Mums Gone Wild
Mums Gone Wild: Two Generations, Zero Filters
Join a mother-daughter duo as they dive into Reddit’s wildest posts, tackle your juiciest write-ins, and dish out advice with zero filters. Expect laughs, chaos, and real talk because we are not therapists but we are never shy about giving our two cents. From hilarious stories to heartfelt moments, Mums Gone Wild is where generations collide, comedy thrives, and the conversation is always unfiltered.
Mums Gone Wild
Is Our Podcast ATTRACTING The WRONG Crowd?
A birthday hangover, a backyard oasis and then straight into the deep end: we tackle the messy space between boundaries and control, starting with a viral AITA where a husband claims he “conditioned” his postpartum wife into better behaviour. We talk honestly about invisible labour, sleep debt and why “helping” around the house isn’t a favour. Real support looks like proactive care, simple scripts and, when needed, a neutral pro who can translate stress into shared plans. Boundaries matter; empathy matters more.
We lighten the mood with a TIFU confession about accidentally fleeing a traffic stop thanks to a dodgy brake light, and pull out practical takeaways about staying calm, staying put and staying on top of recalls. Then we shift to a knotty, all-too-common dilemma: a partner discovers his mum has been sending cruel DMs to his girlfriend—shaming her looks, questioning commitment and rewriting history. Our stance is clear: align with your person, tell her you saw it and ask what support she wants. Then handle the source privately and firmly. Family isn’t a hall pass for harm. Respect is the ticket to access.
To cap it off, we dissect an eight-month slow-burn revenge after cheating that starts petty and slides into toxic. It’s darkly funny until it isn’t. We weigh catharsis against self-respect and land on the hard truth: clean exits beat convoluted payback. Through it all, we keep the laughs coming, share a twin-gift moment with Mel Robbins’ Let Them, and map out a mini book review plan. If you’re into real talk on relationships, boundaries, mother-in-law drama, petty revenge and how to stay kind without being a doormat, you’ll feel right at home with us. Enjoyed the ride? Follow, share with a mate and leave a quick review—it helps more curious listeners find the show.
Welcome to Mum's Gone Wild, the show where Reddit meets Real Talk and Chaos meets comedy. I'm Chloe and I'm Paula. Every week we'll dive into Reddit's wildest posts and juiciest writings. Warning, the advice you're about to hear is completely unsolicited, mildly unhinged, and definitely not professional. But hey, we're not therapists, but that's never stopped us from giving our opinions anyway. So let's get unhinged. Good morning. Good morning. We have had a really busy week and we're actually recording on the day that our episode's meant to be dropping, but we're just a little bit behind, so another late episode will be coming on Monday. But it's coming. It is coming. It's coming. It's better to come than to not come at all. Yeah, exactly. Well, we've had my brother, your son, come over from Queensland, and my best friend moved to Perth. I know. So there's just a roller coaster promotions, isn't it? Yeah, and just finding the time to record's been a bit challenging with end-of-year activities and all those sorts of things. Yeah. And your birthday. I did have a birthday yesterday. Um that was the Saturday. So yeah, no, that was I had a great birthday. It was yeah, had great fun. I don't necessarily enjoy getting a year older, but the alternative aren't that great. Not aging. Like, you know, pushing up daisies, that's no joy there either. So yeah. I am grateful that I've had another birthday. It's very exciting. It was lovely. Got so spoiled. You did because family manager here controlled some of the gift. I didn't even know what Dad got you. Oh my gosh. He didn't run his gift back me. No, no, no. He did. Oh mate did really, really well. Like got this, because you know how we've been doing out the back, it's kind of looking very palm trees, green grass, just looking very tranquil and nice out there. We've got the spa going, so it's all very calm and relaxing out there. We've he's just waited. It is looking a little oasisy. So we have got an outdoor shower because we've got the spa out the back to just keep the pipes of the spa clean and everything. It's good to just have a quick shower before you jump into the spa, get all the oils and moisturisers off your skin. So that's he's limestoned that in, and so in front of that spa, he's brought a big bird bar. Is it there? Yeah, it's all set up, it's done. I'm gonna quickly run and have a look. I'll keep talking about the bird bar. Oh, they should be able to hear me, but Chloe runs out to have a look at it. So yeah. Oh wow, that's so pretty. It is, it's beautiful, doesn't it? It does. It's very fountain, too. It's very, very barley. Yeah. And he did that all on his own. That's I'm impressed. Normally, normally we the family run the gifts by me and I approve or disapprove them. Yeah. Disapprove, is that a word? Yeah, or unapprove. Unaprove. Yeah. Disapprove. Yeah, either just you like yay or nay. Yeah. But like last year he brought me a sup. He's been doing well. I'm impressed. Me too. So he's done good. He's upscaled from the cellulite massage. I I constantly am asking for my back to be pressed or my back to be tickled or something like that. And so he went shopping and saw on the box this lady with this device, and she was, you know, she was hand doing her neck and back and whatever on the pictures. So he brought that, but failed to see the big block writing that was written on the box saying cellulite massager. So that went over, you know, like that was one of those presents you open up and you're like, oh gee, thank you. What are you trying to say? So yes, no, he's stepped up. It's only taken how many 35 years? Yeah. Hey. And he's onto it. Oh, and hang on a minute, the year before that, he got me like a really good spa voucher. Yeah, he did. Day spa voucher. So that's like maybe I need to step it up. I've got him Shrek jocks for Christmas. You didn't get him a puppy for his 50th. She's still going. He still thanks me for that. 10 years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, and I have something funny to tell our podcast listeners. Ooh. You already know it, Mother. Okay. I can't think about it. I I think we are attracting the wrong crowd. Yes, okay. Yes, this is funny. Yeah, so I mean, I'm sure most of you that are listening, genuine people, that know that we are just mum and daughter, you know our relationship. If you're from the USA or Canada or the UK, where our listeners are as well, we're just mother and daughter, and we're just good, normal people that are friends as well. However, I think the title of our podcast, and maybe some of the hashtags that I've been using un unspennown unspennown? Unbeknown to me, is attracting a crowd that well, let's just say Mum's Gone Wild is the title of our podcast. And some of the hashtags is Mum and Daughter Duo. Now, if you put your mind in the gutter, where does that take you? Because we had an un an influx of male followers recently on TikTok and Instagram. And I'm thinking that we're attracting them for the wrong reason. I'm not quite sure they're here to listen to us. No mother and daughter action going on. It's just we're just talking. We're just talking about Reddit stories. That's it.
SPEAKER_02:That's it.
SPEAKER_03:Anyway. We keep listening though.
SPEAKER_02:I can keep listening.
SPEAKER_03:A download's a download. Yeah, that's it. And they want to put their minds in the gutter and pretend go for it. Yeah. That's just not what's happening though. Maybe just donate to the podcast.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Um, because you can, you can. If you want us to keep going and you really like this, you can actually make a little donation, a little contribution to the show to keep us motivated. And we're also to thinking about doing some little side stories for a subscription people and stuff like that. Some nice little quick ones over there as well. If you want more content, if you like listening to us talk shit. If you don't care, if you don't have enough of us, you'll get more. We're already uh late with this one, so we're just gonna add more to our list of things to do, and hopefully. Yeah, and we'll find like super juicy, yeah, not so tame stories on there. Yeah. Not that our stories have been very tame so far, but you know, extra I know, fiery. I've had to go through mental battles thinking of who's listening to this and try to make sure that it's nobody the wrong way. Yeah, so anyway, but if it's a subscriber thing, throw caution to the wind, Paula. Yeah, you're paying for it, you're gonna you'll see. You want to hear it, you can hear it. Or even if anyone wants to write in their own story, we can read an original. That would be a good idea. I would love to. You can keep we can keep it all anonymous, so no one has to. Yeah, definitely. But if you want to but yeah, you can email us, or there's actually a text that you can text us as well through Buzz Sprout. Do you know what would be really good? Like, I mean, we're not like pedestal mother and daughter, like we have our faults or anything like that, but wouldn't it be good to hear some mother daughter stories? Yeah, mother daughter dynamics, yeah. Mum's advice from you, because you like the matriarch of the family here. The boss lady, boss lady, as per our family chat. Anyway, I think we need to jump in, jump into the story. Did you want to toss a coin? Yeah, where is our queen? I don't know. It was only 20 cents. I reckon surely someone hasn't taken 20 cents. Oh I reckon there could have been a little Miss Muffet. A little miss four, found 20 cents, potentially. Maybe. Oh, let's say Siri did. I really don't think that she would have. Well, you watch this more money than me. Well, we're me too. Siri, who is going to be reading their story first? Chloe or Paula? No one named Siri, pick a person, Chloe or Paula. Me. Oh, you're it. Picked me. That's cool, because there's a word here that I was just going to look up. How do I pronounce it? No, it wasn't that.
SPEAKER_01:It was more like me.
SPEAKER_03:Alright. I've got one.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:I've actually, do you know what? I'm not very prepared today. Right? Fake it, do you make it? If you don't tell me, I don't know. Okay. I'll give you a couple of titles. So there's one here that says, Someone at work stole my chair, so I had them arrested. That's a bit. Or pregnant girlfriend doesn't want to move in with me. Or am I the asshole for conditioning my wife into keeping her behaviour in check while she's a postpartum?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I've already hit that person already.
SPEAKER_03:Let's do that one. That one. Yep. We start off. Oddly, there's no upvotes on it. Actually, I think it's been blocked. Oh, do you know why? Because it's been archived. So you can't comment on something that has had 1,000. Well, yeah, 1,500 comments. Okay. Let's dive in. Am I the asshole for conditioning my wife into keeping her behaviour in check when she was postpartum? I, 30 male, have been married to my wife, 29 female, for years now. We had our baby six years ago. As anyone who's been through supporting a postpartum spouse, it can be very hard at times. At the time, I had to take a hard stance when it comes to the way she spoke to me. It all started about a month after the baby was born. At first, I could see the exhaustion and did everything I could to support her. Picking up the slack around the house, comforting her during late night feeds, and being there when she needed me. I told her I'd do anything to make her life easier. So far, so good? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. However, over time, the ton of her words started to the ton, the ton. The ton of the tone. The tone of her words started to change. I'd hear things like, you don't understand what I'm going through, or you never help me with anything. Even when I was literally doing everything I could to be a supportive partner, she started to treat me like I was a failure. One night after both after we both were spending hours soothing the baby, I sat down for a moment of rest. I had barely sat down when she snapped at me. Why are you always so useless? I'm doing this all alone, and you're just sitting there. My I felt my blood boil. If that wasn't my wife, I swear I would have done something bad. This is it. I couldn't just sit there and take it anymore. So I looked at her and said, I won't be spoken to this way. I didn't raise my voice, didn't try to explain myself, I just said it firmly. She started crying. I was used to her crying over things and comforting her, but something about that particular moment made me feel like I was being emotionally manipulated. I've been giving and giving and giving, and yet somehow it wasn't enough, and I certainly wasn't going to accept being betra berated anymore. So I looked her in the eye and said, The way you were treating me is a reflection of your character, not mine. Your nasty behavior is something I'm not going to tolerate. I won't allow you to make me feel bad about myself or like I'm the problem. I'm doing my best, but I won't let you treat me like this anymore. She started sobbing, telling me how unsupportive I was, how I didn't get it, how she needed someone to hold her. She couldn't illicit. Is it illicit? She didn't have any empathy in that moment, only contentious pity. This is a writer's. I like this writer. She's writing very well. He is. He is, yeah. I feel like he actually has had some AI help. Because, like when he said this, your words are a reflection on you and not on me. And do you know what I mean? I really feel like that's a therapy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like he's chat GPT therapy. Yeah, I think he's had help, right? Like maybe he's put it into how do I deal with this situation? Yeah. Which is okay, because sometimes you can fuck it up by saying something stupid. And if you want to say, yeah, yeah. So I walked away. I didn't yell, I didn't argue, I just removed myself from the situation. I went for a drive. I didn't engage with her until she could calm down. When I came back, I made it clear that I wouldn't tolerate being treated that way. I didn't blame her for feeling overwhelmed, but I drew a line in the sand when it came to how I deserve to be spoken to. I did this several more times. Oh, I did this several more times every time she spoke badly to me or disrespected me. And she broke down in tears. I simply used to say uh and she broke down in tears because I simply used to say I won't be spoken to that way. And she broke down in tears because I simply would say, I won't be spoken to that way. I didn't back down. I stayed silent, standing firm in my decision. I wasn't going to let her walk all over me. Her emotional state didn't give her the right to treat me poorly. I showed her by my actions that her behaviour would meet nothing but my indifference. I wasn't going to give her the satisfaction of seeing me upset or begging her to change. There's a part of me that worries she'll resent me for this. She eventually did stop after a while and became more or less normal. I think those postpartum months I conditioned her behavior by constantly refusing to acknowledge or react. I refused to give her the satisfaction she could I I refused to give her the satisfaction she I refused to give her the satisfaction that she could get a rise out of me. We recently had an argument and she cried to me again saying that I never let her open up to me. I wasn't gentle enough. I wasn't forgiving enough. I was being judgmental, cold, mean, and harsh. I didn't know what to say. I just told her that me putting that habit in her was a deliberate attempt to ward off the bad ways that she spoke to me, which made her even more angry and upset. She was crying the whole time and said I had abandoned her during the most vulnerable time of her life, and I wasn't a good husband to her that she didn't feel emotionally safe with me. Is that the end of the story? That's the end of the story. Okay, because I'm sitting here like on sweaty palms. No, I can see like nodding and shaking. Wait a minute, I'm gonna tell Chloe to push paws because I need to say something. Grow the fuck up, man. Conditioning her. No. What the actual fuck?
SPEAKER_01:It's she's not a dog that you train with tidbits. No, sorry, I will not stand for this.
SPEAKER_03:And condition her. Yeah, like I at first I was feeling a little bit like you know, he is trying. What is his level of trying though? Do you know what I mean? Is what is his level of um you know, I'm trying to do things around the house. Me, me, me, wow, wow, wow, cry fucking baby. I'm sorry. You've had a baby, her her life changed. I'm not gonna be all about thing because I'm a girl. I will see his side in a minute once I get this off my chest. Yeah, go, go, go. Her life changed pop off the minute they decided to have children. Okay, even though hormonally, nothing scientifically, you know, like she's not pregnant yet, but hormonally, everything's changed. She will stop drinking, she will stop doing this, she will start looking after her body. If she was prone to eating out, you know, what is it, fast takeaway food? She probably no, I'm trying to get my body healthy, I'm gonna have a baby, you know, like everything changes from the day you decide to, and then hormones kick in when you conceive, and then everything changes so like and then of course she's gonna be past like have a bit of the downhill slide afterwards, after the baby. You know, and not only are you tired, your breast milk comes in, so that's all change, everything's changed. And if he's like making the bed or putting the water fucking well done, mate. What do you want? A pat on the back? Yeah, you don't need a pat on the back. This is your life changing now. Hers has had to change, yours has to change with it. You don't fucking condition your wife, who's nearly just had a baby, to to make you feel better about yourself and not not letting her fend. Yes, she probably does need to think about what she says first before, but that can be done as a conversation, like you know, like hun, when you snap at me like that, it just really like it's soul destroying. I am trying. If there's anything else that you need me to do, just let me know. Just don't snap and watch me like shit, you know, like because I have feelings, I have emotions. It should have never got to that point where you know but his whole big I he lost me when it was your words are a reflection on you and not on me. I was like, bam, closed door, that's it. I'm not punching like uh ready to like jump off your chair and no, I'm gonna throat punch him for being such a la la. Yeah, like suck it, it's gonna be fine. You're gonna be fine, and you do not condition your wife on how to talk to you. Yeah. Ever. You know, like congratulations on helping out and on what you think is what you're doing. You don't actually specify what he is doing. No, he doesn't, he just says I'm helping out, like you should do. It's not you're not helping her by doing the housework, it's a joint housework thing. You make the mess, you eat the dinner, you wear the clothes, you walk on the floor. If she's breastfeeding or bottle feeding or however, if she's tending the baby, putting the baby thing. Sleep, or you know, can settling the baby, doing something like that, then the other person is like, right, they're busy, it's not like they're doing nothing. No, that person is caring, tending to their child. The other stuff, the other person needs to help pick up the that's not just because this person is sitting down, rocking the baby to sleep, doesn't mean they're doing nothing. No, 100%. And if she is nursing, her body's working all the time. So even though Bob's is down and if she's hanging out washing, it's not that she's just hanging out watching. What's the mental body is producing more milk for the next feed? Her body is working, working, working. She's gonna be tight, it's gonna be grumpy. Pregnancy, it's working to produce milk. Then she'll be sitting there holding the baby, and the things will be going through her head, okay. I'm putting the baby down at this time to for enough. They're gonna mean they're gonna need to wake up this much. You know, if they wake up in 40 minutes time, I need to resettle them so they can have their like a long sleep. In that time, what can I achieve? Can I do the washing? Can I do this? Do I need to do floors? I can't do the vacuuming because it will wake up the bag. You know, all of these things will be racing through her head, being like, Oh, I've got to eat something, I've got to make sure I'm drinking my water. Because if I am breastfeeding, you've got to drink lots and lots of water to, you know, and her mind will be racing and you know And and and like she might have had a snappy stiffy happy when he was sitting down, but that's probably because she only got maybe strung three hours sleep during the night. She might have got a little bit more, but like just stringing a three-hour block. So she's obviously just turning, What the fuck? You sitting there. Yeah. Like, seriously, like she should be having a little nap or a little like he he would he's a big boy, he will be able to cope. And all of this could have been solved by gentler conversations prior to the blowout.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:You know, yeah, she's probably snappy, she's got raging hormones, and you know, maybe she is, you know, let's go play with his defense. Yeah. Maybe she's a bit more snappy, and maybe she's airing on the edge of a bit of postpartum depression where she's, you know, stressed and she's not really seeing anybody else's feelings. She's just focusing on herself and the baby, and you know, just kind of being, you know, and that kind of sometimes can happen. You need to she needs to learn how to communicate with her needs in an easy way. Like if she needs to have a nap, maybe say, Hey, I know you're trying to help me, but can you help me by looking, you know, watching the kid so I can go have a shower and have a little nap? Yeah. You know, or I'm tired and I'm hungry. You know, those sorts of definitely she probably needs to think about how she says things, especially if he's a bit on the gentle side of his emotions. But also to it's these it annoys me when he says that you know, I'm trying to do. Excuse me, you don't need to try. This is your life now. It's not just while she's like postpartum. I'm not trying to help us. It's this is you just do, you just do. You're not helping her clean the house that you both live in. Yes, you are maintaining your area. Yeah, helping her is like what you said. Hey Han, you seem a little bit stressed at the minute. I recognise that. How about you have a shower? I'll take bubs, you have a shower, lay down for half an hour, what have you, and I'm sure you feel a little bit better. That's helping her. But I'm afraid that's not helping her, that's just life. That's yeah, that's living life. Like you wear the clothes, you walk on the floor, you sleep in the bed, you dry yourself with the towel, you do all those things, you're shit in the toilet, you need to clean that up, I'm afraid. So that's not her job. Yep. So I'm sorry, you get a thumbs down from me, my friend. Yes, well, top comment is she's not a puppy, she doesn't need training. Yeah. Did you put a newspaper down for her too? Unbelievable, you are the asshole. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. And someone says, you came across as proud, almost bragging that you supposedly conditioned your wife. It's cringeworthy. The way you've gone about it most likely created resentment and distrust in your relationship. There's nothing wrong with setting healthy boundaries in a relationship, especially if you're feeling like you are being mistreated. But I don't think we are getting the full picture from you. You should have suggested counselling or therapy so that a professional could guide you both through healthy communication and ways to navigate possible part past post-partum depression. 100%. I reckon every person that decides to have a baby or during pregnancy or something should do like a little stint in couples therapy. Yeah. Because you need to make sure, because after a baby, sometimes you can become housemates, you become passing chips in the night, you forget about each other, ways to communicate your needs and their, you know, their needs because you both are going through a postpartum kind of experience, and it is tough, especially when you've got those sleepless nights and you know, or days, and you know, there's a lot of emotions in the household. You've got a new human you're looking after, and I really think once you're pregnant or you know, thinking about having a baby, going through couples therapy, discuss like what your parental beliefs are, and then you know, and how you're going to navigate things in those tough times. Yeah, 100%. Because we used to do Lamar's classes, like, or and they used to call them antenatal classes or prenatal classes and stuff. You do like the last five weeks of your pregnancy, you'd go to the hospital and stuff like that. They didn't talk about that so much, but what they did talk about, and this is tagging on to what you were just saying, like a little couples therapy pre-baby being born, is so sometimes a third party to tell your spouse what you will be going through, they will listen to it more than you looking on your phone saying, Hey Han, I'm expected to experience third-day baby blues when my milk comes through. And I, you know, it'd be better for like someone of with a qualification to just say, Look, mate, your wife, your partner, your girlfriend is going to be going through all of all this. Some ways you can help her navigate this new journey would be to do these things. Yeah, you know, and once they hear it from somebody else, other than something that you know you've looked up on your phone, you know, it might sink in because then the the the lady or the the you know, the female having the baby will know, okay. Do you know what? You heard it, I heard it. We've both heard what needs to be done. You're just not and do you know what? That should be government funded. It should be a government funded. Let's start it. Let's initiate it, Chloe. All right, no one take that idea. We're starting that. Yeah, because only babies are to be born until we set up some sort of program. Yeah, we'll get some government funding. Anyone want to fund us out there? We will discuss, you know, we'll explain that quickly, give a bit of a couple. I mean, look, I'm in therapy myself, so I don't know if I can give therapy. No, you can. Okay, okay. Yeah, so we can do something like that. But honestly, I feel like there needs to be a mandatory, well not mandatory, but like an option that you can go to, like a free one, maybe a paid one, whichever, an accessible one that all people who want to work things out. Divorce rates will probably go down. Yeah, take it on to those Lamar, like those prenatal birth classes. Well, they don't even do that anymore. You see, they bloody well should. You get to when you go in, you have a tour of the hospital, and then I think you there's one little like couple of hour class, and they just talk about the birth, really, and like they show you what an epidural looks like, yeah, and those sorts of things. They should, they should but and there needs to be more about the after. They don't, and yeah, because that's like when you look for the manual, you've been giving the baby thinking, okay, where's the instruction manual that goes with this? It doesn't, there's no off button. Look, I can't turn it off. Yeah, yeah. Okay, moving along. All right, so I have one here, very, very different. Okay, this is from the subreddit today. I fucked up. Oh, I love these ones. Okay. Today I fucked up by fleeing a traffic stop on accident. Ooh, okay. So it does say that it didn't happen today. It says it was four days ago. But it did take me a hot minute to put the pieces together. Okay. To set the scene. You turn onto the road, it starts flat. Go down a hill, there's a sharp turn, and my driveway is at the end of the turn. There was a large SUV behind me, and behind him was the cop. So close to home. That's only what is it? You turn down the road, it goes flat, you go down the hill, there's a sharp turn, and my driveway is at the end of the turn. Okay. Yeah, just just around the corner, basically. Okay. I was driving home one day and I turned onto my road. I looked into my rear view and saw red and blue lights. So I pulled over to let him pass. There was a lot of police activity in my town, and they flew up and down my road all the time. The SUV behind me pulls over, bumper to bumper with me, and the cop stops behind him. He starts walking up to the SUV. So in my head, I'm like, oh, okay, this dude's getting pulled over. So I pull back out and go home. I turn the corner and pull into my driveway. As I'm getting out of the car, I turned around and see the cop go flying past my driveway with lights on and sirens flaring. The SUV then passes slowly behind him, and I thought absolutely nothing of it. Leading to now, I have our 08 Hyundai Lantra, which I which had a recall for the rear brake lights, which I found that out after selling it. My brake light was always out. I had a car like that, my last car. Yeah, always. That I think was the left-hand brake light, was always out, and dad fixed it a couple of times. We took took it to electrician. It and always would get water in it. Like I remember they took the light cap thing off and like a cup of water drained out of it. Yeah, that's so weird. Yeah, so that's just like a little cop. Anyway, okay. This guy's brake light was always out. I replaced it four times in the year that I had it. The cop definitely was trying to pull me over. He probably saw my brake light, he probably saw me brake to turn into my road, tried stopping me, and the SUV behind me did exactly what I did, pulled over to let him pass. He had meant to stop the SUV. Oh, sorry, had he meant to stop the SUV, he wouldn't have flown by in the time it took me to get home and get out of my car.
SPEAKER_00:Hmm.
SPEAKER_03:When I turned the corner, he most definitely didn't see me turn into my driveway. So little did I know at the time I succeeded fleeing the traffic stop. Probably didn't get my plate either because the SUV behind me was blocking it. I'm an honest person, and had I known I was the one being stopped, I would have stopped. But I'd just gotten out of work and I was in a brain fog. Sorry, officer. Too long didn't read. A cop lit me up for a burnt-out brake light, thought he was trying to pass. I pulled over along with the person behind me, then they pulled out, turned into my driveway, and the cop sped past in pursuit. So that was it. I thought that was going to be a lot more juicier than it was. That was just kind of flopped, didn't it? I'm devastated. What's the comment say? That's hilarious in hindsight, but definitely nerve-wracking at the time. Have you ever been pulled over for anything like that? Yeah, I cry every time. Or not like stop. No, I actually I did. I got actually, it was a bit of a stitch up, really. I was in my new little Suzuki car, and I'd gone to go get some Chinese for the dinner. I'm driving through, and it must have been within the week that I've got it, and I just didn't think about turning my lights on. Oh, okay. So it was at night time. It was at night time. Hang on, what's it? Oh, sorry. At nighttime. And you know, in the middle of town it's all well lit up. Yeah. Anyway, I turn the car on and the dash lights and everything's on. I'm like, oh okay, and I'm just like driving through it. I can see normally. And we get to the lights, and this car like gets my attention, winds their window down, you know, wind mine down, and they're like, Your lights are off. And I was like, Oh, sugar. Okay, thank you. Switch them on. Two seconds later, I get pulled over by the police. Just when the lights near North Gate there. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I'm there and I'm heading north. Yeah. So I get there and then get to the bus, you know, just on the other side of that, there's a bus bay. Yeah. I get pulled over by police. Bus bay. That chick there was a copper, the one that told me to turn my lights on. She was an off-duty police officer. Yeah. She had phoned the police that were like just down the thing, told them to pull me over, though I had no lights on. So now I've got my lights on. They've pulled me over, and they were given issuing me a warning about my lights. Are we on peace? No. Oh, that was a bitch move. Yeah, and I was like, oh look, I'm really sorry. Like, I've only just got this car. I didn't, you know, I thought the lights, you know, I actually thought they were automatic, but they're not. And yeah, and I was like, how's that mole just told wound down a window, told me that my lights are off? I'm like, oh thank you. And then because then the police and how I know she's an off-duty officer, because the police just said, Oh, we just had an off-duty officer call us and let us know that your car. And I was like, Are you kidding? That's a yeah. Yeah. What about you? Have you got any police stories? Angel over there. I know, I know. Trying to insert some godly music. Um, let me think. No, not really. Have you ever been pulled over by the police? I need like, you know, random breath testing which I've passed. Not even done for speeding. No, well, that happened to me. Yeah, I know. I've cried. I was in I was driving Jamie's car. No, no, I lost like four demerit points for you speeding. Oh, yeah. Well, no, this was another time. You're like a serial offender. No, I l no, I do know my first year having my license, mum took all my points, and I got a letter a year after saying, Chloe, you're such a safe driver, and they paid my licence for me. So third yeah, first year of getting a license, if you don't lose any points or get a fine, you get a your license paid. So you drove down a street that had you're running late for something. So you drove down a street and got done then, and there was a roundabout, you forgot something, so you went round and round, come back, got done again, and then went back into town and got done again. Like within it was in less than third, like I reckon it was like 40 minutes or something. No, it was less than that. It was like within 10 minutes. Yeah, and I ended up losing, I think it was two four C America. Sorry about that, mum.
SPEAKER_00:Love you, Illy.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, no, I I can't think of anything touch wood that I've been pulled up for. Yeah. Oh. Oh traffic offense. But I did have my criminal element time at Target, and I stole a lipstick. This story. Yeah, and I got dared to yeah, dared to steal a lipstick. So I did. I had money on me, I could have bought it, but it was a blue opal, best colour in the world. Back in them days. I don't understand what that would look like as a lipstick. Oh, it was a blue shimmer. Yeah, it's shimmery blue, but it's more pink, and it was just called blue opal. I'm looking this up, you continue your story. So anyway, stole it and left that I was with a friend and a cousin, which I will keep both of them anonymous. And when we went, we left, we walked out of Target and that was it, done. Stole it, and a lady tapped me on the shoulder and said, Um, can I check your bag? Well, I've nearly fucking died right there on the spot.
SPEAKER_01:And like you're melting.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, no, they used me as an example to all people that are stealers out there. So I they she walked me through to the back office and just sit there. Um my cousin and friend, did they have any stolen goods? And both of them said no. My friend had a pair of sunnies on her head that she was wearing, and cousin had a key ring, I think. And that they like, no, so they were allowed to leave. Is it the cousin? I'm thinking. Yes. Okay. So they were allowed to leave. I got escorted out of Target by two police officers. I might say you're thinking about it. Got taken home in the police wagon. It still affected you. And then I had to wake my poor mother up. She was a night duty nurse, had to wake her up and tell her that there was some policeman in the lounge room and needed to talk to her. And they said what had happened. Then they left, and I had to go to a panel, like a court panel thing, not court, just a panel. And so they gave me the date for that. But the worst thing was was having to tell my dad what had happened, and yep, that's it. Chloe's just looked up blue opal on there. It's a beautiful picture. Oh, it is. Anyway, yes, so I my dad, I had to tell my dad what had happened, and he just told me to go to my room, which I did, and he left the house. I heard the door shut, and then I'm thinking that was it. Like, if if like something could just kill me right now, I would rather be dead than have to deal with the next. Anyway, it gets so much worse. Are you ready for this? So when he came home, it's about like an hour later, he came home and he called me out to the lound room, mate. I was shitting bricks, right? Yeah, I bet you were. And I come out and he goes, Come here. I'm like, Fuck, this is it. Gonna get it. Take me now. And he goes, sit down. And I sort of on his like where he was sitting. Yeah. And so I sat down and he hugged me and he burst into tears and said, Do not ever hurt me like this again. And that's where the Saint Paula came in. And that's when she was born. Yeah. Mum. Talking about therapy. So maybe he needs us. How many years ago was that, Mum? Oh my god, honest to God, reliving the whole moment. I know, reliving the moment. Oh my gosh. What a great, what a how lucky was I to have a dad like that. You were truly. You you have a dad like that. I do. You have a dad like that. I'm very lucky. But yeah, didn't raise his voice, didn't do anything. He just cried and said, Don't ever hurt me like this again. And it still affects you. Fuck yeah. Right. Okay, don't know why. But I I don't think I've stolen anything. You know, like when first. Self-serve and everyone's like, Yeah, just fucking pay for one, take two, you know. No, not me. I guess I'll just call excuse me, sorry, this isn't scanning. Can you come and scan it? Please don't let me walk out of here without paying for it. I can hear music somewhere. Sounds like a Christmas ornament or something. Oh, it's the washing machine. My washing machine legitimately plays the longest tune when it's done. Well, that's so funny. Alright. Okay. Alright. Okay, so the next story is, and it comes from the subreddit relationship advice. I just found out my mum has been sending my girlfriend cruel messages for who knows how long. I don't know how to handle this. Male 36, female 32. Oh my god. Mum. Get alive. Don't ruin someone else's life. Stop ruining your son's girlfriends. Okay. Genuinely. Generally, not much rattles me. My friends like to call me static, emotionally constipated idiot. And they're not wrong. Which is why we're a little stunned that the love of my life was basically the opposite. I've been with my girlfriend for eight years, known her for ten. She's quiet, gentle, brilliant. She's actually a whole ass professor. And genuinely one of the kindest people I have ever met. She's silly, shy, goofy in the best ways. And loves to poke fun. I love all of it. I love her more than I've ever loved anyone ever in this lifetime. Isn't that so sweet? But last night something happened that I can't let go of. My phone was charging, so I was scrolling Instagram Instagram reels on hers, like I usually do. Love that. I love that they can just pick up each other's phone and use it as if it's their own. I think that's really You should be able to do that. You shouldn't really be able to. No. That's like my phone. I'm like, I don't care. Anyone can go on my phone. Love it. Same. And Dad's is the same too. Need to make a phone call? Go for it. You want to look up something? Take it. It's just a device.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Anywho. One of her friends DM'd her. Normally I'd send back some dumb reaction photo so they knew it was me. Just a thing in our circle. Yeah. But it wasn't a joke. It was screenshots my girlfriend had sent her friend, and the friend was trying to comfort her. Does that make sense? Okay, so yeah, so the girlfriend's been getting messages we don't know who from yet because they haven't sent them. She screenshot them and sent them to her friends. Her friends trying to messaging her back, comforting her. Yes, I yeah. Okay. And he's just stumbled across this. Yeah. I hesitated. Then I opened the screenshots to read it better. And I'm glad I did. I don't even regret it anymore because what I saw were multiple messages from my mother, cruel ones. And the timestamps weren't all from the same day. So I don't know how long that this has been happening. A week? Longer? No idea. Some of the messages my mum had sent. Maybe he hasn't proposed yet because you haven't given him a child. Men don't marry placeholders. This was the most recent. This is the one that makes me see red. I can't even imagine how my baby felt. So that's what he's calling him. I know. Another message. If you stop dressing like a teenage boy and put on some makeup, maybe he'd see you as a wife instead of his little friends. Instead of one of his little friends. Yeah. Another. You're keeping him from his family. He used to visit for clarity. I'm the one who pulled back because of her behaviour towards one of my sisters. That's a whole other issue. So nothing to do with my girlfriend. Another message. You think you're special? You're lucky he even brought you home. Girls like you don't get commitment from men like him. Like, what the hell is this? She sounds like one of those people from, you know, like old money. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like, and you're not good enough for my little boy. And she might as well have a relationship with her son. Like, that's what she's doing. Yeah, she's got some funky relationship with her own husband, and she's friggin' projecting relationship onto her son. And the last the one of the other ones was you're not good enough for the life he deserves. But she's a fucking professor. Yeah. But she could be a she could work at fucking Woolworths. If he's in love with her, he loves her. Yeah. She could work at wherever she wants to work. She doesn't have to have a title or oh man, people make me annoyed. Yeah. Reading them made my stomach drop. They were hateful and completely false. There's even more, but these were just the ones that seared into my brain. And my girlfriend didn't tell me about any of them. She's just been carrying this alone, smiling, laughing with me, all while this garbage was sitting in the back of her mind. My girlfriend avoids conflict. She hates upsetting anybody. I get it. It's easier to talk to your friend first. And my mum can be dot dot dot intense. She probably didn't want me to didn't want to put me in a position where it looked like she I had, you know, choosing sides. But I've chosen, and it's not her that I'm angry with. I'm furious at my mother. I'm exhausted by this. She knows how much my girlfriend means to me. She hears me talk about her consistently. I really yeah. I really thought she might actually be happy for me. At the same time, I would I don't want to make this harder on my girlfriend or make her feel exposed. So here's where I need advice. A, do I tell my girlfriend gently that I saw the messages, that I'm on her side, and she doesn't need to shield me from my own mother? B, do I handle my mother privately and not bring up bring it up unless my girlfriend does? I want her to feel safe and supported, and it makes me sick that she's been dealing with this alone. I mean, actually sick. I'm just watching her make breakfast and I just dot dot dot. What's the best approach that prioritizes her well-being first? Both. Yeah, both. Do A and then and do B. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Do both.
SPEAKER_03:I reckon he definitely, I mean, the fact that he felt okay to just pick up her phone and do it, which he's often does, open left. Yeah, and he would normally, he does it obviously often because he said he sends like a generic-y, funny thing. Yeah, so they know that if her friends are messaging, he's on her phone. So it's the the girlfriend knows that he's on her phone. She doesn't have to say, Hey, you're in the shower. I'll make a friend message while you're in the shower, and I've answered, and then I've seen this, and I love you more than words can say. I'm so sorry that you're going through this. I'm on your side, and I will talk to my mother. Yeah. And you know, she's probably doesn't want there to be any family drama or anything. So, you know, she'll probably want some emotional comfort. Like I reckon when he says that she's he's seen it, she'll probably have a bit of a cry. Like that yeah, she's been bottling it up. Yeah, but like even to deal with mum, you know, I'm not all about you know, that's it, write your mum off. You don't need to see her or anything like that. You don't have to hurt mum's feelings or anything either. It can just be, hey mum, we've spoken about this, and this, whatever the girlfriend's name is, is my world. If you want to continue to be a part of our world, then you need to move forward. This is who I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. Yeah. And you either jump on the ship with us or and we sail and we have a lovely life, or you go overboard, lady. Yeah. You know? No life room. See you later. Yeah. Got you.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
unknown:Hello!
SPEAKER_03:I don't think mums have to be that way. Like, what is with that? I have absolutely no desire to like hold any of you back. I know. Well, that's what I think. Like, people go, like, they ask, you know, people talk about mother-in-laws from hell and like those sorts of things. I'm so lucky that I have my gorgeous mother-in-law. Yeah, I love my well Jamie's family just as much as I love my family. Like, I know, I can just call Monica and talk to her as you know, yeah, whenever I want. And Sharnae, my sister-in-law, we I speak to her multiple times a day. Yeah. And she's like one of my best friends. Yeah. You know, and just on the weekend just gone, when we had Braden here and he's introducing us to his new girlfriend, Em, and it was just it was the be most beautiful, wholesome time. And I, you know, Em just felt like a part of our family, and we made her feel like that, I suppose. That's right, definitely. Didn't take long, did it, I reckon? Like within minutes. Yeah, from like she had a set hello. Yeah, exactly. Love her. Yeah. Gorgeous girl. Braden can propose now, propose now to her. Yeah. That would be nice. Yeah, even if he did now, I'd be okay with it. Yeah. Yeah. No pressure, guys. No pressure. If you're listening to this, we know that they don't, so we're good. Anyhow, all right. That is a perfect segue into my last story. Oh, perfect. Well, this one's going like a complete opposite end. Like, we're talking about love, rainbows, and unicorns. This one is my boyfriend broke my heart, and so I slowly ruined his life. Oh, I love that we're ending on a juicy one. This sounds funny. Okay, it's a short one. I do like. And it's very this from the subreddit Revenge Stories. Oh, I need to get on Revenge Stories and read more. Okay. Do love some petty revenge. This is, I think it started off as petty, and then I think she just started to have way too much fun. Oh, okay. Alrighty. Okay. My boyfriend cheated on me, and he even had the cheek to deny it to me when I had the receipts from the girl. Jeep, but how do you get receipts from a girl unless you paid for something? That's just weird. Yeah, I'm complaining. But anyway, so I don't know, maybe the girl fessed up and said, Hey, look, we went out for dinner, we did this, we've got this hotel room, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. He begged me back, and that's when I made the decision to stay, but I was going to ruin his life. So I worked it out. It'll take me about eight months to save up for a deposit and furnish a new place. So that's how long I was going to take to get my revenge, mate. She fucking thought this out. So I did so I do something daily to ruin him. Some big, some small, but all satisfying, and he has no idea. That's fun. Okay, are you ready? Yeah. Okay. I hide his stuff. I cancel his appointments. I open his parcels. I store cash from his wallet. Oh my god. I I I did that last night. What? You've done. Yeah. Because I went out to my Christmas party and I thought I might need cash. So I went into his wallet. What? What are I? But then again, because I'm a saint, I actually didn't steal it. I asked. That's not stealing, Mom. No, it's not. I'm just trying to let's see if we can tick off any of this list. So like I didn't actually no, I didn't I took cash from his wallet, but he knew I was taking it. And then I even because I am so saintly, I actually then put money into the account of what I took, so he actually had money in his account that I took from his wallet. Fucking Jesus. So really I didn't take any money. Oh my god. Okay, let's step this up. I often dip his toothbrush in the toilet bowl. Oh, muck! That's fucked up. That's disgusting. Can you imagine doing that though? Like I would have to really hate someone to be able to just go do do do and then put it back. Oh, can you imagine brushing your teeth? But she eight months, she would have to kiss that mouth. You can't have eight months where you're just not in a relationship. That's off. I'm off it. That's gross. I burn his dinner. I cook dinners he I know that he doesn't like. I told his parents he cheated. I cry out I sorry, I cry about his cry about his affair before big commitments. When was his affair? Does it say it just said that my boyfriend cheated on me? He tried to deny it, but he had res she got receipts from the girl. Yeah, okay. So before they would go out to like friends, things and stuff like that, she would bring up the affair and start crying. He spent half the time consoling her. Snipping with little monkeys. Well, I'll say that's emotional manipulation. It is, she really is going down a dark tunnel. She's having fun with this. I feel like she should have just cut him loose, but then she needed the obviously a place to stay to save up the money to be able to demand to go home early from nights out. I forgot his birthday. I picked shows that I know he'll hate. I brought up his cheating at a meal with my parents.
SPEAKER_01:My god, she's a bit like I feel like she's been a bit taking a little bit too far.
SPEAKER_03:Narcissistic. Yeah. Meanie. Meanie. Really? Like he should have done what he did, but let it go already, lady. Okay. I wake him up in the middle of the night and want to talk when I know that he's tired. See, they're funny. Oh, that's funny.
SPEAKER_02:Can you just imagine him laying there and go, yep, he's in a deep sleep?
SPEAKER_01:Now, hun, hun, wake up. Wake up. That's nasty.
SPEAKER_03:I refuse to pay for things. I forget to wash his uniform. Or I fail to take it out of the washer when he needs it. Well, that's you know, that's on him. It's his clothes. Oh, I don't like this one. Constantly chipping away at his self-esteem. Oh, that's nasty. I've been over-friendly with his friends. No regrets. Highly recommend. I move next week and he'll be doing I'll be doing it all while he's away at work. Then I'm a ghost. Wowzers. I feel like some of the things are funny. Some of them I think she took way too far. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Slow revenge is basically a life skill at this point. A lot of people giving her thumbs up.
SPEAKER_03:I mean he shouldn't have cheated. The art of war isn't a female trying to punish her boyfriend while punishing herself. That's because someone said, I like the art of war.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Someone said, Stop it, stop the obsession. You need to get some help. Like then someone said, Oh, she's gonna need ice for that burn. And that was that. Yeah, wow.
SPEAKER_03:I don't think I could do that. No, like if like there's like a lot of emotional manipulation and those sorts of things. I probably like if I'd gotten cheated on, let's pick out ones I would do, but I would end it. But these may be some things before I left. I'd probably do the toilet toothbrush in the toilet bowl.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I would do that. I would but that's I've left the relationship. I would just as I was packing, I would go flash, flash, suck that.
SPEAKER_01:Um I don't think I could do the other stuff because I wouldn't be there. Yeah, I don't know. That was very like I don't know how she survived the eight months, really.
SPEAKER_03:Like just living a life like that. I mean, that's some like that's some hate in there. Yeah, there's quite a lot of hate. Yeah. I wonder how long the affair had been going on, like to feel her.
SPEAKER_01:You know, sorry about that. I'll just gotta call. But anyway, that's me. That was done. Easy peasy. Yeah. Anywho, shall we tell everyone about our gift giving?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, go on. Okay, hang on. I'll call. I just got a call for my sister, so I'm just gonna message her quickly back. I'll call you back in a tick. So yesterday was my birthday, and I got lots of lovely gifts from people, and some of those people were lovely gifts from you, Cloak. Oh, yes, they were. Yeah, so and a part of that gift was a book, and the book is called Let Them. So that is a the Let Them theory by Mel Robbins. Yeah, so it's let's should I read the back of it? Yeah, go on. Okay, if you're struggling to achieve goals or feel a little happier, the problem isn't you, the problem is the power that you give to other people. In this book, you will learn how two words, let them, can set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgment of others, free from exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you. The let them theory is a proven method that teaches you how to protect your time and energy and focus on what matters to you. You spent too long chasing approval, managing other people's happiness and letting their opinions hold you back. Learn how to stop giving your power away. Start creating a life where you come first, your dreams, your goals, and your happiness. Let them is a simple tool that millions of people around the world can't stop talking about because it works. The fastest way to take control of your life is to stop trying to control other people and focus on what you can control yourself. So, anyway, this book was given to me by Chloe and a beautiful little piece that she wrote in there as well. So I have got this book and I love it, but unbeknownst to Chloe, we do I brought Chloe a book to go with her Christmas present, and it's exactly the same book. So I've just given to her that this morning, so that was quite funny that we were both on the same page once again, like we always are. We can't play rock papers as rocky though, because we always oh yeah, that's yeah, we can't. Yeah, we're always on the same page. We wish you to take a photo of us holding our books and then we can put upload it onto our yeah, and the blue opal lipstick. Yeah, and did you end up putting the one off last week? We're talking about the AI photo that you re you generated, and I talked to the one about Amanda Alistair and I. And I said, Oh, we can put that up. Oh no, I didn't. Oh, that's okay. Yeah. Or maybe we can check out. I've been really bad with uploading the gram and TikTok this past. I know you're so busy and I'm so unhelpful. You're not unhelpful. A little bit, I'm unhelpful. Not tech savvy. No, I'm not. You're you're not bad though at it. I just need to teach you. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:How to do that. Yeah, that would be good. We've got some time coming up soon, so we can do it then.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. But we'll definitely take a photo of us with our books. We are like Sunday morning, just got out of bed, look butt, so they have to forgive us for that. Yeah. But we're not here to impress. No. Not at all. Alright. Well, thank you for listening if you're still here. Oh, actually, hang on a minute. We were going to say about the books too, that we were going to read them and then we'd do like a little bit of a book review. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We definitely won't be able to get to read all of it, like maybe the first page and a half or something. Well, maybe we can do like chapter by chapter. Alright. Bit of homework for us to do. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. And then we'll let you know about the book. Because maybe this is something we can get like a little tattoo or something. Well, there is photos of people with tattoos. Oh dear, I didn't even see that page. I don't have that page. Well, I have that page. Maybe hopefully it's the same version. You know, a couple of pages. I've been made pages of tattoos. A lot of let them tattoos. Oh, I thought that was my idea. No. Damn it. Like behind the eight ball all the time. They beat you to it, mother. Alright, alright. Oh stand it. Oh, look at you go.
unknown:All right.
SPEAKER_03:Love you. Bye. Bye.
