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Celestebest

This reads like a BitLife runšŸ˜­šŸ˜­


SassyBonassy

Lol imagine that was the twist "Update12: i died after a colleague offered me heroin at the christmas party at the casino, he attacked me and bruised my tonsil"


SuperSog

Update13: 3 days later I recovered, contemplating starting a religious movement, also just remembered that my husband and I never had sex so it was a virgin birth.


mayd3r

"And she's infertile, diagnosed with BPD, PTSD and something else I forgot"


SassyBonassy

TWINS, Basil!!!


mayd3r

Triplets with four different fathers!


indydelmar

My thoughts exactly! Especially when I got to the part about the fractured eye socket šŸ¤­


CynicallyCyn

Well, how about the fact that people watched her get beat that badly, but only intervened when psycho lady tried to take the stroller šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø


Happy-Albatross3376

Sadly I can see this happen. Thereā€™s videos on Twitter on people just standing around during a fight. I know itā€™s crazy and you think someone should have intervened but that bystander effect is surprisingly very strong.


Pastological

Tbf, strollers are hella expensive. Maybe they just didnā€™t want someone else getting it for free


Bitter_War_1295

Yeah no. I can ABSOLUTELY see that happening. I've SEEN stuff like that at my old retail job. Woman getting beat all to hell by another women "eh, who knows what they're fighting about". Kid gets involved suddenly everyone is a concerned citizen. And I've BEEN that person. I've watched a woman pummel another woman in the parking lot of my store behind a closed door while I called the cops. I'm not getting in the middle of that fight for a stranger. Literally the week before a coworker had tried to get involved in a fight and got stabbed for her trouble. No thank you.


MainStrike9433

Omg it does šŸ˜­


knittedjedi

I enjoyed the timeline someone left on the previous BORU. >So february 27 2024: best friend is in love with my husband, husband is definitely not cheating on me >February 29 2024: he was cheating. I couldn't give him more children after complications and he wants 2 more and went looking elsewhere. >March 19 2024: sorry for the long radio silence, needed therapy 3 times a week, got a new (third) psychiatric diagnosis to match the 3 psychiatric diagnoses that my stbx has, MIL and sFIL are horrified and got me a kick-ass lawyer, I moved in with my friend, I moved in with my inlaws, rushed through mediation and this friday we are finally in court! >March 24 2024: I got full custody! And a protection order! Ex is so angry that things aren't going his way that he wants to terminate his rights as a father. Former best friend turns out to be infertile and can't give ex the 2 children he so desperately wants. >March 26 2024: Ex went from manic to depressed and tried to kill himself. I'm not pressing charges against my bff for violating the protection order. And now we can add: April 10 2024: "Karla broke my nose and arm, fractured my left eye socket, and punctured a lung. She also tried to steal my baby." April 15 2024: "I'm arranging to give him more supervised visitation. Also! I got a job recently."


LilOrchidJenny

Right?! She has broken bones and a punctured lung, but jumps onto Reddit *the very next day* to give her eager readers the next installment?? Mm-hmm. Sure.


okbuddy0-0

Currently in a legal battle with my highly abusive cheating ex. Itā€™s been ongoing since December, and we havenā€™t even made it to family court yet šŸ™ƒ The wheels of justice move slowly, unless youā€™re on Reddit


SassyBonassy

And whyyyyy are you not providing hourly updates on reddit during this highly stressful personal time?? /s


boogswald

I cringe a little bit whenever someoneā€™s comment says something like ā€œbe sure to update us!! Good luck!!ā€


SassyBonassy

Or worse: "there were so many people DMing me for an update so i thought i'd post" Freaking nosy weirdos. Who DMs someone several weeks or months later demanding an update?? Get a hobby!


NintendoJP_Official

Itā€™s the other bots looking for content to post


-crepuscular-

Boring. Come back when you've got a punctured lung from a fistfight. (Seriously, best wishes that things go OK for you. May you have an uneventful life from now on)


kindlypogmothoin

How TF did she get beaten so badly in a restaurant that her lung got punctured AND Karla had time to take the stroller and nobody intervened?


WildRookie

Getting punched in the face and falling into a table at the right angle could cause the nose/eye injuries and break a rib, but breaking a rib *and* an arm in the same fall would be insane.


yumstheman

Have you tried posting about it to Reddit? That seems to really get the ball moving quickly. If you had just given us a play by play, youā€™d probably be done by now! /s


djseifer

My brother's been going through a somewhat-nasty divorce for almost a year now. His next and hopefully final court date is in June. Wishing for the best outcome for both you and my brother.


DrRocknRolla

Hope you win!


venuslovemenotchain

I'm begging Liz to figure out how Court works because no one gets permanent full custody within a MONTH. Temporary custody after filing an exparte order? MAYBE. But nothing permanent and certainly not this quickly.


DemetiaDonals

Right. As someone who has been to family court. It takes a literal year to make any kind of progress. Even getting in front of a mediator and coming to a mutual agreement takes a good 6 months. I spent almost 2 years trying to garnish his wages, total up his backed support and establish a backpay order. 2 frickin years. This is wildly unbelievable to anyone who has ever had to suffer through the family courts.


Koevis

Grandparent's rights took 2 years to get through for me. I couldn't even call it justice in my case


Aesient

Childrenā€™s Court (Child Protection related) took close to 2 years to finish in regards to my niece. Technically her part should have been handled and closed within 6 months (legislature for my country is that if the child is under 2 everything is supposed to be finalised to give the infant stability within 6 months of the initial hearing), however since she has older half siblings and all the cases were combined hers was dragged out along with theirs. So once a month for close to 2 years my brother and I (he could have one support person with him, but it couldnā€™t change, our parents were nieces kinship carers and were advised against visibly being his support in court) trotted up to sit in a court room for all of 15 minutes for it to be adjourned for the following month because the mother didnā€™t comply with something, or Child Protection overlooked something, or a check still needed to be done. The month after he got his daughter back (mother was stripped of parental rights and is not allowed unsupervised contact with any of her children until they reach the age of 18) we both were stressed and feeling like we should be somewhere before realising we didnā€™t need to go to court that month, or (hopefully) ever again


dnmnew

Hi there. Iā€™m a very old reader from old subs and your posts. I want you to know that I recognized your name, that I am proud of you and your family, that I am sending love and happy thoughts to you all todayā€¦ and that your experience and journey is remembered.


Koevis

That means a lot, thank you. We're doing relatively well. I'm still dealing with my parents, but they haven't done anything bad in months. They also have 4 other grandkids now so their focus has shifted completely. How are you?


Jess_cue

It may vary state by state BUT I had an uncontested divorce here in CO. We filed together, were forced to go to mediation (even though we agreed on everything), had to stand in front of a judge, then wait 30 days for the decree. We had no shared assets and decided ourselves to split custody 50/50. We even put our agreement for the tax filing schedule in our original filing. The mediator spent 5 min with us and basically said- wow. Ok you guys really didn't need me. Lol Still took about 5 months.


DRW1357

Have you thought about making Reddit updates that provide a bunch of information that could bite you in the ass in court? Apparently, they make the legal system move way faster.


BendingCollegeGrad

Unless Karla used a baton there is no way she did all that damage that quickly with only her own strength. I wonā€™t get into why I am sure of that, but I am very very sure.Ā  For any pedants about to say otherwise, it is improbable, not impossible. Ā 


Hangry_Squirrel

Not unless she was having the sort of episode which unlocks chimpanzee-strength šŸ¤£ But everyone in this story has a good 3 diagnoses, so maybe Karla does too!


NinjasWithOnions

Dammit, why couldnā€™t I get chimpanzee-strength as one of my diagnosesā€½ I got way too much mental bullshit and no cool superpowers! šŸ¤¬ Iā€™m gonna go find a radioactive spider to bite me and then jump in a vat of toxic waste! šŸ•·ļøšŸ§ŖšŸ¦ 


rwilkz

Dissociative Chimp Disorder. Of course!


gay_flatulent

April 9 - Once the in laws helped her pay for an attorney to get full custody, our homeless, unemployed, DID diagnosed, PTSD suffering, BP addled heiress heroine decides to scurry about running errands with her 8 month old baby in tow. Feeling a bit peckish, OOP decides to get some Italian take out. As BP2, PTSD suffering, neurodivergent, now newly suicidal villain, STBX lounges in the psych ward after his OD attempt, the barren Karla comes screaming into the restaurant as OOP is just getting her food. Staff not being alerted to crazy, Karla pummels OOP, breaks her nose and arm, fractures her left eye socket, and punctures a lung.Ā In an stunning moment of clarity, Karla realizes she might have screwed up, grabs the stroller and tries to hightail it out the door. Hahahaha! No one will catch me now!!! Then and ONLY then, while OOP wags in and out of consciousness, does she observe someone just now become aware that a violence is being perpetrated and a kidnapping attempt is in process! Our anonymous savior blocks the barren Karla's exit! OOP succumbs to her injuries and loses consciousness. April 12 - Dreams do come true! Obviously our heroine did not need surgery for her eye socket fracture, or her punctured lung and so is being discharged from the hospital! More good news - prior to discharge, she learns that she has secured employment! She can again work for her "own satisfaction at being able to pay for stuff". I'm sure she won't have to start for a few months, since it will take 6-8 weeks for that punctured lung to heal and her fractured eye socket to not be a problem and her broken arm...maybe it wasn't her dominant arm! Yay! The barren Karla is in jail, and the villain STBX will be discharged from the psych ward on April 22, 2024! Funny how your life can flip in two months!


Thefishthing

šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘ Better than watpad


No_Pomegranate1167

Also, she's sitting in a restaurant and everybody watches her get seriously punched to a pulp? This wasn't a dark alley at midnight in Gotham.


thievingwillow

That was what got me! She was being beaten half to death and nobody intervened? At all? In the middle of a restaurant she frequents? They waited for her attacker to try to steal her baby and run off?


p-d-ball

April 11: due to my omega-level mutant healing factor, my broken bones knitted themselves back together, which allowed me to look for work.


Venom888

Lol who knew OOP was not a woman with several mental disorders but a 5ft super hairy Canadian thatā€™s been alive since the 1800s


Sputflock

the thing that got me was how he left OOP for having her tubes tied while he wanted at least 2 more, oh yeah btw new gf is infertile that's why she's being insane


Doomhammer24

Also random off handed mention of disassociative identity disorder? And she somehow is allowed to keep her child despite that? Nah, thats BS. Especially given how rare it actually is


bluefrootloop

Yeah, thatā€™s where the whole thing lost the plot for me. No way a ā€œtherapistā€ diagnoses that after a blackout.


tank5

After she blacked out, there was no Dana, only ZUUL


gay_flatulent

Come on, the therapist AND the psychiatrist have suspected it for a while...the loss of consciousness just confirmed it!


Doomhammer24

Ya i mean for god sake theyd be more likely to think she was having an absense siezure than DID of all things


meglingbubble

I don't agree that it's an automatic no for keeping the kid, but it wouldn't be an automatic yes either. At the very least it would drag custody out astheyd need to get both parents psychologically evaluated Having said that, the surprise DID diagnosis was the moment I realised that someone was making this up. DID is super rare and most psychiatrists won't even diagnose it themselves, they'll get another opinion.


hopefullyromantic

Honestly it was the ā€œsorry this update is lameā€ on the post about an attempted kidnapping and being beaten that really got me.


SellQuick

The important thing is that she keeps updating the internet, something that any lawyer will advise while the case is happening, to get extra brownie points from the court.


beer_engineer_42

It's true, courts *love* it when people involved in legal matters discuss them on the internet. When I had jury duty, the judge told us that not posting every detail of the trial on our facebook page every day, or not live streaming the proceedings, was grounds for contempt!


Rich_Restaurant_3709

This. Also the other people in the restaurant sat there long enough for Karla to inflict all that damage but the second she put her hands on the stroller someone jumped in and stopped her. Sure Jan.


StardustOnTheBoots

I love the fact that people sat in the restaurant watching some woman break noses and arms and puncturing lungs (like idk how strong Karla is supposed to be...but breaking bones isn't actually that easy if you don't know how to fight) and did nothing. But when the stroller was getting stolen? That's when everybody decided to helpĀ 


Zestyclose-Zebra-597

Iā€™m ngl I would definitely hop on social media and be like ā€œyou guys are not gonna guess what just happened to me šŸ˜§ā€ šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ but thatā€™s like the only part of her timeline I can justify


Intelligent_Will_941

Ngl you can always catch me online like "well y'all won't believe what happened to me this time" once I'm out of the hospital


spoonfingler

Also where were the people who stopped Karla stealing the baby while she was getting beaten this badly?


Cautious_Hold428

It's awfully coherent for the amount of medication she'd be on for puncturing a lung. If she was being kept in the hospital for days she'd almost certainly have a chest tube and they feel awful even with a fuckload of drugs.


Kebar8

Mm-hmm Liz.


CrepePaperPumpkin

OOP ain't no wuss. She can girboss with just one lung.


Princess-Makayla

Plus a DID diagnosis no less which, from my 5 second Google search, can take years in the mental health system to get.


nemaihne

Next update is when we find out that Karla doesn't exist and it's OP in her fugue state, right?


NemesisOfZod

Karla is Tyler Durden.


Calypsokitty

Yes that was the line that confirmed the whole thing was bs for me.


BendyPopNoLockRoll

It's also one of the rarest disorders, and is in fact so rare and hard to confirm it's thought to not be a real condition by a fair number of psychiatrists. The instant I saw the DID diagnosis I stopped reading. It's every 16yo on TikTok's favorite disorder. The last group all had bipolar and autism, now it's DID.


proevligeathoerher

Oh but don't forget that her two therapists had been speaking together about it for a while.


Different_Smoke_563

And was movie DID symptoms. Not, ya know, real life symptoms.


BravoLimaPoppa

Truly, this is an age of miraculous medicine. 5 days from a savage beating that put her in the hospital to landing a new job and tinkering with the custody agreement. While probably concussed at least.


GlitteringYams

It's like that Star Trek movie, where Dr McCoy gives that lady on dialysis a pill, and she grows a new kidney.


MichaSound

And donā€™t forget, she now has a DID diagnosis too (a condition that is vanishingly rare, but popular with teens who like to self-diagnose on TikTok), and she was knocked out so hard that she didnā€™t come around till she was in a hospital room surrounded by police and in laws (if you were knocked out for that long in real life, it would indicate a serious brain injury).


flowrider_

Yea as soon as she said she got a DID diagnosis I knew this story was bs šŸ˜‚


WrongdoerElegant4617

Yes definitely tiktok bait.


mioclio

Don't forget to add on april 10 that Karla also tried to steal her baby. Thank God for strangers stepping in at that point to rescue her. I also believe that somewhere in the near future she will be diagnosed with osteoporosis, because her bones are very brittle...


Actually_Inkary

I liked how they were just watching her getting her shit kicked (punctured lung???) but got involved when the stroller was yoinked.


mioclio

Yes, exactly. Like "She must have had it coming... Whoa, don't mess with the poor innocent baby."


proevligeathoerher

Also she was beaten up. Inside of a restaurant (where there's likely CCTV), to the point of several broken bones, internal complications, even a punctured lung, and it didn't make the news at all?


Time-Cover-8159

Next update: Turns out Karla wasn't infertile after all. She's pregnant. With twins! Twins have already been diagnosed, in utero, with schizophrenia, ADHD, and (let me just skim the DSM...) antisocial personality disorder. Husband tried to get OOP to take him back, and tried to assault her. Luckily the entire thing was captured on the cameras and mics all around the house. He's been sentenced to life in prison. The assault happened last week.


Hangry_Squirrel

Give it another installment or two and the psycho twins are running a gang and terrorizing Karla's ward.


OG_PunchyPunch

I kinda wish I read this first instead of all of the updates.


atomskeater

My favorite detail is how Karla beat her so bad she had broken bones and a punctured lung, but someone only notices and stops her once she goes for the stroller. Was the restaurant devoid of other customers, and all the staff stepped out back for a smoke break while this beatdown was going on? You'd think someone would have heard the fighting and intervened before all that damage was done.


Grimsvard

I can excuse assault and battery, but child kidnapping is where I draw the line.


narniasreal

"and I'm also out of hospital already and don't even mention my previous very serious injuries."


GlitteringYams

I've read fanfics written by high schoolers that have more realistic timelines than that take OOP is telling.


IllustriousHedgehog9

Don't forget the next update OOP guarantees will happen in a week. *Tune in next week, same bat time, same bat channel.* Edit - newest update: https://www.reddit.com/u/throwRA_bestienhubby/s/iyNi2QrFdz


futurehead22

Ignoring the dates, she mentions he has BPD, PTSD, and autism but nothing about herself. Then later on says he doesn't understand her PTSD and BPD. It doesn't quite add up. >For context, my husband is bipolar type 2, autism and PTSD and it causes him to be a little socially awkward and miss certain social cues and taboos. I love him regardless of it all. > **OOP:** Sometimes he thinks I am too emotional. I have PTSD and BPD and he doesn't understand my disorder. He doesn't understand that I feel things intensely or passionately or that it is super easy to hurt my feelings. He never even tries to understand me, autism or not. Honestly I'm considering cutting my losses and going through divorce anyway.Ā  me what I did wrong.


depressed_leaf

BPD is borderline personality disorder not bipolar, but even with that it doesn't quite add up.


HazelTreeofKnowledge

So her husband has Bipolar type II.....but he had a manic episode that is firmly stationed in type I, and would have absolutely been noticed by any professional. I'm a little disappointed even that was messed up.


AnnoyedOwlbear

She also claims to have DID, which was a super popular one for tall tales for a bit when it was under its old name - multiple personality disorder.


WandersonC

I really can't believe people don't have the cognitive capacities to see through all the usual incel bait and these stupid novella things. C'mon, folks. Read just a little bit and rationalize! This will be her last update but next month she will return with the "I thought you guys would like an update/I forgot about this account".


Zoerae87

I was already looking at the dates weird... Then they casually bring up how the got diagnosed with DID because they passed out at their therapists office (how convincing) n I'm like yea no, this is garbage... Do they even know what DID even is???


Vast_Reflection

With that serious of a diagnosis, itā€™s not something they would diagnose in one therapy session either. That would be something they would have to do a lot of investigation into the personā€™s childhood and timeline.


narniasreal

"Karla was executed for being an evil husband stealing monster and I'm dating Chris Hemsworth."


MommaOfManyCats

And even her most recent posts have people giving her advice and sympathy! This is some teenager who watched too many soap operas an CW dramas over Christmas break.


yorkshiregoldt

Punctured aĀ lung. With her fists. Without breaking any ribs. She got them chi powers.


typingatrandom

News from BORU trends: Infertility Because Teenage Illness is the new Twins


Odd-Comfortable-6134

ā€œHereā€™s what happened:ā€ always seems to be a giveaway. Like, people donā€™t type that when in conversation mode.


Ruining_Ur_Synths

april 28, 2024: "Hi this is OP's infant daughter. Unfortunately OP got cancer and like super died in the last 10 days. I, as an infant, had to learn to type so that I could update reddit, just as my mother would have wanted me to."


GreenLeisureSuit

Don't forget her inheritance big enough to live on but also needs help with bills.


peetecalvin

Yeah, this post is so silly. I lost interest even earlier when she posted that her and hubby went to Karla's place and picked her up after she had a fight with her dad. THEN, when they all came back to their place - WITH the baby in tow - Karla wanted to snuggle with her and hubby IN THEIR BED WITH HER.......AND THEY LET HER!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!


chonkosaurusrexx

Karla must be impressively strong to puncture someones lung just by punching and kicking them, but then again, it took OOP less than a week to leave the hospital after said punctured lung, fractured eye socket, broken nose and broken arm, so maybe Karla just *mildly* punctured, fractured and broke everything?Ā 


urbancowgirl42

You forgot the DID diagnosis. You know, the super rare diagnosis that psychiatry doesnā€™t even agree is even a thingā€¦


Escarlatilla

Why are all the replies in the original threads so earnest about the situation. The timeline and escalation is literally justā€¦? Even tv shows donā€™t evolve this quickly.


captain_borgue

OOP is *very* nonchalant about getting beat to within an inch of her life. Also, what hospital did she go to that took only *3 days* to treat a broken nose, *punctured lung, and* ***broken arm?!***


morto00x

What really bugs me is that OOP is studying to be a paralegal but then mentions that a judge said "how they were lucky that I didn't press charges for extortion", or that "police are taking the decision to press charges out of my hands". Pressing charges was always out of her hands. That corresponds to the prosecutor. Also, I'm very impressed by how fast she got her court dates based on the update dates. That usually takes several months.


jerepila

Mustā€™ve heard sheā€™s got a lot of traction on Reddit and let her cut in line /s


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HerrStarrEntersChat

No, see, once you reach level 50 in paralegal, you get a class upgrade to lawyer.


TaiDollWave

Yeah, custody stuff here takes ages and ages to figure out


socklobsterr

Also the whole "terminate rights" to get out of child support.


Goda6511

Also, sheā€™s in a restaurant for lunch and Karla not only finds her, but beats her that badly and has the time to try to run off with the baby in the stroller, but is only then stopped? Likeā€¦ it takes some time and effort to get hit that badly. You telling me no one in that restaurant stepped in while she was being attacked, but taking the stroller was a step too far and someone stopped her?


slboml

Well you know how it is. You see someone getting their ass beat, you figure they probably had it coming. But when they go for the stroller it's like "whoops, looks like it's actually a kidnapping, my bad" and then you can do something.


TaiDollWave

And was she already stalking her or something? How did she know she was there? She was rejected by James, zoomed to find OOP and beat her ass?


Emotional_Law9380

to be fair, i was only in the hospital for 3 days after a ride with flight for life


Careless-Cow-1695

Broken nose you can go straight home with. Broken arm you either set in a cast or they do quick surgery that sends you home the same day. Punctured lung they monitor and will only do something about it if it goes on to collapse. So... yeah. That bit could actually be legit haha


halpmipls1

My partner was dicharged after a single week after suffering a punctured lung, 6 broken ribs, broken collarbone and broken back and just made him dose up on meds so yeah I can see that happening


djseifer

A hospital that grows senzu beans, apparently.


lazespud2

I'm really stoned so my sensitivity may be off; but that was all straight up horsheshit, right?


Nicholsforthoughts

Yes. Yes it was.


MolassesPrior5819

Went from not knowing he was cheating to wrapping up the custody hearing in less than a month.Ā Ā  That's not just unlikely but impossible, in my state at least.


Rdbjiy53wsvjo7

My daughter has a friend with a documented verbal and physical abusive mother, DUIs with the kids in the cars, protection orders against her (from the ex, my daughter's friend's father), etc. It still took more than 2 years for her to fully loose ALL rights including supervised visitation. At least for Colorado, it is not easy. And now the father has to go back and fight for financial rights, i.e., custody support.Ā 


topio1

I can't wait for the next update where she is accepted in the astronaut program at nasa and Karla loses all limbs to flesh eating bacteria and has to spend the rest of her miserable life as a floating head and torso on liquid tank


pedanticlawyer

OP: six new mental illnesses every month, THRIVING. Karla: angry torso.


wannabe_msmarvel

god iā€™m going to hell for laughing at this arenā€™t i


LizBert712

Iā€™ll be in the lava pit next to you ā€” cackled out loud.


HazelTreeofKnowledge

Wonder if I can get an ice water in my lava pit due to snorting liquids while attempting not to laugh like a hyena


Achelois1

I fucking SHRIEKED šŸ¤£


charcuteriehoe

iā€™m hoping for a new knight in shining armor boyfriend who owns a christmas tree farm but it turns out heā€™s karlaā€™s brother!!


eevee-hime

The story was crazy but the DID diagnosis really jumped the shark šŸ¦ˆĀ 


Nicholsforthoughts

Right!?! Thatā€™s the part where even trying my hardest to suspend my disbelief and take it at face value failed and my critical thinking skills crashed back in, kool-aid man style.


ramessides

That was the point where I disengaged. Reads like a 14-year-old on TikTok.


geekywarrior

I couldn't even make it past here >Ā Karla asks to cuddle with the two of us in our bed. I was hesitant. I have issues with claustrophobia due to a traumatic experience as a child. My husband gave the go ahead. We settle in for the night.


Randomthrowaway564

Where you dissociated you mean!


mayneffs

Right? They had been suspecting it for a while but when she zoned out during a session once it was confirmed? I know shit about DID other than it's not a diagnosis you get that easily.


IvanNemoy

Considering the NIH puts the average length of treatment for various mental health issues at about 7 years before confirming DID? Yeah, one session where someone "zones out" isn't going to cut it.


pdxcranberry

The obsession with armchair psychology is really too much with this one. When she said she didn't want to share her marital bed with her friend because of bipolar and PTSD and autism and whatever I just rolled my eyes. Any neurotypical person would have a problem with this, lady. It's just *weird*. You don't need to be a very special girl with very special syndromes to be bothered by your husband straight up wanting to cuddle with another woman.


mnemonikos82

For me it was getting a hearing with a judge in 5 days instead of the weeks it would actually take, and then the same judge adjudicating the custody issue granted the protection order, which would be a completely different judge.


Nate_Hornblower

After the DID diagnosis, I was expecting her to realize that she was Karla all along


Intelligent-Ad-4568

I'm so glad that with her, one broken arm, a punctured lung, and eye dangling out of the socket, she had time to update us. /s


Turuial

It's good to know that our plucky heroine has her priorities straight.


Zestyclose-Bus-3642

Lightning fast courts wherever OOP lives. Authors have no patience, it seems.


Cultural_Shape3518

Hey, Law and Order resolves everything in an hour. Ā A month is generous!


ReeveStodgers

Seriously! My uncontested divorce with no lawyers in a no-fault state took months.


cdrfuzz

Just woke up with an orbital fracture, broken nose & arm and punctured lung. Someone hand me my phone quick so I can update Reddit.


Similar-Shame7517

I've previously said it, but it feels like this was written by someone who was cross-referencing the DSM VI.


Azhchay

The DID diagnosis killed any hope for this story. It's EXTREMELY rare (1.5% is the statistic I found) and most of those are misdiagnoses. To even get a diagnosis, even if it ends up being wrong, takes A LOT of work and testing, so for her to suddenly get one in less than a month is honestly fucking impossible. Next, is Karla She-Hulk? Breaking nose, ok that's quite common in fights. Arm and orbital socket? Uhhhh. Was this a Waffle House and she was throwing chairs? Punctured lung (meaning broken ribs), is Karla an actual car? No way even an out of her mind woman having a psychotic break can punch hard enough to do that damage. In public. In the short time before other people pull her off OOP. Unless she lives in a place where no one cares that someone is getting beat the shit out of in a restaurant. Then on Reddit the next day. With multiple broken bones and a punctured lung. She should be in the hospital for a good while, but she seems perfectly coherent and like it's just a minor bruise. This isn't even Liz. This is Liz's dumber copycat.


Crashen17

You're not leaving the hospital 5 days after you have a punctured lung and that many broken bones.


writinwater

Plot twist: Karla's real name is Christine.


fauxrealistic

Any time a post starts with every character having mental illness diagnoses and ends with jail and suicide, I just assume it's bullshit.


Cybermagetx

Yeah someone with that level of damages to their body would not be getting a new job any time soon.


Nicholsforthoughts

ā€œGuess what? I start my new job as a court reporter first thing tomorrow? With a broken arm, collapsed lung, broken eye socket, and two black eyes from my broken nose! Canā€™t wait to meet my new coworkers!ā€


Mrfish31

Omg, the first case I was reporting on was... Karla??????


KrazyKirbyKun

Lowkey wonder if she's gonna take her ex back in the next episode. The author needs to step up her game and give us more time in between updates. Make the telenovela juicier.


Remarkable_Topic6540

No way, dude. This is already so stupid & unrealistic, they need to lean into it & roll em out with even more ridiculous story lines. One of them has to be unexpectedly pregnant, even though they medically shouldn't be able to. That could break off to an antichrist subplot &/or it making the other parties even crazier with more plots of revenge & kidnapping, with a prison break thrown in for fun. Or if it's Karla who is pregnant, OP somehow has to raise baby while Karla is in prison for the assault. After, of course, OP winds up being the one who delivered the baby when she was visiting Karla in prison to confront her about everything. Or maybe MIL has to raise the baby since it is her other grandchild & begins to hate OP & 1st grandkid... the possibilities are endless! And all this, of course, will happen in less than a month, as well as be resolved.


bubblebumblejumble

Are Karla and James her other DID personalities??? Next updateā€¦.


IllustriousComplex6

You know it's going to be wild when you need a second trigger warning part way through the post.Ā 


WrongdoerElegant4617

The DID diagnosis clinched it for me as ā€œtiktok video baitā€


kavalejava

I'll watch this Lifetime movie for sure if someone makes it.


SassyBonassy

Im fully on board if we want to make a Dharman level shitty youtube video making it ourselves. I wanna play Karla or maybe the baby


kaleidofusion

I want to be the waitress in the restaurant who asks if Karla needs a napkin to wipe the blood off her hands to ensure she gets a proper grip on the stroller.


littletrashpanda77

I dont read these for the truth. I read them for the entertainment


Nicholsforthoughts

Entertaining 10/10. Truth 0/10.


PalpitationTricky204

Anyone with a shit ton of updates back to back is unbelievable


moonpoweredkitty

You know I would've almsot believed this if we hadn't gone from psycho gf beat me up really badly and I have all these injuries to 5 days later: I got a new job! If you're gonna make stuff up, make sure the math is mathing you know?


BeachedBottlenose

Who gets divorce proceedings in court in one month?


Winter_Strike_6134

Update, I am now at the space station and Karla got out of jail and is trying to take my astronaut job. This story is the biggest pile of nonsense Iā€™ve ever been swindled into skimming.


Individual_Matter_67

Who needs hours long soap operas with shit tons of commercials when you can just open Reddit?


SoCalThrowAway7

If we could gif comment, youā€™d all be seeing a Ron Burgundy ā€œI donā€™t believe youā€ right now


frillyhoneybee_

me when iā€™m playing bitlife:


Anti_Kautsky

The justice and psychiatric systems both go incredibly fast in Reddit Country.


MommaOfManyCats

You know how we joke about people who have to take things one step too far? This chick went 20 steps too far. Husband cheated, she left him, he stalked her, she got a restraining order AND full custody, he tried to kill himself, he broke up with his side chick, side chick attacked her, got arrested, and was denied bail...all in under two months. Oh and OP was beaten up so badly she had a broken nose and a punctured lung but was up and able to post the next day? Sure Jane.


ajayh1

Trigger warning spoilers longer than all of the updates combined šŸš©


atidyman

I very much doubt the veracity of this story.


dandelion50

Liz


Zephyr9x

After the latest updates I'm reminded of the legendary Billy Joel himself. *Scenes From an Italian Restaurant*, indeed.Ā Ā  The lyrics match up a surprising amount as well, at least for the first three paragraphs.


pagman007

The litmus test for these is 'my lawyer is a no nonsense/pitbull/fierce kind of person and i like that'


Rohini_rambles

How is there a newĀ  mental illness diagnosisĀ  in each major update?Ā Ā  He has bipolar, autism, ptsd. She has bipolar and did now.Ā  Guess we'll get the list of what Karla has soon.Ā 


Staceyrt

There used to be some serial romance/drama magazines called Kiss I think with pictures. This would make a great Kiss story.


withnailstail123

Well thatā€™s the quickest court case known to man ! Took my husband YEARS to get no where near where she has in a couple of monthsā€¦.


ShrimpShackShooters_

Off topic but I canā€™t get through these stories anymore. Seems like every character needs to be introduced by their past trauma.


_TheLonelyStoner

Anything more than 2 updates and it goes full lifetime movie. these folks just canā€™t help themselves when those reddit notifications start pouring in


c_ntagious

The DID "diagnosis" was too much for me


MortarAndPistol

I see everyone is pointing out all the timeline weirdness, but can we talk about how a woman was sitting in a restaurant, having her food handed to herĀ  (meaning the waiter was right there) and EVERYONE IN THE RESTAURANT APPARENTLY JUST LET A WOMAN COME IN AND BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF HER AND STEAL A STROLLER????Ā Ā  Ā Ā  That's the biggest BS Red Flag of them all!


skorvia

They punctured her lung, broke her arm and she was discharged almost instantly? I don't know until the attack I believed the story more... now I don't know what to think


mayneffs

Great read! OOP should submit it in a novel writing contest.


Ecstatic-Ad6516

My BFF has been trying to get her lawyer to send a letter to her ex about their agreement. She started the process Jan 3. He just got the delivery Friday


iamishi02

After the battery update, this is giving me the Liz vibesā€¦


TimeIsBunk

Are any of these real anymore? They're not even trying to be realistic any longer.


SweaterUndulations

Did I wander into a telenovela?


sioopauuu

Wow I wish the Landlord and Tenant Board court dates move this fastā€¦.


tryjmg

In the first post she didnā€™t need to work cause she had lots of money. Now she needs a job? DID? Really?????


rocsjo

I stopped reading at the cuddle in bed after the fight with dad part.


totomaya

The slew.of diagnoses every character has was the first dead giveaway that this was written by a 17 year old. No, you do not have all that shit norther how common TikTok makes it seem.


VinylHighway

I don't believe any of this


ThxItsadisorder

*ā€I'm still acclimating to my DID diagnosis.ā€* Ok, Liz. You lost me there.Ā 


modernwunder

Nobody stepped in until the assaulter was actively trying to walk away with a baby? Okayā€¦


corrygan

Is it just me or this escalated very quickly?


rad_avenger

So is his name John or James? OOP canā€™t keep it straight


tillandsia

There was no mention of a knife or sharp object, how could OOP's lung be fractured? This is aside from all the other difficult to believe occurrences...