My Fiancee Became ENTITLED As Soon As The Ring Went On Her Finger r/Relationships

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[00:01:47] Now today's first story comes from the amithearslehere subreddit from glittering trifle421 and says amithearslehere if I break up with my fiancee after she showed a startling change of behavior after getting engaged.

[00:02:02] I, male 32, just recently proposed to my girlfriend of two years, Sharon, female 30, like a month and a half ago.

[00:02:10] And it feels like the second the ring got on her finger, her attitude and behavior took a total 180.

[00:02:16] The entire time we were dating, we seemed exceptionally compatible.

[00:02:20] And at least it seemed we shared common beliefs and morals.

[00:02:23] Seven weeks ago I proposed and she said yes and I felt like it was the happiest moment for the two of us.

[00:02:29] But not even a week later, it's like her attitude totally flipped.

[00:02:33] I thought I knew all her friends, but one day I came home and there were six women I've never seen before.

[00:02:39] And Sharon introduced me to them.

[00:02:41] I was curious as to why I was just now meeting them when I already met Sharon's two best friends, Michelle and Octavia, but not present, over a year and a half ago.

[00:02:52] Sharon said she wanted to make sure we were a sure thing before I met her inner circle.

[00:02:58] I found this strange, not to mention it was a weeknight and they were quickly draining my wine rack of wine.

[00:03:05] Sharon still had her own place, but she stayed with me so often she practically lives here.

[00:03:10] Still, I found it incredibly rude when they left, with four empty bottles of rosé in their wake.

[00:03:16] I tried to talk to Sharon about having uninvited guests on weeknights and she dismissed my grievance very flippantly.

[00:03:23] More that she brushed me off.

[00:03:25] The following week she went out with the girls several times.

[00:03:28] And when she brought the girls to my place, twice without notice, once with notice to appease me, her words, they all treated me like a butler, shaking their empty wine glasses at me for refills.

[00:03:41] After the fourth time I made it clear that I will get a locked wine rack.

[00:03:45] Sharon just called me no fun after that.

[00:03:48] It gets worse.

[00:03:50] Sharon decided me and the girls got off on the wrong foot and said we should have dinner together at a nice restaurant.

[00:03:56] Oh, don't do it.

[00:03:57] Well, I went.

[00:03:59] And it was not great.

[00:04:01] The six kept prodding me about my life, my house, my career, but deflected every question I asked.

[00:04:06] It got especially bad at night when they started talking about modern relationships and jealousy.

[00:04:11] And one of them brought up some key points about relationships that I thought Sharon and I were on the same page about.

[00:04:17] Specifically, what ifs regarding polyamory and being friends with exes.

[00:04:22] To my shock, Sharon said we shouldn't be too hasty on such decisions.

[00:04:27] Which was a total 180 to how she expressed herself on these things only a month prior.

[00:04:32] Where she was vehemently against keeping ex-intimate partners in friend circles and was staunchly monogamous.

[00:04:40] The worst part was when the bill arrived.

[00:04:42] Sharon announced it should be together and slid me the check.

[00:04:46] I told her she can't be serious.

[00:04:48] And we got into a bit of an argument.

[00:04:50] I ended it by putting my amount down in cash and walked out, leaving them to figure out the rest of the bill.

[00:04:56] The next days after that, Sharon kept calling me toxic and fragile.

[00:05:00] But every time I even pushed at it, she would give an apology and promise she was just stressed at work.

[00:05:06] It's nuts.

[00:05:07] We haven't even planned the wedding yet.

[00:05:09] The worst part was this Monday when at work, I got a Nest doorbell alert.

[00:05:14] Checked and saw Sharon and one of her six new friends arriving at my place.

[00:05:18] Going in and exiting with my golf clubs.

[00:05:20] The set was a gift from my father and it cost a pretty penny too.

[00:05:24] So Sharon lending it out without my permission got me pissed.

[00:05:27] I immediately called Sharon and told her, her and her friend to return the clubs.

[00:05:32] Sharon tried to gaslight me with, but you promised to lend the clubs to her boyfriend, remember?

[00:05:36] I told her the clubs cost would move it into a serious crime.

[00:05:40] And her and her friend had an hour to return them or the cops would be called.

[00:05:44] Sharon kept insisting she got my permission and I told her to cut the crap.

[00:05:49] Well, not 45 minutes later, I got another notification of Sharon and her friend coming back with my clubs and going inside.

[00:05:55] Leaving them.

[00:05:56] Sharon's friend flipping off the Nest doorbell on the way out.

[00:05:59] I got home and saw Sharon's friend literally just threw the clubs back on the living room floor.

[00:06:05] Sharon tried to talk to me about my toxicity again.

[00:06:08] And I told her again to cut the crap.

[00:06:10] I said, if I knew this was how she was, I would have never proposed.

[00:06:14] That seemed to freak her out and she again insisted that she was stressed from work.

[00:06:19] But I wasn't buying it anymore.

[00:06:21] I told her to return the ring and her key.

[00:06:23] And we would talk about our relationship this weekend.

[00:06:26] She cried and begged me not to cancel the engagement and insisted that it was just stress.

[00:06:31] I told her again we would talk about it this weekend.

[00:06:34] She finally relented.

[00:06:35] I had my house re-keyed anyways after she left, just to be safe.

[00:06:40] Sharon has been texting me constant messages of love and apologies for getting swept up and

[00:06:44] insisted she was only wanting to show me off to her close friends.

[00:06:48] I don't know.

[00:06:49] I'm just not buying it.

[00:06:51] The same close friends have been sending me texts daily, calling me toxic and fragile again,

[00:06:56] saying they knew I wasn't man enough for Sharon or secure enough to share her with friends.

[00:07:01] A few of my friends that knew Sharon the entire two years we were dating were surprised and

[00:07:06] can't believe she turned hide this quick.

[00:07:08] And that there must be something missing.

[00:07:10] Or that I am leaving something out.

[00:07:12] They say I must have said something to trigger her friends to act like this.

[00:07:15] And I had to have been the arsehole somewhere along the process.

[00:07:19] I don't know.

[00:07:20] It's a lot to take from all directions right now.

[00:07:23] It's one of those situations where she thought she was comfortable so let that mask slip because

[00:07:28] she thought she had basically hooked you.

[00:07:30] And she didn't bring her friends around because she knows exactly what they're like.

[00:07:34] That they're also awful people.

[00:07:37] And now you've got her and her friends trying to gaslight you, calling you toxic and fragile,

[00:07:42] that you wasn't man enough, all this kind of bullshit.

[00:07:45] And as always, I know it's super easy for me to say, but I wouldn't even have a discussion

[00:07:50] with her anymore.

[00:07:51] There is nothing there.

[00:07:52] You don't want to give this person another chance.

[00:07:54] If you do, there's a potential that they, you know, tone down their behavior and just

[00:07:59] play the long game until you're married.

[00:08:01] And that brings up a whole new set of issues.

[00:08:05] But Melodic Sale says I bet he hasn't seen Octavia and Michelle anymore.

[00:08:09] He did their purpose and now the ex is too stressed out from work to meet both of her friends.

[00:08:15] Hopi says I did message Michelle on Facebook last night.

[00:08:18] I asked her about The Six and she told me that her, Octavia and Sharon are cousins and

[00:08:22] grew up together.

[00:08:23] Michelle said that she didn't really care for The Six but didn't say much else.

[00:08:29] Apprehensive Fox says,

[00:08:30] Not the arsehole, your friends are idiots and triggered.

[00:08:33] Nah, nobody normal comes to someone's house uninvited and drinks a ton of the person's

[00:08:38] wine without permission.

[00:08:39] That alone is a big no-no.

[00:08:41] But everything else on top of that?

[00:08:43] Nope.

[00:08:44] Sharon needed to be kicked out a long time ago.

[00:08:47] She and her friends were nothing but disrespectful towards you and your things and just saw you

[00:08:51] as someone to use.

[00:08:53] Period.

[00:08:53] And her behavior shows she did not care as long as she could use you.

[00:08:57] They have access to your things.

[00:08:59] The only reason she is giving fake apologies is because you leaving means she can't use

[00:09:03] you anymore.

[00:09:04] And the same goes for her leech arsehole friends.

[00:09:07] Instead of apologizing and want to make it right by reimbursing you.

[00:09:11] The things they used, they're insulting you and she isn't even telling them to stop.

[00:09:15] So OP, you made the correct choice by not only kicking her out but not going through with

[00:09:20] marrying her.

[00:09:21] Her and her friends are nothing but users who wasn't going to change at all and continue

[00:09:26] to do you.

[00:09:28] OP says again, they knew Sharon for two years and throughout the entire time, Sharon didn't

[00:09:32] act at all like this.

[00:09:34] I'll give them some leeway for now.

[00:09:36] OP comes in to update their post and said,

[00:09:39] Sharon's been gone now for an hour.

[00:09:41] Breakup is official.

[00:09:42] I have the ring back.

[00:09:44] I did talk to Michelle via Facebook and Michelle said her and Octavia were cousins of Sharon.

[00:09:49] And Michelle also said she knew the six and didn't care for them.

[00:09:53] Michelle didn't say much more than that.

[00:09:55] I did meet Sharon's parents and they both seemed to like me.

[00:09:58] And the topic of Michelle and Octavia never came up around them.

[00:10:01] None of our finances were intermingled yet, but it was planned for later this month,

[00:10:06] which won't happen.

[00:10:07] I invited three of our mutual friends, Casey, John and Mike to be here when Sharon got here.

[00:10:14] Sharon showed up and was surprised to see we had company.

[00:10:16] I said they were here for both of our sakes.

[00:10:19] Sharon wanted to phone three of the six to come over to even things out.

[00:10:23] And I refused.

[00:10:24] And I used the club theft as a reason.

[00:10:27] Sharon sat on the couch very dramatically and then asked if I really wanted to make this public.

[00:10:31] I outright asked why she changed so much after the engagement and why she hid the existence of the six.

[00:10:38] Sharon then went in again about how she insulates her inner circle into a partner is vetted.

[00:10:44] I called BS.

[00:10:46] I met her parents.

[00:10:47] What's more inner circle than your parents?

[00:10:50] Sharon tried to deflect, but I wouldn't have it.

[00:10:52] I pointed out how for the last month, her friends dropping by cost me nearly $500 in wine,

[00:10:58] which she, by the way, made no attempt to reimburse.

[00:11:01] I also pointed out her trying to make me pay an eight person dinner bill without asking me first.

[00:11:06] She again said she wanted to show how great a guy I was and how she clearly misjudged me and was disappointed in my attitude.

[00:11:15] I then asked about the clubs.

[00:11:17] She tried gaslighting with, you totally said it was okay, remember?

[00:11:20] And I kept saying bullshit.

[00:11:23] Mike piped in.

[00:11:24] He knew the clubs were a gift from my dad and I was highly protective of them.

[00:11:28] He too called BS.

[00:11:29] And that's when Sharon turned her attention to Mike and John saying, isn't he getting forgetful lately?

[00:11:34] Don't you remember when he forgot that one date?

[00:11:37] And neither was buying it.

[00:11:39] I finally said that, forget postponing the wedding or cancelling the engagement.

[00:11:43] The entire relationship is going to end if she isn't going to be straight with me.

[00:11:46] Sharon made a very long, exaggerated sigh.

[00:11:49] She took the ring off and dropped it on the coffee table.

[00:11:52] She got up to leave and said, you're never going to find someone as good as me.

[00:11:57] Thank goodness, right?

[00:11:58] And to send her stuff to her apartment.

[00:12:00] She left and Casey, John and Mike were totally stunned.

[00:12:05] All I could say was, believe me now, we ordered pizza and are waiting for it to arrive now.

[00:12:11] I'm still utterly shocked and confused by Sharon's attitude.

[00:12:15] I'm sure the heartbreak will come next.

[00:12:17] But right now, I'm just kind of numb.

[00:12:21] When it kept mentioning the six, it sounds really cultish, doesn't it?

[00:12:25] Like they all come in and they're just trying to like take everything from OP.

[00:12:29] It gives me shivers.

[00:12:30] I just picture that scenario where they're all sat around this coffee table, the group of them,

[00:12:36] and they're talking about what went wrong and discussing things.

[00:12:40] And then suddenly she gets all this sassy attitude, stands up, drops the ring on the table and says,

[00:12:45] you're never going to find someone like me.

[00:12:48] On a burst out laughing.

[00:12:50] A gaslighting manipulative thief.

[00:12:54] Fuck for that.

[00:12:55] But now, I'm going to turn this one to you guys.

[00:12:58] What do you guys make of this one?

[00:13:01] Do you think that's the end of Sharon?

[00:13:02] Or do you think she'll be back?

[00:13:04] Let us know your thoughts down in the comments below.

[00:13:07] And let's move on to another story.

[00:13:12] Hello, we're Julia Becker and Chris Sommer from Podcast Drinnis.

[00:13:15] Hunde are not a bit of a drink.

[00:13:17] They want to go out and play with others.

[00:13:19] That's all.

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[00:13:40] Alle Infos dazu findet ihr auf petolo.de slash drinnis.

[00:13:48] Jetzt ist Herbst und bald stehen schon wieder die Feiertage vor der Tür.

[00:13:52] Das kann auch für Hunde ganz schön stressig sein.

[00:13:55] Viele Vierbeine reagieren unter anderem mit einer gestörten Verdauung und das ist wiederum

[00:14:00] Stress für ihre Besitzer.

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[00:14:08] Streu einfach einen Beutel über das tägliche Futter.

[00:14:10] Die außergewöhnliche Zusammensetzung mit lebenden guten Darmbakterien stellt das Gleichgewicht

[00:14:15] im Darm wieder her.

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[00:14:36] Now, our next story comes from streetblackberry174 and says, am I the arsehole for telling my

[00:14:41] co-worker that I didn't enjoy my pregnancy?

[00:14:44] A new co-worker started three months ago.

[00:14:47] Let's call her Linda.

[00:14:49] She seems pretty nice, which is why I'm really not sure about all this.

[00:14:53] At my work, we have a tradition where once a new employee successfully completes their

[00:14:58] probation, we go out for a team lunch.

[00:15:00] Nothing fancy, but something nice to celebrate.

[00:15:04] Linda passed the probation, so we went out for lunch.

[00:15:07] As we're eating, we all get to talking and the topic of the magic of pregnancy and childbirth

[00:15:12] comes up.

[00:15:13] Everyone was sharing sweet moments from their pregnancy.

[00:15:16] I enthusiastically joined in, but didn't share any of my own.

[00:15:20] I think Linda noticed because she specifically turned to me and said,

[00:15:24] You had twins, didn't you?

[00:15:26] That must have been a wonderful experience.

[00:15:28] I smiled and said something along the lines of, how I wished my pregnancy and birth had been

[00:15:33] as positive as an experience as theirs had been.

[00:15:36] To be clear, it was not said sarcastically at all.

[00:15:39] The truth is, I hated every moment of being pregnant.

[00:15:42] I could write a long list of all the magical symptoms I had, but I'll just give you the

[00:15:47] highlights.

[00:15:48] Horrific, vivid nightmares.

[00:15:52] Hyperemesis gravidarum.

[00:15:53] Severe morning sickness.

[00:15:55] Debilitating migraines.

[00:15:56] A metallic taste in my mouth.

[00:15:59] And then the birth.

[00:16:00] Honestly, I feel like anything that could go wrong, but not be life-threatening, did go wrong.

[00:16:05] Worst of all, due to some of the complications, I ended up being kept in hospital for a while.

[00:16:10] So I missed the first few days with my girls.

[00:16:13] It's safe to say, I hated every moment of being pregnant and every moment of labor.

[00:16:18] It was not a magical experience by any stretch of the imagination.

[00:16:22] I didn't say any of this to Linda.

[00:16:24] I just responded as I mentioned.

[00:16:26] After my reply, Linda started getting short with me.

[00:16:29] Later, I asked her privately what was going on.

[00:16:32] She snapped and told me what I said was insensitive and undermined their experiences

[00:16:37] and told me I was an asshole for it.

[00:16:39] Since then, she's sort of cooled off and is less hostile.

[00:16:43] Or at least less openly hostile.

[00:16:44] But last week, she invited all the girls in the team to a ladies' night.

[00:16:49] Everyone but me.

[00:16:51] Now, I don't mind so much since ladies' nights are not really my thing.

[00:16:55] But the fact that she pointedly excluded me has made things awkward.

[00:16:58] I feel like I need to do something.

[00:17:01] I'm not really in the mood for drama.

[00:17:03] I have enough of that in my life right now.

[00:17:05] I don't need more.

[00:17:06] So I haven't confronted her about it yet.

[00:17:08] And as I said, she is otherwise a really nice person.

[00:17:11] Normally pretty friendly and easygoing.

[00:17:14] So I'm left wondering if I really was an asshole.

[00:17:17] Was what I said insensitive?

[00:17:19] Did it undermine their experiences?

[00:17:21] Before I ask her about it, I could use some perspective because I honestly just don't know.

[00:17:26] Am I the asshole?

[00:17:30] Absolutely not the asshole in this situation at all.

[00:17:33] You were literally sharing your experience, what you went through.

[00:17:37] You literally just spoke about your experience.

[00:17:40] When she asked you the question.

[00:17:42] Yes, many people do really enjoy pregnancy and have a wonderful as you can time with it.

[00:17:48] Whereas other people have absolutely horrid times with pregnancy.

[00:17:53] Like Opie said, there was horrible nightmares, severe morning sickness, migraines.

[00:17:58] It just sounds like an absolutely awful time.

[00:18:01] And that was Opie's experience.

[00:18:04] And of course, I don't know Linda.

[00:18:06] But she just sounds like one of those people you don't really want to mix with anyway.

[00:18:11] And you can confront her if you want.

[00:18:13] You can deal with this.

[00:18:14] But it just sounds like someone who will create more drama for you down the road.

[00:18:19] For me, and I'm only saying this from me personally.

[00:18:21] I wouldn't just want nothing to do with that.

[00:18:23] You know, just be polite at work and just move on from it.

[00:18:26] Don't worry about what she's doing as long as she doesn't call you any more aggro.

[00:18:29] It just sounds like someone who's not worth the stress in your head.

[00:18:33] Just move her to one side.

[00:18:34] But then again, if it causes you anxiety and you need to get it off your chest, then I don't know.

[00:18:39] I imagine people will deal with this one in different ways.

[00:18:42] So I'm going to be interested in your thoughts on this one as well.

[00:18:45] Paul says, good Lord, so not the asshole.

[00:18:49] I would have wondered if she was pregnant with the way she responded.

[00:18:52] I also had a very miserable pregnancy and a serious life-threatening event.

[00:18:56] Heart failure.

[00:18:57] So I can't relate to these stories.

[00:18:59] You weren't being sarcastic.

[00:19:01] You weren't telling these women that they suck for having positive experiences.

[00:19:04] You didn't call them liars.

[00:19:06] You just shared your experience.

[00:19:08] She has shown that she's very petty by excluding you from a ladies' night event.

[00:19:12] All of this would make me very cautious of working on any projects with her.

[00:19:17] Good luck.

[00:19:18] Opie says it might be.

[00:19:20] The conversation came about because she was talking about how much she wished she was pregnant again.

[00:19:25] She has a two-year-old and how she misses being pregnant.

[00:19:28] Could be she is in fact pregnant.

[00:19:30] But if she is, she clearly doesn't know it.

[00:19:33] Kath Joy says, just as in context, how did the conversation get that way?

[00:19:36] Is it possible Linda has had issues getting pregnant, that you know of, because otherwise I have no idea why this might have upset her, so maybe some context if possible would help?

[00:19:45] Commenter replies to that and says, this is the problem with chit-chat in a work setting.

[00:19:49] I've fallen into so many traps where people bring up topics that we don't agree on or have the same experiences.

[00:19:55] And you never know what offends people.

[00:19:58] Talking about the weather, ethnic food or mass transit are very contentious where I work.

[00:20:02] What bothers me about Opie's experience is that she didn't really say anything negative.

[00:20:07] Linda was reaching to find a fence in her comments.

[00:20:10] I'm really curious about what goes on at that workplace of that commenter that they said, you know, discussing the weather is really contentious.

[00:20:18] I mean, you can't really do much about it, I guess, unless we're talking about climate change, of course.

[00:20:22] I mean, that could cause some arguments, I assume.

[00:20:26] And one more comment who says, not the arsehole.

[00:20:28] I hated every minute of it too.

[00:20:30] Sure, I was excited to be having a baby, but the actual experience of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding were incredibly unpleasant.

[00:20:37] I'm very happy for people who enjoyed it.

[00:20:39] Maybe even slightly jealous of them.

[00:20:40] But everyone experiences things differently and that's okay.

[00:20:44] It's not undermining anyone else's experience.

[00:20:46] If it was, then you could argue that they're gushing about it as undermining the struggle and unpleasant symptoms that you had.

[00:20:53] Perhaps she is struggling with fertility or something that's made her sensitive to the subject.

[00:20:57] I would just try to avoid the topic with her and try to be as friendly, as you don't know why she reacted that way.

[00:21:02] You have to work with her so it's better to get along.

[00:21:06] Opie says yes.

[00:21:07] I think somebody else raised that she might have fertility issues.

[00:21:10] I feel like if that's the case, I can't win because she brought up the topic and she asked me.

[00:21:15] In future, I think I'll just avoid her or avoid talking about those topics if she brings them up with me.

[00:21:21] So then, Opie came in with her update and said,

[00:21:24] Since posting, I've kept my distance from Linda as recommended by commenters.

[00:21:29] Which has been tough because our work often overlaps and, you know, we're in the same team.

[00:21:34] Since then, I noticed she has snapped at other co-workers as well.

[00:21:38] I figured that commenters were right.

[00:21:39] That now her probation was over.

[00:21:41] The nice girl act was over.

[00:21:44] Things were awkward.

[00:21:46] Then I heard her crying in the bathroom.

[00:21:48] I didn't want to get involved in case it caused another fight.

[00:21:51] But I also couldn't just leave her there where it might be a problem.

[00:21:54] So I told Tina, our team lead.

[00:21:57] We then went to check on Linda.

[00:21:59] A while later, Tina came back and said she had sent Linda home as she wasn't feeling well.

[00:22:04] A few days later, Linda came back to work.

[00:22:07] She asked to speak to me.

[00:22:08] Alone.

[00:22:09] It probably wasn't the best idea, but I agreed to and I'm glad I did.

[00:22:13] Linda apologized for how she snapped at me.

[00:22:15] I asked why she excluded me from ladies night.

[00:22:18] She said she didn't invite me to ladies night because I had told her I didn't like them.

[00:22:23] To be fair, I have a vague memory of this coming up in conversation a while ago.

[00:22:27] But she had something else to tell me.

[00:22:29] It turns out, some of you were right.

[00:22:31] Linda is pregnant.

[00:22:33] When she got home, her boyfriend asked her to take a pregnancy test because the last time she was pregnant,

[00:22:37] she got super broody and her mood was all over the place.

[00:22:41] Being happy one minute, bursting into tears the next, then being super irritable.

[00:22:46] As bad as she was being at work, she was even worse at home.

[00:22:49] She took a test and yep, she's pregnant.

[00:22:53] She told me she wanted me to be the first person in the office to know about it.

[00:22:56] I guess it was her way of apologizing.

[00:22:58] I accepted her apology and chose to believe her about the ladies night, albeit cautiously.

[00:23:03] I'm still keeping a slight guard up because who knows, for all I know, this is some game she's playing.

[00:23:09] But for now, I'm choosing to take her at her word.

[00:23:12] Obviously, her being pregnant doesn't excuse how she spoke to me, but it does explain it.

[00:23:17] And if that is genuinely is the issue, then hopefully that means the issue is solved.

[00:23:23] And I think I agree with OP's way of dealing with it in this situation.

[00:23:27] You know, like she said, it explains what happened, doesn't excuse it, of course.

[00:23:32] And to just be cautiously okay with it.

[00:23:35] And hopefully there's no further drama.

[00:23:37] You know, you don't have to be best friends with this person, but you do have to work with them.

[00:23:42] So keeping that balance is the right way to go about it, in my opinion.

[00:23:46] You don't have to go, don't have to go to have lunches and stuff.

[00:23:48] You could just be cautious with her, like OP said.

[00:23:51] And there was many people in the comments below this one sharing their experiences of pregnancy.

[00:23:56] Some people saying how they sailed through it.

[00:23:59] Others saying, you know, they absolutely hated it.

[00:24:02] It was a horrid time.

[00:24:03] Sharing the various symptoms of like swollen feet and, you know, the changes in your body,

[00:24:09] the headaches, the morning sickness, iron deficiency.

[00:24:13] But now I'm going to turn this one to you guys.

[00:24:17] What do you guys make of this situation?

[00:24:21] Let us know your thoughts down in the comments below.

[00:24:24] Now just a huge thank you from the bottom of my heart for getting involved in today's stories.

[00:24:28] Your love, your support, your time always means the absolute world to me.

[00:24:32] So thank you so, so much for being involved.

[00:24:34] Truly, it's absolutely amazing.

[00:24:36] And hopefully I'll see you in the next one.

[00:24:39] Take care and much love.

[00:25:09] Bye.

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