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It is welcome to the couch

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strap in .

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So this is all about a

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major payout , major

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and if you listen to episode 8

1:01

, you would kind of understand why this

1:03

is coming up . If you haven't , definitely

1:06

go back , have a listen . It's a very crazy

1:08

story that happened to my mum , where she had

1:10

a near-death experience . If

1:13

you've had a near-death experience , please give us a call

1:15

on this hotline .

1:19

I probably wouldn't call it a near-death

1:21

experience , but a serious accident

1:23

. I wouldn't say near-death .

1:25

You were at the bottom of a river yes

1:27

, singing that you were okay to die .

1:29

Yeah , I was a little bit cooked . So

1:31

this has been going on

1:33

. For the past couple of years

1:35

I have been , after

1:37

the accident , had physio , chiro

1:40

, psychological

1:42

counseling , because

1:45

the accident really took a toll

1:47

on my mental health and but also my physical

1:50

health and , with

1:52

my arm not being able

1:54

to move all that much , it caused

1:56

a lot of pain in my back and the

1:59

muscles kind of froze all down

2:01

one side . It caused me a lot of headaches

2:03

. So , yeah , in came

2:05

all the physio and the chiro . But

2:07

during that time I

2:09

had also looked at claiming

2:12

compensation from the driver of

2:14

the boat , as I mentioned in

2:16

the episode . They were friends

2:18

of mine or they were acquaintances , people who

2:20

I had gone to school with , that I

2:22

just happened to meet at that time

2:25

, and his friends were driving the boat . They did

2:27

say to me they had insurance and

2:29

that they understood that

2:31

I would be making a claim against

2:33

them and they were fine with that . It

2:35

essentially only cost the driver $100

2:38

because that was his excess . So

2:41

over a couple of years I had to

2:43

consult with many people and I consulted

2:45

with a few lawyers and , as it

2:47

turns out , because the murray river

2:50

is the border of victoria

2:52

and new south wales . It actually came

2:54

under new south wales law , okay

2:57

. So that meant that I

2:59

had to engage a lawyer

3:01

who was well versed in new south wales law yeah , which

3:03

meant I had to travel to sy , who was well-versed in New South Wales law yeah , which meant

3:06

I had to travel to Sydney a

3:08

couple of times to meet with the

3:11

lawyers etc . And

3:13

go from there . So

3:23

they obviously sent down people to see how my life was travelling with my , my nemo fish arm , and

3:25

the conclusion was that I certainly did have a case

3:27

because I have a permanent

3:29

impairment . Yeah , okay

3:31

. So in the fin yes , being the fin

3:34

um , doing everyday things

3:36

like I'm opening jars

3:38

yeah , I actually can't open

3:40

up . I don't have enough strength because the tricep

3:42

was mangled . Yeah , I literally

3:44

have to stab every can um

3:47

, release the seal and

3:49

then I'm able to open it . Thankfully

3:51

, wine is a screw top , so

3:55

I'm still all good with that one . I'm

3:57

very happy with that . And just everyday

4:00

things like lifting heavy things is

4:02

very tricky to do , yeah , so

4:04

they have to assess all of that and decide

4:06

if I have a case , and

4:09

aside from your arm , has there been

4:11

anything else ? well

4:13

, as I said , like the headaches were there

4:15

. Um , I do have . The left side

4:18

is much weaker than the right side because

4:20

I've tried crossfit

4:22

and yoga and all those sorts of things and you

4:24

know things like downward facing dog

4:26

. When you've got one arm that can't

4:28

straighten at all

4:31

and it's quite weak , it

4:33

reduces my capacity to

4:35

be able to perform those

4:37

particular exercises

4:40

correctly Everyday movements

4:43

and just yeah , everyday movements , exercises

4:47

, correctly , everyday movement and just yeah , everyday movements . So I mean , I I have um at one stage

4:49

, believe it or not . You know I was heavily involved

4:51

in crossfit and you know I'm lifting

4:54

dumbbells and barbells above

4:56

my head was fine , but

4:58

I was always a bit lopsided . Yeah and

5:00

I , yeah , and I was

5:03

doing pushups at one stage

5:05

and the arm collapsed

5:07

and I landed on

5:09

my left breast and

5:12

over the next couple of days the breast went

5:14

hard and because

5:17

I've got implants , because it started

5:19

to even change shape , I'd actually popped

5:21

the implant . Yeah , but I remember

5:23

that . Yeah , so yeah had to

5:25

have those out and replaced um

5:28

, but that , yeah , that was part of having

5:30

the manky elbow and so , yeah , there's lots

5:32

of things . I mean I've now learned to live with it

5:34

and most people don't notice

5:36

it and unless I point it out , yeah

5:39

, and say you know , don't you notice when

5:41

I'm standing there one arm's like ? That's

5:43

another like sort of bent , and the other one's fine , but

5:45

no , most people don't notice it . And I do

5:47

overcompensate with the right hand

5:49

. I mean , luckily I'm right-handed so it

5:52

hasn't been too bad . I've been

5:54

able to find exercises

5:56

that are good for my back and help me strengthen

5:58

my back and stop the headaches , etc . So

6:00

it's it's all manageable and all under

6:02

control . I would like

6:04

to get the pins and plates out one day

6:07

from there . After

6:09

you know the , the lawyers consulted

6:11

me , etc . I had to travel to sydney , yeah

6:14

, to do a preliminary

6:16

trial I think that's what it's called

6:18

, yeah , whereby I sit in one

6:21

room with my lawyers and they , when I say they

6:23

, their insurance companies , sit in one room with my lawyers and they , when I say they , their

6:25

insurance companies , sit in another room

6:27

. Yeah , and so

6:29

I'm with a QC Now

6:33

. I don't know one lower

6:35

than a QC . Essentially he was $10,000

6:38

an hour .

6:40

Oh my Lord yeah .

6:41

So I didn't choose

6:43

him . My lawyers said he is the

6:45

best and you will get your payout

6:47

because you know I wanted compensation

6:50

for the fact that I was physically impaired

6:52

and I was going to foreseeably

6:55

have a lifetime of issues

6:57

. Yeah , so met with

6:59

him , had a discussion . We're meeting

7:02

in the side rooms . He goes

7:04

off , meets with the other people in

7:06

the other room . They come back and

7:08

they make an offer to me and

7:11

the offer is something stupid

7:14

like $71,242.96

7:18

. Oh yes , how do you get the 96

7:20

cents , babe ? To which I laughed and said , really

7:23

like you can't come up with a round

7:25

figure . So I obviously said no

7:27

because I was in a no

7:30

win , no fee . So I was actually

7:32

already about a hundred thousand dollars behind

7:34

from all the prior meetings

7:36

. Right on , okay , so

7:39

essentially , even to

7:41

make my money back for the day . You

7:43

know it had to be over a hundred thousand dollars

7:45

that they were offering . Yeah , so I

7:47

say no . Then the people they

7:49

negotiate again and they come back with 189

7:52

000 and I think oh

7:55

, that sounds a bit better you know 89

7:57

000 . What am I going to do

7:59

with that ? You know , calculating

8:02

the physio and the chiro and

8:04

um , the osteo . And

8:07

as I'm older , I'm thinking how am

8:09

I going to be lifting my grandchildren

8:11

in and out of car seats ? Yeah

8:14

, like , what does my life look like

8:16

? So I said no . So

8:18

it goes back and forward , back and forward . They

8:21

call me in . So the insurance

8:23

company call me in for an interview , yeah

8:25

, and they

8:27

ask me you know what

8:29

are the things that I'm having trouble with ? And

8:32

I explain that to them and and I do

8:34

go into saying it's not just now

8:36

like I'm young , now I'm 42

8:39

, 43 , I'm physically fit

8:41

. What am I going to be

8:43

like when I'm elderly ? And if

8:46

I fall on my left arm

8:48

, how , how am I going to stop

8:50

myself from , you know , hitting my head because

8:52

there's no strength ? How am I going

8:54

to do everyday things ? I can't drive a manual

8:57

car anymore . I'm always going to have to drive

8:59

an automatic . Yeah , that's going to cost me

9:01

money , etc . Etc . So I put my case

9:03

forward , I go back into my room

9:05

and the lawyer comes

9:07

back and says that they

9:10

were extremely worried

9:12

because I am highly

9:14

articulate , I

9:17

am able to discuss , you

9:19

know my future and what that looks like

9:21

, and I'm very convincing , mind

9:23

you . I was nervous .

9:25

Yeah , oh , it's always nerve

9:28

racking being in the situation like

9:30

that there's like a power play . Involved

9:32

absolutely , absolutely . But

9:34

they did fuck with the wrong bitch to

9:37

share .

9:39

Um , they've decided that they were

9:41

a little worried and the

9:43

thing is they can only offer

9:45

up to a certain amount . Yeah , once

9:48

it goes over that amount , it actually has to go

9:50

to the high court , and there had never

9:52

been a case in the high court

9:55

about a biscuit or a donut

9:57

so essentially when things go

9:59

to a high court , you're kind of setting

10:01

the standard yes , to come in the future

10:04

, right absolutely , absolutely

10:06

, and those cases are recorded

10:09

for lawyers to learn

10:11

the law . Yeah , so I was one

10:13

step away , so they came back

10:15

with a figure of five

10:18

hundred and thirty

10:20

nine thousand dollars .

10:22

To which you said no

10:24

deal .

10:26

I said deal .

10:28

I did .

10:29

I did , I did , I said deal

10:31

. So it was quite a large

10:33

sum .

10:35

So did it go to the high court ? No , you

10:37

were one step away from it potentially going

10:39

Correct . Did you think about that though , Were you like

10:41

?

10:41

well , maybe I should , you know .

10:43

I just just maybe .

10:43

I want to set the tone for the

10:46

future yes , I could have

10:48

, but going to the high court

10:50

if I lost . Yeah , all

10:52

that , no win , no fee , I would

10:55

still owe . Fair enough , so

10:57

that would have been a huge

10:59

gamble . Yeah

11:02

, um , prior

11:04

to leaving that meeting , I had to

11:06

sign over to

11:08

my lawyers their fee

11:11

straight away . Yeah , so

11:13

the fee that

11:16

they claimed was around

11:18

260 odd

11:21

thousand dollars . Yeah

11:23

, like no , it's freaking not yeah

11:26

, so that was , that was

11:28

quite devastating , but at

11:30

the same time , well , I wouldn't have got any money anyway

11:33

, so it was a large lump sum . I

11:35

don't remember the exact figures , yeah

11:38

, but it I . I do know that it was a large

11:40

lump sum , that I had to sign over to them

11:42

prior to leaving sydney

11:45

, but it was also very surreal

11:47

. I remember going straight to the bathroom

11:50

and thinking to myself oh my

11:52

god , this is over . It's

11:54

finally over . Was

11:56

it worth it ? Was the money worth it

11:58

? Will it be suffice for

12:01

the rest of my life ? Because I just

12:03

didn't know what the future held . So

12:05

, anyway , I go back to Melbourne

12:07

and I'm still dating MrB and

12:10

he's pretty excited because he knows how

12:12

tough it's been for me From there

12:14

. The beautiful thing is I

12:17

had been looking at properties

12:19

in another suburb that I had always

12:22

had my eye on , and

12:24

it was a suburb that I knew

12:26

that was growing . It was a suburb

12:28

I knew I couldn't afford , but

12:31

it was also a suburb that you just

12:34

know when you resell , you

12:36

make money . Yeah , so I'd been

12:38

watching this suburb for , I

12:40

think , close to four or five years , even

12:42

when I originally purchased this

12:45

house that I was living in when my dad gave

12:47

me the gift . I obviously

12:49

was looking in that , that suburb where I

12:51

wanted to live and

12:54

could not afford to get in

12:56

there .

12:56

And which suburb are we talking about ?

12:58

We're talking about Glen Waverley

13:01

, yeah

13:03

, in there . And which suburb are we talking about ? We're talking about glenn waverly

13:05

. Yeah , glenn waverly , um yeah , is a very uh . Well , it's an

13:07

area that is highly sought

13:09

after , because there were

13:11

a couple of schools in that area that

13:13

were very high up in the school

13:16

achievement zone , and so a

13:18

lot of people were always

13:20

wanting to get into that area . So

13:22

I had been watching that area

13:25

. I'd been looking at a few houses

13:27

, and my house that I was living

13:29

in had also increased in value . My

13:32

brother had helped build this beautiful big veranda

13:34

with the spa that god stole it on

13:37

it . Well , I was looking

13:39

to purchase a new house because

13:41

I now had enough money to

13:44

use the equity to

13:46

buy a home , and from your payout

13:48

as well . Now that I got

13:50

my payout because

13:53

it was almost immediate I was

13:55

very excited and started looking

13:57

. But then the excitement

14:00

turned to a

14:02

bit of sadness because , even

14:04

though I got a good payout , I

14:06

had to pay back medicare . So

14:10

medicare in australia is our

14:13

health care system .

14:14

essentially , that's operated mainly by the government well

14:16

yeah , by the government , well yeah by the government .

14:18

Well , it is operated by the government Because

14:20

my operations

14:22

that I had and the care

14:25

that I had at the Alfred Hospital , it

14:27

cost approximately $70,000

14:30

. I had to pay that back

14:32

why ? Well

14:34

, apparently that's just how it works

14:36

If you get a payout because

14:38

of an accident , the government

14:41

doesn't need to have paid for your

14:43

operation . Okay , so

14:45

I had to pay that out of . You know

14:48

, I got the 530 odd or whatever it was pay

14:52

the lawyers then I had to pay money

14:54

back to medicare . Oh no , but here's the kicker

14:56

, the and ? To this day I

14:58

still don't understand . So

15:00

, being a single parent , when

15:03

I had the accident I was

15:05

on a part single parent

15:08

pension . Yeah , I still had my four jobs

15:10

, but I was entitled to

15:12

a single parent pension . I hadn't quite started

15:14

teaching yet . I'd had the accident while

15:17

I was still at uni , so I was still getting the

15:19

benefits from the government to support

15:21

a single mum to change their career . Apparently

15:24

they classed that . So

15:26

our government , our Centrelink payments

15:29

, classed that as earnings

15:31

. So technically I had earned

15:33

that money from the time of the accident

15:36

. So therefore , any

15:38

money that I got from Centrelink I

15:41

had to pay back . So there

15:43

went another chunk of the money . Yeah

15:45

, so essentially , you know , 530

15:48

odd thousand whittles down to

15:51

not a lot . Yeah , I think it was still

15:53

, uh , maybe 160

15:55

or 180 . So it's still a a

15:58

chunk of money . Do you wish you went

16:00

to the high chords ? now I

16:02

just , I don't know , I , I , I wish

16:04

I had have questioned more why

16:07

center link got to take the money because

16:09

technically I wasn't working . Yeah

16:11

, you know , um , I just , I really don't

16:14

understand that . But anyway , I

16:16

was able to still have some

16:18

money , enough money to

16:21

go and purchase a house in Glen Waverley

16:23

. And I spied this house

16:25

that had gone to auction and

16:28

it hadn't sold . Then they put

16:30

it up for private sale and

16:32

it still hadn't sold and

16:35

to me it was the perfect

16:37

house . It was on

16:40

a good size block , it was

16:42

four bedrooms , two bathrooms

16:44

. It was as old as hell

16:46

. It was from the 70s . It had archways

16:49

, it had like a little bar , it

16:51

had four layers of lino , you

16:53

know all that really nice renovation

16:56

stuff . I thankfully

16:58

put in an offer that was below

17:00

the price and the

17:03

gentleman said no , but we just

17:05

kept pushing . I just kept my agent

17:07

. Just I said keep pushing , keep pushing , keep

17:09

pushing . Eventually

17:11

I won and was

17:13

able to purchase the house

17:16

. Yay , so that was like a dream

17:18

come true . I felt like I had made

17:20

it . Yeah , I have made

17:23

it . I am now living in

17:25

glen waverley and my

17:27

kids get to go to a fancy

17:29

school . It wasn't really that fancy

17:32

it wasn't , but it was just on the school of

17:34

achievement list . We're all

17:36

set . I've purchased this house

17:38

and mr b is

17:40

in construction , so

17:43

he offers to gather

17:45

his tradies and

17:47

renovate the house for me

17:50

. So in the time

17:52

that I purchased

17:54

the house , just to clarify renovate

17:57

for free ?

17:59

no , okay no , of course not

18:01

. I just was curious .

18:02

He's paying for a lot of other oh yes

18:04

, I guess , yes , he , yeah , he was

18:06

your relationship was still fresh at this point , I guess

18:08

so um , was it ? it might have

18:10

been a year in , yeah perhaps yeah

18:12

um he , he

18:15

offers to use all his trades

18:17

, so the house it

18:19

sells . It comes to me , I become

18:21

the owner and in the meantime the

18:23

house that I'm living in is up for sale

18:25

and it sells . But the person

18:28

who purchases my house wants a really long settlement

18:30

. Perfect , it means we

18:32

can stay in that house while we renovate the

18:35

new home . Mr b gathers all his

18:37

trades . He gets the

18:39

whole place renovated in four

18:41

months . Of course it costs me the

18:43

regular price plus , you know , whatever

18:45

gst or however it works , but

18:48

obviously he gets me good

18:50

prices because all of these people

18:52

work for him in general

18:54

. So that was something

18:56

that was . I

18:59

was extremely grateful to him

19:01

for it was a lovely

19:03

home . In the end he did a really

19:05

good job , or his trades did an amazing

19:08

job , and I

19:10

couldn't be any more

19:12

grateful . He was also

19:15

a huge advocate

19:17

of you and I rekindling

19:20

and repairing our relationship

19:23

. He was really vocal

19:25

on that and in

19:27

fact , because our

19:30

relationship was so strained , I

19:32

encouraged him to come with

19:34

me . In a lot of

19:36

the first meetings that you and I had

19:39

getting back to getting our relationship

19:41

back on track . You know , I

19:43

encouraged him to come along .

19:44

Yeah , and that was pretty

19:47

much the very first time that I had met Mr B

19:49

as well , was the first time I had seen you

19:51

in quite some time . You

19:53

guys came in and came to the restaurant

19:56

that I was working at and hanging

19:58

out , and eventually it got

20:00

to a stage where our relationship

20:02

had been rebuilt

20:04

to a point where I

20:06

could move back in and come back home

20:08

, yeah , you did and I

20:11

I missed most of the renovation

20:13

. Don't get me wrong . It was

20:15

nice to move into a lovely , fresh new house

20:17

that wasn't in Boronia , but

20:19

you know , it was close to my high

20:21

school as well , which I was wrapping

20:24

up , I think I I actually think I'd finished

20:26

high school at that point and I was , uh

20:29

, studying at a

20:31

local education place nearby and

20:34

it just kind of became the party

20:36

house for me personally , because

20:38

you and mr b were

20:40

always out doing your own thing

20:42

majority of the time . My siblings

20:45

were at their dad's or with you

20:47

and and Mr B and

20:50

yeah , I was just kind of I felt like I was

20:52

living by myself , living

20:55

the dream , living the dream , living the dream

20:57

, and it looked like you were living the dream too

20:59

.

21:00

It did look like that , didn't it ? But that

21:02

actually wasn't the case . We

21:05

had had a lovely

21:07

saturday evening out and

21:10

on the sunday it

21:12

was mother's day and I was working

21:15

at the football club . Oh

21:17

, really yeah . And I

21:19

had that night seen

21:21

on his phone , you know , the phone that he always

21:24

takes into the bathroom and , of course

21:26

, when he doesn't , I'm on there scrolling like

21:28

searching I found a message

21:30

to a woman that said wishing

21:33

you a fabulous mother's day tomorrow

21:35

and a kiss after

21:37

it , and I thought , wow , that's

21:39

a bit strange . And the next message to him

21:42

was oh so , what are

21:44

you , what have you been doing ?

21:46

and he messaged back saying oh

21:48

, I'm just uh renovating

21:51

a house out in the eastern suburbs

21:53

for a client was there a part

21:55

of you that thought that it was his ex-wife

21:58

that he was messaging , because they

22:00

had a child together ?

22:02

no , because it was a different name like I knew

22:04

her name and this name

22:06

was a different name

22:09

. The next day at the football

22:11

club , I'm working away and

22:13

, bless me , I have another

22:16

major accident that

22:18

afternoon yes , the council

22:21

were coming to check on our deep fryers

22:24

and the cleanliness of the kitchen on the

22:26

monday . So this is sunday afternoon

22:28

. I decide I have to

22:30

clean out the fryers

22:32

, make sure everything's beautiful and clean

22:34

for the football club . I'm cleaning

22:36

, I open up the deep fryer so

22:39

we're talking big vats of

22:41

oil and I open

22:43

up the deep fryer door

22:45

at the bottom and I knock the

22:48

hose . Now the hose is like a

22:50

fire hydrant , it's

22:52

not a little like garden hose

22:54

.

22:54

No , it's not a garden hose .

22:56

It's a fire size of a fire hydrant

22:58

. I knock it and the boiling

23:00

hot oil gushes out

23:03

. And it gushes

23:05

with that much force it knocks me off

23:07

my feet and I slide

23:10

into the burning

23:12

hot oil . I

23:15

ran to the showers and

23:17

I obviously turned the showers

23:20

on . I remember thinking

23:22

how much pain I was in

23:25

, but because the

23:27

two kids my two , yours , two siblings were

23:29

there , I pretended

23:31

that I was fine . I didn't

23:33

call an ambulance , I simply

23:35

wet some tea towels . I left

23:37

my son at the football

23:40

club . I said you know , can you please try and clean

23:42

this up , like I managed to actually

23:44

close off the valve with a , with a

23:46

stick , somehow I left my

23:49

son there to , you know , mop it up , because

23:51

by that time it had cooled

23:53

, etc . I had jumped in the car

23:55

with wet tea towels on my arms

23:57

and took the baby . Um , the little one

23:59

she was . She must have been 11 or 12 . We

24:02

jumped into the car . I have tea

24:05

towels hanging on my arms that are wet

24:07

. I've wet the tea towels , put them on my arms to

24:09

try and cool my arms . She

24:11

has had to steer whilst I'm

24:13

driving with my arms out the window

24:16

. I didn't want to cause a scene

24:18

and cause call an ambulance . I was highly

24:20

embarrassed , like what an idiot

24:22

. Like , realistically , I got

24:24

to the hospital , went

24:27

inside and went into shock , like

24:29

shaking . You know , yeah , um

24:32

, they take me in , they go to cut my

24:34

jeans off . My jeans are literally stuck

24:36

to my skin . At that point

24:38

I say to my son please

24:40

call Mr B , please call Mr B , get him , get

24:43

him over here , get him to help me . I don't

24:45

know what to do . Get him to come pick you up . You

24:47

know , I don't know what to do . Anyway

24:50

, my son is trying to call

24:52

him and he's not answering

24:55

, of course . So I then

24:57

I'm in hospital for a couple of days

24:59

and I say to him

25:02

you know where were you ? And he

25:04

said to me he was at his ex-wife's

25:06

house because it was Mother's Day

25:08

and he had built a house for his mum and

25:10

dad that were behind the ex-wife's house

25:12

, so he was obviously spending time there

25:14

. So I actually I accepted that

25:16

I got home and I was

25:18

resting and I

25:21

had , when I had viewed

25:23

his phone , taken this woman's number down

25:25

and I rang her , yeah

25:27

, and I said I am

25:29

mr b's girlfriend

25:32

. Who are you ? And her

25:34

response was oh no , we've been friends , we're just

25:36

friends . We've been friends for like 30

25:38

years . And I was like , oh okay

25:40

, she has rang him immediately

25:43

. He's in my house in my lounge room . I've

25:45

rung from my bedroom . Yeah , he's

25:47

come in screaming what have

25:49

you done ? What have you done ? How

25:51

dare you ? And he took off

25:54

and he left me . He left

25:56

me for days just with

25:58

the burns . I was I covered

26:01

head to toe in second and third

26:03

degree burns . So now I'm left in

26:05

this situation once again

26:07

. He's done this beautiful renovation

26:09

for me . I'm thinking that our life

26:12

is moving ahead . I feel like

26:14

he had settled . We

26:16

were really happy . We were in

26:18

like a routine

26:20

. We did spend an extra night

26:22

together each week , so it wasn't just one

26:24

night during the week and once on the weekend

26:27

, it was twice on the weekend . So

26:29

I really felt like we

26:31

were just in a committed relationship

26:34

. And yet here I am again

26:37

being left thinking

26:39

what the fuck is going on

26:41

. I wholeheartedly believe

26:43

we're fine . He's done this

26:45

renovation , that like

26:47

who would do that ?

26:48

yeah , for someone yeah , and

26:50

I think also a part of you also being like you're

26:53

a single mom , you also have three

26:55

children that are off

26:58

with their dad , sometime off with their friends , sometime doing this

27:00

, that and friends sometime doing this , that and the other , so

27:02

that routine element of

27:04

it . You already do have such a busy life anyway

27:07

, so you probably don't notice

27:09

how his behavior is

27:11

because you're not always together either

27:13

.

27:13

Yeah , so I've had this fantastic

27:16

payout . I bought my dream house

27:18

. It's been fully renovated

27:20

. I've got the man of my dreams

27:23

, who has once again

27:25

proven that

27:27

perhaps I'm not the

27:30

only person in his life . That's

27:32

the end of that episode

27:34

. What a clip hanger

27:36

to end on oh

27:40

well , we have to wait for the next one , everyone , yes , the

27:42

next one is the

27:44

continuation of the

27:47

very unusual relationship

27:49

of money with Mr B , and

27:53

does he actually become monogamous

27:56

?

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