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AITA Holiday Edition! | #JY S3E24
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This week we attempted to bring you some holiday drama, but really just ended up going down a road awkward, sad family drama lol But we still had a great time judging assholes, like we always do <3
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New Year Greetings and Linguistic Humor
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Hello, everybody. Hello. My name is Shannon. I'm Alyssa. Welcome back to another episode of Hashtag Judging You. I psyched myself out a little bit there. Sorry, everyone. I was really about to go b- b- b- b- b- b- bish, but it's not a b-movie bash day. No, it's not. It's just a judging you day. Just a judging you day.
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So that's what we're gonna do. But yeah, Happy New Year. New Year just happened. Hopefully you guys had fun or you just slept a lot. My preference. Do you have a joke? Yes. What is more lives than a cat?
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I don't know. A frog. Because it croaks every day. Oh my god. That's pretty cute actually. Oh my gosh. My voice is already leaving me. Yeah. We're gonna die. Do you want me to read most of them tonight? That's okay. I brought cough drops. What do you call a pig that practices karate? Pork chop. A pork chop, right? Okay, did we do that one? I don't know. I feel like that's just a well-known joke.
00:02:31
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what do you call a sad strawberry? a blueberry. oh that's cute. what do cows read the most? the moose catalogs. oh i like that too. catalogs. the moose paper. that's what it should have been. yeah yeah yeah yeah. okay um hi everyone again.
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My eyeballs just got real itchy, Shannon's real tired. We're not in drugs, I swear.
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There's no alcohol. Anyway, we're judging assholes. So let's get into it. When was the last time? It's been a second. It's been a second. Yeah. Yeah. I love that your video. I talks like this. Yeah. So funny. He's so cute. He did that just today. I can't remember what he said. Yeah. He definitely used it today. I love it. I was trying to show Zach the video you sent me and he's like, what is he saying? I was like this and he's like, what? I was like, snowshoes. And he's like, Oh, he's like, I don't understand that voice. And I'm like,
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you
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How do you not understand the advice? Right, and he's like, I don't understand Pig Latin, so shut up, walk away. It's okay, I can understand it better than I can't speak it. Do not even try to ask me to speak Pig Latin. It doesn't make sense to me. How do you not? Wendy can speak it, I think. Wendy and Shalise can. Alyssa can't. But why? Like logically, I cannot wrap my brain around the fact that you can't do Pig Latin. I can understand it, but I can't speak it. But you know how? No. You don't know the concept of it?
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No. People have tried to teach me when I was younger. Doesn't make sense.
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Okay, I feel like I have to skip all, so I don't want to push that on you. We just do the whole episode of Alyssa Learning. My name is Annan Shay. You just take the first sound of the letter, put it at the end with A. Okay. So like, AB bae is baby. But Alyssa has a learning disability. I added an IEP, Shannon. I don't know. I don't know your business. Okay, we can move past it.
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We could definitely try. I'm just saying, I don't know if I would get it. So, and again, I can do that whole flea, flea, flea, flea, flea, oh, a vista, cumulata, cumulata, cumulata, vista. That's because you are a more mature child. I am, yes, I am. Oh, boy.
00:04:57
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Okay, you gotta start, Earls, we're not gonna go. Oh, Zach and I were learning a sign language, like some animals the other day and stuff, and to say flamingo, you have to say pink bird one leg. Instead of just doing one leg to say flamingo, you could just do pink flamingo. Pink bird one leg. Pink bird one leg. Might as well just spell out flamingo. Right? I don't understand why there are still words that only get spelled out.
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Make a new sign, right? You have hands. No, my favorite though, is you ready for this? No. You're ready for this? Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. It's three different signs. You can say it three different ways. Why? Because this is mask, this is mask, and also raccoon, okay? But like, mask, okay? And this just means Halloween. Just say Halloween. Just say Halloween. Don't just say mask. Raccoon time. Mask. Like yeah, just like mask.
00:05:54
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There's three different ways. Also, do not understand why other English-speaking countries have different ASL or different sign language than we do. I get different languages because they have different sounds and different letters. Australia should not have a different sign language than us. Because we have so much of the same words. That's the thing. All the same words. Unless they're slang that they make up.
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I don't know. I don't get it. We need to read else. We're not going to get through this. All right. Some of these are holiday related. I don't know if all of them are, honestly. So if not, I don't give a fuck right now. Right. I know a couple of mine are like Christmas specifically and others are just like, oh, because I was there for Christmas, something happened.
00:06:37
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Yeah. Like, and that's what I was mostly wanting. I knew there was gonna be a lot of drama after the holidays, so. Yes. Your drama is our content.
Family Gift-Giving Drama
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Sorry everyone. I'm not. Right? Not sorry at all. We don't post shit then, so. I heard this one on TikTok and I ran to Reddit. Yes. So. Okay. Okay. Am I the asshole for ruining Christmas and being upset the only gifts I got from my family were joke gifts?
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Some background, my family likes to play pranks with Christmas and birthday gifts. It's nothing new. I, 21F, as well as my five siblings, from 29 to 37 years old, have all been pranked on our birthdays and on Christmas, and usually it's one or two gifts.
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This Christmas though, I was the only person to get all joke gifts. For example, I unwrapped a MacBook for my brother. But when I opened it, it was just some chocolate, which I don't eat, so I gave it away. And the MacBook was actually given to my sister inside a bag she wanted.
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Another gift was what I thought was a book I put on my Christmas list, was actually just the book cover put on a dictionary. When I asked my mom about the book, she told me she gave it to my sister-in-law. What the fuck? Right? Like at least be like, okay, ha ha, here's the present. Right? Wow.
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Yeah. Also, who the fuck's giving MacBooks away late for Christmas? Like, holy shit, right? This went on with each present my siblings or parents had given me. AirPods was just a charger block, gift cards were used and had zero balance, a card with monopoly money, and so on, totaling about 12 joke gifts.
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I realized I went out of my way to get everything something that they wanted or something they wanted or like and didn't get anything. I didn't get anything I think is what that's supposed to say. Sorry, that really tripped me out. At this point I was bummed so I went to the living room to watch TV with my boyfriend.
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At dinner, we were all talking about how much we loved, or how much they loved their gifts. And when my dad asked why I hadn't said anything about mine, I said that there wasn't much to say. Everyone but my boyfriend laughed and my mom said it was no big deal, as everyone else also got some joke gifts. I told her every gift I got was a joke gift. And the ones they got was also followed up by the real one. My dad told me I needed to relax as I'm making a big deal about it. And I'd have next Christmas to get the stuff on my list.
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Oh, no, no, no. Oh, no, no. Not wanting to go back and forth, I told my boyfriend I wanted to leave, and we can spend the rest of Christmas break with his family, then go home. My family got mad and told me not to go and just stay because I wasn't serious. Oh, because it wasn't serious. I left and put my phone on Do Not Disturb during the drive, and by the time we got to my boyfriend's parents' house, I had several missed calls and texts from them calling me names like ungrateful, sensitive, and childish.
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They said I ruined Christmas and made my parents upset because I left.
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The next day, I exchanged and opened gifts with my boyfriend and his family, and one of the gifts I had gotten was the book I wanted, the book my mom pretended to give me. I posted it on my Instagram story, and not even zero minutes later, after posting it, my sister sent a screenshot of my story to the family group chat, and they basically got mad at me for leaving and telling me I ruined Christmas over presents. They told me I owed everyone, especially my parents, an apology. Fuck you!
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Because my mom spent New Year's sad because of my actions. Now I just want an outside party to tell me if I'm the asshole here. Am I wrong for being upset about the gifts and for leaving? After reading their messages and sitting on this for a few days, I'm now feeling like maybe I was upset over nothing and need to apologize to them.
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No. Okay, two thoughts. One, I do kind of hate the idea that like the presents matter so much, but they do. They do. That's just how it is. Because everybody says it's not about the guess, it's the thought that counts. That is not a thought. No. That is you being mean. That's going out of your way. That was my second thought, is when, I've always felt this way, there's a very thin line between like a prank and just like being an asshole straight out to someone and having an excuse for it. Yep.
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Like, if they had had the backup gifts to give them, or if it was a couple and then they also got good gifts, fine. If that's what everybody does. I also was reading in the comments of that one a little bit, people were like, well, did you give Jo gifts? She says, no, I've told them for the last 10 years, I don't want to participate in this anymore.
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There was another one that was pretty similar to this actually, but they had given everybody gifts that they really put pot into. And when they opened all joke gifts, they went and took them all back and people were getting pissed at them because they took their presents back and they were like, this is stupid, I'm done.
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i'd be so pissed i'd be so pissed it's like it really is honestly if somebody got me the tiniest thing of something that i wanted i'd be so fucking happy you know like um i'm not a huge uh funko pop person but for my secret santa my secret santa went out of her way to go find me a funko pop from an anime she knew that i liked right that's thoughtful yeah that's thoughtful
00:11:45
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i think you know if you're doing like white elephant secret santa and it's supposed to be funny that's the perfect time it's the perfect time to do joke gifts but when you're sitting down as a family and you know this person doesn't like jokes like why do you think she told them for years that she doesn't like it and again yeah i'm like oh haha thanks for the dictionary and oh yeah here's the real book though yeah like you know something something yeah that's but to also just like you got my sister a mac book yeah
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and I got chocolate yeah that's the only gift but she doesn't even eat chocolate yeah so and that might just be like the the brother was like oh I forgot you didn't eat chocolate you know like that even still even still yeah even still you spent how much money on a macbook
00:12:32
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And I got a box full of chocolate. Yeah. That's not cool. No. And like going over to his family's house, like you bet your ass that my petty self is going to post a picture of the book that I actually wanted. And all of this together too. Because I got this gift. It's such a loving family. I'm so happy I'm part of this family. Yeah. I'm not going to apologize to my mom because she felt bad because she gave me shit. Yeah. No. Because she gave me a joke and then gave the book I wanted to somebody else. No.
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Yeah, that's that's just shitty. Yep on purpose Yep, if the like I would have thought it was a little funny if she was like gave her a dictionary and then the actual book was with this the Boyfriend's parents and it was that was their joke Yeah was that the boyfriend's mom gave her the the book cover to be like ha ha here you go And I'll give her the book or something, you know, like if they did something like that would have been cute or you know Like yeah a little silly and that's the family getting in on it together or whatever but like
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There's other ways to do it and that's not. I'd be pissed too. I would be so pissed. And again, it's not that she didn't get any gifts, it's she got jokes. Purposefully, hurtful, stupid gifts. Yeah, things that we very much did not think about you because you didn't get a real gift. Not even one real gift. Well, your sister got a MacBook and whoever got what? You're just the butt of the joke at that point and I would leave too. Oh yeah.
00:13:56
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Yeah. Because I'm pretty sure she's the baby of the family. Yeah. So it's not fun being the baby of the family. No. All righty. I have not read any of mine. Yes, I'm excited. That they
Holiday Family Choices and Tensions
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bring us content. It's a journey together. Yes.
00:14:12
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Okay, am I the asshole for spending the holidays with my dad and his girlfriend even though it was my mother's turn this year? I, 21 male, and my parents, 44 male and 45 female, or my parents have been- Oh, he's 21? Yes.
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21 well his parents are divorced sure so but he's 21 he can make his own decisions yes yeah i was like 16 that might be a little bit of a problem but you know like that he's an adult he's an adult that's anyway yeah so they've been divorced for almost four years now
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Ever since their divorce, I've been spending the holidays with each of them every other year. Last year, I spent the holidays with my father, so this year was my mother's turn. My father has been going on a lot of vacations with his girlfriend, 32 female. Get it? The past few years. And every time he goes somewhere, he invites me along. He pays for everything. Flight, hotel, food, etc. Damn. Oh damn. Invite me. For real? Hello. You need a sugar baby? Then how can I give you any sugar? I'll send you feet pics. I will.
00:15:13
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dirty underwear though okay but no but okay but the feet pics thing i i learned it's not just the feet it's it's angles from feet up a lot of the time it's like that doesn't count yeah so it's just but like feet are the prominent thing but then there's boobs or whatever and else in it those aren't feet so no but like that's that's what they want is it's that just a picture of a foot is not that sensual so like well that's what a foot finishes about yeah
00:15:42
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It's not a boob fetish. Go out of here. Everyone has a boob fetish. No, but you got to have like the feet like doing things in the pictures. That's how you make your money. Well, so yeah. There was a girl on TikTok talking all about it. She's like, I sell feet pics and this is what I have to do to actually make money. It's not just feet pics. So yeah. Crushing my dreams. Right. Sorry. It's just straight up pornography. But I would sell panties. I would do that. How do we do that? We need to figure it out. Right. Yeah.
00:16:07
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How many days do you have to wear him in a row, too? Like, I don't know. It depends, so. Can we figure it out? Yeah. Anyway. Okay. He lets me do whatever I want during these trips, so they are an awesome way for me to unwind after stressful semesters at university. So every opportunity I get, I join my dad and his girlfriend on these vacations. I wonder how she feels about that. Yeah. Your 21-year-old child. Yeah. I guess if he does his own thing, like, throw on a cruise and he just...
00:16:34
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goes off yeah then who cares for the holidays this year my father and his girlfriend uh planned a trip to a place that i have always wanted to go and that i knew i would enjoy a lot when he told me about the trip initially he did remind me that it was my mother's turn this year but he did add that i was always welcome to come along if i wanted to when i spend the holidays with my mother it's usually very boring we just stay home and visit family members that i don't really enjoy being around
00:16:59
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My mother and I don't even spend more time together than usual, so I decided to join my dad on his trip. When I told this to my mother, she seemed fine with it, so I didn't really see a problem. I returned from the trip a day before New Year's and it was amazing. But when I went back home, my mom seemed to be very cold toward me. Even during our New Year's celebration, she seemed mad at me.
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I asked her if there was anything wrong and all of a sudden she burst out of anger. She started telling me that me not spending the holidays with her was extremely disrespectful. When I told her about the trip she seemed fine with it so to see her get angry about it like this really came as a shock to me. Am I the asshole? You've never had a girlfriend in your life have you?
00:17:46
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It's fine, is what she probably said. Have fun, she said. That sounds like a great choice for you. I'm so happy for you. I bet you and your dad will love that. That's probably exactly what she said. You and the hoe and the dad.
00:18:03
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That's another question for me, too. It's like, how long have they been divorced and why did they get divorced? Four years. Okay. Was it the girlfriend? I can't make too many assumptions. I think if that was the reason he would have mentioned it, but probably. And also, most people aren't cool with their dads cheating on their moms. Yeah, they would just be like, yeah, I'll go on vacation with you. Yeah. Even though you're the homeworking hoe. Unless he doesn't know. I don't know.
00:18:32
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Yeah that just seems like mom isn't communicating very well. No. But also I feel like you should expect some form of her being upset. Yeah. Her being like well it's my turn this year. Like what is she gonna do tell you no? Yeah. Obviously you're an adult you can do what you want but. Yeah.
00:18:49
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Also, I'm just saying to everyone, be nice to your mothers. Be nice to your dads. They're getting old, okay? You're getting old, they're getting old. They're getting older. Spend time with them. Fucking hell. Love your family. Seriously. Unless they're assholes, then peace out. But like, you know. But, oh, I'd rather spend time with my dad because he's going to take me on his fun, fancy vacations and whatnot.
Parenting Conflicts and Boundaries
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This kind of sounds like a gold digging little son. Anyway. Yeah, so.
00:19:15
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Not the point. My turn! Am I the asshole for revoking my mother-in-law's babysitting rights because she put my son in a diaper? I scrolled past this one, but I didn't read it. Me, 29F, my husband, 31 male. Uh, effin' male. Anyway, not the point. Have a son, 3 male, and a baby girl on the way.
00:19:36
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As a baby, my son developed a severe allergy to diapers. He'd get awful rashes that took way too long to get better, and nothing we did helped much. Due to that, my husband and I decided to start potty training a bit early, right before he was 18 months old.
00:19:51
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Damn, get it. Right? We talked to his pediatrician and relied on cloth diapers as much as we could. After a few months of that, he'd almost grown out of his allergy, but we kept going. Today, he's fully potty trained. He has some very rare accidents, but only when he tries to delay his bathroom trips for too long. Makes sense. Makes sense. Three. Feel that, yep. Relatable. There's definitely times you're like driving home, you're like,
00:20:19
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Anyway, when this happens, we wash him up and replace his underwear. My husband's mother was firmly against our decision to potty train our son early. She insisted that it would lead to IBS and that he should wear diapers until he was at least three. No, why? I don't understand that.
00:20:35
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No, why would he get IBS from that? I mean a lot of potty training it depends on the kid But it can cause them stress and make them not want to use the bathroom for whatever reason and so it can cause either severe constipation or IBS or and caprices
00:20:53
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So you listen to have kids. Yeah, so yeah, but yeah three is perfectly fine Yeah, like most kids start potty training at like two. There you go. So like it's just yeah, I don't know I don't know. She tried to convince us to change our minds for months, but we held our ground. It's not your fucking business And why are you so concerned about it? Yeah, like it's working. Uh-huh. He's fine. Yeah, like
00:21:18
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But in early December, I had a doctor's appointment while my husband was at work. So I left our son with my mother-in-law for a couple of hours. Sometime later, she called me and said my son had a bathroom accident and he hadn't or he hadn't had one in months. I instructed her on how to proceed as well as where to find the spare clothes I packed for him. Which to me, I could have been like, oh, it's probably just because he's at your house and I'm not there. Just, you know, playing and not paying attention. Yeah. Makes sense, you know.
00:21:44
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I picked him up about an hour later and on our way home he complained about being itchy. I didn't know why until I got him ready for bath time later that night. He was wearing a diaper. He didn't get any rashes but the diaper was a couple of sizes too small and he hadn't worn one in a long time. So I think that's where the itchiness came from.
00:22:03
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Well, it's kind of hurt, too. That does not fit very well in their little creases. Yeah. Ow. And, like, toddlers still have, like, the little baby belly. I've got the baby belly, but, like... And, like, the chunky thighs and... Yeah, like, and that's pinching. Ew. So... Mmm. Bad mother. Right? When my husband and I confronted her about it... Oh, sorry. Uh, he didn't get any rashes, too small. He hadn't worn one in a long time, so I think that's where the itchiness came from. When I asked him about it, he confirmed that my mother-in-law had said he was still a baby and put him in the diaper.
00:22:35
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fuming right at what point do you stop being a baby and you're a toddler i feel like toddler like once you're walking because you're toddling around like 18 months ish is like where i would start calling them a toddler yeah they're toddler yeah like yeah they're still your baby but like they're a toddler they're not an infant no like
00:22:54
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Once they can start talking and doing things on their own and walking around and... Can I hand them a cup and they hold it themselves? Yeah. Can they feed themselves? Yeah. Can I hand them a fork? Yeah. Like, I'm not expecting them to go make themselves some fucking mac and cheese, but like, are you kidding me? No. No. And like, kids nowadays are starting preschool, like three and four, and you have to be potty trained to go into preschool. Yeah. So like... I mean, they didn't have that back in her day, so maybe that's... It's probably what it is. Yeah. Learning curve, but...
00:23:20
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When my husband and I confronted her about it, she defended herself by saying his accident was clear proof. We had made a mistake by potty training him early and he should go back to wearing diapers for the time being. At no point did she apologize. Guess who's not gonna be babysitting my kid anymore. It's you. Yep. You bitch. We decided she was forbidden. That's a like, forbidden is a fancy word from babysitting. Hey.
00:23:47
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As well as spending time with our son unsupervised. She didn't think we were serious until we went to her place on Saturday. We had to go to the hospital and rather than leaving our son with her, we took him with us. I don't know what they went to the hospital for. Yeah, no baby time probably. Oh, because she's pregnant. Oh, that could be it, yeah. Now that she knows we're serious, she's calling us dramatic and ungrateful, as well as claiming we're alienating her from her grandchildren out of stubbornness.
00:24:12
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She maintains she was right about early potty training being a bad idea and was only trying to help us. I didn't think we were in the wrong, but this does feel a bit dramatic. My brother-in-law, who was skeptical of our decision back in the day, thinks we were right to be angry, but it's still an overreaction to revoke her rights to babysit our son.
00:24:30
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if she knew that putting him in diapers causes an allergic reaction right and it was too small that's fucking like negligence yeah you can't do that no i would be so pissed so pissed yeah it'd be like her feeding
00:24:46
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your child that has a peanut allergy peanut butter mean like well i think you guys are wrong about his peanut allergy i don't know if you heard the one about like the coconut the coconut yeah it was really sad it's really sad um she had like twins daughters or whatever and she found out that her one daughter is allergic to coconut which in her culture is a really big thing they use coconut for a lot of stuff right
00:25:06
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They use it for religious reasons. It's always in their food. Most of them use it for oil in their hair and stuff, but her daughter is super allergic to coconut. So they said, absolutely no coconut around our daughter. And the grandma didn't believe them. She thought it wasn't that big of a deal. So she put a bunch of coconut oil in her hair to style it before bed. And when she started to get a little itchy, she gave her just some Benadryl, put her to bed. The daughter died in her sleep because she couldn't breathe and she couldn't wake herself up.
00:25:35
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because she was drugged up. Oh my god. Yeah. Because she didn't believe them that their daughter had a coconut allergy. The crimes I would commit. I don't want to hear anybody say shit about anything when people are like, oh you're not allergic to something. No. That's none of your business. That's none of your business. No. The only time I lie about my allergies is I say I'm allergic to tomatoes when I go through the
00:26:02
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Taco Bell Drive. Taco Bell Drive through, yeah. Cuz they put tomatoes on everything for no reason. Yeah. Oh, I also figured out because I like to go, sorry real quick, I like to go to McDonald's once in a while to get a breakfast sandwich. Yeah. Okay, don't fucking talk to me about that. Shut up. I eat them like every weekend. They're so good, right? People are like, do you know what's in them? I don't care. Don't tell me. I don't care. I don't need to know. I'm here for a good time. Not a long time. I'm going out at 65. All these other people are like, oh my gosh.
00:26:29
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My father-in-law has to have all these surgeries done. He's 97, and I'm like, it could never be me. It won't be me. I have resigned myself. I'm perfectly content thinking I'm going to die at 65. I'm not afraid of death. I'm not afraid of a McDonald's Egg McMuffin.
00:26:48
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Okay, let's go! Fuck me up! Yeah, let's go. Like, what? I don't like their ham and I don't like their sausage or their Canadian bacon. Oh yeah. It's not my favorite. I've never tried it. It's a little weird. So I don't like it that much. And I don't like their sausage. It just, both of them taste... What do you get? I just like to get an egg with cheese on a, on a... Muffin? Muffin, yeah. Okay.
00:27:11
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Yep. Interesting. It's good. It's still good. Okay. I just got a little bit of extra cheese on there and it's good. Okay. Except I went in the other day and I said, I'd like two Egg McMuffins, no Canadian bacon. And they said, okay. And I get to the drive-thru and they pull up to the, or I pull up to the window and she says, two sausage Egg McMuffins. And I said, nope. I said, two Egg McMuffins, no Canadian bacon. She's like, yeah. So I gave you two sausage Egg McMuffins.
00:27:36
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That's not what I said. They hear me. They just think, oh, she doesn't want Canadian bacon, so she clearly wants sausage. She said, that's what we do when people don't order or when they say they don't want Canadian bacon, we just give them sausage. I mean, I can kind of see where they're coming from because, like, sausage is the norm. Sure. Right? So, like, why don't you just ask for an Egg McMuffin with egg and cheese only?
00:27:57
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I've said that before, and they put the fucking meat on it still. And these people want $18 an hour. So I've also gone in before and said, I don't want any meat on there. And they've gone, do you want the egg? Egg is not meat, honeybuds. It's protein. It's protein, but it's not a meat. I mean. It hasn't developed enough to become a meat. So like. I'm not going to have that conversation.
00:28:23
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It's an unfertilized one, so there's that. Okay, anyway. So, your turn. I was gonna say, were you done with yours? Wait, there was a couple of edits. She said, edit one, I feel I need to point out that the diaper was clean when I removed it. Also, my son will be four years old in February. And then other people were complaining about, oh, well, you shouldn't take away your only babysitting option, blah, blah, blah. She's like, I have a lot of other people that can babysit, shut up.
00:28:50
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so it's in the near business yeah it's in your business don't worry about it so okay yeah all right we'll see how this one goes am i the asshole i forget that you didn't read these nope okay for asking my wife to wrap her own christmas gifts okay okay
00:29:06
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Okay. I can't wrap pretty presents to save my life. Everyone in my family knows it's not from a lack of trying. I'll either use too much wrapping paper or not enough. It's covered but not pretty. No big deal, right? Wrong.
00:29:21
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No matter what I do, wife isn't happy. According to her, she wants social media-ready presents. My solution? First year I just used gift bags. Can't go wrong with
Gender Roles and Domestic Disputes
00:29:32
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gift bags. She wasn't happy. Second year I used a gift wrapping service. Usually they are charities or someone at the mall. She wasn't happy.
00:29:41
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She wasn't happy with someone at the mall wrapping up shoes. It's probably because he didn't do it. I would assume. I would just fucking lie and say I'm taking a class. Wow. Aren't they so fancy? Yeah. I've asked what social media ready presents looked like and she said just pretty. The kind that you would see on Instagram.
00:30:01
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i asked yeah i asked why none of the previous solutions worked for her and her response was they looked fake babes do you know what social media is yeah especially when it comes to fancy ass yeah gift wrapped presents yeah fake fake this year i put all the gifts in blank boxes so she couldn't tell what was in them and asked if she would wrap them for me
00:30:26
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Okay, okay. If she's gonna be a fucking cunt about it. I would've just left him in blank boxes. There you go. There you go. There's one fucking TikTok was so fucking funny. Cause the guy didn't know, like he doesn't like to rap or whatever, right? But the gift bag he got wasn't big enough for the box. So he taped the gift bag to the front of the box and then put the cute little stuffing, the tissue paper in the bag in front. So like, and then he sat it. So you'd go, oh, how cute. And then when you turn it, there's a box.
00:30:55
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that's so funny to me that's hilarious and that to me is i tried like yeah you know yeah that's unique that's for sure um let's see also i don't understand why i guess if she's taking pictures for social media then she cares how her presents are wrapped but like you should care more she should care more about how her presents are wrapped for other people that they're like giving them to yeah you know in my opinion then what you're wrapping for me to put under our tree fuck off for me to rip the wrapping paper off
00:31:25
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I'm almost to the point where I'm thinking of using reusable, like it's just fabric. Can you just tie it? Yeah, but then at the same time, that's a lot of fucking money. Mm hmm. Because like they're all different sizes and like. No, anyway, I was thinking though, because like a lot of people are like, oh, but it's not fun because you can't like tear into it. I'm like Velcro. Mm hmm. And then it gives you that. Just do like panels. Yeah. Velcro is also expensive though. Mm hmm.
00:31:52
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um she got upset asking why i couldn't wrap them i told her i could but she wouldn't be happy with the results and to avoid another argument it would be easier if she just did it i explained that no matter what solution i came up with she wasn't happy and she could either wrap the gifts herself or they would go unwrapped because i'm tired of this whole situation she claimed i was using weaponized incompetence to avoid wrapping the gifts and you're using you being a cunt yeah
00:32:22
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that is an excuse every day bitch yeah it looks too fake that that's what gets ya why did they do this now she has complained to both sides of the family
00:32:35
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fucking stop. Stop with your bullshit. And whose side do you think my parents are gonna be on? Like, oh my child who I know can't wrap presents. I'm gonna be on your side, the daughter-in-law because my son can't wrap presents. The way you, that's the thing that pisses me off is that women always complain all the time of you're doing it wrong. No, I'm just not doing it how you would do it. It's not wrong. And that's the thing that pisses me off so fucking much. You're doing this wrong. Am I?
00:33:02
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Is it clean? Is it put away? Is it vacuumed? Is the bed made? Yeah. Sorry, it's not Instagram perfect. Like, oh, that's weaponizing competence. He knows I like it a certain way. Then do it a certain way. Then do it a certain way. Yeah. All I'm saying is that if you're going to be that fucking picky about it,
00:33:18
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Do it yourself. Zach and I load the dishwasher different every fucking time. Like he loads it a certain way. I load it a certain way. I think he doesn't put enough dishes in there. He thinks I put too many. So like- I load that shit up. Oh yeah. I'm like, if I'm doing dishes, I'm doing dishes. I'm not doing little bits here and there and stuff. Like, no, I don't have an industrial size sprayer too. Like, no. Oh my God, I wish. Yeah. Like, so no, but like- Yeah. If you want your presence wrapped a certain way,
00:33:45
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wrap up yourself or spend the next 18 hours teaching me how to do it and be pissed that I'm bad at it. Like... And I still can't do it. Yeah. Yeah. And like people are like, oh he could if he wanted to. Probably. Maybe. Is that a thing he cares about? Some people just start autistic like that. Yeah.
00:34:00
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okay yes um my family knows how i am with wrapping gifts so of course they're on my side good my mother-in-law doesn't understand my wife's point of view because no one pays attention to the wrapping outside of her other random family members are saying i'm the asshole because i could have gotten it professionally done and lied or practiced instead of asking her he did he did and she still hated it
00:34:23
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Also, I'm the person that believes a little tiny white lie doesn't really genuinely hurt anybody and stuff, right? But at the same time, yeah, it might. You know? Because then you have to spend how much getting these presents wrapped and doing it every year after. Yep, to say, yep, look what I did, honey, for you. And what happens at the times that you can't? Like, you're screwed. Or you're going to have to buy whatever fucking gifts you want, have them wrapped in January or got you out of June, you know? Get them all done. And then hide them somewhere.
00:34:49
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That's stupid. You married a bitch is what we're saying. Oh, yeah. I just think like if you're that fucking put out because you want people on Instagram, the what? The 15 people on your Instagram? All 30 of your followers? Yeah, whatever. Whatever. Nobody's gonna care. I don't care. I don't fucking care. Anyway, I'm the asshole for insinuating my boyfriend's father wasn't a real man. Oh, I scroll test this one too. Good, good, good.
00:35:17
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I've been spending the holidays with my boyfriend and his family at his parents' place, and this morning I woke up to the amazing news that my period had started. What a fun way to start the new year. So I asked my boyfriend to go get me pads in town. His mother calls me down for breakfast, and now I'm sitting at the dining table with his parents. His dad asks where my boyfriend is, and I told him that he's gone to the store to get me pads. Both their faces dropped and they exchanged looks with each other before breaking into laughter about how progressive kids were today.
00:35:45
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and that some share private women things that should remain between women. His dad said or then said that he's never even touched a pack of pads in all his years despite growing up with girls and being married for 40 years and never will because it simply doesn't concern men. Slightly pissed off on top of my already bad mood. I decided to respond, was quiet until now,
00:36:08
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and said that it was funny how he said that that was so much pride because then he's clearly not a real man if he can't just buy some fucking pads. After trying to stare me down he blew up shouting about how I dare I say he wasn't a real man and ranted at me for 30 minutes about how much of a real man he was and you can't even buy some pads before storming off.
00:36:30
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Things are now awkward and I'm contemplating apologizing and leaving to make things better. I'm aware my judgment is impaired." I don't like that excuse. And it's possible that I took things too far. So am I the asshole? And, um, I think she is. I definitely think that it was not the right move. Um, I think the whole, like, other side of the argument is stupid. Yeah. And I agree with her. Now that he's not a man. Yeah. But it's just like, why are we still perpetuating that this is
00:37:00
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Hush-hush women things, but my thing my biggest question here. Okay, I really just wanna know Why is it always the guy's job to have to go get fucking pads? Yeah, why do you why do you have to send him off to go get you pads? Go get yourself pads. Yeah, listen cramping so bad I can't get off the couch if I'm like I don't have anything with me and if I get off this toilet
00:37:23
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Yeah, like the Red Sea. That might be a problem. But you could, like, here's my thing. His mother is a mother. He clearly probably has sisters. There's probably pads somewhere in the house. Somewhere, yeah. Right? So, I don't know. Maybe it's just because, like, I think I've asked Zach, like, twice in our entire 10 years of marriage because he was already at the store and goes, do you need anything? Yeah.
00:37:44
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And I was like, oh, if you wouldn't mind. And he goes, okay, what kind? And I have to send him a picture. Exactly. Like Tony gives zero fucks. He gives zero. I don't know what you want. Yeah, exactly. He's like, I don't know. And the other women are like, they should know what you want. No, I don't even know what I want. I don't know what I'm going to need. I don't know. And it just, I, but I just got so mad that she's like, well, you're not a real man because you're not touching my fucking pads that you don't need or use for any reason.
00:38:10
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Yeah. Fuck off. I don't, I'm, a lot of people actually were agreeing with me. They were like, listen, is it a dumb argument that you're, yeah. Oh, I'm a man. So I shouldn't have to touch pads. Yeah. Well, that doesn't need to be taboo. No, it's not taboo. It's not. It's stupid. But you to say he's not a real man in his own fucking house. And for you to say I'm impaired because I'm a main period. Yeah.
00:38:31
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Fuck off. I mean, there are definitely some times when the red monster just, and I'm just like, oh, I shouldn't have said that. My thing is that I get infuriated with like, mostly when I'm at work or whatever, kind of, and spend a couple days before, but like, I used to make the keys where you'd have to like pop them into a machine reader and it would like sometimes magnetize it, sometimes it wouldn't, and there would definitely be days where I'd like, bam, bam, and it wouldn't, bam, bam, and it wouldn't,
00:38:57
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And I wouldn't I would chuck that thing over my shoulder and start to cry but like I'm not calling my future father-in-law especially like the idea of being yelled at by my Boyfriend whoever's father when he's not there with me. Oh, yeah for 30 minute like oh, yeah that's like here people were like did he really yell at you for 30 minutes and she was like
00:39:22
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yes the 30 minutes is some hyperbole but it was a long speech i didn't check the time listing all the examples of him being a real man and stuff and i'm like so it was what maybe 10 minutes if that maybe but yeah did you really have to cause a stir when you're there for the holidays you also could have just said oh he's at the store
00:39:40
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He just ran to the store to get us a couple things. You had to announce to everyone at the table that you're on your period. I don't like to know that. I really don't care. But if you have daughters, you understand that you have a wife, you have daughters. That is a thing that happens to women. It absolutely is, right?
00:39:57
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I, I don't know, I'm just a private person. I don't like anyone to know. Like, I don't like people to know when I don't feel well, you know? Like, I have an upset stomach, nobody knows to know. Yeah. Not at all. When Alyssa has a cold, I try to keep that to myself so fucking much. Like, I almost passed out at work because I didn't, like, the, uh, when I was super sick and I was like crazy dizzy. Were you having your allergies? Yeah, man.
00:40:19
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But I almost passed out at work and they were like, Alyssa, do you need to go home? And I was like, I'm sad. But I just don't like people to know things about me, about that. I don't like people knowing about my body. It's my body. And I'm so glad that you feel good enough to share your experience because yes, almost everyone has a period. It is a thing our bodies are meant to do and whatnot. And that's totally fine. But you have to just announce it to the entire table.
00:40:43
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He's just getting me pads because I'm not an idiot. He's just getting me pads. Because I clearly can't go to get it myself because I'm not a grown ass adult. That drives me insane so fucking much. I hear a lot of these that are just like, am I an asshole for being upset that my boyfriend wouldn't just leave the house to go get me pads when I was perfectly capable of doing it myself? And then why am I an asshole for being upset that my boyfriend doesn't know what kind of pants I use?
00:41:05
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Yes. Yes. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. That's so fucking weird to me. Yeah. Like, I don't know. I still, I'm still very much of the opinion of like a couple of things need to remain a mystery in your family or in your marriage and stuff. Yeah. I still never seen Zach P. No, I'm not. No. I'm not a come on in kind of person. No, not between my legs kind of a gal. No, fuck off. Like some of that is so weird to me. I'm so glad you guys feel comfortable enough doing that. Let's see how long you guys actually stay married because at some point
00:41:34
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like that's not for me that's not for me no no no even when like he's in the shower and i need to get something i'm like nakna hello are you okay you're in the shower stay in the shower i'm just gonna grab this like you know it's just it's a private thing yeah or like getting dressed like i've obviously seen everything i got yeah but i'm like oh you're putting on your underwear yeah i'll look away for you it's just a respect thing you know like it's i don't know like and i just anyway one more for you
00:42:04
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and i the asshole for causing drama on a holiday or on holiday and falling out with my boyfriend's friend for making slightly sexist jokes okay we went on a couple's trip with my boyfriend and with my boyfriend and i and another couple friend of his
Confrontations on Sexism and Behavior
00:42:22
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uh thank you okay okay my boyfriend and i went on a on a vacation with another couple yeah that was all you needed to say yeah um let's call his friend james before this trip i had already noticed james dropping some subtle jokes here and there about the inferiority of women
00:42:43
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for example we played a board game once where he insisted it had to be males versus females and when they beat us in one round we won we won the other rounds he made a comment like it's like taking candy from a baby and stuff like that so he's just obnoxious yeah okay
00:43:01
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Anyway, fast forward to this trip. It started off well, but again I noticed he would make such comments at least once a day. We played charades where he again asked to make it male versus female, and when they won he mentioned a few hours later the highlight was getting to beat the women. Another time my boyfriend and I were pretending to play fight, which is our thing, and my boyfriend said that I'd be a real piece of shit if this was for real.
00:43:30
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Your boyfriend said that? And then James chimes in, as far as I'm concerned, you are the piece of shit for not following through with it for real, haha. All smiles and jokey, but really? I was mainly upset at my boyfriend for reacting passively, and sometimes laughing along politely as well, so I finally told him to let James know this is not okay, and it makes me uncomfortable. That's up to you, babe. Yeah.
00:43:57
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shut your mouth let's go james then texted me a civil apology along the lines of i'm sorry you got offended but i wanted to clear the air oh my gosh um privately though my boyfriend showed me their text conversations where james said things like dude i am not okay apologizing over a few jokes that's not cool man why do women do that man but anyway my girlfriend is no better with drama
00:44:24
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Blood boiled as soon as I saw that. I then texted back an extremely direct reply to him, saying his apology is insincere, and if he doesn't understand how annoying his comments are for any self-respecting woman to listen to on the daily, I have nothing to say to him and I will never see him again.
00:44:43
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also keep in mind a few days prior he had a massive fight with his girlfriend where she packed her bags and was ready to leave the holiday i had to track her down and console her woman to woman and try to explain to her or try to explain his point of view and get her to return why are you defending him why are you defending him
00:45:03
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leave with her yeah you don't want to be here either it makes me even angrier that james has not an ounce of empathy for him making me feel uncomfortable who has been nothing but nice to him this far and even helped with his argument
00:45:19
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it is so hard to say i didn't mean to offend but i get it and will not make oh is it so hard to say i didn't mean to offend but i get it and will not make these comments in front of her anymore and will apologize even though i didn't mean it in that way am i the asshole for ruining the holiday dynamic holiday dynamic and cutting james out of my life over a few jokes like these is he in your life other than this moment like are you 12 yeah is my question yeah
00:45:48
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those weren't even like bad they were just like okay what your boyfriend said was worse yeah wait you'd be a real piece of shit if this was real it's only you but yeah like that was a weird one i just i thought that'd be more fun
00:46:06
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A kind of immature bullshit is bad. Yeah, all of that was just nonsense. His comments weren't that bad. The best part was beating the women. Sounds like he's just a poor winner. Yeah. What do you call that? Yeah, a sore winner. Yeah. So yeah. It's not like he was like, fuck these bitches. No. Or, you know, like anything. I was expecting it to be worse. Yeah. You know?
00:46:25
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or like sexual or like something yeah or like see this is why you guys lost because you're women yeah like something something no not just ha ha ha we won because we're the men yeah okay okay now you know not to take a holiday with you and your boyfriend and also these other people anymore okay you had one more oh no i just i had that was my three i had three i was trying to see if i had one that i really wanted to read but they they can't wait they're not like
00:46:54
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let's go okay so okay yeah so good hold on let me read the other the the titles of mine really good sure yeah see if you want to listen to any of them mine is am i the asshole for telling my family to fuck off and am i the asshole for not reconciling with my sister on my mother's death bed i don't think it's holiday related but we can make you know i want to hear the death bed one okay i want to hear both of them
00:47:22
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You picked good ones. The last two, I just picked at random. I didn't even read them, too. What are the titles? Am I the asshole for telling my stepmom about my dad's lies and letting her know the truth? Or am I the asshole for being the only income and being mad at my stay-at-home girlfriend for expecting me to clean up? I passed that one, too. Did you? I didn't read it, though. Do you want to read one more each?
00:47:47
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sure that'll be because you actually have to edit a few things out so yeah okay i'll read okay yeah which one did um no the juicy one the first one the first okay secrets and lies am i the asshole for telling my stepmom about my dad's lies and letting her know the truth so my dad my stepmom and me 16
Family Therapy and Estrangement
00:48:10
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have been in family therapy for about three months now. It started out because my stepmom started to have some concerns about our family she wanted to address. Our last session before Christmas, a few things were brought up and asked, oh brought up and asked and I decided to be honest. I admitted that my dad had lied to my stepmom about asking me or lied to my stepmom about me asking him if she would adopt me and be my mom.
00:48:55
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that while I have love for my stepmom, I do not love her the way a kid loves their mom or dad or how I love my mom. I also admitted that it would feel weird to me to live with her if dad were gone and I have other family members, parental grandparents and maternal grandpa, who would be my choice.
00:49:00
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This happened when I was seven.
00:49:16
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I admitted that I kept quiet because my dad basically told me what was happening and he made it clear he would not tolerate me hurting or disrespecting my stepmother by telling her I didn't want her. I also said it frustrated me sometimes to know the adoption isn't reversible because that's something I would do.
00:49:34
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My stepmom was furious at my dad. She admitted she had been told by my dad that I went to him privately about wanting to be adopted and how much I loved her. She was also led to believe that I don't remember my mom at all and really felt nothing for her. I was five when my mom died so my memories are not great but I have some. She also talked about how dad told her that I was worried about being replaced when they had kids and she went out of her way to be extra attentive and loving because she hated that I felt that way.
00:50:03
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But I confirmed I had never felt that way. I admitted I kind of, or I felt kind of bad before she had kids because the kids she loves as her own and claims as her own didn't think of her as his mom and would never return that love back in the way she had deserved. I admitted it was a relief when she had had kids of her own.
00:50:24
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My dad is furious at me because things have been tense and there were a lot of high emotions all through Christmas. He told me I had destroyed the woman who adopted me and gave me all her love and care and I had destroyed his second marriage. He also said I destroyed it all for some fuzzy memories of my mom and it's not what she would have wanted.
00:50:44
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I asked him if he really knew that. Then he went off about my grandpa and said he had no right to tell me that my mom had been terrified of being replaced and that she probably wouldn't have wanted me to be adopted or call another woman mom. I told him it that yeah that's grandpa shouldn't have told him that. Grandpa shouldn't have told him that. I told him it was the first time I heard that oh I heard about that oh okay so he didn't even tell that.
00:51:09
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Truth. Grandpa never said shit to me about it. My dad told me so I just decided to shit all over my stepmom and his marriage for nothing. That was sad. Now I feel bad. I didn't even read that. I was expecting it to be cheating stuff. Which is also sad, but like... Yeah, but juicy. Yeah. Yeah, that one is just intense. Sad. I mean, therapy is the place to do it, but also like, did that need to happen? I don't know.
00:51:35
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I mean if you're having troubles and the parent or the family's like well what's going on you're just keeping it all in like I don't feel like that's your your thing to out no oh by the way he lied yeah about all of this and I hate you and I don't want to be your child yeah I wish you never adopted me mm-hmm like this adult who literally put so many years into caring for you oh yeah going out of her way and that's a lot nine years at least
00:52:06
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like even if you didn't feel like i don't know i guess with him saying he felt relief or she he he saying he felt relief when she finally had other kids so the spotlight wasn't on him but it's like how would you have felt though if she didn't put that extra effort into exactly you feel special you would have been like well she didn't even want me anyway like i think he's 16 i think he's emotional i don't think he's thinking it through all the way when he's 21 22 he'll look back and be like oh i'm really glad that
00:52:27
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Like, yeah.
00:52:35
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I had someone to care for me as a mom. And I fucked that up. Yeah. Like so much that you would reverse the adoption. Yeah.
00:52:44
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Was she horrible to you? That's what I want to know. Is she a horrible stepmom? It seems like not. I mean they're in therapy but lots of families should do family therapy. Yeah but being forced into being adopted that's one thing that if he was like upset because he's like no I didn't actually want to be adopted like okay that's fine that's a valid you know but to be like I don't love you like you should be loved like yeah
00:53:06
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at seven too like it's not like he was 14 yeah and the dad was like well suck it up because you don't know your mom she was you know like yeah yeah seven yep yeah okay anyway let's see how mine goes one more
00:53:22
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I'm a little nervous because this one is the deathbed one. So like, is this gonna be also sad? Hey everyone, happy sad. Happy moms are dead day. That's cool. Yeah, okay. Am I the asshole for not reconciling with my sister on my mother's deathbed?
00:53:40
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I have estranged myself from my siblings for more than 30 years. The last time we were together was at my father's funeral around 25 years ago when one sister moaned to my mother about how devastated she was that I would not have a relationship with her. The siblings took her side and my mother actually told me that it was more painful
00:54:03
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for her that I did not speak to this sister, than that her husband, my father, had died. I did not speak to my mother for many years after that, but we eventually reconciled to some degree. Now my mother is on her deathbed. I asked if she would like me to visit. Her first reply was an enthusiastic yes, but after thinking this over, she asked if I would mind terribly if one of my sisters was there too for part of my visit.
00:54:28
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i told her i do not want to combine a visit with my sister with a visit with her okay my mother is very very upset now on her death bed and i am the villain for refusing to meet my sister at my mother's house while my while my sister who i suspect orchestrated this bit of crazy making comes out smelling like a rose who just wants a relationship with her sister what did she do what did she do in the background yeah
00:54:57
Speaker
It's unlikely that my mother will get over her disappointment in me. I think any visit I have with her now will be clouded by the pain I caused her and my siblings by estranging myself. I don't think it's important why I estranged myself, and I'm certain that no reason I give will be good enough. I've tried to explain my reasons to my mother in the past, and she tells me I'm wrong. That's not true, etc.
00:55:20
Speaker
While my mother has tried to arrange reconciliation now and in the past, none of my sisters have. I know that I'm okay to keep my distance, and I suspect they are too. However, when there is a family crisis, I become the family villain. So am I the asshole in this? Yes. Yes. Yes. Your mother is dying, and you won't go visit her because your sister will also be there.
00:55:43
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You're a bitch. That's terrible. You won't even see her because your sister will be there. You can literally be there and be like, hey, I don't want you in the room. Someone said, why can't you just get a flight and go see her? Don't tell anyone that you're coming and show up. I feel like some vital information is being left out for real.
00:56:03
Speaker
What'd she do, sleep with your husband? Like, cause that I'd be pissed about and be like, I don't want her there. But it seemed like it's all the siblings. Yeah. So what the fuck happened? Yeah. Maybe you are the villain. Yeah, maybe you are. Cause if it's everyone against you. Yeah. There's a reason. There's a reason.
00:56:18
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I just want... Oh, someone said, not the asshole. I find it interesting that your mother is on her deathbed and only wants to see you under the condition that your sister is there. That's not what she said. That's not what she said. She said, can your sister be there? And she said, no, if she's gonna be there, fuck you. Yeah. Your mom did not say don't come. Unless your sister's invited, like, unless your sister can be here. Not that I saw. Did she say anything back to that? I told her that I don't want to. Mother's upset.
00:56:46
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Yeah, she doesn't say her mom didn't want her to come. I also feel like shame on my sister for doing this to a vulnerable person on their deathbed. You're a fucking bitch. You're a real piece of work. She's a vulnerable person. This kind of drama or not put an end to it. Why egg my mother on? Because her mother probably wants that just as much as she does. She's not even saying like, come duke it out and reconcile. She's saying, can you visit while your sister's here? Yeah.
00:57:16
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Like, can't you suck it up for one fucking day to say goodbye to your mom? One fucking day. You were there for your dad's funeral. Yeah.
00:57:24
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So it's okay once they're dead. Yeah, that's it. Except would she even go to her mom's funeral? Cause it doesn't seem like it. You're a cunt. Wow, happy holidays everybody. What a great way to end things. That's so fun. That's sad. I was expecting drama. Me too. I was expecting sadness. Sadness. It's a lot of sad. So, so love your family as long as they're not,
00:57:53
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complete assholes and show up to your mother's deathbed it doesn't fucking matter yeah so deal with your sister later yeah who gives a fuck yeah so all i gotta say is i most people don't regret going and visiting someone on their deathbed but they absolutely do regret not yeah so i'm terrible i i don't know why when i know someone's gonna die i have the hardest time visiting them oh really i just i don't know what it is like if it's like the i want to remember them this way kind of a thing but like
00:58:22
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when my grandpa was passing away they were like everyone come up like this is it pretty much and i i went but i did not it was it's hard it's hard and he wasn't there like
00:58:34
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I know that's the saddest thing to me too, is that like for the longest, like when my grandma was dying and stuff, like she slept 19 hours a day, you know? You'd call and try to talk to her and she'd be like, which one are you again? Like I'm Alyssa, grandma, I'm Danette's daughter. And she'd be like, oh, okay, how is Danette? And my grandma, she's been dead for a few years now. Oh yeah. Where she'd say something, she'd say something to my aunt on the phone. She'd say, oh, Danette came and visited me. And I was like, you're very close to dying, grandma.
00:59:04
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She would say that on the phone. She'd say Danette came and visited me, or Tom came and visited me, or Tim came and visited me. Did they now? Did they? That's so great. I'm so glad for you.
00:59:15
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And I'm like, yeah, you're going. As this LDS would call it, the veil is very thin for you. So yeah. Have I ever told you about when my grandpa passed away? I wasn't there because I had Adam, unfortunately. My mom was there. My dad was there. And a couple of my dad's sisters were there. And I think my grandma.
00:59:35
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and they were basically just sitting around waiting for it to happen it was really sad and they said that there was a moment that they just kind of knew it was happening and my mom swears on her life well your mom's like i know tuned to that stuff yeah and they saw um my dad's sister who passed away like back when i was in high school they like saw her oh like take him take him i guess i'm like why wasn't i there yeah but also i don't want to see that but also
01:00:03
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I know, yeah, my grandma, I don't know, nobody saw anything like that because a bunch of family was in and out of the room all day and stuff. My aunt went outside with her the whole time and they were just waiting. They had taken her off of everything, you know, she was just, she was there for hours and hours and everybody came to say goodbye. But yeah, my aunt went outside with her the whole time, except when everybody else had gone, it was just kind of her by herself. She got up to go to the bathroom when she came back. My grandma was gone and she was devastated because she was like, I should have been there for her.
01:00:33
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say they will not pass until they're alone when they can be quiet and stuff and yeah a lot of the nurses had to come for her and say this happens a lot all the time they wait until they're alone and they don't want you to see that no yeah yeah and so my aunt i think feels a little better about it and stuff but she was so scared that like she was like oh my mom was by herself and like uh-huh that's so sad but yeah yeah and like my dad he doesn't really believe in that stuff but he also saw it and so he was just kind of like
01:01:02
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And like my aunts were all like, did you, did you see that? Did you see that? That's crazy. Wish I had seen that. That's, yeah, that's probably pretty cool though, but. Cause I'm a full on believer that's what's gonna happen. They're gonna be like, come on. If I'm going out the way I want to go out, kind of a thing, my mom's gonna be like, me, me, me, me. She'd be like, get back in there. You're like, no, I don't want to. I'm the only one that can take you out of this world. And I say no. Oh my gosh, she would say that too.
01:01:31
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oh anyway anyway i hope you guys liked our um our assholes and our sad family situations i guess yeah family holiday drama but like not the kind that we wanted yeah i guess we'll read our stories ahead of time next time yep sorry about that
01:01:50
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