I was PROHIBITED from talking to my half-siblings…because I’m an affair child! | Reddit Stories | EP2144 - ok storytime

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Cowboys Sam, and this is yeh John And
we've last owed in some amazing stories for y'all the
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We bucking love so much they paid us the bucks
to help this show stay alive. I was prohibited from
talking to my half siblings because I'm an affair child. Shame, shame, same,

(00:25):
just kidding, no shame in the game the background, when
my mom was twenty, she had an affair with my dad.
My dad was and still is married and had kids
and is around twenty years older than my mom. Oh
goodness crazy.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh you know what I actually so, I think this
is an interesting story because I was I when I
was approving it today. Ope, and the story is in
high school. They're like fourteen eighteen, So this is like
a with that context through the adoles view. Yeah, that
should have been at the top of the store. I
must have forgot to change that or put that note
in there. But they're this is a real actual teenager

(01:02):
being Like, so my parents are trying to tell me
I can't interact with my siblings.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
So anyway, interesting set in the stage. There, set in
the stage.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Now, six months into their relationship, my mom got pregnant
and decided to keep me even though my dad doesn't
want me. I hate how that is the present tense
as well. By the way, this comes from beast Daughter
nine four one four nine And if you want to
submit your own stories, go to the r slash. Okay, storytime, celebreds.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
What good news is is that this kid sounds like
they're gonna be really funny. Yes, because that's pretty messed up.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
We love some good humor. Oh god. Well, he then
came clean to his wife in order to stay married.
His wife told him that he could never see me
or my mom again. They then kept me secret from
the rest of the family. So a fair partner never
sees it's eveter or and a fair baby doesn't see

(02:00):
anyone in the family. Like just like complete stonewall cut
off basically okay, which I don't know, man, that's you
can't cut off the kid from the fan, Yeah, the kid.
I don't think we can do that to the kid.
That's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. I agree. I agree. My
dad pays child support, but that is the only contact
I have ever had with him. My mom told me

(02:21):
the truth when I was eleven, and she thought that
I was ready to know. Before anyone says anything about
her character, my mom readily admits she made a huge
mistake carrying on with my dad and that she was
immature and naive. She never makes me feel like a
mistake though. That is good. At least the mom's good.
And dude, the dad was twenty years older than her,
you know, so like not to forgive he's twenty years older? Yes,

(02:44):
I thought he was twenty years old. No, he's what
wait wait, let me know. A check and he's around
twenty years older than my mom. Wow, wow, yes, sir,
So he knew what he was doing. He knew what
he was doing in the negative way. We don't have
a lot of money at all, but my mom is
my best friend and makes so many sacrifices for me.

(03:05):
So the situation now. Three months ago, I was contacted
on Facebook by a guy who is a senior in
high school a half hour away from where I live.
He introduced himself as my older half brother. Okay, Facebook
reuniting family brothers, there we go. He said he was
contacting me because he'd found out that I existed and

(03:28):
wanted to get to know his younger sister. We talked
nearly every day for a month. He told me all
about my half sisters, who are his older sisters, my
aunt's uncles, and my grandparents. I look just like my sisters,
and my brother and I are pretty similar personality wise.
For the first time, I felt like a part of
a big, happy family. My mom is estrange from her

(03:50):
parents and her brother, so it has been only the
two of us my whole life. When I was a kid,
I always wanted a big brother, so this felt like
a dream come true. I hope this is not going
to be sad and going to be happy. At some points,
I also hoped against hope that someday I might get
to finally meet my dad. We were just starting to

(04:11):
make plans to meet up in secret when he left
his Facebook open on their computer and his mom found
his messages to me. The same mom who told you know,
a fair partner and a fair baby aka Opie and
her mom do not contact any of my family ever
stone stone Wall agreement. But this is the sun the son.

(04:33):
Didn't you know? He's a freaking He was the baby,
you know, he didn't make it agreement or anything.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Son is acting out of just a place of I'm
a human, you're a human. Yeah, let's be friends because
we're related. Yeah, you're my sisters. Yeah, yeah, my sister.
I just think this is it's it's misguided because I
assume that the wife then took a husband back. Yes,
So it's like you're being like, all right, so if

(04:59):
we can make these peop people functionally non existent in
our lives, I can pretend like it never happened, which
is not any way to go about that.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Out of rescue for success at all.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
You're just like holding down this like beach ball in
the pool of like resentment and hate and in bitterness,
and someday you're gonna let Oh, that beach ball is
gonna explode up out of the pool.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
So his mom threw a fit and threatened to leave
my dad as well as punch my half brother out
of the house and not pay for his college. Okay,
mom is she's she's she's working her way up on
the on the A hole scale. My half brother told
me all of this in a really apologetic final message,
telling me that we couldn't speak anymore. Though he is

(05:42):
really unhappy about it, and he wishes me the best.
Oh God. When I asked him if my dad said
anything to her defending me, he said no. So how
I feel now? I feel worthless and like I am
not worth being anyone's daughter. Oh, I didn't ask to
be born. Why does my dad's wife blame me? I

(06:02):
just want a proper family. Though this hurt before I
found out the truth, talking to my brother and being
so close to being whole, only to have that taken
away feels like a cruel tease. I also feel like
I can't tell my mom any of this because it
would hurt her that I place such an importance on
my dad and his family. Oh yeah, she doesn't want
to upset her mom. But then at the same time,

(06:23):
it's like that's a huge weight to carry, you know,
she already has a lot to carry my.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Gud Yeah, especially because they've been just like their unit,
so there's a lot. Yeah, but I would meet this is.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Something that needs to be said to your parent.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, you're like, yeah, I'm really feeling like I want
to see what's up with the other half of my genetics.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yes, you know, yeah, but I can see It's like
she's still still in fourteen, still in high school. It's like, yeah,
it can be hard to go to your parent and
be like, this is what I want, you know, feels.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Like a betrayal. It's really not not just a person
totally normal.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, and just you're just sharing your your your once.
You know. Does anyone have any advice on how to
cope with this? We do have some comments. I'm very
curious on comments from our own community. Amy Lynn says,
op get therapy to start, and you'll be eighteen soon
and then you can do what you want. I mean,

(07:20):
I guess Opie could. Well. I don't think that really changes.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Her ability to communicate with the siblings, and that the
families need to shut her out of existence.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
So onto these comments comat Number one says, she blames
you because you're a walking, talking, breathing reminder of his infidelity.
It's not your fault, but that's just how it is.
This is one of those things that you'll probably have
to sort out after you and your siblings are adults
and they no longer need their parents' money. I am sorry.
Comed Number two says one, You're not dirty. You are

(07:51):
as dirty as you choose to make your life. No
one else has input there.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
You want dirty as you choo, you can go outside,
roll around in the dirt shop.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
No one can stop you. Yeah. I love how it's
like you're not dirty. But if you want to just
jump in a mudpit, then yeah, you could be dirty
if you want to. It's like, well, all right, that's
one way to say it. Two, despite what she wants,
the cat is out of the bag. While you may
never have a relationship with your father, more than likely
at least one of your siblings, and probably most of
them will want to meet you and possibly have a

(08:21):
relationship with you. The poll of siblings is strong, even
half siblings. Also contact your grandparents on that side secretly.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Ooh secret, Grandma, Ooo, secret, Grandma secret, it's a secret, Grandma.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Oh god secret, she's got a secret mission. I love
my affair, grand baby. Jokay, you're firm an affair because
I'm Granny and I just love you. Okay, Grandma, back
into your room. Never, Granny, don't do what Granny want
to do. Don't kick that door open and take laugh

(09:02):
by the horns. Secret. So, your dad's wife likely does
not have enough sway with them to prevent them from
meeting up with you, even if they need to keep
it a secret. It may take a minute, but you
will likely gain some family on that side, to which
Opie responds, I do want to hope that my brother

(09:25):
or both of my sisters will look me up once
their mom's threats can't hurt them anymore. But at the
same time, I don't know if it would be healthy
to wait around like that. Great point, Opie, so so
make sure my goodness. As for my grandparents, maybe, but
I don't know how i'd start to look for their
contact info. They don't live in the area, and I
can't speak to my brother anymore and to ask him
for it. A reply says this is such a good idea.

(09:48):
Basically anyone she doesn't have power over, true, you have
a right to know them. Also, I just want to
throw this out there. Your dad, quote unquote, is a
piece of crap. Your brother's sounds lovely. Look at who
wants to be a part of your life and who doesn't.
You have a mother who loves the crap out of you,
and a brother who went out of his way to
track you down and only doesn't continue to talk to

(10:11):
you because he's vulnerable and dependent on this woman for survival.
The person who doesn't want you is a coward who
cheated on his wife after they had kids, rejected the
chance to get to know his own child, and allows
his wife to keep his children apart. If he isn't toxic,
he is most certainly the toddy of a toxic person.

(10:31):
Never heard it said that way.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Never have I either. What What is a toddy? Like
a hot toddy? I know, but that's a drink. He's
just a little lemon in water. Maybe they meant to
say body, or they meant to say toddy.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
A toddy can interfer to a few different things, including
a person who flatters others for personal gain. I'm still
or a canyon in a Grand Canyon National Park. I
think that's the one. I think that's what is the.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Grand Canyon of toxicity.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
That's nice. But the strong, good kind people of this
world love you and don't forget that, to which Opie says,
thank you, smiley face. It's been hard to accept that
my dad isn't a very good person, though I've been
dealing with that since I found out the truth three
years ago. But I don't want to make excuses for him,
So I guess that is progress. Conege number three says,

(11:22):
have you considered talking to a professional he slash she
will really help you bring yourself esteem back. But please
remember you are not worthless. I am sorry about the
situation and hugs to you. Opie says, maybe I have
to admit the thought of going to a therapist or
something scares me a bit because of the stereotype that
it means that you have problems. And uh, Opie, just
take it from me a person in therapy. That doesn't

(11:47):
mean you have problem.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Take it from all the people in this room.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
You've seen therapists, take it from all of us, including
shots shots, so people who have been therapies perfect echo. Dude.
That got me.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
I was like, is thatm feet? Is that playing back someway, Yeah, totally.
Normally at fourteen to be like, oh I have therapy,
everyone's gonna think think differently about me.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
But it's like at some point, I don't know, you
just realize, oh, yeah, I am messed up. So is
everyone else in their own ways, and it's like therapy
is just a tool to make the weird things in
your life less weird and mysterious. You're like, oh, that
makes more sense now than that you've spoken to me
that way.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
You know, even if you already know it, We're just
we're all just lumpy skin sacks, just trying to make
sense of this crazy world.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, you know, our central processors sometimes they get goofy.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Are electric noodles, just trying to make it work, but
it's hard.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
But we need a little help something. They are literally
electric noodles.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
This is a reply to Opie. They say, no, it
doesn't go into the therapist means you are solving your
problems and controlling them instead of letting them control you.
Well put, and we have an update. Do we predict
that OPI is going to reach back out to their
other family members? What are we thinking?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I mean, you know, I think you can try. I
think the siblings definitely, you know there's something there. But
it's like the mom is clearly like commanding that you
be you know, kept on the outside under the chain
of financial insecurity. So it's like, once they get to
a point where they don't have to rely on this

(13:35):
woman for anything, I guarant all your siblings are gonna
reach out to you.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
They are, But you know, at fourteen, you're like dude,
that still senior year. That's like like a freaking a
jillion year's bro, it is a long time.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
I just think not letting it become like an all
it's because of me that they're not talking to me.
It's like just knowing that. It's like, these are things.
It's not because you were born, it's not because you exist.
It's because they won't be able to go to Collin.
Their mom takes away their college fund. Like, that's not
on you. What do you think their mom?

Speaker 1 (14:05):
What do you think you on? Stinky?

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Bring stinky breath over here. I have no comments other
than I have. I'm trying to survive for my life
from stinky breath.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Stank, give him the sinky. I know it's been a
short amount of time since I last posted, but so
much has happened already. Yes, first of all, the advice
I got gave me the courage to tell my mom
when had happened. Good.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes did say that, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
She was a bit hurt that I did not think
she was enough. Not true at all, but I understand
why it would come off that way. But was even
more upset that I had been feeling so badly about myself.
See there we go. I told her the morning after
I posted before school, and she let me take the
day off and took me out to lunch so we
could talk about everything and rehash my feelings. Dude, I'm sorry,
but taking the kid out of school for the day

(14:53):
and just like being with them is the most g
parenting move ever. Yes, huge w Sorry, but not sorry.
She was glad that I'd come into contact with my
half brother, and she said he sounded like a nice boy.
She also said that we couldn't talk anymore, but understood
completely why and does not blame him at all. The
next day, after we talked, she told me that she
thinks I could use talk therapy. Apparently she had been

(15:16):
seeing one briefly when I was a baby and it
helped her a lot. We couldn't get an appointment for
one soon, but in three weeks I will see a
therapist for the first time. Dude, Opie shot op Man.
Shout out to Ope. Shouts to op taking taking great
advice and following with it, indeed better than some of
you freaking, freaking grown but adults out there or are

(15:39):
just like Oh, I want my sister to pay for
my wedding, and I won't listen to anyone. Oh yeah,
you you know who we're talking about. You know who
we're talking about. No, you are. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
I also have to point out that it's I think,
immediately telling that Opie is younger by being like, we
didn't get it for very soon, but three weeks I'll
have a therapy appointment.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's like that is lightning, because lightning the queen over here,
it's actually lightning mac therapy. Yeah. Cut, how do you feel? Yeah? Yeah, yes,
that one came together. I'll give myself profs for that one.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Go to the wide shot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Now for this next part, I will use names for
the most part because there are a lot of people,
so it could get confusing otherwise. Okay, one comment made
in the last post stuck out to me that I
could make a fake account of some sort and talk
to my brother Ryan. By the way, I was kind
of nervous about getting my brother Ryan in trouble, but
I did want to say a proper goodbye. During our

(16:51):
last conversation, I was in shock and upset, so I
didn't get the chance to tell him how much I
appreciated him talking to me. Oh so I decided to
find a way at least to do that, and almost
immediately found a really obvious way Instagram time to slide
in those d mds. We found it, Ah, the tool
they didn't want us to know about, this underground tool

(17:15):
that nobody knows about. I hear it's instant of God.
I made a fake one and message his account, telling
him I don't want to get him in trouble, but
that it means the world to me that he went
out of his way to find me and that I
love him. I told him he didn't even have to reply.
But the thing is, a Ryan did respond to me. Good.

(17:35):
Of course he did. We got it. He told me
he loved me too, and that he wants to talk
again when he's in college. He told me something else, though,
that he told our older sister Hayley about me a
couple of weeks after he found out about me, and
that he thinks she'd respond if I reached out to her.
I have another older sister, Sarah, and she's a huge
daddy's girl, so Ryan was afraid to tell her. Ryan

(17:58):
said that she was nervous and shy about contacting me,
so I made the first move. He gave me Hailey's
school email, and I sent her something telling her who
I was. This morning, I found a very long, kind
and loving email from Haley in my box. Let's go
all right. She is twenty and goes to college ten
hours away. She told me about how happy she was
to hear from me. Haley also shed light on my

(18:20):
bio dad and his wife. The biggest reason why she
was so receptive to me was that she was already
used to the idea of him cheating when she was
very young. Her and a friend, Sarah, had a best
friend for years. Then one day, when Haley was around ten,
my sisters abruptly weren't allowed to hang out with her
anymore or talked to her at school.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Way, hold on, we're not about We're not about to
find out that op is not the first product of
this weird cheat on me and get someone pregnant and
then we'll never talk to them or see them ever again.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
In my area, it might not be another a Fair baby,
but it might be another a f okay minus the
baby okay, or maybe it is yeah, they.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Like they just okay, let's go. He loves having a
fair baby. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
He's addicted if he.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
He's done this twice, foo me once, all right, fo
me twice and no way, no way, like please dump
him at that point.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
But let's see. So when she was eighteen, Hailey's mother
told her that the reason was that my bio dad
and the friend's mom had been having an affair and
had been caught. Ryan doesn't know this. Haley also told
me that she remembers a lot of times when she
was in high school when our dad and her mom
almost divorced, and that they actually separated for two years

(19:44):
when she was a kid. From the tone of her email,
Haley does not seem to like our dad very much,
and I understand why. She also told me she doesn't
think it's a good idea to tell Sarah about me
right now, since she will just run to their mom
with the info and make things horrible at home, which
will affect Ryan the most, because again she was like, hey,
if you talked to her one more time, then no more,

(20:06):
no more college funds, and I'm kicking you to the streets,
which is crazy, right, which is crazy? And like Katie
Paladin and said, everyone's like your dad is a serial cheater.
Why do we not divorce him, Like why why do
we keep having these like rules and stipulations if he's
just gonna go just bust bust through them. I bet

(20:29):
you it's finances. I bet you. I bet you it's finances.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
And then that's why it's like this weird misdirected bitterness
that she's given towards the kid. It's like, I'll take
away your college fund. It's like, well, I bet you,
it's like the dad's money maybe, and then it's like,
you know, she'll be like, wow, you have we're not
paying for his college anymore because guess who's he's been
talking to your mistake. It's like, I don't she.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Everyone wants to keep daddy's money. That's what it's giving.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
I'm still going back to Umi once FOOMI twice.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
He cheated on you.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Once, he cheated on you again, he'll cheat on you
a third time. He'll do it a fourth.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Just leave him, if figure it out, divorce. If she did, however,
give me the home address of my aunt Jolene, my
Biodad's younger sister. Apparently Jolene is a strange for my
Biodad and his wife, but still talks to my half siblings,
so is an ideal person to contact. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
It sounds like maybe the infidelity runs in the family.
If your sister's Jolene.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Dude, that's pretty good. Cutting a that was pretty good.
We're all on fire today. Thank you so much, Reddit
for helping giving me the courage to reach out and
make all these family connections. I felt a bit selfish
doing it, like I could be forcing my way into
their lives, but they do seem happy to talk to me.
I have one piece of sad news, however. Haley also

(21:53):
told me that within the two months that Ryan and
I were in touch, that my paternal grandmother was diagnosed
with Alzheimer's. She had been having memory problems for a
year before the diagnosis. But the family is still very sad. However,
I don't know if I should still try to talk
to my grandparents now. They have a lot on their plate,
as does the rest of the extended family. I don't
want to be a bother again. Thank you read it,

(22:15):
and we do still have some relevant comments here. Communere
number one says, Ope, you and two thirds of your
half siblings sound great. The whole math problem be patient
and let your relationships with Ryan and Haley evolve at
a sustainable pace. Sometimes in high emotion situations. More than
that can be too much too soon. Also, you don't

(22:36):
want Ryan to suffer consequences. You have your whole lives
to get to know one another and enjoy your connection
with them. Congratulations, Obie says, thank you. I don't want
to be too aggressive either, because, like you said, Ryan
could suffer. I think I will let Haley and Ryan
themselves dictate how I should proceed. OPI is just can
we just talk about how Ope is just ten twenty

(22:57):
thirty years ahead.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
They're built different these days. They're built freaking different, building
them different in whatever laboratory they cook them up in
m they got all kinds of advanced circuitry. And the
Alpha lab. Dude, they are in the Jen Alpha lab
and alphas just absolutely cooking right. Yeah, Yeah, I'm scared

(23:19):
for them.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
I am going to write my aunt because she doesn't
speak to my dad's wife. So there's like pretty much
no harm enough out there. Someone replied, don't be too
quick to pass judgment on Sarah either, OPI. This is
a huge life event in its own way. She will
need time and maturity to handle it. Also learning your
parents are human and make make mistakes could be tough.
Opie says, Yeah, it seems like my siblings have a

(23:42):
previous problem with Sarah. That's affecting how they're talking about her.
To me, to be honest, I'm trying not to be judgmental.
Commentary number two says, that's wonderful. I'm so mad at
your bio dad, But at the same time, sounds like
you dodged a bullet kind of because it sounds like
it's home may have been pretty dysfunctional, Like if he'd

(24:02):
actually gotten with your mom, he would have just cheated
on her, animated her miserable. These these are interesting points.
I really don't understand Biodad's wife's perspective. What entitlement. I
hope she gets her come up and and you sweep
into their lives and all the siblings accept you openly.
What a terrible thing to tell one's own children. They

(24:22):
cannot talk to their own relations who have done nothing
wrong exactly.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
That's the thing that's so wild about it. Yeah, his
kids didn't do anything, and I get that it sucks.
I get that it sucks, but you can't punish the
innocent child punish the person who did that, don't punish
innocent children. Be okay with it or don't be Yeah,
but can't just put it in a box and pretend

(24:49):
like it doesn't exist.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
The people. They're people, ladies and gentlemen, Opie says. I
just find myself feeling really bad for her, Like my
mother told me more info about her final conversations with
her and my dad when she found out she was pregnant,
and apparently his wife told my mom that she was
a witch who people wouldn't miss if she passed away.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
My God, and honestly understandable crash out when you realize
that your husband has cheated on you and is going
to have a baby with another woman, Like probably, I
mean it's not like it's not true, but like if
you're going to crash out, like it makes sense that
you would maybe do that, I mean, doesn't make it right.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
I I I get I get her anger towards her
because she did she was complicit in cheating, but again,
like I don't know, like, yes, yes, for sure, the
right the anger comes down. It makes sense that it
would happen. But I'm also like going back to the
age gap. It's like if I were in the mom shoes,

(25:49):
I would be like, oh, you were like essentially taken
advantage of by well totally, there's a husband, yes, So
the reality is that, of course that the husband is
the most at ault in the situation. Absolutely, there's no
debating that. But at the same time, she's gone through
so much pain in her life, and she seems like
a very sad and hurt person. I don't think people

(26:12):
deserve the life she has. And we have a second
update here. We might just get another update on her
connecting with more of the family, specifically Jolly Jolly Joy
jo Lean.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Oh guy please Joeline, Hey, please don't take my man.
Don't I know you don't do it?

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Only please? I know it. Don't do it?

Speaker 2 (26:37):
You know it, I know it.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Next update. Yeah, let's go. Hi. I wasn't originally going
to update again, but I am in an emotional hole
and I don't see the therapist I told you about
until Thursday. I also have a few questions that I
could use advice on. I was advised last time to
delete my account, and I will probably end up doing
this after this one. I just need help. So April

(27:01):
fourth was my fifteenth birthday. Happy birthday, and two days
before that, I got a birthday card in the mail
with a Starbucks card from my dad's family. It's not
signed from him or anyone in particular, just from the
last names, so you know the family the names. Oh

(27:23):
yeah well. Also included in the card was a handwritten
letter from my step mom I think, meaning the husband's.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
We are okay, anti child mom.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
The anti child mom. Since this sub doesn't allow links,
I've written it out here. If anyone wants me to
send them a picture of it, just personal message me.
Dear op. This letter reads, I have no nice way
to say this to you, so I apologize if this
comes off harsh. We know it's about to be very.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Harshrible way to start a letter, yep.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Just know that I'm writing as a wife and a mother,
and I'm trying to appeal to any common decency you
may or may not have.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Could have left out that may not could have left
that out. You're a fishing for your cruising for a
bruis and at this point that's what you want.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
My daughter told me she is in contact with you,
and she has done that only to hurt and punish
me because of issues that are none of your business.
Please don't let her do that. I don't know if
you were raised with any understanding of family in your household. Dang,
hold on, because this is about to go so crazy.
I can tell like, First of all, lady, I'm already

(28:37):
a problem.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's not your issue, right, You've determined that. So what
are you trying to tell.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Me what to do? Huh hmm?

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Oh, the audacity of this, lady. I wish I could.
I wish I could verbally eviserate her be all that. Yeah,
so just know this is all wrong. If fifteen year
old know that this is all horse kaka, yes, yes,
that is absolute facts.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
I also love how she put she's so condescending the
Starbucks gift card. Dude, it's it's it's just screams condescension.
And you're beneath us anyways. But in our family, we
put the good of others over our own selfishness. I
think that's completely incorrect, but let's keep going. Honestly, you
are being very selfish and trying to get to my husband.

(29:27):
He has provided for you well these past years, and honestly,
I'm hard pressed to know what else you could possibly want.
That is also not true. Maybe like a conversation. Yeah,
have you heard of those? You could what? My husband
gave you four hundred dollars a month in child support.

(29:48):
What more could you possibly want?

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Maybe just like.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
A friendly nod and a wave of some kind, you know,
the little little two finger like hey, hey, hey, partner,
hey buco oh something please op. We were happy and
at peace before you decided your own wishes mattered more
than our ability to sleep well at night.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Hey hey, sister, you clearly were not at peace. Damn,
I again.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
I hate being right.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
This woman is so deluded that she really thinks she
can fix her marriage by putting the affair stuff just
in the garage in a box, out of sight, and
that that is the equal of everything's better. Yep, nothing
ever got better. Ever, it never did. He kept cheating,

(30:41):
and you're okay with that. You signed off on it.
You're still with him.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yep, yep, yep, yep. My god. I know you are young,
and young people are not the most empathetic coming from
the Queen of empathy, people, folks, from the Queen of empathy.
But I hope you will listen to me. Now here
we go, stay away from my family. You're causing us
nothing but pain. Stepmom.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, her name technically change. All of the us is
to me, me, me, my, my may and then then
it's accurate. It's not the whole family, it's just her.
She's like, hello, painful reminder of my husband's infidelity. Ouch,
you are hurting me because you're making me remember that
my husband doesn't treat me right.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Oh this, I can't even. I cannot even with this woman.
Oh god, I know it seems unreal. Main reason why
send a picture to anyone who wants one? And I'm
still stunned this was sent to me. Hey, who the
heck does this? B This has made me feel devastated
and horrible. And see, I'm really angry about her passive
aggressive digs towards me, like I was raised like a

(31:45):
wild animal because my mom made a mistake. I've done
what she wants, though I don't think I'm ever going
to contact any of them again. Oh no, no no,
this is just teenager. No no no, no, no no,
this is just teenager. She's lot. You're not ruining the
whole family.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
You're just messing up her flow that she is like
carefully and particularly like made sure like and we'll never
think these thoughts. And as long as we never think
these thoughts, then they're not real and they they've never happened,
and you're just upsetting this equilibrium.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
That's all. Yes, you're fine. Hopefully in time she'll come
to realize that. Like, wait a second, let me not
appease her stupid fricking want to just push me down
like beach ball on the pool. Yeah, absolutely, let me
spring up like the joyous beach ball that everyone you
know has the time of their life, you know, playing
playing a good game of Some of the good reddit

(32:37):
comments are so crucial.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
We need the good reddit comments on this story.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
It works so well before you need them. Let's work.
Let's do it again. Yes, Opie says, I already knew
my sister had told her about me, because three days
before I got this, she emailed me saying she was sorry,
but she was fighting with her mom and the truth
slipped out because she was upset and wanted to hurt her.
My brother genuinely hasn't been talking to me, though, so
he is still safe. I showed my mom the letter

(33:04):
and she is pissed. Right. Oh yeah, she should be
the first thing I thought I was like, pissed, I OPI,
but pissed at the mom. Right, come on, right right.
She told me that she will give me the choice,
but if I said yes, she will find my dad
and confront him about his wife's actions. I don't know,
but what I do know is that you can listen

(33:25):
to full freaking episodes full of stories just like this.
Ladies and gentlemen go to Spotify, Apple iHeart and search. Okay,
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any test, any anything you got in life. It's gonna
it's gonna help you through it. So just go check

(33:46):
it out. Go check it out before I get angry.
You wouldn't like him when he coda. They don't want
to see me angry. He turns into the Red Hulk
when he's angry. I guess my questions for you, guys are,
how do I stop feeling like a stupid piece of
spond Come Opie, ponsco OPI opie.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
You never heard that before you You are freaking awesome,
and do not let the This mom is a fully
grown adult who is a fully baby child.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
She can go to time out and we can give
her her her pacifier to suck on because she's a
dumbo and you're freaking awesome and mature and you're you're
doing great, Like you're doing so great. Keep going to therapy,
keep listening to the awesome people in the comment comments,
keep doing that, keep doing that. Stay open. You know,

(34:40):
if you don't feel like reaching out to failure right now,
that's of course really fine. If they reach back out,
maybe see if you want to talk to them, or
maybe you get to the point where you want to, Uh,
I want to reach back out again. Just do that.
Do all of those things. Do all of those things? Yeah,
do all those you know, teenage, a teenager.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Teenage, you're right at the age where you start to
like figure out. You're like, oh wait, just because adults
are older.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Than me, it doesn't mean that they're always right or better. Yes,
it's like.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
That you're finding out right now that this fully grown
woman who's like has a family literally doesn't even know
does it, can't even conceive that she's actually kept you
from your family.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, because she's yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Her thoughts are asinine and hold no weight.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Couldn't have said it better myself couldn't have said it
better myself. Should I get my mom to confront my dad?
My gut tells her that she should be involved, but
at the same time, my more selfish side wants her
to yell at him. Should I be the bigger person
and send them a thank you card for my birthday present?
Thanks in advance? Guys? What do we think about those
last two points? Should mom talk to the bio dad

(35:50):
and should OP send this like thank you card back
to get a little.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
I think you should definitely, Like, I think the funniest
thing to do would just be to send the thank you.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Card back and be like, love you guys.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Then that would just to be to upset the mom.
Oh yeah, but I think honestly, it's like as you
get older, it's like your siblings will You're going to
you know, create and establish more of a relationship with
your half siblings once they get out from under the
thumb of their mother. You really don't have to take
into consideration anything that she thinks once that happens.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yep, you know, completely agree.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
She's literally trying to bully you like she's an adolescent,
trying to scare you into like don't talk to my family.
You're actually everyone hates you, and you're only making us
You're making everything worse.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Just leave us atle Bone. It's like, what, Yeah, shut it,
step mom, You're not my real mom. But we got comments. Hey,
it's Sam. We're gonna get back to these stories. But
here's three bits of ads from our sponsors that keep
the show alive. Comment everyone, please stop letting terrible people
make you feel terrible about yourself. Keep talking to your therapist.
Her worth has nothing to do with whether or not

(37:02):
you're acknowledged by your father. He and his wife are
clearly awful people, and you're better off without them in
your life. Opie says, I haven't seen him yet. I
see him for the first time this Thursday. WHOA, I
guess we have a lot to talk about. Yeah, this
is uh. This is about to be crazy and we
have come much. Number two, ignore her completely. She has

(37:22):
literally nothing to you but a pest. Then keep in
contact with your sister as much as you want. Don't
let other people's actions control your happiness, which is what
she's doing. Finally, enough, Opie, another reason I'm wary to
keep talking to my sister now is that the only
way she could have gotten my address was from my sister,
since she asked me a bit before this's happened for

(37:43):
my address so she could send me a birthday presence. Reply. Actually,
if your father has been paying child support, she saus
as they already had your address to do that, she
didn't necessarily get it from your sister and reply. She
may have been snooping, so it may not be your
sister's fault. Copti three says, I would be tempted to

(38:03):
f with the switch send her a reply that you're
okay with not conquing her family again because you're now
in contact with the other half siblings, the other a
fair family.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah, I mean, it's the funny thing is to try
to annoy it just who cares. It's like, yeah, you
like it feels like her thoughts and opinion matter a
lot because she's like the step mom, and it's like
or she's an adult and she's like kept you for
so long from these people. But like, really like her
thoughts don't matter at all in this situation.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Absolutely agree. What matters is your siblings, that is absolutely
and they they're about you, So just keep keep waiting, waiting.
They're literally thinking yah.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
I can't wait for my mom to be not in
charge of my life anymore.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
So I didn't talk to you like, come on, mom,
let me go with my Feerce's draft. Baby. Come on,
I'm a fair baby, half sister fair and half sister baby. Dude,
my brain is short circuiting right now. This is crazy.
Oh yeah, competitive before say I would absolutely let your
mom get involved. Is not fair of this grown woman
to be speaking to you this way as a mom.
It makes my blood boil even thinking of someone disrespecting

(39:09):
to my son like this. Your mom can tell your
dad to get his wife off your back. It's not
okay to punish a child for your spouse's affair. And
that is absolutely true, and that is at the end
of that story. But it's not the end of this episode. No,
it's not. No, it's not because our very own the big, sexy,

(39:29):
illustrious Dakota brings the pain pain is about to bring
the pain. Maine. So good, so good, So get your
ear holes ready. Wow, wild Wild Ride. It's pretty good.
That's a pretty it's a pretty tall intro there. Oh,

(39:50):
I got you.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
My family is trying to shame me into giving them
money after years of alienation.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Shame, shame, shout out my.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Game of Thrones heads. You will understand that reference trigger
warning pretty abruptly. Miscarriage will be mentioned in this story,
so if you can't hear that, don't listen to this.
I've always been kind of the goat with my family,
and by that I don't mean greatest of all time, okay.
I mean my family kind of always looked down on me,

(40:25):
oh and helped me to unreasonable expectations, okay, which makes
you the goat kind of in the greatest of all
time sense. I think it's because, other than my dad,
I was the only male in the house. By the way,
this comes from user stan burger Man, and if you
want to submit your own stories, go to the r
slash okay storytime subreddit.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
So I didn't get any special consideration for being the youngest,
not that i'd want any and anyway, that was rendered
irrelevant once my youngest sister was born. She was sort
of the golden child about our childhoods. But my oldest
sister also had a special place of pride for being
the oldest kid. I was the middle kid, and even

(41:08):
though I'm male, I got hand me downs from my sister,
as long as the clothes weren't too effeminate. Oh no,
that's not good, never fun, not fun, never fun. As
an adult, I can see how that's practical in money saving,
But as a child it was embarrassing and also hurtful
to see your sisters constantly get new clothes and new

(41:30):
bikes while I had to wear girls clothes and ride
hand me down girl bikes. Now John's laughing because that's
just objectively funny. Oh god, But you know what is
not funny is how tough that and funny it will
make you when you get older.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
That's true, right, yeah, look at him, Look at him.
Go look at all of us, Look at how we
became this. I'm the only child. Okay.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Why didn't get hand me downs from my Did you
get hand me ups from Keona?

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Wait? What?

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Because John has an older sister younger? Oh well, that
never mind that. I everything is out the door. Now,
everything's out the window, folks. It's the end of the day.
It's all out the window. Where is it south the window?

Speaker 1 (42:17):
There it is?

Speaker 2 (42:17):
If window's open, you could just hear it open. I
think that window is flirting with me to Okay, god, okay. Interestingly,
my younger sister never had to wear hand me downs
from my older sister. Hmmmm hmmm, seems like she should
have been the first candidate for those. My mom and

(42:39):
sisters pretty much had an easy life while my dad
was alive, because they just wrote him all day long
and hen pecked him until he passed away fifteen years
ago from a heart attack. He was only fifty eight.
Oh my goodness, low key implying that a r y
he had a heart attack is wild. Growing up, sometimes
my dad tried to do special guy things with me,
but my mom shamed him into stopping it. I just

(43:00):
don't get it why my mom was always so cynical
and negative towards me. My hair was always too long
and ugly, I was too skinny, and then when I
started working out in high school, suddenly I was too muscular.
Then I was too tan and too pale, and my
grades weren't good enough. Then once I got into a
good school for college, it wasn't even that good. When
I earned my degree in business, I was a wanna
be businessman, fast food employee. Oh what what is it

(43:24):
that causes this? I mean, clearly, if we're just playing
like Akham's razor. It's because he's the boy. It's because
he's a boy, and all of his other siblings are girls,
and the mom's picking on the boy and giving all
the boy the hand me down older sister clothes because
she just wants a girl.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
He ruined her perfect vision of having three little girls.
He ruins like he ruins the vision.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Folks, if you are not ready for either or don't
you dare go get pregnant and then be upset that
your child doesn't exist in the right box.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
He wanted them to, well, hey, this is maybe maybe
if he didn't have to say it like that, Maybe,
if he didn't have that wiener hanging down there, none
of this would be happening. Maybe you should have thought.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
About that before you were born a dude.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Come on, just go filth. Yeah, you can just pull
it back in. Just there, you go, do that. I'm scared.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
When I got into graduate school for masters, it was
because it was a stupid idea, not like I asked
anyone to help me pay for it. Why do you
dress like that? You look dumb?

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Why don't you want a house? Your car's all?

Speaker 2 (44:32):
No, one won't respect you. You know how that goes.
Do have we stopped listening to her though? That's my
big question. Are we still being like, yeah, I'm all right,
I hope, but it's hard, I'm too pale.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
It's hard being inundated. Like it's true.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
I mean, I feel like everyone goes through this to
some extent at some point. But it's like at some
point you just go oh, like you have the realization
you're like, oh, I don't care. Actually, oh I hear you.
Not listening though, yeah, hear you. I'm my own person,
not letting that one get absorbed into my brain sponge. Yep,
I worked and earned my own pocket money, starting at
age fifteen with a job at a fast food restaurant.

(45:08):
So that's why they all picked on me for working
fast food.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Hey, it's John here. We're gonna get back to the stories.
Put a quick three minute ad break from our sponsors
that keep the show going.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
I can't think of a dumber thing than to pick
on a teenager for having a fast food job, Like,
you know, you.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Working fast food as teenage and look, oh, my dad, stupid?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
What are you do working at the job basically designed
for you to work at?

Speaker 1 (45:32):
What do you you got im in stupid You taught me, dude.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Eventually I became assistant manager of the restaurant at age
twenty one, when I was almost done with college. My
sister would often mock me for working in fast food,
and my mom would too. It wasn't gentle ribbon or
teasing in a loving way. No, it was spiteful insults,
trying to hurt my feelings and make me feel small.
Speaking a feeling small, I'm really tall.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
I'm six', five.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Dude and they also made fun of me for never
trying out or being good at, basketball or caring about
any other. Sports this is WHERE i go back And i'm, like, oh,
sorry oh did you?

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Guys uh sign up for the beauty? Pageant oh, wait you're?
Gross got Them and they, GO i can't believe you'd say.
That i'd be, like, yeah oh my. God insults are.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Annoying huh can you maybe stop doing them to? Me?
MMM i see you hidding a fair. Baby ooh from your, Poison.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Tonic that's that's a great conspiracy theory makes.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
A little more, eyes more, eyes a little makes a
little more sense than just he's a guy AND i hate.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
You when my dad passed.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Away he left everything to my, mom which is to be,
expected including the House he left me in each of
my siblings ten thousand dollars just as some extra, money
on the assumption that my mom would leave the kids
everything equally upon her own passing many years. LATER i
already knew back then that my mom wouldn't leave me,
much if, anything compared to my. Sisters my sisters continued
to live at, home but ONCE i graduated, COLLEGE i

(46:58):
moved across town to my own. Apartment they weren't sad
to see me. Go i've been living on my own ever,
since and it's been going on almost twenty years. NOW
i grew up in a rather large, house and this Was,
kansas where it was possible for a normal dude like
my father to own a big. Home so when my
sisters got, married their husbands moved in.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Too is that Also? Kansas is that we're not In kansas?
Anymore that's.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Insane family, husbands that's. Insane, well all we're all gonna
live in the same house with all our. Husbands they
all got they got married and moved in. Together they
is they all live in the family house with their.
Husbands Interesting, okay that's one way to say. It so
their husbands are both college educated, guys BUT i could

(47:41):
tell they enjoyed the idea of not having to pay
for their own house or any. Rent my dad had
built a small guest house behind the, home which he
always told me would be mine WHEN i grew. Up
but after he passed, AWAY i could tell my mom
had the place earmarked for her daughter and future son in.
Law my older sister and husband stayed in my fourthom
in the big. House, well, whatever, RIGHT i had my

(48:03):
own thing going on these. Days i'm regional manager of
a mid sized restaurant. Chain not fast, food but. Clothes
and Although i'm not, RICH i live quite. Comfortably and, also,
buddy even if it was fast, food who?

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Cares, yeah who? Cares, seriously you've done the. Thing.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
EH i had a pretty wealthy friend growing.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Up you know what their family.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
DID i the franchised a bunch of fast food.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Restaurants and they were rolling in. It there you, go the,
money not the, restaurants hopefully. Not they kept the restaurants very.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Clean that's. Good that's. Good even if they were, old
they'd be still be.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
CLEAN i could afford to put a down payment on a,
house BUT i like the easy freedom of having an.
Apartment at, THIRTY i married my longtime, girlfriend who my
mother and sisters always hated because she Was jewish and
also eight years older than. Me they would, say your
girlfriend is too, old she will never have a. Baby,
well none of them came to my, wedding even though

(48:56):
they were. Invited we actually conceived a, baby but it was. Oof, god, damn,
damn that got too. REAL i had to.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Reset here we, go here we.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Go you got it, okay but we lost the. Pregnancy
my mom and sisters found out about. It i'm about
to crash out on the.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Story.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Dude they better. Not they better, Not, DUDE i will find.
You and rather than express any condolences for a woman
who just lost a, child my mom and sisters treated
me to UNSOLICITED i told you sos and didn't send
my wife.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
As much as a.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
CARD i love my wife and since we don't have,
kids we Have french. Bulldogs we live in a big
bungalow apartment with a yard for.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
Them so.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Whatever my family mocks me for that, too Like i'm
not a man BECAUSE i don't have. Kids, BUDDY i
think you should stop thinking of these people as your, Family,
like you don't even have to think that these are
just creatures that slithered out of a tide pool snuck
into a.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
House that you lived.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
In it's not LIKE i accuse my sister's husbands of
not being men because they live in their they're in law's.
House everyone does their own. Thing my wife's family is
somewhat successful in the furniture, business and they're a lot
nicer to me than my own. Family my mother and
father in law offered to buy me a new. CAR
i drive a two Thousand honda A, cord which is
still in mint condition just this. Year BUT i said no,

(50:18):
things and they seem to be impressed THAT i didn't accept. Gifts,
well after all that, background finally let's get to my.
Point it seems my sisters and their husbands have had
all sorts of business schemes and tried to open their
own yoga studio BECAUSE i guess my sisters are into that, stuff,
okay sort of a whole. GEE i like coming to yoga,
class so NATURALLY i understand business economics and should open

(50:41):
my own yoga. Studio there is no way these people
have the goal to reach out to you for business, advice, RIGHT.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
I think it's going to be worse than business. ADVICE
i think it's going to be the other thing that businesses.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Need i've remembered the, title yep of the STORY i
see You. Ooo, PERSONALLY i thought that the kind of,
boutique expensive yoga studio that they had in mind was
more of A manhattan Or Beverly hills, thing not a
small town.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Thing but, whatever it's none of my.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Business, literally they never asked my, advice SO i never said.
Anything plause my sister's husbands both fancy themselves as business,
savvy one of themselves insurance and the other works as
a new accounts person at a, Bank so it's not
like my counsel was ever. Needed of, course they, failed
and spectacularly, so and my mom foolishly put her house

(51:35):
up as collateral for the. Business oh they're not, okay
let's go whoo, whoo, whoa what's that?

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Chat it's? Karma, yeah a baby coming back. Around.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Day you were morally, bankrupt now you're financially. Bankrupt let's.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Go that is.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
True i'll admit. That in a petty, WAY i felt
it's a bit of say it shodenfrud. Schadenfreud but OVERALL
i was, upset especially because both of my sisters have small.
Children there are nine people living in my old house.
Now now the bank is threatening to take over their
house if they don't come up with a certain sum of.

(52:16):
Money it's a lot of, money but money THAT i haven't,
have and they know. It they all approached me with
appeals by phone message. Text they've always known WHERE i,
live but have never once tried to come visit. Me
they all told me HOW i should be a good
brother and, son and how this is what my father

(52:36):
would have, wanted and all. That neither of my sister's
husbands have said a word to me about. It AND
i Doubt i'll see one penny of my money back
IF i loaned it to. Them my mom especially has
been laying it on thick about how she's an old
woman and will be cast out of a familial home
and all. THAT i hope you do WHAT i think
you're gonna. Do please lease by their house out from under,

(53:03):
them by the. House you, Go, yeah you, Go i'll help.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
You don't. WORRY i handle the whole.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Thing buy the house that the bank is about to
foreclothes on and then kick them.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Out thank.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
You she's even gone so far as to hint that
my Rich jewish wife's family can pony up the.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Dough oh anti sunitism coming, back, baby very.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
WEIRD i haven't yet returned any of their calls or.
Texts i'm still thinking about how they all always have
a Big christmas party every year and never invite me
or my, wife partly because they don't like, me in
partly because they don't like that my wife Is. Jewish
but you know what you do like and WHAT i?

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Like what's THAT i like?

Speaker 2 (53:44):
That you can listen to full episodes of stories just
like this On, spotify On, iHeartRadio On apple, podcasts any
place where you can listen to. Podcasts all you gotta
do is Search okay story time and there you have,
it all of. It the, kid the, Kaboodle howdy, doodle my.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Noodle WHAT i would like to see this man do
is take all of the comments that they've made over
the years and sew them together in a consistent response
back to. Them let me give you some. Examples, Right
so they're, like, hey you, know we need some. Money
we need, to, like you, know get out of foreclosure

(54:21):
and like at this house and everything's, like, well you,
Know i'm Too i'm too dumb and stupid because because you, KNOW,
i you, KNOW i wanna BE i wanna be, businessman
fast food. Worker could never scrounge up the, pennies the
pennies to pinch, together to ever dream of affording to
help you Because i'm so stupid and dumb and can't

(54:44):
do anything. Right, yeah And i'm so, incapable like like
and like get to the point where you're, like what's a? Bank, yeah,
YEAH i don't. Understand i'm too, dumb but know how money.
WORKS i could never imagine getting on my my princess
tricycle and and you, know coming, over riding over to

(55:09):
the bank with my pink streamers flying in the, wind
to to take my two nickels That i've saved to
manage in my in my BRAT'S t shirt that exposes
my belly, button to hand my two nickels to the
bank that could SAY i want to buy this house

(55:30):
for my. FAMILY i could never imagine doing.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
That, nicholas my familiar loan, DUDE i made them working fast, food,
right would you like to insult?

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Me i'm Stupid love To eat says you should make
a score them a scrapbook of all of their own
messages and all of. That, yeah like all of, THEM
i need is a reply to like their their. Questions
that that is WHAT i. NEED i need them to. Understand.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
YEAH i know that IF i confronted them about, it
they would just, say you're you don't need to be,
invited just show. Up BUT i, know dang, well they
don't want me. There my wife says it's up to
me WHETHER i want to help or. Not but she
also says that there is power in. MERCY i don't, know,
THOUGH i think she's bigger than me in that. Way

(56:16):
i'm looking for some outside perspectives on what to do.
Here thanks for any Advice reddit and there are some
comments and like also on a very real, level you
say you have the money for a down payment on the,
House LIKE i would try to figure out how to
buy this house from the bank one hundred.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
PERCENT i, think, honestly just freaking leave him to. Flounder,
yeah of, course not buy the house from the. Bank
don't let them back in.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
It, yeah because he even, said like their dad was, like,
OH i built this house in the back literally for, you,
right so you'd.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Always have a. Place that's, true immediately disregarded you for.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
That it's like this is low, key like you had
a place to belong in this, house and they squandered
their chance to live in the.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
House, yeah so now you can just go ahead and
buy it from the. BANK i think IF opi wants
it and it's, like, oh this is a good deal
because it's being foreclosed, ON i say. Yes otherwise because
he wasn't thinking about it, before he wasn't, like, oh, like,
WELL i GUESS i guess they would have to sell
like they they.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Wouldn't, oh it would just feel so good for me.
Personally not The angel. Move it's not The Buddha nirvana
move for, Sure BUT i think given the twenty years
of history and, CONTEXT i would not be able to.
Resist IF i had the means to buy the home
out from under, THEM i would one hundred percent do it.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
It AND i know it was. Me, Yeah i'd let
him know it was. Me it would be it would
be a little bit just just devilishly. SWEET i CAN'T
i can't deny. IT i can't deny. It, yeah it's
not like you're hurting your. Family these people aren't your.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Family they ostracized, You they expelled. You they exiled you, cruelly.
Painfully they tried to hurt you as often as. Possible
he's just.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Messy ignore the pase for.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Money, yes they have no use for you except as
a means to continue the life they've always led without.
You your wife is a good hearted, person but all
you would get would be insults and then more begging,
reply Oh, god, yes please follow this. Advice, please, please
please please do not give them a single. Cent they
cannot even pretend to be kind or respectful when asking

(58:22):
you for, tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars
your Rich jewish wife's. Family they mock you even when
begging you to bail them. Out, ugh they are, ugly, ugly,
ugly undeserving. People come at number, Two ask, yourself IF
i was in, trouble would they help?

Speaker 1 (58:42):
Me if the answer is, no then you know what to.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Do that's the end of that. Story that was. Perfect,
Wow ask yourself would they do that for?

Speaker 4 (58:51):
Me?

Speaker 1 (58:52):
No, yes that they wouldn't do? That, Right, yes yes
they would. Not so he that comment and be, like
you know, what why WOULD i ever do something that
not only would they not do for, me they'll probably be, like, oh,
stupid little dumb Dumb burger boys been flipping his burgers

(59:12):
all day, long going to business school like a freaking.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Idiot they would literally, like use your money to get
their house, back and they'd be, like check out the
house That burger boy.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Built we're not paying back a. Cent stupid stupid idiot
gave us his, Money burger, boy and we still have the.
House we have a picture with his face on. It
we all spin on it at the end of the.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Day oh, god it's tradition in our.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
House oh why WOULD i not be surprised if that's
actually what they were.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Doing come, on, MAN i just wanted to buy that house,
man because it's the real g.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Move it's, WELL i can't.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Spoil that, movie So i'm not gonna say that, reference but,
yeah it's the Real it's the most.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Satisfying, honestly the MORE i think about, It i'm, LIKE
i just want to be as. FAR i think we
need to like just cut him, out, yeah and then
just like, Again but they're gonna be so much more
annoying and so much harder to cut out if you
buy the house restraining order. Police these strange people keep

(01:00:13):
showing up to my private orfully, hopefully but then that's
just that's, again that's just getting them to the point
where they're they harassed me enough to be me be
able to get a restraining, Order LIKE i don't even.
WANNA i don't even want to go through. That oh he.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Has it has been like no harassment for twenty, years
nothing but like slights and insults and.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Ignoring so you, KNOW i, mean now you're gonna get some.
Attention now you're gonna get your family's gonna be begging
for your attention once you buy their house out from under. Them,
OH i freaking pray he did not give them a
single freaking. Sound AND i don't think. EITHER i think he.
Did that's my. Prediction that's my. Prediction that's. All that's

(01:00:56):
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