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My Boyfriend’s Friend tried to STEAL him…in my own house! -r/AmITheAsshole | Reddit Stories | EP3042 · ok storytime

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Carly.
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  Speaker 3: My boyfriend's girl best friend tried to steal him from
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  Speaker 3: me in my own house. Don't you get tired. So
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  Speaker 3: my female 22 boyfriend, 24, has this friend, female 25,
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  Speaker 3: who moved in four months ago because she had nowhere
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  Speaker 3: to go. Now, I didn't mind having her as long
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  Speaker 3: as she respects our boundaries and the rules around the house,
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  Speaker 3: but that's definitely not it. She is very loud, comments
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  Speaker 3: on everything and just does inappropriate stuff in general and
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  Speaker 3: excuses it for being a Latina. And that's just how
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  Speaker 3: they are. Ooh.
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  Speaker 4: Let's not do that. Let's not.
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  Speaker 3: She's stereotyping herself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: She says, I am this. She doesn't help at all
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  Speaker 3: besides maybe cooking sometimes, but doesn't clean up the mess
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  Speaker 3: she makes. And she invites people over whenever she wants.
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  Speaker 3: That's wild.
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  Speaker 2: You can't invite people to a place that you're a
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  Speaker 2: guest at.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. She changes in the living room in
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  Speaker 3: front of us, literally took off her underwear. Oh, oh, oh.
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  Speaker 3: And I asked her to change in her room, but
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  Speaker 3: her excuse is that she was trying to feel at home.
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  Speaker 3: And then she suggested I should too, as it will
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  Speaker 3: strengthen my bond with my boyfriend.
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  Speaker 2: If it were just OP and her boyfriend at home,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they would do that. I'm sure they'd be
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  Speaker 2: all the live long day, but you aren't in their relationship.
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  Speaker 2: So let's keep the pants on.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to my boyfriend about how I'm kinda uncomfortable
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  Speaker 3: with this whole situation and he told me not to
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  Speaker 3: overthink it And that she's just very unbothered and cool.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, I am totally fine with her taking off
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  Speaker 2: her underwear. Why are you upset about this? I love
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  Speaker 2: when she takes off her underwear in the living room.
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  Speaker 2: You should get used to it.
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  Speaker 3: She always interrupted our time together and would sit between
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  Speaker 3: me and him during a movie or take my space
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  Speaker 3: while I take a toilet break.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: And she cuddles with him in the most unfriendly way.
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  Speaker 4: Why is she cuddling with him?
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  Speaker 3: No one. I, I, no, no, no. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: When I asked jokingly if she was trying to take
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  Speaker 3: my man, she would excuse it on her ethnicity, and
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  Speaker 3: that's how they grew up, so I knew I had
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  Speaker 3: to ruin this Friday night they had for them. I
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  Speaker 3: went up to them, and she was all over him
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  Speaker 3: as usual. I called my boyfriend. And when he was
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  Speaker 3: about to get up, she said how it was their
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  Speaker 3: favorite part and that he could leave later. I insisted,
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  Speaker 3: but she kept pulling him. So I went and pulled
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  Speaker 3: him to a room. That's weird.
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  Speaker 2: This is all so weird, especially that he's letting it happen.
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  Speaker 3: To like fight over a boy, like actually like tug
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  Speaker 3: of war with my boyfriend and another girl. I'd be like,
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  Speaker 3: what are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: She's also blaming it on her ethnicity.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm Latina. It just comes with it. As a
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  Speaker 3: Latina woman. You should know. By the way, this comes
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  Speaker 3: from Gina's Dunn. And if you want to submit your
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  Speaker 3: own stories, go to the r slash ok story time subreddit.
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  Speaker 3: I'm tired. I'm Sophia.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Keon.
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  Speaker 3: And we're here to give some good advice, goofily, but
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  Speaker 3: guess what? We don't have all the answers. True, we don't.
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  Speaker 3: But we would only tell you what we would do
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  Speaker 3: in this situation, so let us know what you would
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  Speaker 3: do down in the comments. As OP says, that she
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  Speaker 3: has nowhere to go and that i'll have to wait
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  Speaker 3: until she finds a job which she's not even trying.
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  Speaker 2: To get he's like totally understand super valid you absolutely
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  Speaker 2: cannot want her here but she does have to stay
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  Speaker 2: here so we're good on.
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  Speaker 3: That we talked about that while talking she came and
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  Speaker 3: tried to open the door which was locked so she
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  Speaker 3: started knocking and we just ignored her until it got
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  Speaker 3: louder and he asked her to leave But she got
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  Speaker 3: even louder and then started saying how I ruin the
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  Speaker 3: only time she gets with him, which obviously is not
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  Speaker 3: the case.
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  Speaker 2: Girly pop, you live here. What do you mean that's
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  Speaker 2: the only time you get with him?
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  Speaker 3: And also my boyfriend.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: My boyfriend.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: I had enough at that point, but my boyfriend suggested
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  Speaker 3: he talks to her first. So he went and they
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  Speaker 3: took too long, like almost two hours.
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  Speaker 4: Two hours?
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  Speaker 3: Jeez.
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  Speaker 4: Just them two?
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  Speaker 2: Just them two in a room alone. She was taking
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  Speaker 2: off her cottons.
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  Speaker 3: I went to check on them and heard her telling
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  Speaker 3: him he shouldn't accept someone who ruins a friendship as
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  Speaker 3: a partner. And that is a big red flag and
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  Speaker 3: that he should. punt me out. But this place is
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  Speaker 3: actually my property that I inherited from my aunt. And
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  Speaker 3: at that point, I knew I had to punt her out.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even ask what conclusion they came up with
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  Speaker 3: and waited in the living room until they came out.
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  Speaker 3: And I just told her to look for another place
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  Speaker 3: and gave her two weeks max.
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  Speaker 2: That is even too generous.
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  Speaker 3: To me.
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  Speaker 2: I would say out right now, maybe give her a night.
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  Speaker 2: But two weeks after she's had all this time and
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  Speaker 2: is actively bad mouthing you and telling your boyfriend to
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  Speaker 2: leave you, you can both go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't like that. Don't speak badly of me
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  Speaker 3: if I'm doing you a favor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for real.
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  Speaker 3: She's been crying since yesterday, refusing to eat and not
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  Speaker 3: coming out of the room. And my boyfriend is saying
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  Speaker 3: I went overboard and I just hit a sensitive spot
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  Speaker 3: of hers, basically telling her to leave when she has
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  Speaker 3: no family or anywhere to go. So am I the a-hole?
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  Speaker 3: She's sensitive about being punted out. You can't punt her out.
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  Speaker 3: Is she also sensitive about you taking your boyfriend? No,
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  Speaker 3: she's okay with that.
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  Speaker 2: That actually makes her feel better when you take her boyfriend.
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  Speaker 3: Or when she takes your boyfriend. Yeah, right? There's an
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  Speaker 3: update here. Thank you everyone for the advice and helping
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  Speaker 3: me open an eye on the real issue. It was
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  Speaker 3: past midnight when I posted that and my life literally
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  Speaker 3: took a 180 degree turn in less than 24 hours.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 3: It has been overwhelming and I didn't expect this would
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  Speaker 3: reach many people. Comments were like a slap in the
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  Speaker 3: face I really needed. Apparently, I was too blind. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I guess my boyfriend isn't who I thought he was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's actively emotionally cheating on you in your own house.
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  Speaker 3: In front of you. In front of you and you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: stop that. He's like, no.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm going to go talk to her about it.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I'm not going to stop that.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to talk to each other with our mouths together.
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  Speaker 3: Super big yikes. He has been trying to give her
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  Speaker 3: food and trying to calm her down and literally took
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  Speaker 3: a day off from college and work. He goes on Sundays, too,
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  Speaker 3: which he never did for me. And he never even
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: gets days off from his classes unless really necessary with
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  Speaker 3: proof nursing. I don't know how he managed to get
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  Speaker 3: a day off. I really wanted to make sure it
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  Speaker 3: is what it looks like before deciding my next move.
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  Speaker 3: I prepared lunch way before time and asked him if
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  Speaker 3: he was around for lunch and his response, I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to get her to have breakfast and you're talking about lunch.
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  Speaker 3: You're becoming unrecognizable. Wait, that's so funny. He's like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you want to get lunch?
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  Speaker 4: And he's like, we're still on breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: How could you say that?
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  Speaker 3: My best friend has not eaten in days.
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  Speaker 2: Because you. She's starving. I'm trying to feed her Froot Loops.
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  Speaker 2: He's just like, he's got like a spoon.
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  Speaker 3: And she's like, please, please, please eat.
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  Speaker 5: Please.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know what to reply, so I just
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  Speaker 3: asked again. But he said we can have lunch together
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  Speaker 3: if she's willing to join us, as it is rude
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  Speaker 3: if we eat without her.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not. Bye. Why is your boyfriend dumb?
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  Speaker 2: Your boyfriend wants to be in a relationship with both
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  Speaker 2: of you.
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  Speaker 3: He's annoying. He's annoying. At this point, I felt like crap,
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  Speaker 3: to be honest, and asked him why she was so
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  Speaker 3: important that he canceled all his plans just to support
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  Speaker 3: her emotionally. which he never did when I went through
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  Speaker 3: things myself, but he just left like that. I invited
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  Speaker 3: my guy friend over, which he doesn't like, and I
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  Speaker 3: explained to him our situation and just asked him to
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  Speaker 3: be comfortable. I didn't want to do the cuddly stuff
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  Speaker 3: like them because we didn't break up yet at that
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  Speaker 3: point and it was weird anyways because we don't usually.
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  Speaker 3: My boyfriend never realized someone was over until he came
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  Speaker 3: to take food and he saw us having lunch together
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  Speaker 3: and he just gave me a look. said hi, and
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  Speaker 3: was going to take some for themselves until he realized
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  Speaker 3: it was a creamy rice casserole, which his friend doesn't like,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, I did that on purpose. And chicken roast
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  Speaker 3: with some sides.
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  Speaker 2: You made a creamy rice casserole? First you asked me
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  Speaker 2: to lunch, and then you make a creamy rice casserole?
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know you. This is.
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  Speaker 2: bonkers to me and the fact that he is at
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  Speaker 2: all mad at you for you having your guy friend
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  Speaker 2: over yeah when his girlfriend is living in your home
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  Speaker 2: and cuddling.
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  Speaker 3: With him red flag red flag i don't like this
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  Speaker 3: guy i don't like this guy no he literally glared
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  Speaker 3: at me and said you know she doesn't need that
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  Speaker 3: and i just replied well it's not her who i
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  Speaker 3: made this for facts oh Then he threw the plate,
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  Speaker 3: started shouting, asking what the F was wrong with me,
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  Speaker 3: and then he wishes he never dated me.
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  Speaker 4: Cool, easy breakup.
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  Speaker 3: And then you get to leave and you get to
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  Speaker 3: date your other friend.
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  Speaker 4: Well, actually, she can't leave because this is her place, remember?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they both can leave.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, they can leave.
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  Speaker 3: They can leave.
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  Speaker 2: You can take your frickin' girl best friend and head out.
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  Speaker 4: I guarantee you, she's like, the girl best friend comes out.
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm kind of hungry.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of hungry. I kind of would eat.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh. Why would you throw that food?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I would eat that.
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  Speaker 4: Why would you cause him to do that?
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  Speaker 3: Do you make music? It was so scary, my friend
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  Speaker 3: got involved. They got aggressive, and I just asked him
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  Speaker 3: to leave with his other girlfriend, which he replied with, oh,
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  Speaker 3: so you're replacing me that fast? But I told him
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  Speaker 3: he was the one who has replaced me a long
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  Speaker 3: time ago. But I was too dumb to realize. There's
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  Speaker 3: a little bit left. Yeah, are we throwing him out
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  Speaker 3: to the curb? Both of them?
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  Speaker 2: Throwing out the second that he says, I should have
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  Speaker 2: never dated you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Throwing out the second that she says any comment. Like,
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't get two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, I'll be like, see that plate?
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  Speaker 4: See what you did with it? Do that with yourself. Yeah.
• 9:46
  Speaker 4: Do that with yourself, please.
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  Speaker 3: Skadoodle. That plate represents you and our relationship shattered on
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: the wall.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 2: I would not give this guy any sort of second chance.
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: He's he's out the.
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  Speaker 3: Door he actually moved in fully when his friend came
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  Speaker 3: and colleges here do provide dorms but of course it's
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  Speaker 3: not like she can live with him and i couldn't
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  Speaker 3: care less anymore also no legal action is required for
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  Speaker 3: someone you haven't signed papers with where i live they
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: were just guests i packed his things for him which
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  Speaker 3: aren't a lot and left it by the front door
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  Speaker 3: He came crying and apologizing and acknowledging what he did
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  Speaker 3: was wrong and just other BS I didn't want to hear.
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  Speaker 3: Because the damage was already done.
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  Speaker 2: Literally.
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  Speaker 3: My friend was of great support and he dealt with
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  Speaker 3: everything else as I cried my eyes out in my room.
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  Speaker 5: Aww.
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  Speaker 3: And that sums up how I went through my first heartbreak.
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  Speaker 3: And it was my first relationship and I did love him.
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  Speaker 3: But I guess I can watch, eat, and do anything
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  Speaker 3: now without catering to anyone's needs. I'm changing the locks
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow morning and we're ordering fried chicken. Apparently a proven
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  Speaker 3: heartbreak remedy by my friend. And although her excuse was
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: bringing up her race, I know better than that. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you all for the support. Yeah, it's not because she's Latina.
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  Speaker 3: It's not relevant. I hope you never thought that that
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  Speaker 3: was the reason. You're like, dang, this whole time. It's just, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's her ethnicity. I should have known. She warned me.
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  Speaker 3: She did warn me. She warned me.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's because she's crazy. And she's a boyfriend stealing lady.
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  Speaker 2: And your boyfriend is a cheater. And I don't like him.
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  Speaker 4: Just an idiot. He's yucky.
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  Speaker 3: Yucky, yucky. He's gross. I don't like him.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the end of this story. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: go to the next one.
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  Speaker 2: My boyfriend refused to kiss me because my breath smelled bad.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, that's my worst nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you some background. I, 26 female, have
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  Speaker 2: been drinking diluted summer fruits juice.
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  Speaker 4: Mmm, diluted summer fruits juice.
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  Speaker 3: What the, what the fuck is that?
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: Diluted summer fruit juice, Sophia.
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  Speaker 3: All my life.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: Because I hate drinking water. That's... Are you.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting. Who are you? Wait, I know people who don't
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: like water.
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  Speaker 2: When I do try drinking water, I physically retch due
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: to the anxiety it gives me to try and drink it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, never mind.
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: Unless you're allergic to it, which is possible.
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  Speaker 4: To water?
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: Is there water in everything?
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  Speaker 2: It's possible.
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: Your body's made of it, but it's protective.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: It is possible to be allergic. However, I doubt that
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: you should go to therapy because what.
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  Speaker 3: Do you mean you don't drink water?
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: So I stayed hydrated by drinking diluted cordial. When I
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: met my current partner, 34 male, let's call him Jim,
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  Speaker 2: I was drinking 30% cordial, 70% water, which I admit
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: now was strong. About six months into my relationship with Jim,
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  Speaker 2: he confessed he didn't like me drinking the juice because
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  Speaker 2: it made my breath smell bad.
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: Up the juice.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: It stopped me trying new foods and it stopped us
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: from traveling cheap because we would have to pay for.
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: Baggage just so I could take the juice on holiday.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: You can't just buy juice where you go?
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: No, because it's like a specific. It's think of it
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: kind of like.
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: Like a prescription?
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: No, like think of it kind of like Kool-Aid.
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: It's like that packet stuff.
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: I know what you're talking about.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: So in Australia, it's like- It's like powdered.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you mix it. But you can also buy it pre-mixed.
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  Speaker 4: Pre-mixed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. But you can only buy it in one area?
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a specific- So let's say, for example, you
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: went on holiday and you really wanted Kool-Aid, but you can't-
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  Speaker 2: They have it at the grocery store.
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  Speaker 3: Not everywhere. Like if you went on holiday out of
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  Speaker 3: the country. Oh, out of the country. Okay, okay. So
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't buy.
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  Speaker 2: It everywhere necessarily.
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: He even compared it to a regular use and how
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: he was able to quit smoking so I can quit this.
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  Speaker 3: We decided to compromise and one year.
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  Speaker 2: Later I had reduced it down to 5% cordial. I
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  Speaker 2: was able to take my juice in mini airplane bottles
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  Speaker 2: and I had to admit I was tasting food better.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: By the way, this comes from nomall1172 and if you
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  Speaker 2: want to submit your own stories, go to the r
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  Speaker 3: I'm Sophia. I'm Savannah.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: I'm Keon.
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  Speaker 2: The answer is we only know what we'd do. So
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: let us know what you would do in the comments.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: And OP says, however, Jim was still not happy and
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  Speaker 2: we kept getting into fights about how it's disgusting and
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: it's putting him off wanting to kiss me. I can't
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  Speaker 2: even have other fruit flavor drinks because Jim says it
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  Speaker 2: smells and tastes too similar. So I tried to give
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: it up for him. It's been a month of attempting
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: to drink sugar water. I am getting panic attacks and
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: dehydrated because I'm not drinking enough.
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: Oh, dang. Wait, how are you getting dehydrated? How are
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: you getting dehydrated from drinking... No, because she's.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: Not drinking enough.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: So instead of doing the cordial, she's just doing sugar water.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because she can't drink regular water. I think if
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: you literally cannot drink regular water to the point where
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: you're having panic attacks, you need to go to therapy.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: I am considering going back to the cordial because of this,
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: but I am worried I'd be letting myself and Jim down.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: Am I the a-hole for wanting to drink fruit juice,
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: or do I need to keep pushing? And we have
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: an update, but what do you guys think?
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: Um.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: I don't think you're the a-hole. I don't think anyone
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: here is the a-hole. He's just saying like, hey, you know,
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: you smell. That wasn't it.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: I would just like brush your teeth. I don't know.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: I think you need to ask him and say like, hey,
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: is it the cordial taste or does my breath actually
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: smell bad?
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: My thing is maybe talk to like a doctor or
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: like someone like a professional that'd be like, hey, maybe
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: try this or like this is a solution.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Just figure out what the issue is here.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Go to a dentist, maybe. Well, let's see why.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: But we have an update.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: I've seen a few people not understand what I meant
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: by cordial. In the UK, it's concentrated fruit juice that
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: is diluted with water. It's not booze.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: I know what it is. Don't you worry.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Also, the juice smells to Jim because of the artificial
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: sugar that's usually put into cordial.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Ah.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: But there are two things that need to happen here.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: One.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: you need to go to a therapist.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Genuinely.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Because if you're having panic attacks about water, some sort
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: of professional to help you work through this because having
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: panic attacks about drinking water or anxiety is not healthy
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: and you need water. So that's the first thing you
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: can do. The second thing is having.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: A conversation with Jim and saying, hey, you know.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: You're making me feel really bad and upset. Like, Can
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: I chew gum? Can I rinse out my mouth with
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: something else before? You know, like, is there some way
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: that we can.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, do you have a solution?
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, or are you just going to keep kind
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: of calling this out?
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he meant it as, like, mean
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: or anything. He's just like, hey, when you drink that,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: I don't really like how it smells.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I've been there where I'm like, again, this is just
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: the thing that I was talking about with my boyfriend.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: It's not that my breath is not bad, but just
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: occasionally when it happens, you're sensitive about it. So I
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: think there are ways, but there's a little bit left.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: As for the situation, I know it seems like a
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: strange situation to many of you. My parents were soft
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: and let me have whatever I wanted, which has come
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: to bite me in the butt.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Yikes.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: I realize I have some psychological issues regarding water. I
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: know it's not normal to retch at water. A lot
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: of you have said I should dump Jim, but I
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: feel like I shouldn't until I have dealt with this issue.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I talked to him about how much anxiety this has
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: been causing me and my craving to go back to
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: the Jews. Sounds like you do kind of have a
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: regular use with this juice.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: We ended up agreeing that we will go to a
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: doctor together and he wants to support me getting used
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: to water, even if it means going back to juice
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: for a while. I don't want to throw away a
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: relationship with Jim just because of my weird psychological problem.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Just because of my weird psychological... Me to any man.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I don't want to throw this away. Just because of
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: my weird psychological problems. But that's the end of that story.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: My boyfriend kept asking me to change my body just
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: because everyone is doing it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Well, if everyone jumps off a cliff, are you doing it?
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I've been dating my boyfriend, Alex, for about a year.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Now for some background. I am completely okay with people
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: having preferences around their slash their partner's private hair-ia.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: She's hilarious.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, give me an award, seriously. But I have
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: made it a point since I was 20 to tell
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: my partners pretty soon into us hanging out that I
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: do not shave or wax. And you don't need to, girl.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: And don't. And girl don't. Nobody needs to. I used
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: to do it all the time when I was a
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: teenager and it left me with a bunch of ingrown hairs, rashes,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: and pain. I realized I was solely doing it for
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: the other person and I preferred some hair on myself.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: I do trim, though. I tell a potential partner slash
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: hookup as soon as spicy sleep comes up that if
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: they're not okay dating someone with a bush, I respect that,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: but we're just not compatible. For real. I don't even think, like,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: do people warn people before? I don't... I've never done that.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I've never, like, warned someone, by the way. I don't
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: shave or, like, something.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I haven't shaved.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I don't think that... Like, even if you do shave, like,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Like, is that... No, some people just, like.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I don't think... Listen, some people just, like, aren't expecting
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: to have the spicy sleep, and they go, I wasn't
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: expecting that. So it's a little fun down there.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I think men should keep their opinions to themselves.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Just anyone should keep their opinions to themselves about
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: someone's shaving.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: When Alex and I started talking about spicy sleep, I
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: told him the exact same thing. He told me there
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: was no issue and he didn't care one way or another.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I thought, great. And we began dating with no issues.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: He's the coolest dude I've ever met and I was
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: seriously considering moving in together around six months into us dating.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: That is, until around three months ago. He randomly brought
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: up that he was talking with some friends about manscaping.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I also prefer hair on my partners, so I have
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: never asked them to shave or even trim. Alex trims
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: his bush a little, but no shaving. And they were
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: saying how they were lucky all the girls they had
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: hooked up with were cleanly waxed and shaved because a
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: bush on women looked gross.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Grow up. Ew. Grow up. up.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, so you like when your women are infantile? That's
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: what I always think.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I like, I don't know.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Like, again.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: But it's also personal preference with the other person.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: It's completely okay if you want that. But to say,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: or like if you want that on yourself or if
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: someone else likes that. Okay. But don't say that it's
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: gross or that it's weird.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Like it's literally natural. It is a natural form of,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: or like a natural part of aging and growing up
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: at a certain age. You're going to get it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: That's why I say grow up.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: By the way, this comes from throwaway shaving pubes. And
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: if you want to submit your own stories, go to
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: the r slash. Okay. Storytime subreddit. I'm Savannah. I'm Sophia.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: I'm Keon.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: And we are here to give some good advice in
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: a little goofy way, but we don't have all the answers.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: We'd only tell you what we would do, but let
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: us know what you would do down in the comments.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Why not? As OP says, he said he didn't agree
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: with them that it was gross for women to have bushes.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Shut up!
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: But that it was weird he was the only guy
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: with a GF that did not shave or wax, so
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: he asked me if I would oblige the request.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: No.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: You know what you do? You double it down and
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: you just grow it more.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You don't trim. I told him that I was
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: serious early on about not shaving my bush and he
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: had agreed to being okay with that and told him
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't shave. I thought that was the end of
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: the convo, but nope. He's been bringing it up around
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: every other week. Every single time I have told him
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: firmly that I will not shave or wax, and he
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: has still continued to bring it up. I've asked him
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: why the sudden interest in me being shaved, and he
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: says he just thinks it's weird that I don't shave
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: when so many other girls do.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Because you're not like other girls.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I hate both. Not like other girls. I like to grow.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: It's so person to person.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And like, how do you know what all the
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: other girls are doing? I'm at a point where I'm
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: just sick of this and I'm seriously considering breaking up.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: But most of my friends think I'm being unreasonable and
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: should find another solution.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah. What do you guys think?
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: What?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Find another boyfriend. Yeah.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Edit.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: He showed me the convo in question and he never
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: mentioned my bush to his friends. Good. Only that he
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: agreed the bald look is better on women. As far
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: as I know, he doesn't discuss me in that manner
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: to them. More from OP in the comments. OP says, yeah,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I think honestly is coming from a place of feeling
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: embarrassed that he is the only one with a girlfriend
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: that has hair. I'm trying to be understanding, but I
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: feel like it's such a ridiculous thing to be okay
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: with something.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: I'm going to try and find ages. Found it. All right.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: That makes sense.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: 23.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: 23, 25.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: But I feel like it's such a ridiculous thing to
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: be okay with something and then change your mind because
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: of what your friends are saying. He's 25. He's not
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: a teenager.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: He's acting like it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: He's acting like a 25 year old. This is how
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: 25 year old, a lot of 25 year old people
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: will act.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: And I am planning on speaking with him tonight. It'll
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: hopefully be a come to Jesus talk.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I love him and I would like to continue dating him,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: but I'm bordering on a breakup because I do not
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: understand why my no is not enough. And also his
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: reasoning is frankly super dumb. Even if many girls do it,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: that doesn't mean I should have to. Yes.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: And there's an update. 100% agree. I think the real
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: red flag here is that he's not listening to you. Yesterday,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: my boyfriend had, we were talking about him getting a haircut.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: He's like, I think I want to like cut this
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: part shorter because he is like kind of a baby mullet.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, well, I like, I was like, oh,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Like I love the mullet. And he's like, oh, would
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: you be sad? And I was like, It's your hair.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: You can do whatever you want.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to cry about you wanting, you know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: you preferring something else.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but some people.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Have you seen the videos of like men shaving their beards?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Or shaving their head.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Partner like cries.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I totally understand being like, well, I liked it this way,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: but I'm not.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Going to be like, no, you can't do that. Like,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: that's ridiculous. Yeah. I don't, I don't like how he's
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: feeling like pressured. Yeah. And then also is like projecting
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: that onto him. Like, does he want, has he like
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: always secretly wanted that? And now all of a sudden. Absolutely.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I think he didn't take you saying it as like,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: this is what I do. This is what I, this
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: is what I am. It's my preference. I don't think
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: he took it as like a, Oh, just sometimes like
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: on and off, like mix.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: He thought it was going to change. Like he could change.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, like, yeah. Or yeah, exactly. He might change it
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: or like, Oh, maybe she just meant like from time
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: to time. Yeah. Which again, dumb. Yeah.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Update four days later. So I spoke to Alex Friday
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: night and I basically just told him I needed him
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: to tell me the truth about what was going on
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: because I wasn't going to keep dealing with him asking
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: me about it every week. I told him I loved him,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: but he knew before we became official that I did
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: not shave or wax my bush. And I didn't understand
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: why he had become so insistent on it. His response
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: was predicted by at least one of you. He said
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: he was actually never okay with how I kept. Oh, wow. Wow,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: we're all shocked. We're all so surprised.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Listen, buddy, you get what you get. You don't get upset.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: For real.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: And you munch.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: You're actually not going to be around this girl much longer.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: We're not going to be around this girl munch longer.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't let the bush hit you on the way out.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I'm going to start saying that.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Too little, too late.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Chapter 39, don't let the bush hit you on the
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: way out. That's so good. I want to start writing these.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: He said that every girl he had been with before
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: me was clean. Oh, let's bring.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Up other girls before this. We bring up other girls.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not clean. I'm not clean because I have hair.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: And that he decided to put up with hair because
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: he wanted to date me. But that truthfully, it grossed
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: him out every time he saw it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I hate this man. Oh, I don't like you. I
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: want you to hear this. I don't like you.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Whatever I want to do, I'm going to do. And
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: whatever you're going to do, you do. If it's disgusting,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I guess, and causing an issue, then yeah, I'm going
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: to say something.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: And be like, hey, do you care? As long as
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: you're washing it. And it's cleanly, everyone should be happy.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah. He also said that his friends would have never
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: considered dating a woman who didn't take care of herself. Again,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: his words. But that he wanted to look past the
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: physical since he thought I could be special.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm doing? You know what I'm doing
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: with something this stupid? Like, yo, ask your mom.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Ask your mom how she feels about that.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I was pretty shocked, to say the least, since he
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: even frequently joked with me about the corn industry's influence
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: on grooming habits.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Shut up, dude.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, well, that's true.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I think what he's saying, like, he's saying, oh, they
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: would talk about how the corn industry has made it
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: seem like it's more common to have a certain.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: You know what you say to him? Are we even
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: in the corn industry, though?
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: We're not.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Well, I think that she's saying that he lied.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: No, he's an idiot.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: He's a liar. He's a liar.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: This is the type of guy who's like, I don't
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: like onions or tomato on my burger.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I don't like onions on my burger. Actually, that's not
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: a complete truth. I like onions on my burger if
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: they're not cooked.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Do we break up? Do we stay?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Break up.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I'm breaking up. I'm gone.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Really? Break up? Yeah. Well, the second that he tells
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: me that I've lied about the whole time. The whole
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: cleaning comment.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: And the clean comment.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: And he doesn't like the way you look. I'm gone.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: I'm gone.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Let's finish it up. I asked him why he didn't
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: just tell me this as opposed to his ridiculous most
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: girls do it argument. He said he just didn't know
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: how to tell me the truth. I asked him if
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: his plan was just to keep asking me until I
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: gave in and he told me eventually he was going
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: to tell me the truth.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, good.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Long story short, I ended things.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, good. Yeah.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I know it may seem frivolous or petty to some people.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: No.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: But to me, it went beyond his preferences.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: For a bush.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: He annoyed me with it for months and stuck to
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: a stupid argument instead of being honest with me. To me,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: that shows immaturity. He's 25, not 19. That's not a
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: quality I want in my partner. Oh, and also, I'm
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: not sleeping with someone who thinks having a bush makes
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: me gross and unclean. For real. And there you go.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: And you don't have to, OP. It's true. Nobody has to.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: You had yourself a boyfriend. Get yourself a man friend.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: That's the crazy thing. Because he does not, if he
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: really thinks it's gross, doesn't have to date you.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: But he did. And then he made it your problem.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: That means he wasn't into it. He wasn't into it
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: at all.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: He was like, that's... Oh, dude, you suck.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: He's a freak. It's just weird how you can just, like,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: fake that. Like, lie to me for, like, months about this.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Or, like, a year, however long they were dating.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Like, you.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: The fact of it is, you've known this the whole
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: time we've been dating, and now you're bringing it up.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: That's not cool. Like, I know you don't want to... Like,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: you don't want to hurt my feelings or whatever, but, like,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: now they're worse because you waited. Final comments.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Did he? Uh.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Grewall1980 says, I've always hated the clean argument as if
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: hair is inherently dirty. You're better off without the moron.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Opie responds, my skin looked awful and unhealthy when I
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: was hairless and supposedly clean. I will take care over
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: gross bumps and scratchy skin any day of the week. True.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: For real. Like it's there for a reason. For real.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: It's like only one person seeing that and if they
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: can't get over it. Yeah.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: It's just not worth it, truthfully. But... That's the end
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: of that story. Hey, it's Carly, Keon's girlfriend, here.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: We're going to get back to the stories, but here's
• 29:22
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• 29:25
  Speaker 2: My girlfriend threw away my grandmother's secret recipe and called
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: me dramatic for it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Uh-uh. That is something you cannot take back.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: My partner and I have been living together for three
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: years now, and everything has been great until recently. Sadly,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: my grandma passed, away a few years ago and before
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: she did she gave me her family recipe book This
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: book was filled with secret family recipes that she trusted
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: me with. I love cooking and absolutely love my grandma's meals.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: So this book means a lot to me. The other
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: day I was looking for a recipe in the book
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: to make one of my grandma's special meals. But to
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: my surprise, the page with the recipe was gone. I
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: searched everywhere and found out that my partner had thrown
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: it away thinking the recipe was wrong.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Whoa.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: What do you mean wrong?
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: What?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: What?
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: It's called a recipe. You follow it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: She said she didn't know the recipe book was from
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: my grandma and assumed it was just some old notebook
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: or whatever. I was really upset. She didn't ask me
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: before throwing away something that meant a lot to me.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: It wasn't just a recipe.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: It had a.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Piece of my family's history. I tried to explain how
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: important it was, but she didn't care and said I
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: could find another recipe online and that I'm overreacting.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Breaking up. Breaking up.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I'm gone.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Immediate.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: By the way, this comes from throwaway... And if you
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: want to submit your own stories, go to the r
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: slash okstorytime subreddit.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I'm Sophia. I'm Savannah.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: I'm Keon.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: And we're here to give good advice goofily, but we
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: don't have all the answers.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: We only know what we do.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: So let us know what you would do in the comments.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: And OP says, I'm struggling to move forward from this.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Her being so dismissive of my feelings upsets me. I've
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: never seen her behave this way before. How can I
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: move past this? And we do have an edit. She
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: threw away a rum cake recipe. I have no idea why.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: She liked it when she tasted it before. So the
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: recipe wasn't wrong as she claims. I haven't talked to
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: her for almost two days. She's at work now. I'll
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: probably have a conversation with her later when she gets home.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Uh, I mean.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I think you should have the talk first because maybe
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: it truly was like an accident and she doesn't understand
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: because she doesn't come from the same family values as you.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Like I, I understand I take like family values seriously,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: but I know a lot of people don't have that.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: And so they don't understand how big of a thing
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: it is. So I would just kind of have, I
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: would sit her down and have the conversation with her.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Just be like, Hey, that really hurt that you did that.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: And then don't feel remorse.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: When this is like a big issue to me.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: So I just want to make sure like everything's good. Yeah.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Well, is everything okay with us?
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I think also saying that was, you know, you sit
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: her down. She's still sad. You say that was a
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: family heirloom. My grandmother passed away. I can never get
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: that back.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: And it's also like rum.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Cake.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that is, but it sounds good.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: I will stuff that in every crevice of me. I
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: want that. Rum cake? Ooh, my two favorite things. Update.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Since my last post, I talked to my partner about
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: what happened. Turns out she threw away the recipe not
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: because she thought it was wrong, but because she was
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: jealous of my cooking skills.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Breaking up!
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, yep.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Nope. Now we're done.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Now we're done. Now I'm gone.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Can't come back from that.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: That's weird.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Really weird.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: You're jelly?
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: At first, she denied any bad intentions and tried to
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: downplay the importance of the recipe book. But as we
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: talked more, she finally admitted feeling jealous and insecure. It
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: was surprising because I had never seen this side of
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: her before.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this now, now it is breakup worthy. I was
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: thinking maybe it was an accident. I was trying to
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: give her the benefit of the doubt. But now the
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: truth comes out and she's jealous of your cooking. So
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: she threw away a family heirloom, like a family cherished
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: recipe that your grandma came up with that has nothing
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: to do with her.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Uh-uh.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't understand... Like, I get being
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: a little insecure, thinking, oh, I wish I was better
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: at cooking and stuff. But, like, it's only good for
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: you when your partner.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Is good at cooking.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Like, why would that be a bad thing for you?
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: He's good at cooking. His food is too good. His
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: food is better than mine. Yeah. That's either A, learn. Yeah.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. There's more.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: She said she's always been a little insecure about her
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: own cooking skills.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: I had no idea.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: She feels like I outshine her in the kitchen, especially
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: after receiving all the compliments from her family last time
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: we hung out. So in a fit of jealousy, she
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: decided to throw away the recipe, thinking it would somehow
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: even the score.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: What?
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Yikes.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Wow. Needless to say, I was hurt and disappointed. I
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: couldn't understand why she would let her jealousy get the
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: best of her and intentionally hurt me. We had always
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: supported and uplifted each other in our relationships, So this
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: behavior was completely out of character. She apologized and promised
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: to work on her insecurities and jealousy. But honestly, I
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: don't think I can forgive her and move on from this.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able to either. That would be, I mean,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: it has been three years. If she's never done it before, maybe.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: No.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: But it is pretty heartbreaking that instead of talking to you,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: like after three years, she doesn't, Think she can talk
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to you. She instead has to throw out a prized possession.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Also, it's just really stupid. Oh, your cooking is better
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: than me and I'm going to throw out the book.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: that taught you how to cook she.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Didn't throw out the book she just threw out one recipe.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Okay one recipe just one recipe.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Well because if it was the book for me i'm
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: gone no thoughts i'm gone one recipe i'm considering well.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know because if it's if it's like a
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: recipe that like maybe isn't like common and then also
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: that's like the only copy it's like now i can
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: never make that yeah It's not like you memorize all
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: of these family recipes. That's why there's a book. But yeah,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I would definitely break up. That's not cool.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: And also, why would you want to... I'm making a
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: new rum raisin cake and it's going to be even better.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Like, it's just the fact that you couldn't sit down
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: and have a conversation and said you wanted to get
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: even and throw my stuff away. That's a crazy reaction.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: I just respond with, yeah, you know what? You are
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: going to be a better cook than me because you're
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: going to be living without me. I'm done.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Don't worry. You'll be the best cook in your house.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't compare yourself to me anymore.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: And that's the end of this story. We're going to
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: go to the next one.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: My girlfriend hijacks my Spotify every morning and I never
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: want her to stop. She's too good on the ox.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: My girlfriend, female 22, and I, male 23, live together.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: My day starts off much sooner than hers does. I'm
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: usually at the office by 6.30 a.m., which is about
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: when she starts waking up. I'm one of the first
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: people in the office, so I always put headphones on
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: and listen to music as I start my day. I
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: get about 15 minutes of music before it stops, and
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: I get the notification that the output device has changed.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: This is because we have a Google Home that's hooked
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: to my Spotify account. When my girlfriend wakes up, she
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: starts her day with, hey, Google, play blah, blah, blah.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: So she has music when she's getting ready. I always
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: just leave my phone open to see what she's listening to,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: and when she heads out around 7.30, I get my
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: account back. I'm sure that she has no idea that
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: she's participating in this little routine, and I have no
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: intentions of telling her. Sure, it'd be easy to swap
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: it to her account, but I'd love to know that
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: she's awake and starting her day listening to her favorite songs.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: That's so cute. That's so cute. Um, okay, who is
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: this man?
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: That's so sweet.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: This is really cute.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: By the way, this comes from Manimus1. And if you
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: want to submit your own stories, go to the r
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: slash okay story time subreddit. I'm Savannah. I'm Sophia.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: I'm Keon.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: And we're here to talk about some stuff. Maybe make
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: you laugh. Maybe make you cry. I'm not really sure.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: This is a cute story. So it's up in the
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: air right now. But we're going to tell you what
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: we think. We don't have all the answers, but maybe
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: you do. I don't know. Tell us what you think
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: in the comments. As OP says, another benefit of this
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: is that I know what her current favorite songs are.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: So when we get in the car together and we're
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: just sitting around, I know what songs will spark joy.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Some days I think she's on to me. Wait, I
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: would love that.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: OP, you can do a Spotify blend.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: No, this is better. No, this is better. This is
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: so much better.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: So much better.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: I love it, I love it, I love it. I
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: feel like she'd just be like, how do you know
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: that song?
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: No, I'd be like, wait, have you heard this? Do
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: you listen to it too? Like, oh, I'd be so excited.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: I got, wait. This is so cute. We're both very
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: happy together and I plan on proposing here in a
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: few weeks. I'm excited to spend the rest of my
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: life with her. Edit, more context for everyone. Hey everyone,
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: your support is wonderful. I'm so happy that you all
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: enjoyed seeing a snippet of my relationship with my girlfriend.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: She's my favorite person in the world. I love when
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: a man says that. If you think I'm sweet, you
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: should meet her. We met about five years ago in college.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: We argued over a seat in calculus then ultimately decided
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: to team up academically because we were in the same major.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: We were best friends for about three years and now
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: have been dating for two years. We live together with
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: two wonderful cats. The engagement ring comes in two weeks
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: and we have a trip planned next month to have
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: a romantic getaway. I love photography and we both love hiking.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Due to this, we always go hiking with my camera
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: and tripod. We always take photos together at the peaks,
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: so I plan on doing that when I propose. I'll
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: try to post an update when it happens. Love isn't
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: some grand gesture. I've learned it's just a lot of
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: little things that add up. Update and update on the
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: engagement after three months, 15 days. For anyone still keeping tabs,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: I adore you. The ring is in. It's currently hidden
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: in our home. Due to us finding a cute little
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: townhouse to move into, we will sadly be moving during
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: the time frame that we hope to go on our escapade.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: So it got canceled.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Aw.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: I hope to propose soon, but I want it to
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: be meaningful. For that reason, I'm unsure when it'll be.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: For those of you that have stuck around this long,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you. I hope to return here soon with
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: some wonderful news. Until then, I wish the very best
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: for you.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Update two.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: After one month from the last post, do you think
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: that he's done it? Do you think it's... it's done
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: the deed is done.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: I just want to know what kind of music she
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: was playing you know.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: They're in love they're in love they're married They're in love,
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: they're married.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know, like, what song that he's like, I've
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: never heard of this. Like, who is this artist? And
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: it's just like... The Beatles. Yeah, right? It's just like,
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, who is this? Who is the who?
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Who to who? I need to know. I need to know.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: All right. Closure, in case anyone is still paying attention
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: to this. I proposed today! Oh my god, it's fun!
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: I apologize that this took so long. Thank you to
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: anyone that is still keeping tabs. Update 3! Three years later.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: What do we think now?
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Kids.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: They're married.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: They're happy.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Kids.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: House.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Baby.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: Or wait.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Kitchen.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: Baby.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Wait.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: House.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: The whole shebang.
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: House.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Baby. Block on the street. This is amazing. Update three.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Three years, ten months, and nine days.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Very specific. He's been keeping track. A few years later,
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: I have been married to the incredible woman mentioned in
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: this post for two and a half years now. To
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: this day, I'm still absolutely obsessed with her. Marriage has
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: been everything we hoped it'd be. You get to spend
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: every day tackling life's challenges with your best friend, finding
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: as much joy as you can along the way. As
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: for the plot of the post, I feel it necessary
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: to include that she sadly doesn't steal my Spotify anymore.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: God, I almost had a heart attack.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: I thought you should.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: She sadly passed away. Oh my God. Do that to me.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: We both got promoted and have new jobs, so our
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: morning routines changed. We now get ready together, so we
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: take turns picking the playlist each morning. So it just
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: got cuter. It was very, very cute. I like that.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: A mix that's definitely better from what we usually read.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: And now that gives me hope. The universe is telling
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: me that there's hope out there. There's always hope.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: If you want a relationship, it will come.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: And that's the end of this story. We're going to
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: go to the next one.
• 41:52
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• 42:01
  Speaker 4: My sister showed up claiming an affair with my husband.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: She'd never even met him. This is awkward. I, 26 female,
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: have been no contact with my sister, Cheryl, 24 female,
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: and mother, 57 female, since I turned 18. Our parents
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: divorced when I was 14. But my mom's constant favoritism
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: towards Cheryl wouldn't stop. Trauma! Love that. My mom excused
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: it as, every parent has their favorite. But Cheryl made
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: my life miserable. She took a delight in stealing from me,
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: ruining my things, and treating me terribly.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Ah, dang.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: My dad spent years trying to fix things, pushing for
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: family counseling and interventions. But my mom kept enabling Cheryl,
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: and at times seemed to encourage her. My dad treated
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: divorce as a last-ditch effort to save what was left
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: of my childhood. My mom demanded full custody of Cheryl, Wow,
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: shocker there. In exchange for giving my dad 80%- 8020
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: of me.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: Whoa, that means every other week. And it's easy to
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: forget weekends.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: Especially if Cheryl's so fun. It was a rough battle,
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: and he really did try to limit my time with Mom.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: At 16, I was able to stay with my dad full-time,
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: and only saw Mom and Cheryl occasionally, or at school.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: I suspect my mom wanted 8020 of me to keep
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: me around for Cheryl. But, Cheryl's hold over me lessened
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: the instant- I had the power to just walk away.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: By the way, this comes from user ThrowawayInsaneSis. And if
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: you want to submit your own stories, go to the
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: r slash OKStoryTime subreddit. I'm Keon.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: I'm Riley.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: And we're here to give good advice goofily. We are goofballs.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: We do not know everything. We only know what we do.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: So let us know what you do in the comments
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: down below. Pretty please. As Opie says. It's funny. Carol
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: seemed obsessed with taking from me. New phone, taken. New tablet,
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: taken too. Once we were both in high school and
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: I lived with dad full time, she couldn't take from
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: me anymore. That didn't stop her from trying. I had
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: one boyfriend in high school who she tried to seduce,
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: but failed.
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: Usually it's the other way. It works. That just means
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: your sister probably wasn't the best looking one out there.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and also she just seems... bored.
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: Can't take your looks.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: He told me immediately and was weirded out by it.
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: When I went to college, she e-stalked me to find
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: out if I was dating anyone. I had two boyfriends
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: in college and she tried the same thing. Both times,
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: they told me about Cheryl's attempts and they said no.
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: This part might need explanation.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: Okay, I will say, college boys will go do about anything.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: I'm glad you found good guys.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Truly.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: But Usually guys aren't like this. I don't think your
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: sister has what it takes.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: This is where I want a picture of everyone.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: I always want a picture or I want to hear
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: how somebody sounds just to get an idea. Cheryl is
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: conventionally attractive. Like, from across the room.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm totally wrong.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: But since she was a teenager, she's had hygiene issues.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: She showers once every two weeks.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: No!
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why? How... Okay, okay, okay.
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: Let me tell you something, Keon. How in the world
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: can someone not like to shower? How in the world
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: can someone not like the most beautiful thing about modern technology?
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: You know, we have the most majestic things right beside
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: of our bath, right beside of our toilet, and it's
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: the shower. We get to turn it as hot or
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: as cold as we want, and we can stay in
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: it as long as we want, and she only does
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: it once every two weeks.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: You know that meme where they say, Men only want
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: one thing.
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: And they always say, yeah, then wash it. That's coming
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: into my head right now.
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: I didn't even know that was a thing. I thought
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: of the weekend. He said, oh, I like to shower
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: every time I smoke. And they're like, you should. No,
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: Post Malone said that.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: He's like, I like to shower every time I smoke.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: He's like, you should smoke more. Me and Keon shower
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: probably two to three times a day.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: Truly. That's how my mama raised me.
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: My mom, same thing.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: She kind of forced it into my head to shower once.
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: After being in the shed all day, I'll go home, shower.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: Have to.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: Anyways, Cheryl doesn't shower and uses a combination of scented
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: hand lotion and perfume that combines with her B.O. into
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: a new mega stench instead of covering it up straight
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: to jail. My last college boyfriend remarked that when she
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: put her hand on his shoulder, he was immediately grossed
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: out by her nails. When I was in college, Cheryl
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: also attempted to get a credit card in my name,
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: but I had a lock on my credit, courtesy of
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: my father, who feared my mom would try this first.
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: So needless to say, I'm unimpressed with my sister or
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: my mom. Last night, I got a weird call from
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: my aunt Janice, before female, who's my mom's sister. I
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: hadn't talked to this woman in nearly a decade, and
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: suddenly she was calling me. She asked what I'd heard.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: I'd heard nothing, so I was confused. She instantly said, good,
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: Cheryl needs a place to stay. Your mom punted her out. Oh!
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: Because of her smell or because of other things?
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: She's not so favorite anymore.
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: I was immediately like, excuse me?
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: No.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: Janice kept begging me to let Cheryl stay at my place,
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: at least for a few days for my mom to
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: cool down. How about we do maybe, no. I told
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: Janice that I hadn't talked to Cheryl, or my mom,
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: or her in years. That they're all strangers to me,
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: and the last time we talked, they weren't my favorite people.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: Janice kept saying, Family helps family. And it's just a
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: few days. It'll be fine.
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: No.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: I finally blocked the number. But then I got confused
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: calls from cousins acting like I'd cut my sister and
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: mom off recently. And not almost a decade ago.
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: I'm just gonna say this real quick. We read stories
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: and they feel like watching horror movies. Don't go in there.
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: Don't do that. OP finally did the most sensible thing
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: and just blocked the number. I just... Congratulations to you.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Back to the story. The cousins from my mom's side
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: rarely talked to me, so they were just as confused
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: as I was and wanted clarification. I'm debating telling them
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: the details, but I'm leaning towards saying it's not their business. Still,
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: I can't help think I should have handled the call
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: with my aunt better. Am I the a-hole for how
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: I told my aunt I want nothing to do with
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: my mom and sister? And we have an update.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: Dude, this is textbook exactly what you're supposed to do
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: when people treat you horribly.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: What do you mean? I haven't talked to you in
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: 10 years. What?
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: I'm thinking of three people I haven't talked to in
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: ten years, and I would never, ever, ever ask them
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: for something like this.
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: Hey, Aunt Janice, why don't you take Cheryl?
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: Boom.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: Whoa.
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, why can't you do it? Oh, it's because she's
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: a nightmare? So you want me to handle it?
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: No.
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: You know where she can stay for a few days?
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: Where?
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: A campsite.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: It doesn't have a shower there.
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: She doesn't need one.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, she does.
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: She can just go in a creek.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: But, yeah, you don't need to do this, Opie. Is
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Opie an a-hole for how she handled things? Even if
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: it's family that she hasn't talked to in 10 plus years?
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: No one's done. True. Even if they were, I don't
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: think you would have to step in because they've chose
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: not to have you in your life. Family sticks together
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: when things are tough and things got mildly inconvenient for
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: them and they cut you out.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they want you to do something.
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: You're good, OP. You're great.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: You don't owe them a thing, OP.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: You should get an award for how you handle this,
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you that.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Take a nice hot shower. Update. A day later. Talked
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: to two of my cousins over the phone and explained
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: that I've been no contact with my mom and sister
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: since I was 18. Still saw them both a handful
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: of times, but never interacted directly. As suggested, I gave
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: the Clip Notes version of what happened, what made me
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: cut them off, and one cousin said, figures, and the
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: other said, makes sense. Aunt sent a Facebook message saying,
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: I had no idea it was that bad. She did.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: And that she'll leave me alone about it from now on. Overall,
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: I felt good starting my Friday until noon today. My
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: husband and I worked from home, and we were both
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: surprised when our ring doorbell buzzed. Check the camera, and yup,
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: it's my sister Cheryl with two suitcases. I went to
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: the door and kept the screen door closed and locked,
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: but opened the front door. I could still smell her
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: weird B.O. through the screen, so her hygiene has not
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: improved since I last knew her.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's so bad.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: Cheryl tried to go, hey sis, all bubbly, like half
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: my childhood didn't happen. What do you want? She said
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: she and mom got into a fight, wouldn't say about what,
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: and asked to stay with me. I said, absolutely not.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: And she started crying.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: Let's go. Good. OP. I love you. This is amazing.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: Then she said she didn't want to tell me this,
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: but she and my husband had been having a six
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: month long affair and she couldn't hold it in anymore.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: And that blood sticks with blood.
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: How is that going to let you in my house?
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, you're making this so much easier for you to
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: come on in.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: What?
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: I'm locking more doors.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: I'm calling the police now. You are not staying here.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: Who are you?
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: You smell.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: It was that moment my husband rounded the corner and said,
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: Say what? My sister looked confused and asked who the
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: heck that man behind me was. And I almost laughed
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: because I realized what had happened. Since Thanksgiving, my husband
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: had grown a small beard for the first time. Most
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: of his pics were unsocial, were him cleanly shaven. So,
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: of course, Cheryl had no idea what he looked like
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: with the beard.
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: Wow, so you have been cheating for six months, but
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: you don't know what the person looks like?
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: I said, that's my husband, and she tried to recover.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: It was sad and pretty pathetic. I simply said, bye, Cheryl,
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: and closed the door. Ten minutes of her continually buzzing
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: the ring and knocking and pleading, and she finally left.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: I called both cousins and asked what the heck this
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: was all about and why my mom punted Cheryl, her
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: favorite child, out. One cousin only knew bare bones, but
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: the other knew the details. What do you think it was?
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: What do you think caused Cheryl to get punted out?
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: I want to say money. Something to do with money,
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: living off of her, not keeping up around the house.
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: Do you have anything?
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: I think she was stealing stuff.
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, stealing. Okay, I thought you were going to say
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: she was smelling really bad.
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, her smell probably did have to do with it.
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: Can you imagine if it's just her just because she
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: just stinks?
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: Wouldn't surprise me.
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: So, when my parents first divorced, there was a guy
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: my mom brought in almost immediately who I'll call Dirt
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: Pickle Tom. Okay?
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: Him showing up right at the divorce started felt highly suspect,
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: and he was always a weird guy. I never liked
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: being around. I did ask my dad if he thought
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: Mom cheated on him with Tom, and he said Tom
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: was the least of his worries during the divorce. Long
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: story short, Cheryl slept with Tom. So that's what happened.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: Mom found out, punted Cheryl out, and Tom stayed, swearing
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: Cheryl tricked him somehow. She just fell on top of me.
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: Her pheromones hijacked her B.O. and the whole house was
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: just making my biology of my male figure wanting to
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: be with her.
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: It's like when you smell, you see the cartoons where
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: they see the pie on the windowsill. And he starts floating.
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, stop.
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: But Cheryl is the pie and just really gross smelling.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: Just Cheryl staying super classy and mom finding the one
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: thing she wouldn't tolerate. Gosh, I'm glad I cut these
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: people out of my life. We have an update, too,
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: five days later. Sounds like your mom and your sister,
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: you know, deserve each other. They belong to be with
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: each other.
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: Holy cow. I'm so proud you did not let her
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: come in because if she stayed for a few days,
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: she's going to be there for two years.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: I would call dad. And you'd be like, guess what happened?
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: I know you don't want to hear about it, but boy,
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: oh boy, you are doing the right thing. You did
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: the right thing. I'm so happy that I'm with you
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: and your dad, and we decided to not be with
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: them anymore.
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: I don't know, man. I just let it go. She's crazy.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: They're both crazy. You mean to tell me you caught
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: your daughter cheating on you with.
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: Your boyfriend.
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: And your boyfriend?
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: And you're not mad at the boyfriend. And you kick
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: out the boyfriend instead of your own daughter. That's so backwards, bro.
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: It is all backwards. Update two, five days later. I
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: mentioned on my profile that I cleared up the narrative
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: about me to my cousins. Mother and sister spun a
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: tale that I was a hot mess, couldn't keep a job,
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: slept around, couch served. When my sister was punted out,
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: my aunt suggested Cheryl stay with me, which confused my cousins.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: Wasn't I a hot mess? Aunt then made up a
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: story that I got my life together, got a degree,
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: a career, a house, and a husband all in six months.
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: Cousins were skeptical, but they figured that since my mom
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: and sister were trash, if those two called me trash,
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: I must have been super trash, so they always kept
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: their distance. That's since been cleared up. For the most part,
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: the cousins wanted to stay away from the epicenter of
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: drama bombs. The next part I heard from two of
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: my cousins. Cheryl decided to head back home. She and
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: my mom got into a big argument and dirt-pickled Tom,
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: decided to jump in.
• 54:52
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, not for good reasons.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: The cops were called. Everyone's addresses were verified, and the cops'
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: attitude was basically that since no one was harmed, no
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: one could be made to leave. And they left. I've
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: been getting calls from all family members now. Mom, Cheryl,
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: and Dirt Pickle Tom go straight to voicemail, and I'm
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: collecting as much of it as possible and sending it
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: to the police.
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: There we go. I like that.
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: My husband suggested we retain a lawyer to better handle this,
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: which we'll be doing in the next couple of days.
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: Aunt is acting very apologetic and keeps claiming that she
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: didn't know things were as bad as they were, and
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: thought my problems with Cheryl were just stupid sibling stuff.
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: But she said we couldn't cut Mom and Cheryl out
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: of our lives just yet. No one else on Mom's
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: side of the family is willing to lend any help
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: or support, except for Aunt. I am, however, getting more
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: calls from cousins, second cousins, and other family members wanting
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: to reconnect now that they know the truth. I'm not
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: sure if I should even dedicate any time to them,
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: they didn't lend my father or me any support during
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: the divorce or afterwards. Part of me understands it because
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: my mom and sister spun a heck of a narrative,
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: but according to my cousins, her side of the family
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: thought mom and Cheryl were trash anyway, and they still
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: associated with them. I might reconnect more with my aunt's
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: two kids since they approached me with confusion and asked
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: for clarification instead of trying to browbeat me into taking
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: up my sister. Do we think Cheryl, mom, and Dirt
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: Pickle Tom... I doubt it.
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: I doubt it. I mean, it's probably not as intense,
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: but they're still going to hit her up about, Cheryl,
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: what do we do with Cheryl? And this is all
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: your fault, Mom. You created this monster.
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, Riley. Update 3,
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: 11 days later. People asked how my aunt and cousins
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: had my number. And that's simple. I've had the same
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: number since I was a teenager. I've been weighing switching numbers,
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: but that would mean changing all the passwords on all
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: my apps and logins, and honestly, Cheryl rarely calls, so
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: it doesn't bother me. As for how Cheryl knew where
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: I lived, that's because she's my psycho stalker. When I
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: was in college and had a boyfriend, she found him
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: at a party within a week and tried to hit
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: on him. If she spent a fraction of the energy
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: she spent stalking me and getting a PI license, she'd
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: probably be the most successful PI in the state. On
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: to the updates. We've doubled up on home cameras, got
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: an attorney, and have an initial protective order in place
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: for Cheryl, Mom, and Dirt Pickle Tom. The official hearing
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: is upcoming, but the law moves slow. My husband, Dad,
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: and I have taken to scanning our cars for air
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: tags lately. No bleeps yet, but can't be too safe now.
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: This is like just karma.
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: It really is. What you put out into the world,
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: what you tell yourself, is what you will receive.
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: Truly. Keep doing what you're doing, O.P.
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: I love every single thing you've done, O.P., No notes. Yeah.
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: Safety, keeping your distance, covering it from end to end.
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: Maybe if you really want to go over at the top,
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: you're already like an A-plus student. Here's some extra credit.
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: Get a camera that senses your sister, and every time
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: your sister comes to your front yard, sprinklers go off.
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: Free shower. Still a bit left. Let's go ahead and
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: finish it up. The cousins told me Aunt Janice broke
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: down at that and revealed that Janice was me? Turns
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: out my mom and Janice had a very similar relationship
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: to Cheryl and me, with Janice on the receiving end.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: Janice got so used to rolling over and taking it
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: that she was confused I refused to be like her
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: as well. Me refusing to take the role she had
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: broke her. And she felt even more steadfast than she
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: had to make me submit like she did, as a
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: weird twisted way to prove she wasn't wrong to submit
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: all those years. Janice had booked a family therapist because
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: she said hearing herself say all that out loud made
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: her feel... psychotic. My two cousins said that other than
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: my mom, Janice was an exemplary mother, so I somewhat
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: believe in hoping in Janice's recovery. I do feel bad
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: for her. Maybe she'll get through this. I hope she does.
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: My cousins understand we can't have a close cousin relationship
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: because we weren't raised that way, but we'll see if
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: we can be friends at the very least.
• 59:02
  Speaker 5: Janice has been brainwashed all these years.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 59:07
  Speaker 5: That is a hot mess. Sounds like all y'all are
• 59:10
  Speaker 5: from Virginia. And good luck.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: Keep your mom, your sister, and Dirt Pickle Tom as
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: far as possible from you.
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, dude. This is crazy.
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: That's the end of that story.