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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Angie and this is Dakota, your favorite

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Speaker 1: Okay story Time hosts, and we've got some great stories

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Speaker 2: But before that, we have a quick too minute break

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Speaker 2: from the sponsors that keep this show running. I told

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Speaker 2: my girlfriend she doesn't have a real job. Now I

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Speaker 2: only have myself to blame.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably for being single.

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Speaker 2: I would imagine my thirty female girlfriend twenty seven female

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Speaker 2: and I both work in finance. How does she not

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Speaker 2: have a real job if you both work in fune?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, we're getting that. She probably used to

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Speaker 3: work in finance.

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Speaker 2: Well sort of. We met in college and both graduated

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Speaker 2: together four years ago. By the way, this comes from

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Speaker 2: throw am on the a whole account, And if you

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Speaker 2: want to smit your old stories, go to the r

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Speaker 2: slash Okay Storytime, supared it.

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Speaker 1: I'm Sophia, I'm Dakota, I'm Keon, and we're.

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Speaker 2: Here to give good advice. Goofy. But we don't have

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Speaker 2: all the answers. We only know what we'd do, So

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Speaker 2: let us know what you would do in the comments.

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Speaker 1: Here's my answer. Every job in finance is fake.

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Speaker 2: And let's see what ops to say about that. In

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Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. We both earned a bachelor's in accounting in finance.

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Speaker 2: I decided to study for my CPA exam right after graduating,

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Speaker 2: and she decided to go work a low level accounting

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Speaker 2: job at a construction company, earning thirty five thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: per year. I wasn't happy with their decision to do this,

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Speaker 2: but I know she has never been quite as driven

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Speaker 2: as me. Fast forward to today, I work at one

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Speaker 2: of the big four accounting firms, earning eighty nine thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars per year. I have worked long hours and put

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Speaker 2: my all into this position. My girlfriend is still at

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Speaker 2: the construction company, but has kind of worked her way

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Speaker 2: up and earned sixty thousand dollars annually. I don't really

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Speaker 2: understand her job position.

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Speaker 1: Wait, and we just kind of worked her way up

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Speaker 1: and basically doubled her income.

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Speaker 2: She doubled her income. You are you earn my fifteen

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Speaker 2: you know what, like nineteen thousand more than her. I

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Speaker 2: don't think that's a big enough gap for you to

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Speaker 2: be like you.

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Speaker 1: Don't have a real job, especially seeing as both of

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Speaker 1: your jobs are identical and you just work for different companies.

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Speaker 2: She manages accounts for different projects. It feels like you

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Speaker 2: just told us what our job position is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like you actually completely understand.

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Speaker 2: Our main fight over the past four years has been

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Speaker 2: career choices. We went out with my colleagues about a

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Speaker 2: month ago and just had drinks. One of them asked

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Speaker 2: what my girlfriend does for a living. I had had

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Speaker 2: a little bit too much to drink and instantly felt

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Speaker 2: mad and embarrassed. As she explained it, tim I said,

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Speaker 2: without thinking, Jay doesn't have a real job. My girlfriend

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Speaker 2: laughed off and said, yeah, I get paid to take

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Speaker 2: naps all day. Her response made everyone at the table uneasy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, here's the real issue here, and it's that

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Speaker 1: you work a much higher stress, high demand accounting job

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Speaker 2: Also, it's absolutely ridiculous that you tried to insult and

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Speaker 2: Maybe it was your comment dun't but maybe they were like, oh, wow,

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Speaker 2: that's really weird that OPI just made that comment against

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Speaker 2: a future, which we've been doing religiously well. I checked

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Speaker 2: and she says she's putting it into her project car instead.

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Speaker 2: Let me explain the car. I've been working a ton

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Speaker 2: anything your girlfriend does. She's like, it feels like you

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Speaker 2: don't know anything about her. She just bought some fuel

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Speaker 2: same goals anymore. She said she's not sure, and that

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Speaker 2: I was real ale when we were out with my colleagues.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, and she's like, I don't know, you kind

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Speaker 2: of suck. She says, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Respect her a little bit, look a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I told her that's not true. I just know she's

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Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. I asked her if

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Speaker 2: she was cool with me posting on here, and she

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Speaker 2: said she didn't care. Am I the ale for telling

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Speaker 2: my girlfriend of five years that she doesn't have a

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Speaker 2: real job in front of my well established colleagues. Huh,

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Speaker 2: yeah you are.

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Speaker 1: You've got to know the answer to that. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: have to.

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Speaker 2: You're big time the Ahle. I have no other comments

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Speaker 2: for you, your big time the ahle. But we got

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Speaker 2: an edit. I am neurotypical. I have been diagnosed with

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Speaker 2: the depression as well. Stacy said she's been unhappy for

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Speaker 2: a while and is planning to leave once the pandemic

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Speaker 2: is over. I think she's going to take her funds.

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Speaker 2: I'm crushed, and not a single comment made anything better. No,

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Speaker 2: still one of your comments meant anything better. You don't

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Speaker 1: I love how that goes. I think she's going to

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Speaker 1: take her funds. Yeah, she is going to take her money.

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: She doesn't understand how hard it's been for me to

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Speaker 2: get where I am. She said, your coworkers are snobs

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Speaker 2: like you. I am not a snob. I am keeping

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Speaker 2: up with a lifestyle because I don't want to be

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Speaker 2: a broke artist like all of her friends. This is

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Speaker 2: devastating and goes to show how prejudiced people on the

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Speaker 2: internet can be.

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Speaker 3: Holy moly, you you're attacking everyone you You just can't

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Speaker 3: take it. You can dish it out, but you can't

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Speaker 2: Oh wait, I'm edit to says I meant that I'm

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Speaker 2: not neurotypical.

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Speaker 3: What what?

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Speaker 2: She says, I am neurotypical, but then later she says, oops,

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Speaker 2: I meant to say I am not neurotypical, but that

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Speaker 2: has never stood in the way of anything for me.

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Speaker 2: I did not immediately get into audit right away. I

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Speaker 2: have been auditing for two years. I feel that eighty

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Speaker 2: to the VID All right.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean eighty nine k is nothing to shake

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Speaker 1: his stick at. But like, hey, wake up, newsflash, there's

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Speaker 1: people who make way more money than you. So now

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Speaker 1: what does that make your entire worldview like crumble around you?

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Speaker 3: Opie's the type of person if like they see someone

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Speaker 3: happy and not like swimming in money, they're like, m

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Speaker 3: They're not happy, They're lying.

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Speaker 2: I planted to earned six figures this Yeah, I could

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Speaker 2: easily leave this job and make one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: five k in finance management at any large hospital, tech company,

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Speaker 2: coming and it's coming soon. Stacy has only once in

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Speaker 2: the past few years had an issue with me being

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Speaker 2: driven to succeed and rejecting the casual lifestyle. I refuse

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Speaker 2: to pick up a jet ski. I don't exaggerate when

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Speaker 2: I say we never fight. That is why this is

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Speaker 2: all such a blow to me. Final edit though, oh

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Speaker 2: boy and everyone's calling her in ale. I assume she

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the cherry on top. You don't like jet skis cool?

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't help you to get a.

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Speaker 2: Jet ski two hours for jet ski?

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Speaker 1: Come on, it sounds sick.

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Speaker 2: It was a mistake on my end to tell Stacy

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Speaker 2: with colleagues. I didn't mean literally she didn't have a

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Speaker 2: real job. Yes, you did.

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Speaker 1: Say, did you just get back from the bonehead convention?

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Speaker 2: Obviously she earns an income bonehead bone that this got.

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Speaker 1: To be one of the top bonehead posts of all time.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, she earns an income where she's able to pay

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Speaker 2: for half of our town home mortgage, owns a Ranger

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Speaker 2: for half of everything we own together. I never intended

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Speaker 1: Bro' you're the bum. You you are the bum. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to have no money to be a bum.

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Speaker 1: You're a bum, dude.

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Speaker 2: That is not the case at all. The only thing

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Speaker 2: she's three years younger than me. Also, wait, wait, how

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Speaker 1: Think op's thirty and she's twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: That makes also a lot of sense she's earning, you know,

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Speaker 2: like sixty at twenty seven, that's not that terrible.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's sixty Thousand's not that terrible pretty much anywhere. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're a butt. Look, I think the medium income in

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Speaker 1: So that includes the people who make fifty billion dollars

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Speaker 2: When I met her in college, I knew she was

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Speaker 2: I've always felt she was the conventionally attractive one out

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Speaker 2: of the two of us. I just lose focus. People

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Speaker 2: know what that is? For six months, she just entered

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Speaker 2: invoices into a system to be paid well. I was

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Speaker 2: trying to become a CPA, trying to make a better

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Speaker 2: accounts receivable. She was basically a glorified money collector. It

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Speaker 2: was at that point she said she moved from AP

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Speaker 2: of her peers. Hard hats, cowboy boots. That is not us.

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Speaker 2: I think I focused too much on not wanting her

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Speaker 1: I think you need to find just the version of you,

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Speaker 1: you've responded to this, these like comments, Yeah, take a

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Speaker 1: look in the mirror, dog, you are a snob. You're snob.

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Speaker 2: Kara's as speake, The Beca and Stacy future is never happening.

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Speaker 2: I have wasted five years of my life on someone

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Speaker 2: shall find some construction worker more suitator. I'm done with

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Speaker 2: this post. One more thing so ridiculous. You people cannot

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Speaker 1: Get out, grab realize what you're saying.

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Speaker 3: Ah op, you're trying to fight the Internet. Good luck.

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Speaker 1: Ohpi's the kind of person who always has a hammer

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Speaker 2: about them not understanding like anything. Me me, me, I, I.

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Speaker 1: I wasted five years of my life. No, I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure Stacey wasted five years of her life not understanding

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Speaker 2: Up I just wanted to buy more Legos.

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Speaker 1: For the last three days, I twenty seven male, have

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Speaker 3: Already started Go to strong op. Yeah, you just don't

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Speaker 1: Everyone in my life who cares about me hates my girlfriend?

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Speaker 1: What should I do?

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Speaker 2: What should I do?

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Speaker 4: Do you think they're right?

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Speaker 1: By the way, this comes from us to throw away

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Speaker 1: I'm Dakota, I'm Sophia, I'm Keon, and we are gonna

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Speaker 1: Some people are just driven by perceived justice. Yeah, strange,

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Speaker 3: Please let her wait.

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Speaker 2: Let her go. What that's so weird? Like, you're actively

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Speaker 1: I would be asking, like, what is this really about?

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Speaker 1: I guess you're leaving me? Yeah? Please do You're leaving

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Speaker 2: It's too good, Yah, too good?

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Speaker 1: I really don't want to find a nine to five

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Speaker 1: They don't know what she means to me. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what to do anymore. How do I navigate through this?

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Speaker 1: I tried talking to her again, but she straight up

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Speaker 2: We've helped as much as we can.

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Speaker 1: Silent treatment is instantaneous breakup.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've helped as much as we can.

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Speaker 1: If you're silent treating, look, and if you're gonna silent

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Speaker 1: I can live with that. If you're gonna silent treat

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Speaker 2: Goodbye, So long, farewell we have an update.

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Speaker 1: I first tried looking at things from her perspective and

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Speaker 1: at the very least wanted her to take a day

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Speaker 1: I said everything I mentioned above and proposed her that

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Speaker 1: her previous opinion and that she didn't think it was

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Speaker 1: a good idea, and she said she was too tired

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Speaker 1: for counseling.

441
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,119
Speaker 2: Dude, she doesn't even want to. I think she wants

442
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 2: out of this relationship. She's just looking for her an excuse.

443
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 1: I told her that I wasn't going to throw away

444
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,199
Speaker 1: my life over an issue we could fix if we

445
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,239
Speaker 1: just tried to solve it. She then told me that

446
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,800
Speaker 1: she was too tired to be with me, and she

447
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,760
Speaker 1: was unhappy in our relationship, and that I was too

448
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,680
Speaker 1: unpredictable and that she told me that if I ever

449
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,919
Speaker 1: decided to pursue another girl somewhere else, she wouldn't know

450
00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,639
Speaker 1: it until I leave her.

451
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,720
Speaker 3: For the girl girl?

452
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,440
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?

453
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 1: What does that mean?

454
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?

455
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 1: Told me that if I ever decided to pursue another

456
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 1: girl somewhere else.

457
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 2: She's saying, like, he is so unpredictable that if he

458
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 2: started cheating on her, she wouldn't know until like he

459
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 2: left her.

460
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 1: Or is she trying to say that she's so checked

461
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,200
Speaker 1: out and tired that she like wouldn't even care or

462
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 1: wouldn't even notice until until OPI left her?

463
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:28,439
Speaker 3: Or is she projecting?

464
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 2: What is she doing? Put in your comments? What you

465
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 2: think that she's doing.

466
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. She's she's she's acting funny. Yeah, dude,

467
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: you'll be so much better off.

468
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, you definitely will.

469
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 1: She's told you everything you need to hear. Now there's

470
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:45,360
Speaker 1: no there's nothing.

471
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,640
Speaker 3: There, and boy, oh boy, when that happens, all your

472
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,000
Speaker 3: family members and friends.

473
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 2: Finally, yeah, we always hated her.

474
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,679
Speaker 1: Do they're gonna be poping confetti, They're gonna be going, Yeah,

475
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:59,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a celebration. All of these were extremely

476
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 1: hard to hear for me. She then asked me one

477
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,439
Speaker 1: more time to settle down and find a new job,

478
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: and then we can take our relationship further. I told

479
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 1: her I didn't want this, and that I thought it

480
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: would be best if we win our separate ways. This

481
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 1: is not my first heartbreak, and I don't think it

482
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: will be the last. So I think I'm gonna manage

483
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 1: the breakup just fine. But there is this feeling inside

484
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 1: me that I can't seem to shake off. Like I know,

485
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: I'm all right, but I just feel numb. My heart

486
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 1: still pounds fast with what happened. But I am not

487
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 1: panicking or anything like that. She will return tomorrow to

488
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: get her things to go to her sister's house, and

489
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:39,200
Speaker 1: I will go no contact after that. Yeah, well it's yeah,

490
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 1: of course you're you're gonna have a reaction to it. Yeah,

491
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 1: your life is changing.

492
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 2: It's a big deal. You're breaking up with someone. It's

493
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 2: always gonna be hard, even if you know it's the

494
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 2: right move to make.

495
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Speaker 1: Even if she's made it so viscerally clear that this

496
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: is the only move, still's gonna suck.

497
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 2: Still sucks a little bit.

498
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Speaker 5: And that's the end of this story, And we're going

499
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 5: on to the next one.

500
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 2: My girlfriend confessed her affair then asked me to take

501
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 2: her back.

502
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: I say no.

503
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 2: So I've thirty two male, been in a relationship with

504
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Speaker 2: my girlfriend, thirty two female for seven years now. We've

505
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 2: had our ups and downs, and I've started to go

506
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 2: to couple's therapy and we're still going trying to figure

507
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Speaker 2: out our relationship. By the way, this comes from Comquatinator

508
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Speaker 2: and if you want to s make your own stories,

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Speaker 2: go to the r slash Okay storytime severed it.

510
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Speaker 1: I'm Sophia, I'm Dakota, I'm Keon, and we're.

511
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 2: Here to give good advice goofy. But we don't have

512
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 2: all the answers. We only know what we'd do, So

513
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 2: let us don't you would do? In the comments and

514
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 2: Op says we're both at a point of our lives

515
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 2: where we press the efit button and chase our dreams.

516
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 2: With that, there's been talk of her moving to London.

517
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 2: It's something that came up a few years ago and

518
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 2: we both thought maybe we try a long distance relationship

519
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 2: to see how we go when that time does come. Basically,

520
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 2: in November, she graduated UNI and gifted herself a little

521
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,959
Speaker 2: dance workshop in Africa for all her efforts and graduating

522
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 2: to which I've been there in some of the hardest times.

523
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 2: She left for the camp December, and I went to

524
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 2: go meet her there in January, and we had a

525
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 2: lovely time and everything was okay, but things did feel

526
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 2: a bit off the usual things, someone constantly calling her phone,

527
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 2: walking off to ab chats, shady with messaging. I also

528
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 2: told her that this person was calling and she'd said

529
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 2: she'd call her back. To my surprise, I did some

530
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 2: digging and that her was actually a ham. I'll call

531
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Speaker 2: him Kevin for now.

532
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: Kevin. Yeah, So that's not the biggest red flag I've

533
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 1: ever seen, right, Yep.

534
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 2: She's been pretty open with her travels and about how

535
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 2: some men did try and hit on her, So with

536
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 2: that transparency, I didn't think much of it. Fast forward

537
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 2: to March and she ended up flying back out there.

538
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,439
Speaker 2: She got some gramp funding for work. My alarm bells

539
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 2: weren't ringing, but I had a feeling something might be

540
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 2: happening while she was there. We tried to keep in contact,

541
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: so my guard was lowered for that. She came back

542
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 2: different and somewhat disappointed, as she had a very underwhelming experience.

543
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 2: She felt lonely and somewhat mothering to some of her

544
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 2: friends she made there. This morning, we woke up and

545
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 2: she went to the toilet and I turned her phone

546
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 2: alarm off, to which I saw the message from Kevin

547
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,400
Speaker 2: saying how much he loved and missed her.

548
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's gonna be a big ah from me.

549
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 2: What is again? The alarm bells went off. Not my

550
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 2: proudest moment, but I needed some clarity because of this

551
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 2: feeling of betrayal, a feeling I've had before with a

552
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 2: previous girlfriend who slept with a dear friend of mine. Well,

553
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 2: probably not so dear anymore. So I went to her

554
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 2: laptop while she was out, and I saw these messages.

555
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 2: I mean, at that point you had reasonable cause, you know,

556
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 2: because the reason I said don't look through people's stuff

557
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 2: is because if you're wrong, you're really wrong. But you

558
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 2: already knew you were right.

559
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had all the evidence you needed.

560
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 2: A lot of messages and pictures between the two of

561
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 2: their love and their long distance relationship. The funny thing

562
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: is she found out Kevin has a wife and a daughter,

563
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: and one of Kevin's replies were about how he was

564
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 2: mad at her for asking his friends if he was

565
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 2: seeing other women, and how when she was there she

566
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 2: felt like an afterthought as he didn't show up to things,

567
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 2: give her attention or care that she was there. Crazy

568
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 2: for her to be upset that this guy that she's

569
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 2: cheating with isn't giving her his sole attention.

570
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 3: While there's so much there's so much fad ass.

571
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't that crazy? Or is this really the right

572
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: way to do it? It's so crazy, it's frying all

573
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 1: of my brains out.

574
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 2: So crazy. It just might work, which now makes sense

575
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 2: why she felt lonely both times. She came back with thrush,

576
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 2: which was a bit of a red flag, as well

577
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 2: as straight away told me to put on protection as

578
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 2: she was getting surgery for a coil, which was another flag,

579
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 2: as I guess she didn't want to give me an

580
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 2: STI I suppose I now have screenshots of the messages,

581
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 2: so I'm fairly certain about what I saw. I feel hurt, confused,

582
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 2: and unsure how to best to approach this conversation with her.

583
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 2: Part of me wants to understand what happened before jumping

584
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 2: to conclusions, but I'm also struggling with a sense of betrayal.

585
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 2: How would you suggest navigating this situation? Has anyone dealt

586
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 2: with something similar? And what approach helped you communicate effectively

587
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 2: while still respecting your own boundaries?

588
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 4: Edit?

589
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 2: Thank you for all the comments. Sorry for the slow reply.

590
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 2: First off, I guess I didn't explain myself too well here.

591
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 2: I know I'm going to leave her, knowing that I

592
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 2: can never trust her again, as well as her lying

593
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: to my face reassuring that nothing ever happened in her

594
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 2: time in Africa is a no go for me.

595
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was gonna say something along the lines of

596
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Speaker 1: will you leave? Step one and step two leave? I

597
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: guess they don't come back.

598
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 3: I guess they didn't blest the reins in Africa when

599
00:28:59,240 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 3: she was there.

600
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: Leaven never the rains were full of thrush when she

601
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: was there.

602
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 3: I thrush the rains, Sina.

603
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 2: She knew about my past relationship and my feelings on this,

604
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 2: so I knew the moment I read these messages, it

605
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 2: confirmed everything and I know I have to leave. I

606
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 2: guess the advice I was wanting was to figure out

607
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 2: how to end this all. I guess I need help

608
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 2: with Alan. When should I bring this up? Now? Do

609
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 2: I tell her I went through her phone after having

610
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: the same feeling I had in my previous relationship. Nah,

611
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 2: you know, I think I don't think you need too.

612
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 2: You just say, hey, you're cheating on me.

613
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: Hey, you didn't even you went through her phone because

614
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: you saw a man named Kevin texted her I love

615
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: you and miss you so much after she got back

616
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: from Africa.

617
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you could literally just say, hey, I

618
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 2: you know, saw it on your phone home screen that

619
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 2: someone texted this. Do I tell her? One of her

620
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 2: African friends messaged me privately and said all this to me.

621
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 2: When should I bring this up now tonight? Or should

622
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 2: I wait until Thursday? As we have therapy? What are

623
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 2: you bringing up your therapy?

624
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: Yeah?

625
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 3: Your therapist is gonna love that.

626
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: We have a.

627
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 2: Complex friendship group as I'm really close with her brother

628
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 2: and family, so I don't necessarily want to ruin my

629
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 2: friendship with her brother. It dude, Unless her brother hates her,

630
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 2: your friendship with his their brother is over.

631
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 3: You're not gonna ruin anything she ruined it.

632
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: Should I tell her family what she did via message?

633
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 2: Should I post this announcement on Igen?

634
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: No?

635
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 2: What? It just keeps getting worse he's spiraling.

636
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, see, what do I do? I don't know

637
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: what I do?

638
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 3: Do I say no? How do I say no?

639
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: It might look bad on my part to announce this,

640
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 2: but I also don't want her to tarnish my name.

641
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 2: I don't think she would well with everything I've read

642
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 2: from her exchanges, I don't know what to think. So

643
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 2: I know she lives in my house, so yeah, she'll

644
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 2: be out as soon as we have this difficult conversation.

645
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure everything goes clean. I'm

646
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 2: trying to be patient and take the necessary steps, like

647
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 2: the Count of Monte Cristo.

648
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 3: I don't think that's the bright one there. But okay, all.

649
00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: Right, you try.

650
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,239
Speaker 3: Thing is about revenge, Yeah I know, I know, but

651
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 3: like man, I don't know.

652
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: Man, I don't even think you want revenge. Dog, you

653
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: just need to move on.

654
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: Update four days later. As for things now, they're a

655
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 2: lot better. Still barely sleeping, but I'm feeling more comfortable

656
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 2: with myself in my situation. I confronted her. She ran

657
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 2: to lie about knowing the guy, saying they were acquaintances.

658
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 2: To Oh, I've met him only a few times too,

659
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: We're just friends. We kissed I wasn't sure about us.

660
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 2: I thought he might be boyfriend material to finally, yes,

661
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Speaker 2: I did f him.

662
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 3: She was going through all the stages there. That's crazy.

663
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 2: Come on, we really had to drag it out of you.

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Speaker 1: What a really weak start too. She's like, Oh, the

665
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: guy who texted me that he loves me and misses me.

666
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is. The guy whose name

667
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: is saved in my phone. I don't know that guy.

668
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: That's my health insurance provider. They keep hitting me up.

669
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 2: Took her a while to finally confess, but she finally did.

670
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 2: Not sure if it's the entire truth, but at least

671
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: there is an admission. I've punted her out of the

672
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 2: house and she's staying with a friend. I've asked her

673
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 2: to get her stuff out in the next two weeks,

674
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 2: which she's slowly doing. I've messaged all the people that

675
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 2: need to know, and holy eck, I'm feeling love by everyone.

676
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 2: Her family have reached out to me, and I to them,

677
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 2: asking them to make sure to check it on her

678
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 2: and take care of her, as I can no longer

679
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 2: do it for the sake of my own health and protection.

680
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 2: Her family have said they were sorry so it seems

681
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 2: like she's being truthful there, but I'm interested to hear

682
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 2: what she says to her friends. I've told my friends

683
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 2: the honest truth, and they've showered me with love and

684
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 2: hate for her of the enough, though, I don't feel

685
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 2: too much hate this time round, more sorry and sad

686
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 2: for her because of her actions. She's a lot worse

687
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 2: off now than where she was when we first met.

688
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: I do think she's a good person who's made some

689
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 2: bad decisions. She's been trying to call me, which I

690
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 2: haven't been picking up, and has been messaging me about

691
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 2: house related things, all peppered in with I feel like

692
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 2: I'm missing a part of myself. I really miss you.

693
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: I know you shouldn't feel sorry for me, but et cetera.

694
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 2: Thursday were our couple's counseling days, and she messaged me

695
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 2: asking if I was going. No, because I'm no longer

696
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: a part of a couple.

697
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, A couple's counseling really only works when you're dating someone,

698
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: and we're not dating.

699
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 2: Anymore, messaging it would be best for both of us

700
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 2: to go, but completely understand if you don't want to go.

701
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of skipping it, as I feel like it's

702
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 2: too early to go see her, but would love to

703
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 2: hear your thoughts. There's a little bit left to the story.

704
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 2: But dude, what do you mean to think even, like,

705
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 2: why is it even a consideration?

706
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: I think Buddy might be in a little bit of shock.

707
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: I think you must be been four days. Buddy's in

708
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: a complete like.

709
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 3: It was seven day, seven years long distance, Like he's

710
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 3: holding onto any notion. His brain's still not changed. I'm

711
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 3: giving him some slack here. I get it, Like this

712
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 3: guy's like his brain it's gonna take a couple months

713
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 3: for him to really get clean of her.

714
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: So yeah, like the bit about him not being mad

715
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 2: at her or like not hating her. I don't know.

716
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 2: This might not be a universal thing, but I feel

717
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 2: like sometimes right after the breakup, you have this kind

718
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 2: of sadness rather than anger, and then months later you're like, oh,

719
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: you know, that person actually sucked, and so I feel

720
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 2: like you're in the sadness. I still have a lot

721
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 2: of love for I don't hate her, and then you're

722
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 2: gonna get, you know, kind of out of that period

723
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 2: and be like, oh, wow, no, she actually did something

724
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 2: really awful. But there's a little bit left to this story.

725
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 2: She was my best friend for those seven almost eight years,

726
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 2: so it's difficult to see her struggle and see this

727
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 2: side of sadness, guilt and regret form. I do hope

728
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 2: she gets better, but for the most part, I need

729
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 2: to look after myself, stay busy with my creativity and work,

730
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 2: and keep in contact with my friends and family. Thanks

731
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 2: again to all of you who commented or read this,

732
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 2: and if you have any advice on how to handle

733
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 2: these next steps, please let me know. And that's the

734
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Speaker 2: end of that story, folks, And we've got another one.

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Speaker 2: Come right up.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Dakota, your favorite good time boy host. Here.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get back to the stories, but here's three

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Speaker 1: minutes of ads from our sponsors. My wife cut her

739
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: own spending to secretly help her sister and never told me. Why.

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Speaker 2: Please please, I want to know.

741
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Speaker 1: I am twenty nine male and my wife is twenty

742
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Speaker 1: eight female. We have two kids, five and three, both boys,

743
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Speaker 1: and are planning on having a third kid. I work

744
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: seventy to eighty hours on average, and my wife is

745
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 1: a stay at home mom. I make really good money,

746
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Speaker 1: even for USA standards, and we live in Europe in

747
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: a country where cost of living is way lower. By

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Speaker 1: to the r Slashowcase Storytime Subredday. I'm Dakota, Sophia, I'm Keon,

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Speaker 1: and we are here to give good advice goofy. But

752
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,280
Speaker 1: we don't know all of the answers all the time.

753
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: We only know what we know, So tell us what

754
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: you know down in the comments. And Opie says, the

755
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: argument me and my wife are having is that I

756
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: keep telling my wife I don't have time to iron

757
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: my clothes, et cetera. And she is a stay at

758
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: home mom and she should do it, but I know

759
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: that having two kids makes her job as hard as mind.

760
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 2: Why does anyone iron in your clothes needless?

761
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 3: Is there a wrinkly Yeah, they got to be.

762
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's like pulld them better or hang them.

763
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: Up, or you know what, just buy a new one

764
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: every day, or that you've got you've got all that money,

765
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: buy a new wife, new shirt every day, new stay

766
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: at home.

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00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 2: I just think ironing is only a thing that you

768
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 2: do for fancy events where you need like.

769
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: A maybe every maybe every day is a fancy event.

770
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe he's a lawyer, well that he should be like,

771
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 2: I don't know, he should be ironing his own stuff.

772
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: He's a professional, fancy man.

773
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 2: If he's a lawyer, maybe he could afford to go

774
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 2: freaking dry clean that stuff.

775
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 3: You know, Op, you're the ahle, Why aren't you iron man?

776
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 1: I offered to get us a nanny or help for house,

777
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,479
Speaker 1: but it would mean both of our spending money would

778
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: be cut by around ten to fifteen percent. I manage

779
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: all of our finances and we get the same spending

780
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 1: money after investing in saving. But my wife is angry

781
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: that I would cut her spending money too. I don't

782
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: have time to do things around the house. I'm trying

783
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: to help my father retire since he's turning seventy next year,

784
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: and he helped me a lot. He bought me my

785
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: first apartment when I was a student, where my wife

786
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: lived too during UNI. I don't help him financially. I

787
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: am just slowly taking over his company as well. I

788
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: have two brothers, but only one works there, and I

789
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: am the only one qualified to actually take over according

790
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: to my brothers, and that means I pretty much have

791
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: two jobs that's why I work so much. But it

792
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: also means we have a lot of spending money, about

793
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 1: six and a half to seven and a half thousand

794
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: euros each month.

795
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: Wait, and she's mad that you're gonna take ten percent

796
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 2: of that away. So actually, I take it back. I

797
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 2: don't think op he is the ahole anymore.

798
00:37:58,719 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: Oh, you're being serious.

799
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 2: I know I never thought of he was day hole,

800
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 2: but I don't. I certainly don't think GOPI is d Ale. Now.

801
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's plenty of free money. That's

802
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: the free money.

803
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 2: You're literally telling her that you will make her life

804
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 2: easier for ten percent less of her spending money. I

805
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 2: don't think she No one needs seven thousand dollars a

806
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 2: month to spend on fun things.

807
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: Well, well, no one needs that. I need that, and

808
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: you want that. I need that so I can buy

809
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 1: Have you ever paid for a vacation every month?

810
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,959
Speaker 2: You're going on a seven thousand dollars vacation every month,

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00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 2: seventeen black.

812
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: I need that. I need that. I need that to

813
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: buy fifteen Lego but duers every month.

814
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that you can't spend seven thousand dollars

815
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 2: I want on something fun of it at some point,

816
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 2: but having seven thousand dollars to spend every month is

817
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 2: a luxury and she does not need that. If it

818
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 2: makes everyone's life easier.

819
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: That is one hundred percent true. Note that spending money

820
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: is different than money for paying everything like groceries and

821
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: things for the kids. We have separate accounts for that.

822
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: My wife is really into designer brands, yeah that is obvious,

823
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: and spends all of her money on clothes shopping. Usually

824
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: she thinks I should only cut my own spending money

825
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: if I want to hire nannies or help. I disagree

826
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: and think we should both have our spending money cut.

827
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Speaker 1: I got a call for my sister in law and

828
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: she said, I'm being controlling by wanting to cut my

829
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,959
Speaker 1: wife spending money. So I am starting to honestly doubt

830
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,399
Speaker 1: myself because I don't want to financially mistreat my.

831
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Speaker 2: Wife, Gurley, and I'm in that non gendered way, Gurley,

832
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 2: your wife is mistreating you like she's you know, benefiting,

833
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 2: she's living this luxurious life. You are trying to make

834
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 2: her again life easier. And then she's going to her

835
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 2: sister and being like, I can't believe my husband's telling

836
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 2: me that I'm not going to be able to afford

837
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 2: six Gucci bags this month. Unbelievable. I can't buy a

838
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,479
Speaker 2: new Gucci bag every month.

839
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Speaker 3: I can only do three.

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Speaker 1: Let's assume that it's the low end of six and

841
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: a half thousand euros, so ten to fifteen percent off

842
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: the top of that. She's mad that she only gets

843
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: to spend around fifty seven fifty seven hundred euros per

844
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: month on whatever she.

845
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 2: Wants per month she does. She is a stay at

846
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 2: home mom, which is like a lot of work. I'm

847
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 2: not discounting that. And then the nanny would maybe make

848
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 2: that A little babies, the nanny would make it easier,

849
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 2: and she's complaining.

850
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: Well, we've got an update, so I'm not gonna lie.

851
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,399
Speaker 1: This is a surprising update. I've taken a few days

852
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: off before Christmas with my wife so we can spend

853
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: two days without the kids and family craziness. I had

854
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: a convo with one guy here in private, and I

855
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: realized that my wife doesn't usually behave like this, so

856
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: I asked her about it. What's actually going on. It

857
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: turns out, for the past few months, my wife was

858
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: giving money to her sister to help her move out

859
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: from her boyfriend, whom I never really liked. If I'm

860
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: gonna be honest and never knew why, Well, it turns

861
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: out he is awful, and as it turns out, my

862
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: sister in law is pregnant. I still am. Now this

863
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: is like a new issue. It is like, why would

864
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: you is sister in law is pregnant and she's been

865
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: sending money to her and her boyfriend is terrible. Oh,

866
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 1: that's why she's upset that the money would be decreased.

867
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 2: By insight, But like, why wouldn't you have brought that up?

868
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: Exactly different issue? Now, what do you mean this is

869
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: going on and you said nothing to me?

870
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 2: Why are you keeping that a secret? Why? It feels

871
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 2: very schemey. It feels very slimy. It feels like that's

872
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 2: not actually happening. It feels like sister in law called

873
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 2: wife and said, hey, if we tell him this, he'll

874
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 2: have to give you more money.

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Speaker 1: Well, at least now I know why I had a

876
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: bad feeling about him, other than him trying to borrow

877
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: money from me constantly. If you wonder why she didn't

878
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: tell me this since obviously we have the means to

879
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 1: help her, it's because I helped her sister in law

880
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: with some of her debt in the past, and I

881
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: told her family I don't want to be used as

882
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: a piggy bank. I invested in my brother in law's

883
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: plumbing business. My wife knew that this situation would be different,

884
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,760
Speaker 1: but her sister didn't want to ask me for money.

885
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: Not sure where does her sister think my wife gets

886
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: her money from, but I digress. I can say it

887
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: here freely since my sister in law's boyfriend doesn't use Reddit,

888
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: and after what she told me about it, I've hired

889
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: a PI and we have moved her to our house.

890
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: She already had a room and we're going to help

891
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: her with getting her own apartment in January. When it

892
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: comes to the main topic, we are hiring some help

893
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 1: and we're going to start looking into getting a nanny

894
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: for the weekends. We changed some things in our budget

895
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: since we're ahead in most of our goals. Also, some

896
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 1: people had some things to say about my wife. Well, sure,

897
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: it sounded ridiculous that my wife didn't want to lose

898
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: her designer clothes money and comments we're mostly I had

899
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: some nasty private messages about my wife not deserving the

900
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: money she gets in her being a freeloader, et cetera.

901
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: Which can't really call her a freeloader. She's a stay

902
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:10,720
Speaker 1: at home mom raising two children.

903
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like that is a full time job. That's

904
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 2: not the issue here.

905
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was her decision to be a stay at

906
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: home mom. But she also had a great future in

907
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: finance ahead of her, so she's not a slacker. One

908
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: of the reasons I love her is how hard working

909
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: she always was. She's also a great teacher to our child.

910
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: Our five year old is so ahead in math without

911
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: her pressuring him hard. It's honestly amazing. I saw her

912
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: teach him and make it fun, which I honestly didn't

913
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: know she does because he enjoys it. Also, adding in

914
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: the last second here, I talked to my sister in law,

915
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: and before I even mentioned it, she herself told me

916
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 1: she is sorry about the financial mistreatment comment. She was

917
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,240
Speaker 1: just scared about the situation she's in, which is understandable,

918
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: and that is the end of that story. Yeah, I

919
00:43:58,080 --> 00:43:59,240
Speaker 1: think we're in a good place.

920
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 2: I think we've all the truth has come out, which

921
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 2: is good. We've got the sister in law help, which

922
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 2: is good. That she was done in the truth.

923
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, but still though you got it, you have to

924
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: tell me the truth.

925
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 2: You have to tell me we have helped and it

926
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 2: wouldn't have had all this, like, you know, faffing around.

927
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just gotta tell me. You just gotta tell me.

928
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: And then you have to accept if I'm going to

929
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: disagree with you, because the rationale that I didn't tell

930
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,240
Speaker 1: you because I was afraid you were gonna say no unacceptable.

931
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 1: Because if I say no, you have to be able

932
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: to accept that. Because it's like I'm the one bringing

933
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: in the income, so it has to be a decision

934
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: we make together.

935
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 2: It's also just like financially or it's also just beneficial

936
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 2: for both of you, like the decision that OP was

937
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 2: trying to make.

938
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 5: And that's the end of this story and we're going

939
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 5: on to the next one.

940
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 6: I uninvited my future brother in law's girlfriend for my

941
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 6: wedding because of the rumors she was spreading.

942
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 2: Ooh oh, she's a lizard person. We all knew that.

943
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 6: It's only two weeks before the wedding. And my fiance's brother,

944
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 6: let's call him John Mail twenty one. His new girlfriend,

945
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 6: let's call her Betty Female eighteen causes a lot of

946
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 6: drama at the Bridle Shower this past weekend. This has

947
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 6: been a ongoing problem ever since they started dating.

948
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: We know what they like to do. By the way,

949
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: this comes.

950
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 6: From aggravating yam three nine nine. If you want us

951
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 6: my own stories, you know where to go. I'm Ryley Wilson,

952
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 6: I'm Savannah, I'm Keon, and we're here to be goofy

953
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 6: ha ha ha. You're here to calm it down below

954
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 6: your experiences in life. Obi says they got a promise

955
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 6: ring shortly after dating, which.

956
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: I have no problem with at all.

957
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 6: Why are you mentioning it?

958
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 1: But at the Bridle Shower she used it to.

959
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,760
Speaker 6: Brag a lot and cap making comments such as calling

960
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 6: my fiance's mom her mother in law and she said

961
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 6: to me, I'd soon be part of the family, as

962
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 6: though she is already married to John.

963
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 3: How long have they been dating like the brand new girlfriend?

964
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 3: How long is new like new girlfriend? Like weeks? Months?

965
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: Months?

966
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 3: Yeah? Days.

967
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 6: She also spread a rumor about one of the nicest

968
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 6: ladies in the bridal shower, my neighbor, saying she had

969
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 6: flirted with Betty's father, not father in law, her real father,

970
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 6: which was merely impossible, as she is married and is

971
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 6: one of the most kind hearted people I know and

972
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 6: has never met Betty. We as the neighborhood if she

973
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 6: was indeed at the pub where Betty works at the

974
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 6: previous night from where Betty had claimed it happened, and

975
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 6: the neighbor said no, she was at home, thus making

976
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 6: it statistically impossible, unless.

977
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 3: Unless if she lied and she.

978
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,720
Speaker 6: Was on FaceTime. All right, so we got this rumor,

979
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 6: how do you feeling about this?

980
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 3: This girl who's new is coming in in here and

981
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 3: she's starting to talk to talk and acting all high

982
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 3: and mighty, spreading rumors about people that we know and love,

983
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,399
Speaker 3: taking with a grain of slid like you shut up,

984
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 3: I don't know who are you? Why am I taking you?

985
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 3: Where's your credibility? Huh?

986
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 6: And every one of the comments is saying a new

987
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 6: girlfriend is three months or less?

988
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 2: Okay, following three months, I'll push it to three months.

989
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 2: I said two months, but I'll push it. I'll push

990
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 2: it to three erh yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, we're.

991
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 6: All saying three. A lot more went down, and after

992
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 6: Betty was extremely rude to my maid of honor, I

993
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 6: had to go up to her and ask her to

994
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,240
Speaker 6: stop being so rude to my guest and to please

995
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 6: stop gossiping. Shortly thereafter, a lady on their table came

996
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 6: up to me and asked to sit with me, as

997
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 6: she couldn't stand the bad mouthing by Betty at the table.

998
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 6: My maid of Honor then took it upon herself to

999
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 6: uninvite Betty as she caused a lot of problems and

1000
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 6: genuinely just took away from one of the special moments

1001
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 6: in my life. After she sent her a message, Betty

1002
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 6: simply ignored it. My maid of Honor then told me

1003
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 6: about this and decided that she was right, as is

1004
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 6: her duty to make the wedding run smoothly, and as

1005
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 6: this has happened so many times before, w's in a

1006
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 6: chat for maid of honor. That's what a good friend does,

1007
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:39,280
Speaker 6: right there. I love that my fiance's father thinks I'm

1008
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 6: tearing the family apart for uninviting her, even after I

1009
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 6: asked that John was still to come as a groomsman

1010
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 6: and my fiance's brother. My fiance's dad and brother have

1011
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 6: decided that if Betty is not invited, they would not

1012
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:58,320
Speaker 6: attend either. I laughed out a lot of her actions.

1013
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 6: As I did not want to elaborate on everything, and

1014
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,399
Speaker 6: we're halfway through, we probably will get some elaboration. I'm

1015
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 6: honestly stuck as the what to do. My fiance feels

1016
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 6: that if his family chooses John's new girlfriend over his wedding,

1017
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 6: then they don't care about him enough. It hurts to

1018
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 6: be in the situation. We want our wedding to run

1019
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 6: smoothly and drama free, and Betty might not make this possible.

1020
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 6: So am I the a hole for uninviting Betty? We

1021
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,320
Speaker 6: got some notes all right? On three?

1022
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: Are you ready?

1023
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 6: Kean and Savannah one two.

1024
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 3: Three nine.

1025
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1026
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 4: I think this girl, I mean, if she's gonna cause

1027
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 4: problems and like spread rumors about this like older lady

1028
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 4: who's like the sweetest thing, like no go away.

1029
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 6: And we're assuming since it's new, she's not even around

1030
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:48,760
Speaker 6: for three months and she's eighteen.

1031
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: She has so much growing up to do.

1032
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 6: Yeah, so some edits, some side notes. My family is

1033
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 6: paying for the entire wedding. It is also my birthday

1034
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 6: two days after after the wedding, so it's also a

1035
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 6: birthday celebration for me as I'm turning twenty one. Betty

1036
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 6: is going overseas for a year without John, and for

1037
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 6: this reason wasn't invited to the wedding, but then invited

1038
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 6: herself after she failed to hand in her paperwork on time.

1039
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 6: John has always appeared to be the golden child. John

1040
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 6: and father in law often showed jealousy towards my fiance

1041
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 6: as he's the younger brother. But he is more successful

1042
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 6: than both of them. He's probably even like twenty two,

1043
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 6: maybe twenty one, this younger brother.

1044
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, John, he is twenty one.

1045
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 6: Not John, but uh Opie's fiance because John's twenty one

1046
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:43,879
Speaker 6: and if fiance's younger than.

1047
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,240
Speaker 2: John, yes, she's twenty nineteen.

1048
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 6: Colle How was he already more for successful?

1049
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 1: It makes better grades.

1050
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 6: Yes, my fiance and I discussed it before making the

1051
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:59,359
Speaker 6: decision together to uninvite her. We agreed to not have

1052
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 6: her at the wedding, even at the cost of his

1053
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 6: brother not coming. Multiple comments suggest Betty might be pregnant

1054
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 6: and this is a possibility. She posted a negative pregnancy

1055
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 6: test on her Snapchat at the start of their relationship

1056
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 6: and said we made it so they were intimate.

1057
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 1: Who posts that?

1058
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 6: Who posts a negative pregnancy test on snapchat?

1059
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 2: You were not saying we made it.

1060
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: That's crazy.

1061
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 2: I got to write that down. Wait, that was Betty?

1062
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: Who did that? Betty did that?

1063
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 2: What a freak? We made it? Ew who said that?

1064
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 1: Dude?

1065
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 5: Did?

1066
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 6: Have you ever seen this happen before? Keen? Were someone

1067
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 6: posts a negative pregnancy test online?

1068
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 3: No? No, that's just really weird.

1069
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,919
Speaker 6: So also, my fiance mentioned to me the other day

1070
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 6: that she was standing weird when talking to his family.

1071
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 6: She was pushing out her belly, which makes it even

1072
00:51:56,239 --> 00:52:00,360
Speaker 6: more suspicious. And if this is the case, I'd be scared.

1073
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,760
Speaker 6: She will announce it at the wedding. She's gonna announce

1074
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 6: it either way, if she's pregnant or not. She might

1075
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 6: as well be faking it or impregnated herself by making

1076
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 6: use of a used wiena rapper when John wasn't looking

1077
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 6: or around. We got an update, Savannah, What were you saying?

1078
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 4: So when she posted we made it with the negative

1079
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 4: pregnancy test, maybe she thought that.

1080
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 2: Meant it was positive and that's why she put it and.

1081
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 4: Put we made it like That's what I'm thinking now,

1082
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 4: because now I think she thinks that she's pregnant, so

1083
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 4: she's like trying to like be like.

1084
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 2: Like I think that she if she's spreading her own rumors.

1085
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 2: Now that's crazy. Get a post. We made it with

1086
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 2: a negative pregnancy test. What does that mean?

1087
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: Like what?

1088
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 2: I don't know how to correlate those two. We made it, No,

1089
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 2: you didn't.

1090
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 6: Is there a possibility, Opie, that you can marry your

1091
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 6: fiance and don't have to interact with his family anymore?

1092
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 6: Can this happened? After day one, father in law swore

1093
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 6: at my fiance and yelled at him as if he

1094
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 6: is a child that must obey his father and everything

1095
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 6: he does. After my fiance said he is not willing

1096
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 6: to change his mind, father in law showed up at

1097
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 6: my fiance's work and said that he will be attending

1098
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 6: the wedding with brother in law, but they are extremely upset.

1099
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 6: He was extremely manipulative, and I still do not understand

1100
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 6: why father in law is reacting so harshly.

1101
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 1: Update after the wedding.

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00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 6: Basically, the wedding was absolutely amazing.

1103
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 2: Oh good, okay, well was Betty.

1104
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 6: There though a few things went wrong and that's there

1105
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,919
Speaker 6: you do, such as it raining and the power going out,

1106
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:42,879
Speaker 6: but we managed to fix all of that. Basically, I'm

1107
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 6: so happy that we did not invite Betty.

1108
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,240
Speaker 1: There was a lot of drama though.

1109
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:51,760
Speaker 6: Father in law called Mard of honor a fat witch

1110
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 6: who tore the family apart. During my husband's speech, my

1111
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 6: husband decided that we would keep both sir names to

1112
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 6: honor both families from here on. Father in law got

1113
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 6: upset about this and was in a terrible mood the

1114
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 6: entire wedding.

1115
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 1: Husband was sadded.

1116
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 6: By their behavior, and they ended up leaving super early.

1117
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 6: Father in law keeps on sticking up for John and Betty,

1118
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 6: and husband and I have basically given up on caring

1119
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 6: about it. At the end of the day, we are

1120
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 6: extremely happy and we have peace in our hearts about everything.

1121
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 6: Also side note, Betty is acting very pregnant, but says

1122
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 6: she's only planning for kids in two years time, et cetera.

1123
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 6: Husband and I have planned to have kids, and everyone knows.

1124
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 1: That we are TTC.

1125
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 6: But I guess that's insignificant. Well, if we don't know

1126
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 6: what TTC means, can anyone tell.

1127
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 3: Me what TTC means trying to conceive?

1128
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 6: Trying to conceive? Thank you everyone. Betty has been extremely

1129
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,439
Speaker 6: rude to me, which I sort of get, but any

1130
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 6: advice would be amazing. Once again, thank you for all

1131
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 6: the support and love. Also, it has been about nine

1132
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 6: months since the wedding and most of the family hates

1133
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 6: Betty as they discovered who she really is.

1134
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 3: And you know what, not your circus, not your monkeys.

1135
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 3: Let him deal with that. You tall it, You told them.

1136
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 1: You did, you really did.

1137
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 6: I mean, come on, that's crazy that the new girlfriend.

1138
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 6: I been like, father in law, what's up with that?

1139
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 6: That's super weird.

1140
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 3: It's just because John's the golden child and he just

1141
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 3: like whatever John likes, he likes, you know.

1142
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: And that's the end of the story.

1143
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 6: We're gonna read the next one.

1144
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 2: My daughter turned cold and kept pulling away, so I

1145
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:43,720
Speaker 2: went low contact. Yeah, she's freezing. I need an outsider opinion.

1146
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 2: I forty six female have been having problems with my daughter,

1147
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 2: Sarah twenty four. It began when she eloped with her

1148
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 2: husband three years ago. Me and my husband were really

1149
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 2: sad that we couldn't see her get married or even

1150
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 2: know about it until it was over. We were sad,

1151
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,399
Speaker 2: but got over it. It was her day and if

1152
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 2: she didn't want anyone there, then that was that. We

1153
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 2: talk on the phone or met up at least every week,

1154
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 2: so it was a huge surprise. By the way, this

1155
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 2: comes from deleted and if you want us make your

1156
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,320
Speaker 2: own stories, go to the r slash Okay storytime Separate.

1157
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Speaker 1: I'm Sophia, I'm Savannah, I'm Dakota, and.

1158
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:19,839
Speaker 2: We're here to give good vice. Goofy, but we don't

1159
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 2: have all the answers. We only know what we'd do,

1160
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 2: So let us know what you would do in the comments,

1161
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 2: and Dope says. Then they moved down two states. It

1162
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 2: would be a trip to visit, so we still talk

1163
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 2: on the phone more instead of visits. So for holidays

1164
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 2: we would visit or they would visit. This year, at Thanksgiving,

1165
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 2: she brought a surprise, her son Dave. One month. I

1166
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 2: didn't even know she was pregnant. What this is so strange.

1167
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 4: Oh, she's just not telling her family anything. I mean,

1168
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 4: what did the family do?

1169
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 2: But I think the weird thing to me is that

1170
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 2: usually when you know a person doesn't tell their family

1171
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 2: members that they're getting married or doesn't tell them that

1172
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 2: they're pregnant, they also are almost fully no contact. In

1173
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 2: this case, it seems like they're still pretty close, like

1174
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,439
Speaker 2: they're going to see them for the law days, they're

1175
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 2: calling them every week, but they're still keeping these huge

1176
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 2: life things secret. We talked all the time and nothing. Again.

1177
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 2: Was sad we missed such a large milestone in her life,

1178
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 2: but didn't say anything. Why not, let's bring it up.

1179
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 2: We were happy to meet the grand baby. I called

1180
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 2: today to ask about what they wanted me to bring

1181
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 2: out for the baby for the Christmas. Is it the

1182
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 2: old baby bed and whatnot? Sarah told me that they

1183
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 2: will not be coming up for Christmas. I asked if

1184
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 2: we were going down this year and she said no,

1185
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 2: it's just a nuclear family for Dave's first Christmas. I

1186
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 2: asked if we could FaceTime Christmas morning or that day

1187
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 2: to see Dave and their tree, and she said no.

1188
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 2: After that conversation, I talked to my husband. We are

1189
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 2: both sad again and tired of missing milestones in Sarah's life.

1190
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 2: I sent Sarah a text that me and her dad

1191
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 2: are going to take a step back low contact. She

1192
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 2: called and asked what this was about?

1193
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 5: Girl?

1194
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 2: What you mean? What is this about? Yeah? You don't

1195
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 2: tell her anything anyway. I feel like that's what she wanted.

1196
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 2: You're already low contact. Yeah, I'm I told her, and

1197
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 2: it broke into an argument that it's her life and

1198
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 2: she can do what she wants with her kid and

1199
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 2: so on. I told her she clearly doesn't want us

1200
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 2: involved in her life and we're stepping out for now.

1201
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 2: She called me a butt.

1202
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 1: What do you want girl?

1203
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 2: So am I the a who'll hear? I need a

1204
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 2: second opinion? And we've got an update. The only advice

1205
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 2: I can give is that you should have been asking

1206
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 2: these questions the whole time instead of waiting until Christmas. Yeah.

1207
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,439
Speaker 2: I just feel like you should have brought this up

1208
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 2: like the first time she says, Oh, I'm married and

1209
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 2: you guys weren't invited. I say, uh, why did we

1210
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 2: do something?

1211
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 4: I would immediately be questioning the wedding because like, did

1212
00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 4: they even know.

1213
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 2: She was dating anyone? Like he assume that they knew.

1214
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 4: I yeah, I assume they probably knew, but like, you know,

1215
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 4: how long have they been married? Like obviously we don't

1216
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 4: get any of that information. But what we have is

1217
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 4: that she a little They didn't even get to go

1218
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 4: to the wedding because I don't even know if they

1219
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 4: had one. They just kind of didn't tell them about it.

1220
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 4: And then they moved and then they had a baby

1221
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 4: and just brought it over without saying anything, and they

1222
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 4: we found this baby. Yeah, and then they're like, by

1223
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 4: the way, uh, you guys, we're not doing Christmas this year.

1224
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 2: Okay, so what do you want? Then?

1225
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 3: What do you want for me?

1226
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 2: But we got an update. Let's see if they get

1227
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 2: any more information. I took everyone's advice and it's been

1228
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 2: a long week for the family. I gave her a

1229
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 2: call after a lot of people asked me to reach

1230
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 2: out again and ask her straight up what she wanted.

1231
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 2: Did she want us out of her life, what's going on,

1232
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 2: and to please be honest. She was quiet for a

1233
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 2: bit and hung up.

1234
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: What's going on?

1235
00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 2: She goes, Babe, what's going on? Abact?

1236
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 4: She just.

1237
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, give her a hard stare. I thought that was

1238
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 2: the end of it and she would reach out later

1239
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 2: or never. Well, on Monday, she showed up at her

1240
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 2: house after an eight hour drive. Sarah sat us both

1241
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 2: down and told the full story of what was going on.

1242
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 2: She was happy with eloping and just didn't want to

1243
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 2: spend money on a wedding. We knew this one for

1244
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 2: the baby. She was never pregnant. H her husband cheated

1245
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 2: on her and got another woman. Pregnant. Sarah found out

1246
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 2: about two months before the kid was born. She didn't

1247
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 2: tell us because Sarah knew we would tell her to

1248
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 2: leave him. One hundred percent true. She wanted to fix

1249
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 2: the marriage, and in doing that, she kept it a

1250
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 2: secret so her husband wouldn't get any backlash. She told

1251
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 2: us the only reason they were able to meet Dave

1252
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 2: was due to bio mom dropping the kid off so

1253
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 2: she could visit her family across the country. There is

1254
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 2: no custody agreement. It's been a huge mess on their end,

1255
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 2: and the marriage is rough at the moment. Sarah was

1256
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 2: planning to go to Christmas at our place at the

1257
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 2: beginning and explain the situation, but Dave would have been

1258
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 2: with the bio mom and her husband didn't want the

1259
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 2: secret out. So when we called her saying we were

1260
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 2: going to take a step back, Sarah was very upset.

1261
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 2: She thought she was losing her family over a secret

1262
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 2: to protect her husband. Oh my god, Wow, that was crazy.

1263
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 2: I was the last thing I expected. Yeah, you just

1264
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 2: that was like think thing thing thing.

1265
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 4: Oh, we got zero information and all of a sudden,

1266
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 4: all the information just came splurty.

1267
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 2: Now please please don't go look condagnanal one and it's

1268
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 2: not my baby. That's why you didn't know that I

1269
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 2: was pregnant. I was never pregnant.

1270
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 4: Okay, So she's in like a weird position because she

1271
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 4: doesn't want to make her husband look bad even though

1272
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 4: he is horrible because he cheated on her and had

1273
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 4: a child with another woman and now she has to

1274
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:57,479
Speaker 4: care for this Childish Gonna be honest, if I were

1275
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 4: the the biom, I would be kind of I don't know,

1276
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 4: weirded out, not okay with someone claiming to be bio mom,

1277
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 4: like you know, not that she necessarily knows, but it's

1278
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 4: a weird situation.

1279
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 2: Lauren, you just missed the story. You would have loved it. Also,

1280
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 2: she was like a cheater, so you know, complicated is

1281
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 2: it's just weird, just weird.

1282
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, that whole thing was just crazy for her to

1283
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 4: like going from giving mixed signals and then to being like.

1284
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 2: Boom, exactly like that boom hard stare. It's crazy. We

1285
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 2: got more though. Her husband didn't help since he never

1286
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 2: had a close family, so he didn't understand why she

1287
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 2: was upset. Her husband didn't understand why she was upset

1288
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 2: that he cheated on her.

1289
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, what.

1290
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 2: Sarah and her husband got into a huge argument about

1291
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 2: the whole thing. Oh oh, he didn't understand why she

1292
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 2: wanted a close relationship with her parents. When I called again,

1293
01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 2: she already made up her mind that she'll be telling

1294
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 2: us and going to Christmas at our house. She took

1295
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 2: time off and drove down and will stay for Christmas.

1296
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 2: She doesn't know what she'll do with her husband and

1297
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 2: if she'll try to fix it or leave. Leave, leave girl.

1298
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 2: She did tell us to stay out of it since

1299
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 2: she wants her decision to be one hundred percent on her.

1300
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 2: We will respect that, even though we're hoping she leaves

1301
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 2: him for this stunt. Thank you everyone that commented on

1302
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 2: the last post. You had some great advice and made

1303
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 2: us really think about what was going on.

1304
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 1: Wow, unexpected.

1305
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 4: I feel bad for her. She's in this weird situation,

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Speaker 4: but I feel like what she can.

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Speaker 2: Do is get out of it.

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Speaker 4: Say Battle, I understand that you know you don't want

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Speaker 4: to admit that you're wrong sometimes, but girl, I mean

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Speaker 4: at this point, it's like you just accept it and

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01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:51,280
Speaker 4: be like, yeah, I made a mistake and that sucks.

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Speaker 4: I guess it's time for me to just accept this

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Speaker 4: and you know, focus on the relationship with my family

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Speaker 4: then or something like something. I mean, I don't know,

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Speaker 4: it's just I feel bad. But also she's doing it

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Speaker 4: too hers well, she's not doing it to herself.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Five I think she less like she's

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Speaker 2: doing it to herself. But she needs to make the

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Speaker 2: decision herself. I think that's the thing here in my mind.

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Speaker 2: She needs to make that decision. She needs to leave.

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Speaker 2: I think you guys have done as much as you can.

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Speaker 1: And that's the end of the story.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna read the next one.

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Speaker 2: Hey, it's Angie, your favorite Riley's girlfriend is here.

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Speaker 1: We're going to get back to the stories.

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Speaker 4: My husband promised his mother wouldn't show up. She was

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Speaker 4: at our door two days later.

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Speaker 2: I promise she wouldn't show up tonight.

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Speaker 4: This could all be chalked up to paranoi on my end,

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Speaker 4: And if you feel that's what this is, please tell me.

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Speaker 4: I'll be the first to admit I am not in

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01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 4: a great headspace right now. I was recently diagnosed with

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Speaker 4: postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety. So here goes by the way.

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Speaker 4: if you want to submit your own stories, go to

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Speaker 4: the r slash okay storytime subreddit.

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Speaker 2: I'm a Savannah, I'm Sophia.

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01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 1: I'm Riley, and we are here to give some good advice.

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Speaker 2: Goofly, but h we don't have all the answers. We

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01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:16,440
Speaker 2: only tell you what we would do.

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01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 4: You should let us know what you would do down

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01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 4: in the comments. As Op says, I gave birth five

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01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,640
Speaker 4: weeks ago. Outside of my husband. I didn't really have

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01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 4: a support system nearby. My mom lives across the country

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01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 4: and all five of my siblings are with her. Halfway

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01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:34,960
Speaker 4: through my delivery, roughly six and a half centimeters dilated

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Speaker 4: and all but begging for the epidural, my mother in

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01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,240
Speaker 4: law walked into our delivery room uninvited.

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Speaker 2: She did like a Kramer entrance. She was like, I

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01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 2: gotta tell you something. He's like, whoa Kramer? I'm giving birth?

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01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: Kramer?

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01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 2: I'm giving birth? But have you heard about I don't

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01:05:57,200 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 2: know this news MLM Jerry. Have you heard about cutcoat knives?

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01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 1: Jerry?

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Speaker 2: The nurses asked if she was there to support me,

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01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 2: and she said, oh no, I'm here to make sure

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01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:11,200
Speaker 2: my baby has someone to hold him up, and immediately

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01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 2: tried to get my husband to sit on the couch

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Speaker 2: with her, telling him I was fine and then he

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01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 2: needed to relax while he was holding my hand and

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01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:20,720
Speaker 2: rubbing my back. He ignored her completely, and she eventually

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01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 2: left on her own, honestly good. Three days later, she showed.

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01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 4: Up unannounced at our home and went on a tirade

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Speaker 4: about how I needed to let the baby self smooth

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01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 4: and how me constantly holding her was going to make

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Speaker 4: her son's life miserable.

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Speaker 2: Oh god bye, stop. Why are we letting her in? Well,

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01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 2: she just like showed up. Yeah, I locked the door.

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Speaker 2: She goes lob me in. Oh yeah, I go. No

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Speaker 2: one's home, We're not here. Hogshoe, hogshoe.

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Speaker 4: I asked her to leave several times, and she eventually did.

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01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 4: Once my husband got home and firmly told that her

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Speaker 4: behavior wasn't acceptable and that she needed to go. She

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Speaker 4: left without a problem. For the first three weeks after that,

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Speaker 4: my husband was completely normal. He's apologized for his mom's

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01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 4: behavior several times and seemed genuinely remorseful that he hadn't

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01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 4: been there to prevent it. And honestly, life moved on.

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Speaker 4: We fell into the rhythm of learning our baby and

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Speaker 4: figuring out parenthood together. But about a week and a

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01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 4: half ago, something shifted, and he guess says, anyone, uh.

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Speaker 2: Your husband started taking his mother's side and became a

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01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 2: mama boy. Wooh, that's usually what happens Europe. He went quiet.

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01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:42,440
Speaker 4: He looked exhausted and withdrawn all the time. When I

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01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 4: finally got him to open up, he told me he

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01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 4: missed his mom and felt guilty that she wasn't around

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01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 4: to experience his first child, even though she has seven

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Speaker 4: other grandchildren, all of whom she's a wonderful and involved

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01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 4: grandmother too. He said he wanted to invite her over

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Speaker 4: and give her a chance to apologize. I didn't say

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Speaker 4: anything right away. I was already in my PPD and

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01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:05,160
Speaker 4: postpartum anxiety at this point and didn't want to snap

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Speaker 4: at him, so I bit my tongue and asked him

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Speaker 4: to give me a week.

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Speaker 1: He agreed.

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Speaker 4: He didn't give me a week. She was at my

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Speaker 4: house two days later. He swears he didn't invite her,

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01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:17,600
Speaker 4: and honestly, in his defense, he did look panicked and

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Speaker 4: immediately asked her why she was there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet she.

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01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 2: He didn't invite her. She has a habit of just

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01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 2: showing up. Yeah, not that surprising. He's like, no, wait,

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01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 2: this is just really bad timing. I swear an invite. Yeah,

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01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 2: that's crazy.

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01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 4: She said she wanted to speak to me directly. She apologized,

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01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 4: saying she was just concerned and that having raised four

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Speaker 4: kids herself, she was only trying to give advice and

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Speaker 4: hadn't realized it was such a sore subject.

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Speaker 1: That was it.

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Speaker 4: She didn't wait for me to respond. She just turned

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01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:49,760
Speaker 4: to my husband and asked him to go outside with

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Speaker 4: her to catch up. She left about an hour later.

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Speaker 1: I was livid.

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Speaker 4: I told my husband that I had asked for a

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Speaker 4: week and he had done whatever he wanted anyway. He

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01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 4: said it was his life too, and then I was

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Speaker 4: being selfish for not understanding his position. After that, I

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Speaker 4: honestly just checked out emotionally, and things got more tense

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01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 4: from there because his mother kept coming by in all

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Speaker 4: of those visits. She never once held the baby, never

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Speaker 4: once asked how I was doing, and bare leaving glanced

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Speaker 4: in my daughter's direction. I just ignored her, and she

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Speaker 4: ignored me right back. Fast forward to Three days ago,

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Speaker 4: my mom had planned a surprise trip with all of

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Speaker 4: my siblings to come visit me and the baby for

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01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:29,920
Speaker 4: a week. Okay, they booked a hotel. I was like,

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Speaker 4: no way. She's like, they're all gonna stay in your house.

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Speaker 2: She'll be planning surprise trips. Communicate someone informalb that these

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01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:40,920
Speaker 2: were happening. They booked a hotel, so they wouldn't even

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01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 2: be staying with us. Good.

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01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:45,320
Speaker 4: But my fourteen year old sister accidentally let it slept

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01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 4: when I was on the phone with my mom, so

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01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 4: I found out early and was absolutely thrilled. I went

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01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:53,040
Speaker 4: to tell my husband. He asked when they'd be arriving.

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01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:56,400
Speaker 4: He said their flight lands tomorrow morning. He immediately said

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Speaker 4: that doesn't work. Tomorrow is my mom's birthday, and I

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01:09:58,920 --> 01:09:59,800
Speaker 4: planned a dinner for her.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh sorry, okay, ma oh, Pie's mom planned the surprise trip.

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01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,640
Speaker 2: I mean, like, still seems like we've had a lot

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01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 2: of surprises. I snapped.

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01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 4: I told him I was going to spend time with

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01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 4: my family, that he was welcome to enjoy dinner with

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01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:13,840
Speaker 4: his mom, but that the baby and I would be

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01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:16,320
Speaker 4: with my family. He argued that the baby needed to

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01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 4: be at his mom's birthday dinner.

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01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:22,759
Speaker 2: Why baby's not gonna remember that mom ignores the baby

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01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 2: every time she's there. Yeah, and and the mom like, uh,

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01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:27,760
Speaker 2: what is it?

1449
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 4: The husband's mom like she's she's been there seeing the

1450
01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:33,880
Speaker 4: baby this whole time, but actually just ignoring it, so

1451
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 4: like she had her chance.

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01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 2: I don't know.

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01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 4: And now oh, Pie's family's coming in. They want to

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01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:40,360
Speaker 4: meet the baby. They're gonna meet the baby.

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Speaker 2: Yep, they haven't even met the baby. Your mom's already

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01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 2: met the baby, and sucks. I held firm and said no,

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01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:51,879
Speaker 2: and then he apologized, said that I was constantly choosing

1458
01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:56,519
Speaker 2: my family over him. Wow, that's pretty hypocritical, because that's

1459
01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 2: what you're doing with your mom, Like eat your words.

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01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:02,000
Speaker 4: A fan only I hadn't seen in over a year.

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01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:04,679
Speaker 4: He followed it up with I'll just tell my mom

1462
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:06,840
Speaker 4: she isn't welcome here anymore, so you can get your

1463
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:07,839
Speaker 4: way per usual.

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01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 2: Ah, you're so annoying, bruh.

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01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:16,280
Speaker 4: I said good and walked away. For the past three days,

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01:11:16,280 --> 01:11:18,640
Speaker 4: we haven't spoken. He hasn't said a word in my

1467
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 4: family either, even when they try to talk to him.

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01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 4: My mom actually pulled me aside and asked if he

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01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 4: was okay, wondering if he might also be struggling with

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01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 4: some form of postpartum stress. So I finally told my

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01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 4: husband last night that if he couldn't act civil, he

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01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:34,680
Speaker 4: was welcome to go stay with his mother until my

1473
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 4: family left, because I was not going to be made

1474
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:39,840
Speaker 4: to feel guilty for wanting to spend time with people

1475
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 4: who actually support me. He didn't respond, he just went

1476
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 4: to bed. I am honestly considering whether this relationship is

1477
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 4: sustainable right now?

1478
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 2: Am I at all in the wrong here? And there

1479
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:55,240
Speaker 2: is an update? No, this relationship is about as sustainable

1480
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 2: as coal.

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01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 6: Is as sustainable as cotton candy when a racoon tries

1482
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 6: to wash it?

1483
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 2: Oh, where to go? It's gone? That dissolved.

1484
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 4: I wanted to give a little update for those following along.

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Speaker 4: My family left last night, and no, I didn't go

1486
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:12,599
Speaker 4: with them, mainly because the idea of taking a newborn

1487
01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 4: on a plane brought me way too much anxiety and

1488
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,240
Speaker 4: I just couldn't do it. But I did talk to

1489
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:19,560
Speaker 4: my husband. I told him that the silent treatments that

1490
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,599
Speaker 4: disregard for my boundaries and allowing tension to keep building

1491
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 4: were all things I couldn't keep living with I told

1492
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 4: him that if we couldn't find a compromise, I would

1493
01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:30,600
Speaker 4: have to seriously think about what was best for me

1494
01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:34,040
Speaker 4: and the baby. He deflected at first, asking why my

1495
01:12:34,120 --> 01:12:36,120
Speaker 4: boundaries mattered but his didn't.

1496
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 2: I don't care about your boundaries dead.

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01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 4: What were your boundaries that your mom needed to come

1498
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 4: over every other day?

1499
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 2: It's not a boundary, it's just kind of annoying.

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01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:47,120
Speaker 4: I asked what he meant, and he said he hadn't

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01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:49,160
Speaker 4: wanted my family visiting because he was worried about the

1502
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 4: baby being exposed to germs from traveling.

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01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:55,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, you never said that you're making stuff up

1504
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 2: next sentence. He had never once said that to me.

1505
01:12:57,640 --> 01:12:59,439
Speaker 2: So I told him that if he expected me to

1506
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:01,360
Speaker 2: read his mind and he was going to be disappointed,

1507
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 2: and that we both needed to work on communicating matter

1508
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:06,679
Speaker 2: nice bars. That led to another argument.

1509
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:09,080
Speaker 4: He said he felt like he couldn't do anything right,

1510
01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:11,240
Speaker 4: that every time he tried to help, he messed up,

1511
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:13,080
Speaker 4: and every time he thought things were getting.

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01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:15,240
Speaker 2: Better, something fell apart. He said he.

1513
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 4: Had been bodling everything up because he didn't want to

1514
01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:19,840
Speaker 4: add to my stress, but that he was drowning under

1515
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:22,840
Speaker 4: the weight of new responsibilities. He said he didn't know

1516
01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 4: how to keep our family steady when he himself wasn't okay.

1517
01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 4: He talked about feeling like he was losing control and

1518
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 4: that he was scared, and then he just broke down

1519
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:34,519
Speaker 4: and cried. I didn't say a word. I just let

1520
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:38,240
Speaker 4: him talk because he finally was and when he was done,

1521
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 4: I held him and he cried some more. When things

1522
01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 4: calmed down, I told him I understood, and that I

1523
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:45,559
Speaker 4: did love her and that I loved him, And then

1524
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 4: I also couldn't keep letting my own needs go unaddressed.

1525
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 4: I was gentle but firm. His mom cannot come back

1526
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:55,680
Speaker 4: to our home. If he wants to see her, he

1527
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:57,719
Speaker 4: can go to her. He nodded and said, okay.

1528
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 2: Uh, what I was gonna say is Darvo. This is

1529
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 2: classic Darvo. So, Savannah, I don't think you've read a

1530
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 2: lot of stories where we bring up Darva or like

1531
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:10,479
Speaker 2: random people will bring up Darvo. But it means din

1532
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:13,960
Speaker 2: I attack, reverse victim, and offender. So I feel like

1533
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:16,719
Speaker 2: he started off with being like, what, there's no problem,

1534
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 2: you know, like like I just missed my mom, what

1535
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 2: are you talking about? And then he attacks his wife

1536
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 2: and it's like, well, like you're always saying that you know,

1537
01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:29,000
Speaker 2: I can't do anything, Brian, It's ridiculous. And then he's

1538
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 2: like the victim. He starts crying, so I feel like

1539
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,719
Speaker 2: he's just going through all of these things. I don't

1540
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 2: really trust the crying. I'm sorry, I don't trust it.

1541
01:14:39,479 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 2: I think I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt

1542
01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:45,160
Speaker 2: here because I think the reason his mom kept coming

1543
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:48,040
Speaker 2: over he was probably calling her yeah, and telling her

1544
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:50,719
Speaker 2: about saying like, I can't go to my wife because

1545
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:52,799
Speaker 2: she keeps yelling at me and I can't say anything,

1546
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:54,880
Speaker 2: and everything's around her, and I feel bad because she's

1547
01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:57,759
Speaker 2: also going through like postpartum and you know, all this stuff.

1548
01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 4: So it's like he was also dealing with It's like

1549
01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:05,759
Speaker 4: I can't express myself because she needs to express herself.

1550
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 1: I think so, I think.

1551
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:09,720
Speaker 2: It was just like a misalignment. I would agree with

1552
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 2: that only if it depends on how he reacts after.

1553
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:18,120
Speaker 2: So after they have like they've had this conversation, if

1554
01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:20,920
Speaker 2: it was what you're saying, then I think he would

1555
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 2: talk to her and they would set up a thing

1556
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:26,200
Speaker 2: where the mom is still not as involved, but there's

1557
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 2: a compromise. Or something. But if it's like Darvo, then

1558
01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 2: he'll just keep wanting to get his way and keep

1559
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 2: pushing her. So I feel like it just depends on

1560
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:38,080
Speaker 2: how he reacts afterwards. All right, should we go by?

1561
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 2: Should we finish this? Guy? Let's do it? Should we

1562
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:40,560
Speaker 2: do that?

1563
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:43,360
Speaker 5: Let's do it, Darvo.

1564
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 2: I'm gonna darvo you, guys, we're not gonna finish the story.

1565
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:49,639
Speaker 2: And it's actually your fault. It's your fault. Why would

1566
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 2: you do that? You came here to read stories or

1567
01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:54,479
Speaker 2: you came here to listen to stories. Actually you're reading

1568
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,800
Speaker 2: them though we're reversing it herey go, guys, it's all you.

1569
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:02,200
Speaker 2: I can't say for certain weather he'll stick to that.

1570
01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 2: We didn't talk much beyond that point and said he

1571
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:09,559
Speaker 2: made dinner. He served me my plate and spoon fed

1572
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:12,600
Speaker 2: me while I was nursing the baby. It was a

1573
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:16,080
Speaker 2: small thing, but it meant a lot. This is going

1574
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 2: to be a long road and I can't see the

1575
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:21,559
Speaker 2: end of the tunnel just yet, but maybe I will soon.

1576
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:23,880
Speaker 2: Thank you all for taking the time to go on

1577
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:28,640
Speaker 2: this journey with me. Much love, kiss, kiss. I'm just

1578
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 2: gonna say those two question marks were kisses and that

1579
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 2: where it is, and