I’m dating my LATE husband’s best friend… I don’t know how to tell my in-laws! | Reddit Stories | EP2148
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
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00:00 r/relationships - I [28 F] widow need advice on going public with my relationship with my [31 M] boyfriend.
16:56 r/BORUpdates - My partner cutting off a lifelong family friend because of her inappropriate messages
33:08 r/relationships - I [29F] just got married, and I'm upset and confused about the way my husband [30M] acted the entire day
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Sam. |
| 0:01.0 | This is John. |
| 0:01.8 | The OG Storytime podcast hosts. Oh yeah, and we got some great stories coming up. But before that, we got a teeny two-minute break from the sponsors that keep this show propped up like a little house. Oh, yeah. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. I'm dating my late husband's best friend. I don't know how to tell my in-laws. That's messy. That's real messy |
| 0:23.3 | But my husband Steve I'm dating my late husband's best friend. I don't know how to tell my in-laws. That's messy. |
| 0:21.8 | That's real messy. |
| 0:23.7 | But my husband, Steve, passed away in an accident four years ago. |
| 0:27.6 | Our daughter, Anna, was eight months old, and I still have a close relationship with his family. |
| 0:32.3 | Wow. |
| 0:33.1 | I love them and want our daughter to know them and her father through them. |
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| 0:43.9 | So I had a difficult time after Steve passed away. |
| 0:47.0 | Having his family and his best friend Mark in my life were crucial to getting me through the first couple of years after he passed away. |
| 0:53.1 | Mark and I became very |
| 0:54.8 | close after Steve passed and eventually started dating. Our relationship grew bit by bit, |
| 1:01.2 | but it has gotten serious enough that it's no longer practical or comfortable for me to hide it |
| 1:05.7 | from Steve's family. Yeah, I mean, once it gets to that point, yeah. Hooie. Oh, man. Mark and my daughter are very close. He's become a father figure to her. Our relationship has reached a point where I would need to enlist and a silence to continue hiding it from Steve's family. Yeah, and you don't want to, you don't want to have kids. Yeah. You don't want to, like, make your kids a complicate. Yeah, make your kids lie. You don't want to, you don't want to, like, make your kids a complication. |
| 1:28.8 | Make your kids lie. You don't want to make your kids lie. That's not good. Plus, things have |
| 1:33.4 | gotten pretty serious. Mark has not ever wanted to hide our relationship, but went along at my |
| 1:38.4 | insistence. He's also fairly close to Steve's family. When I first asked him to keep our |
| 1:43.2 | relationship hidden from Steve's family, I did it for a number of reasons. |
| 1:46.7 | I wanted to make sure that my feelings for Mark were in no way about mourning Steve. |
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