October Full Length Bonus Episode!
Added 2023-10-30 22:03:16 +0000 UTCWhat started our as Justin and I recording a couple stories turned into our full length October bonus episode! We get into some juicy stories including a paternity test, keeping some big info from your fiancé, and more!
Thoughts on these stories?!
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My dream engagement ring is only 200 on Etsy. It’s solid 14k gold and is diamond (although that part isn’t important to me). I love the tiny/dainty/minimalist style and the gold band has the prettiest twist design detail. I would rather my parter put a few k to a honey moon. I know I’m prone to losing jewelry so I like that this is easy to replace with something similar. It is nice and small so it won’t get caught/scratch/or bother me wearing it day to day
Liv Nikhols
2024-10-24 07:09:19 +0000 UTCI’m swedish and we do also have that here. It’s called ”Alla helgons dag” here and falls on the saturday between October 31th and November 6th ✨☺️
Linnea
2023-12-27 23:52:38 +0000 UTCI'm just now getting around to watching this episode, but I think I have a unique perspective as I can relate to the girl in the story regarding ovarian cancer... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 22. I was single at the time, and I didn't know what treatment would look like for myself. My surgeon luckily was able to save my uterus, one fallopian tube, and one ovary. However, I didn't know if I would need to do chemo/radiation or if my remaining ovary and fallopian tube would function properly. I began talking to my (now boyfriend) after my surgery and before I was pronounced "in remission". I told him of my condition right away (within the first few hours of conversing) and the possibility of being unable to have my own biological kids. He thought about it, but ultimately decided that even with the uncertainties, I was worth it to him. For the record, we have been long distance since the beginning of our relationship. We have been together for 3 and a half years with our long distance coming to an end next fall!! All of this to say - you are worthy of love and acceptance regardless of your fertility and the right person will see you for all your glory. Mine did! So even though it's hard, be honest right away to weed out those who can't support you throughout wherever your journey of life will take you.
Catherine Saoud
2023-12-18 16:45:41 +0000 UTCAs someone who has always had sensitive ears, I can be loud but I can also be aware of when I am being too loud that I'm making myself and others uncomfortable. My partners entire family is very, very loud to the point of me having to wear Loops around them to stop my ears from ringing. I know what video your referencing where she discusses the positive effects on helping children and adults be aware of how loud they can be without realizing it. She wasn't in any way saying children shouldn't or can't be loud, she was discussing that tools have been made to help those without that ability to tell when they are raising their voices what they sound like to help them be more aware. Occupational therapy has NO place for shame so this teaching moment would NOT be inducing physical harm on the child, but more coaching and helping the child have more awareness on their own bodies. It is a choice everyone has the right to make to project their voices and Morgan wasn't saying you shouldn't do that. But let's make sure not to forget that there are also people negatively affected by loud talkers too, and those opinions are not any less valid than those who speak loudly and are not effected. Gaining the ability to know when to speak loudly and when to not is being courteous to those around you. (Not saying to give respect to those who don't deserve it and bullies ARE bullies. period, so I'm all for being yourself, just also bringing awareness to being courteous to those who DO respect you but also have preferences too and loud octaves can be very overwhelming to some)
bxckspxce
2023-11-30 05:05:50 +0000 UTCOur family is Mexican and we do an ofrenda. I only go back to my grandparents generation on my ofrenda. But unfortunately I’ve had a lot of loss so there are many people on ours that we remember every year.
Natasha Wilcox
2023-11-11 18:07:13 +0000 UTCI loved this podcast I am a Patreon then I heard Morgan talking shit about the volume at which people talk. Tone policing, threatening physical harm to kids who are loud. As someone who was bullied my whole life, told I was too loud, told to be quiet, then made a lot of money on stage as a performer. I will keep my loud ass money, and you can keep your ear tubies. Of course your friends are loud you live in LA they’re likely performers you want to be around quiet talkers move to a library.
Jess Gray
2023-11-09 17:23:33 +0000 UTCI feel like with the last story, some opinions are almost toying with women being required to lower their standards while going full out with the man. I don’t think anyone should be told someone should lower their expectations. You’re taking your preferences and saying that the third girl should be okay with those preferences as well.
Kennah Searles
2023-11-06 23:44:14 +0000 UTCThe first OP's husband and family need to go back to science class. The other thing too is the baby came out looking like her side of the family yet he still thought she cheated. I don't think the relationship could come back from that.
Allison Schleicher
2023-11-05 04:24:17 +0000 UTCCan we get a bonus episode with all of the engagement stories?
Denise Williams
2023-11-02 18:58:37 +0000 UTCOk I thought I was infertile all of my life- I told my current fiancé IMMEDIATELY like within the first 6 months. I’ve cried about it so many times with him and he was awesome about it. I cannot imagine hiding that.
Julia Darminio
2023-11-01 16:33:16 +0000 UTCI would also like to know if it’s appropriation or appreciation for a white person to research and celebrate Day of the Dead. I agree, it’s such a beautiful tradition with a concept i can get behind 🩵
Casey Dixon
2023-11-01 12:20:27 +0000 UTCI'm promise I will try to keep this short. I don't guarantee it will be but I'll try. When I 40F and (ex) husband 45M and I got together I was young. He was 19 and I was 15. (Before the judgy comments come along, NOTHING happened before I was almost 17.) And yes I said ex now but we were together for 20 years and married for 16. So in this day and age, we did good. Anyway...when the marriage talk came about the first time, I was 16 and obviously we weren't talking about going out and getting married that day. It was just in general talking about kids and stuff. I originally told him I had zero interest because of the household I grew up in. He agreed because our early life sucked. The 2nd time I was like 17 and change. (Months, not money) and when we talked about it, HE was dead set against it. He flat out said on Nov 16th, 2000 (2 years in) that he's he's never getting married. I was 17, just graduated high school. (I know the math doesn't seem to be mathin but months and weeks make the dates line up. Lol) Fast forward another few months to April 20th, 2021...he totally out of the blue joined the Navy. We did the long distance thing for a while. And when he was home on leave again, I proposed to him on Jan 16, 2002 (4yr anniversary) and he said no, I'M NEVER GETTING MARRIED. I'm not going anywhere but it's just an expensive piece of paper. I don't think we need it. Fast forward again a few more months and we're driving home from VA for the weekend he had leave. It was May 18th, 2002 and I kid you not, he looked (kind of, he was driving) at me and said "what are you doing next week, wanna get married?" We were married 10 days later on May 28, 2002 at the courthouse. Back to how he got lucky. He was talking about rings and stuff randomly as friends of his (since they were older than mine) were getting married. He would randomly ask if I liked this one or that one and I said no to every single one. (He assumed I was being a bitch because I said "first of all you just told me you're never getting married so why are you even bothering to ask me stupid questions?? And besides, when I do get married ("clearly not to you"), I want my parents rings. The rings my dad bought. My parents were divorced, not like they were using them. 😂 When he half assed the worst proposal in the history of proposals IMO. I was literally seconds away from saying no until he pulled out my mom's engagement ring. I was in total shock. Because that meant he had to have talked to one of my parents about it previously. Because I was one of those people that wanted the man to talk to my parents first. (He talked to my mom). And even though my dad was dead set against it. I said yes, but not until my dad approved. He begged us to wait until I finished college and he was out of the Navy. I'm a stubborn ass (just like my dad) and said I wasn't waiting. HE THEN OFFERED TO BUY US A HOUSE IF WE WAITED 4 MORE YEARS. I told B that unless my dad supported us I would NOT follow through. On May 17th I got a beautiful bouquet of lilies (my favorite) the only thing written on the card was "I love you." They were from my dad. He gave his blessing and we got married the next day. I was seriously about to accept that offer because I figured B would too. But surprisingly he also said no. He wanted to do it then. And no amount of money or bribery was going to change his mind. The proposal sucked (until he gave me the ring) and within 5 hours of us being married, he was leaving PA to go back to the Norfolk Naval Base. He was happy to use their rings (not because of money but because it meant something more to me. Unfortunately, it didn't fit and couldn't be sized up because of the style. When we went to look at bands we found ones we both liked (for $600). So we ordered them. Unbeknownst to me, when he went to pick them up he took my mom's original ring and had the diamond reset into the new wedding band and put a different stone in the original. Which made it that much better. It wasn't about the cost of the diamond. He wanted to make sure I had the stone I wanted in the bands we both loved. And he also had an emerald put into my mom's ring so I could still wear it with a stone in it. I don't understand why society thinks that an engagement ring should cost "at least 2 months of the proposers income." That's just ridiculous. If anything, the value of the wedding bands should be more expensive because it's TWO rings, one for each person. If I had someone propose to me, I wouldn't care how much it cost. That isn't the one that symbolizes the union. Sorry for the rambling...I take some meds for my heart at night and they can make me a bit loopy. LOL I'm so happy for both of you and wish you all the happiness in the world! Ps...what tier do we need to be to get invited to the wedding?? 😂
Charlene Fisher
2023-11-01 02:23:38 +0000 UTCMine is from costco and justins is from Faherty.. justins is nicer hands down
Two Hot Takes
2023-11-01 01:15:37 +0000 UTCI feel like an engagement ring should cost enough to make your butt clench when purchasing it, but not so much to where you need to finance it
LizzyM
2023-10-31 23:07:53 +0000 UTCI love Moissanite they even have pink moissanite which is so cute 😄
halle
2023-10-31 21:56:19 +0000 UTCwhere is your blanket from morgan?!
Cassie Sholar
2023-10-31 20:44:54 +0000 UTCHi Morgan. I dont know about Sweden or Finland, but Denmark do also have the night of Halloween to remember the dead. It is called "Alle helgens aften". So I don't see why not you could celebrate this and remember the dead and light a candle 😊 it is not something that is big in Denmark but it does exist 😉
Pernille Lauritzen
2023-10-31 20:16:05 +0000 UTCWhere is the audio only for the bonus episode?
Deanna
2023-10-31 19:57:32 +0000 UTCSame!!! I also have a moissanite and people have no idea until I point it out (for awareness!)
Jamie
2023-10-31 19:24:11 +0000 UTCEveryone that sees my ring thinks its a diamond! Like it is sparkly and nice and ugh i love
Two Hot Takes
2023-10-31 19:01:35 +0000 UTCTotalllllllllllly agree with you on the moissanites!! Diamonds are soooo overrated and moissanites are just as beautiful and so much more affordable!
Jamie
2023-10-31 18:39:52 +0000 UTCI keep bopping mine on things and it hurts my feelings! I can't even imagine if it was 10k plus
Two Hot Takes
2023-10-31 18:25:53 +0000 UTCI’m watching this as I’m working my silly little finance day job and just happened to be typing “6500.00” into a program when Morgan said “$6500” as the possible cost of a ring! Spooky times on Halloween!!
Bri Ryder
2023-10-31 18:11:28 +0000 UTCOh btw definitely shop for wedding bands around Black Friday deals 👌 my husband and I got awesome deals on ours (and, while I obviously love both of my rings, the less expensive wedding band has immensely more value to me than my engagement ring honestly) 🥰
Christy
2023-10-31 16:59:50 +0000 UTCI totally agree, I would be terrified to wear a ring that expensive outside my house 😅 😂 I recently found out my engagement ring was over $1000 and lowkey freaked (especially since I discovered this after we finally found my ring after I misplaced it for a couple days 😅) - currently getting it resized so that it’ll fit properly and I’ll never take it off and hopefully never accidentally misplace it again because of that too 😅 But yeah it still freaks me out thinking about potentially losing it or having it stolen. To me, my $99 wedding band (yay Black Friday sales!) has immensely more value than my expensive engagement ring anyways. It’s definitely the meaning behind it that matters more
Christy
2023-10-31 16:58:19 +0000 UTCAm I the only one that would be TERRIFIED to wear a $10k+ ring out of my house? 😂 😂
Christy
2023-10-31 16:52:35 +0000 UTCFor the first story my cousins first two children have blonde hair and blue eyes. Both parents don’t have blond hair or blue eyes but my uncle (cousins father) has blonde hair and blue eyes She just had her third baby and he has brown hair and brown eyes The husband in the first story is such an AH and so is his family for turning their back on her so quickly. The husband and his family don’t know genetics
Patricia santos
2023-10-31 16:44:30 +0000 UTCOkay yeah finished listening now, I think y’all actually hit all my points 😂 just got fired up after the initial direction it seemed to be going LOL
Christy
2023-10-31 16:18:13 +0000 UTCSame! I’m just going to play it this way I think?
Bri Ryder
2023-10-31 16:17:40 +0000 UTCHaven’t finished listening to y’all’s takes on the story yet but just real quick had something to say. Not sure story number but it’s “AITA for breaking off my sister’s engagement”. So far with the takes, I feel like y’all are off with this one. The sister basically LIED to this guy by omitting the truth that she can’t have kids. That’s a big deal for some people, both being able to have a biological child, but also the fact that they NEVER discussed it ?? Like how is that possible where they were preparing to get MARRIED and the fiancé had no idea that his soon to be wife couldn’t have kids. Yes OP could’ve worded it better, but I feel like he also rightly assumed that the couple had already discussed this situation and decided either to remain child-free or look at the alternatives. I just feel pretty confident that it was the sister knowingly lying to her fiancé that is what actually broke them up. Not the off-handed comment by OP. Was she just going to wait to trap him into marrying her until one day dropping the bomb shell “Oh BTW I can’t have kids, I’ve known about this since I was 16, and I’ve had x many years to tell you this but never did” My best friend has a syndrome where she likely won’t be able to have kids herself (or it would be a dangerous pregnancy if she did). She’s only been dating her serious bf for 4 months and they’ve already had in-depth conversations about it, making sure they’re having safe sex to prevent an accident, and discussing whether or not they want to look into alternatives for having a child in the future together. Anyways TLDR OP is NTA in my opinion, just accidentally said something he didn’t know he shouldn’t have and kinda sucks for that. The sister = major a-hole for hiding the truth from her fiancé for over a year and a half.
Christy
2023-10-31 16:17:05 +0000 UTCwhere is the audio for the full episode? i’m only seeing the video format
Hayley Larkin
2023-10-31 14:24:33 +0000 UTCFor the last story — I’d like to know what the girlfriend’s financial situation was when he had his accident and she paid for all that stuff. Was she wealthy and it was nothing to her? Or did those expenses stretch her? I doubt she paid for those things because she planned to use it as leverage later. She just did it because she loved him and it was important for him to get that care. So for him to tell her she’s not worth a more expensive ring….. that’s a low blow. I’m totally in agreement that moissanite is the better alternative — who the hell is spending so much on diamonds in this economy?? But it’s kinda weird for me that he’s being so strict about the ring price when it doesn’t sound like he needs to be? Especially since he claims he’s been saving quite a while.
Cienna Tilgner
2023-10-31 08:37:47 +0000 UTCIts a crazy amount of money on just a ring! I just don't get how people were on the yta side of it so aggressively
Two Hot Takes
2023-10-31 04:07:37 +0000 UTCSo close to grand central market! I love it down there
Two Hot Takes
2023-10-31 04:06:25 +0000 UTCJustin was at his jerryist this episode lol
Itscydddd
2023-10-31 02:01:40 +0000 UTCThe last story is hard yo even process cause I'll never experience that kind of money 😅. I feel like that is a lot of money for a single item. We could go on so many nice trips with that. Have an extravagant wedding and honeymoon. I wouldn't wear a ring that expensive it would sit in the house and I'd get something else to wear everyday.
Nia Violet
2023-10-31 00:39:11 +0000 UTCMy ex fiance got me a ring from Walmart that cost $35. It was really really pretty and I would have loved it IF he had put any thought behind it. It was more like he went to Walmart on his way home and said oh it has her favorite color. Let's go with it. Also the stone broke pretty easily and that kinda sucked. Would have been niced to get something stronger.
Kaitlyn Cesario
2023-10-31 00:22:30 +0000 UTCI just wanted to say that the “brain isn’t fully developed until 25” thing is a lot more nuanced than people often use it. It’s true that your brain reaches a peak in your 20s to 30s, where you would have developed many of the skills that were still forming throughout childhood and adolescence (like self-control, executive function, handling emotions, etc) but researchers still don’t really know what “maturity” looks like in terms of the brains development stages. The brain doesn’t stop developing in your 20s, it keeps developing and changing throughout your life and there’s not really a solid rule for when you’re considered fully mature or what that looks like in the brain. Sorry to get technical, just thought I’d share in case you were interested! 😊 Here’s some sources that go into more detail: https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621648/
Caitlin Foote
2023-10-30 23:37:06 +0000 UTCYooo I live in the LA Jewelry District :)
sokojenn
2023-10-30 22:39:47 +0000 UTCIt happens every Halloween with the spooky ep I’m definitely worse than Lauren! I never learn, I knew I shouldn’t have clicked play 😂 Oh fab I do love an overshare, hope you’re ok 🥰
Lyndsey Owens
2023-10-30 22:10:03 +0000 UTCOh no!! I feel bad for the lack of quality sleep I've caused lol This is a good one and I overshare a bit as usual so its realll good
Two Hot Takes
2023-10-30 22:08:05 +0000 UTCCan’t wait to listen to this! I couldn’t sleep last night because I was too scared from the spooky ep 😂😂
Lyndsey Owens
2023-10-30 22:04:39 +0000 UTC
