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I asked COMFORT from my husband… but he pointed out a blemish instead! - r/BestofRedditorUpdates | Reddit Stories | EP2305-3

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Improv, Comedy

4.3576 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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00:00 r/BestofRedditorUpdates - I [34/f] turned to my husband [34/m] for support after some bad news. He pointed out a blemish on my face in response. Is this a big enough straw to break the camel's back?
15:46 r/BestofRedditorUpdates - My boyfriend asked for a paternity test. As soon as the results show he's the father, I'm leaving him
29:53 r/relationship_advice - My (28F) boyfriend’s dog is disgusting and I hate him. How do I get my boyfriend (28M) to do something about it
40:42 r/relationship_advice - how do I tell [22F] my boyfriend [21M] I changed my mind on going abroad? :'(
53:40 r/BORUpdates - My wife contracted STDs and still tried to sleep with me.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Sam.

0:00.9

This is John.

0:01.6

We're the ancient okay story time podcast hosts.

0:05.0

And we have some ancient wisdom in the stories coming up.

0:07.6

If you want to hear the wisdom from two old heads that know more than they know what to do with,

0:12.3

you're going to have to wait for a quick message from our sponsors for the next two minutes or so.

0:16.9

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:19.5

Guaranteed human.

0:25.4

I asked comfort from my husband, but he pointed out a blemish instead. Who asked you? And trigger warning, there are insinuations of miscarriage. We have been

0:33.1

through a lot together. We met in college nearly 15 years ago. We're long distance for a little while

0:37.9

after graduation. Then we moved overseas together and back again. We now own a house to have some

0:43.1

pets are both gainfully employed and have a wonderful time together. We're great together when

0:48.4

times are good. We've been married for seven years. By the way, this comes from Renee Elaine. And if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R slash R-K Storytime, Subreddit. So, yeah, the thing about we're great together when times are good is, yeah, that's E words. That's not a great way to describe a relationship. The problem is that he is a really awful communicator while I am very open with how I'm feeling.

1:11.4

I wear my heart on my sleeve while he could keep what he's feeling inside indefinitely.

1:16.0

This has always been hard to reconcile, but our problems really started about two years ago when we started talking about the subject of having children.

1:22.8

I had serious doubts about my capacity for motherhood, but he wanted to be a father.

1:26.7

When I would talk to him about

1:28.0

my reservations or fears, he would usually just shut down and say, let's not have kids then. He would

1:33.1

never be on board for a deep discussion. I decided my fears weren't enough to be a deal breaker,

1:37.8

so we went ahead and started trying. Over time, we faced heartbreaking setbacks and trying to

1:42.9

build our family. The stress of first trying to conceive and then losing hope more than once was immense.

1:48.6

I turned to him countless times for support and countless times I came away feeling like

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