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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, mister Redder here, welcome back to another episode
of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story we'll be reading today,
Karen promotes her MLM at my wedding. After that, am
I the jerk for using my daughter's college fund to
keep our dream house? And after that brother lied to
his pregnant wife about owning my house. Now, for every
thumbs up, this video gets one, Karen does not get

(00:22):
to promote her MLM at anyone else's wedding, but my
essential oils Reddit boy, So please smash that like button
and subscribe and turn on notifications for new stories from Reddit.
Every single day, Karen promotes her MLM at my wedding.
Hi twenty nine female married my wife in October last year.
Best day of my life. My sister who's thirty two, Bianca,

(00:45):
has been in an MLM for almost three years. She
has seriously become another person since she started her business.
We share some group chats, but there's not a day
that goes by that she doesn't send out catalogs, promotions,
and walls of text about how ducrative the opportunity is
about the topic. It was the beginning of the wedding
reception my wife and I are talking to some of

(01:07):
our guests when our wedding planner frantically approaches us and
tells us that there's a guest handing out MLM business
cards to arriving guests. Turned out it was Bianca. I
asked her to stop, and she did, except she spent
the whole night trying to talk people into the business
and the grand scheme of things. What Bianca did was
insignificant because my wife and I were very happy that

(01:28):
day and there were no major problems. But I still
get angry when I think about how uncomfortable it must
have been for the guests who were subjected to her presentation. Fortunately,
they graciously accepted our apologies. Every time my wedding is mentioned,
someone is sure to mention my crazy sister, who was
promoting her MLM so incredibly embarrassing. Bianca and I haven't

(01:48):
had a lot of contact since then. Yesterday my mom
called me and after a bit of catching up, she
told me my sister's business hasn't been doing very well
and she's been struggling to meet her monthly quotas, so
now she's behind on rent and needs money. Bianca asked
my mom for money, and she in turn asked me
to help her. I said absolutely not. She embarrassed me

(02:08):
at my wedding. She didn't even apologize, and I was
absolutely sure she was going to use the money I
gave her to get into another MLM now that this
one was no longer working for her. My mom said
that I'm cruel and rude. She said that she did
not raise me to betray my family. I told her
that she's just feeding my sister's fantasy world and making
her belief that at some point she's going to be

(02:29):
successful with her MLM.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Am, I the jerk. We're not on speaking terms right now.
Not the jerk.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Your sister's business isn't failing. She's just not able to
afford to continue being a customer in the pyramid scheme.
The sooner she hits rock bottom, the sooner she'll learned
she was taken advantage of, and people helping her slowing
her fall with money will only be brought down with her.
Not the jerk. MLMs are legalized scams. I made more

(02:56):
money trading during a stock market crash in a month
than my sister, who festered and won such scam for years.
Let your mom know that your sister's MLM is just
a money drainer, not the jerk. She doesn't have a business.
She has a spot at the bottom of the pyramid.
What she did or didn't do at your wedding is
actually irrelevant when it comes to whether or not you

(03:16):
should give her money so she can sync it into
this or another MLM so she can further fund the
dreams of her uplines. If your mom wants to help her,
she should help her.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Get out. You're the jerk.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I always laugh at how many of you bash MLMs.
I was in a nutrition based MLM for a few
years back in college, and I made around sixty K
a year from it.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
How did I do this?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
By simply doing what I was trained to do, selling
product and recruiting new members to join the company who
then had the same opportunity I had.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
It sure beat flipping.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Burgers, but I had to put in the work. I
was nowhere near the top of the pyramid, as you
call it, but I still made good money and learned
valuable skills in sales and networking that helped me land
my current career. MLMs are what you make of them,
and you get out what you put in. The problem
with most of you here on Reddit is that you
want to be handed everything for free without working for it.

(04:07):
You are the same ones who get a degree in
liberal arts, then get mad when nobody wants to hire
you and you refuse to pay your college debt. Then
the icing on the cake is you expecting your parents
to pay for the ridiculous degrees you get. Reddit is
like an instruction manual on how to end up sad, lonely, miserable, confused,
low iq, depressed, and very unsuccessful in life. Yauser, what's

(04:29):
wrong with this guy? It's almost like he thinks most
of the people on Reddit live in them mummy's basements
and don't have any real life experience. Oh you're wrong
for that one, Karen, Am I the jerk for using
my daughter's college fund to keep our dream house? I
fifty female, lost my husband four years ago. I also
have a sixteen year old daughter. My late husband left
me everything and told me to trust his lawyer. My

(04:52):
husband had worked for twenty years as a doctor and
did some minor investing, so I inherited over seven figures.
A year later, I decided to li our home of
twelve years and received an offer too good to refuse.
With the inheritance as well as the influx of cash
from selling the house, I decided to move my daughter
and I to Malibu because we always dreamed of a
home next to the beach, but my husband was exceptionally

(05:14):
tight fisted and called homes there money pits. We found
a beautiful home by the sea. I never personally handled
anything regarding buying a home before, so I did not
anticipate all of the extra costs beyond the sticker price.
But my daughter was so excited, so I decided to
go for it. My late husband's lawyer was furious at
my decision, so I decided to stop taking his calls.

(05:36):
I ended up signing with a money manager who said
we'd be passively earning ninety percent of what surgeons earned
per year. But the money manager ended up tanking a
lot of our investments. I took the dwindling money out
and made my own investments, which made it worse and
long story short. Because of all of that, I only
have around thirty five thousand dollars available to me now,
not to mention our debts. With the amount available to me,

(05:59):
I'm looking at only being able to pay one month
of a mortgage slash upkeep, and then I'm basically out
of my luck until my business gets clients. However, the
place where we do have a significant amount of money
is the fund my husband started for our daughter. With
the money there, I could prevent our credit cards from
being shut down and not have to worry about the
mortgage for many more months. So I ended up liquidating

(06:21):
my daughter's college fund. I told her about it today
and she was furious and said she can't believe all
of her dad's work is gone. She also said she
won't be supporting me for retirement. Am I the jerk
for trying to fix my mistakes and trying to keep
our house?

Speaker 2 (06:36):
You're the jerk.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
You decided not to listen to the lawyer, you decided
to move to an extremely expensive place, and you decided
to trust somebody's shady advice. Now you're taking away from
your daughter's chances of being able to go to college
loan free. That money is not yours. You should be
ashamed of yourself. You're the jerk. You made an extremely
poor financial decision and disregarded those around you who are

(06:59):
offering you more so on financial advice. Having a home
near the beach doesn't mean you need to move to Malibu,
but I digress. You are absolutely the jerk here. You
robbed your daughter of a chance to start her life
off comfortably and took money that was never intended for you.
Sell this god forsaken money pit of a home, get
somewhere you can actually afford, and take a class in
personal finance management. You're the jerk and also fabulously incompetent

(07:23):
with money. You will not keep the dream house. You
lack ability to earn enough money or to manage what
you have. Raiding her college fund will only delay the inevitable.
Sell the beach front house and move somewhere that you
can afford. Also, call the lawyer back, tell them that
you were wrong and made bad choices. Now you learned
and are asking for his advice on how to fix things.

(07:44):
Brother lied to pregnant wife about owning my house. So
I twenty seven male inherited my childhood three bedroom home
after my mother passed five years ago, along with a
good chunk of cash. I live in that home right now.
Not to brag, but it's a beauty full home.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
I have a half brother who we will call Blake.
Twenty six mail. We share the same father. He's also
passed on. Blake is a deadbeat. He can't keep a job,
jumps from relationship to relationship, makes excuses, and blames everyone
else for all of his problems, and he thinks the
world owes him everything. Just not really a good guy.
But with my parents gone, he's the only family I

(08:23):
have left, so I try to work around it. He's
been living with me for a year and a half now.
After getting kicked out of his own apartment for not
paying rent, he went and got his newest girlfriend, who's
twenty four, knocked up, and decided that meant they needed
to get married right away. They got married at our
local courthouse. Now I agreed to have her move in too.
She's carrying my niece or nephew, after all, It's been

(08:46):
three months since they got married and she moved in,
and she's been rude, demanding, and just outright the worst
the whole time. Originally I chalked it up to being pregnant.
But then one day she comes up to me and
tells me that I have to move out. I'm confused
and ask what she's talking about. She goes on about
how with the baby coming, it's time I leave, as

(09:06):
they need the space. I tell her she has no
right to kick me out of my own house. She
comments that since she married my brother, the house was
part hers now too, and it's weird to have your
husband's brother living with you and your kid. I realized
that she thought my brother owned at least part of
the house. I explained that she and my brother were
in fact living with me, not the other way around,

(09:27):
letting her know I fully own it and my brother
has no right to it, and neither does she. She
goes quiet and runs off. When my brother comes home,
they get into a huge fight and she leaves to
go to her mother's. My brother's mad at me for
telling her the truth. Honestly, up until this point, I
thought she knew. Now my brother claims he didn't tell
her he owns it, she knew the house was inherited,

(09:49):
and since we were brothers, she assumed he owned half
and he just never corrected her. My brother is now
demanding I give them the house because they need it
more with the baby coming. He thinks the least I
can do for ruining his relationship with his wife.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
I told him that.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Wasn't happening and informed him neither of them were welcome
in my home. He called me a bunch of names
and left. I believe he's staying with a cousin or
a friend.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I'm not sure. PS.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Some people were worried about them claiming squatters' rights or
tenant rights. We're not from America. Squatter's rights is not
a thing here. He also is not a tenant as
he's never paid rent, so there's no tenant rights either. Also,
I have cameras and my locks are being changed today.
I'm also having my boyfriend, who is a cop, staying
with me for a while. That's insane. Seems like your

(10:37):
brother wants to take the house from you. In cases
like this, you could never be too safe from family.
You offered your home, you allowed them to move in
without rent, and now they're trying to take your childhood home.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Be safe, o P.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Family disputes like these don't always end well. Am I
the jerk for not sending my daughter to a different
school district? I have three kids, Michelle who's seven, Juliet
who's six, Leo, who's two. Michelle and Juliet are in
kindergarten and first grade at our local public school. Juliette, however,
is very gifted. She came into kindergarten reading chapter books

(11:10):
and was doing math at a second grade level. She's
obviously doing grade academically, but struggles socially at her school
for a couple reasons. Firstly, she doesn't understand that other
people's brains don't work like hers, and tends to get
frustrated when people take a bit longer to figure things out. Second,
she's just a huge bookworm and would rather spend recess
reading instead of playing with the other kids. Then she

(11:31):
gets upset that she can't talk about her books with them.
I was recently called into a meeting about Juliette with
her teacher, the principal of her school, and the superintendent.
They basically said that they don't have the resources to
support Juliette in her school or any schools in the district.
But there is a school two towns over specifically for
gifted students from first to tenth grade, then for eleventh

(11:52):
and twelfth grade. They have a building at a community
college and she would be taking college courses for high
school and college credit. She would have to test into
the school, but her school will provide the testing. The
school sounds great for her, but it's close to thirty
minutes away from her current school. It starts and ends
forty five minutes later than her current school, so I'd
still be able to get her and Michelle's school on time,

(12:13):
but it would eat up the last two extra hours
of my day, and I don't have that kind of
time for school drop off and pick up, nor do
I have the patience to deal with a two year
old in the car for two hours per day. My
husband works in the opposite direction and wouldn't be able
to drop her off. We could ask my father in law.
He sometimes drives the kids around for me, but I
don't want him to have to drop off and pick

(12:34):
up two hours per day. My husband does not agree
with me at all. He thinks I should be willing
to make the drive for her and insists that I
have the time because I'm a stay at home mom.
I brought up the issue of having Leo spending that
much time in the car, but he says that I
could just have his parents babysit. I still don't think
it's worth the two hours per day that i'd have
to put in to take her to this school, so

(12:56):
I went through with enrolling her in our local public
school for next year and been as furious with me
for ignoring her social and academic needs. Am I the
jerk for not enrolling her in the gifted school because
it would take too much time to get her to
and from school.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
You're the jerk for.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Just saying no outright when you do have options to
make this work. You could at least have asked the
in laws if they'd be willing to help out, perhaps
with a combo of rides and babysitting. And you went
ahead and enrolled her in a different school against your
husband's wishes. That's messed up this. It sounds like you
didn't even ask her at all either. This is her
education that we're talking about. She might be pretty young,

(13:34):
but the entire point is that she has advanced and
not being challenged where she is. You're taking away the
opportunity for her to actually learn and move forward in
an environment that will challenge her, and instead you want
to leave her in one that's most likely going to
be boring and annoying, one where she doesn't seem to
fit in with her peers either. And all because you
don't want to drive a little more. Did you look

(13:54):
into any type of transportation, ask about school buses for
her or the other kids, See what other parents might
be able to help out, or the in laws you
decided you didn't want to inconvenience without even speaking to
you're the jerk. At least pretend to try before you
outright shut down this opportunity. Exactly, My mother ended up
arranging for me to carpool with other kids and even

(14:16):
teachers who live nearby, because we didn't have a car
and the school was an hour away. Op isn't trying
at all and doesn't care that her kid is going
to be so bored she's going to stop paying attention
entirely and end up falling behind as a result. So
instead of a prodigy, she's going to end up with
an angry and disillusion drop out. You're the jerk, Sorry,

(14:36):
but we sacrifice for our kids first and foremost. The
I don't have the patience comment pushed it over the edge.
So the people at your local school are telling you
that they cannot support your daughter there, and you're saying, okay,
well too bad, I can't be bothered to drive her elsewhere.
Being gifted is like having special needs. It's not about
her being better than the other kids. It's about needing

(14:58):
specialized teaching to thry at school. Put a gifted kid
into a normal class and they will be bullied and
turn into an underachiever. I agree with your husband. You're
the jerk, not the jerk. I'm so surprised by all
of these you're the jerks. I'm wondering how many of
them have kids and have to run a household ten
hours a week, forty hours a month in a car

(15:19):
while maintaining a house. No thanks, it's hard being a mom.
That's just going to up her stress level because she'll
feel behind on everything. Moms need to make the choices
of what is best for the family as a whole,
including herself. She said her daughter was having problems socializing.
Spending the time taking the daughter to social activities would
be a better use of the time. A kid's mental

(15:40):
health is just as important as their education. She should
consider working on her building strong social skills.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
No jerks here.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
You all want what's best for your kids, but your
husband doesn't seem to understand the extra labor that entails,
especially with a kid that's a lot of extra time
in driving. I feel like some people think that being
a stay at home mom is a super relaxing job
that's flexible and easily changed.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
But it's not.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
It's real work and requires energy and labor. If it
doesn't work for what you can handle during the day,
I think your husband should understand that or tell him
he's responsible for her getting to and from school as
far as finding arrangements to get her there if it's possible.
If not, then maybe now isn't the time to do it.
Hope you guys can come to an agreement. Best of
luck to your family. My wife took down a special

(16:25):
anniversary painting I bought her so she could display her
sister's basic drawing. My wife of five years is a
huge fan of Calvin and Hobbes. She's been since she
was a teenager. She's forty three now. She and I
have had a lot of issues in the past because
she in the past, before marriage, while we were dating,
would always prioritize her family, sisters and parents instead of

(16:46):
our relationship. Fast forward a lot of counseling time and
miles and here we are. For our anniversary. I bought
her a special one of a kind original painting. It's
one for one that we keep hung in our bedroom.
It's special because it's symbolic of each of us waiting
for the time and place that we found each other.
We found each other later in life thirty six and

(17:07):
thirty one. Fast forward to tonight. I walk upstairs and
I see that our painting is laying on one of
our dressers, and hung in its place is one of
her sister's paintings. She apparently painted this piece recently so
that it could hang in the bedroom of our ten
month old. A little bit of context. We have two kids,
a two and a half year old and a ten
month old. My wife had a previous Calvin and Hobbs

(17:29):
painting that her sister did, and it hangs in our
two and a half year old's room. Despite be voicing
my disapproval. After confronting my wife, she said that she
wanted to treat the boys the same, so her sister
painted another pick for our youngest son. Am I the
jerk for being mad that she took down our painting
to display her sisters? My wife claims that she just
wanted to remember her young years for a night, and

(17:51):
that she was planning on putting the drawing in our
son's room in the morning and putting our painting back
up on the wall. I'm furious and told her that
again she's picking her family over me. Out of all
of the possible places to hang this piece, she took
down a special sentimental piece. What on earth am I overreacting?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Edit? We're both female? Edit too.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Adding this information based on some feedback in the comment section.
Someone asked me why I didn't get along with her
family or something along those lines. This is what I responded.
She has so many other paintings her sister has made
for her or gifted her, scattered throughout the house, including
our bedroom. It was just this particular location that was
kind of our special altar, and it felt special to

(18:32):
me too because of the verbal feedback she had given
in the past.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
You're the jerk. She was switching around.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
The wall decor and you're projecting the issues you have
with her family onto this. You're the jerk. She wanted
to hang it for one night. You are completely overreacting.
It doesn't make your painting less special. She's allowed to
have sentimental attachment to multiple things. You're the jerk if
it's not about Uop, then it's automatically not okay, this

(18:58):
needs to be cross posted into a narcissist group. You're
mad that her sister did custom paintings for your kids,
That just automatically means your wife prioritizes her sister over you.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oof.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
And if this is just what you wrote from your
of you, I can only imagine what your wife would
actually write. It's just the ocean salt.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
This was a long time ago when the beaches in
Mexico were still decent and not ruined by hotels. Now
there were two beaches my family frequented as my grandmother
lived in town. We usually went to the further beach,
as it turned into basically a giant clam farm. When
the tide went down, my fifty billion cousins and I
would get buckets full. Then the grown ups would cook

(19:38):
them the next day. This was my favorite part, as
I was never fond of the ocean thanks Jaws. One year,
in my mother's infinite wisdom, we went to the closer
beach because they just didn't feel like driving to the
good beach. I, being a typical fourteen year old, started
whinding to my mom the minute I saw the first
of what would be many broken bottles. I wind about

(19:58):
the seaweed on the shore that was stinky and right
next to our setup. I tried to play in the sand,
but people kept throwing things, in one case, an entire
dog into my castle's Ultimately, I decided to get into
the water where my mom had gone, which is where
I made my mistake. After only a few minutes, I
began to feel something that hurt on my arm. I
saw a bunch of small fish around me, so I

(20:20):
dismissed it as the fish swimming by me. I went
over close to where my mom was and felt it again,
but now it kind of hurt for a bit. I
swished my arms around and it stopped, but I didn't
see anything besides the tiny fish. I told my mom,
I think something's biting me. My mom says, oh, that's
just the salt.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
You're fine.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
That's why I keep telling you to put lotion on
your skin is so dry. I've never been hurt by
salt before.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Mom.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Then just ignore it. There's nothing biting you. I know
you don't like this beach.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
But don't ruin it.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
We're just trying to enjoy the day, and no one
else is complaining about bites. I go into petty mode
and just stare at her as I remained perfectly still.
It didn't take long until I filt those bites again,
but now I was going to ignore it, so I
just stood there for several minutes, just staring at her
until the pain turned into burning and the burning turned
into agony.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Did I panic?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Nope, I ever so slowly got closer to my mom
until she got startled at how close. I was. Then,
like frozen molasses in January, I lifted my arm up
and said, hey, I caught some salt. There on my
arm was a bunch of what looked like brown and
white striped string, and it was burning the shape of
its body into my swelling arm. Right in front of

(21:32):
our eyes, a bunch of baby sea nettles jellyfish were
stinging me and were pretty much invisible until they were
out of the water. My mom swatted my arm and
shouted for everyone to get out of the water. It
wasn't a stampede of cousins or anything, but everyone looked
at me to see what had happened. We spent the
next hour wasting our popsicles on my arm as the
burning went on for quite some time. Of course, me

(21:54):
being me, I had to ask my mom if there
was salt in the popsicles. It didn't stop them from
going to that beach, but the next time they went
it was the season for the moon jellyfish, which wash
up on the shore and completely cover the beach, making
it really dangerous for kids and dogs to run around
on the time. After that, there were so many people
that my cousin almost stepped on a small pile of

(22:15):
broken bottles. I never went back. Neighbor trespasses on my
property and threatens to post a story about me on Reddit.
I'm posting this because I was told i'd end up
on Reddit, and my kids told me this is likely
what the person meant. So. I live in an area
that's seeing a lot of new builds. My husband and
I have the last large lot on our street. Lived

(22:36):
here for twenty plus years. Probably eight hundred people lived
here when we bought our house. Now it's over ten
thousand people. It's about one and a half acres. We
installed a big play area a few years ago for
our nieces, nephews and eventual grandkids. It's on the opposite
side of our lot. Pretty far away from the house.
There's a path that goes from our second driveway. It's

(22:57):
landscaped and we purchased it from a contractor who was
replacing some other park, so I can see how people
mistake it as a town park. This happens often that
people stop to play, and I usually don't care, but
we don't encourage it, as we have two giant dogs
who will bark at strangers who come in the yard.
I put up some blatant signs that say private property
and beware of dog. Right now, it's still cold here,

(23:20):
it's an early Friday morning, and I open the door
to let the dogs out. They stay in the yard
and ignore anything outside the yard. The dogs start barking.
I hear yelling. I run outside. There's a couple in
their kid playing on the playground. I call the dogs
back and put them in the house. I go over
to apologize and let them know it's not a public park.

(23:41):
As soon as I get with an earshot, the mom
starts yelling.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
What is wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
We're calling animal control on you. Whorettes. Their dogs just
run around a park.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Get a fence. I hate confrontation, so I get a
bit shaky. I tell her it's not a park, it's
my yard. She says, get out of here, get away.
I point to the signs and tell her again that
it's not a park, it's our yard and they need
to leave. She starts going off about how it's illegal
to leave a play area open. It isn't, and it's

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illegal to let your dogs off leash in this neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
It isn't.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
There are almost no bylaws here yet I tell them
again to just leave and that they weren't allowed to
be on our property. My dogs are in the big
window barking, and her husband is screaming that I should
train my dogs before they hurt someone. They're bread to
guard and detain intruders. Historically we don't train them as
guard dogs. This upset me more than anything, because I'm

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an irrational animal lover.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
I called the police.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
When they saw I was on the phone with the cops,
they started shouting about me being a Karen and.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Started getting in their car.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Their poor kid was crying, and the woman said, watch
what happens when you end up on vettit and we
tell people where you live, so here you go read it.
My kids checked and didn't find anything about it here,
so I'll post it first, and I hope she does
post something. I'm sorry my dog's scared them, but the
screaming and threatening was so over the top and honestly deranged.

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My kids want me to end this by asking if
I'm the jerk because I'm old and I want people
to get off by lawn. Everyone is saying install a fence,
but that would cost fifteen thousand dollars. I've just contacted
a company about getting a gate for our second driveway. Also,
where we live, you can't sue someone if they're trespassing
on your private property. Suing people isn't something people can

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easily do here, and usually it's not for any big settlement.
Before you comment about attractive nuisance law, it doesn't exist here.
I don't want to say where I am, but it
isn't the US or anywhere close.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Not the jerk.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
If it's your property, it's your property. That woman was
obnoxious and it's her fault that her kid was crying.
I would install a privacy fence and lock it, Opie.
I would love to install a fence, but it would
cost upwards of fifteen thousand dollars. I think after this
we'll at least get a gate for the second driveway.
Doesn't have to be a pretty fence. You could do

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the equivalent of a deer fence for a couple of
hundred A bunch of metal fencing poles you simply hammer
into the ground, and a roll of wire garden or
deer fencing you unroll and tie to the metal poles.
Then you can put signs on the fencing. Private property,
not a public park. Am I the jerk for throwing
out my husband's dinner after he went to eat at
his mom's house. My mother in law calls every night

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to ask what we're having for dinner. Then she brags
about what she's cooking to make me look bad, especially
if we're getting takeout.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
I used to care, but not anymore.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
But my husband would ask me to make dinner, only
for him to go eat the dinner his mom makes
at her home, which is ten minutes away, and using
the that's my favorite meal excuse. Yesterday, I wanted to
surprise him by cooking one of his favorite meals, and
although I was busy, I took time off work to cook.
I even went grocery shopping to get what I needed later.
As I was setting the table, his mom called. I

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told him he didn't have to answer, but he did.
Like usual, she asked what we were having A did
surprise that I cooked this meal. She then went on
to tell him that she cooked X meal and told
him to come over. He said okay, which shocked me.
I said seriously as he started dressing up getting ready
to leave. He told me no offense, but this meal

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that his mom cooked was even more of a favorite
one than the one I cooked, and grabbed his keys
and he left. I felt awful. I took his plate
and threw it out, then ate my portion. As I
was about to put the plate in the dishwasher. He
got home, looking angry, saying his mom lied about cooking
that favorite meal and used it as an excuse to
force him to eat dinner with her. I was shocked,

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but he sat down, telling me to go ahead and
reheat dinner. I told him, no dinner. After he abandoned it,
I threw it out.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
He said what, and.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
I told him he disrespected my time and effort and
chose to go eat with his mom instead. He began
yelling at me, asking if I really did that, then
called me petty and horrible, then went upstairs saying what
I did was one hundred times worse than what his
mom did. I definitely feel like I let my anger
and frustration get the best of me, but it really
felt unbearable having to live like this for so long.

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By the way, I'm twenty six and he's twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
ETA.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
To make one thing clear, and that's the fact that
my husband only does this when it comes to food.
He lived with his mom, attended community college, and loved
and still loves her food.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
And is used to it.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
She gave me recipes to make and I try to
do that, but he keeps switching homes just to eat
what he feels like.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Not the jerk.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Your husband can either commit to eating at home with you,
tell you well before dinner that he's eating with his mom,
or he can make his own meals until he starts
regularly making a choice to be home or go, with
enough time for you to plan and prep your cooking,
cook enough for only you. He's on his own ETA.
I wasn't going to say because I feel it's obvious,
but I can't help myself. This is much larger of

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an issue than dinnertime. There's a profound lack of respect
in your relationship. Husband needs to snip the apron strings
at the very least, but really needs to spend some
serious time thinking about what a marriage and partnership actually means.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Not the jerk. Stop cooking for him.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Tell him how you felt when you made the effort
to prepare a nice meal and he decided to eat
at mom's. If he continues to do it, you won't cool.
I also suggest a compromise. Pick two nights a week
that he eats with his mom. If she calls on
other nights at the last minute, he can gracefully decline, sorry,
my wife has dinner taken care of. I'll see you
on Thursday. If she particularly wants to have him there

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for a certain holiday or anniversary, she should ask well
before that day arrives. You should consider asking her doctor
to evaluate her for dementia because her behavior is weird.
My aunt passed of Alzheimer's last week, but she did
something similar. She would call and lie to get attention.
I haven't seen anyone all day. There's no food in
the house. None of this was true. She lived in

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a mobile home next to her daughter her sixteen year
old grandkid stayed over every night in case she needed
assistance at night. The family brought her food regularly. She
had meals on wheels for lunch, and her daughter made
breakfast every morning and sent dinner. She was surrounded by
people who cared about her, but if she was left
alone for ten minutes, she whipped out her phone and
started making these crisis calls. By the time we arrived,

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she forgot she had called. Your mother in law should
be evaluated for a neurological or mental illness. Her behavior
may not be able to be changed, but there are
treatments available. Karen makes a fuss over my plane seat,
then insists that I pay for her to move. So
this happened back in January of twenty eighteen, so my
memory may be a bit fuzzy. So I'm a twenty

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three year old man who usually visits my parents and
siblings for Christmas and New Years because that's the only
time I can see them. So I'm in the airport
waiting to board my flight as I see a woman
getting angry because her kids were tired and wanted to
get on the plane. I think nothing of it and
hope she's not set near me. No, she was at
my gate as I was approaching my seat, an aisle

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seat in business class, because I knew it would be
smarter than asking people to stand up so I can
get to the bathroom. When I get to my seat,
I see one mother and two kids, one in my seat.
I tell them that's my seat. She's visibly upset at
that statement and snaps back, no, it's not jerk me.
Not wanting to have a fight on the plane, I
grab the attention of the flight attendant and I show

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her my boarding pass. So the flight attendant asks her
to move from my seat. Politely, and being asked to move,
set off the Karen in a raised voice, this is
my seat.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
I paid for it, so buzz off.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
The flight attendant, still being polite, asked to see the
boarding passes to check the seats. The entitled mother pulls
two out for the seats next to mine. The flight attendant,
slightly less kind says, ma'am, these are only two boarding passes.
Where's the third one? The mother, thinking she's smart, says,
I must have dropped the third one, so I.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Can't give it to you.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
So this causes me to butt into the conversation and
say that I have the boarding pass.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
For that seat because it's my seat.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
You should have seen the look on her face because
she then shouts out, give me my boarding pass, you jerk.
I'm confused why she's so delusional at this point, because
it's obviously my ticket since I bought it. The next
part was back and forth arguing, which I can barely remember,
but from what I do remember, it was the flight
attendant saying that I clearly paid for this seat as
it had my name on the boarding pass, and her

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arguing for a few more minutes before stopping grinning, and
she said, well, if you want me to move so bad,
how about you paid to upgrade me and my kids
to first class. I responded by saying, miss, I only
have a business class seat because I do a trip
like this once a year, so I tend to be
comfortable during a flight, and I don't have the funds
for three first class tickets. The flight attendant then says

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to the Karen, either you or one of your kids
will have to move, or else we will have to
remove you from the flight. Then, without holding back, she screeches,
if I leave, he's going to hurt them. Me and
the flight attendant are physically taken aback by hearing this.
After that, I stopped trying to be nice and responded,
get out of my seat and never make those claims again,

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you self centered jerk. The flight attendant tries to call
me down and calls for security. In the end, the
Karen and her kids were escorted off the plane, and
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You won't believe what Karen does in that one.