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And I saw that and I laughed again. We went to sleep and she woke up and apologized to him. She is very upset with me and she is even more embarrassed now. She is mortified about what he would think of her if even her own girlfriend laughed at her. And she said that she hated how I reacted and it was not funny at all. I feel really guilty because I know that our relationship with her dad is terrible. And even if I was drunk, I should have had the sense to not laugh like a child when she was showing me something like embarrassing. I'm not gonna lie, if OP ends up an arsehole in this situation, I will gladly accept that title at the same time as well. Because, you know, as embarrassing as it is and I would have some empathy as well, but my initial reaction to that was to chuckle to myself as well if I was on, no, what a mistake. But a commenter says to OP, not the arsehole, you were both drunk. I think she just doesn't want to blame her drunk self for the embarrassment and it's just easier to redirect her anger towards your drunken reaction. Soggy says, I'm riding off the back of this response. She made a drunken mistake. She just doesn't want to admit fault because it's embarrassing. The more she makes it a thing, the longer it will take for the weirdness to die down. Rule number one in drinking is ditch your phone away. Comedus said in quotes saying, she said she hated how I reacted and it was not funny at all. The commenter reply saying, yes it was, lol. Comedus says, not the arsehole. She definitely mildly overreacted over this. She didn't mean to send the text and it was on a whim, but it also wasn't your fault that she sent the text. You were both intoxicated and both partook in justifiable actions while under the influence. I'm very sorry a relationship with her dad is bad and I hope things get sorted with her boss. Comedus says, you're the arsehole. This is an embarrassing story you laugh about in a few years, not as it's happening while your girlfriend is freaking out. I get you are tired and probably hungover so probably not thinking straight, but you should definitely apologize. Sweet and sour says not the arsehole. You found it to be immediately funny. Nothing wrong with reacting in your own way. So OP does update the post around a week later and says, I did apologize for laughing and she said, it wasn't my fault and she was just embarrassed. She really didn't want to go back to work but forced herself to go to work. It did speak about it with her. He told her that she was a great employee and he liked her and told her to forget about it. He also gave her some personal advice. He told her that he understands why she felt that way as he had a bad relationship with his parents. They had often been happy when people didn't yell at him and treated him with a modicum of respect. Told her that she needed to understand that people treating her with respect and basic decency was not an act of huge kindness or a favor she should be grateful for. It was very important for her to understand that when people don't do that, it's usually their fault rather than something inherently lacking in her. I think I love her boss now. She is so grateful and thankful when I do the most basic good girlfriend shit with her. She is surprised and happy when I don't yell when she fucks up or comforts her when she is sad. I've been telling her the same thing. I've been telling her the same thing and so has a therapist and I think another person telling her that she deserves to be treated well will help her. Comedia says on the end of this one, what a sweet update. Thank you. Yes, your girlfriend hearing from multiple sources that she is worthy of being respected and treated with dignity is going to be helpful. Low self-esteem is some lifelong piece of baggage which is going to challenge us at times. So having those great social supports. SO, therapist, great boss is wonderful. Comedia says to add, having it come from her boss might help even more. If she's in the mindset of my SO and therapist have to say that, my SO and therapist, and hearing it from someone who's under no perceived obligation to say it, might let the message sink in better. OP says, yeah, she doesn't believe me when I tell her how great she is. Comedia says, I think I want to text him too to say I wish he was my dad. No one to ask all here. Tifa Tio replies saying same, wish he was my dad. Vita says, isn't excellent human being and I would totally have died if I was your girlfriend though. OP says she did die a little and I have to convince her to go to work. Alert Potato says, I missed the original and just went back to it. I laughed out loud at it. It's sad that our relationship with her dad blows but it's adorably heartwarming that her instinct when drunk is to send a text basically telling her boss how great he is. I also think I love her boss. OP says, she is heartwarming and I love her so much. Seemingly the last comment says, you know, her boss does sound like a good guy. I get why she wishes he was her dad. No seriously, she shouldn't feel bad about texting that. It's not like she was making a drunken attempt to flirt with him. That would be embarrassing. This was totally wholesome and harmless. What an absolutely lovely boss in this situation and I can see why a lot of people are talking this way about him. He sounds like a great boss and a great human at the same time and it's also sad for OP's girlfriend that, you know, she's needing to be told that she deserves respect and basic decency and for some reason can't accept that. But I really do wish the best for her in the future with therapy and stuff and hope she gets to that point. Because she sounds like a good egg as well. But what do you guys make of this situation? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments below. Let's move on to another story. Now, our next post was posted in the Ask Me Anything subreddit and it was titled, Mother-in-law is convinced she is engaged to Keanu Reeves. My mother-in-law met some random internet stranger who convinced her that he is Keanu Reeves. This has been going on for about a year. She fully believes they are engaged and should be getting married to him next month. Yes, it is absolutely crazy as it sounds. Ask me anything about the situation and I'll happily answer. So the comments were coming in and OP was responding. The first one said, is this her first time doing something like this? Sorry to hear about it. Something similar happened to my aunt. She's a bit detached from the world and lives with her parents, but is generally a good person. She met some online prince or that sort of nonsense and drained a good chunk of her hard earned savings. OP says she is extremely naive to scams. Dogs slash puppy scams, sick people need in prayer and money. Scammers saying they will wipe her bank accounts if she doesn't send hundreds or thousands in gift cards to them. She has been scammed in job offers and paying for applications that don't exist. It's really, really bad, but she will not stop and she will not accept any help. Comments says it's a super common scam. It will say things like they're going through a divorce and they're soon to be ex-wife of stolen or their money, or that evil manager has taken control of their bank accounts. Ridiculous stuff really. OP, you should show her the YouTube channel Catfished, not the MTV show. I'm pretty sure there's even an episode about someone pretending to be Keanu Reeves. OP says yes, that's exactly why she's sending the money. He convinced her that he is divorcing his wife, but they're not telling the press so nobody knows. He told her that the divorce is really messy, so the wife is withholding all of his money, so he's essentially broke. Comments says she topped my mother. My mother was convinced she was dating an oil rig worker, classic scam, who used some actors' photos along with AI generated ones. We showed my mom all sorts of posts about oil rig scams and also forums where people said these photos were used in a scam attempt, and she still believed it. She sent 12K and later tried to send another 20K when a credit union stopped her and the police got involved. There are no words for the level of frustration when you clearly show someone all sorts of evidence that it's a scam, and they continue down the path anyway. My brain will never understand this. Keanu Reeves though? Lol, that's next level. OP says yes, it's extremely frustrating watching someone go through these scams. We just kept saying at some point reality has to hit hard and she will see that this can't be real, but I'm afraid she's literally putting all her money on the possibility of being in love. Comments says have you reported this to the police or taken steps to block her finances? Common scam, how do you protect her? OP says she wants no help at all. She won't listen to us. We tried offering her help with finances and she thinks we're just trying to sabotage her and take her money. We've tried to figure out how to get some sort of conservatorship, but we don't know how to go about it legally. Comments says these are the types of AMAs that people really want. What does your father-in-law think about all this? OP says they divorced a year ago and he's remarrying a new woman. For a few months he was overseeing my mother-in-law's accounts, she took that as an invitation to still be friends and that she could come see him whenever she wanted to. But the new girlfriend did not like that obviously so he had to set up strict boundaries which my mother-in-law did not like. So basically ties had to be cut between them. Comments says did you hear about the French woman who thought she was dating Brad Pitt? It cost her 830,000 euros. OP says yes. She said it is different than those women who get scammed with love. Comments says does she have dementia or other cognitive issues? OP says yes. We asked if she'd be willing to work with us to get her into the right doctor that can help us with how to care for her medically. Whether that's medication or psychiatric help. She's completely refused. We'll not even discuss it. But assuming she is crazy, that is just incredibly sad. And the talk of dementia or other cognitive issues, again, is just heartbreaking. I can't imagine how frustrating it is to watch someone you love go through that when they're denying everything else. She thinks her own family are the villains in this trying to sabotage her romance. I remember we covered a romance scamming story. It must have been a couple of years back now, but this always sticks into my head that people were talking about an elder law attorney. Again, obviously it's going to depend on location and all this kind of stuff. And also the possibility of adult protective services because she is vulnerable and she's being financially exploited. Not quite as extreme, but I remember my mom and dad were still here and warning them of various scams that they'd get over the phone. People phoning up and saying, oh, you need to give us your credit card details to do this or that or whatever. And for my parents who had no knowledge of this kind of thing, it was scary for them, some of the stuff that they were saying. And for sure, you can say naive, right? But at the same time, I grew up with the internet. I grew up reading about this kind of stuff all the time, seeing it on YouTube, seeing it all over the place. My parents and many elderly people don't have that access, so they don't know about this kind of stuff. You can see how it happens and they clearly make a lot of money doing so, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. It's just incredibly sad all of a... All on Magic Radio, playing the best variety from the 80s to now. It's Glowtime on Magic Radio. For those who want nappy changes to be quick and fos-free, help prevent Nappy Rash before it starts with Collief Nappy Care Spray, available now on Amazon. Try it today. We have no idea how much, but there'd be no surprise that it's a large amount. The whole relationship started through email. The email said that it's seen a social media and thought she was so beautiful, but that he couldn't message her on social media because his wife will see it. We had on to say how he was in the hospital and needed help with medical bills because him and wife are divorcing and that she's withholding all of his money. My mother-in-law also added that this person is on a phone plan. Mother-in-law had purchased a wedding dress and shoes for the event. She has packed up her house and sold her car. Important to note that she did this without telling us beforehand. We only knew after the fact that she did it. My immediate family, myself, my husband and my kids are completely no contact with her. We found out she was sending this person information about us and our kids, pictures of them, their names, life events, so any contact at all was completely blocked. The wedding is planned for next month. It's supposedly flying into a local airport on his private jet to pick her up and then they are flying to Los Angeles where she will live. We'll be contacting her banks to file elderly abuse slash fraud reports as well as finding a report with our local police department. We were not aware that this was the correct course of action. And finally, yes, this situation is extremely sad. We've done everything we can to warn her and tell her how this can't be real. She told one of our family members yesterday to stay out of her business. We'll update this post again after the wedding. Fucking hell, that is absolutely brutal, that update that she was, you know, 100% not going to turn up, which I feel daft even saying that. And there'll be some emergency excuse ready and it just keeps stringing her along trying to siphon money from her. Especially now that she sold her car, packed up her house and she just seems to be sitting on a massive pool of liquid cash and it's like the perfect scenario for a scammer, right? They turn around and say, oh, the ex-wife did this or that and I need money to fix the situation and she'll oblige. And I keep thinking about like the adult protective services route, but I wonder if they would actually do anything in this situation because she seems to be doing everything from living independently and paying her bills, I assume, so I wonder if legally they could even step in. I ain't got a clue, I've never been down that route of any of that sort of thing before, so I'm not sure if I can blame OP for stepping back from this situation as well, because she refused all the help that they offered initially and then started handing out the grandkids information to strangers. Absolutely devastating one that is, but what do you guys make of this situation? Have you ever had any experience with scams like this by yourself? How did you deal with them? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments below. Let's move on to another story. Our next story comes from Nami who from the wedding jokes subreddit and says, The gym couple that made me question what for better or worse even means, There's this couple at my gym who treat the treadmill area like their own honeymoon suite. Every morning while the rest of us are just trying to survive cardio, they're over there cuddling between sets and giggling like it's day night. Now, I wouldn't care except last week I found out they both are married, but not to each other. The husband works out of town and his wife doesn't like gyms. They are basically running a secret love story between dumbbells and protein shakes. At this point, I don't even need a workout playlist. The drama fuels me. Every time they high five after a set, I'm like, What does wedding vow fidelity mean to these people? If marriage had a cheat day, these two took the whole week off. Comedian said to Opie on this, Well, the first half had me smiling. Opie said, it seemed like a perfect love story. Heeper says, see my problem is I would start getting proof for both spouses and anonymously send it because nobody deserves that. Opie says, smart move to think of that, but there are CCTVs everywhere in the gym. So it was a couple of days after this that Opie came in with an update and said, Now the actual guy's wife showed up for real then. Yes, although she didn't yell or make a scene, just stood by the door, arms crossed while they were mid cuddle. The silence in the gym could have powered the treadmills. He froze. The other woman grabbed her bag and bolted fast enough that anyone sprint before. So now finally, neither of them comes anymore and the gym feels weirdly quiet. Miss the free soap opera, but hey, at least I can finally focus on my squats. In the comments, someone says the update, we didn't know we needed. Low carb says, I worked at a huge gym in college catered to all ages. I remember a handful of people exactly like this. They get caught eventually. Never worth it. Jesse play sim says, Dan, we never know how this ends. Does she keep the cheetah divorce revenge? I want to know. Opie says, not sure if it's a divorce or not. I do follow that lady on social media. All of her posts have been deleted since then. You've got to think what is going through their head while they're at the gym and they're doing this in front of everybody. Clearly people around them know about their personal life. Opie knew about it for goodness sake. But to be open and brazen like this was just begging to get caught some way or another. And someone clearly tipped the wife off on this. But what do you guys make of this one? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments below. And just a huge thank you for being here today getting involved in the stories, your love, your support, your time. It always means the absolute world to me. So thank you so, so much. And don't forget at the very end of the video, there'll be a couple of playlists that you can click on. 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