Welcome back to the peripheral.

This episode is long overdue.

All the madness over the holidays has really delayed everything.

Sometimes I feel the peripheral is cursed with every single time I sit down to work on it or publish something happens.

For instance, as I'm recording this, the internet is down at my house and power is going on

and off sporadically. So I'm trying to get this intro recorded so then I can turn around and drive to a

Starbucks so I can upload and publish this episode. Quick heads up. I was on another podcast called

About Face. It's people that have turned their life around or have gone through a major change.

So check that out.

It's About Face podcast.

We've covered domestic abuse a couple times from different aspects.

This episode is about domestic abuse, but from another angle, it's when a man is the victim.

Now, please listen to the full episode because at the end, I do have an update from my guest.

It's something that I would like to do with more episodes is give updates or see how people are doing.

This one happened to just take me so long that I was able to add the update directly to the episode.

Well, I've talked enough. Let's get started.

My name is Sam. Back in 2015, I had a best friend for, we've been friends for eight years,

and he meets this girl on Tinder. Her name is Shelly. She's kind of like a louvre in the way

that he's dating her for a little bit, a couple months now,

and we have a pretty strong circle of friends, and he never brought her around or anything

like that, and so everyone was like, who is this girl? And so I kind of brought this mystery.

She was from L.A. She was back home for the winter break because she was going to college,

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