227: Disclose or Nah?!

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Speaker 1 And you guys are probably reading the title and you're like, what is this going to be?

Speaker 1 So I think there's a lot of stories I've seen lately. And they kind of all have the underlying theme of disclosure and like to disclose or not to disclose.
Right.

Speaker 1 Like, should I tell this person this thing? Yeah. And like, am I obligated to tell this person this thing? Yes.

Speaker 1 And I think there's so many instances in life where it comes up, whether it's like a relationship and a partner. And it's like, do you have to disclose the past or a job?

Speaker 1 And it's like, you're applying for a new job and you know you're pregnant, but you're not going to tell them because otherwise you're not going to get hired.

Speaker 1 So there's so many things. And like the stories I keep seeing are like all about disclosure.

Speaker 1 And like someone might have disclosed something and they didn't need to or they're thinking about disclosing. So that's the vibe today.
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Speaker 1 I've been waiting for this one. And we kind of talked about it a little bit, like right after my surgery.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And everyone's like, surgery, what the hell did you do?

Speaker 1 So I ended up getting

Speaker 1 a deep plain neck contour.

Speaker 1 I think that's the formal term. That sounded so scientific.
I believe you. I think that's right.

Speaker 1 I still don't really like, I understand what we did because like your brother, Tyler Oakland, who was my surgeon, I know him. It's so crazy.
But he did such a good job explaining it.

Speaker 1 And he's like, you know, we just do a little incision here and then we go behind your platysmus muscle or whatever that one's called. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Honestly, like, and I'm not just saying this because he's your brother.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 he has the best bedside manner out of any doctor I've ever met. And that includes working in hospitals, emergency rooms, anywhere.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 Like I had to, I saw like someone else this week for like chin filler and who's also a plastic surgeon and like couldn't explain anything, like couldn't do. And I'm just like.

Speaker 1 It's such a big part of it, I feel because like it's such a big decision.

Speaker 1 You get so nervous and like you want to be able to talk through all of your concerns and not feel like you're going to annoy them by asking a question. I know.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And like he's just so great at explaining and making you feel comfortable. And just like, it was just the best, best, best experience.
And this is something I've wanted for years now.

Speaker 1 Like I've always been so self-conscious of like my little turkey neck. And it's very genetic for me.
If you look at like my grandma and my mom.

Speaker 1 And so it's something I really wanted to do, especially before the wedding. I just like wanted to feel my absolute best.
Yeah. So I did that.
And I'm like two weeks post-op right now.

Speaker 1 So like still a little swelling, but it's just

Speaker 1 a faster recovery, though, than like one would expect. I feel.
I never had pain, really. Yeah.
Like a little sore, but like no pain. It's been like the easiest recovery ever.

Speaker 1 And the results already for like two weeks out still swollen. I'm like, okay, I can already see such a difference.
Yeah. So I'm really excited.
That's so awesome. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So if anyone wants to look into like neck contouring, like deep plain necklift, Tyler Oakland is amazing. And I'm not getting paid to say that.

Speaker 1 Like that's just genuinely like 10 out of 10 would do this again tomorrow. Thanks, Diva.
I mean, there are a lot of like non-surgical alternatives.

Speaker 1 Like, like Kybella, I think they like put acid in your neck or something. I've tried Kybella.
It didn't work. Yeah.
I just think. You bullfrog and it.
It honestly feels like venom. Yeah.
In your face.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I just think it's like actually getting a little bit of liposuction is less invasive and like dangerous, but I don't know.
I had a good time. If anyone has any questions, send me a message.

Speaker 1 Like I'm so down to talk about it. And I'll probably do a full video down the line like in a couple months once like my swelling is like completely gone, just so we can see the full results.

Speaker 1 But I know people have been curious and I wanted to talk about it because it's been a really good experience and it leads us into our first story today. Yeah, that's your full disclosure right there.

Speaker 1 My full disclosure. I had plastic surgery.
I'm not gonna lie and say I did mewing and that's how I've been taping my mouth at night. Like, okay.

Speaker 1 I'm like, yeah, you can do all those things and it might help. But like, if you have genetics and that's the way your face is like, it is, like, you could mew till the cows come home.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And when I mew or whatever that thing is, it bulges. on me.
Really? It's like opposite effect. Opposite of mewing.

Speaker 1 I've never tried mewing because I'm not good at anything that you have to sort of do every day. It's too much.

Speaker 1 And then there's that thing people were like ordering that jaw thing that you like chew on all day. And I'm like, yeah, you're gonna like give yourself some joint issues.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's a lot of, there are a lot of at-home recipes, but yeah, no, I like my surgical recipe. So this first one is about plastic surgery.

Speaker 1 It's coming from r/slash am I the asshole titled, Am I the Asshole for Not Disclosing I Had Plastic Surgery to My Boyfriend?

Speaker 1 I, 26 female, have been dating max 25 male, for four months. When I was 22, I had a nose job as I broke my nose twice as a kid and it left a large bump.

Speaker 1 Then at 23, I had a breast augmentation that bumped me up two cup sizes. These were lifelong insecurities that I was bullied over, and it was really relieving to get them done.
On to the present.

Speaker 1 I met Max through a friend, and things have been great. Last night, I was strolling through my social media while on the sofa with him.

Speaker 1 I stopped on an old classmate's vacation photo where she wore a bikini and, frankly, had very obvious implants. She looks great, happy for her, but you can tell.

Speaker 1 Max glanced over at that moment and said, quote, gross.

Speaker 1 I asked him what the deal was. And he said, women who get implants or other surgeries are a huge turn off to most guys, and how men prefer natural over two balloons and how insecure she looks.

Speaker 1 I couldn't help but laugh and said, quote, so you're turned turned off by me? He got very confused and asked what I meant. I informed him I had procedures done before.

Speaker 1 He kept denying it and saying I was joking until I showed him old photos of me. He got quiet and left shortly after.

Speaker 1 I got a text saying that I should have disclosed this on the first date, how I led him on, and that he needs to reconsider things. It's the next day.
I haven't heard anything. I'm bewildered.

Speaker 1 Am I the asshole?

Speaker 1 First of all, like, I think that this poses an interesting question beyond like just their own relationship. Yeah.
But in the confines of their relationship first, he is an absolute asshole.

Speaker 1 He was not only an asshole to her, but also to this like girl's photo.

Speaker 1 If I were looking at any woman's photo and a man, you know, peered over my shoulder and said, ew, gross, clearly insecure, I'd be like, watch your fucking mouth, watch your tone.

Speaker 1 Like, who do you think you're talking about? First of all, that might be my friend, but even if it isn't, like, don't talk about any women like that. That's gross.

Speaker 1 But then, yeah, that's such an interesting,

Speaker 1 maybe he should have disclosed on the first date that he has those deal breakers. Like, I don't know.
Like,

Speaker 1 that's crazy to me. Also, that he couldn't tell.
Like,

Speaker 1 she probably thought he knew. I mean,

Speaker 1 I wonder, like, I've never felt an implant breast. Like, I've never, I'm, like, so curious if you can tell a difference, even.

Speaker 1 Because I know, depending on what you do saline versus silicone like it can feel different saline feels supernatural like that's what they plug it at least so I'm just like so curious and it's also like

Speaker 1 I love when I read this story to Justin I loved his response and he's like if you can touch it they're real like he's like it's just like it is what it is and it's it's one of those things it's like you were attracted to her

Speaker 1 what does it change yeah what does it change for you i don't know it's It's not like he asked ever and she lied about it or like she was purposefully keeping this insane secret.

Speaker 1 Like they haven't been dating that long. First of all, like four months.
Four months. So I think that there are things that maybe just naturally haven't come up.

Speaker 1 But I think it's crazy to expect like on date one for someone to be like, okay.

Speaker 1 It's very important that I disclose to you. I have had a rhinoplasty.
I have had a boob job. I have had like this, like that.

Speaker 1 There are so many things that are so much more important when getting to know somebody, in my opinion, of like who they are. And I don't know.
That's just such, he sounds like an asshole. Totally.

Speaker 1 And I, I do like question this when it's something that doesn't affect the other person, a nose job, not going to affect him. I don't think a boob job affects him either.

Speaker 1 When do you have to disclose or do you ever have to disclose?

Speaker 1 It's not like a huge deal to me. Like, I don't think

Speaker 1 telling someone that you got a nose job on the first date is a requirement. Like, that's just one of those things.
Like, it doesn't matter at all. Right.
So, I'm like, are there rules?

Speaker 1 Obviously, health things, like, if you have an STD, like that should be disclosed pretty early on, especially before sleeping together.

Speaker 1 But if it's something like this,

Speaker 1 do you even ever have to disclose it? Yeah. And I'm trying to think about it from the other gender.
Like, if there was a man man and he'd gotten like hair,

Speaker 1 like, what's that called? Oh, hair plugs. Like hair plugs.
Yeah. Like, would it matter if he disclosed that or not? Like, would you be like,

Speaker 1 like, no, I wouldn't care.

Speaker 1 I'd be curious to know because I do think like it'd be an interesting conversation to talk to someone about an insecurity that they had their whole life and like that their journey in, you know, making that decision.

Speaker 1 Like, I think it could be an interesting conversation due to that. But in terms of feeling like betrayed or feeling like they've misled me, I would not, oh, I don't want to give a spoiler, but

Speaker 1 there's like in materialists. Never mind, never mind.

Speaker 1 Did you see materialists? No, it's on my list.

Speaker 1 There's basically, they talk about the surgery where you like can make yourself taller as a man. Oh my God.
I've heard like horror stories from that. Yeah.
It's like a very dangerous. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know. But then, wait, do you think celebrities should have to disclose plastic surgery to their followers?

Speaker 1 I think if you're a public-facing figure that a lot of people are looking up to as body goals, and if you're creating like a beauty standard and you're using tools that alter and like create something that's not naturally achievable, I think you should.

Speaker 1 I think it just helps like set the standard. Like that's, that's for me.
It's like, I'm, I've had lip filler. I've had chin filler.
I've had Botox. I just got my neck chin lift contour thing.

Speaker 1 Like I'm not going to lie about that because I don't want to make it seem like it's anything.

Speaker 1 Like it's also not something I'm ashamed of. Like if you want to address your insecurities and use tools or whatever to make yourself feel better, that's cool.

Speaker 1 But just don't lie to people to make it seem like you're doing it naturally. I feel like celebrities especially should.

Speaker 1 Like, I don't get why they continue to lie when it's very clear they've had work done yeah where you can watch these progressive pictures and clearly the person's gotten nose job like

Speaker 1 everything

Speaker 1 I do feel

Speaker 1 sometimes those account like sometimes I think those accounts I don't always feel are coming from the best place no there are certain accounts that will show just like the worst photo ever of somebody maybe as like a teenager or a pre-teen then be like clearly they've had work done I'm like maybe I don't know like like contouring can do a lot.

Speaker 1 Like, noses can look so different even over time. Like, I don't know.
Your nose can change after you're pregnant, too. Yeah.
It's not necessarily.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's a fine line because it's like, there's a lot of those accounts that I've been exposing people. They're just ragging on these people.

Speaker 1 And it's like, I don't think she actually got work done. I think she's overlining her lips and like

Speaker 1 has just matured in her face.

Speaker 1 I think in the perfect world, like, people wouldn't hide that and they'd be clear about that, but then they'd also be clear every time they're using a filter or like face or any type of thing.

Speaker 1 Like, if Jennifer Lawrence got a boob job, I wouldn't feel like, okay, she needs to like make a video now telling us she got a boob job.

Speaker 1 But, like, if someone asked, I guess, in like a normal way that didn't wasn't too invasive, if she went on call her daddy or something, and Alex Cooper was like, hey, have you ever gotten a boob job?

Speaker 1 I would imagine she'd be honest about that, hopefully. Yeah.
It's such a fine line. Like

Speaker 1 feeling entitled to the information about other people's bodies. Well, and it's, it's really interesting too.
And I think there was like a great documentary on it, but why do we have insecurities?

Speaker 1 And like, why do we even compare ourselves to other people? And like, why are we looking at these models and things and people you see in media as like the standard of beauty?

Speaker 1 And then why does that make you feel bad? And so it's like this vicious cycle. And so.

Speaker 1 If you're a public-facing figure, I think ideally disclose if people ask you if it is something that you've gotten done. I think like we're beyond lying about it at this point.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Especially if you're an influencer who specifically like you're making these makeup videos or something and all of your comments are like, oh, I'm so jealous of your nose. I'm so jealous of your jaw.

Speaker 1 I like blah blah blah. Like if you're seeing that, I feel it would be hard to not be like, wait, guys, like, this is the case.
Like, yeah.

Speaker 1 And there's a lot of people that are now like very transparent about it. Like, Victoria Paris talks about everything she's gotten done.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of people that now are like, I've done this, this, this, and this. Like, I'm not natural.
Like, I'm not a standard. Yeah.
Like, I've literally gotten all this done.

Speaker 1 In a relationship, I don't think you need to, like,

Speaker 1 jump out of the gate and disclose everything. I think over time, you would,

Speaker 1 anyways, as you get comfortable with that partner,

Speaker 1 as you maybe are like, oh, you know, I'm kind of hitting a 12-year mark. I'm going to have to get my breasts redone or whatever that looks like.
I think it naturally comes out.

Speaker 1 And that's what's happening in this story. Like they're four months in and plastic surgery has probably come up as a topic for the first time.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because if he had ever brought up his concerns, clearly then she would have said it. But like, yeah, they're, they're noticing breast augmentation.
He's saying, I don't like that.

Speaker 1 She's saying, I have that. Like, that's kind of what happens.
It comes up in the world and then you have a conversation about it. I know.
And again, you couldn't tell. Yeah.
So it...

Speaker 1 It's not unnatural looking because you quite literally could not tell.

Speaker 1 I think the argument I've seen is like, if you're going to have children with someone, is it like important to disclose that this is actually the feature that you would be passing down to those children?

Speaker 1 Dude, that's so crazy to me, though, because it's like, if your kid didn't like their nose, they could get a nose job. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, I think that's the same thing about like, oh, we'll take her swimming on the first date. Yeah.
It's like.

Speaker 1 It's so funny because I've seen videos too where they'll take pictures of people with like very natural makeup on. And they're like, oh, does this girl have makeup on?

Speaker 1 And the guys are always like, no, very natural. Yeah.
I love that. It's like, yeah, they don't actually care.
She's got a full beat. Yeah.
Like, she's got a full face on. Like,

Speaker 1 you don't know. You don't know natural.
Yeah. He's clearly the asshole.
She didn't do anything wrong.

Speaker 1 I think in a relationship, I would want to know as much about that person as possible and hope that all of those things would come out over time.

Speaker 1 But I wouldn't feel slighted or betrayed if it came out later in the relationship or like a conversation happened at any point again i just think it could be important for understanding the person you're with and like their journey with certain things because if you've had a lifelong insecurity like that plays a big part into your development and i you know that's why i would want to talk about it not because i'm like oh there's this hidden like secret thing that you've done that you're hiding from me yeah you know i think it's it is really important to talk about because it's like it's like how have you felt who are you and also like, depending on the insecurity, it could bleed into how you raise kids.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like for me, I grew up in a household where like weight was talked about constantly.
And so it's even something that like I've had issues with. I've had a lot of, you know, body image issues.

Speaker 1 And so looking at the language that I heard around weight and, oh, being fat and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, I won't even use that word around my kids.

Speaker 1 Like, I'm not going to even have that language because it was even about yourself, even about myself, in front of my kids. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And, like, my brother and his wife have done a really good job of that. Like, they don't talk negatively about their bodies.

Speaker 1 And it's kind of like our generation because, like, weight and diet culture was like so prevalent for our moms and dads too, maybe.

Speaker 1 But it's, it's just interesting how it can bleed into the next generation, too.

Speaker 1 Top comment on this one, not the asshole. You lucked out that he showed you this side at four months in.
You could have been married before you found out he's this shallow and misogynistic. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And that's true. Like, I think you made a great point when you were like, if I heard the guy I'm dating talk like this, I'd be like, whoa, who do you think you're talking to? Because

Speaker 1 talking about another woman like that that you don't even know, saying she's gross. Like, yeah.

Speaker 1 It's just, it's so insecure. Okay, well, yeah, like everyone is a little insecure.

Speaker 1 You're insecure about something, dude. Like, let's be real or else you wouldn't be talking like this.
I know. I think, like, insecurities are so normal.

Speaker 1 It's just, like, how you handle them is, like, kind of the thing. Next comment down is from OP.

Speaker 1 I agree. Honestly, if he texts me again saying he's okay to continue, I really don't think I'm interested.
Of course.

Speaker 1 Go, OP.

Speaker 1 This is such good time. I love.
When one of your stories is like early on in their dating and they're like, they're not married. They don't have children yet.
There aren't these like strings yet.

Speaker 1 Cause sometimes I'm like, oh, this sucks. I know.

Speaker 1 I know. No, no attachments here with this one, which is very nice.
Next comment down, not the asshole.

Speaker 1 His reaction and comment that, quote, should have disclosed this on the first date makes him childish. OP goes, yeah, that threw me off.

Speaker 1 I don't really think, quote, oh, by the way, my boobs are fake, is really typical first date talk. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't think so either. Also, like if you could think of so many other things that you'd be like, ooh, you have to disclose that on the first date, like family health history.

Speaker 1 Like, I don't know, you can like think of all these crazy things, but that's not real life. Like that would be a crazy conversation to have.

Speaker 1 It's super, you'd almost look at it as like, why is she telling me this on the first date?

Speaker 1 And he probably would have. Like if realistically, if she would have done that, he would have hated that too.
Yeah. He would have been like, she's shallow.
Why is she telling me about surgery?

Speaker 1 And if you seriously have like

Speaker 1 that intense of a deal breaker and you feel that strongly about it, maybe you should bring it up at some point and then show people who you are right away. Like,

Speaker 1 that should be. I think you'd do a lot of women a favor if he brings that up on the first date instead.
Tell me your preferences. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Next comment. Not the asshole.
You shouldn't have to disclose your medical history for someone to date you.

Speaker 1 And OP goes, Yeah, that's what I thought. Even though it's mainly cosmetic history, clearly he liked how I look enough to start dating me.
So what's the issue? Yeah. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Someone responds to that though, and they go, the issue is he now realizes he's a hypocrite.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Yep. Guess what?

Speaker 1 We got some edits on this one. Ooh.

Speaker 1 Feeling like a little bit of an update. I love that.
Edit. All right, y'all.

Speaker 1 I got a text from him a few minutes ago asking to meet up as he thinks he wants to continue the relationship and wants to talk things over.

Speaker 1 After all of these comments and some thinking, I sent back along the lines of that his reaction made me realize he's not the partner I'm looking for and that I've decided to not continue our relationship.

Speaker 1 Awesome. So yeah, I'm single now.
Kind of confused if I should mention this to future dates before we're official to weed out any more like him. How do you even bring this up? Oh well, I like me.

Speaker 1 I'm content with my natural and unnatural parts, and I'll find someone who doesn't have a huge hang-up on plastic surgery. Yeah, I mean, he liked the way she looked and he liked her personality.

Speaker 1 It sounds like he just holds this misogynistic ideal about women in this specific way. And once that clashed, he was like, oh, this kind of hurts my brain.
Like,

Speaker 1 women, plastic surgery, insecure, bad, so embarrassing, so weird looking. Like, I can't, like,

Speaker 1 can't put those two things together. It don't make sense.
And I'm so glad that she's left him. That's awesome.
You know, we do have another edit.

Speaker 1 He finally replied to my text, quote, I was hopeful we could start over on an honest beginning, but I guess only one of us is mature enough to look past each other's shortcomings in the relationship.

Speaker 1 Shortcomings?

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 I'm glad you revealed this about yourself before I got too involved. Goodbye.
Good luck finding someone because no real man would respect someone. who can't even respect their own body.

Speaker 1 Sir, you just said you wanted to continue things and start over. I hate when people do that.
I really like you. I want to continue.
Oh, you don't like me? Oh, well, I never liked you anyways.

Speaker 1 And no one ever, no one who respected himself actually ever would like you. No one would ever teach you a 10-foot pole.
My ex-girlfriend.

Speaker 1 Oh my God. You liked me.

Speaker 1 You thought I was hot. Yeah.
You like fake boobs. Just get over it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, what mental gymnastics are you

Speaker 1 doing?

Speaker 1 No, yeah. She got out

Speaker 1 like scot-free. Like, that's amazing.
I'm so happy for her. Thank God.

Speaker 1 I guess only one of us is mature enough to look past each other's shortcomings. Your shortcoming being a freak, her shortcoming, having plastic surgery that you liked.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Shortcomings.

Speaker 1 No, I would probably crash out actually, though, if someone said that to me.

Speaker 1 I am just like beyond. I just, this is so crazy.
And it's not, it's not a big deal. Like,

Speaker 1 yeah. I mean, what if she wanted a mommy makeover down the road?

Speaker 1 Like, what? You're not going to let her? You're going to be disgusted by it. Like,

Speaker 1 let people live. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just, I think it's goofy. And it's like, you don't have to encourage it if you're not.

Speaker 1 for it or if you think it's risky or whatever but like yeah you also can't control people and you can't even say i'm not attracted to people with plastic surgery because you are yeah that's just not true.

Speaker 1 So get off this weird little soapbox where you think you're better than people. And like, oh, a real man's not going to respect someone who doesn't respect their own body.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're conflating a lot of stuff. You drew a very good parallel earlier with like the whole makeup thing of it's like, no, you actually do like makeup on women.

Speaker 1 You just like to think of yourself as someone who likes more natural women. And like, I don't know.
It's almost this morally superior thing. Yeah, like a morally superior thing.

Speaker 1 And also trying to like control what women do and like be like, oh, these are the ones who deserve respect. But it's like, that's just not even your own preference, actually.

Speaker 1 Like you just don't know shit about fuck.

Speaker 1 I like that. You don't know shit about fuck.

Speaker 1 And that's this dude. This post is a little vintage, three years old now at this point in time.

Speaker 1 And no other updates after that. Wow.
Well, I'm thrilled with the last one that we got. I think it's great.

Speaker 1 I'm just taking a peek to see if there's any other things. I think a good point, too, that I see in one of OP's comments is: like, my nose was fine naturally.
It looked bad because I broke it.

Speaker 1 And, like, regardless of what reason you get a nose job for, it could be cosmetic. It could be because you had a deviated septum.
It could be because you broke it. Like, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 It's a choice you make. And if you like the way you look, that's what matters.
Yeah. Freak.
He's a freak. It's not his choice.
At the end of the day, it all comes down to that. It's not his body.

Speaker 1 It's not his choice. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, moving along.

Speaker 1 So this one is coming from Am I the Asshole as well. It is two months old, titled, Am I the Asshole for Not Disclosing That I Am Not Christian?

Speaker 1 To preface this, I do commissioned artwork. and do not discriminate against any subject unless it's racist, homophobic, otherwise hateful, or sexually disturbing.

Speaker 1 I did a commissioned art piece with Christian iconography, a beautiful ornate cross, a saint, and scripture in calligraphy.

Speaker 1 The client was happy with my work, paid me, and then asked me what my favorite scripture was.

Speaker 1 I was honest and just said, quote, oh, I don't really have one because I'm not a Christian and wouldn't really know which ones I'd like.

Speaker 1 He became upset and told me that he felt lied to because I have posted artwork of Christian subjects before. And he assumed I would be Christian.

Speaker 1 He said the art doesn't hold the same spiritual value because it wasn't made with, quote, faithful intention.

Speaker 1 I was kind of unsure of what to say. I said, quote, I'm sorry you feel that way, but I do artwork for everyone.
And I am open to doing Christian artwork because it's for the client, not me.

Speaker 1 Should I be disclosing if I don't share a certain faith when commissioned to do artwork for it? Am I the asshole? asshole?

Speaker 1 No, this reminds me of like the conversation about the first date with plastic surgery: it would feel weird for someone to say that to me.

Speaker 1 If I had a religion and I hired an artist to paint something, and they were like, By the way, like, I don't really fuck with that, but I'm happy to do it for you.

Speaker 1 You know, like, I like that feels weirder to me. I know, because you'd be like, whoa, this is kind of a spiel when I'm just like, hey, can you make a picture of a horse? Right.

Speaker 1 Like, I didn't ask you your personal opinion on the matter. No, and it's also like, I don't think it matters if you're getting a product that you like.

Speaker 1 This is what's so crazy to me, too, with like all the bakery drama. And I don't know why it's fucking bakeries, but all these bakeries that are like, I'm not going to make a cake for a gay couple.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why are people so fucking weird?

Speaker 1 I don't know. This is interesting.
This is sort of like the inverse of the gay cake.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 1 I literally think it's kind of the exact opposite. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I, I, there's a part of me that's like, okay, if I were marrying a woman and the the cake person I hired were homophobic, I guess I'd want to know because then I wouldn't give that person money. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But at the same time, if I, if I don't know and I never know and I have a lovely time and the cake is beautiful and I go on my merry way, like, that's okay as well, you know? I don't know.

Speaker 1 I'm not religious anymore. So it's hard to relate to this.

Speaker 1 I could understand, I guess, a tiny bit being like, there would be more meaning if this were painted by someone who shared the faith that they're painting. Sure.
But you can't get mad.

Speaker 1 Like that, that's not the expectation here. You're hiring an artist for a job.
They did a beautiful job. It means what it means to you.
That.

Speaker 1 And that's what counts.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I feel like if you're the one.
that you have a preference, right? Like you want your art created by someone who shares the faith with you.

Speaker 1 You should go out and you should ensure that.

Speaker 1 You could have asked that artist up front.

Speaker 1 You could have gone and found a nun who does art. Yeah.
And like that is even more magical and spiritual for you to have the nun make your painting. Yeah.
Put out like an inquiry through your church.

Speaker 1 Put a little flyer up at your church. Do something like that.
If you want that kind of meaning on what you're commissioning, then that could be lovely.

Speaker 1 But just make sure you're the one who's taking care of that. If I want, you know, to buy from a women-owned business, I can do my own research and find a woman-owned business.

Speaker 1 Like that is on the person hiring the other person. If you're getting hired for a job, you're just doing the job.
Yeah. You know, that's how I feel too.
I think that's like the best way to put it.

Speaker 1 Like, if you have those preferences,

Speaker 1 you should go out and like ensure that and ask the questions up front. Yeah.
Almost like the same with the plastic surgery.

Speaker 1 Like if the guy would have been like, hey, I have these hard preferences, like I don't want to date anyone with a breast augmentation. Then it's like, oh, well, I'm out then.

Speaker 1 Like, it was great to meet you. Bye.
Yeah. Like, I guess if you have these strong preferences and guidelines, like you should be disclosing that versus putting the blame on the other people.

Speaker 1 I think that makes a lot of sense. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Top comment on this one, not the asshole. You don't discriminate, but apparently they do.
Laughing my ass off.

Speaker 1 OP responds, okay, this made me laugh a little bit. Thank you.
Next comment down, it's true, though.

Speaker 1 If you wanted an artist creating it with faithful intentions, he should have said so during negotiations.

Speaker 1 I'm baptized and used to be quite active in the church. However, I'm an atheist and might look Christian to others, but I'm not.

Speaker 1 If I made something like this, it wouldn't have been with faithful intentions either. That's a very specific intention.
You can't just assume someone will fulfill without speaking up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
If you want holy water, you got to find a priest. you know, you can't just be buying water from the farmer's market and getting mad that it's not holy.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that how do you even guarantee you're getting holy water?

Speaker 1 Someone could just bottle it up, yeah. I don't know, it's the same with the bath water, all these weirdos buying people's bath water, yeah.

Speaker 1 And again, it's like it, it's not a bad thing to have a preference and to be like, I would really like to find somebody who shares this same value with me to create this thing for me.

Speaker 1 That's okay, like that's not this horrible feeling to have. But then it's on you to find somebody who shares that.

Speaker 1 And then you can't get mad when you've already paid someone and they've already done the work. And then, uh-oh, like, now you find that out because you just asked, What's your favorite scripture?

Speaker 1 Like, uh-oh. I know.
I'd be like, John 3.16.

Speaker 1 Isn't that the one like Tim Tebow put on everything? For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, so that whoever believed in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

Speaker 1 Where the sticks with you, huh? Yes.

Speaker 1 I went to like church camp, and you win points for your cabin if you memorize the most verses. So

Speaker 1 there's memories there. The only thing I like know is like this bedtime prayer that like even though I'm like not really religious now, it's it's like a pavlov.
Like if I remember,

Speaker 1 I have to say it, otherwise like I can't fall asleep. Wow.
Now I write, now

Speaker 1 I'm down to sleep.

Speaker 1 Whatever. I pray to God my soul to keep.
She just watched me through the night until I wake in morning light. I've heard a lot of variations of that same lullaby, by the way.

Speaker 1 I just like, I am just so, I don't know. And that's like.
Because the other version I know is, I don't know. And if I die before I wake, I pray to God my soul to take.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I don't say that version. I knew that version, and that felt a little dark for me because it was like almost like a manifestation.
I'm like, I'm not going there. Keep me down here.

Speaker 1 All right, we're on a side again. Not disclosing.
Not disclosing. Okay.
Well, let's see if I can give us one where disclose is needed. Yeah, that's important because there are times, like

Speaker 1 there are times we should be disclosing things.

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Speaker 1 Okay, this is coming from Am I the Asshole. Again, just an Am I the Asshole Day, apparently.
And it is titled, Am I the Asshole?

Speaker 1 If I report the couples therapist that married my ex-boyfriend a year after our sessions with her?

Speaker 1 Oh, wait. I literally have a friend who went to a couples therapist with her husband and the therapist like got a crush on my friend's husband, but they like let like he wasn't about it.
But yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh my god, this could have been them. Yeah.
Or it was like their marriage counselor. Like there's like something for before the marriage.
Like I don't know. Anyway.
Yeah. Ah!

Speaker 1 I wonder if this is a really common thing. Chime in, you guys.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 In 2017, I, female 25, saw a couples therapist with my then-boyfriend, male 36.

Speaker 1 After three sessions with her, I refused to return due to her blatant, flirtatious behavior and extremely judgmental attitude towards me, which my ex-boyfriend called me delusional for pointing out.

Speaker 1 She had told me that I seemed too immature, not ready for therapy or a serious relationship. The whole thing was focused on my ex-boyfriend and his complaints about me.

Speaker 1 She never asked about my feelings or perspective in the relationship. We broke up about two months after the sessions, but I stayed living with my ex-boyfriend until November.

Speaker 1 Once I moved out, I had to return to our old apartment to get mail. This was in December.
And that was the first time I saw the therapist with my ex.

Speaker 1 They happened to be getting ready to go out on his motorcycle and were both wearing full-face motorcycle helmets.

Speaker 1 But I knew from her body type and hair that it was was her, along with my instincts, which suspected something was going on the whole time. But nevertheless, I moved on with my life.

Speaker 1 I just found out yesterday my ex got married due to a friend telling me about a photo he posted on Facebook. The photo was of him and my ex-therapist celebrating their one-year anniversary.

Speaker 1 I found her Facebook with the name change, and sure enough, they got married September of 2018 or earlier. That's just when she posted the wedding photos.

Speaker 1 This was less than a year after the breakup with me and my ex, and barely over a year after our sessions with her ended. I'm considering filing a complaint with the American Counseling Association.

Speaker 1 My friends and mental health counselors I know say I have enough evidence. I am not upset that my ex moved on.
So have I. I thank the universe every day that I am no longer with that narcissist.

Speaker 1 However, I feel deeply disturbed to find out out he married our therapist, especially remembering all the harmful stuff she said to me in the sessions, which, to be honest, really messed with my head.

Speaker 1 I fear of coming off as a bitter ex.

Speaker 1 Am I the asshole? This is crazy. Woo! Wait, there are two situations here, like possibilities.
Like, I know. Was he seeing the therapist before he brought

Speaker 1 her to her? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Or did it happen happen like over the course of the sessions?

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 to tell a client, like, you aren't mature enough for therapy?

Speaker 1 Like, that's why you go to therapy.

Speaker 1 That is, there was already some like animosity there. Diabolic.

Speaker 1 And it's one thing to, you know, develop a crush on somebody and to maybe see them in a little bit more of a golden light, but then to have such negativity toward the current girlfriend, I would more so be like, ooh, I feel guilty about feeling this way if I'm developing a crush, which is why it leads me more to feel like something was already going on.

Speaker 1 I'm very curious. And his defending of the therapist, too, kind of points to that direction.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because after three sessions, why are you defending this stranger versus me, your partner, who you're seemingly trying to work on things with? Right.

Speaker 1 And how would this therapist have fallen for him so quickly in three sessions, but also have been acting like this kind of from the first one? Like, is he really that handsome?

Speaker 1 I don't know about that. I know.

Speaker 1 How do you meet someone after that short amount of time and like, or do you have such a brief session, an hour each, and you're like, I'm going to target her because I want him for myself. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it happened in what it sounds like all the sessions. Yeah.
Especially the last two. So it's like, you met him, you had 60 minutes with this guy.
And then we're like, I'm going to go for him.

Speaker 1 He's mine. Mine.
That's my king. yeah i

Speaker 1 i don't think that there would be anything wrong with reporting this because i do feel that one of like the key foundations of being a therapist would be like separating your own personal emotions from the help that you give other people and the advice that you give them and like I mean, you're leading people down roads and they're trusting that you are a professional and you know what you're doing.

Speaker 1 And like that, that can put people in very dangerous situations to be like, oh no, he's doing amazing.

Speaker 1 And like, you actually have things you need to be like, like, she's still questioning herself years later because it's like, I went to a professional and this is what they told me. I know.

Speaker 1 I'm very curious what the timeline is. Yeah.
I'm very curious also the requirements for her license and dating patients afterwards.

Speaker 1 I know for me as an OT,

Speaker 1 you had to wait six months after seeing a patient and then you could legally date them. Okay.
I think mental health providers, it's different. It might be longer.

Speaker 1 If you're a mental health provider out there, please chime in in the comments. I'm just Googling to see

Speaker 1 what I can find online.

Speaker 1 On some of the sources, I'm seeing mental health professionals generally cannot date current patients due to ethical and legal guidelines that protect patient well-being.

Speaker 1 After therapy ends, there is a waiting period before a therapist can date a former patient, which varies, but is typically at least two to five years.

Speaker 1 Wait, this, oh, two to five years is like a really long time. But I understand it because like there is such a power dynamic as well.
I mean, it's like dating your boss, but maybe even more, like

Speaker 1 more of a power dynamic between a therapist and yeah, I, I, anyone can fall in love. So like that's tough.
Like people, wait, this happened when married at first sight.

Speaker 1 One of the experts who like matches up the couples ended up marrying one of the people that they messed up. One One of the guys that they

Speaker 1 matched up. It was so drunk.
I think it was in one of the earlier seasons, too. Oh, my God.
But she was like removed from the show because of it. Wow.
Yeah. Okay.
So I'm on Good Rx,

Speaker 1 and apparently varies by state, therapist license, all of that jazz. Per the American Psychological Association, a psychologist can't date a patient for at least two years.

Speaker 1 And the ACA has a five-year waiting period after therapy has ended. And so OP wrote in about a complaint with the American Counseling Association.
So ACA.

Speaker 1 So five years, then, based on what I'm seeing from a quick Google.

Speaker 1 Do we know if it's different if like they only had one session and they like met and they were like, oh, actually, I don't know if I should see you as a therapist? I wonder.

Speaker 1 I don't think that would matter. Like, I feel like patient is patient.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The good RX

Speaker 1 like article on this whole thing does say this, though.

Speaker 1 Even then, a therapist must demonstrate that the relationship is not exploitative to avoid legal issues.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, I think that that's like an important law to have in place because, again, that's so,

Speaker 1 I mean, it's almost like grooming could take place in that scenario because you are going to this person.

Speaker 1 Their word is sort of like up to heaven to you, and you really trust them and you like trust them with your with your mind. I know.
This is apparently a common issue.

Speaker 1 This whole article is titled, Can You Date Your Therapist? No, and Here's Why.

Speaker 1 And essentially, it's just like it's normal to develop intimate feelings for your therapist. Yeah.
But a therapist dating their client is unethical and in many states against the law.

Speaker 1 And I think exactly as you said, like you're in this vulnerable position,

Speaker 1 they could be telling you things almost like grooming. Like it could be that like subconscious coercion to where you think you're getting the help you need, but it's actually them manipulating you,

Speaker 1 which like

Speaker 1 how in what ethical world could you ever date a patient that like you can't like kind of as this thing says, like you really shouldn't.

Speaker 1 And it's so understandable to develop a crush because it's like you become so intimate with this person. You're sharing so much of yourself with them.

Speaker 1 Like you're, you're bare to them about all these things that you maybe are scared to talk about with anybody else. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, you know, it's not on the patient to like, like it's, they've done something wrong. If they develop feelings for their therapist, it has to be on the therapist to draw that line.
I agree.

Speaker 1 That's like one thing. I feel like if things are really bad, you should disclose.
That's that one Facebook page. Like, are we dating the same guy?

Speaker 1 I know, like, there's some issues with it a little bit. Yeah, I don't know about that recently.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But like, if there's someone you go on a date with that is truly just horrendous and scary, like you should disclose that. Like, this you should absolutely disclose.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like there are both elements of it: of like her being a bad therapist because those feelings got confused and like kind of messing with this girl.

Speaker 1 But then there's also like, is this an okay dynamic between him and her? And then if she actually was dating him before, then that's a different ethical issue.

Speaker 1 Then it's like abusing your power in a completely different way. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, I definitely think she needs to report. 100%.

Speaker 1 Disclose. I'll disclose that.
Disclose.

Speaker 1 So there is a comment here. Hi, I'm a therapist.
All caps. Please report her.
Wow.

Speaker 1 Her behavior is ridiculously unethical and who knows what else she has done or if she even should be allowed to practice. Not the asshole times a million.
Edit.

Speaker 1 I gotta say, I'm loving this veritable Greek chorus of therapists showing up to chant, report her, report her. OP, if you see this, please don't feel like you're obligated to report her.

Speaker 1 You do what you need to do to find peace and closure. All right.

Speaker 1 But that's true. Like, I think someone who's willing to do this to a client, a patient, also could be messing with people

Speaker 1 just to mess with people and like assert control or power. Yeah.
Which is scary. It's not safe to have someone in such a position of like influence over people.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Because because she might not want to steal the next man, but she could still like target someone in such a bad way.

Speaker 1 And someone who is vulnerable, like even OP said, like, this really messed with my head.

Speaker 1 So someone who isn't abiding by their ethical code and moral guidelines as a provider, which is so important, shouldn't provide.

Speaker 1 Disclose. Wow.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. I wish we knew, though.

Speaker 1 I wish we knew if they just somehow fell in love over those sessions or if this was before. I wonder like which is worse.

Speaker 1 I almost feel like the conspiring would be worse of like, oh, we're going to make her feel crazy. Dude,

Speaker 1 if they were talking before and planned that and that was like, oh, I don't want to break up with her. Well, I'll end it for you.
Right. And it's like.

Speaker 1 they go to therapy then in hopes of like oh that's so ooh that's the worst that's the worst scenario

Speaker 1 so we do have a little bit of an update you're lying. What are you? Is it Christmas? Like, wait, what the hell?

Speaker 1 Wow. Thank you, everyone, for your responses.
I realize that as the ex, it's pretty much impossible for it to not seem like I'm jealous, petty bitter, whatever you want to say.

Speaker 1 However, it is also impossible to have sat in those sessions and then see your therapist and ex get married and have zero feelings about it, regardless of having moved on. Please give me a break.

Speaker 1 I'm human. Anyways, I've made my decision.
I'm not going to participate in this post anymore, but I sincerely thank those of you that made meaningful contributions.

Speaker 1 So, one of my friends has basically taken it upon herself to investigate the therapist. I swear she should be in the FBI.
LOL. That's so important.
Okay, I love that.

Speaker 1 She found out that this is the third last name that this woman has practiced psychotherapy with.

Speaker 1 Under the first last name in 2014, she was charged with a DUI with property damage. She also comes up on health grades with five one-star reviews and an overall three-star rating.

Speaker 1 Essentially, what this new information does for me is confirm that she has been a shitty human being with shitty morals for quite some time.

Speaker 1 There's no way this is the first time she has caused undue harm to a client. Therefore, I can say with certainty that

Speaker 1 I am reporting. Awesome.
Awesome. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 Wait, everything's kind of like going going our way this episode. Like the girl left back guy.
She's reporting this therapist. They're letting us know about these things.
This is awesome.

Speaker 1 Unless we're like really off with our takes, and then like you guys are going to have to let us know because,

Speaker 1 you know, it takes a village sometimes. No, and also

Speaker 1 love that FBI friend. Like community is so important.

Speaker 1 Dude, the people that can sleuth, like I have a friend that can like sleuth like this and has like multiple times like found out that like a guy she

Speaker 1 met and was like going on dates with like had a secret girlfriend and like well that should be disclosed.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. I just like, I don't understand how people have the time.
Like I barely have enough time to like have friends and like get out of my house.

Speaker 1 And like, how do people have time to date multiple?

Speaker 1 Multiple people? I don't even know. Even in a casual sense, that's not something I've ever been good at doing.

Speaker 1 No, like if you're early on and not exclusive, like, yeah, go on a couple dates a week with different people. Oh, yeah, you absolutely can.
I'm just saying,

Speaker 1 have never been able to like handle that. It takes stamina for sure.
But if you're exclusive and you're like seeing the same person a couple times a week,

Speaker 1 how?

Speaker 1 Tinder swindler. That was crazy.
What was that one?

Speaker 1 That was the guy who was like on a Netflix show and he was like swindling money from all these women, but he had such intense relationships with them. Oh my God.

Speaker 1 And he was like, I work for like the FBI. And like.

Speaker 1 Dude, that's like the seniors and like even people my mom's age that are like, oh my God, Brad Pitt messaged me. He needs 5,000.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, Brad Pitt's not messaging you. Brad Pitt's not real.
He never was. No.
Like Zendaya does not need 2,000 for a dress. Like,

Speaker 1 she's got law. Even when I was in like high school, there was a lot more success with catfishing at that time.
I definitely, I had a catfish a cat.

Speaker 1 I catfished one of my boyfriends into cheating on me with her just to prove it. Mikayla!

Speaker 1 Wow, we're disclosing all sorts of things today.

Speaker 1 I was like, you know what? I don't think he's that loyal to me. Who did you, whose pictures did you steal? Some like internet girl.
I was like 16.

Speaker 1 So this is why you have people that use your pictures and catfish others now. This is the karma that you got.

Speaker 1 This is the karma. But I just like, well, it was, well, I didn't, I only like had a profile picture for her.

Speaker 1 So I only had like a profile picture and I was like, oh my God, like, you're so cute. And he was like, wait, you're so cute.
And I was like,

Speaker 1 and, and then I, you're funny. I think I didn't break up with him.

Speaker 1 I think he was like, oh no, like, my friends and I just like saw that and we knew it was so obviously fake and we thought it'd be funny to like entertain it.

Speaker 1 And I was like, fuck, I, like, I, I revealed myself too soon. Shoot.
Shoot. Whatever.
Who among us hasn't?

Speaker 1 That's. I've never catfished anyone.
No.

Speaker 1 Never. Aww.
Never. Unless you call whitening my teeth in photos, catfish.
To be fair, like, the catfishing only lasted like five messages. Oh.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 okay.

Speaker 1 You were 16?

Speaker 1 Probably like around that. Yeah.
Okay. I'll give you a break.
I'll give you a break. I'd do it again.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 We do have one final comment from OP. Ooh.
Definitely a huge thank you to all the therapists showing up to support me. And also thank you for adding that last bit.
I just updated the post.

Speaker 1 With the new information I have about her character, I'm definitely reporting. This woman should not be a therapist.

Speaker 1 I hope that she really did find her true love for my ex and that it will be worth it for her. Really, I do, but she should not be trusted by another vulnerable person ever again.

Speaker 1 I do feel like having all those therapists comment that must have been really validating for OP and like help them feel like, okay, this is the right choice. I know it would help me.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Especially because I think some people, by the sounds of her first edit, came in like,

Speaker 1 you're soul,

Speaker 1 you're better, you're jealous, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, I would then start to feel like, wow, I'm way off base here.
Like, and it's a big thing to like report somebody.

Speaker 1 Like, I, I, it would take a lot, like, even giving someone a bad review on Google, like, I feel very guilty about doing that and would only do it under, like, this was a really, really bad situation bordering dangerous.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know, like, I, I think it's normal to feel very guilty and like nervous about doing that.

Speaker 1 But then, yeah, if it's like endangering the safety of others and like, this is somebody who really shouldn't be in this position of power, like

Speaker 1 sometimes that that's what needs to be done. I think so.
This feels totally justifiable. Yeah, totally justifiable.
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Speaker 1 This next one is coming from Am I the Asshole, two months old, titled, Am I the Asshole for Using My Friend's Nail Clippers and Kind of Screwing Things Up with His Girlfriend?

Speaker 1 Take me on this journey. It is a journey, my friends.
So this got way more dramatic than I expected.

Speaker 1 And now I'm not sure if I actually did something wrong or if this is just completely blown out of proportion.

Speaker 1 I, 30 male, was house sitting for my friend Tom, 32 male, for a few days while he and his girlfriend were out of town visiting her family. It wasn't a huge deal.
I've done it before.

Speaker 1 I was feeding his cat, watering his plants, bringing in his mail. He told me I could crash there if I wanted to, and to help myself to whatever.

Speaker 1 On the second morning I was there, I noticed I had a nasty split nail on my thumb, like one of those deep ones that keeps snagging on stuff.

Speaker 1 Of course, I didn't pack my own nail clippers, and I didn't want to leave it, so I figured I would just use his. Not a huge deal, right? I've known the guy for 10 years.

Speaker 1 We've literally shared food and beers and stuff. It's not like I used his toothbrush.

Speaker 1 So I found the clippers in his bathroom drawer, used them once, just on my thumb, not like I went on a foot trimming spree, ran them under hot water, wiped them off, and put them back where I thought they went.

Speaker 1 Anyways, a couple of days after he gets back, he texts me, quote, Hey, did you use my nail clippers? I said, yeah, sorry, had a split nail, cleaned them after, figured it was fine.

Speaker 1 He says, quote, okay.

Speaker 1 But then, a little later, he calls me and goes, quote,

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 now there's kind of a problem.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Turns out his girlfriend noticed they weren't where she left them. Question mark, question mark, question mark.
And asked if he used them.

Speaker 1 He hadn't, but instead of just saying it was me, he says he didn't know who used them, which now makes it sound like someone broke in or snooped around the bathroom while they were gone.

Speaker 1 She's apparently super germ conscious and now she doesn't want to stay over until the bathroom has been deep cleaned. She's creeped out.
I told him, dude, just tell her it was me.

Speaker 1 It's not like I was going through her stuff. I used one clipper, cleaned it, and left.
He says no, because now he's already lied, and if he comes clean, it'll be a whole thing.

Speaker 1 And she'll think he's gross for not caring that someone used them. So now I'm weirdly trapped in this lie he made up, even though I offered to tell her myself.

Speaker 1 I get that I didn't ask at first, but I genuinely didn't think nail clippers were that personal.

Speaker 1 I didn't touch anything else, didn't damage them, didn't even mention it because I figured it was a non-issue. But now, apparently, I've quote violated trust.

Speaker 1 And there's this whole narrative that I disrespected their space, and now she's mad at him, and everything's tense.

Speaker 1 Am I the asshole for using the clippers or for pushing him to just tell her the truth? I feel like this all went way off the rails over something super minor.

Speaker 1 I'm so confused about this.

Speaker 1 I mean, first of all, having a brain where you would even notice that the nail clippers are in a slightly different place from where you left them, I can't imagine being that like organized in my head.

Speaker 1 I wish I was that organized. That's like amazing.
But did she not know that he was house sitting at all? And also, why is it like a lot? So this guy was like, I don't know who used them.

Speaker 1 Why would it have lied to be like, oh, I found out who used them? That's what I'm like, dude. I'm so confused about this.
Why are you making your own issue? Like, this is a non-issue.

Speaker 1 You're making it an issue by just not communicating. And wouldn't, like, wouldn't she know someone was house sitting? And maybe that would be the first assumption.

Speaker 1 So she thinks someone broke in and used the nail clippers. And used the nail clippers.
But nothing else is missing. So

Speaker 1 I, like,

Speaker 1 she's a germaphobe. I, I wonder if she, like, genuinely has, like, contamination, OCD.
Yeah, which is really bad. And, like, that's difficult.
That's tough to work through. To work through, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then, yeah, especially if you actually think someone broke into your house.
But like didn't take anything. That's just used the nail clippers.

Speaker 1 I mean, you never know why someone might be breaking. Maybe they were canvassing.
That is true.

Speaker 1 And I've had a couple cases on clues where the serial killers would like break in before or like that was the start of their stuff. And they would like ransack houses and like.

Speaker 1 eat people's ice cream and then like not steal anything. Everyone who's listening is going to start getting so paranoid about things being in like a slightly different place.

Speaker 1 Did I eat all my ice cream?

Speaker 1 I yeah i'm just this seems like a very easily fixed communication issue which is why i'm so confused by this like why does he think she would be mad at him being like oh it was my friend sorry i don't that's what i'm confused about too because i think the initial answer like oh i don't know it slips your brain yeah that's not a lie but then it's like oh you you ask your buddy he did use them you say hey babe actually i figured it out it was just tom i asked him since you know he was cat cat sitting for us, and yeah, Tom used them instead of like letting her think someone broke into the house.

Speaker 1 Way worse, way worse.

Speaker 1 If you're like putting the two on a scale, like I'd rather someone use my nail clippers versus someone broke in and went through our stuff, absolutely, and that's the only thing he used.

Speaker 1 At first, I was like, Why is he using their nail clippers? But split like split nail, absolutely. I know.
I mean, you see that come in, you got to get ahead of it. Something bad could happen.

Speaker 1 I just, I felt it too. When he was like, you know, it snags on stuff.
I'm like, oh, yeah, no. Quick fix.
Quick fix.

Speaker 1 I am curious if you think if you're house sitting for someone and like you use something, do you have to disclose like everything?

Speaker 1 Like, hey, Michaela, I actually used your can opener and then I needed a Q-tip. So I took a Q-tip and then

Speaker 1 I did wipe my ass. So you are a little lower on toilet paper now.
I would never expect any of that. Maybe there are people with different opinions on nail clippers though.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 I personally don't care because my fingernails are generally quite clean. And like, I don't think.

Speaker 1 You could also just soak your clippers in some alcohol. Yeah.
I know. I don't think I would.

Speaker 1 If I ate someone's food, I might be like, oh, by the way, like, you might need to refill the Cheez-Its because a hurricane came.

Speaker 1 But yeah, no, I don't think that you need to disclose stuff like that.

Speaker 1 I think if you have someone that's coming into your house to do you a favor, like watch your pet water your plants, like I think they can have a couple beverages and I would probably ask some snacks.

Speaker 1 I would probably be like, hey, is it okay if I use this?

Speaker 1 But again, I would, I wouldn't feel offended by someone doing it. I know.
Well, especially when the guy, I just like looked up and read too.

Speaker 1 His friend did tell him like you could crash there if you wanted and to help yourself. to whatever.

Speaker 1 Yeah, if someone's sleeping over at your house, like I generally prepare a lot of things for guests, but then it's also like, and anything else that I have forgotten to specifically provide you with, like, feel free to ask, or like, use whatever food's in the kitchen, use whatever tools, use anything.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know?

Speaker 1 This is so weird. I don't know why people are so scared to have like basic conversations with their partners.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because also on the flip side, like, if I were her, I'd be annoyed that my partner's lying to me over something so silly. Yeah, no, and then making me spiral more.

Speaker 1 How are we going to handle big conversations?

Speaker 1 Literally. Very weird.
Are people in the comments also confused about why he won't just say this? Because I need, like, I feel like I'm missing something almost.

Speaker 1 So the top comment on this one, Tom put himself in this situation by lying, and his girlfriend is super weird for wanting the entire bathroom deep cleaned over a pair of fucking clippers.

Speaker 1 She obviously doesn't know you stayed there because, gasp, you might have sat on the toilet and took a shower and maybe even used a towel. Colin has Matt, not the asshole.
Okay, so is

Speaker 1 the lie actually that

Speaker 1 he doesn't want to tell his girlfriend a friend stayed there because of her contamination anxiety? Which is kind of what the next comment in response to that one says. Okay.
Right?

Speaker 1 Like, it sounds like there must be a bigger lie Tom is covering up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But then who did you think was taking care of your cat and your plants? Right. Right.

Speaker 1 Maybe she thought that he hired someone and they weren't using any of like like staying there or whatever.

Speaker 1 But I would just be like, yeah, we have to have a conversation about this. Like I needed someone to watch the cats.
My friend was willing to do it for free as a favor to me.

Speaker 1 He probably used some stuff, but I know you struggle with contamination anxiety. So let's have some cleaners come.
Like, that's fine.

Speaker 1 And this is something we kind of see a lot in these Reddit stories where, like, people lie about the smallest things.

Speaker 1 And it's like, if you're willing to lie about the small things, how can I trust you with big things? Yeah.

Speaker 1 You shouldn't have to disclose nail clipper use and it shouldn't be a big deal. And she's coming from a place of like probably does have OCD or something.
Yeah. Like severe germaphobe.

Speaker 1 And that's, you know, that's tough. That's a battle she has to work with.
But like, you don't need to make it worse by lying. Oh my God.
Wait. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I feel that her anxiety would get so much worse now finding out that like actually he does have people come to the house, but like doesn't just tell her that that's the case.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because then she could probably set boundaries and be like, okay, they can come and stay and take care of the cat and the plants, but can they stay out of our room?

Speaker 1 But now she's probably like, oh, I need to clean everything before I use it because he's not going to tell me if someone came to the house. And she doesn't know what got touched.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So if the nail clippers got touched, everything else probably got touched. Yeah.
Everything. So it's like you're making it worse by not just being an adult.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's so weird. People are fully convinced that Tom is lying about having people stay there and stuff like that.
I'm going to go look at the account, see if we ever get any updates from OP.

Speaker 1 No updates, only one comment. It is a newer relationship, so I've only met her a handful of times.
That's why I wanted to just tell the truth because I'd hate to mess something up with Tom.

Speaker 1 So she doesn't live there. It doesn't sound like it.
Okay. If it's newer, I would assume no, if it's newer.
I just think

Speaker 1 this is something that having a conversation and having clear communication would be so beneficial for.

Speaker 1 Like her being very clear about her boundaries of like, hey, I know this isn't typical, but this is something I've struggled with my whole life. And like, I'm trying to get better about it.

Speaker 1 And it hasn't gotten better. But, you know, if you have other people in the bathroom, like, could you let me know? And I'll just like clean it before I use it or like things like that.

Speaker 1 Like, there has to be working together in order for this to work.

Speaker 1 And he doesn't seem willing to do that. No, no.
But no, you don't need to disclose. You don't need to disclose on that one.
But this next one, we'll see. We'll see.

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Speaker 1 Okay, how do I tell my friend that he'll never date an influencer-like girl?

Speaker 1 Hi, everyone. This is a sensitive topic, and I want to approach it as respectfully and compassionately as possible.

Speaker 1 I, 27 male, have a friend, also 27 male, whom I've known since our freshman year of college.

Speaker 1 He's never really dated, at least not that I'm aware of, and he never seemed particularly interested in pursuing anyone seriously.

Speaker 1 He'd occasionally mention girls, but it was always in a vague or surface-level way. Two years ago, I broke up with my long-term girlfriend and re-entered the dating world.

Speaker 1 That's been a whole journey of its own, but that's another story. Since then, he started talking more about dating and women.

Speaker 1 I think he now feels like we're in the same boat, and honestly, I'm glad he's opening up more. Here's where I'm struggling.
My friend is an amazing person.

Speaker 1 funny, smart, thoughtful, a great cook, and he has a solid job. But on a purely superficial level, he's not conventionally attractive.
Some people might even consider him ugly.

Speaker 1 When we were younger, that kind of thing might have mattered more. But now that I'm dating again, I've realized how much broader and more complex attraction can be at our age.

Speaker 1 There are so many different kinds of beauty, and what I find attractive has definitely evolved since I was 18.

Speaker 1 Unfortunately, my friend doesn't seem to see it that way. He only seems interested in women who look like Instagram influencers.
Very stereotypically hot.

Speaker 1 And being brutally honest, those types of women are typically looking for guys who match their aesthetic, and he just doesn't fit that mold. It's starting to really hurt his self-esteem.

Speaker 1 Not dating is making him feel like he's worthless. I've tried to gently steer him toward more realistic and fulfilling possibilities.
For example, a friend of a friend often compliments his cooking.

Speaker 1 I suggested he ask her over for a homemade dinner sometime, and his response was, she's ugly.

Speaker 1 That really bothered me. At our age, I feel like we should be past this superficial mindset and actually see people for who they are.

Speaker 1 I don't want to shame him or be cruel, but I also don't want to sit back and watch him spiral because he's chasing an ideal that's not going to happen.

Speaker 1 He's not going to date or hook up with supermodel-type women. That's just reality, and it's okay.

Speaker 1 There's someone out there for him, someone who will love him for who he is, but he's blocking those possibilities because of his narrow idea of what's attractive.

Speaker 1 How can I talk to him about this without sounding condescending or mean? I want to help him see his own worth without reinforcing unrealistic standards. Any advice would be appreciated.

Speaker 1 This is really tough.

Speaker 1 It seems like OP is coming from such a good place. I know.
At first, I was like, damn, you're just calling your friend ugly like that. Which I still think.

Speaker 1 I'm like, you in the same breath are saying, like, everyone is beautiful in their own way, but then you're still being like, but he's ugly. Right.
Yeah. I'm just like, ugh.

Speaker 1 I think you can just like keep trying to be like, well, why don't you give so-and-so a shot? Like, why don't you open your mind a bit more?

Speaker 1 Like, you never know who you could end up really liking or falling in love with. Like, give it a shot.
But other than that, let them find out the hard way.

Speaker 1 I think this is a very tough position to be in. I

Speaker 1 don't know if it would be right to disclose. Also, like, people

Speaker 1 can date anybody. There are some

Speaker 1 very famous women, and I don't want to shame any specific people. So I'm not going to name exactly who those women are and who they're dating, but it makes one stop and think.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's like, like, it technically could

Speaker 1 happen for him.

Speaker 1 I think the reason he's gotten to this point is just that, like, he isn't dating anyone, and it's hurting his self-esteem that he's been single for so long, but he also won't budge on this.

Speaker 1 Like, they have, but the most important thing is them looking this very specific way. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Which is interesting. I mean, everyone's everyone's entitled to their attraction, preferences.
Right. I think you could maybe give a little tough love.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't say, like, you'll never end up dating an influencer type model. Like, yeah.
Cause never say never. Like, never say never, really.
But I think you could be like, hey, you know what?

Speaker 1 Like, I think you're being a little closed-minded. Yeah.
Clearly, you're unhappy being single. And like, something's got to give.
So why don't you consider some other people, maybe branch out?

Speaker 1 You never know who you're going to end up liking. Like,

Speaker 1 get some practice dating at the very least. Yeah.
Like, come on. And I, I mean,

Speaker 1 I know this is the case for women, especially. Like attraction changes so much over time.

Speaker 1 And like, the more you get to know somebody, the more attractive they become and the more that you know about them. So maybe I would approach it from that angle of like, you know, there are people

Speaker 1 that like I've met and maybe upon my first meeting with them, it was like, oh, oh, this is just friends' vibes, but then like something about them over time really grew on me.

Speaker 1 And I think you've got too narrow of an expectation right now. Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
Your expectations are too narrow. Cast your net a little wider.

Speaker 1 Otherwise, you're not going to see all the fish in the pond. Yeah.
So not disclose,

Speaker 1 but maybe like, yeah, find ways around. Encourage some expansion of the horizon.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think that would be good.

Speaker 1 I mean, and at the end of the day, like you can say this and then he can choose to take the advice or not. Right.
And then he'll be alone. Probably won't.
And that sucks.

Speaker 1 And then you just got to let him, let him do his thing. And like, I, I know I have had like conversations with friends where like they kind of continue to have the same problem.

Speaker 1 And it's like, you can only give your advice so much. And if they take it, yay.
If they don't. There's nothing you can do about it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And if it keeps coming up as an issue that they're constantly, you know, know, mentioning or complaining about or venting about or whatever, like you then have the choice to like set that boundary where you're like, hey, you know what?

Speaker 1 I've heard about your dating quite a bit. We've had the conversation that maybe you should expand your horizons and like try dating other people.

Speaker 1 You're not willing to do that. I really don't want to keep hearing about this because it's, it's really, it's almost stressful for me.
Yeah. Like, can we talk about other other topics? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like you can do that. Yeah.
I've given you my advice. Like, you don't want my advice, buddy.
Go again, yeah, that's hard.

Speaker 1 Cause, like, we've all been in that situation with friends where it's like you keep giving this friend advice, and like, they're not taking it, and

Speaker 1 there's just nothing you can do. So, at the end of the day, like, you then need to control what's good for your mental health.

Speaker 1 And if distancing yourself so you don't hear about those problems, yeah, like that's an option, and especially if it's like, oh my God, you're still complaining that you can't be with a supermodel.

Speaker 1 And, like,

Speaker 1 when you say it like that, like, damn, like oh my god we have to be realistic but we can't be mean about it no um the top comment i really like by the way okay so

Speaker 1 they say i find that guys like this often aren't chasing something they find attractive they're chasing approval by other guys oh they want a trophy wife they want other men to see their instamodel girlfriend as a status symbol I think the best thing to do here would be to try and counteract that narrative in his head.

Speaker 1 Compliment women that are not conventionally attractive in front of him. If he calls someone ugly, say, no, she's not.
She has a really pretty smile or whatever.

Speaker 1 Don't engage in any weird lusting over bombshell women behavior.

Speaker 1 If asked, empathize that social media isn't real or dating a famous person must be super annoying or that it looks like it requires a lot of upkeep. Hopefully if you model healthy

Speaker 1 dating behaviors, he catches on and comes back down to earth a bit.

Speaker 1 That, yeah, I mean, overall, it seems like a good tactic. A little bit of a Jedi mind trick, which I usually love.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think that is like a good thing to point out, too, because, like, he could be coming from just like kind of an emotionally immature place. Like,

Speaker 1 you know, if he hasn't had dating experience, or like he could look at Instagram and be like, what I'm seeing on Instagram, right? 100%. No FaceTune there.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So like he could even have these unrealistic standards in his head and like all he's seen is that. And so so that's what he thinks he should get.

Speaker 1 I know, yeah, because all of you with people that they're listing here, like Instagram models, super models, it's all like people that they do not know in the real world.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I think you go on Instagram, you go on TikTok, and like it kind of goes back to our conversation in the first story of like, you think you have a different warped perspective of what the real world actually looks like.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and like, you can go to an airport and there are thousands of people, and there's not one person who looks like that sometimes.

Speaker 1 Like, it's really really not the actual reality that we're living in no and there's so many people that are doing it right being themselves and then there's so many influencers that are like feeding into that really bad toxic like ideal and i think a great example is like um i don't really follow her but i saw a video of her the other day and it's olivia ponton That sounds super familiar.

Speaker 1 I think there's like rumors about like her and Joe Burroughs or something right now.

Speaker 1 But she posted a video and it just popped up and she's sitting there crying in the airport. Like, she can't navigate the airport, which hey, been there, that's real.

Speaker 1 And then she's like not wearing makeup, like, has a breakout.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, as someone who's having like the worst adult acne of my life, like, I'm like, so relatable, there's no beauty filter on her video. And I'm like, I love to see that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love to see that. That seems real.
I love that. And then you have like other influencers that are like literally gymnasts and still face-tuning their photos photos to make themselves even smaller.

Speaker 1 And it's like, yeah.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Why?

Speaker 1 And like, why? Yeah. And even like people who are preaching about like those types of things might still be face-tuning their photos and like

Speaker 1 having these filters on. And like, I'm not above, I use filters on sometimes.
When I found out what the TikTok beauty filter was, I found out about the TikTok beauty filter a year ago.

Speaker 1 I was like, oh, this makes a lot of fucking sense because I have been scrolling my feed and being like, how are all of these people naturally appearing in the wild? This is shocking to me.

Speaker 1 And then I was like, I'm throwing that on a couple of videos too. I know.
I mean, I do like that on Instagram, it shows usually if there's like a filter on it.

Speaker 1 But people just like, they see that and now they find a workaround. Yeah.
Now they do something else. I know.
And that's the part of the disclosure. It's, I, it's tough.

Speaker 1 And, and it seems to be affecting all genders, like, which makes sense. It makes sense that it would be like, okay, women are feeling insecure.
Men are, their expectations are crazy.

Speaker 1 Like, you think that everybody out there is just looking like that? Like,

Speaker 1 that is not the real world. No.

Speaker 1 So, OP did reply to that first comment earlier and said, I think you are right with the trophy comment. You've put into words what I've been thinking for a time now.

Speaker 1 We all have insecurities, and his is this.

Speaker 1 Maybe he's looking for a way out of the insecurities using women instead of actually facing the root problem and then that's deep yeah i know like that's this person's really thinking about it and he used whom properly as well which i really liked oh my god justin would love that i'm like i don't know whom whom who whatever

Speaker 1 you just replace it with him or he and whichever one makes sense then you know

Speaker 1 no it's like math we're not no too hard and then he did say because other people were like wait for him to figure it out on his own yeah he said the figuring it out on his own has been my approach for two years and it obviously hasn't worked.

Speaker 1 I'm writing this after an uncomfortable situation the other day in a bar where he basically made a fool of himself by making inappropriate jokes to a group of girls.

Speaker 1 I know he's a jerk and I know I should not tolerate certain comments. I should start answering back immediately instead of after the fact.
Yeah. Maybe he'll learn like this.

Speaker 1 Some gentle parenting, but also at the end of the day, like you don't have to be his friend. If like you know he's a jerk and you know he's shitty, like, yeah.

Speaker 1 Let him just keep doing his thing and being single and not finding someone that's going to be a good partner and cares for him. And you go on and live your life.

Speaker 1 And I feel like you can self-aware king.

Speaker 1 You can say, like, clearly holding out for an Instagram, Instagram model isn't working for you without having to explicitly say, because you are not attractive enough. That's true.
Like, that's true.

Speaker 1 This method that you have of like waiting for a supermodel to come around and fall out of the sky. Like, that's not happening.
So why don't we try something else? Maybe he needs the tough love.

Speaker 1 After now, knowing this has been two years. Yeah.
Like, it's no wonder OP is kind of going crazy. I'd be going crazy.
And like making rude, like.

Speaker 1 I don't know if this is saying that in the bar where he made a fool of himself by making inappropriate jokes to a group of girls means he was calling them ugly or if he was just being sexually inappropriate to girls who didn't want anything to do with him.

Speaker 1 It sounds like one of those two situations. I know.

Speaker 1 I could see him being in a bar and being like, well, you're a five. Yeah, you're a four.
So at that point, that's when I'd be like, dude, like,

Speaker 1 We've got

Speaker 1 like, yeah.

Speaker 1 And why not call him out? Yeah. Like, what you're annoyed by the behavior.
It's frustrating to be around. You haven't called him out.
You haven't addressed it in the moment. Time to start.

Speaker 1 Otherwise, like, why even be friends with him? Yeah. What's he offering?

Speaker 1 Sounds like he was a more jokes, compelling friend before he ever talked about dating. Literally.
Like,

Speaker 1 literally. Well,

Speaker 1 that's all she wrote over there. I guess we're kind of saying

Speaker 1 disclose a bit, like disclose nicely. Disclose with tact.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Disclose with tact. And I think that's a general rule with all disclosures.
Like, I hate the saying, oh, well, I'm just brutally honest. I hate that.
No, you're just brutal.

Speaker 1 Honesty isn't just like automatically moral. I know.
And there's, there's more to that saying where it's like, honesty without tact is just cruelness or something like that.

Speaker 1 Like, there is a saying like that. No, I think you've said it before.
It was

Speaker 1 like honesty without kindness is this. And then kindness without honesty is something.
Irresponsible. Something, yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm like butchering my saying right now, but I think like if you're going to make a disclosure, it should be tactful. It should be kind.
It shouldn't be like

Speaker 1 using it in a moment where like, and I've, oh my God, you guys have had to.

Speaker 1 The moment, the moment that you choose to do it is so important.

Speaker 1 This is so important. Like, I've had just like some communication issues like with my dad lately and just like trying to like find times to record his show.
And like, we're both really busy.

Speaker 1 So there's got to be a lot of give and take.

Speaker 1 And there's just like this, this thing that keeps coming up. And

Speaker 1 I don't know how much I want to get into the drama right now. Ooh, drama.
But essentially, like, he isn't getting a plus one for the wedding just because of like

Speaker 1 issues regarding that.

Speaker 1 And And so there was something that came up with like trying to find a recording date and like a thing being an issue.

Speaker 1 And I, in the moment, just wanted to be like, this is exactly why you're not getting a plus one at the wedding. But I held it in.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And that's the reality. Like, it's like that could be the truth.
Yeah. But in this moment, it's going to be so emotionally charged and hurtful.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Whereas if you approached it in a neutral environment without any kind of heated conversation going on, you could have potentially a conversation where where you both come out of it having gained something.

Speaker 1 Exactly. And it's all, it's all about like the tact and the timing.
And it's like, you want to be the most effective.

Speaker 1 It's not going to be effective if you're super emotional or like the other person is coming from a weird place. Like you have to really have a sit-down conversation.
And like, that's just life.

Speaker 1 Like, I'm not perfect. My family's not perfect.
Like, that is life. And it's like, how do you address it? So like you do have the best time or the best relationship and like carry it forward.

Speaker 1 And so I almost almost feel

Speaker 1 like this guy needs to address it before it accidentally comes out in like a heated moment. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 It's so on his mind and been bothering him for years now where it's like, I could easily see them getting into a fight and him just spluttering out, well, you're ugly and that's why no Instagram models want to date you.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like, I don't know, you know, I know.

Speaker 1 I know. It's so hard knowing when and where and how to address certain things, but it's got to be addressed.
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 At the end of the day, like disclose, but I don't think there's any situation in which you need to tell your friend, hey, you're not attractive.

Speaker 1 I agree. I think that we had a similar story on a bonus episode.
I don't know if it's out yet. It will be.
It's like a, it's a very different perspective, which is fun. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It is kind of an inverse of it in a way.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a good story for sure. It's just like we don't need to be humbling our friends

Speaker 1 with like malintent in our hearts. But I don't think that this person was ever coming from that angle.
It's just like. No, this person doesn't seem like he's a hater.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I think that other story, it's very like that person was trying to humble their friend. And it's like, why are you friends with someone if you don't even like them? Yeah, you're a threat.

Speaker 1 I think that was that energy. Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 this one

Speaker 1 is so toxic. Ooh, so toxic, and it's very fresh.
It is two days old, coming from R/Off My Chest, titled, My Wife Thinks We're Soulmates. I think I Settled.

Speaker 1 Oh, if I take back my ooh.

Speaker 1 We've been together for nine years, married for six. She is kind, loyal, sweet, smart.
She loves me deeply, and she believes we were destined to meet. I treat her well.
I've never cheated.

Speaker 1 We laugh together. On paper, we're perfect.
But if I'm being honest, I've never been in love with her.

Speaker 1 I cared about her, yes, but I was heartbroken when we met. She came into my life when I needed stability and comfort, and I mistook that for love.
I kept thinking it would grow. It never did.

Speaker 1 Now we're in our 30s. We talk about kids.
She looks at me like I'm the best thing that ever happened to her, and I feel like a fraud. I don't want to hurt her.

Speaker 1 I don't want to blow up both of our lives. But every night I lie awake feeling like I stole the future of someone who could have had real, epic love.
And I don't think I'll ever forgive myself for it.

Speaker 1 Wait, I'm like heartbroken. And that wasn't even that long.
And like, I feel so attached to the.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 yeah, like she, she deserves someone who loves her. I know.
She, like,

Speaker 1 she deserves someone who looks at her the way she's looking at him.

Speaker 1 Oh, just

Speaker 1 so sad.

Speaker 1 I also like, my fear is that the guy in the last story is going to end up like this guy of being like, oh, I think I settled.

Speaker 1 Like, I think I, I mean, I mean, this, this guy seems like he's potentially not coming from a negative place. It's, he's not like, she's ugly and I could do better.

Speaker 1 He's just saying like, I, I've just never really been in love with her, which is really heartbreaking. I know.
Am I reading that right? Did he say anything?

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, he's literally said, like, I've, I was waiting for the feelings to grow. I, I thought it would come and never did.
And it's just,

Speaker 1 it's sad because I think, you know, there's another post I saw and I,

Speaker 1 I don't know if we'll get into it on this episode. Maybe we should.
Maybe we should. But it's about kind of like disclosing things.
And it's just like, I think people

Speaker 1 do things out of obligation, get married have kids it's it's those societal pressures that are making it feel like that's what you should do what you have to do yeah and you don't have to do anything and so for this guy i feel like he was like oh well she's nice she's smart she's sweet she's loyal have to propose you know we've been together so many years like and she feels so confident that i'm the person she's supposed to be with and i mean i have definitely felt this way in a few relationships of like

Speaker 1 i could fall in love with this person. I feel like this is someone who so many people could fall in love with.
Like they're, they're so wonderful. Like they're, they're X, Y, Z.

Speaker 1 They're all of these things, but I don't feel that way about them. But like, because they're so amazing, I'm sure that has to grow.
Like, I'm sure that I would get there.

Speaker 1 And then, you know, it doesn't. And inevitably, I have to be like, all right, I guess that's not happening.
But I can understand

Speaker 1 feeling like someone is so amazing that like you are bound to get there with them and like not wanting to let go of such an amazing person.

Speaker 1 But at a certain point, it's like, oh, it's really not happening for me. Like, I'm really not getting there.
And I never have been. I know.
And it's, it's crazy that you would go nine years.

Speaker 1 It's crazy that you would propose. And that's what like really confuses me.
And it's like, even out of obligation, like, that's a crazy thing to do out of obligation and societal pressure.

Speaker 1 Like, it honestly is scary because for her, it's not like she hasn't felt the love because if she hasn't felt love,

Speaker 1 she probably would have ended it or like, you know, moved on or not said yes to a proposal.

Speaker 1 So it's like he's definitely displayed these things and he's faked it, which is like, honestly, really selfish too. It's like, is that

Speaker 1 a psychopath kind of like behavior? Like, you know what I mean? Where it's like, you're not even being real.

Speaker 1 Like you're completely putting on this front, this persona, this mask that like in your head you're like I don't love her yeah but if you asked her I'm gonna say the things I'm sure his wedding vows were beautiful yeah you know I mean they're talking about kids yeah they're talking about life and like growing old together and it's like she's gonna feel like the rug got pulled out from her that's such a good point of like of course I think as I was saying earlier she like deserves to find somebody but to hear now that your husband and the person you've been with of nine years like has not loved you this whole time What mental damage does that do to you going into any relationship going forward?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Trusting that people really feel the way about you that they're saying, and like, just how many insecurities and like not trusting your own self will that now bring up?

Speaker 1 Is it almost better to just be like, I've fallen out of love with you?

Speaker 1 Or I get like, damn, this actually is a hard conversation about disclosure because it's like we just were saying about honesty not always being fully the right thing to do. Like,

Speaker 1 is I don't know. Is it best here to be completely honest about never being in love with someone? Or will that just hurt them unnecessarily?

Speaker 1 Like, I think that he should break up with her and like give her a chance to find someone, but this would, this would really do a number. I know.

Speaker 1 I'm curious what you guys think as far as disclosure and honesty with this one. Like, I definitely think they need partial to

Speaker 1 get divorced. Yeah.
They both need to move on. Like

Speaker 1 she really deserves the chance to find someone that loves her. And so does he.
Yeah. You know, he did this for whatever weird, you know, reason in his head.

Speaker 1 But yeah, do you say, I've never been in love with you? Or do you kind of like white lie truth it where you're like, you know, as we've grown older, I just realize I want different things.

Speaker 1 And maybe call it a midlife crisis. I don't know.
Like, literally, put it on you. I don't.

Speaker 1 I'm just not in love anymore like i've noticed that my feelings have kind of changed and it has nothing to do with you and like i don't know like i feel like you need like a therapist involved to prevent like the most damage like you need to prevent as much damage as you can yeah i'm very curious about audience comments on this one because i

Speaker 1 i'm unsure about what the right thing to do is i know and so it's like you probably should involve a therapist like you yourself do should go to a couple sessions and be like this is how i feel

Speaker 1 How do I have this conversation and like protect her feelings as much as I can? Because it seems like he wants to do that.

Speaker 1 Based on this write-in, like, I know this write-in is like, it's obviously a shitty thing he's done, but it does seem like he's like. It's not malintentioned, but it was like

Speaker 1 it's passive hurting somebody. It's passive, like, it's, it's selfish.
It's taking the easy route and someone else is the,

Speaker 1 um, what's it called when someone else gets hurt because of your actions

Speaker 1 like you're caught in the crossfire like it's not yeah yeah she's the collateral collateral she's the collateral of you just like passively not facing your own emotions and not and not taking this seriously but then yeah again then i'm like maybe she should know the full truth because how do you fully like go back through it and heal from it and like understand what happened if you're getting a different like then she may be wondering when did it change?

Speaker 1 Like, how did I not notice when it changed? Like, I don't know. Because it's going to hurt no matter what.
I think mentally, it would mess me up more if I found out that my husband never loved me.

Speaker 1 Because if I started dating again and, like, a person was showing me the same things, opposed to me, which seemed like love, I'd be like, I can't trust anything. Yeah.
Like, it's all fake.

Speaker 1 And then that questioning of those relationships is going to cause those relationships to end because no one wants to be like questioned on their feelings for you all the time. I know.

Speaker 1 And that's something that, like, I've seen come up where it's like, my girlfriend does not trust what I tell her. And it's like, are you sure you love me? Are you sure you love me?

Speaker 1 Are you sure you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me? It's like that can instill doubt in that other person that's being asked that constantly. So you do have to have that trust.

Speaker 1 So it's like, how do you allow her to move forward after this big bombshell?

Speaker 1 I'm curious if you guys think disclose on this one. Maybe this is the poll we do on this episode because this is crazy.
Because he has been doing what's easy for him this whole time.

Speaker 1 And the only thing that's right now is to make it as easy as possible for her in this breakup. Yeah.
And I think that's fair. There's no way it's going to be easy.
But like, yeah.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 It's so tough. It's so tough.
I just like don't even know

Speaker 1 what to think of it. The other post I was thinking of that is super similar is also from like True Off My Chest.
So, same kind of like off-your-chest vibes.

Speaker 1 And it's titled, I found my dad's secret Reddit Account, and now I can't look at him the same.

Speaker 1 I'm going to read it on Patreon for you guys, but essentially, it's kind of like this person found their dad's Reddit account that said similar things to this guy and was just like, Oh, I'm not in love with, I don't love my wife, I don't love my kids.

Speaker 1 And so, this person's like, Wait, I'm the kid, like you regret having me? Like, what? Oh, that's so heartbreaking. So, we'll get into that on Patreon.

Speaker 1 But I think it feeds into this one. It feels really similar.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 I'm subscribed to the Patreon immediately. That's crazy.
I need to know.

Speaker 1 So, OP has since removed the post. Oh, wow.
They themselves took it down. No moderator involvement here.

Speaker 1 And the top comment is, may this love never find me.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Which is literally what I was thinking as I read the post myself.
Nightmare, like worst nightmare. Yeah.
That comment only has 694 upvotes right now.

Speaker 1 Like it seems like this post has kind of flown under the radar a little bit.

Speaker 1 Next comment down to that is this.

Speaker 1 Went on a few dates with a guy recently. We were around the time things should start to get serious.
He was perfect, but I had a weird feeling in my gut.

Speaker 1 So I told him I felt like I was the smart choice, but not the one that he wanted to make.

Speaker 1 Lo and behold, he told me that that I tick every single box he could think of, and even the ones he didn't know could be ticked, his words. And that's why he kept seeing me.

Speaker 1 But he feels nothing for me whatsoever. Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Why would you want someone like that for yourself and trick another person into it? I'll never understand people like OP.

Speaker 1 I do feel like this

Speaker 1 happens.

Speaker 1 I mean, there's that whole thing about like a lot of the time men will marry someone because of the timing in their life being like, oh, like this is now I'm ready to get married.

Speaker 1 So whoever's around is like who I'll marry. And there's like also kind of like a convenience aspect of having a wife that's like a little bit different.
And I don't know. Like

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 do think love can grow between two people

Speaker 1 in so many situations. And to like, have this expectation that love could grow between you and somebody else isn't that crazy.

Speaker 1 Like, arranged marriages happen in most of the world and, like, amazing love grows out of that. But if you have this, like, feeling of like, oh, this is really just the smart choice, like,

Speaker 1 you should disclose, like, I don't know. I know, because there might be someone that just wants a relationship of convenience.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 They just want someone to like live together and have an emotional connection with on a basic platonic level. And like, there are those relationships out there.
Like, some people want that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But they don't don't want anything physical or whatever. And, like, I don't know.
I feel like OP doesn't necessarily know what he wants or who he is. And, like, I don't, I want to be crystal clear.

Speaker 1 Like, I'm not saying this is necessarily OP. I'm not saying OP could potentially be dangerous.
I'm coming from a place right now of like, I've recorded four clues episodes this week.

Speaker 1 And, like, my brain is like very true crime.

Speaker 1 And I think there's like this crazy thing to me in a lot of the cases we have, especially serial killers that have families and kids. Yeah.
And some of the most like notorious ones do.

Speaker 1 And so we just did the case of Dennis Rader who gave himself the name BTK

Speaker 1 and he was very involved in the community. He was a church leader.
He had a wife. He had a kid.
What does BTK mean?

Speaker 1 Bind, torture, kill. Oh, okay.
Got it. Very bad.
Very bad. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And his daughter was like, you know, giving interviews and like has since like wrote a book after he was convicted. And his daughter is just like, I never, ever would have imagined.

Speaker 1 He was a pretty good dad. He built his tree houses and like all this stuff.
But then like you listen to him describe what he did and he's so emotionally detached.

Speaker 1 And it's just like there's this disconnect of like he did what he thought was normal and what he should do. But did he ever like

Speaker 1 feelings? I know what you're saying. You're not saying like OP is this person.
No.

Speaker 1 But there also is a dangerous type of person who will will go with the they they struggle with emotions and they struggle understanding societal expectations themselves like personally emotionally so they just do what they see other people doing and like what seems to be socially normal yeah and like then get caught up in that type of life and like that is very scary that and it's like create the own normal that you want to live like don't follow all of these societal expectations like if that's truly not what what you want and you have to mask or put on this front to do that.

Speaker 1 And I think this comment is interesting. And maybe this, I've like glanced at the first line.

Speaker 1 So I'm like, maybe this is what I'm trying to say in like a cohesive way because my brain is like fumbling today, it feels like. But this person goes.

Speaker 1 A lot of people consider a partner or spouse an acquisition rather than a fellow human you're doing life with, much like a job or a car.

Speaker 1 They feel getting one is an important life milestone and you hope for the best one you can get. You don't have to be overjoyed being at work or driving your car.

Speaker 1 It just has to provide you with everything you want from it for what you put into it and be of sufficiently high quality to feel proud of having. But relationships don't work like that.

Speaker 1 And a lot of people get way too far in before they figure that out. That's also sort of like partially what I was trying to say earlier to the Instagram one model one.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That is literally like that mindset. Yeah.
And is that from all of like the societal pressure that I keep talking about? Like, where does that stem from?

Speaker 1 There are definitely like a lot of people who their biggest desire is to just like fit in and like seem normal and seem like

Speaker 1 they're doing all of the things that you're supposed to do in this life to be normal. And I don't know.
That's got to be a tough thing to unlearn or like

Speaker 1 undo.

Speaker 1 The person who posted that initial comment about the guy who like ticking the boxes or whatever, people were like, how was he with you? Like what did he act like? And they go on to say he was perfect.

Speaker 1 In fact, too perfect.

Speaker 1 It's maybe a stupid metaphor, but I felt like he was treating me like a beautiful and expensive painting and he somehow came in possession of and had to treat it like a treasure for no other reason but its price.

Speaker 1 He was not treating me like an old picture of your grandma that you found somewhere. And that reminds you of her and makes you miss her while it has no monetary value.

Speaker 1 You want to make sure you hung it properly and protect it at all costs. Doesn't that make sense? By all means, he's a great guy.

Speaker 1 And the moment I brought up how I felt, he took it seriously and basically candidly admitted to it. But this is not love.
This is not enough and never should be. That's such a good meta.

Speaker 1 Like, that is such a good way of describing it. Amazing.
Yeah. No notes on that.
But yeah, that's kind of all we have on this one. Obviously, OP removed the post.

Speaker 1 I don't think we're going to get an update. But again, if you want that other story, it's going to be on Patreon.

Speaker 1 one also from True Off My Chest titled, I found my dad's secret Reddit Account and Now I Can't Look at Him the Same.

Speaker 1 I think it's kind of in the same vein as this, and it's going to be an interesting conversation for sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah, such a good disclosure, such a good topic because it's like really the gray area of a lot of these situations. Like, actually, I don't know what the right thing to like.

Speaker 1 This is, there's not a moral rule book in the world where you can like clearly find the answer of like, how how is the best way to go about this situation yeah and there's also that saying too where it's like are you telling someone something because it's gonna make them feel better or apologizing or is it gonna make you feel less guilty yeah and so it's like why are you actually telling someone something is it to clear your own conscience and it's gonna make their life exponentially worse like then you maybe shouldn't tell them yeah you really need to be thinking about like when you do things from the angle of like what will be the outcome of me saying this for that other person?

Speaker 1 Like, what

Speaker 1 will happen

Speaker 1 if I say this to like, even like things online, when people get mad about things online, I'm like, is this an actionable thing that you're saying?

Speaker 1 Like, like, what do you think will come out of this in a good way? Or will this actually hurt the cause that you're fighting for?

Speaker 1 You know, like, I just feel like approaching things from an angle of like, what will my words actually do? And like, how will it impact these other people?

Speaker 1 And will it actually create what I'm hoping will happen? Or will it just feel good to say this? Because we're oftentimes just saying things because they will feel good to say them. Exactly.

Speaker 1 So ask yourself. And I think like we can have takes on these stories, but like you could ask me a similar story and I might have a totally different disclosure answer.
It is so contacts by context.

Speaker 1 Or if I'm going through something different that week, I might like a difference. I could have fully evolved as a person.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like over the next six months, like maybe a friend pissed me off and like now I'm really sensitive to that topic and so now I'm the sore spot yeah I think that's what's interesting about this show it's like I can

Speaker 1 one I can't listen to old episodes I cringe

Speaker 1 cringe but it's like we're constantly evolving in our takes in our thought process our experiences so like no like you cannot hold me to a take I said a month ago you know

Speaker 1 you cannot hold me to a take I said two years ago like I am hopefully always growing in a positive way. Yeah.
Like this isn't my permanent take.

Speaker 1 Like I could very easily see a comment the second you post this episode that completely changes my perspective. Oh, 100%.
That's it. And then I'll feel like,

Speaker 1 oh, that, like, that's really changes the way that I look at this. And that makes a lot of sense.
And I've never had that experience. So now that I'm reading this, like, I do have a different opinion.

Speaker 1 I know. And that's.

Speaker 1 important thing that is so important for all of us to feel that way because that's how you grow by having conversations and trying to find middle ground and like connecting on things.

Speaker 1 I think that's like especially important in the times we're in right now. It's like we need to get to a spot where like we can have conversations and kind of like come together and like grow.

Speaker 1 And like, otherwise, like, how do we move forward? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I love seeing comments that are like very constructive in a way where like you're providing your own opinion because I read that and I'm like, oh, that's your thought process. Yeah.
Oh my God.

Speaker 1 That makes so much sense. And then it helps me grow in my thought process.
I love learning. Or getting a therapist to comment on the story about, is it okay for a therapist to do this?

Speaker 1 Like, that's so interesting. Yeah.
Or like, if you've been through something and you're like, no, Morgan, like, I've been through this. Here's my take on that story.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love, love seeing your takes. Like, it, it helps us grow.
Like, it's really all of our, all of our hot takes.

Speaker 1 A village, really, guys. It's a village.
I know. It's probably like, what is it now? Like, maybe.
It's not just two anymore. No.
We got to change the show name.

Speaker 1 I'm like, how many of us are out there now? Two million, 10 million? Like 10 million hot takes? Like,

Speaker 1 the show has, the show has reached a lot of corners of the world. That's beautiful.
That's beautiful. That's beautiful.
Okay, I only have you for a few more minutes.

Speaker 1 This is going to be, I think, a straight off the bat one. Whoa.
Last one for us today.

Speaker 1 Coming from our very own Two Hot Takes subreddit, 15 days old, titled, My Boyfriend Kept Asking Me to Moan Louder. Turns out he was recording me.

Speaker 1 This still doesn't feel real to write. I, 25 female, have been dating a 27 male for a year.
Things were good. We had amazing chemistry, and he made me feel sexy until recently.

Speaker 1 He kept asking me to moan louder during sex. At first, I didn't think much of it.
Some people are just into that. But it got to a point where it felt forced, like I was performing, not enjoying.

Speaker 1 I told him it made me self-conscious. He said it was just a turn on and dropped it.
Or so I thought. Last week, I used his laptop to log into my email because mine was glitching.

Speaker 1 He'd left a folder open by accident. It was full of audio files, literally labeled by date.
When I clicked one, it was me, moaning, saying his name, our sex, recorded without my consent.

Speaker 1 I confronted him immediately. He didn't even deny it, just said it wasn't that serious and that he only used the mic, not a camera.
Like that made it better.

Speaker 1 He also admitted he, quote, shared a few clips with his friends in a group chat as a joke. I dumped him on the spot, blocked him, and filed a report.

Speaker 1 His friends have tried texting me to chill and that he's going through it. Good.
I hope he rots. I feel violated in a way I can't even describe.
Oh, he should die. Yeah, he should die.

Speaker 1 That's disgusting. He's a terrible person.
Saying it was a joke and then having his friends defend him too. All of you fucking suck.
You're all the worse. He sent it to these friends.
Like

Speaker 1 that's so awful. Also, just kept getting worse and worse.
And then like trying to turn your intimate sexual relationship like into pornography. It's like porn isn't real.

Speaker 1 Like there is a reason that that doesn't feel natural for her and it's like it's making her uncomfortable and like that's just like not like he he wants it to be a show for him to show to his friends and show later instead of like actually having a good sexual experience with her you know to be crystal clear you always need to disclose if you want to record yes you need to consenting parties for things like that and that's what's like so weird to me in some states you can record audio it's a like a one-party state you don't have to tell the other person you're recording them which but even of that like weird.

Speaker 1 Even of, even of a sexual encounter, sexual, always, yeah, always, non-negotiable. And then sending that, even if it's like, then that's revenge porn.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, she's got a case.
Yeah. And this is a two-hot taste listener out there.
Like,

Speaker 1 I'm so sorry. I'm so, but I'm so proud of you for dumping him on the spot and reporting immediately.
Just like, I'm so. And he tried to gaslight you and be like, oh, it was just a joke.

Speaker 1 And like, all my friends think it's fine. It's funny.
It's not a big deal. Why do you think it's such a big deal? You, you should be shot.
It's a huge deal. It is a huge deal.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You can't involve someone else in something and not disclose what you're doing. Yeah.
Especially in relation to sex. Yeah.
Come on. Consent is key.
Consent is makes it fun.

Speaker 1 Consent is necessary and needed. Yeah.
It's like sort of just the most important part of all of it. And some people would be into recording.

Speaker 1 She even might have been had he approached it in like a, oh, I just want one to save for later. Like, the fact that he wasn't asking her, that shows more.

Speaker 1 Like, he either knew she would say no or he got off on the fact that she wasn't consenting to it. And he was like sneakily doing this.
Hell no. Hell no.

Speaker 1 Top comment, he's going through it. He and his friends are morons, and none of them should get into a relationship.
Keep pushing for the charges. Don't let the police or him stop you pushing forward.

Speaker 1 Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Keep us posted, OP. I know a lot of us would love an update and sending you all the support, all the support.
That's just so invasive. So invasive to go through.

Speaker 1 I'm so sorry, but

Speaker 1 you got this. Keep pressing, as the top comment said, those charges.

Speaker 1 But that's all I got on the disclosure theme. I loved this.
We'll have way more on Patreon because I have literally 20 other tabs open and I feel like they're all pretty good stories.

Speaker 1 I know they're all your children. It's like, which one do I like go up?

Speaker 1 I know that I sit here, even as we're recording, I click through all the tabs and I'm like, oh my God, what is going to like make the people happy?

Speaker 1 Like I always think about like what you guys want story-wise and

Speaker 1 also.

Speaker 1 What do you want for episodes coming up? I would love to hear any themes you guys would like to see, any guests you'd like to see. I really try to curate a show you guys will love.

Speaker 1 And like, I give myself anxiety probably picking these stories. I've wanted to do like kind of a happy feel-good theme, but traditionally, like those episodes don't perform well.

Speaker 1 So I'm like, do you not want feel-good? I'm like, just let me know what you want. Maybe like one at the end or something.
I don't know. I know.
Is the feel-good sandwich?

Speaker 1 Was that a good tactic for these episodes? I can try to structure more of those episodes and themes. So just let me know.
You know, we're heading into August very soon.

Speaker 1 I've got my wedding coming up in September. So I'm really trying to work ahead and get ahead on stuff.
And, you know, this is a village, as I've said. It's a community.

Speaker 1 And I want to make sure you guys are getting content you love. But other than that, head over to Patreon.
We've got a new merch out, limited run on certain items. So head over there.
That's all I got.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Thanks for having me.
Always a pleasure, queen. A regular.
I've had so many people say, I just got to tell you, I love Michaela becoming more of a regular. No way.
No way. That's awesome.

Speaker 1 I just did an interview with Batchez. It's not how you say it.
Why did I say it like that? I feel like

Speaker 1 you say it.

Speaker 1 And Marissa Dow over there, who listens. Hi, Marissa.

Speaker 1 And she was like, I just got to tell you, I love Michaela coming on. Yay.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. It's always a good time.
Thanks, Divas. I love these episodes.
But thanks, guys. And until next time,

Speaker 1 bye.