I lost a significant part of my normal household income recently, because the person I lived with cares very little about anyone but himself, and after I found out he was trying to ‘get to know’ someone else, he decided to stick it to me by leaving me high and dry. His reason? Just because he wanted to be “independent”.
I’m an artist trying to branch out my own, but I’m working 2 jobs just to pay rent and utilities! I’m lucky if have any money leftover so I can eat, maybe buy a public transit pass to get to work every day (I don’t own a car). After all this I don’t have any money to run my business. I have gone to the welfare office but I don’t qualify for emergency assistance because I haven’t had anything happen to me that qualifies as an ’emergency’ yet. I need your help. I am in need of some extra cash to help me pay for groceries and transportation to continue to work so that I may build some business capital. My credit is–for lack of a better word–shot. I cannot take out a loan because I don’t own a home or have a banking account.
Let me tell you a story…
Once upon a time I met a man. We went out a couple times over the course of one weekend, and had a couple intimate encounters. After 2-1/2 weeks he fell in love with me. I was taken aback, sort of, and ‘thinking about’ that. In the meantime we seem inseperable. We do everything together. He unofficially “moved in” by leaving his clothes, toothbrush and other assorted items at my place, and always sleeps there. I meet his parents. He meets mine. He grows on me and I finally start to love him back, only ten times more that I thought I could ever love someone. He proposes to me after 6 months and a year after that we get a place together. Everything seems okay, although the safety and charm of the neighborhood we move into is highly questionable. After almost 1 year in our new place, I experience some months of irratic behavior from him and many instances where he was not returning home until the wee hours of the morning. I ask him what is wrong with him. He tells me he doesn’t want to live here anymore. I tell him I don’t want him living here, then.
I have recently lost a significant part of my income because of this a-hole’s sudden streak of ‘independence’ and can assure you that I had done nothing wrong to cause he breakup. His answers to my many inquiries as to such were simply ‘he’d changed’ and ‘didn’t want to hurt me but still loved and cared for me’, just wasn’t ‘in love’ with me any more. Which I find to be pure B.S. because if you cared about someone, you’d call home at least ONCE in a while to let them know you’re not dead in some dark alley, on a hospital gurney, or behind bars. What I found out, is that he had been persuing a woman at work.