Brittany
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
I am in a blanket fort bunk bed. Absolutely. It's my best option.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
So I own a beach resort on the Jersey Shore with my family. What?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
No, we're not that type of Jersey Shore. We're like the quaint, family-friendly, low-key Jersey Shore.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Not really our vibe. You know, we like to stay a couple islands down, but they're fun to watch, I guess.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
No, it's great. Couple more weeks to go and then we're done. Got it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
It is. It's about our hotel. And as low key as it normally is, we see our fair share of crazy stuff. So I've got a doozy for you guys today.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
53, so we're pretty tiny. We're like a restaurant, nightclub, wedding venue. Oh, wow.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
All right. Well, I'm just going to dive on into it. So it's a Friday morning. I'm coming into work and, you know, we work some late night hours usually. So sometimes in the morning I come in around checkout time for the hotel. I walk in, I open the front door right to our lobby and normally it would be a pretty low key scene.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
It would be a couple of people checking out, people gathering their stuff, getting ready to go. And immediately I can tell that is not the case for this morning. It is a zoo in the lobby. There is pretty much the entire hotel's worth of people standing around our tiny little lobby and they are losing their minds.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
I can immediately sense the tension in the room and I'm overhearing people going like, what did you lose? I lost my beach towels. They were pottery bond. They're martyrammed. We lost all our life jackets. So I am on high alert. I lock eyes with our front desk receptionist and she just gives me that nod, like go to the office. I'm going to meet you in there. She presents me
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
with a full yellow legal pad of missing items from hotel rooms. Side note, we are that idyllic little town where people leave all their stuff outside of the room at night. You leave your car doors unlocked. Everybody puts their beach towels, their beach gear outside of their room. Never been an issue.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Apparently today was not that day because almost every single hotel room had come down and reported something from outside of their room missing. Nothing like this has ever happened before. So I am in semi-panic mode. You know, we want to keep our guests happy and don't know what to do. So I'm reeling, trying to think what's our next step here.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
And in walks two of our managers and I have a manager, Heather, who does our front desk and a manager, Tina, who does our housekeeping. And they come in and they were in earlier than me. And we've got a story for you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
One of our housekeepers had walked by one of the other rooms and noticed as she looked through an open door, a boatload of beach stuff, like mountains of beach gear in a certain hotel room. So she's like, all right, we've got an issue. So, you know, it was like 1045 when I got in there. Checkout's 11. So I'm like, all right, let's go upstairs. I gather my girls. We head up the stairs.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Some of our rooms are oceanfront and they've got private balconies. So we go to the one next to this room who's already been checked out of. And I walk out on the balcony and I'm peeking over to the next room and I'm trying to figure out, oh, my God, is this it? And I just see mountains of things. All the beach towels stacked up, puddle jumpers, beach gear. I mean, everything.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
So it's now 1101 and this is no longer this lady's room. So I'm like, all right, let's go. So I leave my girls down the hallway. I go up. I knock on the door. Little side note about this lady. She's already been an issue in the hotel. Oh. We've got bars. We've got a nightclub. We've had a lot of complaints about her so far already.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Loud, aggressive, too drunk, causing scenes, chirping up people at the bar, being rude to the security guards. Like, you name it, she was doing it. She's been a handful. So I knock on the door, tell her who I am, kind of. Give her the old, hey, had a couple of complaints about some hotel rooms. Are you missing anything? She's like, oh, no. What are you talking about?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
And as she steps sort of to the side, I look over her shoulder and I'm like, how many towels did you bring with you on this vacation? This point, I'm like, I'm coming in the room. So I sort of just walk past her. And our rooms have a little bit of an entry hallway, and then they open up into the larger space. So I'm coming in, and I'm clocking all the stuff.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
The puddle jumper with the mermaids on it that's been reported missing. I have the list with me, and I'm like, this is it. We've got a kleptomaniac on our hand. As I walk through the threshold to the room, I look to my right, and I catch eyes with somebody I know in her bed.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
So we have a lot of different bands that play at our resort and some play weekly. And I look over and one of the trombone players from a band who plays at the resort a lot is tucked up to his chin in her bed.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Endless gear. I mean, a hotel's full. You could have a whole camp with the amount of gear for children that is in this room. So I look at him and we're just eyes on each other. We know each other and he's a deer in headlights. So I look over at her and I'm like, hey, do you guys have any kids registered with your reservation? Because I know it's just her in this room.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
She's moving quick. She's trying. But I know this guy. And he does not have children of this age. And I've never seen him with any family of anybody at the resort. So I look right at her and I go, that's not true. Come on. And he is still just stone cold. So I'm like, listen, guys. I'm under the assumption that you've stolen all this stuff from all of our hotel guests.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
I go, I'm going to take it back. I go out to the hallway. I hooty hoot my staff and I ask them to come down and they bring a whole crew of housekeepers. I mean, this is five, six ladies, arms full of stuff, just taking it all out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
She was absolutely drinking the night before. But the reason that's not the case is because everything was nicely folded. She had mounds of towels rolled up perfectly and was loading them into her suitcase. How's she getting this out of here without people noticing?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
I don't think it's about that. It's just about the stealing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Also, she is so far on left field. I've just accused her of robbing the entire hotel. She could care less. She's smiling. She's joking with me. She is not defensive at all. I'm just like, okay. So we get all this stuff out of the room and I look at the guy and I go, listen, I'm going to step out of the hallway. I'm going to give you two minutes to get decent. And after that, I'm coming in.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
You guys are getting out of the room. I walk out. I'm not out there 30 seconds. He comes barreling out the door down the hallway. Won't even look at me. He's gone. So I'm like, all right, I'll deal with this guy another day. I know who this guy is. So I go back in and I'm trying to just get the ball rolling for this lady. I'm like, you got to go.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
I'm not even there. I'm just like, you got to get out of this place. We have reclaimed everything. We're not going to make a big deal out of this, but you got to get out of here. So I'm grabbing her stuff for her. I'm literally, she brought a Keurig machine. I'm holding a Keurig that she stole from the last hotel. Probably. She's joking with me about the weather.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
She's saying how much she loves our resort. And I'm just like, we got to go, lady. I get her down the hallway, out to her car. As we're walking, she's detailing her plans to go to the next hotel down the street and check in. And I'm like, oh, God. So I get her in her car.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
I'm immediately calling the other hotel owner because, you know, we're a small town and being like, hey, this is coming your way. Absolutely do not let this lady check in. Before I can even get off the phone, I'm beeping through with another call from our housekeeping manager, and she's like, you need to get back up here right away.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
I'm like, did this lady sneak back in the other side? Like, what am I getting back into? So I hustle back up there, and I get in there, and there's a team of housekeepers in there. They had come in. It's already past checkout. They're trying to get in there and clean the room. We've got a full hotel to flip over, and they are just shocked. I'm like, what's going on?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
They pull back the sheets, and... poop stains all over the sheets. Oh, my. That same bed Mr. Trombone Player was just laying in. We don't have cameras in the room, so we'll never know what really happened.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Oh, baby. And I don't know if I was so freaked out by the situation of the theft originally that I didn't smell it, didn't notice it, like the balcony door was open. But I looked down and there's one of the little maps we give out of our island that gives like tourist spots and restaurant recommendations. Somebody moves that with a gloved hand, pile of poop juice. Oh, my God.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
We look in the bathroom. What? Poop, washcloths, poop, everything. But we deducted that they must have gotten absolutely hammered the night before, gone on a drunken rage of ransacking the hotel, and then probably celebrated with a big round of butt sex right before they left.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Poop everywhere. Wow. That's the whole story. I mean, it ended in a good note. We have a great team. They cleaned the room. We have professional carpet cleaner machines. Like, we took care of it. All the guests were happy just to get their stuff back. So it was a happy ending. Oh, my God.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
It was nuts. It's been six, seven years since his story, and we still call the trombone guy Roto-Rooter.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
He left the band for a few years and then he's been back recently. I don't give him shit. I just kind of give him a little side eye when I see him. Like, I know. He has the audacity to show his face again.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
We had to throw away all the sheets, all the towels, you know, everything. I mean, the room got stripped down to bare bones and started over, but it was nasty.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Also, the juice description is really something.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
I just want to thank you guys for this. This was so much fun. I'm obsessed with your podcast. I listen every week, all the shows.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Everybody was happy. Nobody caused a ruckus or anything. They were just happy to get their stuff and go to the beach that day.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Let's hope she turned it around. Yeah, hopefully she's doing better things with her life these days.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
Before I leave, my friend Heather, who was a part of the story and who turned me on to your podcast, is here. Do you care if she says hi real quick? Of course.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
She's our front desk manager. She was one of the ones that was a part of the beginning. Hi.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Did you make a fort? Well, my cousin and my best friend made a fort for me.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
It's like every blanket in my house, and I think there are brooms stuck to chairs. It's pretty impressive. People get really innovative.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
One of them's a contractor, so I have faith.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
There's integrity in that fort. Yeah, exactly.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
I'm outside of Portland, Oregon, in Beaverton, Oregon.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
I did. This was in 2012. I was 18, almost 19, in college, away from home for the first time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Down in Southern Oregon. I went to go visit a friend who went to a different school about three hours away. He was having a party, lived in this big house with a bunch of roommates. And I meet, sorry, there's a cat intruding on me. I meet this guy at the party. And we just instantly clicked. Super handsome. We talked the whole night. He said that he wasn't a student.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
He was actually an assistant professor at the school. But he was close to our age, just a little bit older. And yeah, had a great time with him. And when I leave and go back home, we keep texting and talking constantly. And a week or so goes by. I knew so much about him. He was really close with his family. His grandparents took him in when he was little because his mom died really tragically.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
He told me about his ex who was a liar and a cheater and just awful. Anyways, I decided to go back up and meet him for a weekend. I was really looking forward to it. I get there and we're walking up to his room and he just mentions something as we're walking in. He's like, oh yeah, I just vacuumed for you. And we get in there and the floor is disgusting.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
I don't know why he would lie about that, but it was obviously a lie. Don't really think anything else of it. I stay the night and I had to go home the next day. But as I'm getting ready to go, I get a Facebook message and it's from... Someone I don't know, but I recognize the name and it's his ex-girlfriend.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Yep. And I read it and he's staring at me and it says, I want you to be aware of D. I wish someone would have warned me. He ruined my life. And I just stop and look up at him. And I literally was like, oh my God, she is such a bitch.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
I know it's so ridiculous. I go back to my school. Life goes on. We keep talking. He says that he wants to come visit me next and his car is in the shop or something. So he gets on a Greyhound bus to come see me. I pick him up from the bus station and he gets off. He has like a giant suitcase, a duffel bag and a backpack.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
And he's just going to stay one night with me. Oh no. Whatever. Who cares? Maybe it's full of presents for me. I don't know. And we go back to my apartment. Have a great time. Things seem normal. if that was a Friday or a Saturday on Sunday, I'm like, hey, what time do we need to go back to the Greyhound station? And he just kind of like, well, I have a surprise for you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
I took some time off work and fall break is coming up soon, so I don't have to go back. I get to stay. Oh, God.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
would happen here and there but then he would do something that made me feel so special yeah love bombs so him telling me like i'm not leaving was the first time i remember really feeling off about him though but again whatever i'm 19 and don't yet know how to stand up for myself And he stays. He doesn't have a car there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
So he is driving me and my car to school every day while he just sits at my house. One day, I remember coming home and I had had $200 sitting on the counter. And I'm like, hey, where did that money go? Well, what money? Oh. The money that was right here. No one else has been here. What do you mean? Oh, yeah. Oh, that money. Well, I remember how you said that you wanted to stop spending so much. Oh.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Also, what a dumb excuse. I get pissed. I'm like, where is it? Give it back. Well, I put it in the TV speaker.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
My life. My thing. Say it on repeat. Right? It's been a long time. It's still a problem, apparently. You remember those big screen TVs, but they were boob tubes and they had the speakers on the bottom and they sat on those. And he's like, I pushed it through there. So if you really want it, I can get it out, but I'll have to take the whole TV apart. My cash stayed in the TV. I don't know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
I sort of believed it. I wasn't fully there, but I also kind of believed it, which is terrible.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
He said he pulled it up and like shoved it in there. Okay. Okay. A while later, I don't remember exactly how long, but probably a month or so. And weird things happen in between. He's still there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Yep. I am going to visit my mom who lives in Hawaii and I'm going to go for like a week or 10 days or something. So he drives me and of course he's going to stay at my apartment and take care of my dog.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
That he wanted to be with me and he was going to find his own place down here. Also, I was just at a point in my life where I had very low self-esteem. And the fact that this boy was showing interest in me and making me feel special. It was like, I got to hold on to it. Yeah. So he drives me to the airport and drops me off in my car, kiss him goodbye. He drives away.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
And little do I know that's going to be the last time I ever see him. So get on the six-ish hour flight, land, turn my phone back on. And I have 37 missed calls. Oh my God. And so I'm panicking. And there are a lot from my dad and there are some from one unknown number. And so I listened to the first voicemail and it's my dad.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
And he's just like, B, in the past few hours, over $5,000 has been racked up on my credit card that you have for emergencies. And you better hope it wasn't you because cops are involved. And I'm just like, what the fuck? And I rip open my wallet and there it is in the back, never touched. I have it. And I listened to another voicemail and the other number turns out to be a detective.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Find out my dad reported this. Detective goes to my apartment. finds my front door wide open. My dog was gone. I guess a neighbor had found my dog running around the parking lot and scooped him up. Detective said that he doesn't know what I had in there, but it looks like things might not be right. There's nothing with the TV.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
The TV is huge, but there's no, back then, like DVD player and cable box. All of that's gone. And my car, of course, is not there either. Oh my God. Just a nightmare.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
I didn't even first go to it's him.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
I was confused and angry that my dad could think I did this. And then feeling like I'm going to have to defend myself because I have the card. It's not like I lost it. I never even touched it. It's for emergencies. But then when my car's not there, my dad, of course, owns my car. Just an old Camry. But he reports it stolen. And Dee and I were texting a little bit.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
My dad was like, it's got to be him. And the detective said to just act normal if I can. Don't talk to him about this. And so we didn't talk on the phone. I remember saying I had bad service. And I'm there with my mom. She's helping me. So a few days go by. And the detective calls me again. And he says... We followed up with some of the stores that the purchases were made.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
One of them was the Walmart right next to my house. And there were physical purchases in the store while I'm on the plane. And he goes, we have the video of who did it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
And he emails it to me and I pull it up and it's loading and it's grainy and it's black and white. And I'm watching it like stops on the purchase. And it's not him. It's not D. Oh, it's not. Is it the girlfriend?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
It's a woman, but she's older. It wasn't the ex-girlfriend. But so now in my mind, I'm like, oh, thank God it's not D. He's still wonderful-ish. I'm not dating a terrible person.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Yeah. And so a few more days go on. I get another call from the detective and he says, we found your car. D was driving it. They pulled him over. I guess he instantly confessed to everything.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
He had somehow made a copy of the credit card. He had been making purchases before this with it, but they were spread out and not major. He said, I'm going to return all of it. I was just borrowing it. They arrest him, of course, take him to the little jail in my tiny town. And the detective then tells me, you need to know the phone call that he made while we had
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
past tense had him in custody i don't remember if he played the recording for me or if he told me but the woman answers and he says mom they caught us oh they caught us oh my god this is wild oh i did not see mom entering the chat me either mom who's supposed to be dead oh i forgot that part oh my god
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
They release him. His arraignment is going to be two days later. Of course he doesn't show up. It was over 20 charges and they issue a warrant for his arrest. And time goes by, and meanwhile, I am trying to find him. I'm doing my own investigating, and I get, I would say, close to obsessed with investigations and criminology. And... They never found him until two years ago, 2022. Oh, my God.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
He got pulled over. No. They arrested him, released him again. Oh, God.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
There were a lot of other things between then and when I got licensed about a year ago that kept pushing me in this direction. But I love it. And I'm working on murder cases.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Yeah. I don't know why I haven't really thought about that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
And now I'm the crazy new ex-girlfriend. I just learned about the 2022 arrest because I am a PI and I was able to pull all these documents. And I was just going over it last night.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
I just looked based on the case number from my case back in 2012. But there probably are more.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
That's so long. Yeah. And then the fact that they just let him go again. Have you learned nothing?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
I mean, what kind of chance do you have if your mom is bringing you in? Exactly. And I wonder how much of the other things, because obviously most of what he told me was a lie. But I especially think about like his family, because he would talk about he's so close with his family and his grandparents and his aunt. And tell me all of these stories. Like, is that still happening? No.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
While this is happening? I think they're not real. All just made up in his head? Who knows?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
And it really fucked with my head for a long time to already have that low self-worth and then to think that I found somebody. loves me for me and then it's like, oh no, I was just a target.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Yeah, it took until 2020 for me to, I think, fully snap out of what happened. There was a marriage, a divorce to be like, OK, no, I am worthy. I'm a badass. Yeah, you are.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Self-employed. I get to choose. That's a deal.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
You guys too. Thank you so much.
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
And the problem, well, once he finds out about certain things, he does have a verbal confrontation with her, but he rolls over and pees on himself, basically, and he won't stand up to her. And I think his spirit is just so beat that he won't stand up for himself at all.
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Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
And I'm just left here as the auntie who's trying to make sure that her nieces don't go through the same situation that I went through as a child.
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
Uh, therapy helped a lot removing myself from the toxic situation. My mom kicked me out when I was 17, um, right after she got out of prison because there was a fight between us on, you know, the vehicle situation after she got out. So I, you know, I had to grow up real fast. I raised my younger sister for the last four years of her life.
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Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
Because it was over 10 years after the fact. So after 10 years, their felony is erased or expunged from their record after seven, I believe.
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Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
So, and they were in the system. So they, they went through the process to do parenting classes and become foster parents and they got custody of the younger two.
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
Maybe some advice on how to proceed, because I know my mom's a lost cause for me, given our history. Your dad is too. We don't talk, we're not on speaking terms.
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
No, he doesn't. It never affects his actions. And I've convinced him two or three times to leave her. And he's always on board. And I have a big house with a basement that him and the girls can move in with me because I have a 10-year-old too. I mean, I have four kids. And we have plenty of space for them. And I'm like, Dad, just get away. Just get away.
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
Every time you do this, this just damages you. It damages your soul. It damages your spirit. It's affecting those girls. And you're teaching them and conditioning them that this is okay behavior. And it's not. And it took me years to figure that out myself.
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
So I don't know if I should just wash my dad off and be like, Daddy, I love you. You're my favorite person in the whole world, but I cannot...
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
He's my favorite human being in my entire life.
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
Yeah, so I guess that's what I was asking for is just maybe a secondary opinion on looking at this from the outside and telling me I'm doing everything I can the right way and there's no fixing them because they don't want to be fixed.
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
You know, I was married before when they were born to my ex-husband and having a new baby ourselves, he refused to let me take the twins in because they were drug addicted. They were in the NICU. And he refused to let me take them in. But what I did is I raised them in the form of daycare until they went to kindergarten.
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
Hi there, Dave. I was calling for some advice on how to handle a very financially abusive relationship regarding my mother and father.
The Ramsey Show
Small Changes Now Mean Big Wins Later
Okay. The basics are my parents are still together and I'm in my 30s. It wouldn't be a big deal for me if it was just my mom and dad. But the problem lies with my parents raising the next generation. They actually raised my sister's twin daughters who are now 10. And I'm terrified that it's going to ruin their upbringing like it kind of did mine.
The Ramsey Show
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Um, my mother is financially reckless. I mean, for years, I mean, she did prison time for stealing from her employer when I was 16. Um, once she got out, she took out false loans in my name, my father's name, um, false grants through the state. And she's just been financially reckless on credit cards in her name and my dad's name. And it's just left them in financial ruin.
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I heard you crying last night and throwing up and possibly slitting something.
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Okay, well, if you would shut the fuck up, we can tell you what happened, Lisa.
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