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Other People’s Lives

The Anonymous Hotline - Episode 8

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

If you’d like to share your story, call The Anonymous Hotline at 530-362-8918 and leave a voicemail. Resources and hotlines: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800) 273-8255 Crisis Text Line Text 741741 National Sexual Assault Hotline (800) 656-4673 National Domestic Violence Hotline (800) 799-7233 Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration National Helpline (800) 622-4357   Be sure to check out our parent podcast Other People's Lives, where hosts Greg Dybec and Joe Santagato have in-depth conversations with anonymous guests. You never know what topics will be discussed and what stories will be shared.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We set up an anonymous hotline so that strangers could share their secrets and confessions.

0:06.0

These are some of the calls we received.

0:09.0

I am a Social Security Parallegal and I deal with people trying to get onto disability.

0:18.0

And I don't feel bad for any of them.

0:23.0

I guess that kind of sucks with the line of work that I am in but I really don't feel bad for anybody.

0:30.0

All right.

0:31.0

Hi guys.

0:34.0

Well, where do I begin?

0:39.0

Is living in like South Texas for a while, like maybe two to three years, something like that?

0:50.0

And I witnessed somebody get robbed and didn't do anything about it.

1:01.0

And like I wake up cold sweats every now and then thinking about how I feel like maybe that person wouldn't have been like unmasculated or just like just taking advantage of it if I would have stepped up and said something.

1:17.0

And it kind of leaves me in like with deep emotional pain because not only do I feel weak in that moment, I feel like I kind of in a weird way kind of ruined that person's psyche.

1:30.0

It's bad as the.

1:33.0

I am in a sexless marriage.

1:35.0

On the outside, we look like a great couple, but I'm really struggling to want to stay married. I would love to give the divorce, but it's expensive to be alone and we have kids and I don't want to blow their lives up.

1:50.0

But it's frustrating.

1:55.0

I'm 30 years old and I still eat my food.

2:01.0

My ex-hands, he doesn't know that I know that he cheated on me with the girl he's currently with and he tried to lie about the date and everything to me, but he also doesn't know that every single tiny messages me ice cream, shot the conversations and sent it to his new girlfriend, which is the girl he cheated on me with.

2:20.0

And I also said it to his mother, his dad, his brothers and his best friends. They all know he's messaging me behind her back and he's really cool with about it.

2:32.0

That everything I'm praying the God that he gets caught.

2:37.0

I was in a relationship for seven or eight years with a man. And in the beginning, we fell deeply in love with each other.

2:53.0

I got pregnant with our first child and he became obese and impressive and I stayed.

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