# Exes And Oh NOs | Reading Reddit Stories

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Podcast: [Smosh Reads Reddit Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/smosh-reads-reddit-stories-6465869)
Published: 2025-12-13T18:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8818508
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## Resource

The Smosh crew dives into a collection of toxic relationship drama, ranging from privacy disputes to extreme infidelity. The episode explores the thin line between harmless secrets and relationship-ending betrayals.

## Highlights
- Main idea: Relationship boundaries are often tested by extreme secrecy, such as hiding professional identities
- Failure mode: Using old, irrelevant grievances to justify current suspicious behavior often masks one's own infidelity
- Practical takeaway: Transparency is vital, but demanding access to a partner's private creative work can be a red flag
- Main idea: Petty revenge, like photoshopping an ex out of family pictures, highlights the lingering tension of breakups
- Failure mode: Making offensive jokes during high-stakes emotional moments, like weddings, can permanently damage intimacy

## Topics

Relationship Drama, Reddit Stories, Infidelity, Am I The Asshole, Social Boundaries, Marriage Problems, Petty Revenge

## Chapters
- 1:00 — The Pen Name Dispute: A debate over whether a partner has the right to demand the secret identity of an erotica author.
- 13:00 — The Mechanic's Secret: An analysis of a woman whose husband used a decade-old message to justify his own recent cheating.
- 23:00 — The Breakup Pivot: Discussing the emotional fallout and the ambiguity of 'breaks' that lead to permanent separations.
- 34:00 — Digital Erasure: The ethics of using Photoshop to remove an ex-partner from significant life photographs.
- 51:00 — Wedding Day Blunders: A look at a groom whose attempt at a 'funny' wedding joke backfired into a public insult.
- 1:07:00 — Petty Revenge: Exploring the chaotic energy of locking an ex out of shared spaces as a form of retaliation.

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