The Stepfather one must've felt like a slap across the daughter's face. Like the guy was her dad in anything but blood and he basically pulls the "I didn't help create her, so therefore she's not my kid" and he goes all surprise picachu face when OP's daughter call him Mike . Like My dude you can't have it.
Do Canadians actually say eh? I've met many and none of them ever say that, so I thought it was like the Hotel Transylvania schtick where people say Dracula says "bleh,bleh,bleh" when he never does, lol.
@@krisl6537 Honestly very rarely and usually more in the Ontario area. I’m from the dreaded Alberta and it’s not prevalent here except in rural areas. It’s basically a schtick too, which is how I use it. :)
That had to be an awful feeling hearing that from her husband. When you marry someone that already has children you have to love them just as your own. I can honestly say my step dad has been a bigger part of my life then my own father. He helped me with my recovery, relationships, and even walked me down the aisle(alongside my bio dad) when I got married in 2021. I know that young woman’s heart was broken.
In the second story, the main difference between adoption or not would be his financial obligation to support OPs daughter, should him an OP divorce. It wouldn't surprise me if he was being unfaithful or had another similar reason to fear divorce.
Nothing implied he was being unfaithful so there wasnt any reason to bring that up and the man was just being honest , it's not grounds to jump to divorce if anything that reflects poorly on the mother not trying to understand how he may feel. That kind of comes off like someone who flakes out at any signs of opposition. It's kinda disgusting. On the daughters behalf i get there's no reason for his feelings to be any different towards her, and i get the damage it can do. It would of been better for mike to talk to his daughter instead of the mother so they could have an honest conversation about it. I rarely disagree with the boys but they're not parents so they just dont understand and thats okay too.
@vincentzhaiven4017 I'm confused, didn't the OP say she sent her daughter to go on a car ride with the 'dad' so they could discuss it alone? They both returned upset?
I have to say that depends where you're from. In some places, if you marry someone with a child and you are their parent, you are just as obliged to look after them as if they were blood.
1st story: the sheer audacity of the wife baffles me , the balls the blame the husband for a choice she made. She wanted to blame her choices on him because he wanted to go camping with his family , even if you don't want to go suck it up. You're part of a family now , what you specifically want doesn't always matter anymore. Especially when you're a parent and this is coming from a father. Alternate what both parents want to do if it really comes down to it. It doesn't seem like she had any hobbies honestly so i just don't get it.
That step-dad one was terrible. But i wonder if the mom noticed that he gave a special kind of treatment to their kids other than her daughter.🤔 That family is going to need a lot of therapy, i'm hurting for the daughter. This can make her feel isolated from everyone else and act out accordingly. I hope he's happy, smh....
Bless your hearts, you all don’t know anything about divorce laws. Some states are “no fault” states, meaning the court doesn’t care who cheated or was in the wrong. If the mother doesn’t work, she will likely get spousal support no matter what.
uuuuuuuuh hi... damn I think this was one of your funniest episodes ? I definitely went through all the emotions ahah ! 😅🤣 I did my own bingo : Josh's "sowy" = 4 ; John's puns = 3 ; Sean's shameless plugs = 2
I worked with a nightmare human that turned the whole office against each other then we all realized and turned on her. Her and I argued in the lunchroom that step parents should live the kids the same and she said absolutely not and I am niece about relationships with kids because I don’t have kids. I told her but I have a heart and she doesn’t. She no longer works with us and we all went out and celebrated her departure. Including her daughter (biological) who had to distance herself from that toxic woman.
There are millions of videos of kids asking their step parents to adopt them, and you see how excited the stepparents are to get asked that. It is mortifying the way that piece of shit acted towards that poor child.😡😡
🤣can just see it now Sean does am I the a****** for asking for an apology lol 🤣😅. mike an a****** be thankful she calls you by your name and doesn't just ignore you.
Someone with a step-parent that may be able to shed some light on the thing with the guy that won't adopt a stepdad: It's sort of a symbolic thing or an incredible gesture to make. Like a declaration that, "to me you are my daughter, I love you." It isn't really required legally but... It is so hard to explain. I see my stepfamily as blood related because I grew up with them but I never got along with my stepdad. I used to daydream about him adopting me, about him loving me enough to share his name. He never did, I don't think he would have if I asked. I just wanted to know I was wanted and loved. I still refer to my stepdad as his first name, he raised me since I was four. I never felt like I was enough. I never could make him proud. He wanted to adopt my sister (a year younger than me with the same father as me). He never did, not enough money, but he said it to her in front of me. It was devastating, I was maybe ten back then. Sometimes it's just wanting to make that connection. Acceptance. Maybe even a little pride. I understand that daughter's pain so keenly. I gave up that hope long ago, but even as an adult I still remember and it still hurts. I don't even LIKE him anymore. He was cruel to me, he made me feel small and afraid, but I still desperately want to have his approval. Growing up with a parent like that is... hard. It's hard to know it wasn't my fault and it was all him because there is nothing I could have done to change that. He just. Didn't love me the way he loved my siblings. He even hates me. Anyway. The point is the gesture. The declaration. Even if he couldn't afford it, just saying it would make a difference. It's hard to be raised by someone you love who doesn't care about you the way you want them to.
"take a shot"... it's 9 am here in Chile when im watching, boys lmao so i had a shot of nice lactose free cherimoya milk. also im only 27 minutes in, expect an edit if I dont see them pants OFF! edit: woah that was a rollercoaster and THE PANTS ARE STILL ON 😤
Lol the smelly plant story 😂 I had the same prob with my snake plant, my room started smelling like legit dog 💩 I checked all my shoes before I realised it was the soil in the plants pot.. could’ve been when I emptied the last bit of apple juice in there when I was stoned, the snake plant is thriving apart from the stench 😂
I don't condone cheating, it's always horrible. When you have a kid though, you have to change your priorities. Hobbies can't be done as often, and you should focus on your family. Yes once of twice a month for a weekend might not sound much, but to some it is. Really it depends on how the kid is to take care of when they're younger. Still, cheating isn't the answer.
Given how she abandoned the child of this family once she found out she had another one coming, I don’t think this guy ever neglected their family. If he had, wouldn’t you be insisting to have custody of this child for fear they would be neglected? She sounds like she wanted to find any excuse to have no fault of her own.
...okay, I love you guys, but if you keep doing super-depressing stories that have NO good points, NO catharsis and NO "at least the a-hole has something bad happen to THEM, tool", I...might not be able to keep listening. The funnier stories don't take away the depression, they don't lift the gloom. I know real life isn't happy, at all, ever, but I listen to entertainment to have fun, at least a little. The human brain is programmed to concentrate on the bad stuff, so while you're like "I beat off in the shower for so long my house burned down!" I'm STILL thinking about "OH DEAR GOD HE LET HER *CHILD.* *R4PIST.* INTO THE HOUSE. IT'S NOT ONLY S-A, BUT ALSO _UNDERAGE_ OH MY GOD... *AND* SHE WAS VICTIM-BLAMED AND *NOTHING HAPPENED TO HIM?!! EVER?!!"* It's like, every single thing you fear might be the case IS the case and oh, by the way, it's worse--everybody freaking doubles, triples, and quadruples down on their awful views, the horrible people get the support and are fine while the nice people LOSE THEIR FREAKING PETS :( as well as their house, everybody believes the story of the horrible person and bullies down even harder on the wronged party, the scumbag gets away AGAIN, nothing ever happens to the horrible, disgusting criminal and the cycle of abuse is not broken. There are NO BRIGHT SPOTS in the depressing stories, guys. The only light at the end of the tunnel...is an oncoming train. (Apologies to whoever originally made up that joke.) Heck, even the "wholesome" stories are still sad as sh*t. "Oh, here's a wholesome story" and then proceeds to start it off with "My wife, the love of my life, died, and I seriously considered _never waking up again so I could be with her_, and only the faces of my children and the reminder of her that they were, kept me from doing that." The "met" in the title, "How my girlfriend met my wife", was not only trickily worded (that's on the original poster, not you, though) it was SYMBOLIC, only! She can't MEET anybody! She's DEAD! She's not quietly looking down from on high, smiling softly and approving even though you can't hear her, she has moved on, she is pushing up daisies, she has kicked the bucket, she has gone to meet her maker! "Met" in this case is a nice little symbolic honoring the dead thing, and I guess it's nice...ish...but the story STILL started off with death and su!cide consideration, and even the wholesome moment is somber and tempered with sadness. Dude I needed a HAPPY story after all of that. A REAL happy story. I needed something like you'd get off of r/wholesomemes or something. That little bit of "technically, nobody DID anything horrible to anybody else, but it's STILL sad as hell" didn't work. I needed to be freaking DUNKED into an entire vat of actual cheerfulneess. That wasn't it. "We thought we'd hate each other, but it turns out we're the love of each other's lives!" "My husband didn't want a cat, but look at him cuddling up with it every day" "(Dark-sounding situation here) turns out to actually be awesome, through a funny twist!" When you said a "wholesome" story was coming, I was expecting to actually feel better. Instead, the beginning of the story left me (continuing to be) shocked and numb and I couldn't enjoy the love story that happened afterwards. I...no. I don't have it in me. I don't have the heart. I can't stand being brought down every single time I listen to one of these. I might start going back to only listening to the Friday episodes (this message was written during an archive-binge) because...I can't really recall those being AS gut-punchingly bleak. I love you guys, I love your banter, I love your chemistry, I love your takes, but...sometimes, those aren't enough to counteract the awfulness of the original stories themselves. Sincerely, a brand-new subscriber from less than a week ago, who had been archive-diving. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, but I'm not sure if I'm cheerful enough to be enthusiastic about a stupid meme right now.
The Stepfather one must've felt like a slap across the daughter's face. Like the guy was her dad in anything but blood and he basically pulls the "I didn't help create her, so therefore she's not my kid" and he goes all surprise picachu face when OP's daughter call him Mike . Like My dude you can't have it.
honestly sad stories sometimes reach the people who need to hear it most!
That's a nice way of looking at it! 🙂
Can I just say, as a fellow Canadian, I love that Josh is the most savage with the responses. We’re polite to a point, eh.
Do Canadians actually say eh? I've met many and none of them ever say that, so I thought it was like the Hotel Transylvania schtick where people say Dracula says "bleh,bleh,bleh" when he never does, lol.
@@krisl6537 Honestly very rarely and usually more in the Ontario area. I’m from the dreaded Alberta and it’s not prevalent here except in rural areas. It’s basically a schtick too, which is how I use it. :)
That had to be an awful feeling hearing that from her husband. When you marry someone that already has children you have to love them just as your own. I can honestly say my step dad has been a bigger part of my life then my own father. He helped me with my recovery, relationships, and even walked me down the aisle(alongside my bio dad) when I got married in 2021.
I know that young woman’s heart was broken.
In the second story, the main difference between adoption or not would be his financial obligation to support OPs daughter, should him an OP divorce. It wouldn't surprise me if he was being unfaithful or had another similar reason to fear divorce.
Nothing implied he was being unfaithful so there wasnt any reason to bring that up and the man was just being honest , it's not grounds to jump to divorce if anything that reflects poorly on the mother not trying to understand how he may feel. That kind of comes off like someone who flakes out at any signs of opposition. It's kinda disgusting. On the daughters behalf i get there's no reason for his feelings to be any different towards her, and i get the damage it can do. It would of been better for mike to talk to his daughter instead of the mother so they could have an honest conversation about it. I rarely disagree with the boys but they're not parents so they just dont understand and thats okay too.
@vincentzhaiven4017 I'm confused, didn't the OP say she sent her daughter to go on a car ride with the 'dad' so they could discuss it alone? They both returned upset?
I have to say that depends where you're from. In some places, if you marry someone with a child and you are their parent, you are just as obliged to look after them as if they were blood.
Is it bad that I want to see an episode where Sean reads off a couple of John's best puns 😂
1st story: the sheer audacity of the wife baffles me , the balls the blame the husband for a choice she made. She wanted to blame her choices on him because he wanted to go camping with his family , even if you don't want to go suck it up. You're part of a family now , what you specifically want doesn't always matter anymore. Especially when you're a parent and this is coming from a father. Alternate what both parents want to do if it really comes down to it. It doesn't seem like she had any hobbies honestly so i just don't get it.
Not me saying the "back of yo head is ridiculous" with John! Lol I still love that skit!
That step-dad one was terrible. But i wonder if the mom noticed that he gave a special kind of treatment to their kids other than her daughter.🤔
That family is going to need a lot of therapy, i'm hurting for the daughter. This can make her feel isolated from everyone else and act out accordingly. I hope he's happy, smh....
Bless your hearts, you all don’t know anything about divorce laws. Some states are “no fault” states, meaning the court doesn’t care who cheated or was in the wrong. If the mother doesn’t work, she will likely get spousal support no matter what.
Sean give me an episode with nothing but sad stories please and thank you 🙏🏽
uuuuuuuuh hi... damn I think this was one of your funniest episodes ? I definitely went through all the emotions ahah ! 😅🤣
I did my own bingo : Josh's "sowy" = 4 ; John's puns = 3 ; Sean's shameless plugs = 2
Is it a shameless plug or is it… self-promo-Sean? 👀
@@IAmContemporary oh that's a good one !
I feel like the child is probably the husbands in the camping story she just doesn't wanna share the child with him.
Last story... Maybe SIL didn't tell her husband where the name was coming from, and when he found out, he realized OP and his wife were right
I worked with a nightmare human that turned the whole office against each other then we all realized and turned on her. Her and I argued in the lunchroom that step parents should live the kids the same and she said absolutely not and I am niece about relationships with kids because I don’t have kids. I told her but I have a heart and she doesn’t. She no longer works with us and we all went out and celebrated her departure. Including her daughter (biological) who had to distance herself from that toxic woman.
43:16 😂 omg I almost laughed out loud at work! Geeze. This is great 🤣
There are millions of videos of kids asking their step parents to adopt them, and you see how excited the stepparents are to get asked that. It is mortifying the way that piece of shit acted towards that poor child.😡😡
Not my sperm, not my kid.
Said Mike.
🤣can just see it now Sean does am I the a****** for asking for an apology lol 🤣😅. mike an a****** be thankful she calls you by your name and doesn't just ignore you.
WE STILL WATCH THE MIKE AND ICK! The back of your head is ridiculous😂
I’m shocked no one laughed more at your pebbles joke, it cracked me up 🤣
Someone with a step-parent that may be able to shed some light on the thing with the guy that won't adopt a stepdad:
It's sort of a symbolic thing or an incredible gesture to make. Like a declaration that, "to me you are my daughter, I love you." It isn't really required legally but...
It is so hard to explain. I see my stepfamily as blood related because I grew up with them but I never got along with my stepdad. I used to daydream about him adopting me, about him loving me enough to share his name.
He never did, I don't think he would have if I asked. I just wanted to know I was wanted and loved. I still refer to my stepdad as his first name, he raised me since I was four.
I never felt like I was enough. I never could make him proud. He wanted to adopt my sister (a year younger than me with the same father as me). He never did, not enough money, but he said it to her in front of me. It was devastating, I was maybe ten back then.
Sometimes it's just wanting to make that connection. Acceptance. Maybe even a little pride. I understand that daughter's pain so keenly. I gave up that hope long ago, but even as an adult I still remember and it still hurts.
I don't even LIKE him anymore. He was cruel to me, he made me feel small and afraid, but I still desperately want to have his approval. Growing up with a parent like that is... hard. It's hard to know it wasn't my fault and it was all him because there is nothing I could have done to change that. He just. Didn't love me the way he loved my siblings. He even hates me.
Anyway. The point is the gesture. The declaration. Even if he couldn't afford it, just saying it would make a difference. It's hard to be raised by someone you love who doesn't care about you the way you want them to.
"take a shot"... it's 9 am here in Chile when im watching, boys lmao so i had a shot of nice lactose free cherimoya milk. also im only 27 minutes in, expect an edit if I dont see them pants OFF!
edit: woah that was a rollercoaster and THE PANTS ARE STILL ON 😤
Revenge is a dish best served petty
Lol the smelly plant story 😂 I had the same prob with my snake plant, my room started smelling like legit dog 💩 I checked all my shoes before I realised it was the soil in the plants pot.. could’ve been when I emptied the last bit of apple juice in there when I was stoned, the snake plant is thriving apart from the stench 😂
That’s a french ass name!… my lil croissant 😂
I don't condone cheating, it's always horrible. When you have a kid though, you have to change your priorities. Hobbies can't be done as often, and you should focus on your family. Yes once of twice a month for a weekend might not sound much, but to some it is. Really it depends on how the kid is to take care of when they're younger.
Still, cheating isn't the answer.
Given how she abandoned the child of this family once she found out she had another one coming, I don’t think this guy ever neglected their family. If he had, wouldn’t you be insisting to have custody of this child for fear they would be neglected? She sounds like she wanted to find any excuse to have no fault of her own.
JOSH IS MY FAVORITE! 😊
Josh is my favourite 😁😁😁
42:54 can I get your number??
i want to drop a like but its at 69 likes XD
NICE
...okay, I love you guys, but if you keep doing super-depressing stories that have NO good points, NO catharsis and NO "at least the a-hole has something bad happen to THEM, tool", I...might not be able to keep listening. The funnier stories don't take away the depression, they don't lift the gloom. I know real life isn't happy, at all, ever, but I listen to entertainment to have fun, at least a little. The human brain is programmed to concentrate on the bad stuff, so while you're like "I beat off in the shower for so long my house burned down!" I'm STILL thinking about "OH DEAR GOD HE LET HER *CHILD.* *R4PIST.* INTO THE HOUSE. IT'S NOT ONLY S-A, BUT ALSO _UNDERAGE_ OH MY GOD... *AND* SHE WAS VICTIM-BLAMED AND *NOTHING HAPPENED TO HIM?!! EVER?!!"*
It's like, every single thing you fear might be the case IS the case and oh, by the way, it's worse--everybody freaking doubles, triples, and quadruples down on their awful views, the horrible people get the support and are fine while the nice people LOSE THEIR FREAKING PETS :( as well as their house, everybody believes the story of the horrible person and bullies down even harder on the wronged party, the scumbag gets away AGAIN, nothing ever happens to the horrible, disgusting criminal and the cycle of abuse is not broken.
There are NO BRIGHT SPOTS in the depressing stories, guys. The only light at the end of the tunnel...is an oncoming train. (Apologies to whoever originally made up that joke.)
Heck, even the "wholesome" stories are still sad as sh*t. "Oh, here's a wholesome story" and then proceeds to start it off with "My wife, the love of my life, died, and I seriously considered _never waking up again so I could be with her_, and only the faces of my children and the reminder of her that they were, kept me from doing that." The "met" in the title, "How my girlfriend met my wife", was not only trickily worded (that's on the original poster, not you, though) it was SYMBOLIC, only! She can't MEET anybody! She's DEAD! She's not quietly looking down from on high, smiling softly and approving even though you can't hear her, she has moved on, she is pushing up daisies, she has kicked the bucket, she has gone to meet her maker!
"Met" in this case is a nice little symbolic honoring the dead thing, and I guess it's nice...ish...but the story STILL started off with death and su!cide consideration, and even the wholesome moment is somber and tempered with sadness.
Dude I needed a HAPPY story after all of that. A REAL happy story. I needed something like you'd get off of r/wholesomemes or something. That little bit of "technically, nobody DID anything horrible to anybody else, but it's STILL sad as hell" didn't work. I needed to be freaking DUNKED into an entire vat of actual cheerfulneess. That wasn't it. "We thought we'd hate each other, but it turns out we're the love of each other's lives!" "My husband didn't want a cat, but look at him cuddling up with it every day" "(Dark-sounding situation here) turns out to actually be awesome, through a funny twist!" When you said a "wholesome" story was coming, I was expecting to actually feel better. Instead, the beginning of the story left me (continuing to be) shocked and numb and I couldn't enjoy the love story that happened afterwards.
I...no. I don't have it in me. I don't have the heart. I can't stand being brought down every single time I listen to one of these. I might start going back to only listening to the Friday episodes (this message was written during an archive-binge) because...I can't really recall those being AS gut-punchingly bleak. I love you guys, I love your banter, I love your chemistry, I love your takes, but...sometimes, those aren't enough to counteract the awfulness of the original stories themselves.
Sincerely, a brand-new subscriber from less than a week ago, who had been archive-diving.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, but I'm not sure if I'm cheerful enough to be enthusiastic about a stupid meme right now.