You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.

Hey, how are you? So we're going to start off today with a little bit of a story.

Recently, I moved in my son, my oldest 20-year-old, to Gainesville to go to college, and it was the last like we were getting ready to leave, the U-Haul was packed,

we were kind of organized because we're never really 100% organized, and I had to run to the grocery store to pick up some cleaning items that he is never going to use.

It's just be honest, but I wanted to just get it off the list, the chlorox, the swifters, the whatever's.

So I get my car with my husband, we drive off to the grocery store, and I'm walking down the aisle by myself, we split up, we divide and conquer because we need to get out of there fast.

So I'm walking down the aisle, and in front of me is a older woman. She might have been 70, late 70s, and in front of her is a woman who looks to be my age, but then I quickly realize, I don't think there's, that's possible because she has like a three-year-old.

And then I remember that I always think that I'm younger than I am, like I'm like, oh, twinsies with like the 35-year-old, and I'm not 35, I'm almost 10 years older than that, but I feel, you guys, I feel like I'm 22.

Anyways, there's this woman, so, okay, so I'm walking down the aisle, the soup aisle to be specific. In front of me is the older lady pushing a cart, and then in front of her is this, is my twin sister, who has a three-year-old in her cart.

Now these two women are unrelated, right? They don't know each other. And the little girl is whining as little kids do. I mean, I wine, right? Like we all have days where we wine, we just try to cover up our whining so that nobody can hear us, so we do it in private because we feel ashamed, right?

Which is a point I am getting to, and of course I'm going to tie this into addiction, so bear with me. The little girl in the cart was whining about something. I don't know, I couldn't hear her, I don't hear those things because I've had so many kids wine for so long that it doesn't, it just doesn't even, I don't even notice it.

But what I did notice was the woman in front of me, the older lady, say to the little girl in the cart, oh, you are so much prettier when you don't complain. Pretty girls don't wine.

And you guys, I was like, thank God I'm wearing a mask because my mouth hit the floor, my eyes bucked out, and I was like, what? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? Are we talking about here?

And I look at the mom, and I'm waiting for her to be like, I'm sorry ma'am, but that's not the values that I want my daughter to be raised by.

Or maybe just to even smile and like quickly push her cart away, you know, like, dude to do, but she doesn't, you guys, she stops her cart.

She looks at the little girl, the mom looks at the little girl and says, what do you say? And I'm thinking, wait, what is she, what is she supposed to say here?

Like, what's going on, what? And the girl looked just as confused as I felt, like, what do you want me to say?

And the mom says, you should say, thank you, thank you. And I'm like, what? Heck, no, she shouldn't. Are you joking me?

So I want to know where this conversation is going. So I pretend that I'm interested in the chef boy our decan. All of a sudden, I'm like, we're going to take the meat, the non meat, the cheese, whatever options they have.

I'm just throwing these chef way or decants in my cart. I'm like, my son will eat them, right? Whatever, who cares? I got to see how this plays out.

And I got to see if this is really going down the way that I am seeing it go down.

So the little girl looks confused, looks at her mom, looks at the older lady. And she's like, thank you.

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