My wife’s family LOOKS DOWN on me… because I make more than them! | Reddit Stories | EP2140 - ok storytime

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
My wife's family looks down on me because I make
more than them. They should look up to you. My wife,
April and I got married about five years ago. She
has a master's degree in education. Both of her parents
have master's degrees. Her sister got two badgelor's degrees. I
never went to college. By the way, this comes from
a user at fist bump hero and if you want

(00:38):
to submit your own stories, go to the r slash
Owkay Storytime subbered. When April and I got married, I
was making about forty five thousand a year, which was
okay here in the rural South. I was working as
a junior system at. Her family seemed alright with me
some gentle ribbing about how I never went through college.
As time went on, the ribbing has turned into something
that makes me uncomfortable. With myself and I don't even

(01:01):
know how this happened, and I don't even know how
to accurately describe this. I feel like I hate myself
for being successful. I took a job a few years
ago making sixty five K a year. April was pregnant,
and I was over the moon and was also scared crapless,
and I found a better job to support us. She
was adamant that she wanted to continue to work when
the baby was born, and she has since. New job

(01:23):
was a good bump in pay, but April made some
comments about how someone without a degree is making twice
as much as her. She's a teacher, so before that
jump we made about equal pay. I told her that
she's doing what she wanted to do and makes a difference.
I agreed that teachers are underpaid and told her if
she valued a higher salary that she should definitely pursue that. Apparently,
April told her entire family what I was making at

(01:46):
my new job, that's not cool.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
We should be doing that. And also, if she wanted
a high paying job, she'dn't have gone into teaching.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, I mean, if you go all the way up,
like you know, there's some professors and universities that make
stupid amounts of absolutely, like it's a very that's a
very slim yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
And you know, chargually a different process too, you know,
like she if she was going to school for specifically
like education for children or something like, that's a specific I.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Thought she went to oh you okay, no, you're right, yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Like like like you know, like if she wanted to
pursue something.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I think she did. Yeah, yeah, I think because her
degree was like in education. Yeah, so it's like a
yeah specialized Yeah, specialized degree for sure. So Apel told
her whole family how much money I was making, and
I was really upset about this. I consider that very
personal and not anyone's business but ours. It wasn't long
after that that her brother made a comment about how
it wasn't fair that he was making less than me

(02:45):
because he has been working longer than me. That made
absolutely no sense to me. Hey, hey, guys, have you
heard of like field workers. Have you heard of like
manual labor? Did you know that those people work way
harder than you do or I do, or you do
or Kean does, and they don't always make a lot
of money. Yeah, it's almost as if that doesn't always

(03:08):
does an out, Yeah, it's not always kind of you
have master's degrees, but you're too thick to understand that.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, I can tell what's going on in your brain
right now. It's just electricity, it's just jolts.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, this is just so like nonsensical that I can't
I can't not be that upset about it, because that
made absolutely no sense to me. Her sister, with two degrees,
made the same comments, except she works in a fast
food restaurant and has for the last twelve years in
a non managerial role. Her degrees are in creative writing

(03:46):
in psychology. Did if you work anywhere for twelve years
and you don't move up at all, that's you? That's
on you?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Also, like, yeah, come on, you got you have two
degrees that could get you a job, and you didn't
pursue anything for twelve years.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Her dad also made a comment about me making more
than him. Now he works for the state government, and
I had to convince him that he was still coming
out on top with his great benefits in retirement, et cetera.
Why was it up to me to convince him? I
have no idea. Here, we are a few years later,
as I have received raises, bonuses, et cetera, the commentating

(04:20):
from April's peanut Gallery family has gotten worse. They refer
to me as the one percent and how I should
be paying more taxes. They've made comments about how someone
with my limited education shouldn't be making more than.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Any of them, So stupid.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Why don't you use all that substantial education You have
to go figure out how to make more money? Smarty pants.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, it's like, come on, come on.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
People walk down the street, see a kid with a
lemonade stand and they they spit on them. You say,
do you disgust me with your uneducated business practices?

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Now we need to get John in here man on
freaking Star Star. It's a very successful person. You don't
have to go to college to have success. It is
just one you know what. These people need to play life,
the game of life. True, because you can be very
successful and not go to college and still win at
that game.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
True.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
And of course you could also be very successful and
have gone to college. There are different routes for everyone
that work for different people.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's just so weird to have done this thing you
wanted to do. You went and got a master's and
now because like your daughter's boyfriend is or does Well,
yeah that now it's like, well, well this is actually
about me.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Like it's like, that's so embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
So they have stated multiple times how I should go
buy a lotto tickets with how lucky I am to
be getting paid what I do, and its started to
eat at me. Dude, you know what you're there? Oh
you missed that. They served it up to you like
a like a like an underhand like softball pitch. That
was just you know why, I'm really lucky because I
fell in love.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
With your daughter. Yeah, you just you just really go
hard on, Like I really love your daughter. I'm so
glad and I have the ability to support your daughter.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Except he's kind of annoyed with her too because she's
doing it. Yeah, all of this blew up over the
weekend and I lost my cool. Her dad and sister
were over at our house and he was talking about
a new girlfriend his brother has. He said he couldn't
relate to her because she was uneducated and he has
nothing to say to those kinds of people. He said

(06:24):
this right in front of me, and I finally just
lost it.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Is the amount of like oh, like these people think
so highly of themselves.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, they do. This guy, all these people are broke
because they spend all of their free time smelling each
other's farts and telling you that how good they smells.
Ooh ooh that thought smells like you have a master's degree.
Ooh yum. Gross. It was like five years of me
grinning and bearing. It just exploded. I have never been

(06:53):
confrontational with April's family, so I guess to them, it
came out of nowhere. I told him that I was
uneducated his definition, so he has nothing to say to
me either. He gave a weak excuse about, well, well
that's different. You have experience, and I told him that
this other girl had experience too. I told him that
writing people off because they didn't follow his exact same

(07:15):
path of education was incredibly demeaning. Yep, not to mention
narrow minded, smarmy, self centered.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, a lot of people cannot afford to go to
college or pursue a master's degree.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, and also not understanding that there is not an
equivalence between having a degree and intelligence, absolutely as evident
by these people.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
They're pretty dumb.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I also told him I didn't appreciate the offhanded comments
about my salary, my lack of a college degree, and
I would appreciate it if they kept their jealousy under
a tighter lid next time they come to my house
that my lack of education pays for Oooooooooo.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's a subburn.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
You have to call the fire department. I felt really
bad and really good all at the same time. They
left under an awkward silence, and April totally ripped me.
She said I was being unfair. I told her, I
have heard enough of their comparisons of me to Donald Trump.
I'm not effing rich. I don't think he got a loan,

(08:20):
a small loan of a million dollars. I make a
decent living and provide for my family. I take pride
in that I love my daughter with everything I have,
and I want the best for her. I told her
the way her family, including her have been treating me
has been pretty damaging to my self confidence and I
didn't appreciate it, and I wasn't going to tolerate her

(08:40):
dad coming to our house and acting like an a hole.
She said, well, that's just how my dad is.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Telling the stuffman like that, then guess what he doesn't
get to be around us if that's just how your
dad is, And how come I can't be the way
that I am because this is how I am when
there's an a hole in my presence.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
So let's extend that courtesy to everyone.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
If we are who we are? Right? Oh, I guess
your master's degree didn't teach you that common sense. Yep,
dinga spot? Who is April? Come on, Dingis? It's gonna
be stumbles and he lost his gravity. He's stumbling atmosphere.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Finish them.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
The horse and his jockey are leaving the confines of
our planet and they will travel as star dust. Who
is April? He didn't say dinga spot?

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh oh, we've just been saying dinga spot every time
and we're not supposed to.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
This is new, So no dinga spot. You just press
a button and it goes here it is. I'm trying something.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Thank you, dingas Spot.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
All right, let's let if that is your real name,
let's do this this Wait, is is it Hannah? Because
we just say nothing and then ask you a question.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Clever.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
This also gets worse. It is really sad that I
have to say this is the worst part. I accepted
a new job a few days ago. I spent the
last few years paying for my own additional training, networking,
taking on projects at work, et cetera. I accepted a
role as a senior systems architect for a cloud provider.
They offered me a generous one hundred and five thousand

(10:11):
dollars a year salary and a month's vacation, and my
wife basically made me feel like crap for it. She
literally broke down into tears. She said, verbatim, she can't
be happy for me. Oh God, I don't even understand
how that is effing possible. She said, she doesn't like
her job, and it is sad that I'm going to
be making two and a half times more than she is,

(10:32):
even though she has a degree and I have nothing.
I didn't know how to respond.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Are jealousies so so consuming?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
All consuming? Do we have ages I can get? And
I literally have a personal anecdote for this exact moment
because I was dating when I was like nineteen, I
was dating at another we were both actors, and she
ended up booking this role, and when I heard about
it over the phone, like my immediate reaction was jealousy

(11:06):
instead of just being like just sad and jealous and
being like, I.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Can't be happy for you about that.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
I like worked, I pushed through that and I like
told her congratulations. And then when I saw her, I
was like, hey, so this weird thing happened and I
actually got really jealous of you and it felt I
don't know, it felt weird. And we talked about it. Yeah,
I didn't blame her for my feelings. I didn't kind
of come.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
With him and said I'm like so proud of you.
I'm feeling a lot of self kind of insecurity, like
insecurity about my job, about what I've done with my life.
I need to work on that, but I would love
your help in finding maybe a job that does give
me a little bit more security and a little bit
more you know, security and in my work in myself.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
You know, if you really did get that master's degree,
I'd be asking your husband like, hey, can I cheat
off your homework? Like can I copy your answers? How
did you do this? I like to do this, help
me do this? Op.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Twenty nine Okay, and my wife thirty two female, so
April is thirty two.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, it's it's and I bet there's also kind of
that age age thing too. They see this younger guy, yeah,
who doesn't have a degree, who's doing really well for himself,
and they're.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Like, yeah, well, and it's the two parents that also
have the master's degree and then she has, so it's
like this is a family tradition. Yeah, looking down on
others for not having degrees.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Dude, I think it's also I don't know. I think
I just have a different perspective on this because I'm
like so entrenched in the YouTube sphere where so many
people don't go to college and become very successful, and
it's just there's just so many different routes for people.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, and there is.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
There's not one path, there's many different ones that all
that can all lead to success and also lead to failure.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Correct. So she's breaking down saying, I can't be happy
for you because you did nothing to earn this. Essentially,
I didn't know how to respond. After a few minutes
to collect my thoughts, I told her that she shouldn't
be happy for me. I told her that she should
be happy for us. I also told her if she
was unhappy with her job, she should just quit and

(13:14):
stay home with our daughter or find a part time job.
The real sick thing about this, though, is that I'm
starting to believe the crap her family has been saying.
Maybe I don't deserve what this new job is going
to pay me. I feel like I've been conditioned to
think that if someone went to college, they are immediately
better than me, and I think April has been conditioned
of that too. She isn't a bad person, although my

(13:38):
story may paint her in a harsh light. Like we've
said earlier today, this is one negative example of their relationship.
And I guarantee you all of these thoughts she has
have been programmed into her by her parents her entire life.
So I'm not I saw a lot of divorced chants
in the in the chat, I'm not going there because
they also have a kid.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
They have a kid. I think this is a conversation
thing that they can work through. But I do think
it's like, oh, we're we're It's not good, right, It's
very not good.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's a very deep seated issue.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, her jealousy is is just out of control.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Parents. Who cares? I'm literally the parents are I'm not
even hearing them. All I care about is fixing the
dynamic with my wife.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
I agree. I don't think. I don't think this is
when you have a kid and you're married. I don't
think this is like, but this is like take a minute,
let's go to therapy. Let's figure out your jealousy. And
if we can't, then that's another story. But try first.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
And I think maybe she's trying to ask for it
in a weird way, like she broke down and set
all this stuff that she's probably just been thinking on
the inside. Now that's out in the open, and be like, Okay, well,
let's get you not feeling like this right. You don't
want to feel this way, Let's figure out how to
get there without tearing me down, right, since i'm your husband.

(14:54):
But I think her family has pushed the you must
go to college or you will be a complete failure narrative,
and she doesn't know how to reconcile that someone who
didn't go to college isn't a complete failure. Trust me,
I'm not bashing college. I'm not anti college. I wish
I went to college. I'm under no illusion that multiple
doors were probably closed to me, and it took me

(15:16):
longer to break into this field without a degree. I
want my daughter to go to college because it will help.
It just wasn't for me at that time in my life,
and I made the best I could out of the situation.
So I have three real questions. One, how do I
get out of the mindset where I'm starting to internally
believe this nonsense. I don't even know how to describe it.

(15:38):
I logically know that their BS isn't true, but there's
part of me doubting that, and it is affecting my
self confidence. I'm starting to feel guilty for being successful
professionally therapy, therapy, thereby therapy.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Individual therapy, marriage counsel.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
And individual therapy. For that one, I'd say number two,
how do I get April and I on the same page.
We've had some rocky times in our marriage, but we've
worked through them. But I almost feel guilty now for
trying to be the best I can be professionally because
I know it just makes her feel like crap. Maybe
I am defending her a little too much by laying

(16:14):
the blame with her family. I don't know when she
said she couldn't be happy for me that I got
a new job that would put us into a comfort
of living outside of our friends and both of our families.
It crushed me. Also therapy that one's the couple's therapy. Three,
how do I handle her family? I'm not very confrontational,

(16:36):
and I feel bad about how I reacted to the
underhanded comment her dad made the other day. It's okay,
you only feel bad because you're not used to confronting people.
What you did was perfectly fine. I told April. I
didn't want an apology. I just want her family to
be clear that they wouldn't be welcomed at my house
if they weren't going to be respectful of either of us.
And I felt that them acting like they have been

(16:57):
towards me is being disrespectful not only to me, but
to her as well. Edit quick clarifications here from Ope.
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Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, I think this is like just the therapy, therapy, therapy,
and see if that works before we make any big,
big decisions. Amy lensays April is stuck on the idea
that the only certain, that only certain people should be
rewarded because only college degrees work hard. Yeah, it has
a very misguided view of how the world operates. And

(17:52):
Miss Boozy says, if your immediate instinct isn't to be
happy for your partner when they find success, there's a
severe prompt.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Everyone deals with jealousy. That is a very normal human feeling.
But it is how we handle it. It is how we,
you know, move going like, move going forward, How we
limit the amount of jealousy, and how we you know,
read our partner when we're feeling that jealousy.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Be We have to be aware of how we're feeling
and how we're thinking.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Identifying the feeling is the first step.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
And there is a little bit more story here, So
let's read it. Let's go ahead and finish it. So
to everyone else, I really appreciate it. A lot of
strong advice here. I plan on discussing things with my
wife and have a lot of great information here. I
didn't try to paint her as a bad person, and
I don't really think she is. I think she's just
having a problem reconciling her belief she was raised with

(18:51):
what her teachers taught her and what college taught her,
and blah blah blah blah blah, and that all of
that isn't one hundred percent factual. I think she's also
burned out in her her profession, and I know there's
a big upheaval with the whole common core push in
the US, and many teachers are battling this. I don't
know enough to make an educated opinion on it, to
be honest, I just know it stresses her out. We

(19:11):
are also new parents. Our daughter is three, and I
think there's just a lot going on right now contributing
to it, and she's calling into questions some core belief
she holds. There's just a lot going on. I really
want to make sure I handle it appropriately with her.
And that is the end of that story. And I'm
on and I like that. I like that. I doo therapy,
though definitely need definitely need some therapy.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Therapy, therapy, therapy.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Just got to like get to these you know, nuggets
of realization.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Things are very tough for teachers. I will absolutely, you know,
concede that, but yeah, she needs to figure out how
to deal with tough things that happen in her life
without taking them out on you.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Correct, you know. And and I just got out of
I got out of high school like right as the
common core shift happened. And I'm so glad that I did,
because from everything I've heard from my younger family members,
it just is dumb, just a dumber way to do math.
John here, og host. We're gonna get back to these stories,
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Speaker 3 (20:12):
I reconnected with a previous affair partner and we might
have a son together.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh that sounds like you made a mess.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
I know many of you will have strong feelings about
me because of what I've done, WOA, and I understand
and do not blame you. All I ask is that
you put that aside for a moment and help me
if you can.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, Okay, I'm putting it aside, putting it aside. You're
a perfect, faultless baby.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
About five years ago, I started an affair with a
coworker at my job who I'll call Ashley no longer.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
You are guilty, baby, guilty, guilty baby.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
At first we were just friends, but we got too close.
I'm just thinking about, like going undercover. You got it
too deep and crossed many boundaries that we never should have.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
I was working for the US Marshals.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Point break. By the way, this comes from walking the street.
And if you want to spit your own stories, go
to the r slash Okay, storytime supparate it. So when
we both started having some difficulties in our relationships, mine
because of my wife's PPD and hers because her boyfriend
didn't give her the attention she wanted, we turned to
each other for emotional support. All right, wait, hold on, sorry,

(21:25):
hold on everyone, Oh be cheated on their pregnant wife.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Actually no, just gave birth wife because.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, sorry, sorry, you're right. You're right in a way,
we cheated on there recently given birth wife. I was pregnant.
Why I had hit a Dakota for that one?

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (21:46):
She hits me a lot. No, guilty baby, yeah, guilty,
very guilty baby. He's like, I would like everyone to
not judge me, because if you do I'll be bad.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
I told you not to judge me. You can't judge me, Okay. Anyway,
Gradually this turned into a physical relationship, and before I
knew it, I was having spicy sleep with Ashley on
a regular basis.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Who what what are you stupid? Before I knew it,
Oh well, I'm sorry, you sleepwalking.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
The affair lasted for close to a year.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
All right, let's let's we gotta keep going.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
We can.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
If we do this, we would stop at everything right,
There's no way.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
But the guilt of cheating on my wife and neglecting
my family started to get to me. Oh my god.
Every time that I'm feeling something, I'm just gonna look
at the camera and I'm gonna move on, because you
already understand that I feel the way that I feel.
I tried to break things off with Ashley, but she
had gotten too attached and it started imagining us becoming
a real couple. She was able to keep me in
her hand for a while, but I eventually broke things off.

(22:44):
She did not take this well, and her reaction was
what led to us both getting caught.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Oh it wasn't that you were having an affair with her.
It was her action after the fact that got you
caught you Actually, I'm I'm not. I'm no, Well, you
know what, We're gonna do it the other way. They
We're going to do the story the other way because
I can't do this story while pretending like I agree
with anything this guy says.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Our affair was discovered by our boss, and we both
lost our jobs for breaking company policy.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Who sucks to suck?

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Once this happened, then everyone else around us discovered what
had been happening. I made the choice to recommit to
my wife and work on our marriage.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Is that what they call it?

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Ashley, on the other hand, decided that she needed a
clean break and moved to the West Coast. My wife
and I entered counseling, and it took us several years
to get back to a place where she could say
she trusted and loved me. Yeah, you cheated on her
for a year.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Right, Okay, We went counseling and she knew, and then
you got back to zero.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
I know now how unfortunate I am to have how
fortunate I am to have my wife that is so
forgiving and loves me so much. And I have tried
every day since the affair ended to be worthy of
her love and forgiveness. Seeing how it has been a
few years since those events, I think we both figured
the affair was well past us, but I am now

(23:58):
afraid that it is not an may never be.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, hey, did you guys hear that when you guys,
when people blink, sometimes they have kids.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah. For a year. For a year. Two months ago,
Ashley moved back to the area. I wasn't aware of
it at the time, but I found this out after
one of my friends, slash former co workers, sent me
a panicked email about two weeks ago letting me know
that there was something I should be aware of. Apparently,
Ashley reached out to her to see about grabbing dinner
sometime to catch up. The friend accepted Ashley's offer, only

(24:29):
just to discover that Ashley had a son. Now all right,
The friend tells me in the email that the boy
looks a lot like me, and because of his age
almost four, could be mine. I sent back an email
asking if Ashley had claimed that he was my son,
and she said that Ashley would not tell her who
the boy's father was. My curiosity got the better of me,

(24:49):
and I decided to stalk Ashley to see if I
should be worried. On Facebook, there weren't many photos of
the boy I could see, but from what I saw,
he does look like me and like my other son
when he was around the same age. I was concerned
enough at this point that I decided to contact Ashley.
And Uh, before you did that, you you talked to

(25:10):
your wife, right.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
I would bet you five million dollars he didn't.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
I told her that, given our history and the age
of the boy, I was concerned that he might be
my son. This is what she said, it's been a
long time. Oh, pe, Yeah, he's your son. He looks
so much like you, doesn't he. He's your smile and laugh.
He's just the most precious boy in the world. And
I would love so much for you to meet him,
and for him to meet his daddy. I know we
both made mistakes in the past, but at least our

(25:36):
love produced one good thing. Winky face, let me know
of a time that works for you.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
What I mean? Am I crazy for thinking that was
like low key? The best way she could have gone
about that? That was so densely casual, right, That's what
I mean. It's like, hey, yeah, that's your key. I
feel like that's yeah, Hey, glad you noticed that it
looks like you. Yeah, it is your son. I've raised him.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
He's great.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
I love him. I mean, hey, we definitely made a
huge mike, but got something great out of it. The
good old Forest comes.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
That was incredibly casual.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Oh wow, okay, ask, you're so in Forest. I guess
I'm just I don't know. Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
It's been about a week since that response, but so
far I haven't been able to decide what I need
or how to respond. I feel lost. I wake up
one day and then I have another son. How do
I even know if he's mine?

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Because well, I mean, if he's mine.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
It looks like you, same age as you know when
she was cheating with you for a year. Is it
even worth it to respond back?

Speaker 2 (26:36):
You suck?

Speaker 4 (26:36):
Dude?

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Oh he sucks. I think about all the drama that
could be unleashed if I really explore this. But if
he is my son, I can't just pretend like he
doesn't exist.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Brother, you should have thought about all the drama you
were gonna unleash. Start banging this lady.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
I think I have to know for his sake and mine.
This is a lot to think about, and I have
no idea how to approach my wife about this. It's
like reopening an old wound and I hate it, but
I don't think ignore it would do any good. Bro.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
He's talking like he like he went into a bar
with his wife and like his ex girlfriend is in there. Yeah,
and he's like, what do we do about this? What
do we do? Do? I mean, do I even say anything?
Or should I just ignore her?

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Do I just ignore the fact that I have a
child and never tell my wife?

Speaker 2 (27:17):
JESU.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
I can't wait to read these comments, so we're gonna
get into them. Yeah. Common one, there are a few
steps you need to take now. One, tell your wife yesterday. Yes,
it will reopen the old wound. Yes, it means you
have to admit you contacted your ex, which was a
mistake in my opinion. But that's water under the bridge
and that's likely to infuriate your wife. But not telling

(27:39):
her is immediately breaking whatever trust she's gotten back. Number two,
paternity test yesterday. Also, you and your wife need some
sort of plan of attack if the kid really is
yours and if your wife still wants a marriage. Number three,
make it very clear to Ashley that you are not
in any way, shape or form getting in any type

(28:00):
romantic relationship with her after you tell your wife. Of course,
Opie says, I think that's a good strategy. I was
thinking about maybe contacting a lawyer to help with the
pat test. I don't know that Ashley would make it difficult,
but if it is my son, I'd like to try
and get some visitation rights. Comment to are you saying
you cheated unprotected shortly after your wife had a baby

(28:22):
for basically the first year of your child's life. Jesus,
that's absolutely terrible and I have zero sympathy for you. Honestly,
this could very well be the final nail in the
coffin from your wife's perspective, and you are even more
of a bad person if you try and prevent her
from leaving by guilting her. It's one thing to move
on from an affair, but you can't move on from

(28:43):
a living human which you created. If the child is yours,
we are talking about child support, visitation, etc. The whole
situation will become a huge part of your life unless
you plan on being a deadbeat father to this child.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Ah My money. I'm putting it all on red for
that one baby.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Pep tell her then get a eternity desk. Don't be
surprised if your entire life implodes on you. That is
the consequences of fothering a child with someone other than
your wife while she was going through PPD up day.
Uh yeah, agreed with all the comments.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
I see how the update starts with, so a lot
has happened, and I hope what has happened is that
the community got together. They took all the excess lumber,
you know, all the excess building materials in the area.
It built a large tribuche yep. And they flung you
into the next county so you don't bother anyone around you. Yep. Oh,

(29:42):
get ready to fly be flung again because the next
county over is gonna start building their tributeh as soon
as you land.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Buddy, got a skipping stone situation, you.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Know, And look, honestly, like, clearly people are not perfect, right,
Everyone makes mistakes. This guy's clearly made like huge mistakes.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Oh, and he keeps making it.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
And he's like and he's like, what do I do? Hey, buddy,
You've got to eat it. You gotta eat the crow.
You gotta own your mistakes. You have to deal with
and live with the consequences of them. Unfortunately, a way
to live life afterwards.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
The thing is, this is the type of mistake that
follows you. It will haunt you forever. Yep, that sucks.
You made it. You made that choice and you have
to live with it.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Can be maybe a blessing if you let it change
you in a way that is positive and persisting. Yeah,
but you know you're not gonna it's this is an
unwinnable scenario.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
So a lot has happened since the last post. The
first thing that I did was tell my wife about
everything that had been happening. That was not pretty fun,
and it opened up a lot of old wounds. Maybe
what upset are the most was the fact that I
had contacted Ashley in private without her knowledge.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah. It's almost like you're breaking the trust that you
established and built. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I apologized for hiding it from her and for keeping
her in the dark about the situation, but I assured
her that I was just as surprised about what Ashley
was claiming, which is why I reacted so poorly.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
He still doesn't get it. He's Accidently, he tried to explain, like, well, again,
the only reason I didn't say this is because I
thought that you'd be upset.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Fortunately for me, my wife is very loving and supportive.
We know that even when I don't deserve those things.
She said that when she decided to stay with me,
she meant it and this hasn't changed her mind. Wow,
you chose the most forgiving person in the world. We
are in counseling again, but I think we're doing well
considering the size of this bombshell. Things have also gone

(31:33):
well on the Ashley side. Just to go ahead and
get it out of the way, we did the paternity
test and Ashley was telling the truth. The child is mine.
After that was settled, my wife told me that I
could be as involved with my son as Ashley or
a court would allow. It was my decision. I decided
that the best thing for everyone involved would be for
Ashley to continue to have majority custody of the child,

(31:56):
with me being allowed to see him on weekends, special occasions,
and whenever she wanted a break from mommy duty. We
also came up with a number in terms of monthly
child support that was fairly generous. We discussed all of
this with Ashley, and she agreed and maybe even encouraged
me to be as involved as I could. So now
we're staying out of the court system. I might be wrong,

(32:18):
but I think that Ashley really wants to work with
my wife and me to make sure that our son
is well provided for and well cared for. I've seen
them a number of times now, and so far the
experiences have been very positive and a lot of fun,
although there are obviously boundaries and rules that govern our
interactions as is needed. Obviously, you guys should listen to

(32:40):
full episodes of stories just like this. Uh de DOOI
just go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or iHeartRadio and search
a Pokes story time. But there is a little bit
left to the story.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Any final thought, dude, She's counting down the days until
their kid turns eighteen and then she is out one
hundred percent. She's staying with you for the kid, which
you know, is it always the best thing to do?

Speaker 3 (33:03):
No, I don't know. I don't know if she is.
I think I believe she's genuinely just incredibly forgiving.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
I have to believe this. I have to believe that
she's just she's just playing the long game. And she's like,
our kids are going to have as stable of an
upbringing as I can possibly provide them, and as soon
as they are an adult, I am leaving this man
and then they get two Christmases.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
This.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, but like I mean, in general, either way, this
woman is incredibly loyal or patient towards something.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Wow, and this guy must be really hot.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
You do not deserve your wife. But there is a
little bit left to the story. On a side note,
she was right. He is a very strong and independent
person for someone's age, but he also has a very
gentle and loving heart. We are taking things slowly, but
hopefully my son can come for an overnight visit soon.
I appreciate everyone's advice, and I have to say that

(33:59):
I feel extremely lucky for this situation to have turned
out as well as it did. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Well you at least you're aware of that.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, okay, okay, okay. That's the end of
the story. Though, Nope, can't do it. I can't forgive him. Sorry,
I tried. I tried, right there. I was about to
say some stuff about some and I can't because I
don't believe it. I would not forgive this guy. I
would have left him, and I would have co parented.
I would not have stayed in a marriage with this man,
And I would teach my kid the values of loyalty

(34:28):
and trust and the consequences of breaking those things once
they were old enough to understand what it happened. Poison
Toonic says, I would one hundred percent bet he would
sleep with the affair partner if she was into it. Yeah,
of course, because he did it faced virtually no consequences
other than like his wife being down to clean.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
It up, like you got fired, and that was it.
That was seemingly his only consequence.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, and he would have never admitted to it. He
would have never admitted to it. I said. The only
reason we got caught was because of what she did. Yes,
she made He's never gonna admit.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
It or something. But let's get into this next story.

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My husband's ex wants to meet after repeatedly causing trouble,
not me, not mean me, stay far away, trouble and uh,
there's a trigger warning here for physical violence. If you
can't hear a story with physical violence, don't listen to
this one. This will probably be long, so I'll try
to lay out a timeline and be as concise as possible.

(35:30):
And by the way, this comes from user strength. And
if you want to submit your own stories, go to
the our slash Okay storytime subprend it so August November
twenty thirteen, she sends repeated threats of violence towards me
and towards my then boyfriend. All are reported to the
police as a non emergency, but for documentation. October twenty thirteen,

(35:50):
possible home invasion. We came home from a friend's birthday
on a night where there was a show near our
house that we knew she'd attended. When we got home,
there were muddy boot prints leading up to the front
door through our yard. I don't even know if that
that sound seems like that they didn't break in, but
they just wanted to like scare you into thinking that
they did, because it's like leaving the muddy boot prints,

(36:13):
It's like, what are they like, It's what does Scooby do? Like?
My husband is absolutely immaculate. So when we walked in
and they were muddy footprints across the carpet. Oh, he
was well, never mind. He was stunned and discussed there
was mud on our bed and one of his bathroom
towels was missing, as well as my car keys, which

(36:34):
were on the counter. She was the only person besides
him at the time who had a key, and all
locks were changed the next morning. She vehemently denied doing
this when he brought it up to her, vehemently, vehemently them.
She vehemently denied it when he brought it up to
her a few weeks later. May or may not have
been her, but the only things moved or missing were

(36:55):
my keys in his bathroom towel with no windows unlocked
and no signs of forced entry. Yet it was her. Yeah,
what is she gonna do? Say? You got me?

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yeah, arrest me.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
You have found me. November twenty thirteen, she came up
behind us, dragged me off him, and dumped a drink
over his head. We began the process of filing and
restraining order. Ye, this is the event she repeatedly cites
to her friends and the world that he attacked her,
approached her and h it hair and why her friends to
this day says she holds a grudge and acts the

(37:26):
way she does towards us. After this incident, she started
telling everyone we knew this fake story and that she
was attacked by him for no reason. We did not
tell anyone much about it for a few reasons. A
friend of ours was there who witnessed everything and knew
the truth. We felt like the claims were so far
removed from who he is as a man that no

(37:47):
one would believe it anyway, and we do not like
the airing of personal business and had no intentions of
starting a blame game or making our friends feel like
there were sides to be picked. Two weeks later, we
were out and she showed up. She got in his
face in front of everyone we know, screaming, are you
gonna hit me again? Mother? Effort? So we left December

(38:08):
twenty thirteen. Can I just say, really quickly, you know
what the funniest response could have been to that is
if you like jokingly just like went on God, and
you like took like a nineteen twenties like boxing like style,
You're like, oh, fight has yet to commence, like like
just you know you have to outweird this person.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
This person's being.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Weird in a creepy way. Yeah, you have to be
weird and an unpredictable.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
We don't know if that's the best advice, but it is good.
It's funny advice.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
It would be funny, it would be really funny.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
It would be really funny.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Twenty day restraining order granted. But my husband was laughed
out of court, essentially since he was claiming abuse from
a woman and did not have a lawyer. But she did.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
I hate that. I hate that. That's not like men
experience abusive relationships. They should be believed. I don't know
about that.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
That was my impression of the court. Yeah, that was
me doing my coat a woman.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
N I don't believe it.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
But woman smaller than man? How woman abused man? Man?

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Stupid?

Speaker 2 (39:09):
She cried about spending her kid's Christmas money on a
lawyer and missing her daughter's school Christmas party, so the
judge determined that she had learned her lesson and would
know to stay away from him. That day, she posted
a picture on her Facebook of a fire she'd set
to a Christmas stocking she had made for him. Twenty
fourteen was fairly quiet, she consistently spread gossip about him,

(39:29):
which most of the people we know have come to believe,
which is the problem with taking a passive approach to
this kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Yeah, you know, I think you have to, like, you
have to reach out everyone and be like, hey, just
want to let you know. Here's the proof. We literally
went to court for this. Do we did not do
the things that she's claiming.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Correct, is actively stalking us Your decision to like not
give your friend's sides to pick. Really, all you did
was give this woman a chance to give your friends
sides to pick based off of false information. Yeah, so
you know there be a there was going to be
a conflict in a war here regardless, So you should

(40:08):
have gotten ahead of it. One of my husband's friends,
who believed it at first but came to realize these
things were lies, told it to us this way. She
was talking to anyone who would listen about how he
had mistreated her and hit her. We stayed silent. Don't
know why people want to believe a good story, and
our silence allowed them to believe it was true. We

(40:29):
felt we were trying to take the high road by
not airing dirty laundry, but in retrospect, we would have
done things differently. This past Saturday, she showed up at
a concert we were at. As always, I avoided eye contact,
stayed out of her way, and we kept to ourselves.
At one point, I saw a friend across the room
I hadn't seen more than a few times in the
last six or seven years, so I went over to

(40:50):
say hi. I didn't know that the ex and a
friend of hers were standing behind him. The story that,
as they put it, is that I was all up
on the friend, who whom I had never met and
didn't know to be a friend of hers, or I
would have stayed away. I was standing next to my
friend next to a mash pit, so it's entirely possible
that people were bumping around, but I didn't think about

(41:12):
it because that just happens at shows. The girl pushed me,
I stepped back and turned towards the stage again. She
pushed me harder, and the next thing I knew, she
was holding my arms while the ex dragged me to
the ground. I'm not sure what happened after that, as
they threw my purse and my glasses behind the bar,
but eventually the ex's new fiance helped me off the

(41:33):
ground and I collected my things and left. The ex
has a fiance.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
And he watched all of that and he's still her fiance.
Police arrest her, arrest her. Also, what show is this like?
For a second, I thought this was like a metal show.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
But if this happened at a metal show, anyone dragging
a woman to the ground at a metal show, Yeah,
you're gonna end up in the hospital. So you know,
after a very hateful phone call from the friend who
I suppose I have now actually met, it was relayed
to us that the ex and her fiance want to
meet with my husband and me to talk things out. Nope,
the ex called my husband at work this morning to

(42:11):
try to talk about things, which I feel is completely inappropriate,
and we did file a police report yesterday, but since
it was the day after the incident, we were at a
club and everyone was drinking despite not being wasted, we
were written off by the police. When her friend called
to tell us that they wanted to meet, we did
tell her that we had filed another report and her

(42:32):
response was, oh, that's going to help. You know, no
one is going to want to be friends with you
if you call the cops every time something happens. Right,
I do not care to be friends with people who
think that way anyway, so that doesn't bother me. But
the police told us that a restraining order would be
hard to grant given the situation.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Oh how.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
There's another edit here. I just I'm shocked at the
Uh oh you called the cops because I did on you. Well,
you realize being a narc makes you pretty unlikable, right,
No one's.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Gonna want to be friends with you.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure physically attacking people makes you pretty
unlikable too.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
I spoke with my husband at more length about the
phone call he received this morning. Her spin was that
she was sorry things are so afft up, and she's
concerned for me because now I have a problem with
her friend. It worries me that such a hateful, violent
person is now supposedly concerned for my safety. I know

(43:33):
nothing of that woman except her approximate age and name.
I wouldn't even recognize her if I saw her. And
there's an update? Is the restraining order still? And I'm
like thinking, if there's a way you can swindle this
person into like being in a situation where the courts
would have to grant you more serious restraining order.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Incredibly frustrating that that this keeps not going, Like restraining
ordering it through police report didn't get taken serious. You know, what,
what do you have to do to get this woman
away from you?

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:03):
I don't know, just like give her like full access
to like an array of sharp objects or dangerous weapons,
and like, I don't know, just like let her go
crazy on you. Then the cops will be like, well,
we can help you in now. Yeah. Now, see now
that all of the liquid in your body is leaking
out of you, we can't take her to jail crazy.
First things first, we decided not to meet with her,

(44:24):
and I'm still wondering why we even entertained the idea
as long as we did. The ex has continued to
bad mouth my husband forty nine mail and myself to
the people in her life, but that's nothing new and
we couldn't care less. It appears she still has people
monitoring our Facebook pages for her, and that didn't bother
me either, because we never post about her or really
anything personal other than updates on our house, cars and

(44:46):
events we're looking forward to. However, it all came to
a head this weekend. My husband occasionally shares those stupid
inspirational text meme things on Facebook, and he shared one
that said something along the lines of, if you want
to know something about my life, the best person to
ask is me. Apparently the ex got wind of this
post that was only on his page for five hours

(45:07):
and determined it was about her, some sort of direct attack.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
Oh no, no, of course she assumes it's about her,
because she's out here talking crap about his liar to
everyone who will listen to her.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
She's a freaking liar.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
A mutual friend of ours us and the ex sent
my husband a screenshot of her page which said something
along the lines of if you want to ask him
about his life, why don't you ask him about how
he likes to hurt women. I've never had a man
or couple so obsessed with me. I wish they would
leave me the heck alone. Let me reiterate, we avoid
her at all costs. We don't talk to people she's
within public, even if there are friends. We don't talk

(45:46):
about her to our friends. We don't ask anyone to
pick sides because most of the people in our lives
don't know about most of what was written in that
last post, which is your fault. Tell them, for God's say,
stand up for you. What if this was like felony allegations.
What if this was like yeah, and they dumped the
bodies in the marsh, would you still be like, well,

(46:07):
we just don't want to make people pig saws.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
With the friend. I don't know, like if I were
one of a piece friends, I would want to know
that this was happening. I would want to know that
like a person. If I was friends with the other
girl as well, I would want to know that she's
like crazy.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
And you know what, I blame this one though. I
can't even blame this because they're fifty. I was gonna
blame this on the school system, being like and if
you're getting bullied, you're both in trouble, because I do
think that, like so much passive behavior in relationships now
today is because of like certain things like that where
it's like, dude, I think if you're getting bullied and
you like defend yourself, I don't think that you should
get in the same amount of trouble as the person

(46:43):
bullying you at all, which is absurd, but it's that
kind of stuff. That teaches people that they should just
let it go. I would just don't get involved, don't
be passive, don't be active, and it's like, yeah, this
sounds stuff gets snowballs and gets out of control. Her
post was the straw that broke the camel's back. I
couldn't handle reading such awful things being said about my

(47:03):
husband for nearly two years now when none of it
is true. I copied everything I outlined in my previous
post here and modified it to be more appropriate to
people who knew her. I didn't call her by name
and stated that I would be removing any comments disparaging
to the x as I was not looking for gossip
and pitchforks, but to finally state our side since the

(47:24):
issue just hasn't gone away.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Well.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Someone sent her a screenshot of my post and everyone
who liked and commented on it, and she went totally postal.
She started messaging everyone who interacted with my post to
find out why they liked it or why they said
they supported us when it was obviously all lies. She
deleted everyone from her Facebook who would not tell her
that they would stop speaking to us, which is fine

(47:48):
by me, and I'm assuming those people are all right
with it too, as were adults, and no one should
be made to pick sides. That is not true. Sometimes
there are sides to be chosen. I think people didn't
pick sides in the Second World War. Very clearly, there
are sides, There are times to pick sides. Her main
claims are that she was the one who tried to

(48:10):
work things out and meet with us, and it's because
of us not speaking to her that this continues to
go on, and of course that we're the ones lying
about everything. We've skipped most of the events we were
looking forward to attending these last couple of months, and
we'll skip a few more. But we also bought pepper
spray to keep on me in public because she's just
not stable. The police were no help, but we're better

(48:32):
directed now on what to do if anything happens in
the future. Hopefully there's no more updates, and there's an
edit twenty five female forgot I had a birthday, and
there is a second update. Ooh, and it looks like
OHP is probably a lot younger than you thought.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
There were fifty Huh do you think they're a.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Fifty husband's fifty husband's forty nine? Okay, so there's an
age gap, which might again be driving how upset the
exes because it's like new hotness. Sure, you know, quote
unquote the police directed us what to do in the future. Yeah,
when she like stabs you call us.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Yeah, we can't really do anything until which is a
thing they can't do. They don't, well they can, but
they don't do anything unless you've been like literally stabbed,
Like they don't do anything about stocking situations. Just infuriating.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Yeah, and then they show up and they're like, Yay,
we're so excited for you. You can finally get that restraining order.
Let's get in the ambulance. We'll take you to the
hospital and get all those stab wounds stitched up, and
you're about to be five grand that's after insurance. Yeah, okay.
Update number two here. My husband and I took a
delayed honeymoon after our wedding, and as our train was

(49:38):
pulling out of the station, I got a call from
the police department. Turns out they had been in contact
with the X and the situation was moving forward. After
two months of not hearing anything from anyone in the
courts system, we kind of thought since the police were
no help that nothing happened or would happen, but we
were wrong the way where they were building a case.
The woman I spoke with told me that she'd been
given the opportunity to enter her plea and if she

(50:00):
pled not guilty to abuse, we would be going to court.
After that phone call, I've had zero communication from either
the police or the courts. We looked online that in
June she'd entered a not guilty please, so for all
we knew, we were going to court and we're awaiting
that phone call. In the interim, I started seeing a
counselor because I was having nightmares about her and about
court and about everything, and I was finding myself heavily

(50:23):
obsessing about the situation, trying to figure out why she
was acting the way she was. The counselor has been
very helpful in getting me to understand that you just
can't really figure out how and why crazy happens. It
just does comforting to know he didn't feel like I'd
blown things out of proportion. Last night, we looked online
again for an update to the court case, and as
it turns out, she changed her plea from not guilty

(50:45):
to no contest and the case is now closed. I'm
still a little surprised we didn't hear back from the
police or courts, but I don't care either way. She's
on probation until November and had to pay a fine
to the city, So no lawyer refees from me, no
court and no having to see her talk to this woman.
And again, thank goodness, I feel like a million tons
have been lifted from my shoulders. And uh, by the way,

(51:06):
you can listen to like a million stories when you
listen to full episodes with stories just like this on Spotify,
Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, wherever you listen to podcasts, just search
Okay story time and you can find the whole archive.
It's like sixty days where the stories stories. So your
ears are going to have a parade field day. They're

(51:27):
gonna be so happy. There's a little bit of story
left here. But you know, Sophia, do you have any
closing remarks here?

Speaker 3 (51:32):
I mean, like, thank god, they're finally you're finally getting
some sort of you know, ending resolution to this, because wow,
you have to go through a lot, and so did
your partner before anyone like started freaking taking it's serious
and can.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
We please like not ever think that someone actively stalking
us in the committing acts of violence against us and
us being like, hey, that's not cool. You're not overreacting. No,
if anything, you'll on and over underreacting.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
You guys underacted big time. Like like, you can tell
your friends, the friends because for a reason, and if
they side with her after finding out that you know
she did all that stuff, then not your friends.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Life has been great for us lately, started a new
car club. I've grown closer with a lot of people
who were more casual friends before, and are currently checking
items off of our list of dreams we didn't think
we were going to happen. It's amazing what a real
wake up call can do for your motivation for your future.

(52:35):
And that is the end of that story.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Here we go, Okay, well, I'm glad that there was
a resolution and you're seeing some you know change and
uh and some consequence is happening to this woman because
you didn't deserve any of that.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
That's frustrating, that is for sure. But that's the end of.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
That story, and the end of this episode, is it. Yep?

Speaker 2 (52:56):
So if you love us, make sure you subscribe.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
We love you and see you tomorrow.

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