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On the International OK Storytime podcast station.

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My family still loves my ex.

It's making me crazy.

You have to choose.

For background, my ex, now male 25, and I, female of 23, started dating at the end of my junior

year in 2018 up until the end of 2022, so for about 4.5 years. The first year,

we were long distance because we obviously still lived with our parents, but he lived close to

Chicago and I was about three and a half hours away closer to the Mississippi River. By the way,

this comes from some internet chick 05. And if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R slash okay

story time subreddit. So in 2019, after I i graduated he had bought a house 20 minutes away from my hometown so we moved in together his parents and i got along pretty well they were always kind to me and even helped us renovate our kitchen about a year into living together i couldn't sleep so i wrote a cute love note in his notes app that he could find later on as i did did every now and then. After I was done, I noticed that he had the Reddit app and decided to scroll through that because I always saw random Reddit posts that I thought were funny and wanted to see how easy it was to use. He had gotten a notification about a message on the app, so I checked it for him. Yes, we had each other's passwords and we trusted each other, so I didn't think anything of it. That's when I discovered that he had been talking to

another woman and flirting with them. I only got to two different message threads. There were more,

but I couldn't look at them before I broke down crying and woke him up to confront him. He started crying

and told me that it never happened again.

I believed him and stayed.

The next year went by fine until we started to renovate the two upstairs bedrooms and the staircase.

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