C (46:16)
So Laura and I, while she's Living with me are having heart to heart conversations sitting on my couch. And at the time, we both are clocking that there's a cat cam in the corner. It's up, so it's looking down on where we would sit on the couch. So we had asked Peter. We're like, this has no sound, right? Like, we just, you know, we're having these girl talks. And he's like, absolutely not. No sound. These cat cams are only visual, especially this one specifically, don't worry. Plus, if it ever records, it makes a little like bing sound and it turns red. And we're like, great. So her and I are talking, having conversations about whether I'm happy in the relationship, how I'm doing mentally and physically. She's checking in on me and asks me straight up one day, like, do you want to stay in this relationship? And we'd have that conversation. And then Peter would come home and say, hey, can I talk to you? And he almost parrots what I was saying or what Laura was saying to me. And I thought that was a little strange. We were talking about that earlier today. He's like, well, I just had this big spiritual insight. You know, I'm just really connected with the divine and with source. And I just felt like you weren't happy, like, what's going on? So I would tell him, you know, the same thing. I would tell him, like, yeah, these are my concerns. He would talk in circles until I didn't really know what my concerns were. And then we move on, same, another conversation. And every time we'd have these conversations, he'd come back that night and tell us, hey, like, I feel like you guys aren't happy, or I feel like this is going on. And it's the same exact conversation that Laura and I just had. And we just both thought that was really weird. But again, we had no evidence that he was doing anything weird. So she ends up leaving and we're talking on the phone and I'm having this phone call. She's on speakerphone. I'm walking around my apartment and she's asks me, do you want to stay? And I'm double checking again because I'm just really worried with everything that I saw now that I'm out of the apartment, reflecting on it, talking to people about it, I'm really concerned about you and that these are huge problems that I have seen day to day. And I say, I don't know, I think I'm considering leaving Peter. And two minutes after that, I get a phone call, call from Peter in the middle of the day. Which is weird. So I was like, hey, I'm just gonna put you on hold for a second. And I answer the phone, and he's like, hey, can we talk? And I was like, sure. And then he was like, so I'm checking on the cats, and it happens that the volume is working. And I hear you say that you're not happy and you're thinking about leaving me. And I was like. You said, there's no microphone capability on this. And he's like, well, there is, but it doesn't really work a lot of the time. I said, so what did you hear? And so he references two points in the conversation that are like, beginning and end. He's like, I only popped in for a second. And I said, well, those are two completely different parts of this conversation. If you popped in, you wouldn't have heard both of those pieces. And I'm thinking back as we're talking, and I know that these conversations that Laura and I have had, you've probably been listening in. And he's like, well, you know, I've had some moments where I've listened in. And I was like, so why did you lie to me and tell me that you couldn't hear us? Like, just be honest and say that you're listening in or you're checking in. Because now I feel really violated. And I feel, like, naked. Like, I. Everything that I thought, like, I'm talking to my dad on the phone and my mom. And conversations that are supposed to be private, and you're just listening to them. And he's like, yeah, I feel really embarrassed about it. And I was like, I need to hang up the phone. Cause I'm really upset and really violated right now. And when I got off the phone with him and called Laura back, and we were going through all these different conversations that we'd had and realized that the spiritual connection. And, like, it was in the back of our head. That's when we realized, like, every single conversation we had had while she was there for, like, six or seven months with us that he was probably listening in on.
