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Chapter 1: What is the theme of today's episode?
And then that kind of goes to a deeper level of like, hey, maybe the friendship is unbalanced. It's just pointing out a crack. And I think that's what is happening here.
Absolutely.
It's just pointing out how truly unbalanced the relationship is. And I get he's making less money. And I get, obviously, the canvas should be paid for. But he's going above and beyond now. She's already helping him with the money stuff.
She's already lending him money. That added context. She doesn't need to give him a percentage of her work to... Just because, like, out of guilt. I mean, hey, if you're married and you're going in on everything, sure, eventually that's the kind of situation that happens. Like, your money is their money and blah, blah, blah.
But she's actually doing more creative for him in the sense that she should get a cut than he is doing for her.
Well, and I'm... Kind of confused to where it's like I'm making more money, but I'm doing all this freelance stuff. I'm hustling. I have all these jobs. I'm able to make more money because I'm putting in all this extra crazy work. Yeah. Versus well, he's a full time artist. And so he doesn't make as much. But you're a full-time artist.
You're just doing multiple different variations and freelance. Yeah, absolutely. Why isn't he hustling in the same way as you? Why are you willing to take care of his shortcomings when you have the same hours in a day and he could also take on some freelance stuff? Yeah.
And she's promoting him on social media like maybe he could be looking into that as well. Like she's clearly she is thinking of extra ways to boost what she's doing and like this choice of business. She's coming up with ideas. She's finding ways to make it work. And he doesn't have that same. Yeah. He's just like, well, I could just take a cut of my girlfriends.
I'll just take a cut and I'll have my sister pay my credit card. Yeah. Which it sounds like that's maybe an arrangement he's used to getting. Like sort of just this is gating by on other people's. Yeah. Charity. Self-absorbed. Which, like, it's amazing to follow your dreams if you're an artist and you're trying to be an artist. Like, that's hard work. It's hard to get there. It's incredibly hard.
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Chapter 2: Are some people genuinely self-absorbed?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah. Business-wise, he's nothing more than a vendor. Her canvas dealer. He shouldn't get a penny more than whatever his cost is plus 10%. That seems fair. Fuck the 10%.
Why would there be a 10%? Why would there be 10%? Why would there be a 10%? Hell no. She was willing to pay for it up front. It's not even like he was investing in her company and like deserves some kind of investment stake. She was willing to pay for it. She wanted to. And then they agreed, I'll just pay you for it when it sells.
Like there is no, no, this is falling into his manipulation of being like, oh, we'll just approach it at a later date. That's what he wanted.
I know. Well, I also want to bring up that first comments point of like, this isn't a healthy relationship no matter how much you think you need to communicate. She does mention like in previous fights, he like shuts down and doesn't want to talk about it. Like, I don't want to fight. Like, I don't want to fight. First of all, fighting is healthy. Yeah.
Every relationship, no matter what it is, fighting is okay. But not name calling. As long as you fight constructively.
Yeah.
Fighting helps build relationships. It strengthens them. It deepens them. Fighting is not inherently bad.
you not communicating is bad so i'm like why is he gaslighting her about like just she's just trying to communicate and then he like cuts her off he's like sorry don't want to fight that's weird he's like we'll also approach this at a later date just so weird i'm gonna go to op's comments to make sure we're not missing anything because i haven't really gone into these okay
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of a controlling parent?
That's not good odds, my friends.
That's not good. Even 96 wouldn't be good, though, because if you're having sex, like, What? Like every once a week, then that would be like two pregnancies a year. I'm really bad at math, so don't check me on that. But I think it might be close to accurate. It might be close to right.
Well, there's 365 days in a year. Yeah.
And like 52 weeks. So if you're having sex like once a week and that would be like almost 100. But it's half of 100, so half of four, because it's 96%. So that would be out of 100 sex times you would get pregnant, four of the sex times. So then half of that, because there's 50-something weeks in a year, so like two. Two times a year you're getting pregnant. Is that good? I believe you.
I kind of nailed that.
I don't math well, so I'm going to believe you. I'll let the comments tell us how you did. Oh, my God.
Like with the genetics thing where I was like, wouldn't they share 100 percent genes if they're both their siblings? I just don't. They were like, well, no, girl.
cute but no oh yeah so don't pull out use birth control use condoms yeah like they protect against stds stis like yeah use use stuff i practice abstinence personally unfortunately i do or there's the big a or the back door but again back door still doesn't protect against diseases only pregnancy yeah yeah yeah yeah
Anyways. I'm not doing it as a birth control method.
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