Two Hot Takes - 273: GIRL..

Episode Date: June 11, 2026

Two Hot Takes host, Morgan, is joined by guest co-host Lauren!! :) We are getting into stories and problems that just want to say "Girl.." "Girly Pop" "GIRL what are you doing".. You know what we mean right? Like how else do you respond to your friend catfishing your wife to find out if she's a cheater, or your husband saying he doesnt want you to attend his military graduation, or your boyfriend crashing out on you yet still considering patching things up?! Going to need your thoughts on these. For the REST of this episode head over to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TwoHotTakes ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Patreon BONUS Content including FREE stories: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/TwoHotTakes ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ NEW MERCH:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://shop.twohottakes.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ WRITE IN TO US!! Our SubReddit! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoHotTakes/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Full length Video episodes available on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/TwoHotTakes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Index: 00:00 -- Start Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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at us. Really? No one is going to yell at us. Are you like trying to manifest that? Yes. Well, I just, you know, I feel like we're we're jokesters. Like our love language is being playful and poking fun with each other and cutting each other off. Yes. It's our favorite thing to do. I don't want to finish my sentence. Never. Let my brain work less hard. It'll be a run on sentence that will never end. You got to cut me off. Well, you know, it's funny, is actually I've been better about not interrupting you and I just let you go. Oh, no. Yeah. And then when I'm editing, when I'm editing it, I'll get to the end of your sentence.

And you kind of start, like, you start, like, trailing off to where you're like, can you. And you're like, yeah, you're like waiting for me to jump in. Yeah. But I don't anymore. No, we not all the times, obviously. But we have a cadence. And then you'll be like, you'll get to. to the end, you'd be like, but I don't know.

Or like, do you know what I mean? But never mind. But actually, I don't know what I'm talking about because you didn't cut in. Exactly. But I literally, I won't like interrupt you. So when I'm editing, there's like literally a five second like break that you take in the middle of your sentence. And then I can tell you're waiting for me, but I'm like, I'm not coming in.

No, you have to. I'm trying to be better. I've, that's how I, I rely on that now. There's only like probably been like two times that you've cut me off. where I've been like, I really wanted to finish my sentence there. Well, that's where you got to like, you're just going to be like, shut up it. No, but like my point is, is that like it's so, it's like usually the cadence that I appreciate. And so I'm saying that it's like that's such a rarity for you to cut me off in a point where I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, like let me finish.

Like that doesn't, it doesn't usually happen. I'm just like, yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. We're vibein. We're driving. We're going to have a good time.

It really works for my. ADHD brain for whatever reason. So, okay, well, I'll try to interrupt you more today is what I'm hearing. Yeah. Everyone's already screaming in their car. Well, I have an eye twitch from hell. I've had bananas. I hate when that happens.

I've had water. I'm really trying to really hydrate today. So I've got a propel water, a sparkling water. If that doesn't help, Justin's bringing wine. So we're going to have so much fun. And I've got some really, really crazy stories. And I let people on Instagram vote just now. And I was like, I can't pick a theme.

What do you guys want? And girl was the winner. Girl. Girl. Girl. Or like, girl. I don't know. Yeah.

However you want to say it. Okay. You'll see. Could depend on the story. Okay. But this is going to be a really fun one. As you guys will notice, there's two episodes that dropped this week. One with Sarah.

Sherman and one with Lauren. Bamar bram! Oh, like this one. You, right now. Right now. Okay. I was like, what? Right now.

What episode? Because this era one would have been so short otherwise and I'm like, we, I can't, I can't do that to our families. So hence we have this. So Lauren and I are still going to record for our full time, but the rest of it will be on Patreon. So it's a little bit of a tease, but you are getting two episodes this week. so I hope that's okay.

Who's going first? Me or Sarah. Sarah will come up first. Okay. That's okay. Yeah. Right? Or should I fight for the first spot?

Ooh. We can make you compete for it. We'll see who's better by the end of this. But okay, let's get into these because I've got some good ones today. Let's dive in. Let's do it. So this is a post you found the other day and you were sitting here, like reading it and you started crying. And then you were like, do you have my?

to read it to you and I was like, yeah, show me. And you like, wouldn't show me right away? And so I pulled it up. And so I start reading it. And then I started crying. Well, because I couldn't speak. I was crying. Sobbing. I and Morgan was like, I need to see this right now. And I was like, just wait because I've, I kind of wanted her to read it for the first time, like in front of you guys because it's just the most touching thing ever. But anyway, I actually was hoping that we could save that for a rainy day because I'm like smiling right now and I feel like I don't want to cry. It's so good though. It's so good. And I think it's just a beautiful story to get us started. However, if you are a crier, I would say come back to this because it is. It's going to put

you in your feels. So it's coming from our very own Tuathex subreddit. It is a couple days old now titled Two Hot Takes Saved My Life, Not in a Symbolic Way, For Real. Oh my gosh. Hi all. First time write-in, long-time listener. I was diagnosed with leukemia a little over two years ago. I can remember getting the news like it was yesterday. The world felt like it was caving in on me. I kept asking, why me? Why, of all people, does this happen to me? Hospital stays and chemo became my life, and it felt like there was no end. I was constantly throwing up and bedridden with sickness.

I could barely walk and had to be carried from place to place. Every time I got a spinal tap, which was every other week, I got debilitating spinal migraines. You get the gist. It was awful. One year down, and there was still only extremely small signs of remission. Next thing I know, it's approaching two years later. Still no remission. I was pondering the idea of stopping treatment and letting myself pass because I didn't want to live like this.

The night before, I was going to tell my doctors my decision, I decided to put on an episode of two hot takes to help me fall asleep. I would listen to the podcast during chemo infusions to help pass the time. Love you, Morgan. By the time I got to the end of the episode, I still couldn't fall asleep. On came the end of the podcast, where Morgan and her guests just chat a little bit. I unfortunately can't remember exactly what was said, but something made me burst out laughing. It was the most I had laughed in a long time. I wish I knew what was said, but it sure was hilarious. After having that moment, during this specific moment in my life, something shifted. I decided to wait another week, just so I could hear another podcast. One week turned into three, which turned into months. Four

months later, I am now in remission. I never thought this day. would come, but here I am. I still have a long road ahead of me, but I am finally seeing some light. If I weren't from Morgan's podcast, I might have given up on my treatment and not been here today. Thank you, Morgan. Thank you, T.HT. Weekly guests. Thank you, T.HT. listeners who keep this podcast going. Thank you to my doctors who are saving my life. Thank you to my family and friends sticking by my side. It's also so sweet that she mentioned the listeners, too, because it's true. like this wouldn't keep going without you guys. So it's the whole reason we're here.

I mean, we've joked about this from the beginning. Like if no one would have listened, it would have been done a long time ago. Yeah. I've just, I've cried so much over this story and just how incredibly strong she is. And just you don't realize how many people are on the other side of this show sometimes.

And it's just, it's so impactful. And thank you all. Thank you. to people like Lauren for starting this show with me and just being here week after week with me and letting me cut you off all the time and just it wouldn't exist without us starting it together. So beautiful, beautiful comments on this, by the way, like just you guys showing up tenfold in the comments. It's been amazing to see. Yeah.

I know I read through the comments too. And it's just, it's such a beautiful and supportive group of people in those comments. And I, and it's also just like a reflection of so much of the community that we have here. It's a good reminder, I think, for both, both of us because we, I mean, we're emotional and we're, we're sensitive when we come across something that says, that hurts our feelings online, right? Like, but that's, there's always going to be like that online. always going to be someone who has a problem with something or like take something in a way that you didn't mean it or you know maybe we were tripping up over our words in a weird headspace and didn't even communicate something right so like we get so in our heads and then sometimes it's like we

forget that there is this large community who they're not the ones in the comments being like I didn't like that you said this they're they're literally listening during chemo treatments and and that's what makes us keep going and that's what makes us love this podcast and love you guys is like that reminder that there's so much beauty to this and to not let ourselves get caught up on something that might hurt our feelings. Absolutely. Absolutely. I, I just like don't even have any words. I just, it makes you realize why like it's so important to keep going. And this, like, I feel like I message her and I'm just like, I feel like you healed my burnout. Yeah. I'm just like, yeah. I'm like, you healed me.

I just say that. After she read that, we were both crying, and she was like, burnout, who? I know. Literally. I've already cried over your writing three times, by the way. So I'm like, I actually was able to get through it reading, which I'm just like shocked. I'm like so proud of myself. But I sent her a message and I'm going to be sending her a little goody. And I'm just, I'm so, so grateful. I'm so, so, so grateful. And I know I will piss you off sometime very soon. So just keep loving me. I'm so sorry. But here we go. Girl. Girl. Girl. Girl.

How do you feel when people say, Girlie? Or, hey, girly pop. Hey, girlies. I was going to Google what girly pop actually meant. Probably means girly pop. It's a playful Gen Z slang term to address a close female friend. Hey, girly pop.

I thought that's been around for a long time. Are we giving that to Gen Z? Google is. Actually, you know what? No, it probably is, Gen Z. Because I can't think of anyone who said that when we were in high school. You know what's crazy? It's even in Webster. Webster dictionary. But okay, here we go. Yeah, get that red flag ready, Lauren. This is coming from Am I Overreacting. It's titled, Am I Overreacting? My husband doesn't want me to come to his military boot camp graduation when I already paid for plane tickets. First thought, not overreacting. Let's hear what else, though. My husband, 27 male, graduates from the U.S. Air Force boot camp. It's about two months long. Before he left, he told me he didn't want me there at graduation.

I, 21 female, was really upset about it, especially since this is a huge thing, and I wanted to be there to tap him out. Throughout our relationship, he's made decisions without really involving me, including joining the military. I told him before he left that if he changed his mind to let me know, because I would really love to come. He told me not to take it personally because he wouldn't want his mom there either,

but she lives in another country so she wouldn't be able to anyways. Since they barely get phone access during boot camp, most communication has to be through letters. I got my first mail from him with his printed graduation information, and on the back he wrote, quote, I love you. I know this part is on me, but I took that as him changing his mind about me coming, and I got excited and bought plane tickets. I admit I should have confirmed it first before spending the money, but I genuinely thought things had changed. I sent him a letter telling him how excited I was

to see him and celebrate. He recently got access to text briefly and told me he does still not want me to come and that I need to figure it out with the plane tickets. The tickets are non-refundable, but I can change the dates. Hundreds of families and spouses attend the two-day graduation to celebrate their airmen, and I can't understand why he doesn't want me there. Well, mother girl. I've asked him for a reason, but he won't really give me one. Am I overreacting for being upset about this? And what should I do? I feel stuck and about to crash out. Yeah, that I, he's definitely, he's definitely sketchy. And who sends, who sends an invite with all the information and then says don't come?

What do you mean? Specifically when there's like a lack of communication, right? You're not talking. They're using snail mail and he says an invitation. Like, please. What was he thinking? It's literally an invitation. It's got all the graduation information on it.

and only other thing, I love you. I love you. I'd be like, cool, he wants me to come. Yeah. Yeah. I guess he doesn't hate my guts. What was he thinking, do you think? Like, was he just like, I don't know, I feel like you sent it to the wrong person.

Probably. Wrong girl. Literally, probably. Like, who is going to be there to tap you out? Yeah. Taping, getting tapped out is a big deal. Yeah. So if you're not familiar with it, I've seen a lot of videos on it.

Mm-hmm. I'm not in the military. I haven't been. So if you are in the armed forces or like have a family member you've tapped out, please tell us about your experience in the comments. But essentially like they all stand in formation and are like military style until their family members go up to them and typically just hug them and then they can move. Yeah. And then they like, yeah, it's actually, I don't know what it is about those videos. They made me cry every time. It's so, it feels so emotional because you see. the version of them that they trained so hard for and they stay so still like a statue. And then the minute that their family touches them, they just melt, cry, hug, a celebration. And then it's like that other side of them is released. And it's there's something so beautiful about it. Well, because like basic training like boot camp is also kind of meant to break you in a way. Yeah.

It's meant to train you. to be in the military. So you are almost without free will in a sense. Like I think that's like my friend who was in the Navy and I've had another friend in the Marines and talk to them about it. Like it does break you a little bit. So to then have your loved ones and just be you and just,

yeah, you kind of just melt into them. It's just, it's amazing. So if my husband was telling me he didn't want me there, that's crazy. After not seeing me for two months, almost 25% of the year, Just add one more month. We're at 25%. Yeah. What is going on?

I would crash out too. Why are we married? There's got to be another person. I mean, why? Let's, okay, let's just say there's not another person that's attending this event. Who's tapping him out? Even if that's not, what would be the reason he wouldn't want her there if she wanted to be there so badly? Like, let's just think about it. Like, is embarrassment? Like, shyness? What, like, what, what are the other reasons? I'm just trying to think it through. No, it's a big deal when people don't. have family that's able to make it. I've seen other videos where like someone's mom tapped out their brother's friend. Yeah, I think, oh, or something. They're like, mom tapped out

somebody else. Somebody else. Yeah. It's like, it's a big deal. And it's like, she bought tickets. It's not unrefundable. Show up. Show up. Show up. Here's where, here's where. Show up and don't tell them that you're coming. Yep. I don't care. I'm going. Yep. I'm going to find out why you don't want me there one way or another. And if it's some stupid-ass reason, like money, which, okay, money is important, obviously. But if then say that, then say it. Yeah. Communicate. Exactly. Babe, we're really tight. I'm doing this. I signed and joined the military for stable check. The last thing I want you to do is spend money on this when we could spend it on a vacation together once I get home. Boom, you could have said that. He didn't say that.

So that leads me to believe there's another girl. And I. don't like him. Top comment doesn't either. Top comment. Why the fuck are you worried you're overreacting to him not wanting you at his graduation? You are severely underreacting to this. Yeah. And then they quote what OP said. Throughout our relationship, he's made decisions without really involving me, including joining the military.

And then the person goes, how long have you been together? She's 21. He's 27. So they haven't been together, hopefully, that long. Never know. Three years. So you're together three years, hopefully. Then you get married. Your husband doesn't even have a conversation with you to tell you, hey, I'm thinking about joining the military.

He just comes home one day and says, I'm going to basic in a couple weeks. Bye. I can't relate to that, at least right now. I'd be divorced already. Because part of me is like, oh my God, that would be so cool if I could just do whatever and not be worried about how anyone's felt about it. But like I'm not like that. Like I'm over here like, I'll message my boyfriend and be like, I'm thinking about sign up for a workout class tonight. He's like, okay.

And I'm like, any reason why I shouldn't speak now or forever pull through please give me a reason not to go to Pilates? But I literally will not book it. I'll find one I like and I'm like, I gotta go ask him first. And he never makes me do that. But like, but in my head I'm just like, well, what if he has like a surprise? Surprise dinner plans. I don't know.

I don't know. We overly communicate a thing. And like I appreciate that. I appreciate an over communication in my relationships. Yeah. I just find it really nice. And I don't ever want to like make a plan. and then oops, I forgot we had dinner.

Like, it's just nice to do. Yeah. Especially with big, huge lifestyle things. Right. That's why I'm like, I can't relate to this at all. And I'm like, I feel I don't actually want to be like that obviously. It's really disrespectful. But I feel like maybe I could be a little bit more.

I could just book the workout class and not have to ask for permission. Because that would be probably nice. You'll get there. Yeah. You'll get there. There's your resolution for the rest of the year. Okay. Mm-hmm.

I can't. I got to ask. I got to ask, what if there's surprise dinner? We have a wine delivery. Hello, sir. Hello. What are you looking at? Special appearance.

Brum, brum, brum, do you want to say hi? Say hi. Hi. Oh, wait, I can't make fun of them anymore. It grilled for it. Wine has been delivered. We're back. So, people are just very curious how they met.

People are speculating they see divorce in the future. A lot of people then say, I'm thinking he's already got someone on the side and that someone is coming to graduation where she will pretend to be the wife. She definitely needs to go to see what he's hiding. Sounds like he was partying with the boys and met the other love of his life while saying he was single. Yes. Yeah, he clearly has a sidepiece or another family who will be there. OPE needs to go, even if it's just discreetly to see why he doesn't want her there. the whole situation is beyond strange.

Yeah. Update, update, update, please. So, O.P. shares this in another subreddit, R slash U.S. military significant other, same post. And O.P. responds to a lot of people. O.P. clarifies that the graduation letter she received says, quote,

It is my distinct honor to welcome you to our extended family. And I am pleased to invite you to celebrate this milestone. Graduation events are scheduled for, dot, dot, dot, dot, along with my husband saying, I love you. Well, what miscommunication? Do you, okay, either you might be right. He sent it the wrong person because he's dumb. Or he maybe sent it to her because the other person backed out. They got in a fight.

And then they were like, never mind. And then he told her not to come. I mean, he even, like, wrote her little nickname on it. Oh. I love you bighead. Oh. Oh, okay. Then not to the wrong person.

I mean, if he's calling two girls big head, like, that would be. A lot of people when they're cheating just use babe or pet names to not mix up stuff. I'm going to. The mailing address is in his handwriting. Imagine if you nickname all of your affair partner's big head. That's just like, if anyone called me bighead, like, get out of here. O.P. does have a dependent ID. We got it just before he left for BMT. He is actually enlisted. I received his TRS, FLT numbers. I've seen him on the Lackland Photos website. I do send him letters through Sandbox. There's nothing that leads me to believe he is lying about that.

Basically, like, is he even in the military or is just staying with someone else? Update. Update. Do we have an update? We don't have an update? Morgan, oh, I for sure thought this one was going to be that she showed up there. It hasn't happened yet. It hasn't happened yet. How can I confirm or deny he's cheating until I actually attend his graduation?

It's pure speculation, and so far I can only guess as much as anyone else, I'll find out when I go. Hell to the yeah, yeah. When is it? Do we have the date? So as of seven hours ago, his graduation isn't until the end of the month, which it's May 28th. But do you mean June? Like, does she think we're already in June? No, I don't think people usually think that. Yeah.

Okay. So it's like, what, this weekend? Is it this weekend? His graduation isn't until the end of the month. He still does not want me to come. he said he'd pay me back for the tickets. If I go, I may not be back home before him. I'm not sure if I'll be able to go without him knowing at this point.

Who cares? Yeah. That's your husband. Yeah. Again, something fishy is going on here. No, no, no. This guy sucks. I'll pay you back, babe.

I'll pay you for, like, then that whole argument of being like, I don't want you to spend the money because I want to spend it like on a vacation with you is out the window. So now he has no excuse. He really just does not want you to come. He really has another girl there. That's the only reason. A thousand percent. You can't convince me otherwise.

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This is coming from R slash what should I do. It's titled, My 35 male, friend, 36 male, loyalty tested my wife, 40 female, without my knowledge. She failed. I feel done with them both. What do I do? Oh, okay. Let's get into this. Ben with my wife, 10 years, married for six.

I thought we were really happy. She's got a kid from a previous relationship, dad, not in the picture, I've taken on the role. We both work, me full-time, her part-time, we live a good life, holiday abroad every few months, no real financial worries, both in pretty good shape and plenty of love, affection, and sex between us. I thought we'd be together forever.

On to my friend. His wife left him in horrific circumstances, last year. He came home one day to find her gone with their two-year-old. She'd left him to be with a drug dealer she met on Instagram. Lovely. It's a massive legal issue that's destroyed him. Since then, he's become very anti-women, despite having a great family full of women. He's constantly telling us all how all women are the same, et cetera, et cetera. Well, last week, he sent me a load of screenshots. must have been over 100 of them, going back to November of last year

and finishing on January 15th. He got another phone and started messaging my wife pretending to be a man from a couple hours away who got the wrong number. Within a week, he was getting nudes from her, sexting her, etc. By Christmas, she was telling him she loves him, and the final one was a photo of her walking into a hotel room

to meet him and then angry messages from her asking where he was. I went around to his house and was distraught. He told me he had done this to six other friends of ours. Only my wife failed. He had the phone with him and as I was there, she messaged him asking where he'd gone and saying how much she misses him. He's shown me that she'd been sending stuff like that

the past week with no response. I left there without really saying anything, and I went home, and once me and my wife were alone, I confronted her with the evidence. She started crying and saying she doesn't know why she did it, and it just started off as a bit of fun at work, and then she got carried away. She said she feels like she loves us both and doesn't want to lose me. I don't know what to do, so I just left and went to a hotel. I'm still here now, and unsure of what my next step should be. I want to cut them both off, but I feel like I will miss my stepdaughter so much.

And my friends are saying, I can't be mad at my friend as he did me a favor. Do you want to know what the TLDR is? Yeah. Friend catfished my wife and she fell for it. Yeah. I mean, that's, that is what that is. So I'm kind of curious.

I have some logistic questions. Logistical questions. So I'm just wondering like did friend send a picture of somebody else? And then two, did friend talk to wife on the phone? And did she not notice his voice sounded very like did she fall in love off of text message? She said I love she said to him even when she was confronted. I love you both. And she told him after like a month of sexting.

I love you, right? Month or two, whatever. So I'm like, did they have conversations on the phone? And some may say that that's not an important detail, but it is for me. No mention of phone calls. I'm seeing a lot in regards to texting. He did apparently steal a man's pictures off of Twitter to pretend to be him. So O.P.'s wife did think she was talking to someone else.

Like, they had met before. They'd met quite a few times. He got her number because they were put in a group chat together. And so that's how he got the number. Oh, wait. He said that he got the pictures from someone she had met? No, he took them off of Twitter. Okay.

Then what do you mean she'd met before? She had met that friend before. Oh, right, right, right. So I don't see any mention of a phone call, which you would think because they've met so much or that she fell in love. You'd think there would be more than just text convo. but then again doesn't take a lot for some people. Yeah, that's true. You know?

Yeah. And like everyone can say, oh, our relationship is great. There's love, affection, and sex. But, like, I mean, some people do just cheat because they need that for whatever reason, no matter how great their relationship is. So maybe she falls into that category rather than needs are unmet in her current relationship. Like maybe it's something about like the forbiddenness of it that like she can't get enough of. Yeah.

But also how crazy is that? Someone gets the wrong number and you start texting them. That's how, like, scammers get your info and then steal your money. Oops, wrong number. When are we going golfing, Dave? You know what's so funny is that I was, like, looking through, like, really old screenshots of stuff. And in college, I had somebody that called me. He said, oh, sorry, wrong number.

And then I was like, yeah, no problem. And then afterwards, he texts me and he's like, you have a really cute voice, by the way. No, no, but it gets worse. And I was like, I didn't say this to him. I was like, oh, thank you. And then it dropped ended there. But where it gets worse is that I was thinking he did too.

You didn't share picks? No. No. So I don't know who it is. You don't have the number anymore? How long ago? I mean, it was when I was in college. Oh, God.

Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. I guess in the screenshot it might be in there. That's wild. So I could see what happens. Yeah, I mean, I guess. But again, then you're talking on the phone.

Like, for me, I would have a really hard time falling in love just over tax. Yeah. Like, specifically you, because you don't like to text that much. I hate texting. I hate talking on the phone. I hate, I just hate technology. You guys, it's so confusing to me because I hate a voice memo. She sits here and listens to me, you know, talking circles for hours.

And yet, like, I try to send. her like a 60 second voice memo and she's like nope try again and text and I'm like no I'm driving just listen to it and thank God iPhone has the feature where it shows you what the voice memo say can't do that because it doesn't show context that's all I let that's all I do Morgan that could miss so many things you might think that's something that I think is hilarious that I'm saying as a joke that I'm saying it really serious it might piss you off hmm it's a bad idea that could get you should just call me then answer I'll answer more.

So top comment on this. Well, that's a shit thing that your friend did, but it's more concerning that your wife fell for it. She was going to sleep with this stranger. And to top it off, she is the only one that fell for it out of the other wives. I will leave it at that. I would love to be a fly on the wall when she finds out your friend catfished her. Oh.

Oh. Oh, wow. Yeah. I thought that, oh. Oh, that's so embarrassed. Oh, my God. Oh, that makes so much more sense why she told him that she loves him. Oh, that's so embarrassing.

She didn't know that she's catfish. Oh, my God. Okay. O.P. responds. I think I could get past it if it was just texting, but I can't get past that going to meet him. Yeah. Like, and so people ask, was your friend in the hotel? Like, how do you get the pictures?

O.P. does share that he was in his car and took pictures of her. walking into the hotel. So she was like really making an effort to cheat. It wasn't just text. It wasn't like a little pen pal. Yeah. No, this guy had time also. Also like you're not going to have any friends if you keep testing their wives.

I mean, you got to think about how messed up it is that he did it that long. Yeah. That he literally, yeah. Also, you're getting nudes of my wife, dude. That's not cool. No, no, no. The minute that she sent. I mean, even that it obviously is questionable.

But like, but the minute that she sent one is like the moment where you can go to your friend and be like, hey, I test her. But the fact that you made her fall in love with you, meet up with you. And then we're texting her for from November to like three months. Yeah. Like that, that's very concerning on the friend's part for a few different reasons. I get that the friend is traumatized right now and that's his MO, but it's not a good one. No.

No. Also, in order to solicit those nudes, he is sexting her too. So you're sexting my wife. Yeah, I get what you're doing. You're trying to see if she'll cheat on me. But that's also not your job. Like, you're my friend. And you're sexting my wife.

Are you sending dickpicks? even if it's not you. Right. Like you're sending her stuff. You're like inappropriately enticing her and creating this relationship where she's falling in love with you based on what you're saying. Like that's crazy. Yeah. I do not blame at all OP for wanting to be done with both of them.

I think that's a fair assessment. So we do get an update. Oh, thank God. Finally. So update comes a couple of days later. Thank you for everyone who commented on my post. There were so many of you. I couldn't reply to them all.

I'll address a couple of things from my post. A lot of people said my wife did nothing wrong. Who? She went to a hotel to meet another man for sex. There are photos of her at the hotel waiting. She messaged saying she was there and, quote, I purposefully hadn't had sex with him for ages. So when I get my hands on you, I'll be ripping your clothes off and my own.

Yeah. Then messages of her asking where he is, and even a week later when he stopped replying, saying she misses him and pictures of herself saying how much she still wants him. A few people said my friend wasn't catfishing her and he was sending photos of himself and she knew. My friend is white and dumpy. The pictures were of a black adult film star stolen from his Twitter. Now, on to the update. First and foremost, importantly, I met my stepdaughter yesterday. We met at a park, and when we saw each other, we both started crying and just hugged for five minutes.

Every memory of her from when I first met her went through my head, and I didn't want to let her go for fear of never hugging her again. We sat on a park bench, and the first thing she asked is what happened. She's 15, and I didn't see a reason to lie. I said her mom got catfished, and she fell for it, and has been having an online affair for a few months and told another man. man, she loved him. I left out the nudes and the hotel bit. That's good. My stepdaughter said her mom had told her that all she had done was message an old friend and I got jealous. But she said that she knew I wasn't like that. And her aunt, wife's sister, had told her that her mom had cheated and I had done nothing wrong. I feel like that's so messed up. It's very manipulative of your child,

who's 15. It's just, it's just unfair. Like I, obviously it's not her biological dad, but like, there's a big, huge relationship there. That's her dad at this point. And then to do something that's like so hurtful to your partner, but then to try to paint them negatively to the other person that they love is just so unfair. Like at that point, you got to own it. Like, and the fact that like, fall on the sword, bitch. Yeah. And it sounds like OP, it sounds like OP didn't include the stuff that, would be... He kept out the most damning evidence. Yeah. She got catfish and she fell in love and

that was the most like PG version. That could have been in a Disney movie. Like there's a lot of other people that would have like crashed out and been like, your mom's a insert a lot of derogatory terms here. Exactly. So like, which is awful. But I'm saying there are people that like just get so emotional because they're so hurt that like they would say that. So the fact that OP gathered self and then went about this that way and then just to have like his partner not only do that to him, but then like double down and be like he's a crazy jealous guy.

Like that's just that's not cool. I know. O.P goes on to say, I told her I have hundreds of screenshots, but I won't show her them. She begged to see one so she could know. I tried to find a non-sexual one and I showed her one where her mom said, quote, I love you more after 10 weeks than I do him after 10 years. Oh! My stepdaughter was as horrified as I was and just said, quote,

Oh my God. After that, we sat and talked for a couple of hours about everything. She said she still wants me as a part of her life, and when I get my own place, she'll be over all the time. She said, I'm still her dad and always will be, even after I told her I plan to divorce her mom. She said her auntie and her grandma both encouraged her to stay in touch with me because she told them that she was scared I didn't want her anymore. I said nothing could be further from the truth.

I gave her a lift back home and we've been texting nonstop since, sending stupid videos to each other. And she said her grandma said we can use her kitchen to bake together again. So we are doing that later today. As for my wife and my friend, I've told my wife I want a divorce, which caused a barrage of texts and phone calls, I ignored. I've told my friend I want low contact with him, but I did ask why he didn't stop once he got nudes. And he said, quote, because you don't get jealous and I thought you'd probably just find it funny. Which is probably true. If she told me a wrong number was texting, I probably would say flirt with it for a laugh, L.O.L.

I do get people's point, though, when they say I shouldn't be mad at him because if it wasn't for him, it would have been someone else, but he did target her insecurities. He knew she was insecure about her height and said, quote, first time I finally meet an Amazonian woman at a bar and we have a good time, she gives me a false number. And he knows that she struggles with having an athletic build, and he mentioned his ideal woman would be tall and strong built

and how he doesn't get the trend for short women with big boobs and bums. But at the same time, she's a fucking detective for the police force. and should have recognized she was being played. Stop. Sorry, it's not an exciting update. I mean, that'll do. I'll take that one.

Also, knowing that, like, if some random-ass number texted me, like, damn, I can't believe the first time I meet some short little blonde girl with big tits, she ghosts me. I'd be like, how does you know? I feel attacked. Like when you feel like, like, oh, they're messing with me. Like, this is so targeted. I think that when the insecurities are like that deep, then when somebody is speaking to them,

you don't want to believe anything else. That's true. You know what I mean? Like, it's like you, that's what you want to believe. So you're going to believe it. Like, there are people who are catfished who have that gut feeling that they know that they're being catfish. and they don't want to explore further.

They don't want to know. They just want to believe it because they love that so much. They don't want to see behind the curtain and find Oz. So I'm not completely surprised at this, specifically, like, completely targeting her insecurities. I think what's annoying to me is that she says, I'm more in love with you in 10 weeks than I have been with this person in 10 years. and then gets surprised that he wants a divorce. Like the fact that he was like, I told her I wanted a divorce and then she blew up my phone. What are you confused about?

Yeah, so do you. You want the divorce. You want the divorce. You're more in love with a guy that's catfishing you for 10 weeks than you are with your 10-year partner who loves your daughter dearly. You want the divorce. Shut up. You're clearly missing something. So you're just upset. You got caught and it's ending the way it is. You wanted to have your cake and eat it too. O.P. does have another post that was posted just three days ago. Just found it. Not another update per se. Because the original thread I was reading was posted in scroll, scroll, scroll, four months ago.

So this post three days ago is pretty cute. It is titled, I got wolf whistled and cat called by a woman in a car last Friday. And it's honestly in the top five things that have ever happened to me in my life. It's your friend in a wig. Sorry. I've been in therapy the last three months and that one compliment has made me feel better than hours of therapy. Oh, and Opie just goes on to sharing this post. I was crossing the street in my work clothes.

It was a warm day. I'd been working indoors all day, doing a physical job, and I felt like a sweaty mess. I left my tool belt around my waist, which was annoying me, making me uncomfortable. So I also look kind of pissed. As I'm crossing the road, I just happened to look at a car. I looked up, made eye contact with the woman, and she made like a kissy face motion at me and smiled. I thought she was being a bit arsy because she thought I was staring at her. As I got next to her, she wound down the window and whistled.

at me and shouted, oi you. So I looked over and she said, you're fucking gorgeous. If I wasn't married, and then she drove off. Since then, I feel like I'm floating on air when I walk. I feel 10 feet tall. I don't think I've ever had a stranger compliment me like that. Three months ago, I found out my friend had been cappishing my wife and loyalty tested her. She failed miserably. And since then, I felt like shit. I've been going to two hours of therapy a week. I've joined social clubs to make friends, started working out, changed my diet, anything to try and lift the fog. Since that five-second interaction, I feel like a new man. Like I tackle anything and win.

Note to self, holler at people more often. It's the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing I think of when I fall asleep. I know we are supposed to be angry and not enjoy being cat-called, but oh my God, do I feel alive? Dude, it's so funny you say this because I am not kidding. I just thought about this the other day. I didn't get cat called, but like I had like, you know, and you can just like when you're crossing the street and you like see like someone like looking at you. And then I was just thinking about how like I have never been one to like take offense to it.

And it's so funny because like when I was a little like not a little kid, but like I don't I was like 15 years old, like walking around Lake Harriet with like my two girlfriends. And some guys were like, oh, hey, like whistling at us whatever. And my friends were like, ew, like, that's so weird and like, don't, don't know that. And I was just like, yeah, yeah. That's, I'm not going to be so flattered about that for the next year. No, no chance. I'm just going to.

My favorite is the one. Totally gross. Out here in L.A., you were just, like, walking down the street and some guys saw you in his car, and they're, like, wasn't parking. So he literally just stopped his car in the busy streets of L.A. Like, you guys, this was Sunset Boulevard. And he stopped his car and, like, ran out to talk to Lauren. And he's getting honked at.

Like, just nuts. Honestly, maybe that's why. Maybe I, like, invited that energy over time that, like, that you just don't have a resting bitch face. Like you really don't Like you look very approachable And just like I mean you're so cute Oh you're so cute

You are I have my days You will today is one of them I have my days But it's just so funny But I think we do need to like There's a difference between Making someone uncomfortable

And cat calling them Like if it's a woman walking down the street And it's like a group of dudes That's uncomfortable But I do think we need to be more open complimenting people. Yeah. Like, we got coffee the other day.

And the guy was so cute. He was just so nice and bubbly and warm. And I just literally wanted to be like, you're so cute. Yeah, you were saying that. I'm like, I wish it wasn't weird to do that. To say that, yeah. But like, I don't know. You never know.

You're so nice. Like, thank you. This interaction made my day. Yeah. Just telling people nice compliments that aren't going to weird them out. Right. Because there's nothing better. And like, look at the change it's made in this dude's life.

I know. Yeah. And that's why I'm like, I'm not saying. I'm not saying this is like a PSA to go and like cat call people by any means. But I don't know why for some reason. I just like didn't get that like that feature where I'm like like I get flattered if anyone. I don't. So I feel I feel OPE is all I'm trying to say.

You feel OPE. I like that. I feel OPE. I'm good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good. Amaze, amaze, amaze. You're really cute. Did you know that? I have not been feeling cute.

I'll tell you that. Thank you. You know what? When you turned around and walked over here after looking in the mirror, I was going to say you look really good. Thank you. But instead we just started talking about other things. Thank you. But maybe I should pause the conversation.

Thank you. And say those moments when they come to mind. I will do that more often too. I've really been struggling lately because I did my chin surgery and I still have a lot of residual swelling. and I've also like not gotten back into my health kick as much as I want to. So I've been feeling a little meh lately. So I appreciate that. Thank you.

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I'm working on it, bitches. Same. About four years ago, I got dumped by a guy I thought was the love of my life. He was cheating on me for months before that, and I knew about it, but refused to acknowledge it. I don't even know how to explain it. I was just so in love, I felt like I couldn't function without him. Anyways, one of the people that offered me most support then was,

his absolute best friend, who chose to stay friends with me after I was dumped and stopped talking to my ex. We started dating a couple of months after the breakup. I truly loved him. He was smart, handsome, funny, tall, pretty eyes, you name it. It took me some time to actually feel like I wanted to be in a relationship with him, mostly due to the insane guilt and knowing the fact that he was my ex's best friend. It just felt wrong. We were in a relationship for three and a half years, and towards the beginning of the third year, it really started getting worse. He lost his job, refused to get a full-time position because everything was just wrong for him. We live together, so I paid a significant amount of our monthly expenses. He also started to lack hygiene and generally

looked worse. He was bathing maybe once a week, didn't brush his teeth every night, constantly walked around in the same clothes, even though I washed his stuff regularly. He wouldn't take me on dates, walks, he would refuse to drive his car if I didn't pay for the gas, and when I refused, he would just stay home and ignore every responsibility that required him to get in the car. He also started being a smart ass, at the lack of a better word. Every opinion I shared was wrong, and it felt like our conversations were just him mansplaining things. to me. A week ago, I broke up with him. I was so done with everything and every conversation was just him disagreeing with my feelings anyways. I wanted to be civil, but the moment I sat him down and I told him,

it was like he went through all the stages of grief at once. He begged me to stay and then cried, then yelled at me, and eventually he told me, and I quote, you suck at giving head anyway. This got me so mad, not because I felt personally attacked, but because it was such a disrespectful thing to say in a moment like this. My response was basically something along the lines of, quote, I don't. I'm just too disgusted to have your dirty dick in my mouth. Brilliant. Then he cried again. Looked at me like he wanted to slap the shit out of me and stormed out.

He texted me a few times saying how awful I was to him and how I broke his heart and ruined his friendship with his best friend. He also told me I made him feel unattractive and wounded his self-esteem. So I will be covering his therapy bill. Good luck with that, buddy. What can I do to resolve this? I'd still be willing to work on us if he was reflective. Excuse me. Any ideas how I should get through?

to him or is it better to give up? Don't piss me off right now. Girlie pop. Hey, girly pop. You have a word with you. What? Someone who can physically touch her. Kidnap her. Kidnapper. In a consensual way. Yeah, definitely. And talk some sense in her. This is crazy. Someone take her to Chili's and get drunk. That's a good one too. Just like get her. Just like get. out of the house. Someone take me to chilies and get drunk. Can we go? Looking at you. Can we go? Yeah. I missed out on the wicked drinks. They looked so good. Is there a chilies around here? We're Applebee's. Applebee's. That's my... Half-off apps, man. That's my home. I don't really know about chilies, but like that could... I could get down with that. But like, Applebee's, like,

there's some heart and soul in that place. Anyway, there really is. So do we have anyone near? But we can move on. But anyway, is there one near? Yeah, for sure. All right. We'll find one. All right. You know where I went the other day? Rainforest Cafe.

No way. Also a vibe. Wow. Yeah, there's only like six or seven left. Not many. They're going down. So cool. A Mall of America.

Yeah. It was pretty good. Yeah. This one, though, yeah, it's better to give up. Give up. Cut your losses. Give up. Send him your therapy bill.

Mm-hmm. I'm just like, what? No words. The top comment, quote, you sucked at giving head anyways is an insane answer. Makes me think he went after you for your looks, plus you were vulnerable. Then he turned right into a mama's boy. Maybe stop being in a relationship for a while. You know what would piss me off more than anything?

You tell me. Is the fact that he said you ruined my relationship with my. best friend. You did that, sir. That was your choice. That was you. You could have said bye. Bye, bye. Bye. Nice knowing you. You didn't have to date me. You didn't have to pursue me. We could have still been cordial. You didn't have to do any of those things. Like, what? That was, she didn't make you do anything. Unless she was hypnotizing you and we don't know about it. I'm pretty sure she wasn't. That's on you, buddy. Yeah, I think he's just having a little buyer's remorse. And, you know, maybe he's going through a funk. Maybe he's dealing with

some mental health issues. But that doesn't give you the right to then blame her for everything. Right. Like you kind of need to work on your mental health and get back on track and, you know, be in a healthy, happy spot. Yeah. And if it was this relationship that's dragging you down, then, hey, go your own ways. You're better apart. You get back on track. I'm sure you can make friends with your buddy again. Yeah. Guys become friends again. over less. Maybe. Bigger.

You never know. Guys become friends over more intense issues. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, last story, this guy was contemplating and still having his low contact,

not even done with him. I have people in my life that they have friends that they're still friends with guys. I'm thinking guys in my life specifically, I'm not trying to be super identifying. But I have guys in my life

that have had the shittiest, shittiest friends. And they're still super close with them. Yeah. Like, I think guys operate a little differently in their relationship sometimes. Some of them, yeah. And I think maybe it's because they're not as emotionally vulnerable.

So they're like, I'm speculating. You like sports? All right. You want to go hunting? Well, okay. That's cool with me. Yeah. So, I think things are changing, though.

I think that, like, people are getting so much more in touch with the genuine true connection. And I don't know, at least like I've been hearing it and seeing it where, you know, there used to be like this common norm of like guy friendships being like pretty surface level. And I think that like it's been it's been changing. I love that. Yeah. I want guys to have the intense emotional relationships women typically have. I would love that for them. Everyone deserves that to have the support and the whimsy.

Find the whimsy, dude. Find that whimsy. Go dress up with your friends and go cosplay around the park or I don't know. Paint each other's nails. Like whatever you want to do for fun. You should try everything at least once, right? Totally. I whimsy also just reminded me of it unlocked a memory that I completely had stored away and forgotten about. But in college, one of my friends said the phrase. whiskey dick and I thought she said wispy dick and when I repeated it to her she could she never let it go. Whispy. She, wispy dick. I really do like the word wispy. It's got a ring to it. She would like interact and she'd be like, whew. Oh my God, I'm just envisioning the car car lot. Exactly. That's what she would do. And I'm like, stop. I just thought that's what you said. We don't have an update from our lovely OP yet. They are pretty active in other subs.

They are sharing things like they're a psychologist. They've posted in R slash drugs. Why am I always tripping out when I smoke? They're building a PC and they're looking for advice on building a PC. So maybe we'll get some updates. I mean, they do share pictures of their dog. It's like a really cute little bloodhound. hound type dog.

Looks like a little hound. And here's a picture of it wearing antlers. So it is giving real account. And I hope she sees the comments and is then like, oh yeah, no, I got, I got a run. Like, this ain't the same cool. See, I assume all of them are real. So when you say that, I'm like, I've been checking a lot. Or some fake?

No, I've been checking a lot more because I think like a lot of times people will, if they are going to carma farm, they will very quickly have a post go viral. and then share nudes or an only fans link on their account. So I have been checking more. And I really look for like verified email, accounts been around for a while, things like that. Yeah. Like the military one. Are there nudes on Reddit?

Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. There's like, there's a lot. There's a lot you can see on Reddit. So you must have come across a lot of nudes then. Yeah. Even like Twitter though.

I know. I was researching a case for clues. and one of our researchers on it, like on the script, included a link for this suspect's porn. And I didn't think, I'm like, there's no way Yelena would have, like, actually found this dude's porn. Click the link and it's literally,

and it's on Twitter. I'm just like, yeah. No, it's crazy. Internet is wild. One of my friends was seeing a girl whose mom was on Twitter, posting like I remember that yes like she was a sex worker it was like a school girl scene is what I remember I mean there was a ton the entire profile was that but but like

this girl was not at all in the scene and she's an adult and her two parents like that's what they did for a living I think it would be tough like dating people and knowing that they're going to find your mom and like specifically when you're young like around those like teen young teenagers like that's and it's just it feels too accessible like I'm not trying to change the way things work but like it feels so accessible to just be like on Twitter where like where you could just pop up but like oh so it's free like are you interested in it like you might like this page and then like come across like your teen crushes mom it's like oh shoot we have one last one when you're a mid-sized business you need every competitive

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Okay. So this one is coming from Today I Fucked Up. It is titled, Today I Fucked Up, Breaking My Wife's Heart in 20 Pieces. Hmm. I don't know if I want to hear this one. My wife is pregnant, and she is a saint. She's done everything for me and turned my life around. She supported me when I was just a piece of shit without a job.

She's shown me what family means. She is so strong and she works so hard even while pregnant. And I try to get her to slow down, but she won't. We even spent the last two weekends ripping out the carpet and painting our son's nursery to get prepared. My wife had this old snow globe that looked like a duck in a bathtub that she got from her mother as a little girl. As I was moving the furniture back into our son's nursery after we finished painting, it fell and bowed. broke. She broke down and she's pissed and I can't blame her. I looked everywhere for one and the only place I can find to buy it. It's not even the same. It's a cheap replacement is in Singapore and it won't

ship to the U.S. I don't know how to make it right. I have apologized. It just meant so much to her. I really hate myself right now. I know. It's really sad. Luckily. Okay. People come through. This is, again, the beauty of Reddit. And people start sharing links on eBay. And they share a link for the snow globe, bathtub with duck globe, music, and bubbles motion. And it was $19.

Oh. However, it's sold very quickly. So the top comment, here's one for sale. Next comment down. and one was sold today. Next comment. Someone is mean. Next.

I hope not. Maybe it was him. If not, I hope they bought it for him and we'll ship it to him. I want to trust that there are very special people in this world who would do that for him and his wife. O.P. responds. Update. It was me.

Aww. Yay. So he got it. I have no business getting teary-eyed over that. OV does have an edit. Thanks everyone for your thoughtful posts and good ideas. One helpful Redditor led me to a replacement product that is the same thing and I bought it off eBay. I also salvaged the parts like you guys said and I'm going to have her dad 3D print a bathtub and put the intact duck into it.

And then like you guys said, there is both. Thanks again. I'll update how she reacts. Nothing? Not yet. Oh. A lot of people were like, why is she making you feel so bad? It's an accident.

Opie's like, I feel that way. It has nothing to do with her. Like, let me be clear. Right. We love each other fiercely. Like, I don't want to see her in any pain. Opie's like, I'm a little dramatic, I will admit. But no official update yet, but I already know.

Like, it's going to be emotional. It's going to be teary-eyed and just feel so special. Like, when someone surprises you with something that you've just been having your eye on or you mentioned one time when you feel so loved and seen like that, nothing better. Like the horse painting that Justin got for you? Yeah, that's a great example. Yeah, me, my mom and Justin were walking by this artist in Venice and he had this beautiful horse painting and he wouldn't talk to us.

Like he just like wouldn't really give us the time. But I loved it. And so Justin went back, bought it, and then surprised me with it for my birthday. And we had only been dating for like a couple months. Yeah, it was pretty new. Like three months at that point. Yeah. It was good.

He's such a cute. He literally brought us with wine, just a little cutie. But okay. Cheers. Cheers. We're off to Patreon, my friends. I will see you over there. And I'm not teasing you because this is a bonus.

It could have just been a short episode. And I love you. That's why I did this. That's why I edited two episodes in one week for you guys. So. Okay. Don't be mad. So this is going to go.

This next Patreon is going to be accessible for everyone. No. But it will be on the lowest tier. Okay. Lowest tier. It's $5. Come join us for one month and then cancel. You can get access to everything on that $5 tier that's been posted in the

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