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Episode Date: July 1, 2023

People who didn't know their relationship was definitely already over... 0:00-1:28 Intro 1:29-7:13 I unionized with my dog https://www.reddit.com/r/pettyrevenge/comments/12yr8tz/i_unionized_with_my_26m_dogs_against_my_boyfriend/ 7:14-14:36 My wife shouldn't attend a wedding https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/141hv1i/aita_for_telling_my_wife_she_shouldnt_attend_a/ 14:37-23:43 Just wanted to get to know her https://rareddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/13xtvuq/aita_for_taking_the_longer_route_to_spend_more/ 23:44-30:32 Making fun of my gf's fanfiction https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/12juqgd/aita_for_making_fun_of_my_girlfriend_for_writing/ 30:33-40:40 My bf wants to be a streamer https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/13sct2c/aita_for_telling_my_boyfriend_that_his_dreams_of/ 40:41-1:03:25 Husband is cheating with my bff https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/141c8bz/my_husband_is_cheating_on_me_with_my_best_friend/ 1:04:00-1:14:00 Didn't host a party so I could play TOTK https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/13g9zy1/aita_for_not_hosting_a_party_my_wife_planned/ WEAR OUR JOKES: https://smosh.com WHO YOU HEAR Courtney Miller // https://www.instagram.com/co_mill/ Shayne Topp // https://www.instagram.com/shaynetopp/ Trevor Evarts // https://www.instagram.com/trevorevarts/ WHO YOU DON’T HEAR (usually) Director: Kiana Parker Editor: Kevin Plachy Director Of Programming, Smosh Pit: Kiana Parker Pit - AP: Kimmy Jimenez AD: Jacqi Jones Art Director: Cassie Vance Art - Asst Dir.: Erin Kuschner Art Coord.: Alex Aguilar Audio Mixer: Greg Jones Camera Operator: Vida Robbins Camera Operator: Darren Kho Content Manager: Lizzy Jones Dir. Audience Dev & Distro: Rachel Evans DIT/AE: Matt Duran Dir. Of Photography: Brennan Iketani GFX: Brittany Hobbs Post Manager: Luke Baker Production Coord: Heidi Ha Production Asst: Marcus Munguia Production Manager: Jacqi Jones Sr. Dir. Of Production: Zoe Moacanin Talent Coord: Selina Garcia Wardrobe Supervisor: Alicia Balderas OTHER SMOSHES: Smosh: https://smo.sh/Sub2Smosh Smosh Games: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshGames El Smosh (Spanish Dub): https://smo.sh/Sub2ElSmosh FOLLOW US: TikTok: https://smo.sh/TikTok Snapchat: http://smo.sh/OnSnapchat Instagram: https://instagram.com/smosh Facebook: https://facebook.com/smosh Twitter: https://twitter.com/smosh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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mythical kitchen. Hello, hi. Hi. So glad you're here, dude. Us three have done it by the asshole before, but on Twitch. Oh shit. Way back, the O G. I just like walked in.

It wasn't like planned or anything. I think I was actually supposed to be working and then I joined your chat and I was like, hi guys, and you're like come over. You're probably supposed to be working right now over there but yeah whatever. Well you were great then I think it's gonna be great now. I'm excited. You're a Reditor. Whoa whoa pause. You're a Reddeter. I'm a Redditor so it's fine it's I it's okay. Um... I'm a Reditor, so it's fine. It's okay. Um, uh... Do you scroll, do you, do you ever visit Am I the Assu-Hol in these types of subredits? I actually don't go on Reddit.

I really am not, like, I never scroll on Reddit. I've tried to like, really get off of the internet. That's awesome. Other than like a professional standpoint, like, that's awesome. Yeah, so Reddit definitely like, I was just reading it and I was like, this is not doing anything good to break my brain. I was just melting my brain into a puddle. Most Redditors would be like, yeah, for sure.

Yeah. Awesome. All right. Well, let's hop into our first story here. This comes from the subreddite Petty Revenge, which is always solid. Those are always fun. I, 26-year-old male, unionize with my dogs against my boyfriend, a 30-year-old male.

Okay. I was told to post here from Am I the asshole. Background, my boyfriend, E. and I have been together for four years. Whenever I would come over when we were dating, his, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, th. th. th. th. th. to. to. to. to, to. to. to, to, to, to, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tho, tho, th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the, the, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, the toe. tho. tho. thoooooooooooooooo theeeeeeeea. thooooooo. thoo. tho. tho. tho. th have been together for four years. Whenever I would come over when we were dating, his apartment was messy, but it was blamed on his roommates. I'm very cognizant that I am particular in cleaning, so I thought it just wasn't clean enough to my standards. So I moved in with him three years ago and adopted two dogs together. I quickly realized we do not have the same view on what clean is. We have communicated about it and he has made a lot of progress. But he consistently does one thing. Stuffs his colored striped socks into the couch.

I have told him that I have had to chase the dogs around because they find them in the couch. He thought it was funny. Over the last few weeks, I have bought multiple cloth dog toys resembling his socks and have trained my dogs to play tug of war with them. They will now dive for them whenever he's laying on the couch and places them on the ground to pick up later. I also do not stop them. I also do not stop them. I also do not stop them. I told him they were the socks he stuffed in the couch yesterday and he should have put them in the hamperper. the the the the the the the the the, he.mperperperper. I. I. the, he. the, he, he, he, he, he, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th, tho, thi, thi, tho, tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. th. th. the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, the, the, the, theeea, thea, thea, thea, thea, thea, thea, thea, thi, the, them. I told him they were the socks he stuffed in the couch yesterday and he should have put them in the hamper. He stormed off to his office and is not talking to me. Am I the asshole? Edit my dogs do not ingest the socks. They used it as a tug-of-war object using this example when the pair individually ripped in half, they were no longer interested in it. Pretty clever.

I think this is hilarious. It's definitely funny. That's so silly to, and also to expect your partner to support your bad habit by like, so say I'm stuffing socks in the couch and then my partner doesn't stop the dog from ripping up the socks, like, that's not their fault. That's not right. Yeah, that's what's interesting. I love how they phrased it.

I know, I was like, what is happening here? Yeah. I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around someone who stuffed socks in the couch and won't pick them up. Where does it go? And it seems like a lot of effort. Like, I get like if you just put him on the ground. Or even threw him under the couch, but even that, I don't know. And it was his favorite pair of socks.

I'm like, when do you wash them and re-wear them? Yeah. Like does he stuff them and then maybe picks him back up? And he's like, ready for work? Socks and then like, yeah. And so O.P. trained the dogs to rip up the socks. Yes. Genius. Which is pretty genius. He should just never tell the boyfriend that he did that.

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puts them up. After a few weeks he won't even need a treat anymore and will be happy just hearing the same argument in different flavors. That's a good point. Yeah. If that's the one thing, it's kind of like, but I feel like that's pretty reflective on probably. It's also a weird hill to die on. Let me stuff my socks on. Let me stuff my socks, let me stuff, let me throw, let me, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th, th, the, th, the, the, the, th, the, th, the, the, th, the, the, the, th, the, th, tho, the, the, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th. That, th. That's, th. That's, th. That's, th, th, th, th, th, the, th, the, the, th, the, th, th, th, and, th....... And, th.. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. I, tho, tho, and, and, tho. thoooooooooooooooooo. th. thoooooooooo. th. th. tho. the couch you're chilling you're like oh I kind of want to take my socks off but I don't want to like

get up and go all the way to the bedroom you take them off you throw them on the ground I don't know you stuff in between the cushions but like what person doesn't just like oh okay time to go to my bedroom get throwing stuff on the ground and if you're busy, like not picking that up for a day or two. Yeah. Like people, I feel like a lot of people do that. But it's the effort. There's effort in that. It's a very childish thing.

It's not lazy. He's doing more work. And he's lucky that the and they would pass the sock. And there would be a poopie sock in the backyard. Oh my God. It's crazy. So they're lucky. That could put a dog's health in jeopardy and they're lucky that it hasn't yet.

Yeah. I'm also a believer of like in a relationship, like having similar cleanliness is like huge. Like if two people who are like both love to stuff socks in the couch then it's great like that'll work out but if if people have very differing views on cleanliness I I'm a personal believer of just like that's gonna come to a head at some point. Yeah O.P. already made compromise When they moved in because they already knew like, oh, my standard of cleaning is different. And they compromise living with this person.

It's such a small boundary to set. Yeah, because he could stuff socks, maybe if he had his own personal space. Like, but it's the living room couch. That's like a community space. I don't know. Funny, uninize with your dogs. Guys, with your dogs. Guys, it's good. Unionize with your dogs.

Okay. This one's going to be interesting. Am I the asshole for telling my wife she shouldn't attend a family wedding if I'm not invited? Last weekend, my wife received an invitation to her eldest sister's wedding. The invitation states that she and our three children are invited with no mention of me. Four seats have been reserved in honor of wife, child, child, and child. I was insulted and thought my wife would agree that that is rude, but after she spoke to her mother to clarify if I really wasn't invited, she said she is still planning to attend.

I said it wouldn't be fair for her to go without me and that I don't give consent for my children to go without their father. She said I'm being unreasonable as her nieces and nephews will be there and it's a big family event. My argument is that if it's so important the whole family attends, then I should be invited. If not then, it can't be that important and she shouldn't go. Who's the asshole here? So the verdict is... So why wasn't he invited? We don't know.

He just wasn't invited. Okay. That's all we... We know that the wife and three children were invited, but not the dad and he's pissed about it. He's saying, none of you should go if I'm not invited. The verdict, though, is asshole. There's an edit here.

Okay, I get it. I'm in the wrong. I'll let my kids go. Everyone can stop hounding me about old mistakes that I've already thoroughly repented for. Whoa. Wait a lot of repented. I have gone to hell and back. What? Okay so hold on. I guess O.P. Oh, that. Oh, tho. to a lot of interactions with people in the comments. And we got all the context we need from it. So commenter, info, so why weren't you invited? O.P.

My friendship with my in-laws has been strained over the years and they don't make an effort to include me or visit us anymore. Commenter, why is it strained? O.P. They felt they had a say in the future of my marriage when me and my wife hit a rough patch almost 10 years ago. I thought we'd put it all behind us. Then in 2020, they all cut me out after a disagreement.

Commenter, what sort of rough patch? Were they supporting her in an unsafe or unhealthy situation? OP, nothing like that. There was an issue of chronic infidelity on my part that we have dealt with as a couple and moved forward from. Around that time, they also decided they didn't like an arrangement my wife and I had, which is that she worked for my company off the books. My business now makes enough to pay the the the the the the th th th th th th. th th th th th. th th th th th they also decided they didn't like an arrangement my wife and I had, which is that she worked for my company off the books. My business now makes enough to pay her a salary, so that's not an issue anymore, but things were difficult

when trying to get the business off the ground. Edited to add, since everyone is grabbing it, straws, the infidelity was almost 10 years ago and my wife and I got past it and went on to have to have children and until recently the family had been fine to keep things amicable. Commenter, info, what was the disagreement? Was it related to your past unfaithfulness? OP. No it wasn't. It was related to me calling out my wife's younger sister for causing drama in the family. Admittedly it got out of hand on both sides, but before I had a chance to to to to to to to to the the to the the the to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. th. th. th. th. thi. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the family the. the family the. I thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean. toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooeee. the. th drama in the family. Admittedly, it got out of hand on both sides, but before I had a chance to apologize, the whole family had blocked my number and told my wife to keep things separate going forward. They force her to act like a single mother having to split holidays and

Christmases with the kids between me and her family, rather than just swallow their pride and choose unity. Oh, God. Look, I'm firmly a believer that almost every Reddit story is missing a lot of information. And it's still missing it, because I'm excited the commenter to be like, info, what was the drama that the game was started up. So I let their house on fire. Okay, like, I just feel like, this guy, I, see, know, I don't like off the bat that he went and he posted this, leaving out so much information to just, on purpose, just try to make his wife

look bad and just get a bunch of people on the internet to be like, yeah, man, you got fucked over when he absolutely knew the reasons. And it's, dude, like, if I was someone's parent and they were with someone like that, I totally get that, I totally get that you would not want to see that person at a wedding. No, this guy sounds like the worst person, like, well, a pretty shitty person. Yeah, well, I'm paying her off the books.

And also, like, she's going to her sister's wedding, right? It's her, yeah, it's her sister's wedding and he's like, you can't go. I declare that you and the children can't go. It's like, dude, like, come on. Why? Because of some random stuff. Because of some random stuff. Chronic infidelity is a new term. Chronic. He's got the chronic.

He's chronic infidelity. He can't control it. It just happens. It's an invisible illness. He used the word chronic, which is the funniest thing. He could have just said infidelity. He could have just said infidelity. He did say chronic infidelity.

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not genuinely apologized and like done the work to fix this. His, her family does not think so. But if he really is like, they should choose Unity, he's actively choosing to have the divide split further. No, we'll get the kids involved and they can't see your family. by you're like, no, we'll get the kids involved and they can't see your family. Chronic infidelity, chronic asshole. Yeah.

All right, let's move on. Am I the asshole for taking the longer route to spend more time with her? Okay, interesting. I hate, okay, so pause. It's funny. In these stories, I feel like the ones that have the most innocent titles ever always have the most messed up shit. They're most insane.

It's like, am I the asshole for taking the longer ride? It's like that sounds so innocent and it's just going to be the most sociopathic-like activities. Yeah, let's go. All right, so you already think this person's an asshole. I do. Am I the asses for taking for taking for taking for taking for taking for taking th for taking for taking for taking for taking thing thing thing thing thing thing thing thing thi thi thi thi thi taking the longer route? Absolutely! No, you need to say some fucked up shit in the title. Okay, here we go.

I, a 19-year-old male, work a full-time job in the tech industry. My role is 100% remote, so I rarely have a reason to go outside. However, after recording data on my personal life, I concluded that my social life was in a poor state. As a result I I I I I I hobbies that would allow me to befriend people my age and meet women. One such hobby led me to connect with a group of physically active young adults. I was instantly taken by a woman, 22 female, a mirror in the group.

She is slim with a small waist and perfectly round breasts. No! The cherry on top is her face. Her sense of humor is rather childish, but I was still fascinated. One morning, six of us went hiking together. We decided to hold a mini competition. We'd go off into pairs and choose three different routes to complete the trail. Whichever pair completed the trail first would be crowned the winner. I knew the route well as I had studied the area the night before. However, Amira wasn't familiar with the trail at all. I volunteered to be her guide and companion for the competition. Our only aid was physical maps. As soon as we embarked on

the journey, I decided that it would prove fruitful to seize this opportunity to get to know her. I purposefully chose a long complex detour so we could spend more time together. At the start, we made a great conversation and I found out a lot about her. However, as time went by, she grew more frustrated. She kept looking at the map and insisting we're going the wrong way. I told her that the maps were not accurate as they didn't account for path closures and other factors.

This was not the toilet. We did find a place and she could relieve herself and this seemed to have given her some peace. After about six hours, the trail itself was roughly three hours, we started making our way back. Amira had already communicated with the group and began accusing me of taking unnecessary detours. I simply pointed out her desirable physical features and the impact they have on me. I thought she would be pleased to hear these compliments, but she was not.

She told me to stop describing her at all and that she doesn't want to hear about my biological responses. Ah! She did not speak to me for the rest of our journey. I've since been kicked out of the group. In, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, and, and, and, the group, and, and, the group, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the the the, and, the, the the, the, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tha, the the the tha, the the thea, thea for the rest of our journey. I've since been kicked out of the group. In fact, everyone in the group has labeled me all sorts of things. Amira described me as a selfish, weird asshole and asked me to stay far away from her.

I suspect these feelings are temporary and born out of confusion more than anything. Am I the asshole for attempting to nurture our connection with the landscape serving as a beautiful backdrop to what could have been? Or should I have not used this particular activity to carry out my plan? I rest my case. Oh. Dude, the red flag for me in the title was when he said, with her? I'm like, oh, this man thinks he's like poetic as fuck and he's got a distorted outlook on this situation. Yeah, I, you know, I have a pretty strong stance on lying,

and so any sort of lying, there's a lot. This was technically, no, no, no, no. But I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say lie, like, if, let's take out everything else. Sure. Let's take it, I'm saying this person's the asshole just for lying and it's like if you take a detour because you want to hang out with a person. This was technically kidnapping, bro. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I hate how right you were. I knew as soon as you read the title. I was like, this is about to be insane. Weird, insane. I, the, the descriptions in here, so he got out into the middle of the woods and then described what he liked about her physical features. And how his body responded to that.

Do you, oh, so, yeah. Oh, my God. I, I do not want to think about how he described her to her to to to to to to to to to to to to to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, weird, to, weird, to, to, weird, to, weird, weird, toe, toe, toe, weird, weird, weird, weird, toe, weird, weird, toe, weird, weird, weird, weird, weird, weird, toe, weird, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, their toe, to be to be to, to be to, to, to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the them. Do you, oh so, yeah, oh my God. I do not want to think about how he described her to her face because his descriptions on Reddit are pretty rough. Oh my God. It's always like you say when the O.P. is always trying to tell the story in their best light possible. So we don't really, like, imagine how even worse, even weirder and creepier it was. Because the fact that she was right at the bat, like started accusing him, like eventually started accusing him of detours and stuff.

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good memories and it he put it he was doing some of the right things like he and it's right when you when you pursue friends you don't need to turn those friends into potential partners not every person that is a gender that you're attracted to is an opportunity but when you make friends friends set their friends up with people like there is every opportunity it requires patience he's 19 I wish I could go back to when I was 19. And reach out more and go to more groups and try more experiences with the mindset of like, I just want to meet people and just connect with people and trust that it will happen. Like it will happen.

But, and I fear that this guy has fallen very victim to a lot of what the internet and the manosphere tells you, which is like, be direct, like, know what you want, say the thing, and it's wrong. Yeah, be direct and gaslight women. Yeah. No, this story made me want to throw up on his pillow. It's a good pillow. All right, let's move on because the comments they read it declared what they thought.

Here we go. Am I the asshole for making fun of my girlfriend for writing fan fiction and claiming its actual writing? Oh. Okay, I haven't read this. I've read similar. I've read similar titles. My girlfriend, Abby, who's 31 and I, a male 33, have been together for a few months and this Easter I was going to introduce her to my family. We haven't moved in together yet. Abby is quite smart. She has a PhD and works in her field. I only have a BA so you can imagine my surprise when a

hot and smart woman wanted to date me. Anyway, I digress. Abby's passion is writing, although she's never allowed me to read anything she wrote. She dreams of writing a book and says she's practicing and trying to draft things. One day, I was staying over and fell asleep and she went to her office to write. When I woke up, I peered over her shoulder when she was writing, and saw names that sounded familiar. I asked her about this, and sure enough she admitted to writing fanf. F, already wrote a 100K fan fiction, probably 100,000 word, just a big fan fiction, and is working on her third one. She says it's writing practice and she loves it. I told her it's cringy and if she was serious about her book, she'd write it by now because she's pretty much already wrote two books if only they weren't fan fiction. She got silent and told their their their she their she their she their she thiiii, thi, she thi, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's thi, she's thi, she's thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, th, tho, tho, tho, tho, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thr-a, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thi, two books, if only they weren't fan fiction. She got silent and told me to leave her alone.

When I introduced her to my family, I mentioned that she has a PhD. My brother and sister got impressed and asked about it. Abby tried to tell them, but I interjected and told them to not be so impressed because she was waists her time writing silly, so I don't know how she even got her doctorate. It was meant to be a joke, but Abby was angry. I wonder why I did... She called me an asshole, she wouldn't talk to me for the rest of the day, and asked me to drive her home. I tried to come in, but she told me she wanted to be alone and write her fanfiction.

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But I've read some bad fan fiction and I've read some good fan fiction. And like, I think that's really awesome, if that's how that person wants to practice writing. And you know what's really fucked up to me is she didn't want to show him. This this this this th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thus th. thus, thus, thus, thus, thus, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the only the only the only the only the only the only the only. the only. the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. theeea. thea. thea. thea'' thea' thea' thea' thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi.'s really fucked up to me is she didn't want to show him. This was her thing that she was working on. He stumbled upon her doing it. It's not like she finally decided to be confident enough to show him. He happened to see it and then was negatively judging her. Well, and may I point out,

she says it's writing practice and she loves it. She acknowledges, like this is just practices. Yeah. It's a hobby. You ought to do whatever the fuck you want for a hobby. She wasn't comfortable enough to share with him and she had good reason because when he happened to see it he was an asshole. Jesus Christ. Yeah. What is this guy doing his free time? It makes me so sad how many like stories you hear like this where someone is just so unsupportive of like their partner and like their passions like it would be so demoralizing if like the person that

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it childish. That is, that is a way to get broken up with. Cringe. That's somehow the worst thing you could say. And to then introduce her to your family and then hang her out for her family and try and get them to judge her in the same way. Like, I've experienced similar stuff that was declared emotional abuse and like that's, it's messed up.

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That would be just devastating. Okay, let's see the comments. You're the asshole. You can imagine my surprise when a hot and smart woman wanted to date me. We're surprised too. But thankfully, she's seen the light and broken up with you. Oh, someone else responded to that comment saying, thinking you're still dating somebody who has clearly broken up with you is certainly more cringe than writing fan fiction.

Someone else said, you're the asshole and this post reeks of jealousy. You try to dismiss the work she put in to earn her PhD because you don't like what she writes. Who made you the writing police? Yeah, man, no, like right? It's, it's, it sucks. And I want to declare, like, to to to to to their a a their their their their their their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, to, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. thi, th. thi, th. thi, thi, th. th. th. Someone, th. Someone, th. Someone, th. Someone, th. Someone, th. Someone, th. Someone, th. Someone, th. Someone, th. Someone, th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. to, to, toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. Someone, toe. Someone toe. Someone else, toe. Someone else, th. th. Someone else th. Someone th. Someone th. Someone it sucks. And I want to declare like, fan fiction is real writing. Like, I understand you can't, there's copyright issues, you can't publish that. But like, as a practice, it's great. Yeah, there are very many successful websites that are fully, like, built by the authors on them that write fan fiction. I am certain most published authors would say, like, that's real writing. Like, that is, you're pouring your heart into it,

and you're putting your mind and heart into it, it's real. And people make money off of it too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

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Four days are a regular appointment schedule while the final two days of the work week are walk-in days for people who want something faster than usual without having to set up a time. On top of setting up and closing the shop every day, I drive 45 minutes to work and then 45 a few hours. We are busy constantly throughout the week. I only have one day off and I usually end up spending it cleaning the house, cooking or doing anything else needed done. My boyfriend on the hand is trying to become a successful Twitch streamer and YouTube. He started around four years ago. He has a few dozen followers on both platforms and usually has around two to five viewers for each stream or video. It's gotten pretty bad in the past two and a half years or so, though.

He streams while I'm at work and that that'll usually be an 11 to 13 hour stream a day depending on what he does. His life revolves around content creation now. He wakes up to stream, then spends all day streaming a game and then uploads it to YouTube. The other problem with it is that in the four years he's thi years to do this he hasn't worked a single job. He's unemployed. No single donation or any monetary expense has come from his endeavor. He literally does nothing but stream. He quit his floor manager job at Walmart to become this. I've talked to him recently about maybe cutting down the hours on his stream so he has time to do stuff around the house, spend time with me, or better his health. He doesn't even eat unless I remind him when I get home late.

It's literally hurting him. I also explained that maybe he should think about getting a new job, so I'm not the only one paying all the bills or groceries. I'd like help of any kind. I can't do all of this alone anymore. Each one of these talks has to tha, the, the, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the, the, and, the, the, and, the, to, to, to be, to be, the, the, and, to be, to be, too, to me, to me, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, toe, and, thi, and, and, thi, and, and, the, and, and, the, the, and, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is a a the the the the the the the the the thi.i.i, is a thin, too, t t t t together, t t together, too, t too, too, is a too, too, too, is a t t t t. Each one of these talks has turned into a fight between us. He will get super defensive about it and tell me off. He tries to convince me that I don't understand his lifestyle and that I don't know how hard it is to be a content creator.

It's gotten more and more heated. He'll have a tantrum and go back to his up told him his dreams of being a successful streamer or content creator of any kind, we're never going to work out the way he thinks they are. He doesn't seem to understand that the hours he's putting in are doing more harm than good. For us and him, he had another tantrum and promptly told me he wanted a break from the relationship. We aren't talking and now he's doing nothing but the same usual routine, am I the asshole? Uh, yeah. You know, I will say like we did Twitch for a while. It's sincerely one of the hardest fucking jobs.

No, yeah. And like, what's fascinating is, I think it's like, the majority of Twitch streamers have like, zero to one viewer. Yeah, well, it's especially saturated right now. And like, even a few years ago when my younger brother was trying to get viewer. Yeah, well it's especially saturated right now and like even a few years ago when my younger brother was trying to get into it, new streamers in order to get any kind of traction they do, they need to like stream like 12 hours a day. But after four years. It's tough. It's tough. I mean like, yeah, I mean she's declared not the asshole and I and I do agree, like where she's coming from.

I see it, I think she's justified, she is alone. I think if he worked a different job than this and he was working 11 to 13 hour days, but like at a company where he was never going to get promoted, I would also understand being like, hey, you got to stop this. This isn't going to work for our life. She's telling him honestly, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, hey, you gotta stop this. Like, this isn't gonna work for our life. She's telling him honestly, like, this doesn't work for our relationship. Yeah, it doesn't sound like a relationship that's like super mutually beneficial. She's 100% supporting him in his dream and has been for a long time, paying for them, helping him literally feed himself. Like, I've known people that they forget to eat, forget to shower,

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and not be fully provided for like by them. She said something that was harsh to him, but it's not like she said it out of the blue. Like she had tried to have this conversation with him a bunch of times, and it sounds like he needs to go and try and support himself and like understand how much she's been doing for him.

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and unless they have some kind of hook or incredibly entertaining streaming strilling style, slash personality, it's going to be very hard to break through and find monetary success. Who's the owner of the home? If he wants a relationship break, then he needs to go do his own thing elsewhere. Otherwise, I'd start charging him rent and if he can't pay because of no cash flow, then the hard truth is he'll have to leave. He's acting very selfish, expecting you to carry you both indefinitely, not the asshole OP. If you guys are doing this relationship break thing, time to set some firm and hard boundaries and expectations." She responds, he's not taking care of himself. He seems to think he needs to do this without expecting some sort of toll on himself. He thought he could instantly become successful at it.

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OP. It's been four years of paying bill after bill. I tend to agree. I think this guy has to figure his shit out. Like, it sucks. Like, she is absolutely not the asshole. And that's brutal. Like, he's not doing anything. Little small update here. Hello, everyone. I have another opportunity to read all the comments.

I am astounded at the attention the post has gotten in the past few hours. I feel like I should give some sort of update. I took the general advice that I was given by many of you. I sat my boyfriend down and told him I also wanted a break. We've broken up on mutual agreement. He's going to go his way and I'm going to go mine. He's moving out by the middle of June. So by the time this is out, and I guess they're broken up.

It sounds like it's right. I, you know, it sucks. It sucks. It sucks. It sucks. Like that was his dream. But he has to realize that's not everything. It's also not everything. Yeah. Like, man, like, he could become successful. He could maintain and then realize like, it's not happiness. Like, you know, there's a life outside of things.

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I know all the cannon. All right, moving on. So as of reading it right now, this was posted yesterday. So very recent, we rarely get those. Holy shit. Okay. What? I'm exciting.

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We've been married for six years now. We have two kids, and I'm six months pregnant with our third. Two years ago, I found out my dad has stage three colon cancer. My dad is my only parent as my mom passed away when I was 12. He's my favorite human, life without him doesn't seem as colorful. His laugh is contagious and he gives these big bear hugs that seem to make all of your broken pieces feel like they're perfectly in place again. Whenever I've had a hard day, he doesn't poke and prod and just lets me vent and listens. About five months ago we discovered the treatment aren't working for him and in direct quote of the doctor he said, months, not years. Since then, he's gotten progressively worse and now is losing memory.

He looked at the dog he got for me on my 21st birthday and said, wow, that's a nice dog. Where do you get it? My husband has been my absolute rock. He has been there for me holding my hand and helping me through this. He's been so loving and attentive to both my kids and I'm 't get me wrong, I'm a mother first always. I don't allow myself to wallow. My kids are still loved, cared for, played with, and haven't let my loads slack around the house. Once my dad got his updated prognosis, my husband encouraged me to quit my job. About a month later, we discovered we were pregnant again and I still hadn't let go of my job. I kept holding out for some reason. After finding out I was pregnant again. thr-a, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I th th th th th thi, I was, I was thi, I was th th th th th th th th that, I was that, I was, I, I, th, th. th. th th th th th th th th th th. th, th, th, th, th, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th, th th th the, the, the, the, the, and I'm the, the, and I'm thean, and I'm togeean, toda, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, that that, he assured me it was still okay to quit my job, that honestly it would save us a small fortune on daycare costs

anyways. So I did. I quit my job. My best friend and I have been friends since diapers. Her family is like my family and vice versa. My mom and her mom grew up together. We've always been solid and right after my dad's appointment when we found out he had so little time left I drove straight to her house and she held me while I cried for hours. If there are soulmates in friend form she was mine. Thick as thieves is what my mom used to say. This morning as I was up with my three-year-old he is sick. My husband's work alarm was going off. He has a few he said so I turned that one off and gently woke him up the the the the the to the to to him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He's, he. He's, he, he, he, he, he, he, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He's, he's, he. He. He's, he's, he. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He, he, he. He. He. He. He, he, he, he. He. He. He, he, he. He. He. He, he, he, he. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He's t. He's t. He's t. He's t. He's t. He's t. He's t. He's t. He's t. He's t. He's t. He's t. He said he was up late working, so he took the morning off, rolled over and went back to sleep. As I went to turn off the reminder of his alarms,

I saw a text from my friend on his lock screen that said, I'm assuming since there hasn't been an angry pregnant lady on my doorstep, you haven't told her about us yet. Time froze in that moment. I took his phone and walked away and just read their conversations. Four months this man has been fucking my best friend. Four months, these people have been lying to my face. And I know what you're going to say. You should have seen the warning signs. But I've been clutching this phone in my hand for two hours and nothing.

He has been so loving and attentive, but he always has been so kind and attentive to me, but he always has been. So kind and gentle. There have been no late night work nights except for once in a blue moon. There has been no lingering touches between them or even glances. They act as they have since the day I first introduced them. How sick is that she calls him her brother, but she screws him. I know so many people get a moment of clarity in situations like this, but I have none. Aside from being sad about my dad, I haven't changed. I'm still a loving wife and mother. I still doted on him and my children.

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Today, today, I just need the last 24 hours a piece. So, yeah, right now. They can be talking right now. Comments. Screenshot and save those messages before he could delete them. She said, I did. I emailed everything to myself in an old email I haven't used since high school and don't keep saved in my apps. That way if he goes through my phone, he doesn't find it.

I'm not a very good liar or good at keeping a poker face. But since he woke up, I've just been using the excuse that I'm upset about my dad and just needs space. He bought it. I called around for a couple of lawyers and found one before he woke up. So I've been emailing them back and forth for the last half an hour. Oh my God. I hope you have a separate bank account with your own emergency funds stashed. If not, please use the time now to create one and put some funds there that he doesn't have access to. This goes for credit cards too if yours are only connected to joint accounts. She said thankfully we signed a pre-up and I've always been a very big saver. Where

he's always been a huge spender. So when I got my inheritance at 24 from my mom I never touched it and it's just been growing interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest interest at 24 from my mom, I never touched it, and it's just been growing interest he doesn't know about. I'll also be getting my childhood home when my dad goes, which I hope it's not for a while, but I know the kids and I can move in at any point and he'd welcome us with open arms. Update.

Last night, last night, she updated last night. Oh, God. A small update about everything going on since my kids are now in bed for the night. I spent the morning gathering everything I could and making a checklist. I sat in my office for the better part of the morning telling my husband that I was preparing things for my dad. Not a total lie. I did have to get him sorted with hospice today. My boss would be happy to have me back, however my lawyer said pump the breaks on thiiiiii. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the. the. the. th. thi. the the the. the. the. the. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th. th. the, th. the, the, the, th. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. te. te. te te tode. te. toda. te. today, the. the. the. the. sorted with hospice today. My boss would be happy to have me back, however my lawyer said, pump the breaks on that idea for the time being. However, my old boss did tell me that whenever I'm ready, the door is open and to just give her a call.

He does not have access to my inheritance from my father nor my mother, to the mother. tho' the post but my mother-in-law is an absolute angel. I love and adore her so much and she's always been a shoulder to lean on. After he had gone to work for the afternoon, I asked my now ex-best friends mom and my mother-in-law to meet me at my dad's house. My kids were outside playing with my now ex-best friend's older brother. I just handed them the screenshots, saving them from the unsavory pictures and sex tape, though I... Oh no! Though I did tell them it existed. Oh, fuck, that is so... No!

To say they were furious was an understatement, and they are on my side completely. Angie, my now ex-best friend's mom is ready to cut contact with her daughter completely. She kept repeating, yeah, I mean, we have been hanging out and said, I'm like, oh my God. She kept repeating how sorry she was. We hugged and cried together. My mother-in-law told me she couldn't believe she raised a spineless, terrible human. That no matter what happens, I will always have her, and as far as she's concerned, she doesn't have a son, only a daughter.

After an in-person meeting with my lawyer, we went over finances, logistics, and everything you could think of. She has all the proof, and she's out for blood. With this post now on Tick-Tock, I don't want him to find out by an app because one look at the story and he'd know it was about him. With permission from my lawyer, my ex-best friend, her mom and dad, my soon-to-be-ex and his parents will be having a get-together tomorrow.

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God's plan. Let's go! Oh my God! Before, before we walked into here, Keanu was like, an update just dropped. I'm done. So this update hit right as we started to film. So this is happening right now. Everybody, shut up!

Be quiet. We are essentially live streaming through the ideaniananananananan. Okay. Okay, I have no idea what's about to happen. Hello, everyone. I'm here with much-awaited update. For my typing sake, I'm going to give everyone fake names so for context. Mother-in-law and Ruth and Joe.

Ex-best friends, Angie and Bob. This is like a play-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-shasha l le le le lelectionefficient-sha lea lea-sai lea-sa-saia-sa-sa-sa-sa-sa-sa-s Joe, ex-best friends parents, Angie and Bob. This is like a play. Ex-best friend, Jess, soon to be X, Tyler, ex-best friends brother, Jake, and I'll just refer to my dad as dad. I have a few things I wanted to get through so I'll just summarize as best I can and if you have any questions I'll answer in the comments. To get this out of the way because to me it feels important, yesterday I scheduled a same day a point with my OBGYN and got tested for just about every STD, STI out there. I got results back and they were all negative.

There's a few that take up everything on my end financially wise, including the wills from both my dad and my mom, and I managed to get my hands on his financial documents. He stores his, in his office, in a locked box. I also brought over everything we had set up financially for my children. Well I'm not totally sure if it's everything I'm pretty confident I got most of it. My lawyer was happy I managed to get my my my hands the hands the hands to get my hands to get my hands happy I managed to get my hands on that much. Ruth even handed over her will to me from both her and Bob to ensure I was taken care of in the divorce. My lawyer understands I am wanting a divorce immediately.

However, she wants to make sure she is thorough and isn't missing any key info. So hopefully I'll have an actual divorce papers to give him in about 30 days. I'm not rushing her though. I'm letting the professional do her job. Now for the sit-down. I asked Angie and Ruth to describe everything in detail on what happened. Angie, the revenge seeker that she is, forced them to sit through a slideshow. She put together of all the texts. Holy shit. I know a lot of you were concerned about one of them telling them sooner than later, but they were so secretive, they didn't even tell their significant others about what was happening. Once the slideshow ended, Tyler tried lunging for Jess and Joe actually had to force him to sit down. Tyler was shouting profanities at Jess and telling her she will regret this.

Jess started crying and baing her forgiveness. Bob looked at his daughter in the eye and told her he will never forgive her for this. Blood or not, she is no daughter of his. He didn't raise his daughter to be this person. Jess has always been a daddy's girl, so I think that cut her pretty deep. Jess is in the middle of a divorce herself, and her parents were giving her money for her lawyer and they told her she has cut off from off from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from her the their their their their their money their money their their their their their their their money their their their their she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she she lawyer and they told her she is cut off from them both financially and physically. Tyler's dad was irate. According to Ruth, he looked like he was holding back on throttling him. From there, Tyler went straight home. I know because we have a ring doorbell camera along with a few cameras in the house for our kids to keep an eye on them when we aren't right

next to them. Tyler came home and saw that most of mine and the kid's stuff was gone and he lost it. Started yelling and throwing things. The house is now trash with a few holes in the walls for decoration. When he didn't find us there, he went to my dad's today. Well, I did spend actually called the cops on him and he was arrested. His parents refused to bail him out. I had an appointment with my, this is fucking insane. What? Oh my god! Someone's on the toilet right now like, Oh! Is that you?

I had an appointment with my therapist today. I've had one for a year now since I was struggling with my dad, and it felt good just to cry it out and let everything out about how I was feeling. The therapist was like, oh! It was very helpful and she gave me a few tools to work through my emotions with this one. I felt very grounded and empowered leaving my session today. The tool is just a gun. Here's the tool, a sword. I'm also planning on setting up my children with a therapist when we get back from the

cabin to figure out the best way to deal with telling them. I know people said I shouldn't be tellain I shouldn't, I shouldn't, I shouldn't, I shouldn't, I shouldn't, I shouldn't, but their, I shouldn't, but their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th th th thin, the, the, the, thi, the, their, their, thea, thea, theol-I, is just, their, is just, is just, is just, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is the. the. thea, is thea, is thea, is thea, is just, is just, is just, is a thea, is just, is just, is just, is a thea, is justa, is justa, is justa, is justa, is a thea, is a the but I will be telling them, just in an age-appropriate way. I don't want there to be secrets and lies between us. I've always been as open and honest as I can with them, again, in a most kid appropriate way. Just because they're small humans, they're still humans and still deserve the truth. I had a handful of comments telling me, every man cheats. I should work things out because most of our marriage was good. I refused to believe all men cheat. My parents were married for 20 years and after my mom passed my dad never moved on. I watched my dad love my mom for 12 of those years and cherish her. I will not

accept anything less than that kind of love. He never cheated nor did she. Well, I'm not sure when I'll be ready to move on. Falling in love is absolutely the last thing on my mind at the moment. I refuse to let Tyler win and destroy love for me completely. I will move on from this." Jess started blowing up my phone, demanding I fix this situation, and immediately blaming me. My lawyer told me to not block text just in case they spill out additional info I was missing. She was playing the poor me card very hard. The thing is though, I never influenced Angie and Bob to cut contact with their daughter. They made that choice on their own. She actually started blaming me for stealing the love of her life. I introduced them when Tyler and I started dating, so not sure where that came from and that Tyler is only with me for the kids. Honestly, I knew she was just trying to hurt me at that point. I didn't the the th. th. th. th. th. thi th. thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. theoleole. thi. theole. the' toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the. the. the. the. te. te. toe. toe. toe. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. tode. today. trying to hurt me at that point. I didn't give her the satisfaction of responding, though. Between her and Tyler, I have about 200 missed calls.

Whoa. Tyler went from begging and pleading me to forgive him. Like I said, I didn't have divorce papers to hand him, so he's stuck in this unknown gray area. I also asked Angie and Ruth to say anything about the divorce to him, purely just for my satisfaction, to to to to to to to to to my satisfaction, to my satisfaction, to to my satisfaction, to my satisfaction, to my satisfaction, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, toe, and, and, and, and, and, to me, and, and, toe, toe, and, and, and, to, to, to, to, to, and, to, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, to.................... the the the the the the the the the the tieu. toe. tieu. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. t it's slightly petty, but keeping him in that gray area of not knowing is my small revenge to him. To threatening to call the cops on me for kidnapping, telling me, Jess wasn't the only one, bingo, just what I was looking for. To telling me, I'm a stuck-up bitch to threatening me, to back to begging me for forgiveness. Honestly, it was just a whiplash reading those texts.

I'd be lying in saying if those texts didn't hurt me and terrify me all at once, but I refused to let them break me. As for both of them together, I don't think he's going to stay with her. I think he blames her for blaiola thi. Who knows, though, they deserve each other. I was initially okay to do a 50-50 split with Tyler for custody, but after his reaction, I don't feel comfortable with that. So I'll likely be going for full custody. Jake has about 30 days of leave. He's saved up, and he's going to be using them to help the kids and I and I'm to the kids and I lately and I'm forever in his debt for this. Last night after the kids went to bed, he hooked up his Xbox and we played a game called Diablo 4 together together.

To... I don't know why, it's so funny. Have you heard, played Diablo 4? To help me, uh, to take my mind off of things. told me to the told me told me, to help me, to help me, to help me, to help me, their, to help me, their, their, their, their, to to their, to to their, to to to their, to to to to to to to to to to to their, their, to their, their, to to to their, to to to to their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their, together together together together together together together together together together, together, together, together, together, together, together, together, together, together, to together together together feelings for me somewhere in the midst of things, but also told me to not say or do anything back. He understands a relationship or anything like that isn't on my mind and won't be for a while. He isn't wrong, but just that he's felt that way since we were teenagers and just wanted to get it off his chest. Thank you again. Seriously, your comments, your support, all of it has has has has has has has air. Just knowing I had a whole online community willing to go to bat for me has kept me

treading water these last couple days. Your comments have popped in my head when I felt like just giving up on leaving him because it's so hard and gave me so many great points and helpful advice. I know I deserve more and I can't accept his actions. And to the people who commented relating to my situation, my heart goes out to all of you. This pain is awful and I hate that so many of you can relate, but your stories have resonated deep within me. You all keep

commenting me for my strength and my personal favorite is telling me how proud of me you are. Every time I see those words I start to tear up. I'm blaming the pregnancy hormones. Your words have helped put me at ease so that way I could do what I knew I needed to do. So I'll leave this here for now. If anything of importance happens when I go back home, I'll update further. Thank you all and I hope you all have a wonderful evening. Wow. The amount of goosebumps and shells I've gotten has caused my hair to grow an entire inch. I just lived four lives. That's happening right now. This isn't from months ago.

This is right now. That is so crazy. I am so happy for her the support that she has gotten. And like it is so typical that the cheaters, of course, weren't expecting any kind of consequences like this. And the OP literally discovered all this by such an insensitive text. There's not an angry pregnant woman at my doorstep, so I'm assuming you haven't told her. What did they think was going to happen?

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Like, people are going to try to hurt her feelings. She's like, I want to just stop right there. Let me show you a Reddit story. It makes me really happy like the way that both her exes and her ex-best friends parents acted. Because like you hear some of these stories and like then the parents of the people who did the shitty thing side with their shidy child. And it's like because they just can't get it through their head that their child would ever do something wrong or and it makes me very happy to hear that both sets of parents were like, what the fuck is wrong with our kids? This was, honestly, this is kind of rare, as far as the Reddit stories we've read here,

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I have never, I'm like almost sweating from that. I did sweat, I've sweated. Yeah. It scares me but like, I don't. It scares me because she said, like, and I believe her like that her husband was a genuine, like, loving and caring person and seemed like an amazing guy and that there were no signs. And that's what scares me, that like someone who presents as such a good person could be capable of something so incredibly shitty. Ass-assul. Yeah, do we have like a cooldown story? Like something kind of silly, I mean, uh... For all you listening, I'm sure that, that was a lot, that was a lot for us.

It's a lot for you. Let's read one more. And let's, let's, I think this one's not gonna be like that. I think you'll relate to this one. Okay. Okay. All right. But, uh, so I'll take a breath. All right, if we get updates on that one, we will read them in coming episodes, okay? We will try to do that.

All right. Am I the asshole for not hosting a party my wife planned earlier this week when I had planned long ago to only play video games this weekend. Okay. I want to preface this. I don't know what is it going to be in the story. I do want to preface. I did take the day off of work here when Zelda came out. I did call off of work. I was like I'm not going in and I played Zelda for an unhealthy amount of time. Yeah. I felt awful. Good. But I have all five sages now. Good. Okay, go. So Zelda Tuesday Kingdom came out today on Nintendo. So Zelda Tuesdays the Kingdom came out today on Nintendo.

Oh! And I have been looking forward to and planning for this game for years. Zelda has always held a place in my heart where I can escape the mundane of daily life, especially as an adult who works a full-time job, pays the bills, etc. I hear you. Yeah, dude. Word. Oh my goodness. Reba. Word. Oh my goodness. Reba.

Now, okay. No kids in the household. It's just me and my wife. Starting six or so months ago, I told my wife that when this game comes out, I would essentially become a hermit and go into a hole for the entire weekend of its release. I would eat, sleep, breathe Zelda. I continued to reiterate to her my plans every time the topic came up and even more so as the game got closer to release. I took time off of work as I put this on my work calendar as soon as I knew the launch date. Yeah, that's what you do. Smart man. Fast forward to earlier this week I reminded her again that I would essentially disappear this weekend to do w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the, the, the, the, I the, I the, I the, I would the the the the the the the the the the the the the their, I would their, I would their, I would their, I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. I th. I the, the, the, the, the, the. too, too, too, too, too. too, too, tooe. tooe. tooe. tooe. tooe. too want to do which is to play the new game all weekend. She then plans a movie

night with a bunch of neighbors for tonight on launch day. I made sure to clean up the house, do the dishes, and even did like four loads of laundry and reorganize the linen closet in preparation for this weekend. The time for the party rolled around and I took a break from playing the the the. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, the the, the the, the the, the the, the the, the the, the the, the, the the the the the the the the, the, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the night, the night, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the toooooooooooooo theauu.eaugh, Ia,a,a,a,a,a,a,a, the the the the the the the the the the the the the playing, made all the popcorn and set everything up in our home theater for her and then went back to playing my game. As guests showed up, I welcomed them in and showed them the way to the theater room and continue to play my game. When the movie was over, I greeted them again as they left, and then I helped clean up the kitchen on another short break. Fast forward to now, my wife is the the the th. th. th. th. the th. their. th. th. th. their. th. their. th. I. I is, th. I is, th. I is th. I is that. I is that. I was, that. I was, the, that. I the the, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their. I their. I their. I their. I their. I their. I their. I their. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I's. I's. I's. th. that. t tod today. te. te. te. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. te. te. that I couldn't carve out a couple hours for this movie night. It's just a stupid video game she is saying. I reminded her that I made my plans for

this weekend months ago and that what I did doesn't contradict what I've been telling her I would do for months now. So am I the asshole for playing my new game while she hosted the movie night. Wow. Look, man, it's not a stupid game. It's not a stupid game. You see, Gannadorf. Gannadorf whittled all of his own sills. Gotta understand, the spirit of Rauru is in his arm, and it's attached to Link and he's got to, he's got to build an No, okay, okay. Okay.

You gotta build an airplane. You have to build more machines. It's very interesting that this partner had been hearing for months that this guy was gonna do this, and then conveniently planned a night at their house. Yeah. The night of the opening. Honey, why can't you go to this movie night? Meanwhile, he's building a catapult to launch a Korok across the space. You're torturing Korox.

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Yeah. But he was also, he was like, he wasn't absent. No. He did a lot of shit. He did far more than the minimum. because I feel a lot of guilt playing video games. Even if I'm completely by myself, if I play for like an hour or two, I definitely have to like get up and kind of like do something.

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And this one, I was expecting something a lot worse. Like, this is a party that she'd been planning for a long time and it was a very big event that they had and he just like sequestered himself away for like days. Yeah, I didn't communicate it. He was doing so much and he was like, hey, this is really important to me, this is something that I've been waiting for, I just want to really have this time and then he's still, he's cleaning, he's popping popcorn popcorn, yeah. But technically hosted. He did what hosts do at restaurants. Brings them in and says goodbye.

Yeah. Also, how much hosting you have to, if it's a movie night, you turn the movie on. You didn't give me at the movie parts. He could just have just to pretend he could have just sat up at the the the the the the the gonna sit in the back, and then left. Or just have her switch there, like, if it's like, so. Well, no, but you need the noises. Comments, not the asshole. Six months of repeatedly warning her,

should have really gotten the message over. ETA, after some thought, I'm beginning to wonder if this was premeditated. Did she do this just to mess up your Zelda weekend with malice? If so, why? Is this some kind of power play? I don't care about your Zelda weekend, you're going to do what I want. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought. I got that v.

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Yeah. Wow. The Falador Massacre, right? Exactly. Um, well, I'm glad we ended on that one because that was a much lighter note. That's so silly. Ending on Zelda, stuff is great. What a guy.

I want to meet him. Let's get a beer. It's a theyr. What if it's Tim? What if Tim is married and we didn't know? Because Tim is dead serious about Zelda. Yeah. It's Rhettin' McLaughlin.

Yeah, yeah. I'm a big man. Thank you guys for being here. Thank you for being on this roller coaster. Wow, what a journey. Holy was. Crap. You might get a stick of deodorant when I leave? Yeah, we have Irish Spring right over there. And thank you all for watching. As per usual, you know, let us know in the comments.

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once so please leave suggestions in the comments and we'll see you next week for more of this. See you next time. Goodbye. Bye. By. Call your lawyers.