Am I The A**hole? Matt Walsh Decides Part 7
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Summary
This week, we're back with part two of our "Am I the Ahole" segment, where we read moral quandaries from Reddit to find out who's the ahole and who's not. This week, it's a woman who can't stand to be around her boyfriend for more than one day a week, and wants to live on her own. Is she the a hole, or is she the one who needs a break?
Transcript
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All right, now we have part two of our Am I the a***** segment, where we go to Reddit
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and we read their moral quandaries to discover who is the a-hole.
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So my boyfriend and I both work the day shift, so we're both home after 6 p.m.
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Okay, first of all, she started a sentence with the word so, so she's already an a-hole.
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I'm in a really bad mood right now, I've realized.
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We have our days off set up that he is off Saturdays and Sundays, and I'm off Sundays and Mondays.
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We each get one day off to ourselves to just be alone and do our thing,
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and then one day off together to do whatever we want as well.
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My boyfriend and I have fairly different hobbies.
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He's really into fitness and working out and always being active.
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I'm a pretty strong gamer, and I don't care about any of this.
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So he stayed up stupid late last night and called into work this morning.
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Nine times out of ten, I wouldn't care, but it's Monday.
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It's my only day to myself, and he's constantly bugging me to go to work out with him or go on a hike
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or generally to just be active because he's bored.
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Oh, God forbid he's trying to help you be a fit and healthy person.
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My boyfriend wants me to walk outside, encounter the sun every once in a while.
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Again, nine times out of ten wouldn't matter, and I'd spend a few days doing whatever he wanted.
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I need this day to just be quiet and dark and me time.
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I'm 100% on the opposite end of a social person.
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I just want my one day to be alone, to recuperate for the week.
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I look forward to this one day the entire week.
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I'm definitely annoyed and definitely showing it, even though I'm trying not to.
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I've tried being nice and just telling him that I need some me time, and he's just not listening.
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I pretty much snapped and told him to just leave me the F alone for a bit,
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Okay, then there's even more information that we don't need.
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So you got into a fight with your boyfriend, and he sulked off,
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and you immediately went on your phone to Reddit.
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Now, Reddit says that this woman is not the a-hole,
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and Reddit is wrong this time, and not for the first time.
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But you're definitely the a-hole for a few reasons.
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Why are you playing marriage, you know, by living together,
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if you don't even want to be around each other?
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So you can't stand to be around the guy for more than one day of the week,
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Or you don't want to live on your own because you don't want to pay for it, right?
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So you want the boyfriend there to help you pay for the rent,
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and you're complaining about how you need space and time,
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I cannot even conceive of having an existence as easy as you.
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that's exactly what happens every time you go online?
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is allowed to store logs of every website you've ever visited,
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and they can legally sell this data to anyone they want.
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well, if I'm routing all my data through a VPN,
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then doesn't the VPN get to log and see all my data?
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but have been caught logging customer activity anyway.
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Stop letting people keep logs of what you do online.
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and find out how you can get three months free.
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my mom kept on trying to add things to my wedding
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For example, she wanted him to have his own buffet.
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and told her the pig will not be attending my wedding.
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This has got to be a fake story, but I like it anyway.
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Even after I told her I didn't want him at my wedding,
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she continued to try to get me to plan my wedding around him.
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even though he does bring her a big deal of comfort.
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In my husband's culture, pigs are seen as dirty animals
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especially because it would be disrespectful to his family,
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Well, my mom decides to bring her pet pig to my wedding anyway,
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even after I told her not to, and she showed up late.
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I could tell my husband was highly upset with it,
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because he didn't want his new mother-in-law to hate him.
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which ended up falling and breaking the pieces.
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If it did happen, then you are the a-hole, not your mom.
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and I understand this is a contradiction for me.
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I'm a big proponent of the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony.
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and this is a wedding that people will remember.
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You want your wedding to be memorable, don't you?
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Everyone else was bored out of their minds for most of it.
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because his dad wasn't interested in fatherhood originally.
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He had a change of heart and tracked us down two months ago.
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and then washed his hands of me when I wouldn't obey him.
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I'm not grateful or happy about a change of heart.
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He asked me if I would change our son's last name to his.
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It made me angry because I'm the one who wanted him.
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I carried him and raised him alone until two months ago.
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So I don't think he deserves for our son to have his last name.
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to have a bigger connection to his father's family
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So I told him I would change his last name to his
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And he told me I was very good at hiding my true colors.
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that this woman is not the a-hole when she clearly is.
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You have to earn that by being present in the family.
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if the child should have your last name to begin with,
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because you tried to sell your son's naming rights.
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for my son to be connected to his father's family.