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My PARENTS refused to attend my wedding, unless my ESTRANGED brother came too! | Reddit Stories | EP3148 · ok storytime

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  Speaker 4: My parents refused to attend my wedding unless my estranged
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  Speaker 4: brother came too.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's just strange.
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  Speaker 1: Trigger warning. Accusation.
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  Speaker 6: Why do you need a trigger warning for that?
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  Speaker 5: Because I accuse you.
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  Speaker 6: I accuse people of things every single day. Am I
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  Speaker 6: supposed to warn them?
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  Speaker 1: I accuse you of being from Ohio. Guilty 700 years.
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  Speaker 6: Into the basement with you!
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  Speaker 4: My brother, 36 male, and I, 27 female, are nine
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  Speaker 4: years apart.
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  Speaker 1: Nice job on the math. And we were never close.
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  Speaker 5: Nice job on that, too.
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  Speaker 4: I never really understood why, but my parents, who were
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  Speaker 4: in their late 60s, would always say we'd get closer
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  Speaker 4: as we got older.
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  Speaker 1: That never happened. I have no memories of him at
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  Speaker 1: all from my childhood.
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  Speaker 4: And every time I'm forced to interact with him now
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  Speaker 4: as an adult.
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  Speaker 1: He's a total a-hole. He'll gaslight me, never apologize, even
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  Speaker 1: when he's clearly in the wrong. And my parents just
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  Speaker 1: wave off his behavior as a personality quirk.
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  Speaker 5: He's just cool like that. He's just better than you.
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  Speaker 1: He's just your super cool 36-year-old older brother who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like you at all. You're gonna have to learn.
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  Speaker 6: He's just cool like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's her brother.
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  Speaker 5: I'm happy that you used that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's her brother.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, a couple years ago, his now ex-partner of over
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  Speaker 4: 10 years accused him of misconduct.
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  Speaker 5: What kind? What was her name?
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  Speaker 6: Misconduct?
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  Speaker 5: Stop.
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  Speaker 6: That's so good. Dang it, why did I think of that?
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  Speaker 1: Misconduct, and she's just a copper wire?
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  Speaker 5: No, that's misconducts.
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  Speaker 1: It's spelled the same way.
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  Speaker 5: It's just how you say it.
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  Speaker 4: These accusations horrified me. She was part of our family
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  Speaker 4: for most of my life, and while we weren't close,
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  Speaker 4: she always was very sweet.
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  Speaker 1: And kind to me.
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  Speaker 4: Unlike him, the civil suit is still ongoing between them
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  Speaker 4: as far as I know. I am having an extremely
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  Speaker 4: intimate wedding of 35 guests. I did invite my brother,
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  Speaker 4: but he never RSVP'd. When I told my parents he
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  Speaker 4: never RSVP'd, and it was now nearly two months later,
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  Speaker 4: past the deadline they reached out to him and he
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  Speaker 4: reached out to me he blamed me for him not
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  Speaker 4: RSVPing said the process had been too confusing even though
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  Speaker 4: he never reached out with questions and every other guest
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  Speaker 4: managed to RSVP just fine and he demanded a plus
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  Speaker 4: one for his girlfriend of six months who was over
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  Speaker 4: ten years younger than him and three months pregnant apparently.
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  Speaker 4: advice ever. And if you have anything to say for yourself,
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  Speaker 4: put it down in the comments.
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  Speaker 1: Don't plead the fifth on us. All right? Let it
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  Speaker 1: be known what you have to say.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And OP says... I put my foot.
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  Speaker 4: Down and I said, no, I don't want him there.
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  Speaker 4: My friends know how uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: He makes me.
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  Speaker 4: And initially, my parents said, while they were sad, they
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  Speaker 4: would ultimately respect my choice.
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  Speaker 5: That's cool. That's lovely.
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  Speaker 6: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they meant that, right?
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  Speaker 5: Also, can we just talk about how it was too
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  Speaker 5: hard for someone to RSVP?
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  Speaker 6: It takes too much time.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't figure out the doohickeys on this one.
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  Speaker 4: I'd be like, okay, we'll make sure... Whoever's driving you
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  Speaker 4: to the wedding, since you clearly can't be trusted to
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  Speaker 4: drive a automobile, make sure they remind you to put
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  Speaker 4: on your helmet, your knee pads, and your elbow pads, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: We don't want you getting hurt.
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  Speaker 5: We'll put training wheels on the car for you, too.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 6: No, it'll be the Flintstones car.
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  Speaker 4: Don't forget also your high chair and your bib, because...
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  Speaker 4: Lord knows you don't know how spoons and forks work yet.
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  Speaker 5: I've given you too much power being over there.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: We will swap.
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  Speaker 4: So now we have about two months until my wedding
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  Speaker 4: and suddenly they've all changed their minds.
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  Speaker 1: They won't come unless he does. I'm heartbroken.
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  Speaker 4: They say I'm being immature and disinviting him is a
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  Speaker 4: bridge too far.
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  Speaker 1: I am not a parent. But I am trying to
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  Speaker 1: see their perspective.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on. You never disinvited him. He just never RSVP'd.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, if someone tells me, invites me to a thing
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  Speaker 4: and goes, hey, make sure you put your name on
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  Speaker 4: the RSVPs or they'll put.
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  Speaker 1: You on the list and let you in. And then
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  Speaker 1: I never do that? I don't go, oh, great, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for the list. Thanks for needing a list. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for inviting me. Could have made it a lot easier.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. This is a very easy. Did you RSVP?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that sucks. Parents, do you not want to go?
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  Speaker 5: If he's not going, I guess you're not going. Great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd be like, yeah, you're not going, actually.
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  Speaker 5: Saves me the stress.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, I'll put a little empty chair in the front
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  Speaker 1: row where you would have sat.
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: OP continues.
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  Speaker 4: I just can't shake how they always seem to minimize
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  Speaker 4: my emotions and make me the problem even on my
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  Speaker 4: wedding day.
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  Speaker 1: Am I being unreasonable? And we have some comments from OP.
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  Speaker 5: Why are you being unreasonable? They're the ones, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: they're the unreasonable ones.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 4: She should have known that her idiot brother is completely
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  Speaker 4: incapable of even, like, he just sees the letters RSVP
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  Speaker 4: and he's like, What's it, Rizvip?
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand. Maybe there was a typo. It says Rizvip.
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand what that means. That's not a word!
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  Speaker 1: What is that?
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  Speaker 5: Mom! Mom!
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  Speaker 1: Siri, call my mom!
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  Speaker 5: Help!
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  Speaker 1: Help!
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  Speaker 6: I need somebody.
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  Speaker 4: Help.
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  Speaker 1: Not just anybody.
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  Speaker 6: Help.
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  Speaker 2: Help.
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  Speaker 5: Help.
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  Speaker 1: It's not my fault I didn't RSVP your wedding. You
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  Speaker 1: sent me a paper with scary letters on it.
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  Speaker 6: I was so scared.
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  Speaker 1: I was hiding in my basement.
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  Speaker 5: I'm 36. Some relevant comments by Opie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting married in less than a month, so I'll
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  Speaker 1: report back if it was worth it or not. For reference,
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  Speaker 1: guest count is 33.
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  Speaker 5: That's very obscure.
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  Speaker 4: Getting married on a weekday in March and negotiated the
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  Speaker 4: bananas out of them. And it's $ 60, 000 just for the venue, catering, lodging,
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  Speaker 4: inclusive of all fees. Dang.
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  Speaker 1: You paid $ 60, 000 for a 33-person wedding.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, if you want to keep it small, make it fun,
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  Speaker 5: keep it intimate. Their money, do whatever they want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 4: You could have lit that all on fire as well.
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  Speaker 4: Number two, that's not the estimated cost for the entire wedding.
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  Speaker 4: That's just the venue lodging food beverage.
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  Speaker 5: Holy cannoli.
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  Speaker 4: But them paying is why I don't feel comfortable uninviting them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, what? Are you talking about your parents?
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  Speaker 5: But you're not uninviting your parents.
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  Speaker 1: They're uninviting themselves.
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  Speaker 5: They're uninviting themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, there's an update here, too. That's the
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  Speaker 1: end of those comments.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 4: We scheduled a family therapy session. My parents, my fiance,
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  Speaker 4: and I, it went horribly.
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  Speaker 5: Our therapist went cha-ching.
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  Speaker 4: I calmly explained that I expected my feelings and comfort
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  Speaker 4: would be prioritized on my wedding day. My mom very
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  Speaker 4: calmly said, you were wrong. It spiraled from there. My
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  Speaker 4: parents called me selfish, entitled, said my decision was disrespectful
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  Speaker 4: to them. They did not hold back. My fiance and
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  Speaker 4: I kept our composure and remained calm. They raised their
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  Speaker 4: voices and started mocking my therapist.
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  Speaker 5: There it is. At one point. I saw it coming.
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  Speaker 5: Because I was like, if you respond with just calm,
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  Speaker 5: soft tone, they're going to get louder.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: So you should start whispering, Opie.
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  Speaker 4: My mom even said my attention to all the little
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  Speaker 4: wedding details didn't bode well for my marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, this comment sticks with me the most.
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  Speaker 4: I am extremely detail-oriented. It's one of the things I
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  Speaker 4: love about myself. It's something important for my job, and
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  Speaker 4: it's important for all of my hobbies, so it felt
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  Speaker 4: extremely personal. After the therapy session, I texted every single
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  Speaker 4: family member of my extended family who's coming to the
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  Speaker 4: wedding and let them know that my parents may not
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  Speaker 4: be coming to my wedding and the reason why.
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  Speaker 1: The outpouring of support I received was overwhelming and touched
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  Speaker 1: my heart.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: Now they're going to start yelling at everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Boo hoo.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe scratch that, reverse it. Everyone else starts yelling
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  Speaker 1: at them.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Keep it in the family.
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  Speaker 4: They assured me they were coming to my wedding for
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  Speaker 4: my fiance and me, not my parents or brother.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been.
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  Speaker 4: Super close with my cousins and aunts, but I've been
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  Speaker 4: following up and checking in with them more often now.
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  Speaker 4: About a week later, my mom called me and said
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  Speaker 4: they decided they wanted to come.
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  Speaker 1: My dad made it clear he was going to support
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  Speaker 1: his wife. That's wild.
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  Speaker 5: That is wild. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Dang.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they just really think this is going to end
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  Speaker 1: in divorce. They're like, we'll just go to the second one.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 5: You know what? I would announce it at the wedding.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, guys, mom came for me. Dad, on the
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  Speaker 5: other hand, came to support his wife.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, give it up for my dad. He's only here
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  Speaker 1: for his wife. What a champ. And then, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what happened. No one says anything. No one claps.
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  Speaker 5: Boo! Yeah, do it. It'll be fun.
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  Speaker 1: And then I ruined this experience for them. So that
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  Speaker 1: was fun to hear.
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  Speaker 4: My wedding is in two weeks. I'm praying for no drama.
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  Speaker 4: But at this point, I've accepted that I can't control
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  Speaker 4: what they do. I'm still hyped to get married and
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  Speaker 4: see all my friends and extended family. My in-laws have
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: really stepped up. My future mother-in-law checks in every week
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  Speaker 4: to see how I'm doing. My mom hasn't checked in.
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  Speaker 4: I'll let y'all know how the wedding goes.
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  Speaker 1: Update number two.
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  Speaker 5: Do we think there's going to be any hiccups? Do
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  Speaker 5: we think brothers are going to show up? Do we
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  Speaker 5: think mom and dad are going to say something outrageous?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: To all of those? Okay. This guy's a yes man.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: I think the brother, the mom, and the dad show
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  Speaker 1: up to the wedding as three guys stacked on top
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  Speaker 1: of each other in a trench coat.
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  Speaker 3: Trench coat.
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  Speaker 1: And, like, honestly, if they did that and I'm OP,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, you guys can come, but only
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  Speaker 1: if you commit to the bit. Your name is now
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: Vincent Adultman. There's another update. Hey, y'all. I'm back.
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  Speaker 4: As a precaution, a few days before the wedding, I
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  Speaker 4: sent my venue some press my brother was featured in,
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  Speaker 4: where his photo was shown, so they know to watch
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  Speaker 4: out for him and what he looked like.
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  Speaker 5: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Smart. You sent the venue some press?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Of your brother with his foot? What crime did your
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  Speaker 1: brother commit to get put in the papers?
• 11:19
  Speaker 5: Being an a-hole.
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  Speaker 1: Local man breaks into Corner Mart to eat hot dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Local man may break into your wedding.
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  Speaker 5: Beware.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, I was 95% sure
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  Speaker 4: he wouldn't come. Growing up, he would never show up
• 11:38
  Speaker 4: to events I wanted him to attend, and my wedding
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  Speaker 4: was in an extremely remote location anyway, so I felt
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  Speaker 4: I had sufficient insurance, and I was right.
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  Speaker 1: He never showed up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he still was trying to figure out how to
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  Speaker 5: do the RSVP.
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  Speaker 6: He's still like, what is this?
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  Speaker 1: OP continues, there was a strange man who was absurdly
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  Speaker 1: tall and wore a long trench coat who just kind
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  Speaker 1: of stood in the back the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But my brother was not there. There was just a
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  Speaker 4: really tall, lumpy woman who kind of looked like my mom.
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  Speaker 4: But she was far too large.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the proportions were all off. Like the top, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it just didn't make any sense. But shout out to
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  Speaker 5: that really tall person.
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  Speaker 4: So, most of my success was centered around my parents.
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  Speaker 4: I was concerned that they would cause some kind of scene,
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  Speaker 4: but they were pretty withdrawn the whole day. But at
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  Speaker 4: every moment, I was low-key terrified they would do something.
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: When I finally took my wedding dress off, It was
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  Speaker 4: covered in hives, so that was fun. Hey, at least
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: you get free honey.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, McFly.
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  Speaker 4: But, honestly, looking at the pictures of the day, I
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  Speaker 4: look happy and relaxed. I absolutely love our pictures. Every
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: vendor did a phenomenal job. And I look back with
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  Speaker 4: mostly fond memories. Where my parents and I stand now
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  Speaker 4: is a weird place. Before the wedding, I honestly would
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: have thought they were like my best friends. I felt
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  Speaker 4: like I could tell them anything. Therapy didn't last long,
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: but in our final session, I let my mom know
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  Speaker 4: that I felt like fundamentally they treated my brother and
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: me very differently. Where they expected me to show up early,
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: they were just happy if he showed up at all.
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: If I'd gotten pregnant at 25 to a man 11
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: years older than me on a first date, not five
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  Speaker 4: years after graduating an Ivy League school they paid full
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: price for, I knew they would not be.
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  Speaker 1: Excited for me, but for him they were delighted.
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: My brother and his fiancée ended up getting married only
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: a day or two after me in a nearby city
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  Speaker 4: by a justice of the peace. My parents attended, but
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: to my knowledge it was extremely small. She was six
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  Speaker 4: or seven months pregnant at this point. I feel like
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: the best friends I thought I had in my parents
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  Speaker 4: are now people with whom I have major value differences.
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: I don't know how to reconcile the people I grew
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  Speaker 4: up with with the people who've been crappy to me
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  Speaker 4: the last nine months.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really call or text them anymore. Maybe that
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: will change. I don't know. About the money, Spider-Man.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people called out the cost of my wedding,
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  Speaker 4: how my parents paid, therefore could call the shots, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 4: I will be honest. My parents are very wealthy. Like,
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  Speaker 4: low eight-figure net worth.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Which is a cool ten million for any of those
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  Speaker 1: who are out of the loop.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 4: The amount they paid for my wedding literally meant nothing
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  Speaker 4: financially to them. Beyond this, I often wrestled with the
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: concept that they paid, therefore it was their party, but
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: that concept is so gross to me.
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  Speaker 1: If I threw my friend a birthday party, it.
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  Speaker 4: Would be so, so out of pocket for me to
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  Speaker 4: invite someone they had a horrible relationship with, even if
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  Speaker 4: I paid for every single thing.
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  Speaker 1: I would never do that to my friend. Yeah, well,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: we've got a little more left to this story.
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  Speaker 5: OP, let's be real. It wasn't just nine months. It
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: was your entire life. Your brother was the golden child.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Yep. Hate to break it to you. You probably already
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: know this. I mean, low contact. Very easy. Like you said,
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  Speaker 5: it's a weird, weird, uh, weird feeling now. That's on them.
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  Speaker 5: Not on you. Yeah.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe you can do an elaborate scheme and, like, you know, like, um.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Do a pyramid scheme against your parents.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: Do a big Lebowski on your parents. Do a big Lebowski.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Do a bunny Lebowski on your parents.
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: Do an Ocean's Eleven on your parents.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. We got the rest of
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: the story. I told my parents that just because they
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: paid for the wedding doesn't mean they get to dictate
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: the whole thing.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: I underscored that if I had known my wedding budget
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: was dependent on my brother's attendance... I wouldn't have accepted
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: a single dime. They agreed that putting conditions on the money, retroactively,
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: was unfair.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I guarantee you they don't give a rat's butt.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like, yeah, that wasn't fair. Unfair that you
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: didn't listen to us. Anyway, married life is great. Nice.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: My husband is amazing.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: Great.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: And I appreciate every single comment.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: Amazing.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: I read them all. Can't believe so many people cared.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: And there are some more comments here. All things considered,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: a good outcome. Utterly unsatisfying. And that is the end
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: of that story.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: That's... I was satisfied. I was satisfied, man.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: Okay, Alexander Hamilton.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: His name was Malaxander Tandleton.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: That's the end of that story. We have another one
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: coming right up. My mother told my stepdaughter her real
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: mom abandoned her. I just only discovered.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Is someone lying?
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Hey, there's a trigger warning for this story. There is
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: a trigger warning for loss and physical altercation. I, female 28,
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: and my husband, male 29, have been together for six
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: years now, and we have been living together for three years.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: He has a daughter, nine, from his previous relationship. He
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: introduced her to me from the first months of formally dating.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: The girl's mother was very kind to me. They no
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: longer felt anything for each other, and they did not
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: end on bad terms. Furthermore... I always gave the girl
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: her rightful place, and I never asked my partner to
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: forget about his daughter. So, my relationship with the girl's
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: mother was very good. The girl always spent Christmas or
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: New Year's with us. When it was his birthday, they
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: always invited me. And sometimes, I even went to my
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: partner's ex's birthday and his ex-mother-in-law's birthday. The trust was
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: so great that once I went on vacation with my
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: mother and took the girl with me, we were away
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: for a week. Her biological parents did not go on
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: the trip for work. This sounds extremely healthy.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I was like, where's the problem?
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: This seems extremely, insanely healthy? What the heck?
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I want the problems.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: My mother never treated the girl badly. On the contrary,
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: she gave her many gifts and pampering. Everything changed three
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: years ago when the girl, her grandparents, and her mother
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: had a serious accident. Oh, no. The mother and grandmother
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: passed away?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Yikes.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: And.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: The grandfather was very ill and his other children had
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: to take care of him. My partner and I took
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: custody immediately. And we also started therapy. By the way,
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: this comes from user ParticularShip8645. And if you want to
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: submit your own stories, go to the r slash OKStoryTime subreddit.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: I'm Keon.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I'm Dakota.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: And I'm Savannah. And us three are going to try
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: and give good advice goofily about this story. We don't
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: know everything, we only know what we do, so let
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: us know what you do in the comments down below,
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: pretty please. Also, give comments on Mia and how cute
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: she is. Yes. If you give her pets.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: She smells something in the force. She smells... She's.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Just a little doggy.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: A smelly smell.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: As Opie says, when he couldn't go, I accompanied her.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: I'm assuming when my husband couldn't go, I accompanied her. Today,
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: after a long time, the girl is physically recovering. Well,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: since I assumed the role of Mother of the girl,
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: my mother changed completely. She was distant. She visited us
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: very little. And when she did, she always made hurtful comments.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: And they became increasingly stronger to the point of telling
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: me that I was stupid for raising a daughter who
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: didn't carry our blood.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the powers in the blood. She just
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: wants to be here. It's all right.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Mia. Mia.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Mia, what do you smell? She smells something from a
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: different time. She's like, I've got to warn. I've got
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: to warn somebody. October 27th, 2028.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: It got even worse when the girl started calling me mom.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Can I just say something? I really hate that we
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: call the girl the girl in this. The girl.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: You can call him TG, TGI. Fridays. TG. TGI gal Friday.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: I'm going to keep going. I never demanded that the
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: girl call me mom. And even though we always remind
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: her of her mother, she tells us that she has
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: two moms, one who takes care of her from heaven
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: and the other who takes care of her on earth.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: And that is really sad and really heartwarming at the
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: same time. Dang.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: And how old is this girl again?
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Like nine. Oh. Around that age.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: God, my heart.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Kim Roberts says, well, then why do you keep saying
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: the girl? Mia. We're going to call the girl Mia.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: When my mother found out about this, she went crazy
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: and began to insist that I should get pregnant in
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: order to raise my true children. I no longer paid
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: attention to her, but the final straw was a few
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: days ago at a dinner where their mother's family was present.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: My daughter's family, my family, and my boyfriend's family. There,
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: I announced my pregnancy. I am five months along. Congratulations. Yeah.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Everyone congratulated me and it was a beautiful moment until
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Mia spoke and said, finally, I will have another brother.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: My mother is going to give me another brother. That
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: was when my mother told Mia that she should remember
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: that I was not her mother and that her real
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: mother was gone and passed away.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: God, I mean, what a heartless witch.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: And which then Mia left the room crying. Congratulations. You
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: are a heartless wench.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, like, who do you think you are? Like, okay,
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: she can believe that. She's nine.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: All right. Congratulations, Mom. You made a nine-year-old girl cry.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Good job. I went after Mia and consoled her. Then
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: she confessed to me that my mother had never loved
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: her and that whenever she could, she told her that
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: her real mother had abandoned her? Hmm.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: That's a funny way to put that.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: I exploded. She's quite an adult woman to mess with
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: a child. I went to the living room where there
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: was a scandal. My mother played the victim and wanted
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: me to defend her, but I simply told her that
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: she was no longer my mother, that I was not
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: going to allow her to get close to my boyfriend's
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: girl or my son. She told me that I had
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: no right to keep her away from her grandson, but
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: I didn't care. I punted her out of the house
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: and I told her that if she came near me again,
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: I would put her in prison because she psychologically harmed Mia.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: I mean, she did.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I would put her in prison right now. When I
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: told everything that Mia had told me, One of her
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: aunts actually assaulted her in the face, and my mother-in-law
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: took her out of the house. What?
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: What is wrong?
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: This is actually the first time where somebody actually, they're like, no,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: it's okay. We won't result, like, we won't, like, go
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: to violence on this. Like, just tell her to leave.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Use words. People actually used actions. against somebody for doing this,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: because honestly, fair enough. I didn't do anything to defend her.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: I don't feel guilty about that. Now, my boyfriend and
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: I decided to put a restraining order against my mother.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: My brothers say I'm exaggerating, but I'm not willing to
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: let Mia live with my mother ever again. And we
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: have an update.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's on site with mom forever.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Do you realize what you've said? You were called out
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: on it, but you still kept digging.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Would go out of my way to bother this woman.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: And also be like, by the way, you're not my mom.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I don't think of you as my mom. You're not
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: my real mom.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: You're not my real mom.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: You're just some kind of creature that slithered out of
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: a pile of primordial ooze, and it took form in
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: the shape of a woman with black, empty heart.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Truly.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And also, you stink, and you don't know how to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: brush your teeth right.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: You only get the top, not the bottom.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And that dress was ruined when you bought it.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: There is an update. I think we're doing the right thing.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Go restraining order. No contact. Finished. Done. Update. Hello. I
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: never thought about updating, but recently things happened that changed
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: my thinking. After the bitter discoveries, I cut ties with
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: my mother and anyone who defended her. Unfortunately, my mother
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: began to spread rumors regarding my partner, saying that he
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: forced me to cut ties with her and that he
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: had my phone and my social networks under control. The
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: rumors reached all of my friends and loved ones. I
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: began to receive many messages, and although I denied all
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: the facts, she said what she had done, they did
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: not believe me. My boyfriend had problems at work, given
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: that many women he works with believed my mother. My
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: boyfriend and I tried to silence my mother's lies, but
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: almost no one believed me, and everyone considered that my
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: boyfriend has brainwashed me? What a world are we living in?
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: This is definitely a culture where... Elders definitely have like
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: a no matter what they say is just like final.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Opie says, finally, we decided to move in with my
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: boyfriend's parents. When some friends found out about this, they
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: tried to convince me that it was wrong, that regardless
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: of my pregnancy, I could escape from my boyfriend. I
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: told everyone that if they didn't believe me, I would
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: cut ties with them. After that, I would block them.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: So living with my in-laws and not having contact with
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: my friends, I started to feel lost. But luckily, I
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: had my stepdaughter, who is a great motivation. My relationship
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: with her has become stronger now with therapy. And over time,
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: I stopped feeling alone because my daughter's maternal aunts and
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: my sister-in-law kept me company. And little by little, they
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: became my close friends. As for my boyfriend, he was
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: able to get a job in the same company as
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: my father-in-law. And our love relationship has improved. Before, we
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: had problems because he felt very bad about the multiple
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: insults and indifferences he received daily from our friends. That
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: strengthened us as a couple and family. And further strengthened
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: his relationship with his parents and sisters. Due to everything
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: that happened, I had a very complex pregnancy. And unfortunately,
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: my baby came early. That's not unfortunate.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Well, for the baby it is.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Hey.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, it is if you were betting the over.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Truth.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: I was premature by a month. Oh, dang. Look how
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: I turned out. My baby was born two weeks ago
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: at almost 35 weeks of gestation. He weighed two kilos
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: and was a boy whom we named Oliver in honor
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: of my daughter's mother, Olivia. That is so sweet. That's
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: so sweet.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: That is really, really sweet.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Oliver and company.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: So my boyfriend and mother-in-law were at my birth, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: then I received a visit from my sister-in-law and Mia's aunts.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: But the visit that I was not expecting was from
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: my mother. She wanted to see her grandson. I don't
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: know how she knew where I was or how she
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: knew that my son had already been born, but I
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: guess my brother spilled the beans. She became very violent
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: when I denied her access to my son. She tried
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: to force to see him and tried to get into
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: my room, but my boyfriend chased her away. Don't we
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: have a thing called a restraining order? Let's use that.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: And here we go. Thanks to our restraining order, we
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: were able to call the police. And she was arrested!
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah!
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Get out of here!
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Woohoo!
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: A little bit left here. Let's go ahead and finish
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: this up. So, finally, my boyfriend reported her. And we
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: attached all the necessary evidence. My brother started calling me
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: days later and tried to get me to withdraw the complaint.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: They wanted to visit me, but my in-laws and my
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: boyfriend didn't let them get close to me or my children.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: I'm currently at home. My son is still in the hospital.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: He is in an incubator. My boyfriend, my in-laws, and
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: I get to see him every day. We hope that
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: in one more week, he will finally be home. We
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: are all excited and hopeful that all of this will
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: finally be over and we can just enjoy my son
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: and be a happy family.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, enjoy your son.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: My sister demanded I give her daughter the gift I
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: bought for someone else.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: That's not for her.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: My niece likes a who's 14 female and my goddaughter
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Daisy female 8.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Are both born in December, just a few days apart.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: I don't really get along with my sister, so my
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: contact with my niece is limited to family, birthdays, Christmas,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: and Easter.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Not Thanksgiving?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Hmm. Well, maybe OP's not thankful.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: That makes sense.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Maybe they're not American.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: That also makes sense.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know much about Alexa, just that she's very introverted.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: She barely speaks during family gatherings.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: And that she loves books and always has headphones on,
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: but I had no idea what kind of music she liked.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Daisy is my best friend's daughter. Her mother and I
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: have been best friends since middle school. And I've been
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: part of Daisy's life since day one. I'm a big
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: K-pop fan. And recently, Daisy has picked up my passion.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: She loves my favorite K-group and has gone as far
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: as learning lyrics and choreography.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Who is it? Who's the group?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: So.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: For her birthday, I decided to do something special and
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: buy two tickets for their upcoming concert in January.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: Very cool.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: It's a pretty expensive gift considering tickets, travel, and accommodation,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: but I was more focused on the memories we would
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: build thanks to this experience. Last week, my sister heard
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: me talking to my mom about what I planned for
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Daisy's birthday. She told me that Alexa loves the same
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: K group and asked me to take her to the
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: concert too as a birthday gift. By the way, this
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: comes from ExpensiveWaltz1033. If you want to submit your own stories,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: go to the r slash OKStoryTime subreddit.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I'm Dakota.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: I'm Keon.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: And I'm Savannah.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: And we are all K-pop experts who will be weighing
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: in on this story with.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Our perfect advice. But just kidding. It's opposite day. We
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: don't always know everything all the time. Let us know
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: what you think in the comments, okay? And OP says.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I explained to her that it wasn't possible as I
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: already bought the tickets and I wouldn't be able to
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: find another one as the concert was already sold out. Plus,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: I couldn't really afford a three-person trip anyway, so she
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: suggested that I took Alexis and she's older and my
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: real niece.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Mmm.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I told her that this whole.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Trip was planned for Daisy and it wasn't fair to
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: ask me to change her gift in favor of Alexa.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I told her that there will be other occasions and
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: that now that I know that Alexa loves the group,
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: I'll make sure to gift her something related like official
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: merchandise or a signed album. She called me an a-hole
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: and accused me of loving a stranger more than my blood.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: This is nice. This is so cool.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: You know what I would start doing?
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: I'd start going, why don't you get your daughter tickets
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: for the K-pop show?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: How much do you.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: Love your daughter?
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Shouldn't you love your daughter more than me? It seems
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: like you don't love your daughter enough. You're not giving
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: her good enough gifts. What's wrong with you?
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Seems like my sister's a terrible mother who hates her children.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah. What a great ideology to have.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm literally your sister, by the way.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: And you just what you love somebody who's like half
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: you and half somebody else.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: More than me. I'm like, we came from the same parents. OK,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: like kind of crazy. You're basically. Yeah, you're you love
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a stranger more than me.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: Who is that? Your daughter?
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: Are you sure?
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Like, just give it back to him. Like 10 exit.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Step it up.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Somebody tells you that the world is flat, you tell
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: them that the moon is fake. Tell them the moon
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: is a hologram.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: It's cheese.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Ramp it up to the next thing. Oh, you think
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the moon is fake? I bet you think stars are real, too.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I bet you think the world, the Earth itself, is round.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's so funny you believe in air, don't you?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: How could planes fly if there was air?
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Gravity? You're insane.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: My mother later told me it was being unfair. And
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: that a teen would appreciate a concert more than an eight-year-old.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Am I the a-hole?
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: No!
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: Also, I see where the apple falls from. Mother said
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: a teen would like that more than an eight-year-old. What?
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Shut up, Mom.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: You know what? I'm going to teach that teenager how
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: to steal her parents' credit card. That's what I'm going
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: to do. I'm going to say, you know what? Happy birthday, Alexa.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Did you know that if you take a picture of
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the numbers on the back of your parents' credit card,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: You can buy anything on Earth.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Not really.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: There's an update.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Angie, your favorite fake redhead host here, and
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: we're going to get back to the stories, but here's
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: a three-minute ad break from our sponsors.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Almost a month later, after I decided to post this,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: here's my update. Since last Sunday was Alexa's birthday, and
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: this Saturday will be Daisy's. Also, I'm sorry in advance
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: if I make any mistakes. English is not my first language.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: I'm trying my best.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: You're a champion. So as I said, Sunday was Alexa's birthday.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Even though what my sister and my mother told me
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: about gift swapping and Daisy not being really family pissed
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: me off, Alexa had no blame in all of this
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: and I did feel kind of bad to give her
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: a generic gift. I tried to talk to my sister
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: to know what kind of merch Alexa would love to
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: have or at least what she already had in her collection.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: I was told to go F myself and that Alexa
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: didn't need my pity second thought gift.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Pick a lane.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I know, like, what do you want? You want me
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: to take her to the concert, but.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Then just like, you know what?
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: No.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: She's not coming. You're just rubbing it in.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: It's a pity gift.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Honestly, dog, I'm not.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: I'm an only child, but I can't imagine any other
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: response to that other than like, we're fighting today. I'm
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: coming to your house. Make sure the kid's at her
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: friend's house. We're fighting in your backyard until we get
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: over this.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: We're fighting.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: It's a fight.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: And then we move on and we forget about this.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: And you tell me what kind of merch your freaking
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: daughter has. And you stop being a complete moron. You
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: did the equivalent of like asking yourself to go on
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: the trip. It's like someone's like, oh, yeah, we're going
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: to go here. And then someone goes, oh, can I go?
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: No, you can't.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: It's not part of the plan. I go, sorry, honey.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: That's on your mom for making it very hard to
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: see you. I would have done it if I would
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: have known. But I get to see a very, very
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: limited amount of times throughout the year because your mom
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: doesn't like me.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Since my sister was not going to be helpful, I
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: asked my brother-in-law. Fortunately, he was very happy to help
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: and was also grateful that I was taking an interest
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: in Alexa. He told me my niece has social anxiety.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: She has no close friends and her only outlet is books,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: K-pop and K-drama.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: Great. You know what I got for her? I have
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: a nice friend right here. You introduce her to the
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: girl you're taking to the concert.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: What, to Daisy?
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: Daisy.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: She's eight.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Don't matter.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. 14 to eight is not a good,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: that's like a babysitting range. It's not a close, that's
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: not a friendship range.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: They're going to be singing K-pop and dancing to K-pop?
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Totally fine, dude.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I will tell you right now, that 14-year-old will not
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: hang out with an eight-year-old.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, 14-year-old's going to go to the K-pop concert with
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: the eight-year-old and be like, I suck. Really, my friend
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: is an eight-year-old who I don't know.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: Would you rather have an eight-year-old friend rather than zero friends?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I bet that's not a friend. If you go as
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a lonely teenager, if that happened to you, all you
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: would think about is how you don't have any actual
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: friends there.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: Dude, have you ever hung out with an eight-year-old? They're hilarious.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is a 14-year-old girl with no friends.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Great.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: She's going to be like, dang, I'm so uncool. The
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: only person I can hang out with at the K-pop concert.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Not exactly a niche interest anymore is an eight-year-old.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I feel like a loser. And that's not true, but
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: she's 14.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: That's fine. I don't think so.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Lonely teens rise up. Where you at? I was a
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: real lonely teen.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: I was not.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I was lonely until probably like 16.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Only child. Very small.
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: You didn't have any friends?
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Outside of school, I did not get a lot of socializing.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Shame.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: That makes sense.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know, man.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Whatever.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Whatever.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Apparently.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: My sister is always on her case because she has
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: no friends. Anyway, I decided to buy her the group's
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: official light stick, a plushie of her favorite member's mascot,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: and the newly released signed album. I know I went
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: a little bit crazy, but I was feeling pretty guilty.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: I swear I don't remember Alexa giving me a true
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: smile until she opened the presents. She lit up from
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: within and gave me the longest and biggest hug.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Oh, see, we have a comment from Snorpkin. As someone
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: who was previously 14 with no friends, I wouldn't have
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: enjoyed hanging out with an 8-year-old at a concert. I
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: probably felt like babysitting for free, but like... Oh, did
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: you start.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Reading that thinking that was going to support you?
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: No, no. I saw people, like, some people were just
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: agreeing with you, and I get it. But, like, I
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: would have enjoyed hanging out with, like, a younger kid.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's because you were a complete loser.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's different when you're a loser. It's different when
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: you feel like a loser. It's also different when you're
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: a girl.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this person is a loser.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: It's very different when you're a teenage girl, too. They
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: get mean.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Go watch Toy Story 5 and come back to me.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: She was super excited because she was saving in order
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: to buy the light stick. I told her that maybe
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: next tour we could go to a concert together and use.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Our light sticks. And that's where my sister ruined it.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: She scoffed and said in front of everyone, yeah, because
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: we all know this year you're going with your favorite.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Of course, Alexa takes the back seat.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God. You suck. And now you get nothing.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: At least none of us were as big of a
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: loser as OP's sister.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: And that's when I take every single souvenir back. And
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: I said, oh, OK, I'll just give it to Alexa
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: since she's my favorite.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, so at this point, you just got to
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: like damage control, right? Because that's a way out of
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: pocket thing for your sister to say. And you just
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: tell Alexa, you go, okay, your mom's a little funny.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: That's not true. I don't have a favorite. This was
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: just part of the plan. I got you the merch.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I'm taking her to the show. I don't have the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: funds to do both for both of you. So I'll
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: be taking you to the concert on the next tour.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: It's K-pop. It's not going anywhere. It'll be around.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, everlasting, ever-growing.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Honestly, she's probably just mad that Like your gift made
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: her daughter light up? Because it really just sounds like
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: she low-key hates her daughter.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the fact that she has no idea how to
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: make her daughter happy.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: I could feel how hurt and embarrassed Alexa was, but
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: she put on a brave face and thanked me for
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: all the presents, and she told me that she didn't
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: want to go to the concert since it was crowded
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: and too loud. But maybe she could come to my
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: flat sometime to play Zelda and read manga. Aw, dude.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: Sick. Alexa, sick.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Pretty sick, dude. Pretty sick.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: When my sister tried to say that I'm too busy,
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: I shut her up. and told my niece that she's
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: always welcome.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, good. Have it with Alexa there. Like, no, no, no.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: I'm saying this clear as day. I want you to
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: do that. I want you to come over and play
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: Zelda and read whatever you want and just hang out
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: with me.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd be like, hey, do you know what a
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: drinking problem is? Your mom has one of those. Oh, oh,
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: is that not true? Sorry, I thought we were just
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: saying things completely out of pocket that aren't real.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: I'm texting brother-in-law. I'm just like, what is going on
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: with her? Is she always like this? I mean, I
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: know she is, but is she always like this when
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: I'm not around? Is it only when I'm around, or
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: is it all the time? Because this needs to be exposed.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Also, I overheard my sister and brother-in-law discussing in the kitchen.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: He was livid with her.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: All in all, I think it went well. Now I'm
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: just waiting for Daisy's birthday surprise. And we got some comments.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: Comment one says, no offense, OP, but your sister sounds
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: like a raging salty little spittoon who seems to take
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: more pleasure in being passive aggressive than being kind towards
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: her own daughter. Your brother-in-law sounds like he's got his
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: priorities straight at least. OP says, my sister has always
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: been like this. She loves a drama.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: She loved being passive aggressive with me during our childhood.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: When I was 12 and she was 16, I had
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: a crush on her history. project partner. She told him
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: and humiliated me in front of him.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: She's just one of those people where she just loves
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: getting a rise, especially out of you. Yeah, your sister
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: just sucks. This is going to probably get a little
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: niche here with what I'm going to say, but do
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: you remember Dragon Ball Z where Android 16 just goes,
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: go on. There are some people you just can't reason with. Like,
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: you just have to put them in their place. And
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: then get stepped on by Cell, and Gohan goes Super
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: Saiyan 2, and you go, that was peak. I'll never
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: get that feeling ever again.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just like, Gohan, please don't try to be friends
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: with this man who's going to cave in my ribcage.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: He's going to destroy the planet, and he does not
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: care for life.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: This man's going to put a hole through me. Don't
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: be friends with him.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: Now, is OP's sister Cell... I really hope not, because
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: that would be really bad for the world. But in
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: that sense, it's like you just there's some people who
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: just love to be bad.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's people who do this because they have no consequences.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: They have no consequences. And if the consequences becomes, ow,
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: now suddenly their behavior might change. But, you know, it's
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: real tricky to do that as an adult, you know.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: Sorry, that's for all my Dragon Ball Z fans. I
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: appreciate you. But that's the end of that story. We
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: have another one coming up.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Hey, it's Smiley Riley here from OK Storytime. We're going
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: to get back to these stories, but here's three minutes
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: worth of ads from our sponsors.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: My daughter exposed my ex-husband's affair to everyone because she's
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: just as done as I am.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: OK, family sticks together.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Backstory. My ex-husband and I were together for five years,
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: married for 18 months, at which point I ended things
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: due to his repeated infidelity. Again, he never stopped dating
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: other people when we first started dating.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: So.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: It was for the entirety of our relationship. He's like, no,
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: did you agree to that?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: This is just a miscommunication.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: Did you agree to those terms? What?
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, when you said.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: We're dating, I thought you meant like we're dating. Like
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: we're all we're dating other people, too. Like we're all dating.
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: That's that's what the we meant. I was three months
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: pregnant with my daughter when I found out we tried
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: counseling both alone and together.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: But.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: He wasn't stopping, and I was getting better at recognizing
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: his lies. Our daughter, Amelia Bedelia, was six months old
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: when I decided I had enough. He's a habitual liar,
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: be it for small things or major things. If he
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: thinks in any way he will get in trouble, he lies.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: Flash forward to Christmas 2025. Our daughter is 18. He
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: has remarried to a woman he met shortly after we
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: split up, and they have an eight-year-old daughter, Sadie. Amelia
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: adores her little sister, and my ex and I have
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: managed to co-parent reasonably pretty well for the most part.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: His relationship with Amelia has been rocky on and off
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: through her high school years, as he did not take
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: it well when she came out as bi. He asked
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: her repeatedly if she was sure if it's not just
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: a phase. He would debate her about various LGBTQ plus
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: issues as she needs to be prepared for the real world.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: basically making it so that she didn't want to see
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: him as often.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Now, people will hate me for this, but I think
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: that he's cooking with that opinion. I don't know if
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: he's executing properly, but it definitely should be.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: Like a, yeah, you should be ready to hear people
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: really push back on this, and you should practice to
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: get to a point where it doesn't completely derail you
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: mentally or emotionally, because it's not fair that you would
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: have to go through this, but if you're going to
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: go through this, We need to make sure that you're
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: ready to handle it.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: I think it was the way he was asking it, though.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure he didn't execute right, but that's a
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: good idea.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: I think that's a very sensible thing to do when
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: it's coming from the right place.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: By the way, this comes from user Lady Pipes. And
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: if you want to submit your own stories, go to
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: the r slash OK Storytime subreddit. I'm Keon.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I'm Dakota.
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: And I'm Savannah.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: And us three are going to try and give good
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: advice goofily on this story. We don't know everything. We
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: only know what we do because we're silly gooses.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: Honk. So that's all we know. Let us know what
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: you do in the comments down below. As OP says.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: Given that at this point, she was 16 and had
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: a part-time job, she could decide on her own if
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: and when she visited her dad. Though she mainly went
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: because she wanted to see her sister, especially because she
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: was worried about her. I should add that my ex
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: and his wife's relationship is rather toxic.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Britney!
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: Bring in Britney.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Somebody call Britney. I have a spear.
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: They fight often. They've been fighting since Amelia was four
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: or five. and do so in front of her or
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: near Amelia and Sadie. I could go on, but that's
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: enough backstory. On to Christmas! Happy holidays! She's starting to
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: defrost a little bit.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: She's waking up.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: Our arrangement for Christmas has been that Amelia is with
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: her dad for Christmas, Eve, and comes home to me
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: around 1pm on Christmas Day, which works well and is
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: easy to plan around. This year, we were to meet
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: at 1pm at our usual meeting spot, as we live
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: a little over an hour apart. At 12.40, Amelia texted
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: me to say they were going to be late, that
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: they hadn't left yet. I called her phone and asked
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: to speak to my ex, and he was rather short
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: and said, My wife is very sick, and I'm doing
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: everything on my own. Fine, I just need to know
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: when Amelia is coming home. He ends up driving her
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: to my house because I had timed an early dinner
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: for 2.30, so meeting them at 2pm wasn't doable. Fast
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: forward to 6.45pm. My parents, who are elderly... had gone
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: home and it was just me and Amelia at home,
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: and when Amelia comes out of her room so angry
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: and worried, and she's crying. Sadie had texted her to
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: say that their dad wasn't home yet, and that she
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: had texted him and got no response. I get more
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: information from Amelia that her stepmom has been sick for
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: several weeks, and was in bed for her entire visit.
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: She got out of bed once on Christmas Eve, ended
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: up falling down, and my ex had to help her
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: back into bed because she was too weak to do
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: it herself. Oh boy. My ex asked if she wanted
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: him to call an ambulance, but she said no. So,
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: of course, he didn't do it, and complained to Amelia
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: that she was being stubborn?
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: What are we doing? Bad parenting. Yeah.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: Interesting. So, here we are, Christmas Day. My ex left
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: their place at 1 p.m., and at nearly 7 p.m.,
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: his wife is bedridden, and 8-year-old Sadie has been effectively
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: alone all afternoon. When she texted Amelia... She said she
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: had been hungry and made herself chicken nuggets for dinner.
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: Oh man, Amelia's furious and worried about Sadie, as well
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: as her stepmom. But mainly that Sadie was by herself,
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: and my ex had not gone home and showed no
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: sign of going home anytime soon. If you're wondering where
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: he was, he was with his girlfriend. He told me
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: about two years ago that he had been seeing someone
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: for a while. At first, it was an affair, but
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: he fell in love, so to say. So naturally, when
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: he told his wife, he said they either divorce or
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: open the marriage. So back to Christmas. Back to Christmas?
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: What was that? What was that little side tangent?
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: What or where are we?
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: Why are we allowing this one guy who's just like, yeah,
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: we'll be in a relationship. And then I'm going to
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: get bored and I'm going to find another person. But
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: I'm going to keep him around.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: What planet are we from where that's chill?
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: Planet cold.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Mmm, this guy's getting it.
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: So, Amelia is angry and worried. And I'm worried because
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: Sadie is effectively alone. On Christmas Day, we're an hour
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: away and I had a few glasses of wine. And
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: Amelia had a drink as well, so driving to their
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: house wasn't possible. Not in the U.S., different drinking age
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: where we are. I was about to say, but that
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: makes sense. Instead, we call my ex-mother-in-law to see if
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: she can get to my ex's brother to check on Sadie.
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: But he is at Christmas dinner. With the rest of
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: my ex's family, my ex's parents are divorced. So, we
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: try his brother's phone. No answer. Try my ex-father-in-law. No answer.
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: I end up calling Amelia's godparents, who happen to live
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: down the road from where my ex's father and the
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: family are. Explain the situation, and ask that they walk
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: over and ask someone to call Amelia. Well, Amelia and
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: I ended up outing my ex that he effectively forced
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: his wife into an open marriage... that said wife is bedbound,
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: and that Sadie has been alone for almost eight hours
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: by this point. I will admit that I was kind
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: of blunt. I said, my ex left at 1 p.m.,
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: dropped Amelia off at 2, and instead of going home,
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: he's with his mistress. His wife is bedridden, and Sadie,
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: their granddaughter and niece, is alone. And someone has to
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: go check on them. What are we doing here? What
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: is happening?
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: You know, Sofa says call CPS. I gotta say, I
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: almost agree. Almost.
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: Why not fully?
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: CPS can get into some sticky stuff.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: It's not always a better situation. But yeah, you can't
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: leave the eight-year-old kid alone at home all day when
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: the mom is bedridden.
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: Also, can we take the mom to the hospital or something?
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: She's been bedridden for seven weeks.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. This guy's a great candidate for being turned into,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: what's it called? A eunuch.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Just get rid of the bits, man.
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: You don't need them. Good old Varys.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: You have no use for those bits no more.
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: It's like, because you're the intelligentsia. You're like, I've got
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: so much brain going on in my head, I don't
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: even need my bits.
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this guy needs to be away from anyone. He
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: is terrible. So, back to O.P., It took my ex's
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: father calling him for him to respond. Meanwhile, Amelia had
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: been texting and calling her dad, who sent her the
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: voicemail multiple times. He finally called and said that he
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: was heading home and to stop worrying. But Amelia wouldn't
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: let him off easy and asked him where he had been.
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: He tried to deflect, but Amelia refused. pulled a frozen.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: Amelia wouldn't let it go. All her dad ended up
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: saying was that he was going home and it was fine.
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: Fine being that his wife ended up hospitalized for nearly
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: a week with pneumonia and him sending Sadie to stay
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: with family on his wife's side for a few days.
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: If that's your definition of fine, then We're just peachy.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: It's just a little pneumonia. It's one of those words
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: that starts with a P. It's got a P-N in it.
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: No one takes those words seriously.
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: But the P's silent.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: It's got a silent P.
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: That's where you go, pneumonia.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: That's what they call pneumonia. They call pneumonia the silent P,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: which is funny because it's really loud when you have
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: a pneumonia cough.
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: Speaking of P, Opie says, Personally, I know my daughter
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: is not an a-hole for how she reacted. For worrying
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: about her sister, telling family everything, and not letting him
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: take zero accountability. I may be, since I didn't have
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: to be so blunt with my ex-in-laws, and my part
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: in airing his business. But his business put a child
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: in danger. a child who my daughter loves more than anything,
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: and hurt both his daughters on Christmas Day. So, I
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: stand by it.
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: What is it with this notion that it's like, look,
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: if this was a complete stranger to you, that's one thing, right?
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: If this is like a friend of a co-worker who
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: you don't know, whatever, that's one thing. You are intimately
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: familiar with these people and the people who are impacted
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: by this guy's behavior.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, I didn't want to get up in
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: his business.
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: What the hell are.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: We talking about? He's neglecting his child all day to
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: go hook up with strange women.
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: That's his girlfriend.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's his girlfriend.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: Whatever.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: It's not. It's not. He's cheating on his wife.
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, I feel like when Opie was, again, drank
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: a little bit, Opie couldn't do anything. That's why Opie
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: was calling everyone to the point of exes' parents. ex-in-laws
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: to be like yo is he with you guys we
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: can't get a hold of him what is going on
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: where is he.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Put his business out there dude yeah at this point
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: what are we talking about this is triggering me like
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: the paella because it's like why do we care about
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: someone's partner we've never met at a potluck with a
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: dozen people i don't care if you think i deserve
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: to be hurled into a volcano and chucked out of
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: the atmosphere i don't care There's bigger things going on
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: than your allergy. There's bigger things going on than you feeling, oh,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: people are going to think I'm that kind of person
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: because I'm airing his dirty laundry.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: No!
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: Who cares? It's the sanity for you for... his wife,
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: hopefully soon to be ex-wife, and the daughter, their daughter.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Tell his family, tell his wife's family, tell his neighbors,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: tell everybody.
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: Tell your kids, tell your wife. Start spreading the news.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: OP continues saying, I'm also posting at my daughter's request,
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: as she wants to know if we handled this situation correctly,
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: or if we're a-holes. We have an update. Y'all are
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: so chillin', not even remotely close.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: Um. You mean the guy who ignored his family all day?
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: Christmas Day, by the way, mind you.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: It's like, oh no, the guy who's clearly a scumbag
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: thinks you're an a-hole because you told his family.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Facts about what he's been doing.
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: My biggest question is, who thinks you guys are a-holes?
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: Other than him. Other than him. I'll wait. That was fun.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: All right, nobody. That's right. Dang.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: Call that the sound of silence.
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: We have an update. So, Opie says there were a
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: few requests for an update, and my daughter is joining
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: me with her input. First off, some people were concerned
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: about her stepmother's health. After her stay in the hospital,
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: she has recovered well and is physically back to normal.
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: Heck yes. Regarding why we didn't immediately contact emergency services
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: or CPS, my daughter didn't want to go that far
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: unless it was absolutely necessary, as she didn't want to
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: cause any additional trauma to her sister. Which, yes, smart.
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: If she could have guaranteed that she would be the
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: one that would be taking care of her sister, that
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: would have been different. However, given that she is 18
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: and lives with me in a different city, it would
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: be unlikely to happen. We have discussed that she can
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: have her sister up for visits anytime she wants and
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: are currently making arrangements for her to visit for a
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: few days during March break for further clarification on when
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: my ex finally responded to our daughter. It was nearly
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: 10 p.m. He was trying to convince her to calm down.
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: He was on his way home. Ah, what a cool guy.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Calm down, okay? I cracked. I'm coming home.
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: It only took eight hours.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Jeez, the kids these days got no patience. I've only
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: been gone for eight hours.
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: On Christmas Day. They were just like, her pneumonia was
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: annoying me. The kids are annoying me. Give a man
• 54:15
  Speaker 5: a break. Yeah.
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: Ugh.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Try living a day in my shoes.
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: And Opie continues saying, and that after he dropped her
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: off at my house, he started not feeling well and
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: had caught what stepmom has and then coughed dramatically.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I caught pneumonia.
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: All of a sudden.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: That's how that works.
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: He caught pneumonia all of a sudden.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: See, I feel better now, though. Leave me alone. And
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: Opie says, seriously, he was trying to deflect again and
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: gain sympathy. It didn't work. And she wouldn't let it go.
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: to the point where no matter what he said, Amelia
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: responded saying, Stop lying and tell me the truth. He
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: has since tried to convince her that he was at work, crazy,
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: on Christmas Day, has tried to act like nothing happened,
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: and even tried to act all buddy-buddy with her, borderline
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: love-bombing and gaslighting her. What a guy. Special place for
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: this guy. What a guy.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: This guy knows all the classics.
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: A little bit left here. Well, we know what's happening
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: next Christmas. He's not invited.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Two Christmases.
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: No, it's going to be, you know what? It's going
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: to be the hopefully soon to be new ex-wife and
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: the girls and OP.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Lady Christmas.
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: That's not so much better than what they dealt with
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: this year. I'm going to finish the story. So OP says,
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: I'll leave you all with a copy of the text
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: she sent him shortly after midnight Christmas night into Boxing Day.
• 55:40
  Speaker 5: Which was in response to her dad trying to say
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: that he has tried to help stepmom, but she was
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: too stubborn and wouldn't listen. And that you can't force
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: someone to do something they don't want you to do.
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: And here it goes. Yes, but when that person is
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: endangering themselves and your child, then that's when you have
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: to do something about it. Because if things didn't get better,
• 56:00
  Speaker 5: then stepmom could have been in much worse condition. I'm sorry,
• 56:04
  Speaker 5: but what happened today with Sadie was reckless. And you
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: put her and stepmom in danger. I did what I
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: had to, to protect my sister. I love you, but
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: that's not okay. Good night. That's the end of that story.
• 56:17
  Speaker 5: Good night. I think that's not going to be effective, unfortunately, Amelia.
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: Your dad doesn't care. He's a selfish person. No matter
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: what you do, this guy doesn't care. So I'm sorry.
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry to everyone that has experienced a relationship with
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: this guy. Scummy. That's the end of that story. And
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: we have comments?
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: We've got some comments before the end of this video,
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: and they come from the video.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: My wife cries over her own paintings. I demanded her
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: to stop. That was posted August 25th, 2026. TLDR for
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: the first story.
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: OP's wife is a talented artist who normally paints beautiful
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: things like flowers, pets, and weddings. But about a month ago,
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: something shifted, and she started making deeply disturbing pieces. People
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: with hollowed-out eyes, giant black mouths.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: And twisted creatures she invents from the twisted imaginings in
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: her own mind. The strangest part is that these paintings
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: genuinely terrify her. She shreds the canvas in fear and
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: wakes from nightmares, but she keeps buying more supplies and
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: can't seem to stop. She was very offended when OP
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: finally told her she should quit. If you want to
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: know what happens in this story, you can go watch
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: the full video. And we got some comments.
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: Oh my goodness. I wasn't here for that story. Yeah.
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: That sounds gnarly. I was going to say, she's in
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: her blue period.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: It sounds gnarly, but.
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: It's like- This is her dark period. What is going on?
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: People just didn't get it. It's like Goya painting on
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: his walls, but not quite.
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: To that level.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Comment one by Sue Ann 1214. I draw creepy things
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: almost exclusively and occasionally I'll draw a normal thing as
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: a palate cleanser. Maybe she's afraid of what her imagination
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: is capable of doing.
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: Could be.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: If I could take what my brain thinks sometimes and
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: actually translate it into.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Image, that'd be really bad.
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: That'd be horrific.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I like a lot of really messed up IPs.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: I'm very much fascinated with the... Unknowable horror? I don't
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: know how else to put it.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Comment number two from Bob Smash says, Honestly, she's having
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: some kind of catharsis moment without even realizing it. Yeah,
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: they're going to scare her because they came from her.
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: Sell them.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: Trust that people will buy them.
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: Some sort of art metamorphosis?
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Artamorphosis.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: And our last comment, comment three by Govelgirl says, I
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: did a five panel sculpture painting diorama collage about the
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: pain in my hands. My sister and roommates were creeped
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: out by the 3D hands showing previous injuries and demanded
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: that they be caged. in, so I added mesh over
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: the entire piece. When I brought it to my class,
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: my painting teacher had to leave my presentation because viewing
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: the painting triggered his PTSD from his time during the
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Vietnam War. The painting has never bothered me at all,
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: but scares the crap out of people who view it.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: I felt like I was releasing my physical pain and
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: frustrations into the art I was creating. It is now
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: over my interior garage door to ward off any malice
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: from entering my home. I would share a picture of
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: it here, but I don't know how to do that.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: Let me know how to share a photo if you're interested.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Go to the Discord.
• 59:45
  Speaker 5: I feel like all the artists were like, here's my plug.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure, but she's finding a new thing, and
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: it's all right.
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: If it's scary.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: It just means it's good.
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of interesting.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Good art affects you. It makes you feel something.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 5: So those are those comments. Go watch that video. Sounds
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: very particular and very fun, actually. But that's also the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: end of this episode. So if you love us and
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• 1:00:15
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• 1:00:17
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