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<v Speaker 1>People have readit who had intimate encounter with their step siblings.

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<v Speaker 1>How the heck did that happen? Story one. I had

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<v Speaker 1>two friends. They fell in love after meeting on a

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<v Speaker 1>drunken one night stand. They dated for about two years

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<v Speaker 1>and decided to get married. Now, the girl's family was

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<v Speaker 1>from Australia, so although they'd met each other's parents, the

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<v Speaker 1>parents hadn't met before the wedding. So it gets to

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<v Speaker 1>the actual wedding day. The Australian family is flown in,

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<v Speaker 1>the English family is there. Everyone is sitting down and

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<v Speaker 1>the wedding proceeds straight to the after party. And unbeknownst

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<v Speaker 1>to my friends, both sets of parents were in the

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<v Speaker 1>process of getting divorced. I kid you not. As the

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<v Speaker 1>meal is taking place, none of the parents are anywhere

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<v Speaker 1>to be seen. Some of the groomsmen slash bridesmaids and

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<v Speaker 1>I went hunting for them. As the reception was taking

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<v Speaker 1>place in a huge country villa. Two bridesmaids find the

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<v Speaker 1>bride's mum and the groom's dad banging in a toilet upstairs,

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<v Speaker 1>while at nearly the exact same time, me and another

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<v Speaker 1>groomsman find the bride's dad and the grooms mum stoned

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<v Speaker 1>off their minds and are giving him a blowy in

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<v Speaker 1>the makeup and hair room. All the bridesmaids and grooms

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<v Speaker 1>kept it secret until after the wedding, when we found

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<v Speaker 1>out the others had been cheating as well. Well, we

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<v Speaker 1>lose our collective crap at how funny it is and

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<v Speaker 1>tell the bride and groom. They were mortified. They just

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<v Speaker 1>thought they'd been smoking weed as the smell was undeniable,

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<v Speaker 1>didn't realize their parents had gone full partner swap. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>A year later, both parents have separated and are trying

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<v Speaker 1>to remarry their opposing number, which will make my two

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<v Speaker 1>friends step siblings twice over. For parents are trying to

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<v Speaker 1>convince my two friends to divorce so they can get married,

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<v Speaker 1>and one couple is saying they are going to get

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<v Speaker 1>married anyway, whether the kids get divorced or not. Before

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<v Speaker 1>we continue, do us a quick favor. Smash that like

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<v Speaker 1>button and subscribe to support our channel story. Two. Our

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<v Speaker 1>parents got remarried later in life when we were both

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<v Speaker 1>already grown adults. We're both only children, so having siblings

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<v Speaker 1>was a new experience for us, but we wanted it

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<v Speaker 1>to work, if only for the family's sake. In an

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<v Speaker 1>effort to grow closer, we decided to go drinking one

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<v Speaker 1>night a few months after we met for the first time.

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<v Speaker 1>She ended up crashing at my place. I offered to

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<v Speaker 1>take the couch and give her the bed, but she

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<v Speaker 1>insisted we sleep together. In that weird feet to head

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<v Speaker 1>set up. My drunk ad promptly went to sleep. I

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<v Speaker 1>woke up in the middle of the night to find

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<v Speaker 1>a spooning and me with a serious stiffy poking her back.

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<v Speaker 1>I froze. I didn't know how I got there, what

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<v Speaker 1>was going on, or how I was going to get

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<v Speaker 1>out of this gracefully. I had just decided to extricate

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<v Speaker 1>myself slowly in the hopes that I didn't wake her.

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<v Speaker 1>When it happened, wiggle wiggle, She started wiggling herself against me.

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<v Speaker 1>On instinct, I started bucking. There was only one way

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<v Speaker 1>to go from there. We went out that night intending

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<v Speaker 1>to become closer. Well mission accomplished. We banged a few

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<v Speaker 1>times a week for five to six months before we

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<v Speaker 1>both met other people. During that time, we became extremely close.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't just physical. We shared personal store our fears, secrets,

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<v Speaker 1>talked about life and really bonded as if we were

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<v Speaker 1>lifelong siblings, except well, not in the traditional sense. Friends

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<v Speaker 1>often commented on how close we were, which was ironic

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<v Speaker 1>considering the circumstances. You'd think that would be the end

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<v Speaker 1>of the story, But instead of going our separate ways

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<v Speaker 1>with new people in our lives, we ended up realizing

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<v Speaker 1>we had fallen hard for each other. Now we're dating

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<v Speaker 1>and trying to figure out how to tell our parents,

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<v Speaker 1>family and friends. Might not have that problem for too

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<v Speaker 1>much longer, though. The last time her dad came into

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<v Speaker 1>the living room where we were hanging out, well first

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<v Speaker 1>he knocked story three. All right, buckle up, because this

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<v Speaker 1>one's a real brain teaser, and family tree nightmare rolled

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<v Speaker 1>into one. I married a lovely widow, beautiful kind, the

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<v Speaker 1>whole package. She had a grown up daughter from her

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<v Speaker 1>previous marriage, and my dad ended up falling head over

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<v Speaker 1>heels for her. They got married, which was great for them,

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<v Speaker 1>but it kind of scrambled things on my end. Suddenly

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<v Speaker 1>my dad was now my son in law since he

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<v Speaker 1>married my stepdaughter. That also made my daughter become my

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<v Speaker 1>stepmother because she was now my father's wife. Not long after,

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<v Speaker 1>my wife and I had a baby boy, which was wonderful,

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<v Speaker 1>except now my son was technically my dad's brother in law,

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<v Speaker 1>which also made him my uncle. Yep, my baby was

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<v Speaker 1>my uncle, and since my son was my uncle, that

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<v Speaker 1>made him the brother of my stepmother aka my daughter,

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<v Speaker 1>which also means he's her uncle. Try explaining that at

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<v Speaker 1>family reunions. Then my dad and his wife, again my

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<v Speaker 1>daughter slash stepmom, had a son of their own. That child,

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<v Speaker 1>due to all the connections, became my grandchild because he's

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<v Speaker 1>the son of my daughter. So my wife, who was

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<v Speaker 1>originally just my wife, is now also my grandmother because

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<v Speaker 1>she's the mother of my stepmother, meaning I'm my own grandchild,

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<v Speaker 1>and since I'm married to my grandmother, that technically makes

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<v Speaker 1>me my own grandfather. I swear I'm not making this up.

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<v Speaker 1>Every time I try to make sense of it, I

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<v Speaker 1>need to lie down. Story four. This happened to a

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<v Speaker 1>former colleague of mine. One night, she got a bit

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<v Speaker 1>tipsy at an office party and admitted she was in

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<v Speaker 1>a relationship with her stepbrother. It had apparently started out

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<v Speaker 1>casually but eventually became serious. Their parents found out and

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<v Speaker 1>strongly disapproved, insisting they break up, so they kept dating

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<v Speaker 1>in secret. The thing is her stepdad was a high

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<v Speaker 1>ranking executive where we worked, so this wasn't just a

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<v Speaker 1>private issue. It had office gossip written all over it.

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<v Speaker 1>Eventually the parents found out again. This time it became

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<v Speaker 1>a huge mess, emotional confrontations, ultimatums, and a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>public embarrassment, especially for her mom and stepdad, who were

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<v Speaker 1>well known in the industry. She confided in a few

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<v Speaker 1>of us that her mom had given her some serious ultimatums,

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<v Speaker 1>though she didn't share the details. Not long after, she

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<v Speaker 1>stopped coming to work and emailed in her resignation. Officially,

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<v Speaker 1>she said she was moving to the US to get

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<v Speaker 1>away from the drama. She texted a few coworkers privately

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<v Speaker 1>saying she needed peace and was done with everything. That

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<v Speaker 1>should have been the end of it, but a few

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<v Speaker 1>weeks later, her stepbrother now ex boyfriend began reaching out

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<v Speaker 1>to her old work friends, clearly desperate. She had broken

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<v Speaker 1>things off via text and vanished. He didn't believe the

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<v Speaker 1>whole moved to the US story. Most people thought he

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<v Speaker 1>just couldn't handle the break up until he filed a

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<v Speaker 1>missing person's report. Surprisingly, the local police actually looked into it.

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<v Speaker 1>Rare where we live. They eventually dismissed it as a

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<v Speaker 1>guy being overly dramatic, but he kept pushing, saying he

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<v Speaker 1>felt something was seriously wrong. Most of us stayed out

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<v Speaker 1>of it. Again, powerful parents, messy situation, and it all

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<v Speaker 1>went quiet for a while. Then, nearly two years later,

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<v Speaker 1>out of nowhere, the police came knocking again. Turns out

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<v Speaker 1>her mother's chauffeur had been arrested for something unrelated and

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<v Speaker 1>ended up confessing to murdering her. He even took them

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<v Speaker 1>to where her body was buried. Here's where it gets chilling.

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<v Speaker 1>The email's texts, even the break up, None of it

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<v Speaker 1>came from her. Her mother had sent them all after

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<v Speaker 1>she was already gone. She couldn't stand and the idea

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<v Speaker 1>of her daughter marrying her step son and orchestrated the

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<v Speaker 1>entire cover up. There's some speculation that her biological father

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<v Speaker 1>may have been involved too. The whole thing felt like

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<v Speaker 1>something out of a dark crime novel. Most of us

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<v Speaker 1>were just stunned. I still can't wrap my head around it.

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<v Speaker 1>Story five. My mother used to work with a woman

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<v Speaker 1>who married her daughter's fiance's father. Let me elaborate a

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<v Speaker 1>bit on that, So it really sinks in. A woman

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<v Speaker 1>my mother worked with had a daughter who was engaged

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<v Speaker 1>to someone. This woman was planning the wedding with that

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<v Speaker 1>someone's father in a Protestant or something church, and while planning,

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<v Speaker 1>her mother began dating the father. So the father and

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<v Speaker 1>mother are dating while kids are planning to marry, and

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<v Speaker 1>they decide to get married before their kids. So they

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<v Speaker 1>go and get married on a weekend sware in Vegas.

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<v Speaker 1>They come back and continue to plan their children's wedding

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<v Speaker 1>their children, who are now legally brother and sister. Awkward, right,

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<v Speaker 1>It didn't stop there. The church caught wind of the

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<v Speaker 1>situation and refused to perform the kid's ceremony. The couple

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<v Speaker 1>tried a Justice of the peace next, but that got

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<v Speaker 1>shut down too. Eventually they had to leave the state

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<v Speaker 1>just to tie the knot, because the dumb parents couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>just not get the third or fourth or whatever marriages

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<v Speaker 1>performed before their children were happily married, as if that

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't chaotic enough. The kids did get married and had children,

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<v Speaker 1>but then the husband ended up in prison for shaking

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<v Speaker 1>one of the babies, who tragically passed away. He got

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<v Speaker 1>twenty years. The mom who married the dad was horrified,

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<v Speaker 1>but the dad backed his son, which led to their

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<v Speaker 1>marriage falling apart. So yeah, a total mess. The whole

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<v Speaker 1>thing spiraled from some seriously questionable judgment and it all

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<v Speaker 1>ended in disaster story six. I'll take things that caused

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<v Speaker 1>my dad's divorce and destroyed my baby sister's life four

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<v Speaker 1>hundred dollars Alex. A little back story. When I was

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<v Speaker 1>five years old, my parents divorced and my dad moved out.

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<v Speaker 1>For the first couple of years, I was still pretty

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<v Speaker 1>close to him. He lived around the corner from us,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was at his house every week. Sadly, our

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<v Speaker 1>relationship pretty much ended when his job transferred him from

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<v Speaker 1>California to Texas. After his move, I only saw him

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<v Speaker 1>on holidays. A few years later, he married a woman

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<v Speaker 1>with two daughters around my age. They ended up having

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<v Speaker 1>a third daughter shortly afterward, and being a resentful twelve

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<v Speaker 1>year old living with a rather spiteful mom, I pretty

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<v Speaker 1>much wrote him off. A couple of holiday visits and

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<v Speaker 1>then nothing. Fast forward a few years. I'm eighteen, my

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<v Speaker 1>mom married a total ahole, I have a brand new

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<v Speaker 1>baby brother, and my home life is miserable. A few

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<v Speaker 1>days after a violent fight between my stepdad and me.

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<v Speaker 1>I came home from school, walked into my house, and

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<v Speaker 1>there sat my dad. I hadn't seen him in years,

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<v Speaker 1>but he'd apparently moved back to California with his family

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<v Speaker 1>and was there to take me to his new house.

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<v Speaker 1>My mom had called him she was done with me.

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<v Speaker 1>This isn't a corn story, so I'm not going into

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<v Speaker 1>all of the lurid details, but here's the gist. So

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<v Speaker 1>I was eighteen, a decent looking guitar player, and was

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<v Speaker 1>angry at the world. My oldest stepsister was also eighteen,

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<v Speaker 1>pretty hot, and was no virgin. We hadn't seen each

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<v Speaker 1>other for years, and before that had only seen each

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<v Speaker 1>other on a handful of holidays when I was flown

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<v Speaker 1>out to visit. There was no sibling vibe between us.

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<v Speaker 1>We were hooking up within a week, and it became

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty regular, almost daily thing for about a month.

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<v Speaker 1>And then one day her mom came home from work early,

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<v Speaker 1>caught in flagranny delecto. Her mom literally walked into my

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<v Speaker 1>bedroom and caught us mid thrust. To say she had

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<v Speaker 1>an instant meltdown would be the understatement of the century.

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<v Speaker 1>Items were thrown, words were said, my stepsister curled into

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<v Speaker 1>a little ball and tried to wish herself to death.

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<v Speaker 1>Not that it mattered. My step mom was clearly convinced

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<v Speaker 1>that I'd corrupted and probably est to'd at her innocent daughter.

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<v Speaker 1>It was obviously all my fault. Shortly after that, my

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<v Speaker 1>dad came home. That's when my stepmom decided that I

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<v Speaker 1>needed to go to jail. She wanted to call the

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<v Speaker 1>Julie at laws in those days, kiddos. My dad, to

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<v Speaker 1>least I wasn't being threatened with prosecution. And then the

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<v Speaker 1>we both agree that it was a dumb thing to do,

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<v Speaker 1>definitely one thing that we both feel exit extremely guilty about.

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<v Speaker 1>two parent household, and we took that away from her

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<v Speaker 1>before anyone asks, we do not know what happened to

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<v Speaker 1>we all agreed that a closed adoption was best for everyone.

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<v Speaker 1>Story seven. Here's a messy family story I've never told

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<v Speaker 1>anyone before, so a bit of background. First, my mom

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<v Speaker 1>like really beautiful, but that's not what this is about,

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<v Speaker 1>so I won't dwell on it. My dad, on the

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<v Speaker 1>other hand, had some serious emotional issues and basically bailed

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<v Speaker 1>before I was born. Because of that, I grew up

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<v Speaker 1>mostly with his family, which was far from a perfect

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<v Speaker 1>childhood anyways. Growing up, there was always this distance between

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<v Speaker 1>But when I was around eighteen, I started noticing she

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<v Speaker 1>is that I accidentally found a video that she made

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<v Speaker 1>watched it twice. I probably would have watched it a

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<v Speaker 1>hell of a lot more, except that, like right around

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<v Speaker 1>who I was staying with, god in bad trouble with

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<v Speaker 1>the law. I never talk about it. By then, I

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<v Speaker 1>was definitely lusting after my stepsister. She was also having

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<v Speaker 1>legal troubles and was actually in custody when I left home.

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<v Speaker 1>My friend and I went to pick her up from custody.

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<v Speaker 1>Seeing her that day, after watching the video, I'll be honest,

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<v Speaker 1>all I wanted was to pound her brains out. Looking back, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>me too. When we got her, she kissed me, and

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<v Speaker 1>it wasn't a sisterly kiss, you know. I mean, it

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't like ridiculously sensual or anything, but it definitely wasn't sisterly. Afterwards,

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<v Speaker 1>we went to crash at her friend's place. On the way,

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<v Speaker 1>my sister, and I got jealous. Even though she's my sister,

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<v Speaker 1>I felt like he was competition. Nothing happened between us

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<v Speaker 1>besides some maybe flirty hugs. Honestly, everyone I knew at

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<v Speaker 1>that time was wanted by the law, so we were

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<v Speaker 1>always moving around. It was a crazy, wild time. My

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<v Speaker 1>friend and my sister never hooked up, but there was

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<v Speaker 1>definitely some intimate tension going on between them. It was

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<v Speaker 1>showed up and out of nowhere gave me this slow

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<v Speaker 1>passionate kiss on the lips. Sadly, although I guess for

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<v Speaker 1>the best, nothing came of it. We spent some time apart,

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<v Speaker 1>and I started getting really religious, so I tried not

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<v Speaker 1>well for a long time, like I was totally over her.

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<v Speaker 1>But about a year later we were out sailing, not

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<v Speaker 1>like a date or anything romantic like that, and she

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<v Speaker 1>showed up in the hottest bikini I'd ever seen. That

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<v Speaker 1>brought all those old feelings crashing back. Not long after,

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<v Speaker 1>she got together with my friend, the one I was

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<v Speaker 1>jealous of before. Not surprised at all, but even after

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<v Speaker 1>she was shagging up with my friend, there was one

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<v Speaker 1>time we were at a party. My friend was inside

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<v Speaker 1>and my stepsister and I were outside alone. It was

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<v Speaker 1>a really intimate moment. I think something might have happened,

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<v Speaker 1>except that I killed the mood when I told her

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<v Speaker 1>that Darth Vader was our father and that I had

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<v Speaker 1>to go face him. Story eight. It all started when

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<v Speaker 1>I met this really attractive guy at a bar. He

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<v Speaker 1>was about two years older than I. We hit it

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<v Speaker 1>off right away, flirting the whole night. A week later

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<v Speaker 1>we ran into each other again, exchanged numbers, and soon

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<v Speaker 1>after we officially started dating. Things were going great. We

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<v Speaker 1>got pretty close pretty fast, slept together a few times,

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<v Speaker 1>and everyone was happy. One night, I went out with

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<v Speaker 1>my dad and is soon to be My dad had

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<v Speaker 1>asked me for advice on a ring. They'd only been

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<v Speaker 1>dating about six months. I really liked this woman and

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<v Speaker 1>she was super nice. I even called her mom in

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<v Speaker 1>my head. It was during this night that I learned

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<v Speaker 1>that if they got married, I would be gaining a

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<v Speaker 1>step brother and stepsister. We already had six siblings in total.

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<v Speaker 1>While we were out, this woman suddenly got super excited,

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<v Speaker 1>almost carrying me to the bar, like she was about

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<v Speaker 1>to go wild or something. At first, I thought maybe

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<v Speaker 1>she'd had a few too many drinks or wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>do shots, But when we got inside, she told me

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<v Speaker 1>she wanted me to meet her son. She taps a

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<v Speaker 1>guy on the shoulder and when he turns around, it's

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<v Speaker 1>my frigging boyfriend. Best of all, she introduces us, saying,

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<v Speaker 1>meet your new brother to me, and meet your new

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<v Speaker 1>sister to him. We just stood there staring at each other,

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<v Speaker 1>burst out laughing, and carried on drinking on our own.

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<v Speaker 1>After our families moved in together. We did keep things

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<v Speaker 1>going for a little while, but eventually decided to end

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<v Speaker 1>it so our parents would have a real chance at

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<v Speaker 1>making it work. Our reasoning was that our parents were

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<v Speaker 1>older and might not find any one else while we

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<v Speaker 1>were still young with our whole lives ahead of us.

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<v Speaker 1>After that, my ex ended up falling in love with

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<v Speaker 1>my then best friend, and I found some one else

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<v Speaker 1>to fall for as well. Our parents eventually broke up

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<v Speaker 1>because this woman turned out to be an absolute nightmare

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<v Speaker 1>Karen Lovel one thousand and Since then, my ex and

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<v Speaker 1>I haven't seen or spoken to each other. Not sure

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<v Speaker 1>if our parents knew exactly what was going on, but

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<v Speaker 1>I have a feeling my dad suspected something, though he

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<v Speaker 1>never said anything. On a happy note, it's been almost

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<v Speaker 1>seven years since all this happened. I'm now engaged to

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<v Speaker 1>the guy I fell in love with after all this drama,

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<v Speaker 1>and we have a beautiful little boy together. Story nine.

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<v Speaker 1>So my uncle married his stepsister when they were teenagers.

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<v Speaker 1>They had four kids together, then eventually divorced. Fast forward

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<v Speaker 1>a few years and my dad ends up marrying that

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<v Speaker 1>same woman, his own stepsister and his younger brother's ex

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<v Speaker 1>wife yeah, it was as messy as it sounds. Overnight,

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<v Speaker 1>my cousins became my step siblings, and since my uncle

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<v Speaker 1>still lived just around the corner, things got awkward quickly.

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<v Speaker 1>Her kids weren't thrilled about suddenly having their uncle as

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<v Speaker 1>sister and me like afterthoughts. My grandma was not a fan.

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<v Speaker 1>She threatened to disown my dad more than once for

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<v Speaker 1>marrying her. My dad and stepmom were only living together

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<v Speaker 1>for about a year before things fell apart. She couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>deal with his drinking anymore, and he was done putting

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<v Speaker 1>up with what he felt was a lack of respect

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<v Speaker 1>from her kids and unfair treatment toward my sister and me.

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<v Speaker 1>We ended up moving out, but weirdly enough, they stayed

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<v Speaker 1>legally married for over a decade after that. Ever since then,

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<v Speaker 1>things with our cousins, who were also our former step siblings,

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<v Speaker 1>got pretty distant. My sister and I were kind of

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<v Speaker 1>seen as the black sheep of the family, which sucked.

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<v Speaker 1>I honestly used to love being around my cousins, and

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<v Speaker 1>as a kid, I was around ten or eleven when

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<v Speaker 1>all this happened. I thought my aunt turned stepmom was

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<v Speaker 1>really cool. Looking back now as an adult, I can't

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<v Speaker 1>begin to imagine what my dad and his brother's ex

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<v Speaker 1>were thinking getting together like that. The whole situation was

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<v Speaker 1>just confusing. Story ten not me, but here's a wild

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<v Speaker 1>one from my coworker. He got his nephew a job

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<v Speaker 1>at our company to help him get back on track,

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<v Speaker 1>even let him move in. A few months go by

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<v Speaker 1>and suddenly he's talking about how he's going to be

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<v Speaker 1>a granddad. Turns out his eighteen year old daughter, who

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<v Speaker 1>also lives at home, is pregnant. While we later found

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<v Speaker 1>out the nephew had been hooking up with his daughter

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<v Speaker 1>regularly and yep, he was the baby's father. Nephew didn't

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<v Speaker 1>even last six months on the job, failed a drug

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<v Speaker 1>test and got fired. Pretty sure, he got kicked out

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<v Speaker 1>of the house not long after. Two Story eleven. I

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<v Speaker 1>once hung out with these two lesbians who were dating.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a girl. They lived with one of their moms

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<v Speaker 1>and the stepdad. They wanted me to hook up with them,

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<v Speaker 1>so one night they were showing me in array of

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<v Speaker 1>their toys. They had them all splayed out on the

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<v Speaker 1>living room floor and they were showing me this giant

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<v Speaker 1>purple faked dong. We all hear the key to earning

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<v Speaker 1>in the lock, and the stepdad opens the door. He

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<v Speaker 1>sees all these toys on the floor, walks towards them,

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<v Speaker 1>picks up a purple fringe whip and starts whipping. What

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<v Speaker 1>does she do? She starts banging her girl friend with

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<v Speaker 1>the fake dong while the stepdad continues with the whip.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know whether I should turn away or watch,

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<v Speaker 1>or what was proper etiquette in the situation story twelve.

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<v Speaker 1>I had relations with my stepbrother a lot when we

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<v Speaker 1>were younger and lived in the same house. That's how

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<v Speaker 1>I lost my V card. Actually he's about four years

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<v Speaker 1>older than me, and we're both guys. There was no aftermath.

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<v Speaker 1>We stopped eventually and haven't brought it up since. He

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<v Speaker 1>says he's straight, and maybe he is. Could have been

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<v Speaker 1>a phase. I don't know. Sexuality changes over time. I

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<v Speaker 1>think he's bisexual, though, but the people with whom he

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<v Speaker 1>chooses to associate don't look kindly on that sort of thing.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gay and okay with it. I think that experience

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<v Speaker 1>was actually an important outlet for me, But there was

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<v Speaker 1>no aftermath. No one knows as far as I'm aware,

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<v Speaker 1>and if they do, they don't care, and why would

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<v Speaker 1>they were not related? Story thirteen. Not me, but my

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<v Speaker 1>girlfriend when I was eighteen, who is also the girl

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<v Speaker 1>that took my V card, told me she gave h

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<v Speaker 1>job and blowies to her older stepbrother. I never met

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<v Speaker 1>the guy, and she never gave me any details about it,

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<v Speaker 1>but it seemed like something they had kept secret. She

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<v Speaker 1>had a kid shortly after we broke up, and the

416
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<v Speaker 1>guy that knocked her up was a dead beat and

417
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<v Speaker 1>the kid has autism. She had a second kid a

418
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<v Speaker 1>few years later. I definitely dodged a bullet with her,

419
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<v Speaker 1>I think, but I feel bad for her as well,

420
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<v Speaker 1>because I think she had a rough upbringing and was

421
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<v Speaker 1>kind of always doomed. Now, to wrap this story up,

422
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<v Speaker 1>a few years later, I started working at a grain

423
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<v Speaker 1>elevator owned by my stepdad's oldest and best friend. During harvest,

424
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<v Speaker 1>we don't have time to cook or go out to lunch,

425
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<v Speaker 1>so my boss hires someone to cook. I thought she

426
00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:52.759
<v Speaker 1>looked familiar but couldn't place it. Turns out it's my

427
00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:56.039
<v Speaker 1>ex girlfriend's mom. And here's the real kicker. We all

428
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<v Speaker 1>suspect that my boss is banging the mom that cooks

429
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<v Speaker 1>for us, and she could even be the reason he's

430
00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:04.079
<v Speaker 1>getting a divorce now. So it's possible that me and

431
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<v Speaker 1>my boss are Generation Eskimo brothers. This is what happens

432
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<v Speaker 1>when you live in a small town in Middle America.

433
00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:14.359
<v Speaker 1>I guess story fourteen. I had a screwed up relationship

434
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<v Speaker 1>with my stepsister about ten years after our parents divorced.

435
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<v Speaker 1>We ran into each other at a local watering hole.

436
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<v Speaker 1>We caught up and made plans to go see a

437
00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:25.799
<v Speaker 1>live band at a bar in the big town about

438
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<v Speaker 1>forty five minutes away with one of the other sisters

439
00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:30.920
<v Speaker 1>and a few other people. The plan was to get

440
00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:33.119
<v Speaker 1>a room at the hotel next to the bar so

441
00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:36.160
<v Speaker 1>that nobody had to drink slash drive back home. So

442
00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:39.359
<v Speaker 1>we had a good time more catching up talking about

443
00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:42.279
<v Speaker 1>old good slash bad times. But the others called it

444
00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:45.000
<v Speaker 1>quits before me and her wanted to, so we took

445
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<v Speaker 1>the extra room key and said we'd be quiet coming in.

446
00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:50.559
<v Speaker 1>We sat alone and had a dance or two together.

447
00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:52.920
<v Speaker 1>I didn't think too much of it, because I can

448
00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:56.000
<v Speaker 1>be dim when it comes to women. Sometimes she kisses

449
00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:58.839
<v Speaker 1>me and then I remember, don't you have a boyfriend,

450
00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:02.359
<v Speaker 1>she says, yeah, but he's not here, and neither is

451
00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:05.079
<v Speaker 1>any one we know. I rolled with it because I

452
00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:08.160
<v Speaker 1>used to be a kind of scummy. Things escalated, and

453
00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:10.359
<v Speaker 1>we decided to get a room of our own and

454
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<v Speaker 1>tell the others that we couldn't remember which room they

455
00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:16.160
<v Speaker 1>were in. In the morning, she was unbelievably hot and

456
00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:19.160
<v Speaker 1>we had the most animalistic session you can imagine. And

457
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<v Speaker 1>that continued for a few months. But as I spent

458
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<v Speaker 1>more time with her and her family, her kids got

459
00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.240
<v Speaker 1>very attached to me. Their father had died a few

460
00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:30.440
<v Speaker 1>years beforehand, and her boyfriend hadn't stepped up to be

461
00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:33.319
<v Speaker 1>a father figure, a roll they quickly assigned to me.

462
00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:35.799
<v Speaker 1>I loved them as if they were my own, and

463
00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:38.920
<v Speaker 1>she found that irresistible. She broke things off with her

464
00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.799
<v Speaker 1>boyfriend and moved in with me. But as hard as

465
00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:45.079
<v Speaker 1>things rose, they fell even harder. We argued all the

466
00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:47.559
<v Speaker 1>time about the same things. She had to have a

467
00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:51.920
<v Speaker 1>complete hysterectomy due to complications from her last pregnancy, so

468
00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:54.720
<v Speaker 1>she couldn't have any more children, and felt guilty about

469
00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:57.240
<v Speaker 1>not being able to give me a child. I didn't

470
00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:00.200
<v Speaker 1>and still don't want children. Of my own, but she

471
00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:03.480
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be convinced of that. After having that argument ten

472
00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:06.400
<v Speaker 1>too many times, I left. I packed my things in

473
00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:08.599
<v Speaker 1>the back of my truck and took a very needed

474
00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:10.880
<v Speaker 1>trip to see family out of state and did my

475
00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:13.680
<v Speaker 1>college internship and gave her a couple of months to

476
00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:17.240
<v Speaker 1>move out of my house. Story fifteen. My mom dated

477
00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:19.599
<v Speaker 1>a new guy when I was thirteen, and they got

478
00:24:19.599 --> 00:24:22.319
<v Speaker 1>married when I was eighteen. He had a daughter my age.

479
00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:25.240
<v Speaker 1>We hated each other for like three months after living

480
00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:28.759
<v Speaker 1>together enough where we had to go to family therapy. Well,

481
00:24:28.839 --> 00:24:31.720
<v Speaker 1>my friend got his license first and drove me to school.

482
00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:33.759
<v Speaker 1>Then I let her get a ride since it was

483
00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:36.519
<v Speaker 1>just like ten minutes in the car with her. One day,

484
00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:38.720
<v Speaker 1>he asked if I wanted to skip, and she said

485
00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:40.960
<v Speaker 1>she wanted to skip two So we hung out and

486
00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:44.359
<v Speaker 1>got high and went swimming. Our parents both worked till

487
00:24:44.359 --> 00:24:46.720
<v Speaker 1>like six pm, so we were able to go back

488
00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:49.720
<v Speaker 1>home at like one pm. He dropped us off and

489
00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:52.240
<v Speaker 1>she started talking about how she didn't know I smoked

490
00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:55.000
<v Speaker 1>and was cool letting her skip with me. Then she

491
00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:57.480
<v Speaker 1>said her dad smoked, and she wanted us to go

492
00:24:57.519 --> 00:24:59.920
<v Speaker 1>see if we could find his stash. We went into

493
00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:02.559
<v Speaker 1>the bedroom and checked the drawers and she found an

494
00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:05.880
<v Speaker 1>unlabeled video. Of course, we both knew it was corn,

495
00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:08.640
<v Speaker 1>but she wanted to check it out. Then she asked

496
00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:11.440
<v Speaker 1>if I had slept with anyone before she did once

497
00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:13.960
<v Speaker 1>and I didn't. She then asked if I wanted to

498
00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:16.160
<v Speaker 1>and told me not to worry since she was on

499
00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:19.200
<v Speaker 1>the pill. So we banged after class when our parents

500
00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:21.839
<v Speaker 1>weren't home, which went on for like two months straight.

501
00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:25.000
<v Speaker 1>Then she got a boyfriend and we stopped. Then she

502
00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:27.839
<v Speaker 1>told her boyfriend about us for some reason, and when

503
00:25:27.880 --> 00:25:30.400
<v Speaker 1>they broke up, he told everyone at school that she

504
00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:33.359
<v Speaker 1>banged her brother. I was expelled from school by then,

505
00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:35.880
<v Speaker 1>but it got back to the parents and my mom

506
00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:38.359
<v Speaker 1>had a talk with her and she admitted it to her,

507
00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:41.599
<v Speaker 1>but decided not to tell her dad the truth. Anyway,

508
00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:43.960
<v Speaker 1>her dad and my mom got divorced when I was

509
00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:46.640
<v Speaker 1>like twenty, so I haven't seen the girl in around

510
00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:49.640
<v Speaker 1>fifteen years, pretty much. My mom told me not to

511
00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:52.400
<v Speaker 1>do it anymore because it could cause issues and she

512
00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:55.000
<v Speaker 1>doesn't want a baby in the house. We hadn't done

513
00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:59.039
<v Speaker 1>anything for over six months, so I just agreed. Story sixteen,

514
00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:01.759
<v Speaker 1>It didn't happen to me personally, but I had a

515
00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:04.920
<v Speaker 1>front row seat to a total mess involving step siblings.

516
00:26:05.319 --> 00:26:07.079
<v Speaker 1>I was part of a group of five girls in

517
00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:09.920
<v Speaker 1>high school, and one of our friends, let's call her A,

518
00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:13.279
<v Speaker 1>was going through a big family change. Her dad had

519
00:26:13.319 --> 00:26:16.640
<v Speaker 1>recently started dating a woman who had three sons. Things

520
00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:20.079
<v Speaker 1>between the parents escalated quickly, and the families moved in

521
00:26:20.119 --> 00:26:23.200
<v Speaker 1>together not long after. I had a bad feeling from

522
00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:25.839
<v Speaker 1>the start, and even warned A about the youngest of

523
00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:29.160
<v Speaker 1>the three sons. She brushed it off, but sure enough,

524
00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:32.519
<v Speaker 1>it turned out she and that same brother had secretly

525
00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:35.720
<v Speaker 1>started messing around while their parents were heading toward marriage.

526
00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:39.039
<v Speaker 1>At first, nobody in our group knew, but eventually the

527
00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:42.880
<v Speaker 1>truth came out. They broke it off shortly after, probably

528
00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:46.319
<v Speaker 1>because they started to realize how serious their parents' relationship

529
00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:49.400
<v Speaker 1>was getting. Then a few months down the line, another

530
00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.400
<v Speaker 1>girl from our group, will call her B, starts dating

531
00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:54.960
<v Speaker 1>the same brother. She knew about his past with A,

532
00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:58.599
<v Speaker 1>but decided to go ahead anyway. I was firmly against

533
00:26:58.599 --> 00:27:01.119
<v Speaker 1>it the whole time, but nobody wanted to hear it.

534
00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:03.960
<v Speaker 1>So B and the brother are together for like eight

535
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:07.480
<v Speaker 1>or nine months. Meanwhile, as trying to move on and

536
00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:10.480
<v Speaker 1>starts dating someone new, but she is still affected by

537
00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:14.559
<v Speaker 1>the whole situation. Over time, things start getting weird. It

538
00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:18.559
<v Speaker 1>becomes distant, and the brother starts acting cold toward B. Then,

539
00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:20.920
<v Speaker 1>out of the blue, the brother breaks up with B

540
00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:24.599
<v Speaker 1>and a week later a dumpster boyfriend too. We got

541
00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:27.319
<v Speaker 1>a call from some guy the brother apparently owed a

542
00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:29.839
<v Speaker 1>lot of money to This guy, was done waiting for

543
00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:33.359
<v Speaker 1>repayment and decided to blow the whole situation open out

544
00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:35.799
<v Speaker 1>of spite. He tells us that A and the brother

545
00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:38.640
<v Speaker 1>never actually stopped. They had been seeing each other the

546
00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:42.440
<v Speaker 1>entire time, cheating on their respective partners, all while their

547
00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:44.960
<v Speaker 1>parents had gotten married and bought a house for the

548
00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:48.480
<v Speaker 1>entire family to live in together. It was absolute chaos

549
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.319
<v Speaker 1>after that. A's dad nearly lost it when he found

550
00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:55.160
<v Speaker 1>out the brother had not only betrayed everyone emotionally, but

551
00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:58.240
<v Speaker 1>had also stolen from the family. He took A's late

552
00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:01.079
<v Speaker 1>mother's jewelry and pawned it to help pay off his debt.

553
00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:04.240
<v Speaker 1>That was the final straw. The brother got kicked out

554
00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:07.759
<v Speaker 1>soon after. To make matters worse, he later started dating

555
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.119
<v Speaker 1>another girl, our age one We ran into often that

556
00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:13.599
<v Speaker 1>didn't last either, but it was just more fuel to

557
00:28:13.640 --> 00:28:16.319
<v Speaker 1>the fire. The rest of the family moved away for

558
00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:19.319
<v Speaker 1>a couple of years, probably just to escape the mess

559
00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.599
<v Speaker 1>and the gossip, but they eventually came back. Things were

560
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:25.160
<v Speaker 1>never really the same after all that. And as for

561
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:28.319
<v Speaker 1>the brother, he's been unemployed for over six years now.

562
00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:31.279
<v Speaker 1>Last I heard, he got that girl he dated when

563
00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:35.599
<v Speaker 1>she was eighteen pregnant. Total story seventeen. Not my story,

564
00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:38.319
<v Speaker 1>but my partner's ex friend ended up hooking up with

565
00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:42.240
<v Speaker 1>his aunt. They weren't biologically related, but the whole situation

566
00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:44.680
<v Speaker 1>was messy. The aunt had known him since he was

567
00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:47.359
<v Speaker 1>a baby, and he was super close with the uncle.

568
00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:51.400
<v Speaker 1>They even worked together basically. At some point, the aunt

569
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.880
<v Speaker 1>and uncle were going through a rough patch, and during

570
00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:56.920
<v Speaker 1>that time, she and the ex friend got drunk, banged

571
00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.599
<v Speaker 1>each other, and kept it a secret. What started as

572
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:02.759
<v Speaker 1>a one mistake turned into a regular thing. He was

573
00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:05.920
<v Speaker 1>twenty one at the time and apparently had other experiences.

574
00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:08.680
<v Speaker 1>But the wild part is that he actually lost his

575
00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:12.279
<v Speaker 1>v card to her. Eventually, the uncle decided he wanted

576
00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:14.519
<v Speaker 1>to patch things up with the aunt, and that's when

577
00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:17.599
<v Speaker 1>she confessed what had been going on. Though probably left

578
00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:20.599
<v Speaker 1>out the details. When the uncle found out who it was,

579
00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:23.960
<v Speaker 1>he lost it. He called the workplace, threatening to off

580
00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:26.599
<v Speaker 1>his nephew if not seriously him if he saw him.

581
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:29.279
<v Speaker 1>Coworkers gave the ex friend a heads up and he

582
00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:33.799
<v Speaker 1>basically disappeared overnight. Obviously, he no longer have a relationship

583
00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:37.480
<v Speaker 1>with the aunt or uncle. Story eighteen. I've had extreme

584
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.359
<v Speaker 1>bad luck with relationships for six years because of my stepsister.

585
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:45.640
<v Speaker 1>My fiance knows my history but supports me anyway, despite

586
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:48.920
<v Speaker 1>my skewed image of relationships. My mother passed when I

587
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.119
<v Speaker 1>was nine. My father remarried when I was twelve so

588
00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:53.960
<v Speaker 1>that I could have a mother figure in my life.

589
00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:56.759
<v Speaker 1>Mother figure came with a step sister who was two

590
00:29:56.880 --> 00:29:59.640
<v Speaker 1>years older than me and a stepbrother who was two

591
00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:02.640
<v Speaker 1>years younger than me. We had fooled around before we

592
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:05.319
<v Speaker 1>were step siblings, but as our parents met through a

593
00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:08.720
<v Speaker 1>dating site, we hadn't known each other beforehand, and it

594
00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:11.480
<v Speaker 1>was just a lot of h job and blowies. When

595
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:14.079
<v Speaker 1>we moved in together, she and I got the rooms

596
00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:16.160
<v Speaker 1>at the end of the house, away from everyone else,

597
00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:19.720
<v Speaker 1>and we banged nearly every night until we moved. After

598
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:22.279
<v Speaker 1>we moved, things slowed down a bit because we were

599
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:24.480
<v Speaker 1>in a bigger town and she could get some elsewhere.

600
00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:27.160
<v Speaker 1>So I banged some of her friends she brought over,

601
00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:30.920
<v Speaker 1>and she got jealous. She stopped bringing friends over, and

602
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:34.920
<v Speaker 1>we went back to sleeping together at almost every convenient opportunity.

603
00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:38.119
<v Speaker 1>We moved two more times within the same city, and

604
00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:40.440
<v Speaker 1>each time we found ways and times to do it.

605
00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:43.920
<v Speaker 1>This continued for five years, even through two years of

606
00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:47.519
<v Speaker 1>her marriage. After her husband died of natural causes, she

607
00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:50.480
<v Speaker 1>moved back in with us. He had lots of health issues,

608
00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:54.759
<v Speaker 1>and his passing surprised nobody. She was being incredibly manipulative

609
00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:58.079
<v Speaker 1>about the banging situation. I quit my job and started

610
00:30:58.119 --> 00:31:00.400
<v Speaker 1>college to get away from her, with a valid reason,

611
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:03.359
<v Speaker 1>since she had no way to rationalize an hour drive

612
00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:05.759
<v Speaker 1>to get some Ever since I left most of that

613
00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:09.640
<v Speaker 1>part of my life behind, I've struggled with meaningful relationships

614
00:31:09.799 --> 00:31:12.519
<v Speaker 1>because I spent five years of my life as little

615
00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.920
<v Speaker 1>more than a screw doll. Nearly nothing is new and exciting,

616
00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:19.880
<v Speaker 1>nothing feels legitimate, and worst of all, nothing feels honest.

617
00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:23.440
<v Speaker 1>I second guess any female who ever displays any affection

618
00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:26.680
<v Speaker 1>for me, because five years of no affection while sleeping

619
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:30.720
<v Speaker 1>together kind of eroded my ability to develop meaningful attachments

620
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.960
<v Speaker 1>to people. The only person I've told this is my fiancee,

621
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:36.920
<v Speaker 1>because she makes me feel valid and heard, and she

622
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:39.319
<v Speaker 1>even went to the effort of asking me to marry her,

623
00:31:39.720 --> 00:31:42.000
<v Speaker 1>knowing full well that I had a screwed up past.

624
00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:45.559
<v Speaker 1>Even now in my twenties, I still carry the emotional

625
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.519
<v Speaker 1>weight of that experience. It left me with an unusually

626
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.480
<v Speaker 1>high need for intimacy, not just physically, but emotionally too,

627
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.119
<v Speaker 1>and that's shaped how I approach relationships. In a couple

628
00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:58.839
<v Speaker 1>of serious ones where my partner had the same level

629
00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:01.759
<v Speaker 1>of intensity, we'd do it around five to six times

630
00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:04.839
<v Speaker 1>a day. Things would move fast, and I couldn't keep

631
00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:08.279
<v Speaker 1>those bonds for long. But looking back, I realize I

632
00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:10.839
<v Speaker 1>wasn't really able to separate my true self from the

633
00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:14.160
<v Speaker 1>patterns I'd developed because of how my stepsister treated me.

634
00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:18.559
<v Speaker 1>It was like I'd confused closeness with compulsion. Those relationships

635
00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:21.519
<v Speaker 1>didn't last because I wasn't present in a healthy way.

636
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:26.200
<v Speaker 1>Story nineteen, my husband's brother secretly dated their stepsister for

637
00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:29.759
<v Speaker 1>a while. For context, they became step siblings when she

638
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:32.960
<v Speaker 1>was ten and he was thirteen. They didn't start dating

639
00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:35.640
<v Speaker 1>until she was twenty three. He was the only one

640
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:38.319
<v Speaker 1>who knew about it at first, and despite warning his

641
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:42.039
<v Speaker 1>brother that it was probably a bad idea, the relationship continued.

642
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:45.680
<v Speaker 1>Things came to light when she unexpectedly got pregnant, and

643
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:48.359
<v Speaker 1>they had no choice but to tell the family. Their

644
00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:52.480
<v Speaker 1>mom was understandably upset and disappointed, but ultimately said she'd

645
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.400
<v Speaker 1>support them if they chose to stay together and raise

646
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:58.279
<v Speaker 1>the child. Their dad, on the other hand, was not

647
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.079
<v Speaker 1>okay with it at all. He pressured his daughter to

648
00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:04.480
<v Speaker 1>end both the pregnancy and the relationship. They didn't listen.

649
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:07.640
<v Speaker 1>They stayed together, had the baby, and tried to make

650
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.599
<v Speaker 1>it work, but a few years down the line things

651
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:13.519
<v Speaker 1>fell apart. Both ended up cheating on each other and

652
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:17.359
<v Speaker 1>eventually broke up. Now family gatherings on my husband's side

653
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:21.200
<v Speaker 1>are tense, to say the least, especially since everyone remembers

654
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:24.559
<v Speaker 1>how it all went down. Story twenty A while back.

655
00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:27.359
<v Speaker 1>I was at my cousin's wedding, just a guest, not

656
00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:30.759
<v Speaker 1>at the party. My extended family is small because well,

657
00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:34.359
<v Speaker 1>none of us have really been prolific breeders. My adopted

658
00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:37.400
<v Speaker 1>cousin was dating a guy in the military who was deployed.

659
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:40.119
<v Speaker 1>I've had a crush on her forever, but she never

660
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:43.880
<v Speaker 1>seemed interested. After the wedding festivities, everyone was at a

661
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:47.279
<v Speaker 1>rented lake house drinking. She's out of her bride'smaid dress

662
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:50.799
<v Speaker 1>and wearing something fit for clubbing. She'd been talking about

663
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.440
<v Speaker 1>how lonely she felt since the rehearsal the day before,

664
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:55.960
<v Speaker 1>and I was just keeping her company to be nice.

665
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:59.240
<v Speaker 1>Nothing weird. Then after a few beers, she says how

666
00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.319
<v Speaker 1>drunk she is and grabs my hand and drags me

667
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:05.599
<v Speaker 1>down to the boat house. She takes off her bridesmaid dress,

668
00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.519
<v Speaker 1>reveals her chest, and tells me she just needs a

669
00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:11.639
<v Speaker 1>man right now. I get her drift. I ask about

670
00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:13.840
<v Speaker 1>her guy, and she said not to worry and just

671
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:16.719
<v Speaker 1>have fun. So here I was with a girl I've

672
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:20.360
<v Speaker 1>crushed on forever, with her jugs out, practically inviting me

673
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.599
<v Speaker 1>my one chance to bang her, but I refused. I

674
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:26.480
<v Speaker 1>told her I won't play Jody to her fiancee. She

675
00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:29.800
<v Speaker 1>got super mad and stormed off. Honestly, I wanted to

676
00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:32.360
<v Speaker 1>do her so badly, but I stuck to my guns.

677
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:36.320
<v Speaker 1>Second story, in the same wedding, my uncle's wife, who's

678
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:39.000
<v Speaker 1>from overseas, has a bunch of sisters all there. At

679
00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:41.440
<v Speaker 1>the wedding, I hit it off with the youngest sister,

680
00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:46.320
<v Speaker 1>early thirties petit Asian islander with a surprisingly generous figure

681
00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:49.440
<v Speaker 1>for her size. At the after party, we got hammered.

682
00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:52.159
<v Speaker 1>She stumbled up to me and asked for help, and

683
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.159
<v Speaker 1>next thing I knew, we were banging in someone's bedroom.

684
00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:59.800
<v Speaker 1>Didn't even bother getting fully undressed, stupidly unprotected, but it

685
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:02.840
<v Speaker 1>was it's hot. We banged again at a family gathering

686
00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:06.800
<v Speaker 1>nine months later. We exchanged spicy texts regularly and have

687
00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:09.559
<v Speaker 1>agreed it's just for fun, though I wouldn't be opposed

688
00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:12.400
<v Speaker 1>to something more serious. I see her a few times

689
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.280
<v Speaker 1>a year and we keep things secret. I imagine if

690
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:19.519
<v Speaker 1>anyone found out, it would cause drama and heartbreak. Surprisingly,

691
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.599
<v Speaker 1>I would story twenty one. This all started when I

692
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:25.519
<v Speaker 1>was about fifteen. The timeline is a bit messy in

693
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:28.599
<v Speaker 1>my head, so bear with me. My dad was divorced

694
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:31.639
<v Speaker 1>and i'd visit him during the summers. After a couple

695
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:34.760
<v Speaker 1>of years, he met someone new, a nice lady who

696
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:38.079
<v Speaker 1>was divorced too. She had three kids, including a red

697
00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:41.119
<v Speaker 1>headed daughter who was around eighteen. The first time I

698
00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:43.800
<v Speaker 1>met her, was at an amusement park. She had just

699
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:46.280
<v Speaker 1>messed up her hair cut and was pretty annoying to me.

700
00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:49.159
<v Speaker 1>At the time, I was a typical moody teen. But

701
00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:51.519
<v Speaker 1>a few weeks later we ended up at a church

702
00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:54.639
<v Speaker 1>event held at a water park. Weirdly, we were the

703
00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:56.960
<v Speaker 1>only ones who showed up, so we spent the whole

704
00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:00.719
<v Speaker 1>day together. Turns out she was pretty cool and she

705
00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:03.280
<v Speaker 1>was hard to ignore in a bathing suit. As the

706
00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:06.320
<v Speaker 1>summer went on, I found her less annoying, and by

707
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.840
<v Speaker 1>the end of it I was totally into her. I

708
00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:11.440
<v Speaker 1>had no idea what to make of those feelings and

709
00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:14.159
<v Speaker 1>wasn't sure if she felt the same. On my last

710
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:16.760
<v Speaker 1>night before heading home, we were lying on the floor

711
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:20.199
<v Speaker 1>watching South Park, and out of nowhere, I somehow worked

712
00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:22.320
<v Speaker 1>up the nerve to kiss her, and it was welcome.

713
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:25.039
<v Speaker 1>We ended up staying up all night just making out.

714
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:28.280
<v Speaker 1>Before flying home, I went on a trip to Arizona

715
00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:31.599
<v Speaker 1>to visit my mom and her sister. My stepsister's flight

716
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:34.559
<v Speaker 1>connected through asy, so I surprised her at the gate.

717
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:37.519
<v Speaker 1>We hung out a bit, but didn't talk much. She

718
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:41.119
<v Speaker 1>wasn't really into computers or social media, so the communication

719
00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:44.400
<v Speaker 1>was rare. The next summer, I came out to visit again.

720
00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:47.760
<v Speaker 1>Our parents had gotten married, and I was really conflicted

721
00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:51.360
<v Speaker 1>about everything because my feelings were still so strong. We

722
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:56.679
<v Speaker 1>reconnected instantly and started intimate relationship. Deep down, I felt guilty,

723
00:36:57.039 --> 00:36:59.920
<v Speaker 1>like we were doing something wrong. Halfway through the summer,

724
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:03.320
<v Speaker 1>I told her I couldn't keep going. We were both devastated.

725
00:37:03.679 --> 00:37:06.840
<v Speaker 1>Things got messy after that. One day, we were supposed

726
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:09.320
<v Speaker 1>to go to church and her brother moved her journal

727
00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:12.239
<v Speaker 1>and she totally flipped out. I thought it was weird,

728
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:14.920
<v Speaker 1>and when I came back home, I went and searched

729
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:17.199
<v Speaker 1>for it and found it. It talked about how he

730
00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:20.159
<v Speaker 1>was shagging some dude when we were messing around. This

731
00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:22.559
<v Speaker 1>was probably the first time I've had my heart broken,

732
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:25.760
<v Speaker 1>and I went home pissed. I was angry and crushed,

733
00:37:25.960 --> 00:37:28.760
<v Speaker 1>and I shut down for weeks. She tried reaching out

734
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:31.360
<v Speaker 1>with e mails and poems, but I deleted them all.

735
00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:34.639
<v Speaker 1>Over the years, we dated other people, but kept coming

736
00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:37.280
<v Speaker 1>back to each other, trying to make it work. She

737
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:39.679
<v Speaker 1>seemed to have a lot of drama, and I caused

738
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:42.360
<v Speaker 1>a lot of drama in our relationship, dating other women

739
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.599
<v Speaker 1>and still messing around with her. One time, while I

740
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:49.360
<v Speaker 1>was dating another girl. My stepsister came to visit pretty much.

741
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:51.559
<v Speaker 1>We determined that it was best that we put an

742
00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:54.480
<v Speaker 1>end to our relationship. It was late and I told

743
00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:57.519
<v Speaker 1>her she could sleep over, so she ended up sleeping

744
00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:00.360
<v Speaker 1>in my bed. Nothing happened, but my girl old friend

745
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:04.440
<v Speaker 1>showed up unexpectedly. It was a crazy situation. Another time,

746
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:06.480
<v Speaker 1>while I was dating this girl, I went to the

747
00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:09.519
<v Speaker 1>beach with my step sister and I got busted because

748
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:12.119
<v Speaker 1>I left a rubber wrapper in my car with a receipt.

749
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:14.440
<v Speaker 1>At this point, I have to say I was not

750
00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:17.480
<v Speaker 1>a nice guy. I was actually a really crappy person.

751
00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:20.440
<v Speaker 1>I wanted my cake and to eat it too. My

752
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:24.199
<v Speaker 1>step sister eventually stopped talking to me. Years later, our

753
00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:26.800
<v Speaker 1>parents bought a new house. I came up to help

754
00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:30.079
<v Speaker 1>paint and she was there. We hadn't spoken for years,

755
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:33.280
<v Speaker 1>but the connection was still there. We started seeing each

756
00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:36.360
<v Speaker 1>other again, even though I was still dating the other girl.

757
00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:39.679
<v Speaker 1>When she found out, she demanded I tell my stepsister,

758
00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:43.480
<v Speaker 1>so I did. She was devastated. That same night, she

759
00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:46.079
<v Speaker 1>went to a party, met a guy and started a

760
00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:49.559
<v Speaker 1>long term relationship. She got pregnant, and when she called

761
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:52.800
<v Speaker 1>to tell me, I was furious, thinking she'd ruined her life.

762
00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:56.360
<v Speaker 1>We didn't talk for years after that. Her marriage eventually

763
00:38:56.400 --> 00:39:00.119
<v Speaker 1>fell apart. The husband had PTSD from the military, and

764
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:03.280
<v Speaker 1>by then she had two kids. We started dating again

765
00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:07.239
<v Speaker 1>while they were divorcing, which was stressful. Meanwhile, our parents

766
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:10.960
<v Speaker 1>marriage was falling apart two partly because my dad apparently

767
00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:13.079
<v Speaker 1>tried to make a move on her while my step

768
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:16.159
<v Speaker 1>mom was away. That blew things up big time, and

769
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:18.480
<v Speaker 1>I ended up losing touch with my dad as their

770
00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:21.960
<v Speaker 1>divorce progressed. I made plenty of mistakes during that time,

771
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.639
<v Speaker 1>and she took me back multiple times. She started nursing

772
00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:28.239
<v Speaker 1>school and I supported her while she worked full time

773
00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:31.639
<v Speaker 1>and cared for her kids. When she graduated, I even

774
00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:34.960
<v Speaker 1>started thinking about marriage, but things got shaky when I

775
00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:38.039
<v Speaker 1>found suspicious messages from a guy in her nursing class.

776
00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:41.519
<v Speaker 1>I confronted her and she promised to stop talking to him,

777
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:44.719
<v Speaker 1>but months later I found out she was still texting him.

778
00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:47.719
<v Speaker 1>I kicked her out. A few weeks later, I took

779
00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:50.440
<v Speaker 1>her back. She wanted me to move in, but days

780
00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:53.559
<v Speaker 1>before the move she changed her mind. I was pissed,

781
00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:56.840
<v Speaker 1>but kept going. Around Christmas, she said she wanted to

782
00:39:56.880 --> 00:39:59.800
<v Speaker 1>spend it alone. I went to a friend's place, kept

783
00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:02.639
<v Speaker 1>ten mixing her with no response, then tried her place.

784
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:05.400
<v Speaker 1>She'd changed the locks and was with the guy from

785
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:08.639
<v Speaker 1>nursing school. I was furious and tried to confront him,

786
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:12.119
<v Speaker 1>but thankfully didn't get violent. I left and didn't really

787
00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:14.800
<v Speaker 1>talk to her after that. A few weeks later, I

788
00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:18.440
<v Speaker 1>turned thirty and decided I needed to change. Looking back,

789
00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:22.239
<v Speaker 1>I realized how destructive my cheating and our toxic relationship

790
00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:25.559
<v Speaker 1>had been. I still think about her sometimes. We brought

791
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:28.000
<v Speaker 1>out both the best and worst in each other, but

792
00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:30.320
<v Speaker 1>I don't want her in my life anymore. I wish

793
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:33.400
<v Speaker 1>her happiness, though I'm still close with her mom, so

794
00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:36.840
<v Speaker 1>our paths cross occasionally. She's now married to that guy

795
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.519
<v Speaker 1>from nursing school and has a kid with him. I'm

796
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:42.199
<v Speaker 1>a little disappointed for her, not because it's not me,

797
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.599
<v Speaker 1>but because I thought she deserved better. I'm thirty six

798
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:49.360
<v Speaker 1>now and in a healthier, happier relationship. Story twenty two.

799
00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:52.280
<v Speaker 1>Back when I was eighteen, my mom just started to

800
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:55.280
<v Speaker 1>date this new guy who had a daughter nineteen from

801
00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:58.480
<v Speaker 1>another marriage. We got on really well, and even from

802
00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:01.239
<v Speaker 1>the start there was a lot ofting, but we would

803
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:03.800
<v Speaker 1>never do it in front of our parents. One day,

804
00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:06.599
<v Speaker 1>on her dad's birthday, we were sitting on a hillside

805
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:09.039
<v Speaker 1>next to our house, a bit tipsy from some of

806
00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:11.760
<v Speaker 1>the alcohol that we managed to sneak out. I was

807
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:14.320
<v Speaker 1>lying on my back when she moved over and began

808
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:17.800
<v Speaker 1>snogging my face off. We slept together later that evening.

809
00:41:18.199 --> 00:41:20.039
<v Speaker 1>I remember a lot of the winter that year was

810
00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:22.079
<v Speaker 1>us just waiting for our parents to leave for a

811
00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:24.599
<v Speaker 1>date night so we could just go at it. It

812
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:27.199
<v Speaker 1>was one of the happiest times of my life until

813
00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:30.440
<v Speaker 1>the wedding. The wedding itself, I believe is the reason

814
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:33.119
<v Speaker 1>all this ended. Both our families seemed to be over

815
00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:35.440
<v Speaker 1>the top with talking about how great a brother and

816
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:38.599
<v Speaker 1>sister we make, and combining this with the marriage itself

817
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:41.840
<v Speaker 1>made it feel more real this time and unnatural. She

818
00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:44.639
<v Speaker 1>was always incredibly anxious about what would happen to her

819
00:41:44.679 --> 00:41:47.440
<v Speaker 1>if her dad found out, and one night, a couple

820
00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:49.599
<v Speaker 1>of days after the wedding, she told me that we

821
00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:53.400
<v Speaker 1>should stop. I can only remember feeling them the difficulty

822
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:55.360
<v Speaker 1>of putting on a fake smile when trying to play

823
00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:59.000
<v Speaker 1>happy family and act like nothing happened. I'm twenty nine

824
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:01.599
<v Speaker 1>now and have not been able to enjoy intimacy as

825
00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:04.119
<v Speaker 1>much as I did then, which has affected all my

826
00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:08.519
<v Speaker 1>relationships to date. I cannot replicate the forbidden intimacy, and

827
00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:11.800
<v Speaker 1>I don't know how to solve it. Story twenty three.

828
00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:15.079
<v Speaker 1>I had a relationship with my stepbrother and he moved

829
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:17.840
<v Speaker 1>in with us when I was eighteen and he was nineteen.

830
00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:21.079
<v Speaker 1>A few months after he moved in, he started flirting

831
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:23.440
<v Speaker 1>with me big time. We went out one night to

832
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:25.679
<v Speaker 1>get out of the house with my mom's car, and

833
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:28.639
<v Speaker 1>things just sort of happened. We started hooking up at

834
00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:32.079
<v Speaker 1>every opportunity. I was pretty sure my stepdad knew while

835
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:34.599
<v Speaker 1>it was going on, but he never said anything to

836
00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:37.280
<v Speaker 1>either of us. A few of our friends knew and

837
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:39.559
<v Speaker 1>were pretty weirded out by it, but I think they

838
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:42.519
<v Speaker 1>eventually got used to it. We had a super physical

839
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:45.960
<v Speaker 1>and emotional relationship for like six months. Then one day

840
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:48.639
<v Speaker 1>brought a girl home and it was just over. I

841
00:42:48.760 --> 00:42:51.760
<v Speaker 1>was devastated. It was so awful having no choice but

842
00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:54.679
<v Speaker 1>to see them together when I was home and couldn't escape.

843
00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:57.119
<v Speaker 1>I think that made the break up so much harder.

844
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:00.960
<v Speaker 1>He graduated and moved out and broke up with new girlfriend,

845
00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:03.880
<v Speaker 1>I went a little wild men wise, which helped me

846
00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:06.400
<v Speaker 1>to finally move on. We hooked up a few more

847
00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:09.119
<v Speaker 1>times when I was in college, but by that point

848
00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:11.039
<v Speaker 1>I knew that nothing would ever come out of it

849
00:43:11.079 --> 00:43:13.760
<v Speaker 1>other than a good bang. A few years back, at

850
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:16.119
<v Speaker 1>a family gathering, we had to run out to get

851
00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:19.000
<v Speaker 1>more ice, and while we were out, he propositioned me.

852
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:21.519
<v Speaker 1>I turned him down since I was dating my now

853
00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:24.639
<v Speaker 1>husband and I'm no cheater, but there honestly was a

854
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:27.800
<v Speaker 1>part of me that was tempted. Besides the crappy breakup,

855
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:31.480
<v Speaker 1>there were no long term consequences. We never got caught,

856
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:34.960
<v Speaker 1>which looking back is super surprising. We used to sleep

857
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.920
<v Speaker 1>together all the time, all over the place since we

858
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:40.639
<v Speaker 1>had access to each other pretty much twenty four to seven.

859
00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:43.000
<v Speaker 1>I don't regret any of it, but I do not

860
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:46.280
<v Speaker 1>go around and tell people about it. Story twenty four

861
00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:49.199
<v Speaker 1>Back when we were both in our teens, I knew

862
00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:51.400
<v Speaker 1>this guy who had a serious crush on a girl

863
00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:54.440
<v Speaker 1>his family was really close to. Their parents were friends

864
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:57.880
<v Speaker 1>through church and saw each other all the time. Tragically,

865
00:43:58.159 --> 00:44:01.119
<v Speaker 1>the girl's parents passed away in a car accident, and

866
00:44:01.159 --> 00:44:03.400
<v Speaker 1>it turned out that his parents had already agreed to

867
00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:06.239
<v Speaker 1>take her in if anything like that ever happened, So

868
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:09.440
<v Speaker 1>she moved in with them, and his mom immediately started

869
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:12.960
<v Speaker 1>insisting he referred to her as his sister. Meanwhile, no

870
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:15.760
<v Speaker 1>one in his family had any clue or just pretended

871
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:18.719
<v Speaker 1>not to notice that he was absolutely smitten with her.

872
00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:22.000
<v Speaker 1>What they definitely didn't know was that they'd started a

873
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.960
<v Speaker 1>full blown secret relationship. I don't think anyone suspected it

874
00:44:26.039 --> 00:44:28.920
<v Speaker 1>because his parents would have absolutely lost it if they knew.

875
00:44:29.400 --> 00:44:32.079
<v Speaker 1>I lost touch with them sometime in college, and to

876
00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:34.679
<v Speaker 1>this day, I desperately want to know what ended up

877
00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:37.719
<v Speaker 1>happening between the two of them. It genuinely drives me

878
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:40.199
<v Speaker 1>a little crazy wondering where they are now and if

879
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:42.440
<v Speaker 1>they ever made it work. And a lot of people

880
00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:44.760
<v Speaker 1>are asking why I haven't tried to look them up.

881
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:47.719
<v Speaker 1>Trust me, I have, But all I have is his name,

882
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:50.440
<v Speaker 1>and it's super common. We only hung out for a

883
00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:53.400
<v Speaker 1>few years because our moms were work friends, and I

884
00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:55.639
<v Speaker 1>don't remember what school he went to or what church

885
00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:58.800
<v Speaker 1>they belonged to. I'm not even one hundred percent sure

886
00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:02.320
<v Speaker 1>I'm remembering the girls name correctly. I thought about asking

887
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:05.320
<v Speaker 1>my mom, but bringing that up after fifteen years would

888
00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:08.559
<v Speaker 1>be weird, especially since they moved away not long after.

889
00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:11.719
<v Speaker 1>I even tried searching for him online just now, but

890
00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:16.480
<v Speaker 1>no luck. Sorry to disappoint story. Twenty five years ago,

891
00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:19.440
<v Speaker 1>my dad were married and my new stepmam moved in

892
00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:21.559
<v Speaker 1>with her daughter, who was the same age as me.

893
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:25.039
<v Speaker 1>We weren't exactly close, but living under the same roof

894
00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:29.119
<v Speaker 1>definitely made things complicated. Nothing really happened back then, aside

895
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:32.559
<v Speaker 1>from some awkward tension and a few flirtatious moments that

896
00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:35.880
<v Speaker 1>never went far. Fast forward a few years, I had

897
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:38.960
<v Speaker 1>already moved out and came home for a visit one

898
00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:42.159
<v Speaker 1>night while everyone else was asleep. We ended up spending

899
00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:45.639
<v Speaker 1>some time together and things escalated. That was actually my

900
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:49.280
<v Speaker 1>first time, though it definitely wasn't hers. We saw each

901
00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.400
<v Speaker 1>other once more a few months later when she came

902
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:53.800
<v Speaker 1>to visit me, but that was pretty much the end

903
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:56.559
<v Speaker 1>of it. Not long after, she moved on with some

904
00:45:56.599 --> 00:45:59.880
<v Speaker 1>one else, who eventually became the father of her first kid.

905
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:02.960
<v Speaker 1>We never talked about it again. Things only got slightly

906
00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:05.840
<v Speaker 1>weird when I started dating my first serious girl friend

907
00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:09.960
<v Speaker 1>and my stepsister suddenly acted kind of jealous. That tension

908
00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:12.599
<v Speaker 1>fizzled out after she and her mom had a falling

909
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:16.239
<v Speaker 1>out and stopped communicating with my dad altogether. As far

910
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:18.840
<v Speaker 1>as I know, our parents never found out about any

911
00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:21.440
<v Speaker 1>of it, And just to address a wild rumor I've

912
00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:24.360
<v Speaker 1>heard over the years, no, she was not in any

913
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:28.599
<v Speaker 1>adult videos. People loved to talk, but that one's definitely false,

914
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:32.760
<v Speaker 1>even if the videos do exist. Story twenty six. About

915
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:36.280
<v Speaker 1>ten years ago, my parents divorced. My mom were married

916
00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:39.280
<v Speaker 1>pretty quickly, but my dad stayed single for a while.

917
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:42.800
<v Speaker 1>About two years after the divorce, my dad decided to

918
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:45.320
<v Speaker 1>do some traveling. He went to Scotland to see the

919
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:48.199
<v Speaker 1>family castle and all that. That's where he met his

920
00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:51.559
<v Speaker 1>new wife. Fast forward a year and they're getting married.

921
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:54.280
<v Speaker 1>She emigrated to the US to be with my dad,

922
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:57.000
<v Speaker 1>but her twenty year old daughter is still in college

923
00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:59.559
<v Speaker 1>back in Scotland, so she stays there for a while.

924
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:02.880
<v Speaker 1>A year later, she finishes school and heads over to

925
00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:06.280
<v Speaker 1>the US, but she overstays her visa. When I finally

926
00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:09.199
<v Speaker 1>met her, I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I was smitten.

927
00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:12.000
<v Speaker 1>She was a little taller than I, dark haired, and

928
00:47:12.119 --> 00:47:16.000
<v Speaker 1>really beautiful. There was an instant connection between us. Over

929
00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:18.960
<v Speaker 1>the next few months, we flirted and went out under

930
00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:22.079
<v Speaker 1>the excuse of her meeting new people. Here, things happened

931
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:24.880
<v Speaker 1>between us. We were hooking up on and off, even

932
00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:28.119
<v Speaker 1>while dating other people. Eventually we tried to make a

933
00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:31.920
<v Speaker 1>secret relationship work. Six months in, we came up with

934
00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:34.440
<v Speaker 1>a plan for her to move in as my new roommate,

935
00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:37.239
<v Speaker 1>since she hadn't been able to find legit work due

936
00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:40.400
<v Speaker 1>to her immigration status. Her mom was glad she'd have

937
00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:42.679
<v Speaker 1>someone looking out for her in the city, and my

938
00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:45.639
<v Speaker 1>dad was glad she wouldn't always be hanging around his house,

939
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:48.920
<v Speaker 1>which he felt was impeding his marital bliss. It was

940
00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:51.840
<v Speaker 1>a big change. I'd been used to living alone, and

941
00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:54.480
<v Speaker 1>now I had a roommate. On top of that. We

942
00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:57.239
<v Speaker 1>didn't exactly see eye to eye on most things, but

943
00:47:57.320 --> 00:47:59.719
<v Speaker 1>I was still head over heels for her. About a

944
00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:02.960
<v Speaker 1>year or later, through a series of unfortunate events, her

945
00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:07.519
<v Speaker 1>VISA situation was discovered at her workplace, Immigration got involved,

946
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:11.280
<v Speaker 1>and she was detained with a deportation order. I was shattered.

947
00:48:11.519 --> 00:48:13.559
<v Speaker 1>The woman I loved was going to be taken away

948
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:16.880
<v Speaker 1>from me. Then it hit me, since we're not blood relatives,

949
00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:20.119
<v Speaker 1>there's no law against step siblings marrying in my state.

950
00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:23.000
<v Speaker 1>She doesn't even have the same last name as her mom,

951
00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:26.199
<v Speaker 1>so it wouldn't raise too many eyebrows. I told her

952
00:48:26.199 --> 00:48:28.519
<v Speaker 1>my plan. We'd tell our parents it was just a

953
00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:31.440
<v Speaker 1>green card marriage to keep her here. She told me

954
00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:34.280
<v Speaker 1>she loved me, but couldn't marry me. I begged her,

955
00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:37.519
<v Speaker 1>why can't you marry me? We love each other. This

956
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:40.239
<v Speaker 1>is a win win. What more do you need? She

957
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:42.440
<v Speaker 1>looked down at me with these sad eyes and said,

958
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:46.039
<v Speaker 1>I need about treefety. That's when I realized my girlfriend

959
00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:49.599
<v Speaker 1>slash stepsister was actually a six story monster from the

960
00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:53.800
<v Speaker 1>Paleolithic era. Yep, the damned lock Nest monster stole my heart.

961
00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:57.400
<v Speaker 1>Story twenty seven my ex step brother and I are

962
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:00.960
<v Speaker 1>dating and soon will be married. So what happened is

963
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:03.400
<v Speaker 1>our parents were married for about a year when we

964
00:49:03.400 --> 00:49:06.079
<v Speaker 1>were children. They were still together off and on here

965
00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:08.639
<v Speaker 1>and there after the divorce, and it resulted in me

966
00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:11.440
<v Speaker 1>having three siblings who are my ex step dads slash

967
00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:14.159
<v Speaker 1>my mom's kids. They're not dating any more as of

968
00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:17.280
<v Speaker 1>about ten years or maybe even longer, but are very

969
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:20.239
<v Speaker 1>good at co parenting and get along. I really hadn't

970
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:22.480
<v Speaker 1>seen my ex step brother since a couple of years

971
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:25.400
<v Speaker 1>after his dad slashed my mom's divorce, because at that

972
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:28.639
<v Speaker 1>point he graduated high school and moved out and just

973
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.880
<v Speaker 1>never really came around. I'd probably see him once every

974
00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:34.239
<v Speaker 1>year or so. He's worked with his dad at his

975
00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:37.239
<v Speaker 1>shop since he could start working. I needed a job

976
00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:39.559
<v Speaker 1>and my ex step dad offered me one to come

977
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:42.000
<v Speaker 1>down to the shop where they worked, so I accepted.

978
00:49:42.039 --> 00:49:45.079
<v Speaker 1>Of course, that's when I fell in love. I worked

979
00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:47.239
<v Speaker 1>around him all the time, so he was the person

980
00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:50.039
<v Speaker 1>I talked to most on some days. Not to mention,

981
00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:53.119
<v Speaker 1>when you work around someone all the time, you express

982
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:55.519
<v Speaker 1>your interests, and we had a lot in common and

983
00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:58.360
<v Speaker 1>just clicked. When I turned twenty one, I went out

984
00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:00.639
<v Speaker 1>to see him play in his band and we ended

985
00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:03.599
<v Speaker 1>up sleeping together. It was a wild ride from there,

986
00:50:03.840 --> 00:50:06.199
<v Speaker 1>but we now have two kids, a house, and are

987
00:50:06.239 --> 00:50:08.400
<v Speaker 1>planning to get married soon when we're out of debt.

988
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:13.000
<v Speaker 1>Hopefully this wasn't confusing. Story twenty eight, I married my

989
00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:16.159
<v Speaker 1>step niece, whom I've known since childhood and we've been

990
00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:19.440
<v Speaker 1>together ever since. After I got out of basic training,

991
00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:23.599
<v Speaker 1>we reconnected and started dating seriously. About a year later,

992
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:26.559
<v Speaker 1>we found out we were expecting a child. We had

993
00:50:26.599 --> 00:50:30.199
<v Speaker 1>already talked about getting married, and in February two thousand two,

994
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:33.360
<v Speaker 1>we tied the knot. We now have two amazing sons

995
00:50:33.400 --> 00:50:36.920
<v Speaker 1>and have been happily married for eighteen years. Now. How

996
00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:40.000
<v Speaker 1>did it all come together? Here's the back story. My

997
00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:43.679
<v Speaker 1>mom divorced my biological father and eventually married my step

998
00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:46.159
<v Speaker 1>dad when I was around four or five years old.

999
00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:49.639
<v Speaker 1>My stepdad had nine children of his own, five daughters

1000
00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:52.440
<v Speaker 1>and four sons, while my mom brought my sister and

1001
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.280
<v Speaker 1>me into the family. One of my step sisters ended

1002
00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:58.199
<v Speaker 1>up marrying my future wife's father, who already had a

1003
00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:01.719
<v Speaker 1>daughter my wife. Because of that connection, our family spent

1004
00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:04.159
<v Speaker 1>a lot of time together and I grew close to

1005
00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:07.079
<v Speaker 1>her from an early age. As we grew older, that

1006
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:10.559
<v Speaker 1>childhood bond developed into something more. By the time she

1007
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:12.639
<v Speaker 1>was in her early teens and I was a few

1008
00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:16.440
<v Speaker 1>years older, we were dating seriously. After I returned from

1009
00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:20.440
<v Speaker 1>basic training, we reconnected again and our relationship picked up

1010
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:23.840
<v Speaker 1>where it left off. Meanwhile, things were complicated on the

1011
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:27.440
<v Speaker 1>family side. Her father and my stepsister, who were married,

1012
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:32.119
<v Speaker 1>ended up divorcing multiple times because of issues within that household.

1013
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:35.880
<v Speaker 1>Their children were eventually removed from their care. My mom

1014
00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:39.760
<v Speaker 1>and stepdad were granted temporary guardianship of those kids, leading

1015
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:43.119
<v Speaker 1>to a long and difficult custody battle. During this time,

1016
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:45.719
<v Speaker 1>my wife and I stayed out of the drama entirely.

1017
00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:48.960
<v Speaker 1>We didn't take sides, and that decision upset a lot

1018
00:51:48.960 --> 00:51:51.880
<v Speaker 1>of people in the family. A few months later, we

1019
00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:55.400
<v Speaker 1>found out we were expecting our first child. By that point,

1020
00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:58.119
<v Speaker 1>we were already committed to each other and planning to

1021
00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:01.880
<v Speaker 1>build a life together. Despite the complicated family ties and

1022
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:05.840
<v Speaker 1>everything that happened around us, we've built something strong and lasting.

1023
00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:08.800
<v Speaker 1>Her father remained in our lives and has a good

1024
00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:12.760
<v Speaker 1>relationship with both of us. Story twenty nine. This one's

1025
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.400
<v Speaker 1>not me, but someone in my family whom I've remained

1026
00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:19.440
<v Speaker 1>distant from for obvious reasons. Ahead Also, I've changed the

1027
00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:23.639
<v Speaker 1>names for privacy reasons. My uncle Steve, my dad's younger brother,

1028
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:27.079
<v Speaker 1>married a woman years and years ago. Will call her Sharon.

1029
00:52:27.519 --> 00:52:32.679
<v Speaker 1>Steve and Sharon had, if I recall correctly, five kids, John, Jane, Fred, Karen,

1030
00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:35.440
<v Speaker 1>and Joe. The family had some issues because they were

1031
00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:38.159
<v Speaker 1>not remotely well off and had no real means to

1032
00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:43.320
<v Speaker 1>get ahead. Eventually, my uncle Steve and his wife Sharon divorced. Eventually,

1033
00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:46.320
<v Speaker 1>John found a woman I don't remember her name, but

1034
00:52:46.360 --> 00:52:50.119
<v Speaker 1>we'll call her Beth. They started dating, eventually had kids,

1035
00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:53.000
<v Speaker 1>So my uncle Steve now has five kids and three

1036
00:52:53.039 --> 00:52:56.639
<v Speaker 1>grand kids. Moving on, Beth cheats on John with my

1037
00:52:56.760 --> 00:53:00.119
<v Speaker 1>uncle Steve. Steve slept with his daughter in law and

1038
00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:03.719
<v Speaker 1>gets her pregnant. John divorces Beth. Beth and Steve get

1039
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<v Speaker 1>married and end up having three kids. So body count

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<v Speaker 1>Steve five kids with Sharon, three kids with Beth, three

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00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:15.519
<v Speaker 1>grandkids by Beth and John. John four siblings, three kids

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<v Speaker 1>with Beth, three half siblings by Beth, and his dad Steve.

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<v Speaker 1>So by now you might have gotten the gist of

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<v Speaker 1>why I don't talk to these people anymore. Story thirty.

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<v Speaker 1>I have a buddy who's married. Mom cheated with a

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<v Speaker 1>younger guy, and my friend was the result. The guy

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00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:32.920
<v Speaker 1>she had an affair with eventually married someone else and

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00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:36.119
<v Speaker 1>had a daughter with her. Fast forward to adulthood. My

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00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:39.400
<v Speaker 1>buddy meets this woman. They fall in love, get married,

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<v Speaker 1>and even have a child together. Tragically, their child passed

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00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:46.280
<v Speaker 1>away young, and a few years later his wife passed two.

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<v Speaker 1>It was devastating he mourned both losses deeply, but tried

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<v Speaker 1>to move on with his life. Now here's where it

1054
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:56.280
<v Speaker 1>gets dark. About fifteen years after all this, his mom

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00:53:56.320 --> 00:53:59.039
<v Speaker 1>decides to come clean. She tells him that the man

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00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:02.320
<v Speaker 1>she had an affair with, his biological father, was also

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00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:05.519
<v Speaker 1>the father of his late wife, meaning his wife had

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<v Speaker 1>been his half sister the entire time. She knew from

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<v Speaker 1>the start and never said a word, not even when

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<v Speaker 1>they got married or had a child, because she didn't

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<v Speaker 1>want to ruin her own marriage or deal with the

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<v Speaker 1>fallout of her past decisions. Story thirty one. Our parents

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<v Speaker 1>married when we were around twelve. He always lived with

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00:54:22.679 --> 00:54:25.280
<v Speaker 1>his mom and I bounced between my parents for long

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<v Speaker 1>periods of times, so I only saw him in short bursts.

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<v Speaker 1>We were buddies, but not close. Skip ahead, and in

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<v Speaker 1>our late twenties we wound up living in the same state. Coincidentally,

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<v Speaker 1>we became very close and helped each other through the

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00:54:39.159 --> 00:54:42.119
<v Speaker 1>nasty breakups we went through that led us to that state.

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<v Speaker 1>Getting to know adult him was amazing, and I fell

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00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:47.480
<v Speaker 1>madly in love with him. I held back for a

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00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:51.239
<v Speaker 1>long time, even after I accidentally confessed my feelings one

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00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:54.559
<v Speaker 1>drunken night. He admitted he felt the same, but still

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00:54:54.679 --> 00:54:58.039
<v Speaker 1>I kept my distance. It all just felt weird, and

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<v Speaker 1>I knew it. We both moved on, started other relationships,

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00:55:02.039 --> 00:55:05.039
<v Speaker 1>tried to pretend nothing was there. They were both awful,

1077
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<v Speaker 1>if I'm being honest, just placeholders. Really, we were doing

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00:55:08.760 --> 00:55:13.320
<v Speaker 1>our best not to feel anything. Eventually those relationships fell apart,

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<v Speaker 1>and when they did, I was absolutely miserable. How could

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<v Speaker 1>I be in love with my frigging step brother, of

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00:55:19.159 --> 00:55:22.880
<v Speaker 1>all people? I was gutted. One day I found myself

1082
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:25.360
<v Speaker 1>alone in a room with my mom. She looked me

1083
00:55:25.400 --> 00:55:27.639
<v Speaker 1>straight in the eye and said, I know you're in

1084
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:31.320
<v Speaker 1>love with him. Be with him. I hesitated. I can't,

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<v Speaker 1>I told her, because of what people would say, because

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<v Speaker 1>of society. She didn't even flinch. Then, screw society, she said.

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<v Speaker 1>Fast forward ten years. We've got a solid marriage and

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<v Speaker 1>some adorable kids. Our family is tight knit, full of love,

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<v Speaker 1>and always up for a good vacation. The people who

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00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:51.800
<v Speaker 1>knew us back then, they used to say, it's kind

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<v Speaker 1>of weird, but honestly, we get it now. You two

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<v Speaker 1>are perfect together, and you know what it can work,

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<v Speaker 1>even if it is frigging weird. Thank you for watching.

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