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Stay In Your Lane · The Opinion You Didn’t Ask For

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Whether I'm your favorite cup of tea or not, you're obviously
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here. So sit down, because today we
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are spilling the tea. You guys, welcome back to the
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opinion you didn't ask for. I'm Hannah and today is the day
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that I have been waiting for, the day that I don't have to
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just give my opinions unsolicited, but the day that I
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give the opinions you have been wanting.
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So welcome to the first of hopefully many episodes of the
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opinion you did ask for. All right, we're going to start
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it off with one that I'm not going to lie, I had to ask
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someone what it was because I didn't know because it's talking
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about smut. I, if I have given the
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impression that I read books, I apologize.
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Truly, I apologize. I'm, I'm not, I'm not a reader,
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guys. I am a visual learner.
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I am a movies and TV shows kind of girl.
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If you write a book and then someone turns it into a movie, I
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can watch that but there will be zero chance of me reading that
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book. So this one, I mean I was
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already starting out with a loss.
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OK so it says smut SMUT. Had no idea what that was so had
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to ask. Had to phone a friend and it
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says studies prove it has the same effects on a woman's brain
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as visual porn does on men's. Can't believe people read it so
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casually and publicly. The double standard is crazy.
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So this may be an unpopular opinion.
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This may ruffle some feathers. I am just going to give it to
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you how I feel. I have a sister who reads these
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books. I have a sister-in-law who reads
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these books. I have many of people on my
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social media, whether it was people I knew from high school
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or college or just randomly throughout life that they post
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about books. I couldn't tell you one name of
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one of these books. I cannot recall one of these
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books. However, I know that they read
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them. And so I have thought about this
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submission because I think it's so easy to try to find equal
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comparisons like, oh, these books that are lustful and
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inappropriate and causing you to have feelings of arousal, right?
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Versus like men viewing porn. So here's my opinion on it.
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I don't think that there's anything wrong with these books
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if they are not causing a woman to step out of her marriage or
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to step out of her relationship and to have an affair or to be
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thinking of another man while pleasuring herself or while
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being pleasured by her husband and she's thinking of someone
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that is not him. OK, there we can.
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We can agree that that's not healthy.
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However, from the people that I know who have read these books
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and from some online groups I'm a part of that often talk about
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these kind of books in these situations.
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I don't think a lot of women are doing that.
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I feel like for a lot of women, this has almost reignited the
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spark in the bedroom because they read this and then they
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they want to almost like reenact it or replay it with their
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spouse. They want to bring that
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spiciness from their book with these random characters into
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their bedroom. However, men viewing porn,
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that's not usually the case. A man is not usually like let me
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watch this to get some ideas to take to the bedroom with my
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wife. Like I do not feel like they are
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on the same level. You can disagree, I do not care.
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This is how I feel. I feel like porn is never used
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as encouragement, as an idea for what you should do with your
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spouse. I feel like it's a very selfish
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thing. I feel like it is a very self
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pleasuring thing. It's like if you're viewing
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porn, it's because you don't want to have that physical
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intimacy with your partner. It's because you don't want to
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be in reality, you want to be in some fantasy land.
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But I also think it makes you a beta male like I think, or a
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beta person, I guess depending on who's viewing it.
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But for the most part, I think the studies have proven men view
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porn more often. And I'm a woman and I'm married
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to a man. So in my world, that is how I, I
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guess, talk. But I do not think that a man is
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a strong, dominant leading man who's viewing porn and most
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likely getting off on that and then coming home to a woman who
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has probably been cooking and cleaning and taking care of kids
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and doing all these things. And instead of pleasuring her
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and instead of wanting to have that intimacy with her, he's
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already gotten it for himself. He's already, he's already taken
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care of that aspect. So of course the aspect of their
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marriage is going to struggle. Of course there's going to be a
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disconnect. Of course there's going to be a
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physical block because he is removing her from intimacy.
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And I also don't feel like they're, I don't feel like that
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there are a lot of women who are encouraging their partners to go
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view porn. However, I for a fact, I know my
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brother-in-law has told my sister to go read her book, to
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go take a bath, you know, to go chill and hang out.
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He's encouraged that. And if that book were a problem
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in their marriage, I highly doubt he would be encouraging
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that. So yes, I do think that there is
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a level of what isn't isn't appropriate in your marriage.
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You are allowed to decide for yourselves what works for your
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relationship. But I don't think that a book
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and characters in a book who are maybe doing slightly intimate
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things is cheating or is doing as much harm on the brain as
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porn. I just don't think that those
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are equal comparisons. So I guess you just have to draw
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the line for yourselves. You have to, you have to figure
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that out. But I do not, I guess I do not
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personally agree that the, I don't know, 50 Shades of Grey
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style books are doing as much damage.
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So for me, the line with these types of books is if it replaces
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sex with your partner, your spouse, it's bad.
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If it leads to more sex, better sex, better communication, a
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more spicy love life, then it's not bad.
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As long as you have set those boundaries with your partner, as
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long as they are on board, you are on board, then I don't think
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that there is any problem with them.
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As long as it's within the bounds of your marriage, your
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relationship, and you're not fantasizing about someone else,
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that you're not bringing a different person into your
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relationship because that is crossing a whole other boundary
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with marriage and affairs and all of that.
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But also, if you have read those books or you tried to read those
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books because everyone else around you is reading them and
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you feel uncomfortable, that is OK.
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You are allowed to not like them.
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You are allowed to feel like they are not appropriate for
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your life, but you're not allowed to judge someone else's
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life based on how you felt. Am IA doctor?
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No. Do I do research on people's
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brains? Absolutely not.
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Do I have opinions? Absolutely.
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So take that as you will. OK, that's just there's my two
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cents on that. Whether you agree or disagree,
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it's my opinion, so it doesn't really matter to me anyway.
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All right, we're moving on to a topic that also I am so grateful
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for everyone that's submitted, whether I agree with your
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opinion or not, whether you like the answer I give to the
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situation you submitted or not. I just want to thank you so much
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for trusting me with this and for wanting my opinion and for,
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I don't know, finding value in what I say or hopefully this
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does help. I honestly pray that it will
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help someone in some situation, whether you're the one that
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submitted it or not. Maybe you're going through
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something that you did not want anyone to know about and someone
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else is going through it and they submitted it.
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Truly, that is my hope. And this is also whether it's
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past, present, future possibilities of what may
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happen. Submit it.
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If you already did the thing and you're like, did I handle this
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the right way or how would you have handled this?
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Because I did this, what would you have done?
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I love, I love it all. Give it to me.
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Nothing is a bigger compliment to me than you asking for my
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advice or for you asking for my opinion on a situation.
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It honestly brings me more joy than you could ever know.
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So I just want to throw that in there.
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Thank you so much. OK, this one says when I was two
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weeks postpartum, which oof, postpartum that is.
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That's a journey. When I was two weeks postpartum,
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my mother-in-law was concerned I was taking advantage of air
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quoted by the way my husband because he took my baby to the
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two week checkup. Also, I was home and sick with
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COVID hence why I didn't take the baby.
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I've had a few conversations over text about it and it's been
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6 months but my feelings are still hurt.
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OK valid. Of course your feelings are
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still hurt because A hormones and B who who says that?
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OK, who says that mother in law's mind your business stay in
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your lane? That's that would could be its
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own podcast. Honestly, here are my thoughts
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on this. I don't feel like there is ever
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an appropriate thing to say to a two week postpartum mom, whether
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it is their first baby or their 4th, 12th, 20th baby.
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OK, unless it is you look beautiful.
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What can I do for you? Just don't talk if you are not
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offering help. No one wants your advice in that
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moment. OK?
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We are so overwhelmed with this new baby.
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We do not need to hear your advice.
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We don't need to hear how you would do it.
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We are married to the kid you raised.
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Thanks but no thanks. I'm still trying to retrain him.
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Once again, stay in your lane. So with that being said, I, I
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feel like there are a few situations of how to go about
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this, right? Like how close are you with your
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mother-in-law? Are these comments often being
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said in a passive aggressive way and they have never been called
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out? Have you asked your spouse?
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Is he aware that this is going on?
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So I think that that would be my first, my first advice is if
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you're comfortable, if you have a relationship with your
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mother-in-law, that you can, whether it's through text or a
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phone call or in person, just say, hey, I, I know you have
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good intentions. I appreciate all that you've
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done for us. I love you so much.
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I know it's probably my hormones and maybe I took it wrong, but
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when you said this, that really hurt my feelings.
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And I just want to make sure that you're aware and going
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forward, hopefully we can avoid this right now.
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If you do not have a close relationship with your
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mother-in-law and she's making comments like that when you're
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postpartum, I personally feel that it is your spouse's job to
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step in first. And I say first because if it
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continues, then you get to go. You get to go in guns blazing,
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K? But I would say start, start
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gentle, have her child, the one she raised and think she did
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such a perfect job with, have him go and say, hey, mom, this
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was brought up. I heard that you made this
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comment to her a way out of line, not appropriate.
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And B, we're just not going to make comments like that.
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Like I am a fully capable dad. I am, you know, I'm, I brought
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these kids into this world. Well, I got to do the fun part
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of bringing these kids into this world.
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She did the hard part, OK, I am more than capable of helping
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out. I am more than capable.
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I should be taking them to doctor's appointments, whether
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once again, whether it's your first or 50th kid, OK, he's the
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dad. He should be actively helping
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and if he is able to take them, why?
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Why wouldn't he? Why wouldn't he at least be
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going to the appointments with you even if you didn't have
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COVID, OK, if you had a nail appointment, you just carried a
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baby for nine months and pushed that thing out of you and now
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you are keeping that thing alive.
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Go get your hair done. Go to the spa.
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That that man can take that baby to the doctor's appointment, OK?
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He just can. So the mother-in-law should then
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be put in her place very, very nicely in a respectful ish way.
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Ish. I say ish because the girl made
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the comment, OK, She did dig her grave in that moment.
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Now, whether she wants to be resurrected out of that grave,
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that's on her. But given the option to get out
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of the grave, that's where we're at right now is we're giving her
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the option. And then if those comments
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persist. So I am curious as to what the
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text messages have been. But if your feelings are still
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hurt, I think my opinion. Hello once again, this is my
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podcast, this is my episode. This is my opinion is if your
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feelings are still hurt, then there is still going to be built
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up tension. There is still going to be
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resentment for her and for the comment that was made, which
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rightfully so. OK, I get that some of these
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women are still living in 1950 and they cook and they clean and
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they have a meal on the table for their spouse to come home
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and kick up his feet in the recliner.
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OK, I get it. That is how some women think and
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wives should be quiet. My husband doesn't know what a
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quiet day even sounds like in this house.
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OK, but there are some mother in law's mothers who think that a
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wife's job is to please her husband in the ways he deems
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necessary and she does everything else.
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False. We are in 2025.
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That is not what happens anymore.
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And I know that because my parents came to visit one
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weekend and my dad and I went to the grocery store and there was
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a dad and two little kids. He was pushing them in the cart
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and my dad's first comment was it must be his weekend.
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And I looked at my dad and I was like, excuse me?
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And he's like, well, he's alone with the kids.
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Like it must be his weekend. And I was like, heaven forbid a
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father takes his children to the grocery store.
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Do you know what that woman at home with who had those kids is
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probably going through? She might have another one at
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home, the baby who the husband was just taking the other two
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out of the house to give a break for.
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Or you know what? They might not have any more
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kids and she didn't needed a nap.
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A nap. The woman may be needed to take
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a shower with no one peeking through the curtain.
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OK, what do you dad? What do you mean that you
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immediately think that that man is divorced and it is his
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weekend with his kids because a single man was at the grocery
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store with two kids. It's honestly as if dads are not
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as involved and they weren't. I didn't.
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My dad was not very involved with my childhood growing up.
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OK so that is how a lot of the older generation love these
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boomers. That is how they view fatherhood
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because they were not that involved as fathers.
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My children will never know what life is like to not wake up and
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have their dad home 24/7. My husband works from home.
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Biggest blessing in my life. Truly the only reason we had a
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third baby because I was like I can't do I will not do a third
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kid by myself. Just won't do it.
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When my third one was born, my husband was holding him as like
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a two week old during meetings because it's virtual and he
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didn't even have to have his camera on.
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OK. And he's holding this newborn
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during meetings. That is the world my kids live
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in that their dad is home for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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He puts them to bed and I mean he cooks all our meals.
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Let's be real. So I'm like my mother-in-law
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could be like my son deserves to marry a wife who cooks.
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I'm like, sorry Heather, that didn't happen because I don't
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cook. But thankfully he loves to cook
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and that is what he finds joy in and he loves being a dad.
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So why are we putting men in this box of you're taking
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advantage of him? Well, he took advantage of me
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and that's how I got put in this situation.
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So once again, stay in your lane.
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So I don't know if that helped. I hope that helped.
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My advice would be to clear the air.
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If you're still upset, you tell her, pull her aside, call her on
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the phone. If you don't want to look her in
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the face, probably don't do it through text message because
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sometimes old people, older people, however old they may be,
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they read things wrong and then they may take it and they might
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decide to be offended, heaven forbid.
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So I think it's very important to make it in a place that they
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cannot misconstrue what was being said.
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You can't make that was it was yelling because you put a period
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instead of an exclamation point. I'm an exclamation point girly
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because that's how I talk. It's more it's joyful if I'm
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putting exclamation points, I'm happy, I'm talking nice.
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If I put periods in that text message.
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I am very unhappy if there is a period after a sentence, not
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good, not good for anyone. So you never know how someone is
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going to take something. So you need to make sure they
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are very aware of your intent and of the outcome you want.
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Because if they think you're just trying to nitpick, that
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just gives them more ammo. So if you're able to say, hey,
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that's not an appropriate comment.
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He is more than capable to take our baby to the doctor's office.
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Whether I am sick or not, whether I am sick at home with
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his other children or not. I deserve to be able to have a
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break if I need a break. So there you have it.
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And if it continues, then then let all let it all out.
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You go in Ragin hot K, please record it.
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I can't wait to see it. I just I live for moments.
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I live for moments of people getting called out on their poor
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behavior. OK, I'd love it.
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Love to see someone get put in their place.
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So you know, be respectful if you can, but at the same time,
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if they don't respect you, you do not have to remain as
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respectful. You can stand firm.
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You can say what is and isn't appropriate.
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You can set those boundaries. And I think boundaries are so
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healthy. Boundaries are so important.
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If you set boundaries with whoever your in laws, your own
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family, your neighbors, your friends, whoever it may be, set
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the boundary of how you will be spoken to, how things in your,
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this may not be how it worked in your family.
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This is what works in our family.
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He isn't complaining. I don't know why you are OK.
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OK, next. OK, this one said how to
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approach not liking and then in parentheses put rather despising
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your best friend's significant other, which oof, this is this
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is a heavy one. This one's heavy.
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So I asked a follow up question because she did not submit
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anonymously and so I figured she was OK with me knowing who it
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was. So I was like do you mind me
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asking? I even said do you mind me
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asking? Share what you want to share.
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Feel free to ignore this and not answer at all.
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But I asked why she despised them.
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I mean is there which you're allowed to have your opinions on
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anybody. But I wanted to know is there an
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abusive situation going on? Is it more gaslighting?
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Is it, you know, what level are we on with why you dislike them?
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Or are they just rude to you? Or have they kind of just cut
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you off because of this partner and maybe you took it more
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personal kind of a thing. You know, there's different
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levels of why. And so thankfully, she messaged
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back and just said he's very disrespectful to everyone, but
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mostly her and her family. He calls names, He's always in a
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bad mood, complaints about everything, can't hold a job.
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They've had multiple restraining orders against each other and
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they also have a child and that child is being put all of this
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through which I man I have an opinion on.
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If you are in a toxic relationship and you can't stand
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each other half the time and then you're love bombing each
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other the other half, that is fine.
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You do your toxicity. You live with those red flags
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all over the place. Do not bring a child into that.
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They did not ask to be brought into the situation.
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If you can't get your guys this crap together, that should not
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warrant a baby being brought in. Babies.
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Newsflash, here's an opinion. No situation has a baby made a
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relationship better. OK.
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It just hasn't. If you're having marital
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problems, if you're having relationship problems, if you
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keep going back and forth with the same person and you're like,
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maybe a baby will make us fall more in love.
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No, it won't. And then that poor child is
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going to be drugged through the mud and have to pick a side, be
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from a split home. Nobody wants that.
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OK, So if you can avoid it, do so.
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I already feel for this poor kid.
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I, I feel so sad for him and that he is having to live
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through this. If you've had to have multiple
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restraining orders against each other, OK, let's I mean by law,
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I think the police should just be like, you cannot get back
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together. The end.
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Like can that be a thing? Please?
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Can we start that to be a law? I might, I might start a
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petition that if you need a restraining order against the
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person you're with, ultimate red flag, ultimate Big X above their
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name. Just no go.
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OK, Now to be the friend who is having to witness this, that
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sounds horrendous. And I feel so I feel so bad
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because that that is terrible because you want to be there for
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your friend. You want to be that rock and
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that support and that shoulder to cry on when things ultimately
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will go downhill. It will end terribly, but how
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long is it going to take? And that's also exhausting to be
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the friend because how much energy and time can you possibly
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give to someone who does not want to change, who clearly
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keeps going into the same toxic cycle and they can't get out of
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it. And what's hard is that I feel
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like there's, there's pros and cons, right?
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You as the best friend can say what are you doing?
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You're an idiot, leave. He is trash.
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He is terrible for you. You 2 are not good together.
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You are making an unhealthy situation for you, for your
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child. Remove yourself from this and I
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promise things will get better. Right?
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Like you want to do that, but at the same time you worry if you
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do that, are they going to push you away?
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And are they going to stay? Are they going to stay almost to
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spite you to be like, I'm going to prove you wrong.
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He's not that bad. You just hate everybody.
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You're wrong, right? Like, there's, there's the
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double edged sword. You don't know how they're going
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to take it. And I've seen a few Tik toks
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recently where these daughters will say, Hey, dad, I'm going to
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tell you about this guy I'm dating.
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I want you to tell me, you know, if it's a good good thing or a
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bad thing. And they're just describing
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their dad's traits to see what the dad would say if it's a red
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flag or a green flag about this, you know, new boyfriend that the
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girl has that she doesn't actually have.
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It's she's just describing her father.
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I almost feel like you have to do that with this friend.
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Like I have to tell you about this friend I have or this boy
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I'm dating or this person that I work with.
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You know, I'm going to tell you all these crazy things that they
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do and their their relationship that they're always bringing
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into the office and talking about, or, you know, whatever it
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may be and almost put it as a third party situation and let
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your friend be like, holy cow, that's crazy.
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Or Oh my gosh, I can't believe she'd be so stupid to stay with
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someone like that. And maybe frame it in that way.
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And then when you get to the end, just like I literally just
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described everything that you have gone through the last year
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or two or three or however long this toxic relationship has been
25:40
going on. Because I mean, they have to see
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it. I mean, I see horror stories of
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like, if you do not get out of these situations, you may not
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survive them, like physically might not live through them.
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And that is a terrifying thing to think, right?
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Like this woman has a baby. She she has someone who is
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depending on her. You do not need to put her in a
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situation. She doesn't need to put herself
26:02
in a situation that could potentially harm her own life or
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her child's life and just cut your losses.
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Just be like, OK, we, you know, we were not good together.
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We made something beautiful together.
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This, this baby boy is amazing. Love him.
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I thank you for him. I will always love part of you
26:18
because he is part of you. But we need to find people that
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are good for us. We need to find people that make
26:24
us want to be better. And I think that that's just so
26:27
hard. And it might just take you
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honestly stepping away, telling the friend, hey, I love you, but
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I'm going to have to love you from afar for a little bit
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because I am scared for you and I am anxious for you.
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And I feel like you are not trying to help you and I have
26:45
tried to help you. And I think that I need to just
26:48
take a step back and let you make the decision you're going
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to make so that you know, you can't blame me in the future
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going forward for what is happening.
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But just for the record, I want to say, do not, whatever you do,
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do not leave her. Do not isolate yourself from
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her. Maybe try to isolate yourself
27:13
from that situation of her toxic relationship, but don't isolate
27:17
her as your friend because that is what this partner, that is
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what this guy will want. He will want everyone in her
27:26
life who loves her to leave her so that she is relying and
27:30
dependent on him, so that he's the one picking up the pieces
27:34
and he's the good guy even when he is the problem.
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He is The Walking red flag. He is the tragedy in her life.
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If everyone leaves her because of him, he will win and he will
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take her down with him. So do not whatever you do, do
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not abandon her, but maybe set boundaries on what you want to
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talk about within the relationship for your mental
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health as the friend but allowing her to talk about it if
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if it's needed. If she knows, she can talk to
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you about the horrible things that he's done and maybe even
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open up about more things that she hasn't talked about or that
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she was too embarrassed or afraid or ashamed to say.
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Be the safe space for her to talk about because she's
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obviously telling you for a reason.
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She wants to leave. She just might not know how to
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leave, and her being able to open up and talk to you about it
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is the first step in the ability to remove herself.
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I was actually in a relationship, a brief one that
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was beyond toxic and very unhealthy, which I will talk
28:43
about more one day, but my mom was so worried that I was going
28:51
to end up marrying this guy who sucked.
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OK, hindsight's 2020. I wanted to save him.
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I was like, man, I am the girl for the job.
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Like he needs Jesus. He needs saved.
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I've got this. Like I am going to fix him.
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That's not healthy. That doesn't usually end up
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working out well for the person trying to fix them.
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The person who's trying to get fixed, they get a lot out of it
29:16
because they almost get to walk all over you and take advantage
29:19
of you because they see you're trying to give.
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But thankfully, because I am, I'm a stubborn, stubborn girl.
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Thick skull over here. Thankfully, my mom said nothing.
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She said nothing. And it was funny because she
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told me after I got out of the situation and actually met my
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husband and while we were dating and how happy we were and how
29:42
happy I was and just I, I was lighter and more alive.
29:47
And she was like, I was terrified every day that you
29:50
were going to end up marrying him and your life was going to
29:53
be awful. She's like, but I knew if I
29:55
jumped in that you would fight harder to prove me wrong.
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And I'm so grateful for that because she's probably not
30:03
wrong. Or at least I would have ended
30:04
up going further down than I needed to.
30:06
It would have just taken more of my life, more of my energy, more
30:09
of my happiness. I would have given more of
30:12
myself to that person before realizing how toxic and
30:16
unhealthy and tragic the situation truly was.
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And I was able to take a step back and see it now for what it
30:24
was, which was terrible. But in the moment, I was just
30:28
trying to make him better. I was just trying to fix him and
30:33
help him be the person I knew he wanted to be.
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And no, why, why, why do we like the red flags?
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Why do we like the the bad boys who are so disrespectful, who
30:46
are so toxic? What is wrong with us?
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I think it's the TV shows we watched as kids.
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OK, we watched these bad boys with the good girl.
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Don't get me started on One Tree Hill.
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I could be here for 17 years. Love the show Nathan Scott
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changed it's fine but that situation, they don't always
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change and they don't always want to change.
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They just want to drag you down with them.
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And so as the friend, you almost need to decide, do you want to
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sit her down and point out every red flag he has?
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Or do you want to say I love you so much?
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I need to take a step back from my own mental health.
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And please let me know when you're ready to accept my
31:31
opinions on him. When you're ready to realize
31:34
what we have all been telling you because we love you.
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We don't want you to be sad. We don't want you to be hurt.
31:39
We don't want this toxic thing in your life.
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But also maybe ask her, how would you respond if that was
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your son? How would you respond if that
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was your daughter? Would you want them to stay in a
31:51
situation that you're currently staying in?
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Because I think that wakes a lot of people up when there are kids
31:57
involved. You want to give your kid a
31:59
better life. You want your kids to have more
32:02
than you had, to have healthier relationships than you've had,
32:06
that that's what you want. Everyone wants better than what
32:10
for their loved ones, than they've had for themselves.
32:13
It's very natural. Maybe she needs to see it as
32:17
don't save yourself for yourself.
32:19
Save yourself from the sky for your kid.
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Hopefully that'll help. Hopefully that'll wake her up.
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You know, we all, we've all been there.
32:28
We've all done things that our families and friends don't agree
32:31
with, but if they love us enough and if they've been supportive
32:36
as long as they can and they come to a breaking point, you
32:39
have to ask yourself, is this person really worth losing
32:42
everyone who actually does love and support me?
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OK, solid question. Just ask it.
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All right, I got one that said I would love to hear your opinion
32:54
on the Secret lives of Mormon Wives.
32:56
And I'm going to be so honest right now.
32:59
I have never seen one episode which some of you might be like
33:05
lies. She has no 110% I have not.
33:09
I don't even know why I haven't, if we're being totally honest,
33:13
because I love reality TVI love trash TVI do I love it.
33:19
But I have never seen an episode and I think because when it was
33:24
coming out and there were all these ads for it on Instagram
33:27
and it was being shoved in my face.
33:28
And you know what? I feel like I, I feel like I get
33:30
the gist of the show through Tiktok and Instagram.
33:33
I feel like they share enough reels and posts about it.
33:36
Then I'm like, I don't need to waste my time watching that.
33:38
I think I got, I got a brief summary going on of every single
33:41
person's personality. I don't follow any of them on
33:44
social media. I don't know half their names,
33:47
if we're being honest. But I do know some of the
33:49
situations that have unfolded. But I think for me, their air
33:55
quote friendships, their whatever they are to each other
34:00
is so toxic and so unhealthy and not genuine friendships, not
34:06
real relationships with each other.
34:09
It's basically who can one up the next person who can take the
34:13
lead, Who's who's the IT girl, who you know, whatever, all that
34:17
all that stupidness. But I think it honestly is
34:20
really triggering for me because of kind of friendships that I
34:24
had growing up and situations that I've had throughout my life
34:26
with friendships that I'm, it almost gives me PTSD in a way of
34:31
some of these behaviors and some of the things that have happened
34:35
on the show from what I have seen on social media that I'm
34:39
like, I don't think I need to bring that energy into my life.
34:42
That is some bad juju. I don't need that juju.
34:44
Thanks, but no thanks. So I mean, I guess we'll see if
34:48
enough of you told me I needed to watch it because you just
34:51
needed my opinion on a certain situation that happened
34:55
throughout the show or if you're like, no, Hannah, you need to
34:58
watch it because we need this from you.
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OK. I'd pray about it.
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All right. I would see if the Lord really
35:05
needed that to be in this podcast.
35:06
I don't know. I don't know where I'm at with
35:08
that. All right, I don't.
35:09
I have survived not watching. I think what?
35:12
They're on their third season now.
35:13
I have survived not watching three seasons.
35:16
I think I'm good for the rest of my life.
35:18
But never say never, OK? You never know.
35:22
All right, we are going to end with I have more submissions and
35:26
I have to obviously keep some of them for the next episode.
35:29
And please keep submitting them, keep giving them to me.
35:31
I cannot wait. But I'm going to end by reading
35:36
this submission and I will be giving the answer to it on the
35:42
next episode because it goes so well with what I have been
35:48
wanting to talk about and something that I feel is really
35:51
important in the world we live in and the experiences I've had
35:55
throughout my life. That this is an opinion that I
35:57
have really strongly of. And I've contemplated not
36:00
sharing it or sharing it because I don't ever want to hurt
36:04
people's feelings. And my husband has told me that
36:07
I sometimes I'm too vague in examples in some of my episodes,
36:13
but I told him it's because I'm a worried someone is going to be
36:16
offended by something I say. Or I'm worried that the person
36:19
who did the thing I'm talking about is going to know I'm
36:22
talking about them and they are going to take it personal.
36:26
But you know what? I don't actually care anymore.
36:29
This is my podcast. If they are offended, I mean, so
36:35
be it. It might be something they
36:36
needed to hear. Maybe it's something they didn't
36:38
know that they had done or they just don't ever have to tune in
36:41
again. OK.
36:43
You have the choice to not listen.
36:45
I have the choice to say how I feel.
36:48
This is my therapy. It's free, OK?
36:51
Just, you know, I'm doing my best over here.
36:54
So this is it Says I had a friend of eight years.
36:58
Always felt like I put forth more of the effort.
37:01
She wasn't there for me through some hard times.
37:04
Then one day I get a long text about how I'm flaky and not as
37:07
close to her. Like, of course I'm not.
37:12
You weren't there for me. I never responded to the text.
37:15
I'd love to know what Hannah would have done.
37:17
She was also, after I never responded, she blocked me on
37:21
Instagram, but now she's liking my stuff on Facebook, so not
37:25
sure what that means. Yeah, girl, me neither.
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But we're going to discuss it next week.