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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
My stepbrother copies everything I do, so I refuse to
graduate out of spite. I seventeen female, have parents that
divorced when I was three due to my dad cheating
on her with my mom's brother's girlfriend. For a while,
everything was fine, but after a few years of living
there with them, I started to notice that everything I
would do, my stepbrother tried to do as well.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
A little copycat, a little anything you can do, I
can do better.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
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I thought it was nice to be looked up to
until I realized he was trying to one up me
in everything. I noticed this when he would comment on
every little thing I did wrong and then loudly shout
everything he did right and how much better.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
He was.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
At every party we had celebrating one of my achievements,
he would make it about himself and try to gain
the attention of anyone who asked me about what I
had achieved in intermediate I was fed up with it.
If I ever did something, I wouldn't inform him or
my stepmother. Keep it secret, can keep say safe. The
only person I would tell anything to was my dad,

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as I was still his little girl, being the only
daughter amongst nine children wow six biological brothers and two
step My dad supported me through all of this and
always looked for my perspective on things. This worked for
seventh grade, but because of a celebration party I had
with the program and all families were invited, my stepbrother

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joined the following year. Lucky for me, all of the
different things were already filled with other students and he
could only join me in one thing, which was softball.
He'd brag about how he was the best player and
the way he always carries the team. By the time
he joined, I was already a pointed team captain. He
would always try to overtake me, but I stood for

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many games we nearly lost because he tried to make
his own game plan or overtake someone else's base. Eventually
he got kicked off the team for his poor sportsmanship
and being disrespectful to not only me, his captain, but
also the rest of our team and the other teams playing.
He'd often mock them for losing. When we got home
that day, he told his mom what happened and blamed

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me for getting kicked off the team. Everything's Opie's welt.
She glared at me, but I simply shrugged and walked
past her. Later, my dad knocked on my door and
asked me what happened. When I finished explaining, he told
me about an early college program I could take. Because
I was planning on becoming a math teacher through my
high school years. I worked hard in school and afterwards

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with early college. Damn go to early college. Jeez. My
stepbrother couldn't join me in this because he didn't have
the three point five require GPA. Lose what I was
informed about being able to graduate early because of the
dual credit program. I was ecstatic because graduation could have
been the one thing I could celebrate without it being

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about my step brother, the one thing I would have
to myself. I hadn't brought up this matter until a
few months after months ago, after an incident when I
mentioned how excited I was to be halfway through high
school and to graduate in twenty twenty seven. To my auntie,
who wanted to know about my achievements because she had
been studying abroad for years. My stepbrother went up to

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me and said, not just you, I graduate in twenty seven,
twenty twenty seven to two. You're nothing special. How did
he do it? How did he do it?

Speaker 4 (03:43):
You know?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Honestly, as oh my god, biological brother, I feel like
this behavior is a little easier to explain as a
step brother. Yeah, being like a scumbag just awful.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
But that's not even it. He goes and after saying that,
he flips op off and walks what he's like, Not
just you, I graduate in twenty twenty seven to two,
You're not special, And he goes back.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Who do you think you are taking the entire year
of twenty twenty seven to yourself? Get eddytity.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
My aunt is about to speak up, but I politely
tell her it's okay. And then I mentioned early college
and the dual credit program. My stepmother hears this and
asks me what the heck I'm talking about. As I
explain and tell her I want to graduate early to
get ahead start in life. And because I turned nineteen
shortly after graduation in August in twenty twenty six, she

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laughs in my face and thinks I'm joking. When I
confirm I am one hundred percent serious, she gets in
my face and says, how selfish can you be? We've
waited years for you and your brother to graduate together.
We plan this huge party for you too, and you
just plan to not go through with it and graduate

(04:54):
a year early because you don't want to share a
milestone with him? Are you that selfish youth? Stupid brat?
She sounds awful.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Wow, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, like true
being like, we planned a party for both of you,
You're gonna graduate and overachieve.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I scoff at her and mention how I've been sharing
milestones with him and every time she makes it all
about him, I go to my room to cool off,
but can't help and feel but feel guilty about snapping
at her. And I had the jerk, And there is
an edit to finish this story off, but I don't.
I don't think so. I think she she's massively overreacting.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, no, I think you should put your life on
hold for a year for these dumb idiots and clearly
don't value you as a person.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Literally she does. And also I'm a little bit confused
because it seems like we've got too like two conflicting
stories here, because the the stepbrother's like, no, I'm graduating
then too, but the step mom is not aware of this,
so I don't Yeah, I don't wait yeah, because he was, look,
you're you're not special. I'm graduating in twenty twenty seve all.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
The stepbrothers not graduating because he still doesn't know how
time and years work. Yeah, he doesn't get it, doesn't
know how to doesn't know how to read a calendar yet.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, but there isn't edit. My bad, guys. I fixed it,
and thank you guys for all the advice and honesty.
I might just stay with day. My mom is on
another island, so doing so would mean I have to
transfer schools and sophomore years just started. My dad, Oh,
stay with dad.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, I think it was dad.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
My dad is supporting me with graduating early, so I'd
only be there till the end of junior year. Then
I'm out. For those of you questioning the timeframe, it
is fixed and about me being a sophomore in seventeen.
Just let's just say, in seventh grade, I didn't surround
myself with the best people. You know, the whole new
school wasn't exactly in my best interest, considering most of

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my friends wouldn't be there, and I found this group
of popular kids who I found were fun to hang
out with, just not the best examples I needed in life.
And the best example you can follow is joining us
live every weekday three PMPST is to have.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
A profile, and we'll solve all of your problems, your problem,
no matter what they are.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Edit too. I'm just gonna be blunt here since people
are questioning how a seventeen year old is graduating in
twenty twenty seven when they'd be twenty and how made
up this is? Yes, okay, I'm supposed to graduate when
I turned twenty. I got held back in seventh grade
and had to repeat, why do you think I was
so excited to be offered a chance to graduate early.
Think what you like on whether this post is real
or not, But I was told I could share my

(07:26):
situation on here and be offered feedback. So that's what
I'm doing, y'all.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
I'm done.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Honestly, this is supposed to be a community where you
get feedback on a situation where you're unsure if you
were in the right or wrong. I besides the amazing advice,
the rest I've gotten from y'all is this is all
be us. Probably use chat GBT for this. This is
most like you fake or the fact that me graduating
early isn't apparently an achievement because it's what most kids
do at seventeen, completely overlooking the fact that the reason

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why it's such an achievement for me is because I
got held back in the first place, and this is
an opportunity for me to make up for those stupid
past mistakes. If you're not gonna give actual feedback, then
why even comment. I would get it if I was
getting hate for being the jerk, But no, it's not
even anything relating to that. Plus, if some of you
would read the account bio before accusing me of this

(08:14):
being a sham, you'd know it's a venting account for me.
At my friends, we don't do well with sharing things
with people we know and would potentially make situations worse,
especially with such personal experiences, which is why come to Reddit.
When we get feedback and we get to decide the
course of action, we get a take.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yes, damn, what if you want to? All right, these
are young teenagers who are going through emotional mailstrooms, and
I think the healthiest thing they can do is have
a Reddit where they just vent about all of their
friends and don't really tell each other about it. Because
they're teenagers.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Ers, they don't know how to talk to each other.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
They can just yell into the abyss of the Internet
and suddenly their problems feel like they've been solved, and
then they can go have fun together at the wherever
they hang out, the bowling alley they had the bowling alley.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Everyone's saying, do it for Dan.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
I'm really mad that I'm still on the outside of this. Yeah,
you're there for do it the Dan, do it for
be there for seven hours.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Literally seven hours of doing it for Dan.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I would have done it for Dan for seven more hours.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
And also I was gonna say, all the people saying
slap the bag, it's funny story. Uh, Keon actually taught
me how to slap the bag. Wow, Really, Kean teaches
all of us how to slap the bag because I
had never I never never did that. I didn't even
hear about it because I wasn't I've never been a player.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Don't drink either.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I also don't drink either. And so when I but
I was really good at it. I slapped it very well,
slapped maybe the best, but then I just had like
a sip. It was like huge slap.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Damn yeah, slapped it little yep. I've never slapped. I've
never slapped it, but I never slapped it. I just
assume what you do is you slap it.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
You slap it.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
And then you said the yeah, yeah, seems pretty straightfor
someone had to teach you that.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I didn't even know it was a thing you slept.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
It's only one step.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
No, there's two steps.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
I well, the second step is implied.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
We doesn't drink it without spilling it, which is harder
than it looks.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Really. My brother was sabotaging all of my friendships, so
I disowned him. When I was twelve years old, my
mom and stepdad got married. My younger brother and I
would go back and forth if we liked each other
or not. Okay, so right away they were like, I
love you, I hate you, I love you, I hate you.

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He always gave me the impression that he hated not
being the oldest anymore, and that feeling last to this day.
By the way, this comes from user excellent Flower one
three eight on the r slash okay storytime sub reddit.
So he always tried to be in charge of us
when we were kids. My mom would put me in
charge when it was just us at home, and he

(10:58):
would never listen. She had to stop leaving me in
charge because he would never respect me. Even my older sister,
who lived with my dad at the time, couldn't be
responsible for us because he refused to listen to us.
I can already hear it right now. He's like, you know,
my mom, you, oh my jod I was the oldest.
This isn't fair. Back in my day, I used to

(11:21):
run this place.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I used to run this joint, and then you will
come in and try to take over my territory.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
We have no idea the sacrifices I've made. All right,
when we got older, we would be a little more civil.
I think he started liking the idea of having a
big brother when I confronted one of his bullies, what
are you doing with my little brother?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
I am I'm the only one who can bully him.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
We go close over time. Then he started really being
a snake, sneaky, little, slithery, little snake. I would sometimes
bring him around my friends when I wasn't around. He
would trash talk me to my friends. He would push
to hang out with them without me around. Most of

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them would defend me and stop talking to him. Unfortunately,
some wouldn't. I started having people that I would call
my friends disappear from my life.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Oh no, it just says disappear. It doesn't say disappear
in my life. It just doesn't disappear. Is your brother
taking out your friends? This is terrifying.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
I just had friends disappear. Yeah, they just I don't know.
They one day they're talking to my stepbrother. The next
day they're never They never search warrants for that, So okay.
But after my friends disappeared, Uh, they wouldn't answer me.
They would start spreading rumors about me turning my back
on them. They would show up at my house solely

(12:50):
to hang out with my brother, which I mean, I
guess that's fair if your brother's there, but maybe maybe
stings a little bit that they ghosted you. Yeah. Uh,
And then my brother would fight with them.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh, he doesn't. He doesn't even like them.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, he's like, I don't even like you guys.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
But he's so cool, he's so unattainable.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
No, he beats him up because he's like this just
for abandoning brother in law, my stepbrother.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
It's like that scene and Meet the what's it called
Meet the Robinson's, where like the young Goop I think
his name is Goop Yeah, and he's like he's like
walking to the halls and he's like everybody hated me.
And then it cuts to all the people in the housband.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Like, hey, what's up Goop?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Hey can we hang out later? That's what this is.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
I haven't seen Meet the Robinson.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Whoa, you're missing out.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
And then my brother would fight with them, only for
them to come back to me saying they never should
have entertained him in the first place. I started cutting
anyone off that would ghost me for my brother. Years later,
we would start sorting things out again. Him and I
would get close or got close again when we found
out that our kids would be born around the same time.

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Our kids are a month apart. That's a really weird
thing to like rekindle a relationship with the toxic person
for it, we started getting hostile again just a little
bit before his wedding. I'm all for it being their
special day, but he had too much of an entitled attitude.
He expected everyone to drop a lot of money that
nobody had at the time and wasn't willing to help

(14:22):
pay for it. His father in law dropped thousands of
dollars on the wedding for my sister in law, and
my brother demanded our parents do the same. They chose
a really expensive photographer and demanded my parents pay for it,
claiming they couldn't argue that that's the only thing they're
obligated to pay for. There was a day that my
wife at the time was supposed to meet up with

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my sister in law and another friend to look at
bridal party dresses. When my wife got home from work,
she was feeling terrible. She had messaged with the girls
and decided to relax for the rest of the day,
which is fine. She earned it, right it You earned that.
Nobody faltered her for it since it was for her
mental health. A few minutes later, my brother is calling her,
flipping out that she had canceled. He's demanding that she

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could get out there and go with the girls. I
took over the situation since she was already feeling bad,
and it got to a point where he got off
the phone and blasted her on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Stop blasting people on Facebook?

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yes, well, what do you mean, That's what all mature
adults do. They blast people on Facebook. All of his
little sheep jumped to agree with him and bad mouth
my wife. Oh so I went off on all of them. Yes,
there were people saying terrible things about my wife that
weren't even at the wedding. Later on anyway, one person
in particular that I personally messaged the screenshot of my

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wife's conversation with the girls when she apologized for canceling.
This person went off saying that she was with my
sister in law right after the blow up, saying she
was bawling her eyes out over it. I've asked my
sister in law and she told me that person was
never at her house that day and she's more of

(16:02):
my brother's friend. Anybos lies on a lying wham wham
feel bad for me story on Facebook?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Crazy, No way, I wouldn't imagine it.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
No one's ever done that. She's a real trendsetter. This week,
my brother even got mad that I was uncomfortable with
my wife walking with a guy that I had negative
history with. My brother was never shy to tell me
about how his best friend was his only real brother.
To him, wow, why do you not like you? So

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don't even go to this thing? Why are you hanging
out with this guy? When I told him that I
didn't like him having me blocked for no reason and
he's supposed to be walking with my wife, I just
wanted to talk with him and settle things. My brother
blew up, saying that I was ruining his wedding again.
After I finally got in contact with the guy, he

(16:57):
even agreed that my brother was overboard with how he
reacts did He even said he understood where I was
coming from. The wedding was fine, but it doesn't stop there.
When my wife and I separated, she would still hang
out with my sister in law. My brother would tell
her terrible things to make us fight.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
WHOA, now he's trying to take your wife away?

Speaker 3 (17:17):
I mean, like, but they'd already separated. Now he's just
trying to pile on be Like, Yeah, the guy was
the worst trust me, he's not even my real brother.
I tell him every chance I get that he stinks.
He's as steaming pile of cows.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
So she comes back and she's like, I know he
broke up, but you suck.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
I know he broke up. I just wanted to come
back and confirm that you actually suck and I rock.
And also your brother he rocks and marrying your brother. Oh,
He's like, should I not like this guy?

Speaker 2 (17:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
We finally got to a point where we realized he
was provoking us.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Awesome, this is when you got to that point.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Now that she told him off, he tells our family
that she's not welcome anymore. He's tried to my parents
that she's not allowed overhear during family functions when it's
my parents' house. Sure, my ex and I are very close.
We have a very healthy co parenting relationship for our son. Yes,
love that, we love that.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
We love to see this.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
She even had to stay here for a few days
when her place had work done on it. My mother
still treats my ex like her daughter and loves having
her around. She comes over to help us get ready
for parties or just hangs out. My brother had an
idea for a birthday party for my mother. Oh boy,
I can't wait to hear what that is.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh boy.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
He told her that him and my younger sister would
be coming over and bringing cake. He said that he
would come cut the grass and stuff for her too.
He never gave her a time frame for it, though
she had canceled plans to be here for the party,
and he didn't show up until late that night. I
was originally supposed to work that day and be off
later that night. He told everyone after the blow up

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that he planned for it to be later so I
could be there. Okay, The day came and my ex
was dropping my son off and saw us scrambling to clean.
My brother wasn't answering, and we had no idea when
people would be there. My brother claimed it was supposed
to be a surprise. My ex jumped in and started
helping us clean wx. My mom actually invited her to

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stay for the party. When my brother finally called and
found out that my ex was staying, he blew up,
hey yay yai. He said that my sister in law
didn't feel comfortable with her there. He said that she's
not allowed at family functions. That's not your.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Call, literally not your call.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Oh call, You are not allowed to make that call
for everyone.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I just don't understand why they still a relationship with
this guy.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, well, I mean because I guess he's related to
them or something, but like he's really pushing it, pushing.
My mom flipped back at him, saying she was the
only one that actually helped prepare for the party, and
she was starting to become the only one. My mom
actually wanted to be there for the party. My stepdad,
while at work, decided he didn't want anyone coming over

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at that point.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
But oh, too much drama party around.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah, that's the guy who can make the decision. The
guy was like, you know what, nobody's coming anymore.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Nobody's coming.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
We just cleaned the house for turning this car around.
There's no more party. He told his kids to not
even bother coming over. My ex left to keep the peace.
My brother and sisters still came over anyway. When my
stepdad saw on the ring camera that they still showed up,
he filipped out on them. They ended up leaving and
really haven't spoken to us since. They both decided to

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keep my nieces from coming to my son's birthday party
because they blame this whole.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Thing on me, so they're going to take it out
on the kids. Wow, that's great, What a great, what
a great way to do that. Hey, little niece, you
know what, we don't like them, So you don't get
to hang out with your friends.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
You don't get to hang out with any of your
friends because we get it be mean to you.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
You know where you can hang out every weekday at
three pm with us on our YouTube live stream.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Just tap the.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Profile, just tamping the little profile with your finger and
there is a little bit of the story left. But
I mean, let's check in. My sister and I have
kind of resolved our issue. My brother, on the other hand,
has not spoken to me since, and I'm tired of
his attitude. I refuse to have a bad relationship with

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my son's mother just because he doesn't like her, and
the fact that he felt the need to take out
his anger on our kids was the final straw. I
would never let my issues with him come between me
and my niece. And my son was devastated that his
uncle and cousin weren't at his birthday party. Am I
the jerk here? Absolutely? Not like we said the fact

(21:45):
that he's now like punishing the kids because he's just like,
I don't like your ex wife that you're co parenting
with beautifully.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Like, come on, he's always been the jerk. He never
grew out of being a jerk.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, he's always been the jerk.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
My sister tried to reconcile after mistreating me my whole life.
I told her she's not my family anymore. Get out
of here.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
We don't got you.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I seventeen female, used to be really good friends with
my sister nineteen female when we were kids. We would
sleep in each other's beds when one of us had
a nightmare. We would do how to draw tutorials together,
and she was my best friend for a long time.
That was until we switched schools. By the way, this

(22:29):
comes from medical Read seventy seven on the r slash
Okay storytime subured at So she was in the fifth
grade and I was in third grade when we switched
from a private to public school district, the one that
my dad worked at. Our little brother, now fourteen, was
just starting school and our parents couldn't afford sending three
kids to a private school. So me and my sister

(22:50):
switched over and my brother went to a private school
for kindergarten and first grade before going to public school
with us. When my sister got into middle school, well,
she started getting really mean, which I didn't understand. She
was so mean to me and we didn't hang out
much anymore. When I came out as bisexual in seventh grade,
she told me that I was disgusting. Oh, despite our

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parents supporting me and our brother. But what really made
me start to hate her was when we were in
high school. My freshman year, I joined the marching band,
and my sister was a junior and all of her
friends were sporty people. She would constantly bully me at
home and at school for being gay and having nerds
for friends and not being as smart as her. Every

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time I tried to get her to stop, she would
berate me more, and nothing would stop her except for
me physically leaving the room or my brother hitting her,
which always got both of them in trouble.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well, I mean, if she played sports, why you could
have just given her a good tackle. Just deck understand
you were up for the football team, trying helping you.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Come on, It's pretty awful. My sophomore year when I
turned sixteen and should have got my license. But I'm autistic,
so driving is a lot more stressful in general to me.
She would drive me to school, and almost every morning
she and I would fight. One day, I left none
of my notebooks in her car, so I went to
go grab it. While looking for it, I found a

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bunch of stuff that she shouldn't have had. It freaked
me out because I've always been super against all of
the stuff I found in her car, and so were
my parents. No substance did.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
No substance. Don't tell me that you're you narked on
your sister.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
I told my mom as soon as she got home.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
It sounds like your sister might not like you.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
You're an Are you a nark?

Speaker 3 (24:38):
You might not even understand you were being a nark
since you've you said that, you've got the little neuro
spiciness going on there.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Maybe a little bit of a little bit of a nark.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
You breached the trust. She sucks, but she does sucks.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
She sucks, but you're also a little bit of a nark.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, But honestly, maybe if she's been ruthlessly believed, maybe
she deserves and hates that you your bisexual.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
You know what. Yeah, actually used to be narcked on.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
In a rare instance, the nark is getting a pass you.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, sometimes you just gotta you just gotta give them
a taste of her own medicine.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
But most of the time, just mind your own business.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, I agreed. However, she was eighteen and she believed
she could do anything she wanted. After this, she routinely
snuck out of the house, snuck people into the house,
and did illegal stuff. One day, she even was brought
home by the cops for a DUI whoa. That was
when my parents snapped. My mom threatened to kick her
out of the house if she didn't stop what she

(25:34):
was doing, and she was mad because she had been
doing it for so long. Why were they suddenly mad.
She's like, I've been doing it for ages and they're like,
we didn't know that, and she was like, oh well,
it's like.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Why do you guys care now, I've been I've been
doing this. I was sixteen.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Come on. While they were arguing, I was hiding in
the basement with my brother, playing loud music and shooting
each other with nerf guns so that we wouldn't he
wouldn't hear them screaming at each other upstairs. Jakes. My
sister ended up running away for a week, but came
back home when her boyfriend almost got them into a
crash one night. She apologized, swearing that she would do better.

(26:12):
Would she though, Well, she didn't, of course not. When
she went to college, she never came home despite being
only thirty minutes away. I got a boyfriend who was
at the house all the time, and my sister never
met him, And honestly, I didn't want her to. He
already knew who she was from her horrible reputation at school,

(26:33):
But he loved me and my brother and parents, and
that's all I cared about. At college, she got in
trouble a lot for doing illegal stuff, and her reputation
from school followed her there. Yikes, she only ysked. She
only went thirty minutes away. Yeah, this sister is not
great to escape it. She moved to Florida with our

(26:54):
aunt and without telling us. We found out when we
tried to visit her, and she told us that she
couldn't see us as she was in Orlando. Classic She's like, sorry, guys.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Moved, I'm in Orlando. Sorry, I'm doing Orlando stuff. You
wouldn't understand it.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
I met, I met Disney, Orlando. We were shocked that
she managed to do that without us finding out. But
I didn't mind that she was far away. The farther
she was from us, the farther her reputation gets from
me and my brother.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Oh my god, that's where you're wrong, though. That reputation
is going to be kicking to you. Yeah, forever. Everyone's
gonna be like, oh, you're so and So's sister, and
then look, go, how's she doing.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, she she in jail.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
He'll be like, I'm not even tapped into at all
because she's kind of the problem.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
She ended up telling her dad where she was staying,
and in June we all went down there to see
her and also go to Disney since she lived so
close to it. Our mother was the one who planned this,
despite my sister saying she needed more time. While we
were down there, the aunt's daughter told us that my
sister had a boyfriend when my sister wasn't with us.
The aunts daughter told us that sister cheated on her

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boyfriend multiple times.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yoicks, Wow, she doesn't sound like the type of person
who would do that.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, this is so unlike her.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, I mean, she's basically like a little church.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Girl and he had no idea and if he did,
he didn't care.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
She lied to him about how we treated her when
she lived with us and believed that her bad behavior
was her living a childhood that she was prohibited from living,
which just simply was not true. Our mom confirmed this
story with my sister, which upset her. That aunt's daughter
told them she and aunt kicked us out of the house.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
The daughter and the aunt were like, that's like. Oh.
P's parents were trying to tell the aunt and the
daughter like, that's not true. We didn't treat her poorly,
And the aunt and the daughter were like, you're a liar.
We've heard all of the stuff from your daughterly.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
What kind of people you are? From our Dui daughter.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
She and aunt kicked us out of the house, and
my mom couldn't understand what she did wrong. A few
weeks ago, she told us that she was coming home
for a few days with her boyfriends so that we
could meet him and he could meet us because she
wanted him to love her family like she loved us.
I laughed and said that she doesn't love us She
was confused and said she missed us a lot, especially me,

(29:14):
and was excited to meet my boyfriend. I told her
that though she may miss us, we don't miss her,
at least me and my brother don't. I told her
that when she comes home, my brother and I will
be staying at her grandparents' house to help them out
for the weekend, and that her boyfriend should be under
the impression that she has no siblings, because as far
as I'm concerned, I don't have a sister. Damn. She

(29:39):
was deeply offended and called me a slur, saying that
I was ruining her life. She released which is up quick.
She's like, I love you, I missed you, and he's like,
you're not my family, and.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
She's like, I hate you.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
I told her I couldn't ruin something that she already destroyed.
My brother thanked me for standing up to her because
he did truly miss her, as I shield shielded him
for most of the stuff she did, but he was
also old enough to understand the severity of what was
going on. My dad didn't really care, saying that if
we didn't want to see her, then he couldn't stop us.

(30:11):
My mom and boyfriend are super mad at me, saying
that I'm not even giving her chance to be a
better person, but we'll give you a chance to join
us live on YouTube every weekday at three PMPST just
tap our profile. Personally, I believe that she's had plenty
of chances to be a better person and she's wasted
every single one. But my mom and boyfriend are super
mad at me, and I do miss the person my

(30:33):
sister used to be. Am I the bad apple. Should
I just give her the chance to prove she's trying
to be better? But that is the end of that story.
Man oh man, Yeah, I think that you just have
to sometimes you have to let some of your family
members go in they're off.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Phone, or you could go back in time. Try to
be cooler, try to be cool, and then maybe your
sister would think that you're cool.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Maybe'll work it out.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
I'm just kidding. You're fine.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
It's not you, op, it's your sister.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
It's your sister.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
But that was the end of that episode.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
O sister, when you know what Heleanna Baines has a
great point. They're still just teenagers.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
They're still just teenagers seventeen. I think the sisters. Yeah.
I think there's a chance that in a couple of years,
you know, that'll she'll change up, she'll be better. But
right now, if she's slurn, she's slurn at you.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah. If she's throwing slurs your way, hyper casual style,
dodge them. Not worth the time, uh.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Stella Davis says, instead of narking, I once just removed
the air caps from my sister's hookups tires.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
I don't think does that actually make the dark? Yeah,
but I appreciate it the thought. It's the thought that
count you were close.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah. Stella Davis says the sister ruined her family's relationship
with the aunt and cousin exactly, and slyly Toe says
getting it to UI and not getting rested did her
no favors. So cops, some cops need to.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Stop doing that. Hey's John Og host were gonna get
back to the stories, but a quick Freemanute break of
ads from our sponsors. My sister in law is trying
to steal our baby's name, so I gave her a
fake name. Oo duplicitousous. So I thirty three female, had

(32:25):
been married to my husband Kevin thirty five male, for
five years. We have a three year old daughter, and
I'm currently pregnant with twins steal and female.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
What are you name?

Speaker 3 (32:35):
My brother in law, Terrence thirty eight male, has been
married to his wife, Jess thirty nine female for seven years.
By the way, this comes from user throw a Name
Ninja Yes got it Yes on the r slash Okay
story time stuff Reddit. Jess and I are total opposites.
Jess is an extrovert. She's kind of loud, boisterous, and

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some would even say abrasive.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
So far because some would say that, not me.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Oh, he's got a great vocabulary first of all, so
may say a boisterous, a voluminous vocabulary. I am an introvert.
I am not quiet or shy, but I am reserved.
I'm also very observant and a voracious reader, a voracious vocabulistic.
The first time I met Jess, I told Kevin that

(33:23):
we would be like Oil and Water.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
A great episode of Our Cane.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
You have the episode titles memorized.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
I just watched.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
That's a real stand, folks, That is a real fan.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah, yeah, you know, you know me.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
We have never been overtly hostile towards each other, but
also I have never gone out of our way to bond. Unfortunately,
Terrence and Jess had fertility issues for several years before
finally having their son a couple of weeks ago. Prior
to this, Jess was very odd towards us when I

(33:58):
was pregnant with our daughter. The best way to describe
it is hot and cold. One minute, she pretended like
she didn't care while we were talking about it at
the family gatherings. The next she was volunteering to throw
the baby shower, at which I gave a firm no
to don't let her. We both assumed the behavior was
because of their fertility issues and didn't think too much

(34:18):
of it. But the strangest thing she did we was
almost demand to know what we were naming our daughter
before we announced it. Seal She's trying to yoink that
baby name. She thief, thief, thief in the shadow, stealing
the name of my progeny.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
I'd let it.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
She asked us constantly after our gender reveal and got
visibly annoyed when we just laughed her off and said
it was a secret. We couldn't understand why the heck
she cared so much, as she was not expecting at
this time. Regardless, we didn't share the name with anyone.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
She's literally rumpel. Still she's like, I need the name
of your first born child.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Sign it.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Sign it.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
When our daughter was born and her name was finally announced,
Jess was kind of obsessed with it. I don't know
how to explain it. She just kept going on and
on about how beautiful and unique it was. To this day,
she comments about how different it is the name would be.
We chose as a pretty common Welsh name, which wouldn't
it be all that different except for the fact that

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we are African American. Loul I've always gravitated towards names
from different regions and fell in love with the name
years ago and never shared it with anyone prior to
Prior to Kevin. Fast forward to both of us being
pregnant at the same time. Jess's odd behavior continued towards me,
but this time it was more blatant snarky comments under

(35:50):
the guise of jokes about how big I was going
to get with two babies and that my body was
never going to snap back like it did after our daughter.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
YO was making those little snarky comments.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
It's like, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding, Joe. It's
just a joke. But like, for real, your body is
never gonna get back, so enjoy it while lasts, because
it's not gonna last for.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Much longer and your husband's gonna leave you.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
It's just Joe, Yeah, just a joke, just to jump,
just kidding, it's funny. She even accused us of getting
pregnant on purpose after she announced her own pregnancy, even
though the whole family knew we were actively trying, and
at the time of her announcement, I was already a
few weeks along and didn't even know.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Again, Okay, I've talked about this on other stories, but
the the letting everyone know that you're actively trying for
a baby a little weird to me.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
One thing about me, introvert or not. I'm no pushover
and will stand up for myself. But I chose to
ignore Jess because I knew that would get to her
more than confronting her Wood since she seems to thrive
off of drama. Chess was obviously much further along than
we are. However, we did have our gender reveal prior
to Jess giving birth, and right on cue the baby name.

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Interrogations started again because they decided not to find out
the gender of their baby in advance. Jess kept hounding
us for both of the names we had already picked out,
but again we declined to answer.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Don't tell her, don't tell her.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
After days of this, I got annoyed and asked Kevin
if he thought the reason for her insistence was so
she could use the name first, since she was due first.
He kind of chuckled until he realized I was serious
and said he didn't think so, but that anything was possible.
So I said, let's test it.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Let's put this little theory to the test.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Let's become MythBusters. Here they what's their starting thing for that?
I can't even remember.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
I watched so much much MythBusters.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, I mean it was one of the best shows ever.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Well, we didn't have cable, so we just had like
tons and tons of DVDs of MythBusters.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yeah, oh wow on DVD MythBuster Champion over here. Yeah,
I said, let's test it. We were due to host
my father in law's birthday at our house a couple
of weeks later, and I decided to leave something in
the unfinished nursery with a girl and boy name on
it and see if Jess went snooping' who she's set
and try a little true Because Kevin thought it was silly,

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he said he would give me twenty bucks if she
did it.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
That's so funny.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
So now they got a side bed on it.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Okay, if she does it, you good twenty bucks. Yes
she doesn't.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
We're trying for a baby. Yeah, So I went onto
some site where you can order some custom name wall
decals and put in the names Aria Rose and Sebastian
A Lee. Okay, I mean kind of strong. I guess
those are names that we like but aren't remotely close

(38:54):
to what we chose. This would also be our last pregnancy,
so even if Jess did use them, you wouldn't care.
I didn't complete the order. I got to the final
page and then printed it out and hit it in
a dresser drawer in the nursers parts, so now hidden,
so she'd have to go stooping for you. Yeah, the
party goes off. It's going off.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
The party was.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Off, but because we were busy hosting, we never noticed
if Jess disappeared for any extended period of time. When
I went into the nursery, the next morning, nothing was
out of place and the order sheet was still in
the exact location, so we both just went welp wound
forgot about it. I did, however, notice that Jess never

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asked us about the names again. So then Jess gives birth.
We went to the hospital to give our congratulations. When
we go in and see the baby, I ask what
his name was, and man, I cannot properly explain the
crap eating grin that came over Jess's face as she
says Sebastian. Ali. I mean, she was really proud of herself,

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and honestly, it's the most vindictive I have ever seen her.
Look her problems that I've known her. Yeah, it's like,
what is this obsession with Like, I'm study, I've got
your child, so it's mine now and you can never
have it again.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Crazy lady is crazy.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
But instead of reacting how she was expecting, Oh I
can't wait for this, I put on a performance like
I had just graduated from Julia. Oh my goodness, that
is such a great name. He's so cute and look
at his widdle face. Oh I just love him so much.
Welcome to the world, Sebastian. Auntie is going to spoil

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you rotten. I mean, I am laying it on thick
without an ounce of bother. The range of emotions on
Jess's face went from shock to confusion to rage in
a span of maybe seventeen seconds. Meanwhile, my husband is
holding in the laugh of the century. Yes. We later
say our goodbyes and he gives me the twenty dollars

(41:11):
and the elevator while almost crying laughing. Yes. All I
could say was like, I thought.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Like gay bo and wool you so I love to
see it. I love I love when this happens.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Here's a thought.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
What's the thought?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
You can join us live on YouTube every weekday at
three pm.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
All you gotta do is tap our profile, chap it.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
You don't even have to think about it.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Is like this.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
This was two weeks ago. We have not seen them
since because we wanted to give them time to settle
in with the new baby. I have heard from my
mother in law that just doesn't seem as thrilled about
motherhood as she thought she would be, considering how long
it took them to conceive, but said it might just
be baby blues. Obviously. I think she's just disappointed that

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her petty move didn't have the desired effect on us.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Probably.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
I did share this with my sister, and while she
laughed initially, she did say it was kind of an
a whole move.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
How on you? How is that an a whole move?

Speaker 3 (42:09):
So? Am I the a whole? In?

Speaker 2 (42:11):
What way? Is that an a whole move?

Speaker 3 (42:13):
You know what? Op, I wasn't gonna say this. You're
disgusting for doing this to your sister in law, Like
what what is that?

Speaker 2 (42:22):
You try to steal your name and you did let
her you, Like.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Honestly, you've been trapped you and trapped your sister in
law into having like, yeah, how could you do this?
Baby name? Which is your Sebastian jail for life? Yeah?
Which is honestly, Sebastian's a great.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Name, Lil Sebastian.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Oh, shout out, little Sebastian, rest in peace for every
in my heart.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
That is a good name. My cousin finally revealed her
true colors, and I said, I told you so to my.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Family sometimes I told you so. She sold Delicious week from.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
The Sweet Justice Little backstory. First, I forty female, am
my cousin forty female. Didn't grow up together, but every
time I would visit my family from out of state.
Family would treat us like twins because we were so
close in age. We had the same perm same clothes,
bought by family, and treated like sisters. By the way,

(43:15):
this comes from Fair Highlight one four seventeen on the
r Slashoky story time separate it.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
So.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
As we got older, I will call my cousin D.
D started to compete with me every time I would
come for a visit. Mind you, her friends gravitated towards
me when I came over because I was the girl
from out of town, but I would never hang out
with her friends without her. D didn't like that her
friends seemed to want to hang out with me, and
even told me as much. It's like, I don't like
that you guys get along.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
Yeah, we were. You guys shouldn't be close. We don't
like it.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
She would make contest between the two of us, between
her mom, my aunt, and her friends, such as who
drew the best, who painted the best, who was faster,
who was prettier. In our teens, we weren't as close,
but I still came over to stay with her. When
I was up north for a visit. I was eighteen
and going through past related trauma which she knew about.
I ended up losing my virginity to her boyfriend's brother

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that summer Dan, Oh my god, about a week after
she took me to a party down the shore at
her friend's house. This sounds like the summer I turned
pretty The first thing I was greeted with as I
walked in the door was, Hey, you'r D's cousin who
lost her virginity to Joe.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
Yes, that is a movie plot way, somebody, somebody wrote
this right, There's no way someone would actually have the
nerve to say.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
That that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Actually, no, you know what, that's not nerve. That's just
like stupid, just just child teenage antics.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Ceage antics. I found out that dad told all of
her friends about it, d mon d, and even told
several of my family members out of family function. To
say I was mortified was an understatement. Anyway. Fast forward
a few years I had forgiven her. She came over
to my house and we were talking about a disagreement
my mother and I had. She agreed with me and

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even went and told me that what had happened was wrong.
A few weeks later, I I found out that She
went to my mother and told her I said all
of those nasty things about her and that she didn't
agree with me, that I was in the wrong. She
was to be my bridesmaid for my wedding. A few
months down the line, when I found out, she twisted
words and told my mother that I had said some hurtful,
nasty comments that she actually said. I called her in

(45:17):
a fit of anger and disinvited her to the wedding.
She played my message to the whole family at a
family function while I was at work. I know, stupid
for me leaving a message.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
No, I mean no, they'll put that on you.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
No, that's on her.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
She's just being a trash.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
She's twisty.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
She's twisty, twisty snake.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
What slice the cake was the fact that she called
my eldest male cousin, who was supposed to walk me
down the aisle no because my father wasn't in the picture,
and told him that he was no longer invited as well.
She told me him that she was disinvited, and apparently
he stated, well, then good, because if you weren't invited,
I wouldn't want to go paraphrasing, of course, because I

(45:55):
had heard it from other people. I called a week
before the wedding to make sure that my cousin had
his tucks ready to go oh, and was informed by
his mother that he did not get his tucks because
he was told he was no longer in the wedding.
So she basically the cousin lied and said, oh, you're
not in the wedding, and he didn't think to check
with op.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yeah, I mean he kind of want to get that
one from the horse's mouth.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Right, maybe maybe double checks say like, hey, what happened.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
I guess I'm just not going there.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
I'm not going I was so hurt and angry. I
wanted to reach out to him and tell him, no, please,
I want you to still walk me down the aisle. Unfortunately,
during that call, I was also told that he had
injured himself to where he ended up in the hospital.
Oh my god. Oh so I ended up walking myself
down the aisle. Oh this is so sad, I wrote
d off at this point. This was the third time

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she had stabbed me in the back. I kept forgiving her,
but I didn't learn my lesson. I always knew there
was something off with her. She was also very jealous
of her younger sister that has autism, so much to
the point that she would put screwdrivers in her wall.
Oh my god, what she had lied and manipulated and
done some immoral things, not just to me but others. Yes,
so I cut contact with her, but I kept a

(47:02):
close relationship with her mother.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Now to present, Wait, but did you say screwdrivers in
her wall?

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Drivers in her wall?

Speaker 3 (47:09):
What does that mean? I've never heard that. Is that
an expression or did she really put screwdrivers in her wall?

Speaker 2 (47:15):
I don't know, but she's crazy. Yeah, I cut this
lady off. Okay, Now to a present, Her mother has
been asking for years for me to reconcile with her daughter,
at least for her. My aunt's health was not good,
and I figured for her I would reconcile but keep
my distance. I had talked to D twice before her
mother got extremely sick right after Christmas twenty twenty three.

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I talked to my aunt while she was sick and
kept open communication with her while she was trying to
get better. She had told me how upset she was
that D had come up north for two weeks for
the Christmas break, but only came and visited her once
and for only four hours. The rest of the time
she spent with her husband and his family. D and
her husband and his family unfortunately had contracted COVID and

(47:57):
passed it to my aunt unknowingly. And so why aunt
ended up in the hospital. Oh my god, she already
had a compromised immune system and couldn't fight through. She
passed away two weeks after. Oh, no, before she got
sick enough to end in the hospital. She told two
separate people that she was fearful that D only came
to see her to get the gifts and really only

(48:19):
wanted her money and wouldn't care if she passed away.
It was laughed off by both parties, who were told
this at different times. When my aunt went into the hospital,
it was a roller coaster. She would get better than worse,
better than worse. D came up right away. What shocked
most of the family is that she stated to the doctors, nurses,
and family that she would only give her six days

(48:39):
to get better or she would pull the plug.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Wow, just really heartless.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
Into the sun with you, Into the sun, Into the sun.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
After a few days of family trying to convince her
to give my aunt a fighting chance. She decided to
hold off for a few days. She's so greedy. I
think she just wants the money.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Yeah, that's so disgusting. Discuss despicable.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
When my aunt came to and to clear she wanted
declared she wanted to fight and live. Do you have
the hospital do test to try and determine that she
was not in her right mind. Oh, the lady light
comes back. She's like, I want to live and he's like,
I don't. You don't know what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
This lady's crazy. She's wanted to die ever since I
knew her.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
I'll tell you something about her.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
You know what she told me privately that she would
it would be her.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
She she came to me in a dream.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
The assessment showed that she was of sound mind. She
fought for a little bit longer, but when it was
clear she would not survive without a breathing true tube,
she stated that she didn't want a DNR and to
let her go peacefully. My aunt passed away a little
while later. D stayed in town for another few days
with her husband to handle some affairs of my aunt's.
She even had a dumpster delivered the day after her

(49:46):
mother passed away and threw out all of her mother's furniture,
which was mostly brand new. Wow, why wouldn't you even
like sell them? Take them to goodwill? Come on, this
person just hate hates her mom.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Yeah, they she just hates.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
She only kept a few things. She didn't give all
the immediate family members time to come over. She just
tossed stuff. She claimed that her and her husband had
COVID again, How how many months after was that, because
if it was under three months, that is not true,
and they couldn't do the celebration of life party for
her mom like her mom wanted. My aunt wanted all
of her friend's family and loved ones, anyone that loved

(50:20):
her to join in celebrating her life, not mourning her loss.
When the number of people on the list got too
high for d and when people that she didn't like
would be there, she used her excuse of having COVID
to cancel the memorial celebration. Mind you, she and her
husband and his family all had COVID a little over
a month prior. She was a liar.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Dirty lives dirty.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
It's a three period, you little liar.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
I hate this so much, so much, She's evil.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
As months went on, my mother kept on d about
the celebration of life. We all needed closure and to
complete her last wishes. De finally answered her and stated
that she was going to do a small ceremony on
the beach several states away and only for immediate family.
Before you ask, No, money was not the issue. She
had inherited over two hundred k from her mother's estate.
Her excuse was that she didn't want people there that

(51:08):
didn't call her personally to share their condolences, and those
that she personally doesn't like or feels like they were
not close close with her mom.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Oh shut up. You literally were trying to get your
doctors to be like, my mom's crazy, just let her die.
Are you serious? M I've want to oh so much.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
My mother and her got into a verbal altercation because
my mom was extremely close to my aunt. She felt
her daughter was not doing her mother justice, and maybe
my aunt was right about her daughter. Finally, yeah, finally, jeez,
I don't take forever. Maybe it has been nine months
since my aunt passed away, and yet there's still been
no celebration of life. My mother and I can't afford
to throw a send off like my aunt wanted since

(51:48):
the altercation with my mother, Dia spent the money she
inherited on having a house built for her and her husband.
By the way, you can spend your time with us
alive every Weekdad, three pm PST. Just to have her profile.
My mother is no longer invited to anything. D says
she may or may not have for her mother due
to a few choice words she called my mother. I
am also not invited because I didn't call her personally

(52:10):
with my condolences. I have to admit that probably was
the right thing to do, but I just couldn't make
myself do it. I was also grieving and in shock
when all this went down. I turned to my family
and said, I told you so. As four years I
tried to explain how manipulative and selfish my cousin really was.
Am I the aol for saying I told you so?

Speaker 3 (52:31):
No? Actually, yeah, everything that everything bad that d ever
did has been undone by those Yeah, those are four
simple words I told you so.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
Yeah, she d sucks cut her off.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
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But here's three minutes bads from our sponsors.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
My dad missed my son's birthday for his girlfriend, so
I threatened to uninvite him from everything. If you don't
support my son, you're out. You're done. My son turned
one this past weekend.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Congrats.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
On Sunday, my husband and I threw a birthday party
for him at a local kids venue. We confirmed the
date with both the venue and our guests a few
months ago. One of those guests was my father. Back
when I informed him of the date, he told me
he'd come, as as you do when you are told
of things.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
You're supposed to count to the events that you promised
that you're supposed to come to.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
And by the way, this story comes from a user
he ft t twenty one forty three on the r
slash Okay storytime subreddit. A few days before the party,
he asked if there was any way for me to
reschedule it. I said no, as we already confirmed everything
with the venue. My father then told me he'd be
late to this party because there was an event at

(53:45):
his girlfriend's church on the same day and she wanted
him to attend. I should say that my immediate family,
including my father, is technically Catholic, but none of us practice.
It is typical typical Catholics. Yes, technical, not a typical Catholic,
but a technical Catholic Christmas Catholic. However, my father's girlfriend

(54:06):
is very religious, like Jesus as her phone wallpaper religious.
That is the next level of I wonder if Jesus
would like that, how would he feel about himself as
a wallpaper. Since they started dating a little over a
year ago, my father has been attending church with her
on a semi regular basis. He has explicitly told me

(54:28):
he doesn't like it, but does it to make her happy.
I don't think you're supposed to like going to church
as a Catholic. I don't know if that's part of
the rules or not, but I.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Think you're supposed to not like it. Yeah, it's like
a sacrifice.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Yeah, that's part of the thing. Any Catholics in the chat,
please let us know if you're supposed to like going
to church.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
I did like parts of church, to be clear.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
I'm just I'm just joking around, justo, and you know
what I can say, joke it. Hey, I'm just joking.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
I went through I went through eighteen years of that.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
So we got the proof and the pudding right over here.
I told my father. I was fine with him being
late as long as he I did come to the party.
At some point, he said he would show up as
soon as the church event was done. A few hours
before the party ended, my father texted me that the
event was still going and that he thought it would
be in poor taste for him to leave early, so
he probably wouldn't be able to come. I didn't hear

(55:15):
from him again that day. Loser, L L who does that? L?

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Who does that?

Speaker 3 (55:21):
On Monday, my father called me to explain that the
event went on for longer than he expected. He didn't apologize,
but he did ask if I was angry at him,
and I said yes, to.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Not even like say or to text her during the
event at the very least, which still would have been
really messed up to like not come to the thing
that you said you would come to, but to also
not even like let her know that you're not coming.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Yeah, And what is like you had all the time
in the world to like let also your girlfriend know, like, Hey,
I'm gonna have to leave this early. It's I'm not
just trying to leave to leave early. I have to
leave early because I have responsibilities as a member of
a family. I need to be present.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
He said he had no way of knowing the event
would like as as long as it did. But that's
not what I'm upset about. I told him. He still
chose to prioritize an event he didn't even want to
attend over his grandson's first birthday party, made several other
choices that led him to completely miss the latter, and
didn't inform me about any of that until the very

(56:18):
last minute. All of those decisions were his, so the
fact that he ultimately didn't come to the party was
his fault. My father is still refusing to apologize and
insists I have no right to be angry over something
he had quote no control over what I'm I'm so the.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Fun thing about Catholicism is that like the whole basis.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Of it is that you have free will. Yeah right,
isn't that the whole.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Basis of it.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
God gave you free will so that you could stand up, leave,
leave the church event early, and go to grand birthdays
birthday over what you need to be there for the pictures,
Let's begs. The grandson is not remembering his first birthday,
but he will have the pictures and say my grandfather
was there when I was one, because I guess he

(57:03):
likes me or something cool. I'm starting to feel odd
about this. My husband is on my side, but my
sister told me I'm being dramatic. M Am, I the
a hole, and we do have some comments and responses
from OP and an update, so I mean, let's just
get right into the comment. Just get right into it,

(57:23):
all right, tough combination. Thirty seven says, not the a hole.
He made his choice. Asked if you if you were upset,
was told yes, to which he said, well, actually, I
was expecting you to placate my feelings about missing the
party and prioritizing my girlfriend, who is also an adult,
over my grandson. Don't you seriously do not need to
soothe his feelings, Say to him clearly once more, I'm

(57:46):
upset you chose to miss the party. Why you missed
it is besides the point. It's not like you were
in the er with a ruptured spleen after a massive
car wreck. You were with your girlfriend, period, period. He
doesn't get a free pay on your feelings just because
he values his own comfort over yours. Shout out to
all the people who have had ruptured spleens. Have you

(58:07):
I have not, but the spleen is the funniest organ
just from the name of it. Okay, so Op's response
to that first comment during that first phone call, it
did kind of feel like he thought he was a victim,
as if missing his grandson's birthday party was something that
had happened to him, not something his own decisions had
led to. Yeah, all right, we got an eighteen day update. Hello, guys.

(58:30):
I intended to update sooner, but I've been busy these days.
I think my main takeaway from your comments was that
it's not my job to placate my father's feelings. He
made several conscious decisions that led him to miss the
birthday party. He had the right to make those choices,
but the consequences were indeed his fault. After deliberating for
a while, I called my father to discuss the subject again.

(58:52):
I told him I don't expect him to apologize, and
I won't hold resentment towards him forever, but he can't
expect me to pretend his actions didn't anger me or
that it wasn't his fault. We had a long discussion
about it. Throughout all of it, my father kept trying
to play the victim. He'd talk about how he wanted
to come to the party and was upset he'd missed it.
At one point, he said, you don't understand I didn't

(59:14):
want to go to the church. Then why did you
like this guy's acting like he's like she she dragged
me to church. Yeah, I was actually thought I was
going to I was actually playing the role of Jesus
in a very elaborate production at the church, and they
needed it.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Was stations of the Cross, and they made me carry
the cross. I actually had to do that. So it
was as the altar server. We have to carry carry
the cross stations. It's hard work on your arms.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
Hard.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
We can't put it down.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
Those Catholics, they know how to work hard. I'm sorry
if the Catholics are getting upset out of these generalizations.
I told him I don't care. What matters is that
he did. He went to the church. He did not
go to the party. It was his decision to make.
He could have told his girlfriend he didn't want to go,
but he didn't. He could have left the church early
but he didn't. He could have prioritized his previous commitment

(01:00:06):
and not attended the event in the first place, but
he didn't. Everything he did that day was within his control.
I won't get into the specifics of the discussion itself,
but I will say that it took a while. I
explained that if he wants to prioritize his girlfriend over
his grandchild, the least he can do is be upfront
about it. That means either not making promises he can't

(01:00:26):
keep or acknowledging his responsibility when he makes regretful decisions. Yeah,
at least own up to the fat that you made
a mistake, like the fact that he's just like.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
I just couldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
You don't understand I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
It's like, sorry, I wanted that again.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Did they turn your legs off? Like did? Were you
chained to the seat? Were you strapped in like a
roller coaster? Come on? My father did end up apologizing
and more importantly, taking accountability. Finally, I forgave him, but
I intend to be wary from now on. Looking back,
I don't feel like I was ever able to truly

(01:01:04):
rely on my father. Back then, he would miss events
because he had a complicated work schedule. But now that
I know he's also capable of doing that, willingly. I
don't want to enable it my father. Even if my
father ever prioritizes anything, be it a girlfriend or an
event over a commitment he made to me and my son, again,
I will stop inviting him sam goes for any children

(01:01:27):
my husband and I have in the future. I've informed
my father of that and he agreed. And by the way,
I agree that you can join us every weekday on
YouTube Live at three pm PST. All you gotta do
is tap our profile tap. So I think, you know,
the hindsight now coming into play of being like, so

(01:01:47):
he's pulling this card of like oh, I like literally
couldn't get out of this event, like and now is
making her go back through her own memories and being like,
oh so we're all the times that my dad was like, oh,
my work schedule is just so busy. Was he just
choosing not to prioritize her, Yeah, because it would just
be a little more difficult. I think. So.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
I think he's just like not take He doesn't take accountability,
and he puts it on like if he doesn't want
to do something, then he just makes excuses. He doesn't
own up.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
He's a little excuse boy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
He's a little excuse boy, and I don't want to
see him around these parts again.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Not grown man behavior. Take accountability, do it or else
or else? That's right. You don't want the worm queen
digging into your el I'm coming for your dirt. Yep,
all you you wake up and all your dirt will
be gone.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
There's gonna be worms in your bed.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
To finish off this story, his girlfriend, from what I've heard,
is peeved at me. But I could care less. This
will be my only update. I don't think I have
anything else to add, but feel free to ask me
any questions you may have. Thank you for your feedback
on my last post. And we do have like a
couple of comments. Is there anyone's from op I think yeah,
we have a response from Ope. From the sound of it,

(01:02:58):
it's just the father is still being wishy washy. He
said maybe maybe that he won't go to the church
events anymore. That's what he told his girlfriend. She doesn't
know if he was being legit about it and if
he really did so, same old story from dad.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
You just have to see what he does going forward,
because actions speak louder than words. Yeah, but that was
the end of that story. End of this episode

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