do in this situation, but

937
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 4: we would love to know what you would do in

938
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 4: the comments. He's really grating, always thinking he's the smartest

939
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 4: person in the room, and is honestly just annoying. He

940
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 4: is not polite, never offers to do any chores or

941
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 4: dishes or anything. Just a complete loser. I don't get

942
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 4: what my sister sees in him. Usually when I would

943
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 4: watch something with my mom and dad, we would all

944
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 4: kind of make comments about what was happening or whatever.

945
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 4: But early on during his stay, Derek said this was

946
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 4: too distracting and he needed to focus. I vented a

947
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 4: little to my mom about Derek, including his need for

948
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 4: passed away silence when watching TV, and she said that

949
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 4: she understood that it was frustrating, but that we needed

950
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,479
Speaker 4: to make him comfortable as a guest. I was fine

951
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 4: with this until last night. We were watching Allie's Game

952
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 4: and I was enjoying it. Maybe an hour in, during

953
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 4: a transition from one scene to another, I asked my

954
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 4: dad to pause it so I could go to the bathroom.

955
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 4: Immediately after, Derek looked at me, put his finger over

956
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 4: his mouth, and literally loudly shushed me like I was

957
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 4: a two year old for just asking to pause the movie.

958
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 4: I got beyond pissed off and was like, ef this,

959
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 4: I'm not watching the movie with him. I just effing

960
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 4: can't do it. Maybe it wasn't exactly that. I don't

961
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 4: remember because I was so angry, but it was something

962
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 4: like that. I didn't personally insult him, though. My mom

963
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 4: called after me, and I just went to the bathroom

964
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 4: and then to my room. My sister texted me that

965
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 4: I was behaving like an effing witch, and I texted

966
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 4: her back that her boyfriend was an effing tool. My

967
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 4: mom came into my room later and said that she

968
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 4: understood why I felt the way I felt, but that

969
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 4: I needed to apologize to Derek. I said, I wouldn't

970
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 4: because I don't think I did anything wrong anyway. Now

971
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 4: I'm in bed and dreading facing them, so I probably

972
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 4: won't leave my room all day. I need to know,

973
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 4: am I the a hole here? And to your ages

974
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 4: are missing, but you have a right to your views.

975
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 4: Op response. I didn't know I had to include ages. Sorry,

976
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 4: I'm sixteen and my sister and her boyfriend are both twenty.

977
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 2: Okay, I can totally see a sixteen year old being

978
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 2: like this dude comes into my house and like, yeah,

979
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 2: he's changing the way everything's being kind of thing, and

980
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 2: it's like yeah, like no one's gonna want that.

981
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 4: Another comment says, so let me get this straight. Or

982
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 4: he gets free room and board, doesn't lift a finger

983
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 4: to help and is a no at all arrogant type

984
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 4: and tells you to shut up in your own home,

985
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 4: and you're supposed to do what he wants and apologize

986
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 4: when he's an a hole to you. Op responds exactly,

987
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 4: And I really don't understand why my mom is taking

988
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 4: his side when I know for a fact that she

989
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 4: finds him just as annoying as I do. Another person responds,

990
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,240
Speaker 4: you should apologize, Derek. I am sorry that you think

991
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 4: you have the right to shush me in my own home.

992
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 4: I am sorry that you were never taught the manners

993
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 4: to treat others with basic respect. I am sorry you

994
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 4: were never taught to contribute and are doomed to a

995
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 4: life of being a drain on others. Another common says,

996
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 4: not the a hole. So many people don't seem to

997
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 4: understand that respect is a two way street. Not to

998
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,919
Speaker 4: mention when you're living for free in someone else's home.

999
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,439
Speaker 4: If you're not actually going to be a decent enough

1000
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 4: person to help around the house, the least you can

1001
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 4: do is step on as little toes as possible. I'm

1002
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 4: not sure why he's living with you to begin with.

1003
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 4: If living at his own place is a possibility pandemic,

1004
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 4: isn't the time to find out whether these sort of

1005
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 4: living dynamics work if it's avoidable, op responds when they're

1006
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 4: college closed. My sister refused to come home without him,

1007
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 4: so my mom let her bring him. I wanted her

1008
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 4: home at that time, too, so I was okay with it,

1009
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 4: but obviously I didn't know how effing terrible it would be.

1010
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 4: This situation isn't going to end until he leaves, because

1011
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 4: there is no way I'll ever apologize to anyone. This

1012
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 4: comment is downvoted. How about you just suck it up

1013
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 4: for your mother's sake, OHP responds, I sucked it up

1014
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 4: for two months and I'm done. His mom isn't an

1015
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 4: essential worker, so it's not like they would be going

1016
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 4: someplace that's not safe. If they're careful during the stops

1017
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 4: on the drive, they'll be fine. But I'm pretty positive

1018
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 4: my sister's threats are just threats, and if they're not

1019
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 4: just threats.

1020
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 3: That's cool too.

1021
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 4: Either way, I'm not apologizing. Update. I didn't apologize, and

1022
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 4: things got worse. A couple of hours ago, I went

1023
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 4: to get breakfast and saw Derek in the hallway. I

1024
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 4: kind of glared at him, and he went back into

1025
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 4: my sister's room. My sister then came out and started

1026
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 4: yelling at me about how I'm making him uncomfortable. I

1027
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 4: basically told her everything I said here about him being

1028
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 4: lazy and rude. My mom and dad hurt us yelling

1029
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 4: and came down, and my sister threatened that she and

1030
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 4: him would leave to go to his mom's house, which

1031
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,959
Speaker 4: is a long drive away. I told her to leave,

1032
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 4: and my mom started crying. My dad told us both

1033
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,439
Speaker 4: to shut the f up, and now I'm in my room.

1034
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 4: Great morning so far. I hope she effing leaves. Thanks

1035
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 4: for all the comments. I appreciate the majority of people

1036
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,240
Speaker 4: saying I'm not the a hole my sister told my mom,

1037
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 4: who told me or I know very mature, that if

1038
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 4: I don't apologize, they'll leave. This weekend, my mom practically

1039
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 4: begged me to apologize, and my dad told me if

1040
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 4: I didn't apologize, I would be in big trouble. But

1041
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 4: I'm not threatened by that at all, because what the

1042
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 4: F is he going to do round me? Lol? I'm

1043
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,479
Speaker 4: never going to apologize. I'm so mad at my parents

1044
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 4: for falling from my sister's obvious manipulative BS. If she

1045
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 4: wants to leave, she should just effing do it instead

1046
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 4: of just threatening to do it. There's another update three

1047
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 4: days later.

1048
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 2: My god, I don't even know because I'm like, at

1049
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,399
Speaker 2: some point, like it is a good lesson to learn

1050
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 2: that sometimes you just have to suck it up and

1051
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 2: apologize for something that you probably really didn't do wrong

1052
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 2: just to keep peace. On the other hand, though, a

1053
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 2: lot of the times, I'm like, no, you should learn

1054
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 2: to like stand your ground. Yeah, so it's like such

1055
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 2: a tricky thing where it's like, maybe do it just

1056
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 2: to help your mom, but then just like distance yourself

1057
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 2: from them, which I was hard when you're locked in

1058
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 2: a house with them.

1059
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 4: I don't know if anyone will read this, but my

1060
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 4: sister and Derek left early this morning. Derek and I

1061
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 4: didn't talk directly since the night everything started. My my

1062
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 4: sister was like, are you really not going to apologize?

1063
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 4: And I said that I had nothing to be sorry

1064
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 4: for and that obviously it was her choice whether to

1065
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 4: leave or stay. She said that Derek didn't want to

1066
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 4: walk on eggshells around me, and I said that that

1067
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 4: was what I was doing for two months. Yeah, so

1068
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 4: I didn't have much sympathy. She was pissed at that.

1069
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 4: My mom and dad both tried to guilt me into apologizing.

1070
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 4: My mom even said that if my sister got sick

1071
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 4: after leaving, it would be my fault. But again, my

1072
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 4: sister is choosing to leave, so it can't be my fault.

1073
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 4: I agree, Opie, she's choosing to leave because she feels uncomfortable,

1074
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 4: you know, and that's whatever, you know, that's her choice.

1075
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 4: My dad was like, just do it for your mom,

1076
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 4: and I was like, no, if Derek wants to talk

1077
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 4: about it, I'm fine with that, but I'm not going

1078
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 4: to apologize. So they left. Honestly, I'm surprised that my

1079
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 4: sister actually followed through because usually she's all talk. But

1080
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 4: I'm happy with it. My mom was crying all day

1081
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 4: and she's not talking to me. I feel bad for her,

1082
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 4: but I really just couldn't do it anymore. Not really

1083
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 4: a happy ending, but whatever. And there are some comments.

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00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 4: Comment number one says, I know it's way past with

1085
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 4: the post, but I hope you are doing well. I'm

1086
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 4: glad you stood your ground and you were right to

1087
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 4: say you would talk things out with Derek only as

1088
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 4: he was the source of the tension. Stay strong. Another

1089
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 4: person commented said, not the A hole. Geez, what a

1090
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 4: garbage family your parents are, especially the a hole for

1091
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 4: showing partial treatment towards your sister. Seriously, your dad telling

1092
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 4: you to just shut the f up, and your mom

1093
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 4: crying and begging you to apologize to appease your sister

1094
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 4: and her punk boyfriend. Wow, what great parenting skills they have,

1095
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 4: especially since your sister hooked up with this guy. I'd

1096
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 4: say that sooner or later you can move out as

1097
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 4: well and reduce contact with them for the time being,

1098
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 4: especially if your mom isn't even talking to you. I'd

1099
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 4: like an update as to what happens next should your

1100
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 4: mom decide.

1101
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 2: To talk to you. Yeah. I think that'll pass with

1102
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 2: the parents.

1103
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:54,240
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1104
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,760
Speaker 2: Once pandemic stress, I think it's something you can revisit.

1105
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 2: You can be like, hey, this is how I felt

1106
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 2: about this. Can we talk about how you ignored me?

1107
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:01,320
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1108
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 2: But I think we need tensions to ease and maybe

1109
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 2: the pandemic to lift a little bit.

1110
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think that Just there's so much tension in

1111
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 4: that house, and even though the sister has removed herself,

1112
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:15,879
Speaker 4: there's still tension between you and your parents, and it's like,

1113
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 4: what am I supposed to do?

1114
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 2: Yeah? I feel like your parents will come around, though.

1115
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think your parents will come around. Give them time.

1116
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 4: I feel like the stakes are really high right now,

1117
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 4: and everything just happens so quick, and like everyone's feelings

1118
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 4: are like, you know, bursting. So I just feel like,

1119
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,399
Speaker 4: you know, give it time, let things settle, and then

1120
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 4: you can revisit it and be like, Okay, now I

1121
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 4: have a clear mind, you know. Instead of being like frustrated,

1122
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 4: angry whatever like it's I think, Opie, I don't think

1123
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 4: that you are the a hole. I think your sister

1124
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 4: and her boyfriend are the a hole. Your parents are

1125
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 4: just kind of like they want to keep the peace,

1126
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 4: but not in the right way. I think they're doing

1127
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 4: it in the wrong way. So I hope it worked

1128
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,240
Speaker 4: out though. But that's the end of the story. When

1129
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 4: we got another one coming right.

1130
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 3: Up, Hey, keon here, we're going to get back to

1131
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,440
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1132
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Speaker 2: My father keeps buying me things I can't use and

1133
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 2: it's stressing me out.

1134
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,399
Speaker 4: Oh daddy, bumat things I want.

1135
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:15,320
Speaker 2: Please. So for some short backstory, I live in rural

1136
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 2: New South Wales in Australia. I have around one point

1137
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 2: five acres of land and not much motivation to do

1138
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 2: anything other than watch my chickens being chickens and raising chickens.

1139
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 2: By the way, this comes from the Hungry slug and

1140
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 2: if you want to submit your own stories, go to

1141
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 2: the r slash Okay storytime subreddit. I'm Carly and I'm Savannah,

1142
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 2: and we're here to give good advice. Goofiley, but we

1143
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 2: don't have all the answers. We only know what we

1144
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 2: would do, so let us know what you would do

1145
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 2: in the comments. My father has pushed me into getting

1146
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:47,439
Speaker 2: another rain water tank, a rapid past twenty twenty five

1147
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 2: hundred liter tank. Well. I currently have two of them already.

1148
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 2: We never get enough rain to fill the tanks I

1149
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 2: already have installed. I have three kids and they use

1150
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 2: a fair bit of water for showers and toilets. I've

1151
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 2: told them that I have less than zero interest in

1152
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 2: installing this third tank because I cannot get enough rain

1153
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 2: to fill what.

1154
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 4: I already have.

1155
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 2: As such, I must buy loads of water and have

1156
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 2: it delivered at two hundred and sixty dollars for around

1157
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 2: twelve thousand liters. He bought and had it delivered after

1158
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 2: trying to basically upsell the idea of it to me.

1159
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 2: He also recently bought, paid for, and had delivered a

1160
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 2: black color bond lawn locker, which I also have less

1161
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 2: than zero interest in in any form. Making form work

1162
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 2: and pouring a slab is something I avoid, like the plague.

1163
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 2: I have no ability to do that sort of job

1164
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 2: in any form of acceptable manner. I love my father,

1165
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 2: but he just doesn't seem to ever listen when I

1166
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 2: say no, even when I blow up because I am

1167
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 2: at a boiling point of stress and frustration. I don't

1168
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 2: want free handouts, especially when it's something I really don't

1169
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 2: want or need. As such, I end up feeling like

1170
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 2: an ungrateful person. So now I have an un wanted

1171
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 2: shed in boxes outside, getting wet from the rain, and

1172
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 2: the box is pecked apart by my chickens, ducks, and sheep.

1173
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,439
Speaker 2: A water tank sits on its side, waiting to blow

1174
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:13,320
Speaker 2: away in a strong wind. If not for being anchored down.

1175
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 2: I have a father who doesn't seem to listen and

1176
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 2: seems to expect me to change my mind when I

1177
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 2: am in a better mood, without realizing that my mind

1178
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 2: is not in a bad mood. I am just frustrated

1179
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 2: that he doesn't comprehend my lack of interest, and that

1180
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 2: when I say no, it isn't a reason to try

1181
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 2: and pressure me into saying yes. I really don't want

1182
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 2: to try and set these two things up, nor do

1183
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 2: I want them in my yard. I have enough stuff

1184
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,959
Speaker 2: taking up space as it is already. Sure, it could

1185
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 2: potentially add value to my property, but it is an

1186
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,280
Speaker 2: old fibro house with asbestos in some of the original

1187
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 2: wall linings. I don't want to touch any part of

1188
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 2: it for obvious reasons. I might also add that I

1189
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 2: have no feelings of attachment to this house. It's just

1190
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 2: a place to live. I'm not trying to improve it

1191
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 2: beyond what my immediate needs are. I don't have that

1192
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 2: sort of money or motivation. I can barely make ends

1193
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 2: meet as it is now. So am I overly full

1194
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 2: of myself? Ungrateful in a hole or something else? I

1195
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 2: don't know, but I don't have a good way to

1196
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 2: rationalize this all. And we have some comments. Not the

1197
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 2: A hole, return them and keep the money, or sell

1198
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 2: them and keep the money. Do not tell dad. Let

1199
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 2: him find out when they're gone. If Dad loses his mind,

1200
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 2: calmly remind him that you were clear about your wishes

1201
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:29,400
Speaker 2: for your property. He wasted his money of his own volition.

1202
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 2: Commenter two, not the A hole, but stop accepting deliveries.

1203
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 2: I would give your father a chance to come get

1204
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 2: his purchases or they will be sold or given away.

1205
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 2: They are becoming hazardous and unslightly. He's going to be

1206
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 2: annoyed either way, so you might as well set boundaries

1207
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,879
Speaker 2: so you both aren't annoyed and your place doesn't look

1208
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,800
Speaker 2: like a junkyard. Is there something that would be helpful

1209
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 2: to have that you need? Maybe direct him in that direction.

1210
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 2: Comment three, not the a hole. Don't install them, contact

1211
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 2: the retailer he bought them from, and a range a

1212
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,720
Speaker 2: return or cancelation. If they can't be right turned, find

1213
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 2: someone else to take them off your hands for free

1214
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 2: or for a profit. It sounds like your father steamrolls

1215
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 2: you into doing things for his own reason that are

1216
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 2: not all tied to what you actually want or need.

1217
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 2: Don't cave. I feel like he has to see you

1218
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 2: reject these things by returning or giving them away before

1219
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 2: he will think twice about doing this in the future.

1220
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 2: You are not an a hole for not wanting to

1221
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 2: be given expenses and projects as gifts. I worry that

1222
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 2: this type of forced gift giving is being weaponized to

1223
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 2: gilt you into compliance or a sense of debt to

1224
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 2: your father. This isn't a generous gift on his part.

1225
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 2: And we have an update.

1226
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 4: I think if like say okay, instead of buying this

1227
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 4: like that you think that I need, why don't you

1228
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 4: do this? Like if you want to help out, just

1229
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 4: like buy this thing I will give you you know,

1230
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 4: the website or whatever, blah blah blah, Like I feel

1231
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 4: like point them in the right direction.

1232
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 2: You know, the problem with the water is that we

1233
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 2: never get enough rain. When we do, everyone else is

1234
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 2: getting flooded. Even then, my tanks never fill up to

1235
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 2: overflow my current tanks. I have two twenty two thousand,

1236
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 2: five hundundred leaders and one approximately eight thousand liters, hold

1237
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 2: around fifty thousand liters in total. I don't need an

1238
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 2: extra twenty two thousand, five hundred liter tank. What I

1239
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 2: need is a larger catchment area. That's the only way

1240
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 2: I can get more rain water to fill the existing tanks.

1241
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 2: The little kit shed he bought doesn't have gutters, and

1242
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 2: fitting them to it is not possible either. I live

1243
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 2: on a shoe string budget. All of my income, except

1244
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 2: for eighty dollars, goes into paying off my home loan.

1245
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 2: I also have physical limitations that prevent me from working,

1246
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 2: and as such I receive a disability support pension.

1247
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 4: With that in.

1248
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 2: Mind, I can't do half of these things anymore. I

1249
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 2: certainly can't stand up a twenty two thousand, five hundred

1250
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 2: liters water tank all by myself, and my dad has

1251
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 2: a damaged shoulder and nerve, so he can't do it either.

1252
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 2: I only shower every two to three days to avoid

1253
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:56,919
Speaker 2: using too much water unless I really need one. Even

1254
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 2: then I keep it as short as possible. My partner

1255
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 2: and two eldest kids do the same. My youngest, eleven

1256
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 2: years old, does not seem to listen and will have

1257
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 2: multiple short showers in a day. I've done what I

1258
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 2: can to insist that my dad be more respectful and

1259
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:13,919
Speaker 2: conscious with his amount of water use it. His mother

1260
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 2: doesn't help the situation much either. He is her golden

1261
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 2: child and gets away with a lot, which I have

1262
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 2: said isn't okay. That situation is like arguing with two

1263
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 2: spoiled children who try the poudy face or puppy dog

1264
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 2: eyes guilt trip type things. Speaking of my partner, I

1265
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 2: love her dearly, but she can be very stressful. In

1266
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 2: the past, she brought home three puppies without asking my

1267
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 2: opinion or consent. I went outside and there they were.

1268
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 2: I asked why, and she said she got them because

1269
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 2: they were cute and thought the kids might like them,

1270
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 2: pulling the puppy dog eyes trick she does while smiling

1271
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 2: in a way that looks more like a smirk. The

1272
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 2: sensation I felt was intense. I told her to take

1273
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 2: them back from wherever she got them, from what she

1274
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 2: did only after I threaten to take them to the pound.

1275
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 2: I feel as though we are getting very off topic

1276
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 2: from the original problem. Yeah, which is uh, your dad

1277
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 2: giving you gifts you can't use.

1278
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 4: Now your wife is getting new puppies.

1279
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 2: She acted more distraught than the kids and cried like

1280
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 2: I had threatened to harm the puppies. She also wanted

1281
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:13,959
Speaker 2: to buy sea horses and take them on a three

1282
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 2: hour drive home with nothing to put them into, nothing

1283
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 2: at all. Thankfully, the aquarium pet store owner helped her

1284
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 2: understand how bad of an idea it was, and I

1285
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 2: talked her out of buying them. I take longer than

1286
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 2: some may consider normal to respond in conversations. I try

1287
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 2: to consider possibilities, practicalities, and certainties before jumping into action.

1288
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 2: Six p's Prior planning prevents piss poor performance is a

1289
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,480
Speaker 2: motto I live by. Sometimes you had to fly by

1290
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 2: the seat of your pants. Though I know as a

1291
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 2: fact I lack the money and physical ability to install

1292
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 2: another foundation pad for another tank for the required corresponding

1293
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 2: retaining wall required to hold all of the less than

1294
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:58,000
Speaker 2: or equal to five millimeter rock crusher does. The same

1295
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 2: goes for just setting up form work and digging peers

1296
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 2: and footing to pour a slab for the flimsy black

1297
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 2: powder coated tin shed that can't even be fitted with gutters.

1298
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 2: I would also be below the inlet heights for any

1299
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 2: of the tanks I have anyway. My dad has also

1300
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 2: said to me, you can just jack up on the

1301
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 2: side of the plastic poly tank to suck the last

1302
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 2: of the water out so you can move them to

1303
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 2: level out their foundation pads. There are around five hundred

1304
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 2: liters of water below the outlet level of the tanks,

1305
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 2: so they always have weight in them to prevent blowing away.

1306
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 2: I personally think it is a very ill advised idea.

1307
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 2: This all sounds like a lot of work to install

1308
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 2: something you can't even use.

1309
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 4: This hurts my back just thinking about it. Yeah, sounds

1310
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 4: like a lot of farm issues. I thought we were

1311
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:46,400
Speaker 4: just raising chickens, loving chickens and feed in the chicken.

1312
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:49,439
Speaker 2: I think all Opie wants is his chickens. Yeah, wants

1313
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 2: their sea horses and puffies. Besides my tanks can't be

1314
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 2: connected in a daisy chain by their overflow outlets unless

1315
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 2: they are set up in a stepped configuration because their

1316
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 2: inlets are on the top opposite the tanks with the

1317
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 2: strain or screen. They could be connected via their outlets,

1318
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 2: in which case, as water is used, each tank lowers

1319
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 2: in a water level at the same time, remaining equal

1320
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 2: to each other in water height. That has problems when

1321
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 2: it rains, because the water entering the first tank would

1322
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 2: flow out of the bottom outlet and enter each other

1323
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 2: tank via their outlets, which is less than ideal as

1324
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 2: it stirs up sediments settled at the bottom of the tanks.

1325
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 2: Right now, I've had so little rain that the ground

1326
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 2: is cracking apart about thirty centimeters deep, cracks opening to

1327
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 2: around three centimeters wide. So far, So am I an

1328
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 2: a hole or not? Since I already know I am slow. No,

1329
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 2: you're not the a hole for not wanting gifts you

1330
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 2: can't use. I just don't even know how I couldn't even.

1331
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:48,440
Speaker 4: Get like some farm things. I've never been on a farm.

1332
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I kind of followed some of the

1333
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 2: explanations of his water tanks, but none to be able

1334
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 2: to be like oh, here's how to fix this, like

1335
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 2: I don't know, water tank. That's the end of that story.