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0:00 r/AITAH - AITAH for confronting my sister about cheating with my husband based on what our mom told me?
17:52 r/amithejerk - AITJ for wanting to cut my mom out of my life because she went to South Korea?
35:48 r/BestofRedditorUpdates - AITA for keep sharing my language and culture with my stepson despite his moms objections? (New Update)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Sam. This is a John your og
Okay Storytime podcast host, and we got some great stories
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My husband hooked up with my mom while I was pregnant.
Sounds like a two for one deal right there. My
husband is cheating on me. I know this for certain.
He's doing all the things a cheating spouse would do,
(00:22):
like cooking up with your mom. He has taken off
his location tracker. He's been ignoring me, staying out late
with work buddies, has all the excuses for everything. I
know what this is. By the way, this comes from
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go to the r slash Okay Storytime Separated.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yep, we've seen it time and time again. Oh baby,
I didn't just turn my phone off to you know,
enjoy myself.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I just forgot to click pause on hinge. I didn't
know that it would still keep my profile. Your mom
came on to me man a. When I told my
mom about my suspicion, she dropped a bombshell. My younger sister,
Emma has been acting the exact same way, are they also.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hooking up with your sister who knows be hot?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I have two sisters, Ray married with kids, and Emma,
freshman in college, still lives at home. Mom says Emma
has been going out at the same times and being
secretive about her whereabouts, all matching my husband's patterns. Emma
and my husband have always gotten along, but looking back,
it seems like they get along too well. Is the
(01:31):
sister also? This is insane? What does too well mean? Yeah,
my husband and I are expecting our first child, and
our five year marriage was solid until these past few
months when things started to get rocky. Then this happened.
When I confronted Emma this morning, she exploded, called me
an insecure witch for even suggesting it. I told her.
(01:53):
Mom told me, and now my mom's furious because I
threw her under the bus. Ray doesn't want any part
of this mess. Am I the A hole? And there
is an update? Oh my goodness. What do people post
these kind of things to? Am I the A hole?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Clearly clearly not. I mean I'm also again the title
has said the mother is the culprit here, So now
it feels like we've got multiple culprits. A few things. Yeah,
you gotta consider here. One.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
How alike does the mother and the daughter look, because
after a few drinks, you might be thinking you're you're
talking to your wife.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You just look a little bit more more old. Yeah?
Yeah too. How hot? Is his mom hot? Like? Give
me a hot mom? Uh? Anne Hathaway's mom. Yeah she is,
Jennifer Lawrence. Halthaway is absolutely a mom. She's got multiple
kids and Anne Hathaway. Yes, I'm gonna give you Jennifer Lawrence.
(02:56):
Jennifer Lawrence. I don't believe. Yes, she was, she is.
I didn't know that. That's news to me, but she is,
sure mom. But there is an update.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Why do you think he did this because he sucks?
Come on, there's gotta be something more than just that. Well,
we're we're got to find out.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Oh my gosh, it's now really late where we live.
My husband has not come home, is not answered his phone.
I texted him multiple times, and I know he has
read the messages, but he won't answer his phone. I
was going to talk to him about this when he
got back, but he's not back yet. I don't know
if he's coming back. I'm thirty seven weeks pregnant, I
(03:37):
have preoclampsia and my blood pressure is skyrocketing. I'm trying
to calm down, but how can I To everyone who
said to get a PI, I've been on unpaid FMLA
for the last month because of my BP complications. I
have no money for anything other than this child. All
of my savings are going towards my kid's future and
(03:58):
if there are further complications in medical bills, a p
I is not in my budget. To the people who
are telling me that I jumped to conclusions but also
are telling me to get a divorce in the same breath,
isn't a divorce also jumping to conclusions? Divorce is not
in the budget right now either. I know how much
lawyers cost. Dang man, dude, p I. You don't just
(04:22):
need a free time, Yeah, you just need a free
day and and a car. I did some PI work.
It's true. My pastures and our friends oh that too.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, my friends up on a blind date and I
stalk them to make.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Sure investigating his own thing. Yeah, I need to make
sure that this is working out because my my reputation
is on the line.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
See, it was going well, but now talking to both parties.
It's not like either of them are committed to the
cause we have options, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Guys, you can only bring a horse to water.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And also I'm matchmaking in LA, which is probably the
worst place to match make.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So true.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Actually, yes, nope, the cemetery is the worst place to
match make.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well. Update three, my life is completely upended. It has
been over twenty four hours since I confronted my younger
sister Emma about cheating with my husband. I was one
hundred percent sure my husband was cheating with her based
on what our mother told me yesterday. It turns out
I was completely wrong. Oh oh no, so it was
(05:32):
not the mom. No, it was not the sister. Oh
she thinking, she thought so. The mom told her. It
came to her and said, like, Emma's been doing such
and such and like disappearing. At the same time, you know,
he's like, it's not my sister. Oh, then who is it. Oh?
My husband did not come home last night. I know
(05:53):
he read my text messages because they are marked read
Why do you even have receipts on? Put them off?
Turn those off? He ignores all of my calls, though
I have no idea where he was. I got about
two hours of sleep last night, and that was only
because I was utterly exhausted. I woke up to my
older sister Ray calling, I answered it. Ray lives in
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the cul de Sac at the end of our parents street,
about five houses down. Ray is also a stay at
home mom. She started by apologizing over and over again,
which just made me nervous, and when I pressed her,
she said she was sorry for not telling me up
day who the boyd one says guilty party is always
(06:36):
trying to throw shade to get you off their sense.
See what doesn't make sense to me? Yah, it's with women.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I feel like it's easier for a woman to find
a partner than it is for a man to find
a partner, because a woman can go to someone and
be like, hey, I want you, and a guy will
be like all right, but a guy kind of has
to do a little convincing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
That's so false. That's false. Really, a woman been hey,
I want you, and then AND's like, yeah, I like you,
and then the man's like, hot, I actually don't want
a relationship. Oh that is classic. Man. It's not just me,
that's everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I don't know Riley, have you ever been hit on
by a woman? Like You're like a woman comes out
to you randomly and you're like, hey, I want you yeah,
and you're like, ooh no exactly, I had a woman
taking my butt.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
One, so yeah, that's not okay.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
When she knew for certain that my husband was cheating
with our mother.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh no, mama, both, he wanted the source.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I will admit I barely remember what was said because
of the shock, but I'm trying my best to write
it to remember it for the future. Wow. Ray said
that this has been going on for a few months,
so that would be before me and him were actually married.
She says that Emma would leave to go to night
classes or hang out with friends, and about twenty minutes later,
my husband would pull up to our parents' house. And
(08:03):
also it seems like her mom is still married because parents'
house sounds like there's a dad there. What. Wow. And
also the fact that Opie's sister knew this and didn't
tell her is terrible. That I'm just like such a betrayal.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Hey, that's that's one way and impress your mother in law.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, dude, what what do you got to have going
on in order to pull the mother hot, just like
a boy next door kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Also, people were like, we're gonna like Riley Slide with
that comment. What comment? Huh, who's tickling your butt?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I was at a club one, yes, so he was
unconsensually tickled. Yeah, not cool. She got a little. He
would stay there for an hour or two and then
leave before Emma got back. Ray said, this happened multiple
nights a week now, whenever Emma and our dad are gone.
Oh well, I want to know if Emma also knew
(08:59):
because she was super defensive. And maybe she was defensive
because she was like I literally never would never.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Do that, or or she kneel about it, or no,
she's also in on it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
That's gross. And the dad's also in on it. I
don't like that. They can't all be on it. It's
a whole family affair. No, but at different times, at
different times, I don't know. Maybe oh yeah, yeah, definitely
different times.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
No, Nah, they would both know by now if it wasn't. Yikes,
they want to keep that secret.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Our dad works long shifts at night. You would have
no idea. We know Mom probably has location tracking for Emma,
which is how they knew where she was. We don't
know if Emma took that off yet. Emma obviously is
not happy with me, so I can't ask her. I
think you just go to Emma and say it. I'm
so sorry for accusing you. I just found out Mom
is the person who's cheating on my husband or with
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my husband. My bad. She blamed it on you, and
then you unite against mother. The most dang thing is
that my mom went out last night and didn't return
until the morning before Dad got home for work. Ray
texted her asking if everything was okay, and Mom said
that a friend of hers was sick and needed comforting.
I catch you, hmm, Emma, I mean sometimes I get
(10:16):
sick disgusting. Emma also did not come home last night,
but that's probably because she's pissed and hurt and needed
to be around friends. I will apologize to her, but
I can't without telling her what's going on. Ray keeps apologizing,
saying that she just didn't want to get involved and
it wasn't her business. Come on, come on, it absolutely
(10:37):
is your business. You might oh, I hate her, I
do not like her. It's absolutely your business. That is
your sister. I understand it's your mother that makes it
one hundred percent of your business.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
If you are a friend or family member, give yourself
permission to tell that friend or family member they're being
cheated on.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Ye dude, that like, yeah, what it's it's one hundred
percent your business.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That makes no sense if you're an acquaintance that's totally
only seen someone once or twice and you don't.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Have like full information on what's going on. Yeah, yeah, business.
But even if your sister also give yourself permission. If
you do see something going on and they are an acquaintance,
if you talk to him, be like, hey, I noticed this.
Now trying to start anything, but I want you to
be up to date on it exactly. You have to.
She also called me an ahole for confronting Emma and
(11:28):
says that by doing that, I'm tearing the family apart.
She has forbidden me from telling Dad, saying she'll never
forgive me. I'd never forgive her. Yeah, she kept this
from you. I'd be like, oh, now you're giving me orders. No,
I'm telling Dad. It's absolutely his business to know, and
it's my business to tell him. Got to tell Dad. Absolutely,
tell Dad, your sister's gone she's done. I'd be so.
(11:52):
I would be so betrayed. I feel like Dad has
the right to know he does in the same way
that you had the right to know. I know it
feels to have some one to do this to you. Yeah,
you did directly know it feels, and to have the
information withheld. I'm not gonna say anything until I have
concrete evidence because I've learned my lesson. But would I
be the a hole if I told my Dad and
Emma what is happening? I'd be I think you'd be
(12:14):
the a hole if you didn't tell. Yeah, you have
to and there is another update. But what what do
you think collect more evidence? Yeah, have a solid case. Sure,
be ready for divorce, Get your ducks in a little
row and get after it. You're gonna have to play.
You're gonna have to put a little acting. Get prepared.
I think also, Op talked a lot about not having
the finances to, you know, for a lawyer or anything.
(12:38):
I think what you do is you go and tell
your dad, and I'm sure, I mean, depending on his
financial circumstances, I'm sure he'd be willing to team up
with you.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I don't know, because it seems the dad is working
a long late night shifts, so he might be he
might be in like a medical medical sense medical field.
I wouldn't mind working through the night already. Do you already?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You worked through the day? Anthet night the update, folks. Wow,
it's because you, guys, It's because of y'all. It's good,
it's for you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm gonna take a day off one of these days,
and you can't bug me anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You can't get you just turn your phone off and
everyone's like Riley Riley. And then you come back and
you have like we hire a PI to track you down,
you can have you can have a day off if
we can't find you. It's like ultimate hide and seek.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
No, this was gonna happen the second I'm move out.
I'm gonna have a sick day. Yeah, I'm just gonna
and you will never know. You'll never Actually, I.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Can't take six days. You can. You have it? Last
year when we were doing live streams every day, and
that was only when I was like I had a
stomach bug and I was literally like vomiting all day. Yeah.
Other than that, take care of you, No, Sam did.
But that was before we were like toy there's an update, though.
(13:57):
I've had nothing but time to think. I've been alone
in my house, reading comments, figuring out how I'm going
to do everything. I'm overwhelmed and I'm fatigued inside and out,
and I'm too tired to freak out anymore. By the way,
don't freak out. But you can listen to full episodes
of stories just like this. Just go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts,
or iHeartRadio and search up. Okay, storytime, there's a little
(14:20):
bit left to the story. But do you have any
final thoughts? The Wi fi is pissing me off. Oh
that's my that's my final thought.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
No, when it comes to stories like this, I need
to see pictures of the family. Yeah, that's why I
can make sure it makes sense. Yeah, because we only
have the text of everything. Other than that, I this
family does not have your back. I I cannot imagine
my dad cheating on my mom with my girl. You know,
(14:49):
that's just so messed up, so disgusting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It's like it's really icky. Really, I really hate it.
I really hate Like, five years of marriage, a kid
and your mom does that, Like what, You're not a mom,
You're a demon. You're a demon.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Dude, my ex is dad born on a date with
her grandma before she met her mom.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
What wait, is that how he met her? More exes
dad yet on a date with her grandma.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Dude, he had about you. Man, it's weird. Yeah, there's
a little bit left to the story. Though. My soon
to be ex husband called me. He sounded like he
had been on a bender and was hungover, slurring his words,
repeating things. He said, he's sorry, that he's a piece
of crap, that he loves me, that he's on his
way home. He turned on his location and did a
(15:39):
check in, so I know he's on the highway headed
towards my house, but I don't know where he was.
Our mother has been unusually silent. Ray apologized again over text.
I don't care anymore. I haven't talked to my dad
or Emma. I'm not going to until I have something concrete.
I don't want to be that person again. Addressing some comments,
Ray does use our mother for child wildcare, could be
(16:01):
a reason why she doesn't want to rock the boat.
Probably the reason. Actually, this is not the first time
our mother has cheated on our dad. Oh she sucks.
I remember back when I was around eleven, they separated
for a while. It was very traumatic for all of us.
I have an appointment with MYOBI later this week where
we will discuss inductions. My BP has been hovering around
(16:22):
one fifty five or eighty seven and one five eighty.
Swelling has been worse. I'm monitoring my health along with
the baby. The cul de Sac is not a trailer park,
though I did chuckle it may as well be one. Now.
I am sure that in order to record him I
need his consent. I'll work on that whenever he gets home.
I have thoughts about how to do it. I'm trying
to be smarter n op. I mean, if you live
(16:44):
in a one party consent state, then you don't need it.
So look up your state rules, everybody. Just go ahead
and look up your state rules. Rule quay stay laws,
because like New York is a one party consent state.
What about the state I don't I think we're two party.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Is Californi a one party or two party consent state?
Oh my gosh, your job.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Party? Yeah right, But how do you tell somebody you're recording?
You go, hey, I'm recording. Is that okay?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
But then they're thinking something's up? Can you tell them
at the end of it, like, hey, by the way
I recorded all this, Mmm, does that have to eat
before it?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I don't know. I guess you could do that at
the end, be like hey, at some point you have
to tell them and then if they say no, then
you have to deleat it if you want to, like
post it or something.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Didn't think about that in the Spicy Sleep, since you'd
want it beforehand, right.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yes, yeah, afterwards, absolutely, that is the problem.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yet, so probably before guys, always get consent before you
do your reaction.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I agreed. But folks, that was the end of that story,
so we're going to get into the next one. My
mother went on a trip while struggling financially. You can't
afford that, girl.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
My mom is currently in South Korea on vacation with
my oldest sister, which took all of us by surprise.
Because my mom is a poor and in debt.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Is a poor, is a poor, She's a poor.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Sorry I got my two letter words wrong. Backstory. My
parents are divorced and my dad was deported when my
siblings and I were quite young, so we grew up poor,
constantly asking for help with rent and food from our church.
It was humiliating from our mom, and sometimes she would
get loans from loan sharks and end up in a
lot of debt. By the way, this comes from my
(18:34):
Vlad de Mar eighteen. If you want us make your
own stories, go to the R. Slish Owkay story Time suppurated.
So my mom has less debt now, but she still
struggles with money. Early in our marriage with my husband
and I, we saved up two thousand dollars and gave
it to her as a gift to help her. She's
still my mom and I care about her. Later, when
her car broke down, my husband and I decided to
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get her the car we currently had. We knew that
if she didn't have a car, it would affect her
ability to go to work, making it much harder for
her to earn an income. Last year, as a gift,
we took her back to her home country, covering the
fly's hotels and even new clothes and luggage. When I
was younger, our family always talked about going to see
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her homeland and meeting her relatives there, but we never
had the money, and finally my husband and I were
able to make it happen. Though my brother Zane and
my sister Leah couldn't join do their own finances. My
oldest sister, Elena could have come, but she was saving
for a trip to South Korea. That was surprising to me,
(19:38):
but I thought maybe she still wanted to wait until
everyone could go. Six months later, my oldest sister was
in fact going to South Korea and my mom wanted
to go too. I initially kept quiet about it, but
then my mom brought up this old idea of us
pulling our money together to pay off her debts. This
immediately angered me. My husband and I are still in school,
(19:59):
working full time jobs, paying our own bills, and actively
trying to avoid debt. While we're not struggling like my
siblings Saying and Leah, we currently are not rich either.
That trip and the two thousand dollars we gave my
mom took a while for us to save up to.
So I snapped back, why don't you use the money
for South Korea to pay for your own debts? My
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mom went silent.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, I mean, it's really unfair for her to expect
her kids to pay off everything that she like. It
seems like she's not necessarily financially good with her financials,
I guess, and Opie and her husband are, you know,
trying to stay above above water and their mom's asking
for all this money. Yeah, I don't have that money
(20:45):
to give to you. I already gave the money I gave.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
This is tricky. It's tricky. You're in a better situation
and you have someone else uping out with income and
your mom's still a single mom. Can you really do
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I don't know. This is tough. We need a financial
advisor here, Yeah, please get her in.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Apparently my mom and Zane had a huge fight about this.
Zay and the oldest currently lives with my mom. He
works three jobs and pays her rent while my mom
covers utilities. He's told me there's often no food at home,
and he's even considering going to a food bank. This
absolutely enraged me. I generally feel for my brother. While
(21:22):
he's been ut fault for most of his past choices.
He was lazy, play video games day and night and
constantly got fired from jobs. He's now making an effort
to get his life back on track. He's working hard
to pay off his old debts, and we respect that.
So Zayn got mad. A mom for wanting to go
on this trip. It just didn't make sense given the
debt she has and how much they both struggle. My mom, however,
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argues that she deserves this trip after working hard for
us over these years, claiming she's never been anywhere and
doesn't count her home country as a real vacation. My
oldest sister, Elena, completely agrees with my mom.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's just like, you have to pay, like you'd pay girl.
You can't ask other people to pay with like for
someone with money they don't have. Yeah, it's a tough
world right now. It would be It would be different
if Op and her partner had a bunch of money,
they were like super rich, and the mom was like, hey,
like you know, I I've really helped out of Like
if you could help me pay off my debts, that'd
(22:22):
be great. Still still, you know, if they say no,
you can't demand it. But it would make a little
bit more sense. But Op and her partner don't have
this money. They just don't. Yeah, it seems like their
mom wants them to like financially drown themselves. Yeah, they
don't want to do that.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
They don't want to do it. This is weird feeling
entitled to other people's money.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, it's just like you, you're I don't know it. Also,
it's not even like, hey, can you help me find housing,
like the things that you need to live. It's not
asking for that. It's asking her for her kids for
a trip that she doesn't need to go on.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And probably should be asking this one. What does a
mom do? I don't Two, These are just like questions
I'm thinking out love.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Two.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
If the brother's working three jobs and paying rent, she's
just paying utilities words the other money going too. Three
Are they just bad spinders or they're just.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Not managing their money? Well, I think it's a partially.
The management of the money is not great.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, because I've been eating out a lot recently because
just a life has been happening just getting food, and
I've realized like a shift in my finances where I'm like,
oh wow, that's I had this one habit going and
then I went back to old habits, and I'm like,
this is kind of crazy. You know, if people don't
really watch out for this, how much you can affect
you with my bagels?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Man? Well, things have changed, so you don't go to
get bagels as much okay, but I also got get
discounts on maybe. So she got a bagel plug. I
got a bagelug. I also have a coffee plug. I
have multiple coffee plugs. I can get free coffee every
day if I go to a specific coffee shop coffee salute. Yeah, well, Macha,
but you know this girl, it's great gets around out, Gabby.
So back to it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
My mom did work incredibly hard for us as a
single mother and during grueling hours as a nanny cleaner
and working graveyard ships at a nursing home. She never
bought herself new clothes, never went out and partied, and
never brought home men or had boyfriends. Her life was
dedicated to working and providing for us. That's precisely why
(24:21):
it made sense to us that she deserves something nice
before she passes away dies. My mom is in her
sixties and still works as a custodian. We are truly
worried she won't make it another ten years. That's also
another reason we didn't wait to take her to her homeland. Still,
the whole situation left a weird taste in my mouth.
I thought her going on the strip would undoubtedly strain
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her relationship with my brother, well, I was wrong. Two
days after arriving in South Korea, my mom asked my
older sister Leah for five hundred bucks to cover the
hotel since my older sister Elena was leaving earlier than
she was. My sister Leah and her husband are doing okay,
but they're struggling more than my husband and I. They're
both working hard and her husband is.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Going to school.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
My sister explained to my mom that they're living paycheck
to paycheck and apologize for not being able to help.
Mama's response was chilling. She told my sister she was
glad she didn't have the money because it just confirms
they're not doing a good job in their lives and
they need to get different jobs. There's a shocking turn,
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as my mom had been happy when Lea got her
current job. She then questioned, what are they going to
do if she gets pregnant? Another ironic statement considering she
wanted my husband and me to have a baby when
we were living in demon grandma's basement.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Pretty hypocritical to be like, maybe you should get another
job if you can't afford to pay for me, because
I can't afford to pay for myself, and then also
you should have a baby. Well, what are you gonna
do when you have a baby, because it's going be
more expensive? Yeah, I pretty hypercritical. This is wild cool?
The only way I could have a baby as I
moved back to North Carolina. I mean not right, I
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guess it right now? Yeah, I'm sure you will be ready.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You have a family support system. Maybe one of us
should have a kid and then we all can help out.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's what I'm planning on. You're helping with my baby.
What are you gonna have a baby in my thirties?
That's so long? Got time you had time? You're gonna
be a fun uncle? Well Sam's got You're gonna be
one of the godfathers. Yeah, well Sam's gonna be an uncle,
So we can't be a godfather. I don't think so.
All right, then you can.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
It's just an uncle like uncle's basically better. It's like
it's like uncle than godfather.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
My well, my godfather is not one of my uncles,
but one of my uncles is Sam's godfather. Okay, anyways,
I don't have the godfather complex worka Well, you can
be one of them. Cool.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
My mom added that she could have asked a coworker,
but wanted to ask family first. Finally, she declared that
my sister and brother Zan would no longer receive their
life insurance money after she passes way until they are
in their forties, all because my sister didn't give my
mom five hundred bucks for a trip she decided to
go on despite not having the money to do so.
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My sister sent me the message, and I was absolutely furious.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Sister Leah is.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
My best friend and the one I consider to be
my real mom. She's always been there for me, protecting
me and helping me through everything. She's the one who
knows all my deepest, darkest secrets. I've told her that
I don't care if anybody else showed up to my
wedding because her presence was the only one that truly mattered.
My sister was crying in a bathroom stall when this
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all went down, not because of the money. My sister
could care less about that. She was crying because of
how my mom reacted. This whole situation infuriated me, so
I messaged my mom telling her not to treat my
sister like that again. This behavior is not like my mom.
When did she become so greedy and she only asked
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Leah for the money me. When she found out I knew,
she told Leah how cruel she was for showing her
the messages to me, and that she was even madder
at her. This wasn't the first time my mom had
treated my sister in such a manner, but it was
the first time she had reacted so harshly or that
the situation esculated to this point. My sister Leah had
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always been a pushover for her mom, Elena, and I
could always say no or argue that Leah was never
able to whatever my mom wanted, Leah did it, even
when it didn't make her happy. Leah even moved to
New York and was quite content there, but my mom
called her and told her to come back, promising that
if she returned, she wouldn't have to pay rent and
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could save money. Of course, that was a lie. My
mom also complained that Leah had abandoned her and wasn't
a good daughter from moving to New York. Elena is
the oldest one, yeah, Leah's not.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah. Well, I think there's also kind of a possibly
a cultural cultural aspect here. Oh you're the dragon. No,
because the mother is originally from South Korea. So there
is like kind of a very strong like familial No
she went to visit.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
That's not her home country, it is. It is a
spot where is the mother's home country?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Is he here right now? I don't think he's set
up on this. Tell you it's not. I don't think so. Yeah.
So basically what we learned is that the mother's home
country is South Korea and the all the kids what no, no, no, Okay,
maybe I'm wrong, but they said that they saved up
money to send the mother to her whole country.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
But this is just a different This is a different
trip to South Korea because her first trip to her
home country didn't count. We don't know where the other
country or what the other country.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Is trying to find it. They never said, but it
isn't South Korea. I'm crazy. I guess maybe there's no
cultural aspect. Oh oh, oh, oh oh. I need to
do an sat right now and past my English skills.
I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I'm so bad at them. I got like a seventeen
on act on that's on the English.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
No. I needed like something in the twenties. I got
like a thirty math that's great. That's very good, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
This constant dynamic seemed to happen only to my sister Leah.
It was almost as if my mom hates her, and
we can't understand why Lee has always been there for
our mom, yet whenever she tries to do something for herself,
her mom acts like it's the worst thing imaginable. Nothing
Leah has ever done seems to be riding her eyes.
My mom messages me back, saying that I need to
respect her and I need to stop because what she
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wants to do with her money is her choice. She said,
if she wanted to take back the car, then we should,
and then if I never want to talk to her again,
that's fine with her. I'm lost for what to do.
On one hand, I obviously want to cut my mom
out of my life and take back the car we
gave her. I'd rather give it to my sister in law,
who lives with us. She's been having car problems, and
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I know she would treat the car better and actually
pay for it. Actually, my mom got furious when we
had my brother in law and his wife move in
with us, simply because we didn't ask my mom to
move in with us, since she needs real help. We
actually ask them to move in to help them escape
demon grandma's house, but that's an entirely different story. The
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idea of cutting her out breaks my heart because I
love her and I will miss her terribly. I'll miss
her smile, hugs, cooking, or dancing. I simply miss my mom.
But she hurt my sister one too many times. Her
behavior is abhorrent, and I'm fed up. My brother's zaying
is completely on our side. He doesn't care about the
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money either, and he says he stopped depending on my
mom years ago. We're worried these outbursts are signs of
Alzheimer's or dementia. My mom always says she's forgetting things,
and we've been meaning to get her checked out. But
what if it's not. My brother and my birthdays are
coming up. At first, I consider not inviting her, but
I feel bad because I don't want to ruin my
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brother's birthday. My sister Leah said she'll be there if
the rest of us are there, but she'll avoid our mom.
To be honest, I don't want to see my mom.
Do we just deal with it and keep our distance
or cut her out completely? Do we take away the
car since she said we could. She doesn't own the
car and my husband has a key to it. My
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husband wants to talk to her when she returns, but
I'm worried she'll snap at him. She also deleted the
toxic message she shent to Leah. We got an update, Yeah, couldn't.
It's gracious.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I don't know. I don't know. I mean, like, it's
totally up to you guys, as siblings, if you want
to invite her, because it seems like you're all roughly
on the same page about your feelings about your mom. Yeah,
if you can have another conversation where you sit down
with her and say, hey, you have repeatedly crossed our boundaries.
If you continue to do so, you're gone, You're done.
We're not gonna have a relationship with you. But it
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does seem like you've tried that before and she's just
not willing to listen. So, but Amulen says, get her tested.
I agree. If this is a change that you've noticed
in her, then absolutely get her tested. See if it's,
you know, something medical rather than just her being mean. Yeah,
and entitled. You know, it's tough, and it's tough. I
think it might be a little bit of poor money management.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I think so, so you have a house basically has
four jobs earning four job income.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I don't know. I don't know, depending on where they live.
But life is tough for a lot of people. Yeah,
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Speaker 2 (33:34):
My sister Elena came back from South Korea and spoke
with Leah. Apparently this whole thing was a test what
my mom had the money the whole time. I was
testing my sister because she thought her husband was keeping
such taking her money.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I that's got to be she's gotta be lying. She
can't be telling the truth there. She's like, I had
the money the whole time. The whole thing was a test.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And it turns out that not letting my sister get
her share of the life insurance thing.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Is it true?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You know what else is true is all the stories
that you can be listening to with us that are true.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Is all.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
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Speaker 1 (34:16):
Be true to yourself with us. Dude, what what do
you mean a test? I don't know what that means
Orangefield theory tests? Is this? She's like, I needed to
see if your husband was taking your money, so I
told you that you weren't getting anything wild Like, I
kind of see that, But is this? Is this even true?
I don't know? This is weird. I don't understand what
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this test would prove. She's she's bad with her money
and also bad with tests. Yeah, I don't buy it.
I think there's something I don't know. I need checked out.
She's good checked out? Yeah, yeah, that's this is wild crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
My mom apparently told Elena just tell Leah I love
her so much, because she was under the impression of
Leah's husband was being financially harmful. Elena agrees that my
mom did not handle this the right way and told
my mom just to talk to us. Apparently my mom
didn't want Leah to repeat her mistakes that she had
made with my dad. But I still have concerns. Why
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would my mom send that horrible message to me after
I confronted her. She could have told me she was
testing my sister, and why would she delete her messages
to my sister.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
That's why I don't believe it, because it's not just
the money stuff. It was like all of the the
stuff that she was saying to everyone. Yeah, I had
everyone up set with her. This is weird, this is whack,
this is weird. I don't like it. And also, if
she was just trying to test Leah, then why was
she asking the rest of the kids to pay off
all of her dabts.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah, I don't believe it. I'm not something's fishy here, guy,
I's off here. But that's the end of that story,
So we're gonna jump into the next story. My stepson's
mom forbid me from sharing my culture.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
We just don't do that around here. That's just none
a vibe. I thirty two female, have been with my husband,
thirty nine male, for about seven years. He has a
son from a former relationship nine, and we didn't even
know he even existed until about five years ago when
his ex forty female, contacted him demanding child support. Dang.
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She admits the only reason she even let him know
about the kid was because she found out we were
engaged and she wanted to reign on his parade. Insane insane.
After a lot of back and forth and legal shenanigans,
we got sort of fifty to fifty. First was therapy, visitation, etc.
But we are now at fifty to fifty. By the way,
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storytime separate it.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
So.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I come from Latin America and my stepson is really
fascinated by many of the cultural things and the language.
He met my parents on their last visit, and he
is a really lovely, bright and curious kid. He started
catching out with some of the words, and now we
speak Spanish on a daily basis when he's with us.
That's huge, that's fun. Didn't have any issue until he
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started to ask if he can come to my country
next time we visit. We told him we got to
discuss it amongst the adults, but he's very interested. We
got no issue. My family has said that he's more
than welcome. I come from a blended family and we
would of course cover all of the costs. She really
disliked the idea, but not because of the travel or
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anything else, but because she believes we I are using
money to turn him against her. She's like, your culture's
too cool. He's gonna leave me.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
There are many issues between them already because he thinks
she is a liar for not telling him about his dad.
And yet it's hard sometimes do we know how old
the sun is? Nine? Okay, but we talk a lot
son and I about having blended families and understanding parents. Anyway,
she told me I had to stop encouraging and sharing
the language and the culture in my house when he's
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with us, and speak the home country language or English.
I said, no, I've been very passive through the whole
thing since the beginning, but I am exhausted of her demands. Honestly,
I think if your partner is okay with it, then
she really has no say. And you speaking a language
around her son like you have fifty fifty custody, she
can't do anything. True, it is not harming the kid
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at all. In fact, it's probably helping him in the
long run to know another language.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I'm just thinking about different some cultures, like where from
where I come from. Let's say I want to put
a deer head up in the house. I could probably
put that up in my room, but in the living room.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
I don't think Sophia would like that. I wouldn't, you know,
it would be dope and sick and cool, be so dope,
be so sid Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't be into that.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
This mom language speaking of a language that can help
connect with other people if you are forbidding connection with
other people, like what like?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Why why are we doing that? You know? I understand
she is his mom, but I see no harm. And
the kids speak in Spanish like a native bless the
other two he does. Dang, it's good those three languages geez,
and I see no issue with him traveling abroad and
having more cultural connections. Heck, I even offered to pay
for her to come along with her husband. Dang, it
will be how much money do you have? She says,
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I'm a very big snobmish a hole, and she's gonna
see how to keep the kid away from me. Not possible.
Her husband says, I should be more understanding and not
step on her toes when the kid already is not
her biggest fan. I wonder why. Maybe it's the consequences
of your own actions and not anything to do with ope. Yeah,
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and you don't don't fight this battle. Yeah, because you're
not gonna win your kids. What's gonna happen. You're gonna
go to court. You're right, you really can't provide for
this kid, So we're just gonna go full custody to them.
Be grateful for what you have. My husband says he
just wants the best for the kid and sees no
wrong with him learning and traveling. I would like an outside,
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impartial perspective about it, and there is an update, folks.
My impartial active is that you're totally fine. Yeah. I like,
who cares if she's being pissy? M I mean, we
already know that she's not a good person because she
kept the knowledge of your partner's son from him for
five No, would have been for four years, because you
(40:16):
said that you've learned about this five years ago. Yeah,
so she really has no kind of leg to stand
on here as long as your partner is okay with it.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, because dude, you know, sick would be if I
could go to other places and understand a language and
be able to connect in that kind of way.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
I wish. I wish I actually knew Spanish. I got enough.
Keon says I knew enough to get around. He did
really well.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I mean, you were immerging yourself in the culture and
you were knocking it out of the park to day one,
brutal Day five.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I was like, you're ordering for yourself. I'm really proud
of you. Brutal. It was brutal, dude, you were like,
tang on it. Yeah, you're.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Spanol.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I'm really good at picking up This is one of
my toxic traits. I'm really good at picking up other
people's laugh if I like them, Like, if I like
their laugh, I'll pick it up. Well, I'm pretty good
at picking up other people's slang and everything almost picked
up a New York accent.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
When I went there for a week, I was scary.
Update three months later, my step son is now staying
most of the time with us. Nice cool. We had
no battle or issue. It's just what we decided after
a proper heart of heart conversation between moms. When the
time comes where there is a possibility to go to
my country, we will discuss it again, But at the
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moment it is a guess. The heart heart was a
very emotional, complex talk, but I felt it had to happen.
She is, after all, part of my life forever, and
I want her to know she is the mommy no
matter what. I saw a completely different side of her.
And I know it is not a magic wand but
I have noticed the changes. I am pregnant. I know
I should not say so so early. I was already
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when I made my first post, but didn't even know. Wow.
But we are all so positive and almost on the
clear line, even my step son's mom. Everybody has taken
it as a celebration. And the only time we had
issue was when we talked bedrooms at our flat because
my son thought he had to give his super nice
one for my true baby oh as he called it.
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But we assured him his bedroom is his forever unless
we move. My parents will be arriving in the next
few months and asked if they can bring extra gifts
to my son so it is an easier transition, and
his mom said yes. It seems somehow me having a
baby has made her realize we are so linked. Or
I don't know, maybe it was my husband saying he
would not allow more disrespect. Tellowell, this is so nice.
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I love that she had a conversation with his mom,
who like, honestly, it seems like she sucked and had
this conversation and figured it out. Yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
I think this is beautiful. I don't trust the real mom, though,
the bio mom, because if you have co parentsing, you
cannot cannot yeah, bad mouth the other parents or anything
like that, because the kids listen, like, Oh, if my
mom thinks that way, maybe I should be thinking that way,
and it starts to grow these ideas and the separation
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need be unified in that aspect. And it seems like
Opie's taking the steps not to let that happen. But
I don't who knows what bio Mom's saying back home.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
I hope that she's improving, yeah, because it seems like it,
and I really want them to all work together for
the benefit of this kid. Parents also asked if it
was okay to bring gifts for her kid, and she
said yes as well. My mom is the happiest person
now because she is in full shopping mode. Hellowell, she's
been very civil and even nice, and in response, she
has gained a better relationship with our son. That's all
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you needed to do. I am convinced he is smart
enough to orchestrate all of it. But I have mommy
baby brain we have agreed to raise them all as
together as possible. Her kids are kids, ar kid. I said,
I can contribute to the education fund for all kids
if she allows me. How much money does Opie have, dang?
She said yes, on the condition that they all go
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to the same school.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I want my kids in Spanish, Kita. She wants her
as a normal kidda. I thought we would have World
War two again. But her husband told her, my kids
will speak Spanish no matter what she wants, and it
is a useful language. So all kids in our tribe
should speak Spanish. This is so good, and she agreed.
I almost fainted. What a turnaround. What happened Now we
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decided to divide care after daycares and kidda's pre kindergarten kindergarten,
and I will speak to the kids in Spanish so
they are all naturals. My son is the happiest because
now he feels all his families are in sync and
he can just chill. It makes me extremely happy. In addition,
she said, my son can come with us if he wants,
but we need to let her know at least a
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year in advance. And she is doing the same with
us which I find reasonable. And there is a second update.
Folks hates johny og host here. We're gonna get back
to the stories. But he's a quick three minute break
of ass from our sponsors. But uh wow, we are
having so up. This is like we are balls rolling up. Man.
Oh my gosh, this is great you this. I'm so
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happy me too. I mean, like, this is what I wanted.
I didn't want it to be bad, and now it isn't.
What kind of come to Jesus meeting or realization? Did
she have hope he should be a lawyer? We need
to duplicate that for story like what. There's a second
update one month after first update. She son's mom has
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always been in therapy. It was determined when this all
started back in the day. She was never outright cruel
or super mean. It was just that she was not
nice to me or my relationship until now that she tries,
she gets to say as much as I get to
say in education. I know it's weird, but I was
raised in some sort of communal weird experience, and we
all excel in our areas. I would never do anything
(45:45):
to put distance between my son and his siblings. I'm
trying to in state that they are his siblings, and
for the one he already has, it is that way.
If he doesn't like it, I'll drop it. But he
seems very receptive to the mix of family. And I
think also op really understands how to do this because
she comes from a blended family, So I think that
she's really keyed into, like all the complexity that goes
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on into creating this, and she's doing a great job
of orchestrating it. She has issues that have come from
other places, childhood, family, so on, and she is truly
trying to be better and not be the person that
did things to just ruin an engagement. My son stays
mainly with us lately because he wants to, and that
has made his relationship with his mother better. My son
is even written in my parents will that's how much
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I love him, So yes, he is my son too.
My parents are here and will be staying for a while.
My in laws are very careful on their excitement, and
my parents, with permission, got my son on a little
adventure and assured him they love him very very much
and their love is infinite. He feels better now because
he said he felt maybe they won't love him anymore
because of my real baby. Hmmm. No, he is in therapy,
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always has been, but now we have addressed it. He
made it clear he wants me to still love him
like I do, and I have a shirt and my
will I do, I always will. He's going to a
solo trip with his dad and another solo trip with
both dads, my husband and her husband. I've always got
a good relationship day and I think it never got
(47:15):
better because of this stuff. My son is involved in
the naming of the baby. It's between us three only
the drama portion. No, it was so perfect. I'm okay,
I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
I think whatever's about to happen will be like a rock,
will be.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Water over a rock, Yeah, water on a duck's back. Yeah. Yeah,
it's just gonna roll right off. Everything's fine, This is solid.
We have a solid foundation. Whatever's about to happen in
the trash bagging the whole, they will overcome it. They
will persevere. My husband wants us to move so we
have bigger bedrooms for everybody, but I don't feel like it,
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because you know, pregnancy and adaptation. Okay, this is fine.
We can, we can, we can get over this. I
want my son to be able to adapt before we
start moving. My husband believes I'm just coddling him way
too much, but I explained my perspective being from a
blended family as a kid, and he backed off. When
we look for a place, we'll be looking for one
that we all like. End of draw abortion.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Like I say, hey, Opie has your stine, she has
a no lockdown.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
I've never seen this happen in a retic. Great, this
is wild, Opie continues. I am an insomniac and I
have not changed at all. So here we are only
I drink no more wine anymore. Lol. My son's mom
is actually giving me really good tips. We're working in
our own wills and so on, but because I am
developing a fear about the children's future. Yang. And lastly,
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my husband is the most patient, caring, loving goofy man.
I know I got little critics saying he should have
put it off when the bad stuff happened, but he's
very neutral and asked me all the time if I
was okay. He always said if I said no, he
would have changed his tune. We are so so far
from perfect. Still, we just had a discussion about the
type of school my son should go now a thing
(49:00):
in the country. But I am glad it is now
a discussion and not an argument. Also, the baby's doing
amazing And there is a third update.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Folks, I don't can we updates? Always give me a
little I'm like.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
I'm scared. I always get a little scared because I'm like, oh,
it's gonna change and everything's gonna be ruined. But I
can divorced. I think it's gonna be okay. He cheated
on me. No, No, I'm I'm mad. Casting it's gonna
be perfect. Probably curveball. I need to get into it
right now because it needed to be perfect Curveball. Update three,
two months after the second update. Hey guys, I like
(49:34):
that I can express myself freely here. I know some
think our story is weird, others wholesome, others the best,
But for us, it is a sort of dream. At
the moment, we've got a new house. Wait what dang.
It was picked by the three of us, husband's son, me,
and it's lovely and beautiful and all we want for
our kids. I always said I wanted to have just
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two kids, so after this one is born, we'll be
closed for business, will get aasectomy, so I don't need
a deal with hormones or birth control. I would also
like to comment the new house is huge and it
has a guest room, so my son's brother can stay
whenever he wants. They have done so before. Also, my
kid turned ten. We are at a weird time, but
(50:15):
we did a little family gathering with all sixes of
his grandparents and all four his parents. He was very
happy and enjoyed it with the friends he invited to it.
We all coordinated presents so we didn't outstage each other
or give him repeated gifts. I was so happy we
could finally do something like this. As per my baby,
she is a girl, all right. This is so lovely.
(50:37):
I told my son and thought it might create issues,
but he's so excited about it. Is gonna be a
big brother. We have been having family therapy too, just
in case, but the therapist says the kid is doing
amazing and to please not overthink things. We had a
gender reveal party, which I find kind of silly, but
my son wanted to because they're very internet famous. He
was just family and a couple of friends. When they
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realized it was are all. They all paused for a second,
and my son was so excited. Then they all got
so excited. I'm very, very happy with my family. His
trips with his dad and dads went great, so we
took him on a mommy trip, and we took a
lot of precautions, of course, but we had a blast,
as much of a blast as you can have with
a pregnant woman in Europe. If you know, you know
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he deserves it because he is the best kid ever.
As for my parents, they are really happy to do
things for the kid and love being around him. He
or anybody other than me, doesn't know about the will
or anything. He just loves them because he's nice. My
parents are considering staying permanently because they want to be close,
so it might be another thing coming. My in laws
(51:39):
are helping them find a permanent rental or so, and
we're just all so excited by the way. I'm so
excited for you guys to listen to full episodes with
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or iHeartRadio and search up Okay Storytime top ten best
good stories. I agree, this was so wholesome, This was
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so lovely and there's just a little bit left to
the story. But like perfect number one's violin one. That's
the violin one.
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Speaker 1 (52:10):
I really liked the story about like sweet Mama or
something or isn't it I remember that? Yeah, I loved
that story. Got listen to it on your favorite podcast platform.
But folks, there's a little bit left to this story.
It's perfect. I have no notes. A great job. Everyone
all around were writing a textbook. This is how you
co parents. Yeah, you guys should write a book. You
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know what. The thing that she commonly kept bringing up,
yeah what communication therapy therapy? Yeah, family therapy therapy. My
son's in therapy, constantly talking like we were really ready
to be like, you know, you don't have to listen
to what the step mom says. But Opie was like, no,
I'm going to include her. I'm going to explain why
it's important to do this. I'm going to get her
(52:52):
on my side. And she did. It's really respectful. Yeah,
I love that. Opie continues as per mom, she has
been more understanding and nice. I understand and she was bitter,
but she truly wants the best for our son, and
that is our biggest common ground, and yes she is
taken up Spanish, being an appright. She said she wanted
the kids to see us equally, which I've always found
ridiculous since she's a nurse and clearly very qualified. We've
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had many combos about my parents' involvement, but she is
more willing to give space. Lately, she and her family,
which have always been delightful, are now all learning the
language as a way to keep it all connected. This
is so cute. We have movie night at least twice
a week. Sometimes it's more people than other times. I
just want to let people know that it can be better,
and people are complicated and people can love unconditionally.
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My husband hooked up with my mom while I was pregnant.
Sounds like a two for one deal right there. My
husband is cheating on me. I know this for certain.
He's doing all the things a cheating spouse would do,
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like cooking up with your mom. He has taken off
his location tracker. He's been ignoring me, staying out late
with work buddies, has all the excuses for everything. I
know what this is. By the way, this comes from
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go to the r slash Okay Storytime Separated.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yep, we've seen it time and time again. Oh baby,
I didn't just turn my phone off to you know,
enjoy myself.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I just forgot to click pause on hinge. I didn't
know that it would still keep my profile. Your mom
came on to me man a. When I told my
mom about my suspicion, she dropped a bombshell. My younger sister,
Emma has been acting the exact same way, are they also.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hooking up with your sister who knows be hot?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I have two sisters, Ray married with kids, and Emma,
freshman in college, still lives at home. Mom says Emma
has been going out at the same times and being
secretive about her whereabouts, all matching my husband's patterns. Emma
and my husband have always gotten along, but looking back,
it seems like they get along too well. Is the
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sister also? This is insane? What does too well mean? Yeah,
my husband and I are expecting our first child, and
our five year marriage was solid until these past few
months when things started to get rocky. Then this happened.
When I confronted Emma this morning, she exploded, called me
an insecure witch for even suggesting it. I told her.
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Mom told me, and now my mom's furious because I
threw her under the bus. Ray doesn't want any part
of this mess. Am I the A hole? And there
is an update? Oh my goodness. What do people post
these kind of things to? Am I the A hole?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Clearly clearly not. I mean I'm also again the title
has said the mother is the culprit here, So now
it feels like we've got multiple culprits. A few things. Yeah,
you gotta consider here. One.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
How alike does the mother and the daughter look, because
after a few drinks, you might be thinking you're you're
talking to your wife.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You just look a little bit more more old. Yeah?
Yeah too. How hot? Is his mom hot? Like? Give
me a hot mom? Uh? Anne Hathaway's mom. Yeah she is,
Jennifer Lawrence. Halthaway is absolutely a mom. She's got multiple
kids and Anne Hathaway. Yes, I'm gonna give you Jennifer Lawrence.
(02:56):
Jennifer Lawrence. I don't believe. Yes, she was, she is.
I didn't know that. That's news to me, but she is,
sure mom. But there is an update.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Why do you think he did this because he sucks?
Come on, there's gotta be something more than just that. Well,
we're we're got to find out.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Oh my gosh, it's now really late where we live.
My husband has not come home, is not answered his phone.
I texted him multiple times, and I know he has
read the messages, but he won't answer his phone. I
was going to talk to him about this when he
got back, but he's not back yet. I don't know
if he's coming back. I'm thirty seven weeks pregnant, I
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have preoclampsia and my blood pressure is skyrocketing. I'm trying
to calm down, but how can I To everyone who
said to get a PI, I've been on unpaid FMLA
for the last month because of my BP complications. I
have no money for anything other than this child. All
of my savings are going towards my kid's future and
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if there are further complications in medical bills, a p
I is not in my budget. To the people who
are telling me that I jumped to conclusions but also
are telling me to get a divorce in the same breath,
isn't a divorce also jumping to conclusions? Divorce is not
in the budget right now either. I know how much
lawyers cost. Dang man, dude, p I. You don't just
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need a free time, Yeah, you just need a free
day and and a car. I did some PI work.
It's true. My pastures and our friends oh that too.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, my friends up on a blind date and I
stalk them to make.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Sure investigating his own thing. Yeah, I need to make
sure that this is working out because my my reputation
is on the line.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
See, it was going well, but now talking to both parties.
It's not like either of them are committed to the
cause we have options, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Guys, you can only bring a horse to water.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And also I'm matchmaking in LA, which is probably the
worst place to match make.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So true.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Actually, yes, nope, the cemetery is the worst place to
match make.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well. Update three, my life is completely upended. It has
been over twenty four hours since I confronted my younger
sister Emma about cheating with my husband. I was one
hundred percent sure my husband was cheating with her based
on what our mother told me yesterday. It turns out
I was completely wrong. Oh oh no, so it was
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not the mom. No, it was not the sister. Oh
she thinking, she thought so. The mom told her. It
came to her and said, like, Emma's been doing such
and such and like disappearing. At the same time, you know,
he's like, it's not my sister. Oh, then who is it. Oh?
My husband did not come home last night. I know
(05:53):
he read my text messages because they are marked read
Why do you even have receipts on? Put them off?
Turn those off? He ignores all of my calls, though
I have no idea where he was. I got about
two hours of sleep last night, and that was only
because I was utterly exhausted. I woke up to my
older sister Ray calling, I answered it. Ray lives in
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the cul de Sac at the end of our parents street,
about five houses down. Ray is also a stay at
home mom. She started by apologizing over and over again,
which just made me nervous, and when I pressed her,
she said she was sorry for not telling me up
day who the boyd one says guilty party is always
(06:36):
trying to throw shade to get you off their sense.
See what doesn't make sense to me? Yah, it's with women.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I feel like it's easier for a woman to find
a partner than it is for a man to find
a partner, because a woman can go to someone and
be like, hey, I want you, and a guy will
be like all right, but a guy kind of has
to do a little convincing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
That's so false. That's false. Really, a woman been hey,
I want you, and then AND's like, yeah, I like you,
and then the man's like, hot, I actually don't want
a relationship. Oh that is classic. Man. It's not just me,
that's everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I don't know Riley, have you ever been hit on
by a woman? Like You're like a woman comes out
to you randomly and you're like, hey, I want you yeah,
and you're like, ooh no exactly, I had a woman
taking my butt.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
One, so yeah, that's not okay.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
When she knew for certain that my husband was cheating
with our mother.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh no, mama, both, he wanted the source.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I will admit I barely remember what was said because
of the shock, but I'm trying my best to write
it to remember it for the future. Wow. Ray said
that this has been going on for a few months,
so that would be before me and him were actually married.
She says that Emma would leave to go to night
classes or hang out with friends, and about twenty minutes later,
my husband would pull up to our parents' house. And
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also it seems like her mom is still married because parents'
house sounds like there's a dad there. What. Wow. And
also the fact that Opie's sister knew this and didn't
tell her is terrible. That I'm just like such a betrayal.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Hey, that's that's one way and impress your mother in law.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, dude, what what do you got to have going
on in order to pull the mother hot, just like
a boy next door kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Also, people were like, we're gonna like Riley Slide with
that comment. What comment? Huh, who's tickling your butt?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I was at a club one, yes, so he was
unconsensually tickled. Yeah, not cool. She got a little. He
would stay there for an hour or two and then
leave before Emma got back. Ray said, this happened multiple
nights a week now, whenever Emma and our dad are gone.
Oh well, I want to know if Emma also knew
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because she was super defensive. And maybe she was defensive
because she was like I literally never would never.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Do that, or or she kneel about it, or no,
she's also in on it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
That's gross. And the dad's also in on it. I
don't like that. They can't all be on it. It's
a whole family affair. No, but at different times, at
different times, I don't know. Maybe oh yeah, yeah, definitely
different times.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
No, Nah, they would both know by now if it wasn't. Yikes,
they want to keep that secret.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Our dad works long shifts at night. You would have
no idea. We know Mom probably has location tracking for Emma,
which is how they knew where she was. We don't
know if Emma took that off yet. Emma obviously is
not happy with me, so I can't ask her. I
think you just go to Emma and say it. I'm
so sorry for accusing you. I just found out Mom
is the person who's cheating on my husband or with
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my husband. My bad. She blamed it on you, and
then you unite against mother. The most dang thing is
that my mom went out last night and didn't return
until the morning before Dad got home for work. Ray
texted her asking if everything was okay, and Mom said
that a friend of hers was sick and needed comforting.
I catch you, hmm, Emma, I mean sometimes I get
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sick disgusting. Emma also did not come home last night,
but that's probably because she's pissed and hurt and needed
to be around friends. I will apologize to her, but
I can't without telling her what's going on. Ray keeps apologizing,
saying that she just didn't want to get involved and
it wasn't her business. Come on, come on, it absolutely
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is your business. You might oh, I hate her, I
do not like her. It's absolutely your business. That is
your sister. I understand it's your mother that makes it
one hundred percent of your business.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
If you are a friend or family member, give yourself
permission to tell that friend or family member they're being
cheated on.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Ye dude, that like, yeah, what it's it's one hundred
percent your business.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That makes no sense if you're an acquaintance that's totally
only seen someone once or twice and you don't.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Have like full information on what's going on. Yeah, yeah, business.
But even if your sister also give yourself permission. If
you do see something going on and they are an acquaintance,
if you talk to him, be like, hey, I noticed this.
Now trying to start anything, but I want you to
be up to date on it exactly. You have to.
She also called me an ahole for confronting Emma and
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says that by doing that, I'm tearing the family apart.
She has forbidden me from telling Dad, saying she'll never
forgive me. I'd never forgive her. Yeah, she kept this
from you. I'd be like, oh, now you're giving me orders. No,
I'm telling Dad. It's absolutely his business to know, and
it's my business to tell him. Got to tell Dad. Absolutely,
tell Dad, your sister's gone she's done. I'd be so.
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I would be so betrayed. I feel like Dad has
the right to know he does in the same way
that you had the right to know. I know it
feels to have some one to do this to you. Yeah,
you did directly know it feels, and to have the
information withheld. I'm not gonna say anything until I have
concrete evidence because I've learned my lesson. But would I
be the a hole if I told my Dad and
Emma what is happening? I'd be I think you'd be
(12:14):
the a hole if you didn't tell. Yeah, you have
to and there is another update. But what what do
you think collect more evidence? Yeah, have a solid case. Sure,
be ready for divorce, Get your ducks in a little
row and get after it. You're gonna have to play.
You're gonna have to put a little acting. Get prepared.
I think also, Op talked a lot about not having
the finances to, you know, for a lawyer or anything.
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I think what you do is you go and tell
your dad, and I'm sure, I mean, depending on his
financial circumstances, I'm sure he'd be willing to team up
with you.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I don't know, because it seems the dad is working
a long late night shifts, so he might be he
might be in like a medical medical sense medical field.
I wouldn't mind working through the night already. Do you already?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You worked through the day? Anthet night the update, folks. Wow,
it's because you, guys, It's because of y'all. It's good,
it's for you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm gonna take a day off one of these days,
and you can't bug me anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You can't get you just turn your phone off and
everyone's like Riley Riley. And then you come back and
you have like we hire a PI to track you down,
you can have you can have a day off if
we can't find you. It's like ultimate hide and seek.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
No, this was gonna happen the second I'm move out.
I'm gonna have a sick day. Yeah, I'm just gonna
and you will never know. You'll never Actually, I.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Can't take six days. You can. You have it? Last
year when we were doing live streams every day, and
that was only when I was like I had a
stomach bug and I was literally like vomiting all day. Yeah.
Other than that, take care of you, No, Sam did.
But that was before we were like toy there's an update, though.
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I've had nothing but time to think. I've been alone
in my house, reading comments, figuring out how I'm going
to do everything. I'm overwhelmed and I'm fatigued inside and out,
and I'm too tired to freak out anymore. By the way,
don't freak out. But you can listen to full episodes
of stories just like this. Just go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts,
or iHeartRadio and search up. Okay, storytime, there's a little
(14:20):
bit left to the story. But do you have any
final thoughts? The Wi fi is pissing me off. Oh
that's my that's my final thought.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
No, when it comes to stories like this, I need
to see pictures of the family. Yeah, that's why I
can make sure it makes sense. Yeah, because we only
have the text of everything. Other than that, I this
family does not have your back. I I cannot imagine
my dad cheating on my mom with my girl. You know,
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that's just so messed up, so disgusting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It's like it's really icky. Really, I really hate it.
I really hate Like, five years of marriage, a kid
and your mom does that, Like what, You're not a mom,
You're a demon. You're a demon.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Dude, my ex is dad born on a date with
her grandma before she met her mom.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
What wait, is that how he met her? More exes
dad yet on a date with her grandma.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Dude, he had about you. Man, it's weird. Yeah, there's
a little bit left to the story. Though. My soon
to be ex husband called me. He sounded like he
had been on a bender and was hungover, slurring his words,
repeating things. He said, he's sorry, that he's a piece
of crap, that he loves me, that he's on his
way home. He turned on his location and did a
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check in, so I know he's on the highway headed
towards my house, but I don't know where he was.
Our mother has been unusually silent. Ray apologized again over text.
I don't care anymore. I haven't talked to my dad
or Emma. I'm not going to until I have something concrete.
I don't want to be that person again. Addressing some comments,
Ray does use our mother for child wildcare, could be
(16:01):
a reason why she doesn't want to rock the boat.
Probably the reason. Actually, this is not the first time
our mother has cheated on our dad. Oh she sucks.
I remember back when I was around eleven, they separated
for a while. It was very traumatic for all of us.
I have an appointment with MYOBI later this week where
we will discuss inductions. My BP has been hovering around
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one fifty five or eighty seven and one five eighty.
Swelling has been worse. I'm monitoring my health along with
the baby. The cul de Sac is not a trailer park,
though I did chuckle it may as well be one. Now.
I am sure that in order to record him I
need his consent. I'll work on that whenever he gets home.
I have thoughts about how to do it. I'm trying
to be smarter n op. I mean, if you live
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in a one party consent state, then you don't need it.
So look up your state rules, everybody. Just go ahead
and look up your state rules. Rule quay stay laws,
because like New York is a one party consent state.
What about the state I don't I think we're two party.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Is Californi a one party or two party consent state?
Oh my gosh, your job.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Party? Yeah right, But how do you tell somebody you're recording?
You go, hey, I'm recording. Is that okay?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
But then they're thinking something's up? Can you tell them
at the end of it, like, hey, by the way
I recorded all this, Mmm, does that have to eat
before it?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I don't know. I guess you could do that at
the end, be like hey, at some point you have
to tell them and then if they say no, then
you have to deleat it if you want to, like
post it or something.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Didn't think about that in the Spicy Sleep, since you'd
want it beforehand, right.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yes, yeah, afterwards, absolutely, that is the problem.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yet, so probably before guys, always get consent before you
do your reaction.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I agreed. But folks, that was the end of that story,
so we're going to get into the next one. My
mother went on a trip while struggling financially. You can't
afford that, girl.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
My mom is currently in South Korea on vacation with
my oldest sister, which took all of us by surprise.
Because my mom is a poor and in debt.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Is a poor, is a poor, She's a poor.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Sorry I got my two letter words wrong. Backstory. My
parents are divorced and my dad was deported when my
siblings and I were quite young, so we grew up poor,
constantly asking for help with rent and food from our church.
It was humiliating from our mom, and sometimes she would
get loans from loan sharks and end up in a
lot of debt. By the way, this comes from my
(18:34):
Vlad de Mar eighteen. If you want us make your
own stories, go to the R. Slish Owkay story Time suppurated.
So my mom has less debt now, but she still
struggles with money. Early in our marriage with my husband
and I, we saved up two thousand dollars and gave
it to her as a gift to help her. She's
still my mom and I care about her. Later, when
her car broke down, my husband and I decided to
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get her the car we currently had. We knew that
if she didn't have a car, it would affect her
ability to go to work, making it much harder for
her to earn an income. Last year, as a gift,
we took her back to her home country, covering the
fly's hotels and even new clothes and luggage. When I
was younger, our family always talked about going to see
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her homeland and meeting her relatives there, but we never
had the money, and finally my husband and I were
able to make it happen. Though my brother Zane and
my sister Leah couldn't join do their own finances. My
oldest sister, Elena could have come, but she was saving
for a trip to South Korea. That was surprising to me,
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but I thought maybe she still wanted to wait until
everyone could go. Six months later, my oldest sister was
in fact going to South Korea and my mom wanted
to go too. I initially kept quiet about it, but
then my mom brought up this old idea of us
pulling our money together to pay off her debts. This
immediately angered me. My husband and I are still in school,
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working full time jobs, paying our own bills, and actively
trying to avoid debt. While we're not struggling like my
siblings Saying and Leah, we currently are not rich either.
That trip and the two thousand dollars we gave my
mom took a while for us to save up to.
So I snapped back, why don't you use the money
for South Korea to pay for your own debts? My
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mom went silent.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, I mean, it's really unfair for her to expect
her kids to pay off everything that she like. It
seems like she's not necessarily financially good with her financials,
I guess, and Opie and her husband are, you know,
trying to stay above above water and their mom's asking
for all this money. Yeah, I don't have that money
(20:45):
to give to you. I already gave the money I gave.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
This is tricky. It's tricky. You're in a better situation
and you have someone else uping out with income and
your mom's still a single mom. Can you really do
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I don't know. This is tough. We need a financial
advisor here, Yeah, please get her in.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Apparently my mom and Zane had a huge fight about this.
Zay and the oldest currently lives with my mom. He
works three jobs and pays her rent while my mom
covers utilities. He's told me there's often no food at home,
and he's even considering going to a food bank. This
absolutely enraged me. I generally feel for my brother. While
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he's been ut fault for most of his past choices.
He was lazy, play video games day and night and
constantly got fired from jobs. He's now making an effort
to get his life back on track. He's working hard
to pay off his old debts, and we respect that.
So Zayn got mad. A mom for wanting to go
on this trip. It just didn't make sense given the
debt she has and how much they both struggle. My mom, however,
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argues that she deserves this trip after working hard for
us over these years, claiming she's never been anywhere and
doesn't count her home country as a real vacation. My
oldest sister, Elena, completely agrees with my mom.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's just like, you have to pay, like you'd pay girl.
You can't ask other people to pay with like for
someone with money they don't have. Yeah, it's a tough
world right now. It would be It would be different
if Op and her partner had a bunch of money,
they were like super rich, and the mom was like, hey,
like you know, I I've really helped out of Like
if you could help me pay off my debts, that'd
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be great. Still still, you know, if they say no,
you can't demand it. But it would make a little
bit more sense. But Op and her partner don't have
this money. They just don't. Yeah, it seems like their
mom wants them to like financially drown themselves. Yeah, they
don't want to do that.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
They don't want to do it. This is weird feeling
entitled to other people's money.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, it's just like you, you're I don't know it. Also,
it's not even like, hey, can you help me find housing,
like the things that you need to live. It's not
asking for that. It's asking her for her kids for
a trip that she doesn't need to go on.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And probably should be asking this one. What does a
mom do? I don't Two, These are just like questions
I'm thinking out love.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Two.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
If the brother's working three jobs and paying rent, she's
just paying utilities words the other money going too. Three
Are they just bad spinders or they're just.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Not managing their money? Well, I think it's a partially.
The management of the money is not great.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, because I've been eating out a lot recently because
just a life has been happening just getting food, and
I've realized like a shift in my finances where I'm like,
oh wow, that's I had this one habit going and
then I went back to old habits, and I'm like,
this is kind of crazy. You know, if people don't
really watch out for this, how much you can affect
you with my bagels?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Man? Well, things have changed, so you don't go to
get bagels as much okay, but I also got get
discounts on maybe. So she got a bagel plug. I
got a bagelug. I also have a coffee plug. I
have multiple coffee plugs. I can get free coffee every
day if I go to a specific coffee shop coffee salute. Yeah, well, Macha,
but you know this girl, it's great gets around out, Gabby.
So back to it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
My mom did work incredibly hard for us as a
single mother and during grueling hours as a nanny cleaner
and working graveyard ships at a nursing home. She never
bought herself new clothes, never went out and partied, and
never brought home men or had boyfriends. Her life was
dedicated to working and providing for us. That's precisely why
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it made sense to us that she deserves something nice
before she passes away dies. My mom is in her
sixties and still works as a custodian. We are truly
worried she won't make it another ten years. That's also
another reason we didn't wait to take her to her homeland. Still,
the whole situation left a weird taste in my mouth.
I thought her going on the strip would undoubtedly strain
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her relationship with my brother, well, I was wrong. Two
days after arriving in South Korea, my mom asked my
older sister Leah for five hundred bucks to cover the
hotel since my older sister Elena was leaving earlier than
she was. My sister Leah and her husband are doing okay,
but they're struggling more than my husband and I. They're
both working hard and her husband is.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Going to school.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
My sister explained to my mom that they're living paycheck
to paycheck and apologize for not being able to help.
Mama's response was chilling. She told my sister she was
glad she didn't have the money because it just confirms
they're not doing a good job in their lives and
they need to get different jobs. There's a shocking turn,
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as my mom had been happy when Lea got her
current job. She then questioned, what are they going to
do if she gets pregnant? Another ironic statement considering she
wanted my husband and me to have a baby when
we were living in demon grandma's basement.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Pretty hypocritical to be like, maybe you should get another
job if you can't afford to pay for me, because
I can't afford to pay for myself, and then also
you should have a baby. Well, what are you gonna
do when you have a baby, because it's going be
more expensive? Yeah, I pretty hypercritical. This is wild cool?
The only way I could have a baby as I
moved back to North Carolina. I mean not right, I
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guess it right now? Yeah, I'm sure you will be ready.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You have a family support system. Maybe one of us
should have a kid and then we all can help out.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's what I'm planning on. You're helping with my baby.
What are you gonna have a baby in my thirties?
That's so long? Got time you had time? You're gonna
be a fun uncle? Well Sam's got You're gonna be
one of the godfathers. Yeah, well Sam's gonna be an uncle,
So we can't be a godfather. I don't think so.
All right, then you can.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
It's just an uncle like uncle's basically better. It's like
it's like uncle than godfather.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
My well, my godfather is not one of my uncles,
but one of my uncles is Sam's godfather. Okay, anyways,
I don't have the godfather complex worka Well, you can
be one of them. Cool.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
My mom added that she could have asked a coworker,
but wanted to ask family first. Finally, she declared that
my sister and brother Zan would no longer receive their
life insurance money after she passes way until they are
in their forties, all because my sister didn't give my
mom five hundred bucks for a trip she decided to
go on despite not having the money to do so.
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My sister sent me the message, and I was absolutely furious.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Sister Leah is.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
My best friend and the one I consider to be
my real mom. She's always been there for me, protecting
me and helping me through everything. She's the one who
knows all my deepest, darkest secrets. I've told her that
I don't care if anybody else showed up to my
wedding because her presence was the only one that truly mattered.
My sister was crying in a bathroom stall when this
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all went down, not because of the money. My sister
could care less about that. She was crying because of
how my mom reacted. This whole situation infuriated me, so
I messaged my mom telling her not to treat my
sister like that again. This behavior is not like my mom.
When did she become so greedy and she only asked
(27:58):
Leah for the money me. When she found out I knew,
she told Leah how cruel she was for showing her
the messages to me, and that she was even madder
at her. This wasn't the first time my mom had
treated my sister in such a manner, but it was
the first time she had reacted so harshly or that
the situation esculated to this point. My sister Leah had
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always been a pushover for her mom, Elena, and I
could always say no or argue that Leah was never
able to whatever my mom wanted, Leah did it, even
when it didn't make her happy. Leah even moved to
New York and was quite content there, but my mom
called her and told her to come back, promising that
if she returned, she wouldn't have to pay rent and
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could save money. Of course, that was a lie. My
mom also complained that Leah had abandoned her and wasn't
a good daughter from moving to New York. Elena is
the oldest one, yeah, Leah's not.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah. Well, I think there's also kind of a possibly
a cultural cultural aspect here. Oh you're the dragon. No,
because the mother is originally from South Korea. So there
is like kind of a very strong like familial No
she went to visit.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
That's not her home country, it is. It is a
spot where is the mother's home country?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Is he here right now? I don't think he's set
up on this. Tell you it's not. I don't think so. Yeah.
So basically what we learned is that the mother's home
country is South Korea and the all the kids what no, no, no, Okay,
maybe I'm wrong, but they said that they saved up
money to send the mother to her whole country.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
But this is just a different This is a different
trip to South Korea because her first trip to her
home country didn't count. We don't know where the other
country or what the other country.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Is trying to find it. They never said, but it
isn't South Korea. I'm crazy. I guess maybe there's no
cultural aspect. Oh oh, oh, oh oh. I need to
do an sat right now and past my English skills.
I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I'm so bad at them. I got like a seventeen
on act on that's on the English.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
No. I needed like something in the twenties. I got
like a thirty math that's great. That's very good, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
This constant dynamic seemed to happen only to my sister Leah.
It was almost as if my mom hates her, and
we can't understand why Lee has always been there for
our mom, yet whenever she tries to do something for herself,
her mom acts like it's the worst thing imaginable. Nothing
Leah has ever done seems to be riding her eyes.
My mom messages me back, saying that I need to
respect her and I need to stop because what she
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wants to do with her money is her choice. She said,
if she wanted to take back the car, then we should,
and then if I never want to talk to her again,
that's fine with her. I'm lost for what to do.
On one hand, I obviously want to cut my mom
out of my life and take back the car we
gave her. I'd rather give it to my sister in law,
who lives with us. She's been having car problems, and
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I know she would treat the car better and actually
pay for it. Actually, my mom got furious when we
had my brother in law and his wife move in
with us, simply because we didn't ask my mom to
move in with us, since she needs real help. We
actually ask them to move in to help them escape
demon grandma's house, but that's an entirely different story. The
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idea of cutting her out breaks my heart because I
love her and I will miss her terribly. I'll miss
her smile, hugs, cooking, or dancing. I simply miss my mom.
But she hurt my sister one too many times. Her
behavior is abhorrent, and I'm fed up. My brother's zaying
is completely on our side. He doesn't care about the
(31:36):
money either, and he says he stopped depending on my
mom years ago. We're worried these outbursts are signs of
Alzheimer's or dementia. My mom always says she's forgetting things,
and we've been meaning to get her checked out. But
what if it's not. My brother and my birthdays are
coming up. At first, I consider not inviting her, but
I feel bad because I don't want to ruin my
(31:58):
brother's birthday. My sister Leah said she'll be there if
the rest of us are there, but she'll avoid our mom.
To be honest, I don't want to see my mom.
Do we just deal with it and keep our distance
or cut her out completely? Do we take away the
car since she said we could. She doesn't own the
car and my husband has a key to it. My
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husband wants to talk to her when she returns, but
I'm worried she'll snap at him. She also deleted the
toxic message she shent to Leah. We got an update, Yeah, couldn't.
It's gracious.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I don't know. I don't know. I mean, like, it's
totally up to you guys, as siblings, if you want
to invite her, because it seems like you're all roughly
on the same page about your feelings about your mom. Yeah,
if you can have another conversation where you sit down
with her and say, hey, you have repeatedly crossed our boundaries.
If you continue to do so, you're gone, You're done.
We're not gonna have a relationship with you. But it
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does seem like you've tried that before and she's just
not willing to listen. So, but Amulen says, get her tested.
I agree. If this is a change that you've noticed
in her, then absolutely get her tested. See if it's,
you know, something medical rather than just her being mean. Yeah,
and entitled. You know, it's tough, and it's tough. I
think it might be a little bit of poor money management.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I think so, so you have a house basically has
four jobs earning four job income.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I don't know. I don't know, depending on where they live.
But life is tough for a lot of people. Yeah,
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Speaker 2 (33:34):
My sister Elena came back from South Korea and spoke
with Leah. Apparently this whole thing was a test what
my mom had the money the whole time. I was
testing my sister because she thought her husband was keeping
such taking her money.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I that's got to be she's gotta be lying. She
can't be telling the truth there. She's like, I had
the money the whole time. The whole thing was a test.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And it turns out that not letting my sister get
her share of the life insurance thing.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Is it true?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You know what else is true is all the stories
that you can be listening to with us that are true.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Is all.
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Speaker 1 (34:16):
Be true to yourself with us. Dude, what what do
you mean a test? I don't know what that means
Orangefield theory tests? Is this? She's like, I needed to
see if your husband was taking your money, so I
told you that you weren't getting anything wild Like, I
kind of see that, But is this? Is this even true?
I don't know? This is weird. I don't understand what
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this test would prove. She's she's bad with her money
and also bad with tests. Yeah, I don't buy it.
I think there's something I don't know. I need checked out.
She's good checked out? Yeah, yeah, that's this is wild crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
My mom apparently told Elena just tell Leah I love
her so much, because she was under the impression of
Leah's husband was being financially harmful. Elena agrees that my
mom did not handle this the right way and told
my mom just to talk to us. Apparently my mom
didn't want Leah to repeat her mistakes that she had
made with my dad. But I still have concerns. Why
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would my mom send that horrible message to me after
I confronted her. She could have told me she was
testing my sister, and why would she delete her messages
to my sister.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
That's why I don't believe it, because it's not just
the money stuff. It was like all of the the
stuff that she was saying to everyone. Yeah, I had
everyone up set with her. This is weird, this is whack,
this is weird. I don't like it. And also, if
she was just trying to test Leah, then why was
she asking the rest of the kids to pay off
all of her dabts.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah, I don't believe it. I'm not something's fishy here, guy,
I's off here. But that's the end of that story,
So we're gonna jump into the next story. My stepson's
mom forbid me from sharing my culture.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
We just don't do that around here. That's just none
a vibe. I thirty two female, have been with my husband,
thirty nine male, for about seven years. He has a
son from a former relationship nine, and we didn't even
know he even existed until about five years ago when
his ex forty female, contacted him demanding child support. Dang.
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She admits the only reason she even let him know
about the kid was because she found out we were
engaged and she wanted to reign on his parade. Insane insane.
After a lot of back and forth and legal shenanigans,
we got sort of fifty to fifty. First was therapy, visitation, etc.
But we are now at fifty to fifty. By the way,
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Speaker 3 (36:39):
So.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I come from Latin America and my stepson is really
fascinated by many of the cultural things and the language.
He met my parents on their last visit, and he
is a really lovely, bright and curious kid. He started
catching out with some of the words, and now we
speak Spanish on a daily basis when he's with us.
That's huge, that's fun. Didn't have any issue until he
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started to ask if he can come to my country
next time we visit. We told him we got to
discuss it amongst the adults, but he's very interested. We
got no issue. My family has said that he's more
than welcome. I come from a blended family and we
would of course cover all of the costs. She really
disliked the idea, but not because of the travel or
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anything else, but because she believes we I are using
money to turn him against her. She's like, your culture's
too cool. He's gonna leave me.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
There are many issues between them already because he thinks
she is a liar for not telling him about his dad.
And yet it's hard sometimes do we know how old
the sun is? Nine? Okay, but we talk a lot
son and I about having blended families and understanding parents. Anyway,
she told me I had to stop encouraging and sharing
the language and the culture in my house when he's
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with us, and speak the home country language or English.
I said, no, I've been very passive through the whole
thing since the beginning, but I am exhausted of her demands. Honestly,
I think if your partner is okay with it, then
she really has no say. And you speaking a language
around her son like you have fifty fifty custody, she
can't do anything. True, it is not harming the kid
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at all. In fact, it's probably helping him in the
long run to know another language.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I'm just thinking about different some cultures, like where from
where I come from. Let's say I want to put
a deer head up in the house. I could probably
put that up in my room, but in the living room.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
I don't think Sophia would like that. I wouldn't, you know,
it would be dope and sick and cool, be so dope,
be so sid Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't be into that.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
This mom language speaking of a language that can help
connect with other people if you are forbidding connection with
other people, like what like?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Why why are we doing that? You know? I understand
she is his mom, but I see no harm. And
the kids speak in Spanish like a native bless the
other two he does. Dang, it's good those three languages geez,
and I see no issue with him traveling abroad and
having more cultural connections. Heck, I even offered to pay
for her to come along with her husband. Dang, it
will be how much money do you have? She says,
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I'm a very big snobmish a hole, and she's gonna
see how to keep the kid away from me. Not possible.
Her husband says, I should be more understanding and not
step on her toes when the kid already is not
her biggest fan. I wonder why. Maybe it's the consequences
of your own actions and not anything to do with ope. Yeah,
(39:32):
and you don't don't fight this battle. Yeah, because you're
not gonna win your kids. What's gonna happen. You're gonna
go to court. You're right, you really can't provide for
this kid, So we're just gonna go full custody to them.
Be grateful for what you have. My husband says he
just wants the best for the kid and sees no
wrong with him learning and traveling. I would like an outside,
(39:53):
impartial perspective about it, and there is an update, folks.
My impartial active is that you're totally fine. Yeah. I like,
who cares if she's being pissy? M I mean, we
already know that she's not a good person because she
kept the knowledge of your partner's son from him for
five No, would have been for four years, because you
(40:16):
said that you've learned about this five years ago. Yeah,
so she really has no kind of leg to stand
on here as long as your partner is okay with it.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, because dude, you know, sick would be if I
could go to other places and understand a language and
be able to connect in that kind of way.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
I wish. I wish I actually knew Spanish. I got enough.
Keon says I knew enough to get around. He did
really well.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I mean, you were immerging yourself in the culture and
you were knocking it out of the park to day one,
brutal Day five.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I was like, you're ordering for yourself. I'm really proud
of you. Brutal. It was brutal, dude, you were like,
tang on it. Yeah, you're.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Spanol.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I'm really good at picking up This is one of
my toxic traits. I'm really good at picking up other
people's laugh if I like them, Like, if I like
their laugh, I'll pick it up. Well, I'm pretty good
at picking up other people's slang and everything almost picked
up a New York accent.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
When I went there for a week, I was scary.
Update three months later, my step son is now staying
most of the time with us. Nice cool. We had
no battle or issue. It's just what we decided after
a proper heart of heart conversation between moms. When the
time comes where there is a possibility to go to
my country, we will discuss it again, But at the
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moment it is a guess. The heart heart was a
very emotional, complex talk, but I felt it had to happen.
She is, after all, part of my life forever, and
I want her to know she is the mommy no
matter what. I saw a completely different side of her.
And I know it is not a magic wand but
I have noticed the changes. I am pregnant. I know
I should not say so so early. I was already
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when I made my first post, but didn't even know. Wow.
But we are all so positive and almost on the
clear line, even my step son's mom. Everybody has taken
it as a celebration. And the only time we had
issue was when we talked bedrooms at our flat because
my son thought he had to give his super nice
one for my true baby oh as he called it.
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But we assured him his bedroom is his forever unless
we move. My parents will be arriving in the next
few months and asked if they can bring extra gifts
to my son so it is an easier transition, and
his mom said yes. It seems somehow me having a
baby has made her realize we are so linked. Or
I don't know, maybe it was my husband saying he
would not allow more disrespect. Tellowell, this is so nice.
(42:35):
I love that she had a conversation with his mom,
who like, honestly, it seems like she sucked and had
this conversation and figured it out. Yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
I think this is beautiful. I don't trust the real mom, though,
the bio mom, because if you have co parentsing, you
cannot cannot yeah, bad mouth the other parents or anything
like that, because the kids listen, like, Oh, if my
mom thinks that way, maybe I should be thinking that way,
and it starts to grow these ideas and the separation
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need be unified in that aspect. And it seems like
Opie's taking the steps not to let that happen. But
I don't who knows what bio Mom's saying back home.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
I hope that she's improving, yeah, because it seems like it,
and I really want them to all work together for
the benefit of this kid. Parents also asked if it
was okay to bring gifts for her kid, and she
said yes as well. My mom is the happiest person
now because she is in full shopping mode. Hellowell, she's
been very civil and even nice, and in response, she
has gained a better relationship with our son. That's all
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you needed to do. I am convinced he is smart
enough to orchestrate all of it. But I have mommy
baby brain we have agreed to raise them all as
together as possible. Her kids are kids, ar kid. I said,
I can contribute to the education fund for all kids
if she allows me. How much money does Opie have, dang?
She said yes, on the condition that they all go
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to the same school.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I want my kids in Spanish, Kita. She wants her
as a normal kidda. I thought we would have World
War two again. But her husband told her, my kids
will speak Spanish no matter what she wants, and it
is a useful language. So all kids in our tribe
should speak Spanish. This is so good, and she agreed.
I almost fainted. What a turnaround. What happened Now we
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decided to divide care after daycares and kidda's pre kindergarten kindergarten,
and I will speak to the kids in Spanish so
they are all naturals. My son is the happiest because
now he feels all his families are in sync and
he can just chill. It makes me extremely happy. In addition,
she said, my son can come with us if he wants,
but we need to let her know at least a
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year in advance. And she is doing the same with
us which I find reasonable. And there is a second update.
Folks hates johny og host here. We're gonna get back
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of ass from our sponsors. But uh wow, we are
having so up. This is like we are balls rolling up. Man.
Oh my gosh, this is great you this. I'm so
(45:03):
happy me too. I mean, like, this is what I wanted.
I didn't want it to be bad, and now it isn't.
What kind of come to Jesus meeting or realization? Did
she have hope he should be a lawyer? We need
to duplicate that for story like what. There's a second
update one month after first update. She son's mom has
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always been in therapy. It was determined when this all
started back in the day. She was never outright cruel
or super mean. It was just that she was not
nice to me or my relationship until now that she tries,
she gets to say as much as I get to
say in education. I know it's weird, but I was
raised in some sort of communal weird experience, and we
all excel in our areas. I would never do anything
(45:45):
to put distance between my son and his siblings. I'm
trying to in state that they are his siblings, and
for the one he already has, it is that way.
If he doesn't like it, I'll drop it. But he
seems very receptive to the mix of family. And I
think also op really understands how to do this because
she comes from a blended family, So I think that
she's really keyed into, like all the complexity that goes
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on into creating this, and she's doing a great job
of orchestrating it. She has issues that have come from
other places, childhood, family, so on, and she is truly
trying to be better and not be the person that
did things to just ruin an engagement. My son stays
mainly with us lately because he wants to, and that
has made his relationship with his mother better. My son
is even written in my parents will that's how much
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I love him, So yes, he is my son too.
My parents are here and will be staying for a while.
My in laws are very careful on their excitement, and
my parents, with permission, got my son on a little
adventure and assured him they love him very very much
and their love is infinite. He feels better now because
he said he felt maybe they won't love him anymore
because of my real baby. Hmmm. No, he is in therapy,
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always has been, but now we have addressed it. He
made it clear he wants me to still love him
like I do, and I have a shirt and my
will I do, I always will. He's going to a
solo trip with his dad and another solo trip with
both dads, my husband and her husband. I've always got
a good relationship day and I think it never got
(47:15):
better because of this stuff. My son is involved in
the naming of the baby. It's between us three only
the drama portion. No, it was so perfect. I'm okay,
I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
I think whatever's about to happen will be like a rock,
will be.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Water over a rock, Yeah, water on a duck's back. Yeah. Yeah,
it's just gonna roll right off. Everything's fine, This is solid.
We have a solid foundation. Whatever's about to happen in
the trash bagging the whole, they will overcome it. They
will persevere. My husband wants us to move so we
have bigger bedrooms for everybody, but I don't feel like it,
(47:51):
because you know, pregnancy and adaptation. Okay, this is fine.
We can, we can, we can get over this. I
want my son to be able to adapt before we
start moving. My husband believes I'm just coddling him way
too much, but I explained my perspective being from a
blended family as a kid, and he backed off. When
we look for a place, we'll be looking for one
that we all like. End of draw abortion.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Like I say, hey, Opie has your stine, she has
a no lockdown.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
I've never seen this happen in a retic. Great, this
is wild, Opie continues. I am an insomniac and I
have not changed at all. So here we are only
I drink no more wine anymore. Lol. My son's mom
is actually giving me really good tips. We're working in
our own wills and so on, but because I am
developing a fear about the children's future. Yang. And lastly,
(48:38):
my husband is the most patient, caring, loving goofy man.
I know I got little critics saying he should have
put it off when the bad stuff happened, but he's
very neutral and asked me all the time if I
was okay. He always said if I said no, he
would have changed his tune. We are so so far
from perfect. Still, we just had a discussion about the
type of school my son should go now a thing
(49:00):
in the country. But I am glad it is now
a discussion and not an argument. Also, the baby's doing
amazing And there is a third update.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Folks, I don't can we updates? Always give me a
little I'm like.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
I'm scared. I always get a little scared because I'm like, oh,
it's gonna change and everything's gonna be ruined. But I
can divorced. I think it's gonna be okay. He cheated
on me. No, No, I'm I'm mad. Casting it's gonna
be perfect. Probably curveball. I need to get into it
right now because it needed to be perfect Curveball. Update three,
two months after the second update. Hey guys, I like
(49:34):
that I can express myself freely here. I know some
think our story is weird, others wholesome, others the best,
But for us, it is a sort of dream. At
the moment, we've got a new house. Wait what dang.
It was picked by the three of us, husband's son, me,
and it's lovely and beautiful and all we want for
our kids. I always said I wanted to have just
(49:55):
two kids, so after this one is born, we'll be
closed for business, will get aasectomy, so I don't need
a deal with hormones or birth control. I would also
like to comment the new house is huge and it
has a guest room, so my son's brother can stay
whenever he wants. They have done so before. Also, my
kid turned ten. We are at a weird time, but
(50:15):
we did a little family gathering with all sixes of
his grandparents and all four his parents. He was very
happy and enjoyed it with the friends he invited to it.
We all coordinated presents so we didn't outstage each other
or give him repeated gifts. I was so happy we
could finally do something like this. As per my baby,
she is a girl, all right. This is so lovely.
(50:37):
I told my son and thought it might create issues,
but he's so excited about it. Is gonna be a
big brother. We have been having family therapy too, just
in case, but the therapist says the kid is doing
amazing and to please not overthink things. We had a
gender reveal party, which I find kind of silly, but
my son wanted to because they're very internet famous. He
was just family and a couple of friends. When they
(50:59):
realized it was are all. They all paused for a second,
and my son was so excited. Then they all got
so excited. I'm very, very happy with my family. His
trips with his dad and dads went great, so we
took him on a mommy trip, and we took a
lot of precautions, of course, but we had a blast,
as much of a blast as you can have with
a pregnant woman in Europe. If you know, you know
(51:19):
he deserves it because he is the best kid ever.
As for my parents, they are really happy to do
things for the kid and love being around him. He
or anybody other than me, doesn't know about the will
or anything. He just loves them because he's nice. My
parents are considering staying permanently because they want to be close,
so it might be another thing coming. My in laws
(51:39):
are helping them find a permanent rental or so, and
we're just all so excited by the way. I'm so
excited for you guys to listen to full episodes with
stories just like this. Just go to Spotify, Apple Podcast,
or iHeartRadio and search up Okay Storytime top ten best
good stories. I agree, this was so wholesome, This was
(52:00):
so lovely and there's just a little bit left to
the story. But like perfect number one's violin one. That's
the violin one.
Speaker 2 (52:07):
I really liked your favorite podcast platform.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
I really liked the story about like sweet Mama or
something or isn't it I remember that? Yeah, I loved
that story. Got listen to it on your favorite podcast platform.
But folks, there's a little bit left to this story.
It's perfect. I have no notes. A great job. Everyone
all around were writing a textbook. This is how you
co parents. Yeah, you guys should write a book. You
(52:31):
know what. The thing that she commonly kept bringing up,
yeah what communication therapy therapy? Yeah, family therapy therapy. My
son's in therapy, constantly talking like we were really ready
to be like, you know, you don't have to listen
to what the step mom says. But Opie was like, no,
I'm going to include her. I'm going to explain why
it's important to do this. I'm going to get her
(52:52):
on my side. And she did. It's really respectful. Yeah,
I love that. Opie continues as per mom, she has
been more understanding and nice. I understand and she was bitter,
but she truly wants the best for our son, and
that is our biggest common ground, and yes she is
taken up Spanish, being an appright. She said she wanted
the kids to see us equally, which I've always found
ridiculous since she's a nurse and clearly very qualified. We've
(53:14):
had many combos about my parents' involvement, but she is
more willing to give space. Lately, she and her family,
which have always been delightful, are now all learning the
language as a way to keep it all connected. This
is so cute. We have movie night at least twice
a week. Sometimes it's more people than other times. I
just want to let people know that it can be better,
and people are complicated and people can love unconditionally.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
Yeay, I love unconditional love, and folks, that's the end
of that beautiful story and the end of that beautiful episode.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
So if you love us, make sure to subscribe. We
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