I (35F) want to leave my abusive husband (32M combat veteran) so badly but I don't know the best way to do it. I'm sorry this is so long but I'm begging for help, insight, any reassurance...
He says he used to have major anger issues but I never thought he would take them out on me. He has PTSD and a traumatic brain injury which makes his moods unpredictable.
I talked to his ex two days ago and she said he shoved her once, put his hands around her neck during a flashback, and also had a gun pointed at her during a flashback. He said they were engaged but she insisted they never were. She also said he was supposed to pick her up from the airport one time but he texted back saying he couldn't, because he wasn't sure if he was going to do something bad to her.
His abuse started when we moved in together while we were still engaged. I found out he had been on Onlyfans at the beginning of our relationship and just shortly before we got married... I was angry but I downplayed it and thought I could get over it. All it did was cause massive trust issues that have never healed and never will. He was subscribed to one of his exes and he also messaged one of the girls asking to meet just shortly after I stayed the week at his place for my birthday.
I spiraled mentally once the anger phase passed (severe depression and anxiety) and told him what I saw. He tried to deny it but when I said I knew his "pictures" he caved and said he wished I never told him and punched the headboard of our bed. He's my only source of comfort so I went to him countless times telling him I was still struggling with my trust issues and worried about whether he was still looking at other women, because he is subscribed to tons of women like that on Instagram and Tiktok. I started snooping looking for any evidence I could get so I could finally convince myself to leave him.
Everytime I confronted him about what I saw he made excuses and flew into a rage at me for snooping, screamed in my face, threw objects and furniture around (including our wedding rings and he broke my engagement ring in the process), punched walls, threatened divorce, demanded me to leave, or walked out without saying where he was going which made me call the police one time to look for him. I blamed myself because I was the one snooping and I told myself how would I feel if my partner constantly snooped on me? I blamed myself for everything and still kind of do. But he says it's his fault I'm like this and he just has to deal with the consequences.
Other times he says he has changed and it's my fault for getting in my head all the time, that my lack of trust is always so hard on him, and that my depression and anxiety are constantly dragging him down even though he says he's doing everything right to make me feel better. When I come to him to talk he usually sighs or treats it like a chore.
He says he beats himself up everyday for what he did and has apologized multiple times. But I never see any true regret. He told me "everybody else gets over their problems, why can't you?" He says he went through so much worse in the military than I have ever gone through and he got over his problems, so why can't I? That I need to "unfuck" myself and "everybody has depression."
One day when he came home I was feeling very low but he was in a bad mood already and he came at me, screaming that he's getting tired of me always being down and threatened divorce. I asked if he hated me and he looked at me and said in a really frightening way "if I hated you you'd be dead." That crushed me. Another time I got mad and said I was this way because of what he did to break my trust and he screamed at me multiple times to STFU, "waaah waaah waaaah you're always a Debbie downer" and threw in my face "you have no friends." He said he was done with the marriage but I talked him into staying because he has me so convinced the problem is me.
Other things... rough/forceful/demeaning sex... always saying "fuck you baby" in a cutesy way as a way to interact when we're doing our own things separately... slamming a controller down on my knee accidentally because he flew into a rage over losing a game... continuing to yell and saying he wasn't allowed to express anger even when I said it was scaring me... telling me once "I don't THINK I'd ever hurt you" (physically)... almost never helping with house chores and shopping... using me for money even though he makes more than I do with his disability payments... insulting my mother who helps us financially... trying to kick my cat one night when he couldn't sleep.
He's always so mean and critical of complete strangers when we go out and he acts like a macho narcissist who has everything figured out and he knows the right way about everything, like someone who is super opinionated to an obnoxious extent.
There's more but this is the worst of it all.
I read Lundy Bancroft's book asking myself if he's really that bad because 90% of the time he's good and loving. I know what I'm involved in and I know how much I've trauma bonded with him. But I've reached the point where I wake up every day in panic and despair knowing I'm still here and I want to get out. I already tried to leave before with a go bag and my cat but he talked me back. Some days I still try to convince myself the good times are worth staying for because I'm exhausted and I just want a good day for once. I've been miserable for months but I'm a pressure cooker now just waiting to blow. I'm falling apart.
I know I'm going to talk to a divorce lawyer and at least see if I have a case to have him evicted through a PFA. In that case he would be moving back in with his dad but he'd be close by. I could get the locks changed but I wouldn't put it past him to stalk me and try to hurt me (PFA or not -- he is suicidal anyway and has a lot of contempt for laws and the police), vandalize my car, or try to break into the apartment to hurt me or my cat. I don't even know if I would still be happy here where all these bad memories happened. And I wouldn't feel safe for myself or my cat everytime if I left the apartment.
The only other option is moving back in with my alcoholic narcissistic mother (my abusive alcoholic scizophrenic brother lives with her too) who doesn't know how to provide emotional support and hasn't been supportive at all throughout this marriage except financially. I would have to live in her garage, trust her not to let my cat loose if I go out, and make multiple trips back to my abusive husband still in the apartment to get all my belongings and furniture. He doesn't work, he's on school break now for summer so he's always here. I know I can get a police escort but they're not going to wait around for me to pack up the entire place. Almost everything is mine.
My husband might even just volunteer to leave and move back in with his dad like he has done before. I might not even need a PFA. I'm more afraid he'll try to hurt me if I actually get one versus if he just left by himself. I also don't know if he would offer to leave then just try to come back and hurt me before I could get the locks changed. The landlords constantly ignore the residents so I'd have to wait days or weeks for a lock change. Our lease ends next March.
I don't know what to do. All I want is to be by myself again with my cat in a safe place and it seems like no place and no escape plan I can come up with is entirely safe or secure. I'm at a loss but I can't keep living like this.

Republic 7^th Fleet, Centaurus Sector, 407 light years from Earth
RSS Vercingetorix, Independence-Class Carrier, 2174 A.D.
Vice-Admiral Mei Zhou had just finished making the final changes to the fleet’s reconnaissance patrol routes with her senior staff when the comm panel on her desk chirped, displaying an incoming comm request from Admiral Thompson. She quickly thumbed the pad being offered by her aide so that he could issue the orders they were just working on and turned to the rest of her staff. “Nice job, people. Let’s get to work. Dismissed.” As the staff filed out the door, she started entering the codes needed to decrypt the incoming comm channel and looked up to make sure the room was empty. She pressed the open channel icon, and Admiral Thompson’s holo image appeared in front of her desk, ending just below his waist and making it seem as if he was actually there, sitting.
“Mei, how’s your new ship treating you?” he asked, smiling. “She is an absolute beauty, Karl. I still can’t believe that she is mine.” She responded, returning his smile. “What can I do for you, Karl?” Thompson chuckled, and his holo image leaned back as he reclined in his chair. “Straight to business; I always liked that about you, Mei. Alright, here we go. We have received intelligence reports that the Commonwealth has begun evacuating one of their last remaining coreward periphery worlds that is now dangerously close to the expanded Insectoid border. We have also received an update from our spy drones in that same region that six Hive ships and almost four hundred cruisers that were patrolling their side of that border area have disappeared. This is too much of a coincidence, and I want you to detach a combat patrol and send them there.” Thompson finished speaking, and a flashing icon popped up on her comm panel, indicating that she had just received new orders. She tapped it and quickly scanned the new orders as the admiral waited. She looked up at his holo image. “Karl, I acknowledge receipt of the new orders and will implement them. Between me and you, why are we getting involved with this? The Commonwealth has a navy, and they should be fighting to protect their space. We can’t keep coming to the rescue and defending their members; we are already spread too thin as it is.”
Thompson nodded his head in agreement. “Mei, I agree with you in principle, but there are social and political considerations involved here. The near extinction of the V’rni has caused considerable turmoil among the citizens of the Republic. They know logically that we could not have stopped such an attack like that one, but the perceived failure to protect them or prevent the attack still weighs heavily on their souls. The Commonwealth is currently attempting to evacuate the Jaleen system, and they are one of the last surviving members that voted yes before our petition to join the Commonwealth was denied. It also doesn’t help that the Jaleeni are avowed pacifists and look like bipedal Newfoundland dogs. They are technically a bear-like species, but to humans, they look like humanoid dogs, and the government is unwilling to lose the popular support it currently enjoys by allowing the Jaleeni to be exterminated. I mean, look at these guys.”
Another flashing icon popped up on her screen a moment later, and she pressed it. It turned into a hologram depicting a typical Jaleeni family of a mother and father with a litter of six pups, and she couldn’t help but smile as she looked at the photo. They were wearing their traditional rough-spun linen clothes that made them look like dogs cosplaying as monks. They looked adorable, and she felt her heart melt while staring into their deep brown eyes, which looked sad. She understood the reasoning behind it, especially after the mass extinctions that occurred in Earth’s biosphere because of World War 3.
After the war, humanity had an awakening when they surveyed their destroyed world and came to terms with the disappearance of thousands of species and the near extinction of thousands of others. What followed were three generations of desperate measures to salvage what remained and a worldwide effort at habitat restoration and de-extinction efforts utilizing a wide array of methods such as back-breeding, cloning, and genome editing. Dogs were almost driven to extinction by the war as they were uniquely susceptible to the BioChem weapons that were developed and refined by the Eastern Coalition animal testing on poor innocent canine subjects. Between the Biochem weapons, owner deaths, abandonment, and starvation, almost 90% of the domesticated canine population and entire breeds were lost by the war’s end. Cats fared much better, but they still suffered a loss of almost half of their pre-war population, and a large percentage of the survivors reverted to a feral state. The result of all of this was an almost religious reverence for the preservation of sentient animal life on human worlds and a somewhat fanatical tendency of humans to take on the mantle of guardians for sapient alien species that resembled animals to them.
“Karl, I understand; I do. I just don’t like the fact that we are operating on so many fronts. Some of our fleets and task forces are patrolling areas far enough away that I worry about them getting reinforcements on time if they are attacked, and now my fleet is being partitioned to send a combat patrol almost three hundred light-years away from our current position. After the assault on the V’rn system, half of our combat power was recalled to Republic space to prevent the same thing from happening to us, and yet we are still being tasked with properly defending Eleani and Xenxin territory with half the ships we had before. Have they lost their damn minds at HQ?” She realized she was almost yelling at the admiral, and Mei took a deep breath, recognizing that her outburst was unbecoming of a Republic naval officer. She attempted to quickly apologize to Admiral Thompson. “Karl, I’m sorry that was uncalled for-“
The admiral raised a hand to stop her, an amused expression in his eyes. “Mei, I said the exact same thing to my boss as you did almost verbatim, and not as diplomatically as you, I might add. My concerns were addressed to my satisfaction, and I think yours will be when you get to your destination. There will be a task force joining you there, and I think you will be pleased. That is all I can say for now over the comms. You will lead the combat patrol to the coordinates listed in the orders you received, and the task force joining you there will fall under your command. I have a personal favor to ask of you. Please keep an open mind when you link up with the task force. You will rendezvous with Commodore Therax, and he is instrumental in our efforts to undermine the increasingly despotic Commonwealth government. More information about him and the Nekuli were added to your orders, make sure you review it. I took a big gamble on this, and I would be grateful if you did your best to make this collaboration work. That is all for now, and I wish you and your crews good fortune and godspeed, Mei. Take care of yourself.” The admiral finished speaking, and Mei noted the personal nature of his last few words, nodding an affirmative to his request.
“Admiral, I thank you for your words, and we won’t let you down. I need to issue the orders now to get there and link up with the task force on time. I’ll send a null space comm drone to the nearest relay to confirm our arrival and integration. Vice-admiral Zhou out.” As she leaned towards the comm panel to close the channel, she saw Admiral Thompson doing the same, and he gave her a wink and a mischievous smile before she pressed the icon, terminating the connection. She leaned back in her chair and blew out a deep breath. “Now what the hell was that all about?” She asked out loud to herself, as the confusing and secretive nature of her orders and the personal request of the admiral added to the uncertainty of what she was expected to do. She keyed her wrist pad and texted her aide to come back to her office for new orders. He was going to be livid that they just wasted half a day revising the patrol routes to maximize efficiency and increase their patrol range. A small smile crossed her lips as she waited. He had an obvious tell of his lower left eyelid spasming when he was mad despite displaying no emotions on his face, and she knew it drove him nuts that he couldn’t control it. Witnessing it was one of the small joys she had in her difficult job as vice-admiral, and she was looking forward to it.
Fifty-six hours later, her task force flashed out of null space at the designated coordinates and right on time. She felt a measure of pride as she watched her bridge crew go about confirming their location and verifying it with the navigational array and astrometric sensors. Once the navigator gave her confirmation that he verified their position, she turned towards the comms officer and ordered her to send a burst transmission with the pre-arranged code and waited for the response. A few seconds later, the comms officer raised her left hand and signaled receipt and confirmation of the code by the task force waiting in null space. An agonizingly long minute crawled along as she anxiously waited for her navigator to confirm the telemetry from his counterpart in the other task force as they verified their positions. The navigator activated the main viewscreen on the forward bulkhead as they waited. Suddenly, there were a multitude of exit flashes 200,000 kilometers from the bow of her carrier, and hundreds of warships appeared at a dead stop relative to her position.
Her jaw dropped as she took in the unexpected fleet in front of her. There were dozens of Commonwealth dreadnaughts, battleships, and heavy cruisers arrayed before her, as well as an additional one hundred and twenty light cruisers, destroyers, and missile frigates. On the flanks of the main formation, there were more exit flashes, and the bridge AI started categorizing them on the screen, and she saw that they were the new Eleani and Xenxin warships that she had been hearing about. They shared a design lineage with the Commonwealth ships, but there were definite differences that became obvious as they assumed their positions next to the Commonwealth navy ships. She was particularly intrigued by the Xenxin ships, as they seemed to be bristling with weapons, almost excessively so relative to their ship sizes. The Eleani ships seemed to have taken a different design philosophy, and they gave the impression of deadly speed and grace, and she was hard-pressed to spot any obvious weapons on their hulls despite the AI confirming that the ships were indeed well-armed.
There was another coded signal from null space that appeared on the comm station panel, and her comm officer turned to her. “Vice-admiral, we have received a coded message on the sigma frequency for your eyes only that requires biometric and voice verification to decrypt.” Zhou nodded and pressed a button on her arm panel, activating the privacy screen around her chair and feeling the pressure change as the bridge around her became opaque and silent. She pressed the biometric toggle on the panel, and a retinal scanner popped out of its alcove on the side. She leaned in and scanned her right eye first, then her left. An icon appeared on the screen, and she thumbed it as it flashed and confirmed the print. Finally, she spoke and addressed the bridge AI: “Suzy, please confirm the voice command for verification.” The AI answered immediately. -Of course, Vice-Admiral Zhou, please proceed.- “Zhou, one-red-seven-green-four-tango-alpha-zero. Execute.” -Voice command verified. Thank you, Vice-Admiral Zhou.-
A small holographic display popped up in front of her; the admiral appeared on the screen, and his pre-recorded message started playing. “Mei, I know all this cloak and dagger stuff seems excessive, but we couldn’t take any chances. The receipt of this message will activate a program in your bridge AI and allow it to take control of the new drone ships waiting for you in null space. They are a new class of upgraded null ships and are top secret. Your AI will anchor them to your task force, and they will follow you, remaining hidden in null space unless you absolutely need them.”
“There are also two troopships with them that are carrying a complement of two thousand Mark XII ATS Bio-Synths and an expeditionary brigade each of rangers and pathfinders in stasis. They are also to remain in null space unless circumstances require that you need them; they are an insurance policy for an ongoing mission in Insectoid space. The details of that are top secret as well and can be accessed with your AI. If the troopships are required for that mission, they are to be escorted by a detachment of null ships and sent there immediately. After you have met your task force counterpart, there are orders in this packet that are to be accessed by you both and executed. I have the utmost faith in you, Mei, and I can’t wait to take you out to dinner again when we can both coordinate our next leave together. Thompson out.”
The hologram message disappeared, and she waited a little longer to allow the blush from his last sentence to fade from her cheeks and suppress the smile that was trying to form on her face before she put on her command mask and lowered the privacy screen. The bridge crew was going about their usual tasks, trying hard not to seem interested in her top-secret message. “Comms, open a channel to the task force flagship, please.” The comm officer acknowledged the order, and a few seconds later, the Bridge of the Commonwealth flagship appeared on the viewscreen.
A Nekuli male was sitting in the command chair, resplendent in the uniform favored by Nekuli officers. He took a moment to look around her bridge before settling his eyes on her. He bowed his head slowly in a gesture of respect, which she returned in proper fashion. The proper courtesies having been observed, he raised his eyes to meet with hers and started speaking. “Vice-Admiral Zhou. May the ancestors grant you and your clan honor and good fortune. I am deeply honored to meet you, and I hope our integration is a successful endeavor. I now entrust the honor of myself and my crew to your safekeeping.” He remained stone still as he awaited her reply, and she tried to remember the proper return greeting that she had been studying during their trip here.
“Commodore Therax, the honor is mine, and I promise you that I shall never ask you or your crew to undertake any action that will bring dishonor to your clans and your ancestors. We are now joined as one; may our cause be just and pure.” She finished the response, and the gravity of what she just promised to someone she had never met before hit her hard; it felt almost sacred to her. Commodore Therax heard her proper reply, and he stood up, followed by the rest of his bridge crew. He addressed her again. “Our honor has been given, and we have received a promise to safeguard it in return. Our joining is now consecrated in the eyes of the ancestors, and you are now our clan leader. What are your orders?
She recovered from the ordeal of the emotionally charged exchange of vows and stood up to give her first order as clan leader to the Nekuli. “I request the presence of you and your senior staff aboard my ship tonight. I will prepare a feast to honor our new friendship and alliance. I have studied your cuisine, and I have found a selection of Earth cuisine that should suit your taste. It is called tartare and sashimi; I think you will like it.” Commodore Therax looked at her dubiously, and she had to stifle a laugh at his expression as she knew that he was imagining being forced to eat vegetables and overcooked meat out of politeness. She spoke quickly to assuage his fears. “Commodore, tartare, and sashimi are raw red meat and fish; I would never inflict vegetables and burnt meat on you or your crew; are we not friends?”
As his translator finished converting her words into his language, he smiled at her, baring all of his fangs in true happiness.

Hello, my name is Lililian Ashcroft and I am a trans-fem writer. Okay, so I am looking for LGBT+ Beta-Readers to look over a bunch of episode scripts for a series of LGBT+ Audio-Drama series that my Audio-Drama House is working on. I have a wonderful team of very dedicated and passionate LGBT+ artist and voice actors who deserve to have these series they are working so hard on to pay off and so these episodes I wrote really REALLY need to shine and so I would deeply appreciate ANY constructive feedback I can get. I run all of this out of Discord and my Discord name is lexshira. I have many disabilities that make long-form texting hard and so any potential beta-readers must be willing to engage in some level of Discord voice calling. My works are aimed at an older audience so ABSOLUTELY NO MINORS PLEASE. I will post a basic summary of the series being worked on below:
The Piper Wars S1 Synopsis: The fallen Death-Reaper known as the Piper has gone rogue and is leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. He has made an infernal alliance with the cursed heathen gods of old, throwing all of reality into chaos in an all or nothing bid to become the most powerful being in the Multiverse. In Wonderland, Alice must make a terrible trek to find her way home before the Red Queen can claim her head as Captain Hook sails deep into the forbidden waters to seize godhood over the Neverlands. On Earth, The Darling Children and the Lost Boys face a fearsome battle for survival against dark inter-dimensional forces.
The Piper Wars S2 Synopsis: Time is running out for the multiverse and all life hangs in the balance as Alice races against time to complete her training to become the new Witch of Gates. John Darling does battle against demonic forces in a desperate bid to save the tortured soul of a young boy as Wonderland is consumed in bloody civil war. In the Neverlands, Hook launches a savage campaign of conquest against Pan and the resistance forces of the Ten-Nations while on Earth the K.B.I. braces for multiversal conflict as the Piper continues to pave the way for cosmic calamity.
The Piper Wars S3 Synopsis: War has finally arrived as the Piper makes good on his deal with the Lilithian Order to collapse the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, and Neverlands onto Earth merging realities into one and sowing cosmic chaos. The KBI must organize all the nations of the world to wage a global war to hold back the forces of evil while trying to save a cursed child destined to become the Abyssal God of a new Earth born of blood and destruction. Can the armies of light prevail or will all of humanity be lost to the darkness.
The Piper Wars S4 Synopsis: The Piper War may have been won but at the cost of billions of lives and the precious blood of friends. Mankind now struggles to rebuild from the most destructive war in history but evil never stays gone for long and new would-be gods are already positioning themselves to take advantage of the chaos and confusion. Wait… Did someone say Dracula? Wait you heard Dracula? I heard Cthulhu. I think we both have been working too many night shifts.
The Eternal Chronicles S1 Synopsis: In the year 1974 on Earth #8193 a small group of wealthy kids have their lives dramatically changed forever, sending their destinies on new and unexpected paths, threatening to unravel key points in time as an evil queen of unspeakable power watches with bated breath and wicked schemes. As on Earth N.E.V. #11 The Nazis have won WW2 and conquered the world using technology stolen from a crashed Time-Ship from another dimension but in a final-desperate effort to fix history, the global resistance sends a messenger running through realities to deliver a message upon which the fate of a million worlds now hangs.
On Earth #8193 in the year 1995, a lonely and workaholic therapist is assigned the three most deadly psychopaths in the world at the time... Psychopaths everyone else at the Ashcroft Asylum has failed to rehabilitate. In a world protected by extraordinary superheroes, evil rises to meet the challenge and the apocalypse is never far behind... soon there may be no tomorrow left for anyone. Oh, and did I mention on Earth #8189 a group of friends with superpowers must make a deadly trek in search of sanctuary from the zombie plague that has ended their world and turned them into prey.

Oh you're still here? Here's a few things about me then~
I am really into writing! I have a few short stories written that you can read. I'm also pretty into roleplay and dnd so I write a lot for those. I usually do sci-fi, romance and horror.
I am an enjoyer of basketball (if you know you know). We can talk about nba drama, our favorite teams, players. If you play we can talk about that too. Anything really.
I enjoy hiking a lot. I have tons of pictures if you wanna see them. I used to live in Hawaii so you can also ask me about that wonderful place.
I love science fiction if you ever want to chat me up about shows, movies, or games. I can talk about literally anything.
Philosophy and psychology are really interesting to me. I could talk for hours about paradoxes, evolutionary psychology, among other things.
Saving one of my favorite things for last is music. I like pretty much everything. I'm mostly into rnb, soul, hiphop, rap, and jazz, however I can appreciate every genre. Even classical music! Don't even get me started in how much I love fugues lol.
Anyway this post is coming to a close. I'd like to warn that I have really bad anxiety and I am 99% sure I am autistic so yeah. If you think we might vibe then send me a chat! Whether you want to stay for a couple minutes, a couple hours, a couple days, months, years, or maybe even forever! Also if you need to vent I am happy to listen. I promise I don't bite and contrary to my posts I'm not sad all the time. If you've read this far tell me what animal you would turn into for 48 hours if you could. Also include your age and gender in your message! Thanks!
-Izzy

I'm debating whether to report this or not because everyone else around me is saying that it's "not a big deal"
I have a little sister J who has a boyfriend M. M spends a lot of his time at our house. A couple weeks ago he was dropped off by an older man, around 35ish. I asked M if that was his dad and he said "No that's my friend". At first I thought he meant a friend of his family but after learning more I discovered that the older man was just M's friend. I wouldn't typically have a problem with this but M is only 14. It made me feel slightly uncomfortable that a 14 year old was friends with a 35 year old. My parents said that it wasn't weird because the 35 year old is "more like a big brother".
Last week I began talking to M about this friend. M told me that he's in a friend group with ages that range from 27-43. I was horrified because once again M is only 14 and the second youngest is 27. I again brought this up to my parents but they said that there was probably a perfect explanation for why M was friends with them. I also brought this up to my little sister J to see if she knew anything else. J said that M would often sleep over at their houses and skip classes to hang out with them. J also mentioned that she had brought this up to M multiple times but he also shot it down saying that "they were his only real family" and that "he would do anything to please them". This really made me sick but I thought there must be a reason why no adults were freaking out about this.
The most recent time when I ran into the 35 year old he was with two other people, the 27 year old and a 40 year old. We (Me, J and M) ran into them at the arcade. These grown adults were acting like middle schoolers. They acted like middle school boys with M but were very opposed to me and J being there.
At one point the 40 year old told M that his shirt was "too loose" and needed to be tighter so it would "reveal" M's "hot body". I was absolutely disgusted after hearing that I could also tell that J was very uncomfortable. So I pretended that I got an urgent text from work and we needed to go. We left but M's friends seemed really disappointed and annoyed that I was making M leave. Almost like they knew what I was doing.
This morning J came to me and said that we should report this to the police. I agreed with her but as we were on our way to the station she got cold feet and said that she felt bad for doing this to M. I took her home because she became very upset about doing this. I also feel bad for doing this to M but I feel worse letting him be friends with them.
Should I report this?

Oh you're still here? Here's a few things about me then~
I am really into writing! I have a few short stories written that you can read. I'm also pretty into roleplay and dnd so I write a lot for those. I usually do sci-fi, romance and horror.
I am an enjoyer of basketball (if you know you know). We can talk about nba drama, our favorite teams, players. If you play we can talk about that too. Anything really.
I enjoy hiking a lot. I have tons of pictures if you wanna see them. I used to live in Hawaii so you can also ask me about that wonderful place.
I love science fiction if you ever want to chat me up about shows, movies, or games. I can talk about literally anything.
Philosophy and psychology are really interesting to me. I could talk for hours about paradoxes, evolutionary psychology, among other things.
Saving one of my favorite things for last is music. I like pretty much everything. I'm mostly into rnb, soul, hiphop, rap, and jazz, however I can appreciate every genre. Even classical music! Don't even get me started in how much I love fugues lol.
Anyway this post is coming to a close. I'd like to warn that I have really bad anxiety and I am 99% sure I am autistic so yeah. If you think we might vibe then send me a chat! Whether you want to stay for a couple minutes, a couple hours, a couple days, months, years, or maybe even forever! Also if you need to vent I am happy to listen. I promise I don't bite and contrary to my posts I'm not sad all the time. If you've read this far tell me your ideal date idea! Also include your age and gender in your message! Thanks!
-Izzy

So this girl and I matched on hinge a few months back. We had two dates, both of which went pretty smooth On the second date surpringly she asked for my number btw, I gave it to her and we started texting But the problem was she used to reply after hours And then I sent some message, it was just some conversation not a question to which she didn't respond at all (didn't even read the message on WhatsApp) This went on for weeks. Then after 3 weeks she sends me a message saying how's everything at home (I went back for vacation) To which I replied and again the same thing happened the conversation ended with my text being left unread. After all this, I thought maybe it's done and maybe she isn't interested anymore. I stopped thinking about her. Then suddenly she popped up again on my whatsapp after 2-3 weeks saying "hey how's it going, we should meet this weekend" I told her that I was busy let's meet thr next, she agreed and suggested dinner at some place Again, she felt really happy talikg about her travel stories etc.. again everything went pretty well So her place was very close to the restaurant and she suggested let's pack some dessert and we can have it at my place. I asked her whether she was sure about this idea She cooly said yeah yeah I want you to come to my place. I said okay, I entered her place, took a seat slightly away from her bed and again we started talking, she started playing the music and it felt like all this would lead to something .. but I was not sure since we hadnt even met that often. Then after an hour or so she just sat infront of me on the table leaned towards me started talking and suddenly asked "Can I " I just didn't know what to say I said yes instinctively or in the heat of the moment. So we started making out and I wasn't actually ready for that(also hadn't cleaned my thing properly), so I told her maybe can we just be above the belt She was quite understanding and said yeah that's totally fine. She insisted to sleep at her place and I also kinda wanted it myself, since I was tired and was kinda liking her touch and proximity We woke up made out again in the morning, but again didn't really get an erection but I think she understood it and didn't talk about it just nodded her head I then left her place and texted her that thanks, had a great time, maybe I can cook dinner for you next week, she Said yum that sounds good.
After all this the problem is, I realised after some time that I am now 26 and want something stable And the fact that we have contrasting opinions on somethings like she doesn't like children, I do She doesn't want to go back to our home country, I do. All this in mind, my mind says this will not go further after a certain point But my heart says that she is kinda good and caring and I should spend more time with her So should I tell her the next time that, I am looking for something stable and want us to take a step forward Is it too soon I fear her saying no, that would ruin our present as well I don't want to makeout or have sex with someone casually That's a lot of emotional baggage for me and I can't handle that How should I handle this situation? Also what, according to the girls here, is going on in her mind, is she looking for something serious or something short term. I am very confused PS : I also asked her about the text thing that she replied after 3 weeks or so, to which she said she replies mentally and then forgets to reply, I just laughed it off saying ohkay.
Thanks for reading

I will try to make this short.
Last weekend I had opportunity to peek through her messages and I could not resist to confirm or to deny that she cheated on me almost a year ago.
Everyone told me she cheated but I was convincing myself the opposite. I never imagined myself to getting so low to read someones messages but I did. Through messages I confirmed that she texted her friend that she is in love followed by pictures of a guy and her. Also I found out that when she went to visit a friend of hers she actually slept at his place. Because she fucking didn't know my GF was in town.
I knew about him but she always made fun of me when I said I don't trust her that there is nothing and everything is suspicious.
It seems like they have tried something but it didn't last. So she came back to being normal and started being interested in me.
I didn't want to admit that I went through her messages. So I told her to come clean and that I know. And she is denying hard. I still don't want to admit that I went so low to read her private messages. But she is hard denying and asking me what is happening with me. I am actually digusted by her.
The thing is. Now I am cutting all contact. Her family is kind of cool though. But I wanted to cut them too because honestly we didn't have much in common and I don't want to be near her and I understand that they will always have to take her side. So I unfollowed them on all social media. And now they are asking me what is happening.
What should I do? I am disaapointed to the bottom of my heart that a person with whom I spent two years just doesn't admit it. I am also dissapointed that I didn't end it when everyone around me told me that she is trying something with this guy but instead ended up being suspicious for a year. But I just believed her.
I feel like I want to hurt her and show everyone who she is. But I think that is under my level even after reading the private mesages. Also I am not sure what would happen to me if everyone found out I went through her private stuff..... I feel disgusted by me and by her.

Relationship help?
help!!!!! im so confused
i 14m like this girl in the samw year as me. but its so confusing so i’ll tell u the story first. (its a long one)
I’m from England and so is the girl i like. lets call her Julie. and we go to the same high school. one year an opportunity for an exchange was brought up. In October we’d spend 10 days at our exchange partner’s house in America and go to their school and go round the island learning about different things. Before this, i’d wanted to know who Julie was etc. and I’d kept her at the back of my mind. To my luck, Julie was also going to go on the exchange (There were 30 of us and there are 300 people in my year.) So after the snapchat group chat was made I very smoothly 🤣 slided into Julie’s DM’s. We just talked loads instantly and we were yet to talk in real life. (She is in the other half of the year so we didn’t have any classes.) Meeting after meeting about the trip and we still hadn’t talked. Eventually, the trip arrived and we were headed to heathrow from a local airprot and Heathrow to the airport in america. In the security bit we finally spoke. Julie made a joke as I scurried around trying to be as quick as possible. From there we just kept talking and we even talked on the plane (when she woke up). She was sat behind me and I was sat with a friend and us three talked.
I can’t remember all the details but basically, throughout the whole trip me and her talked the whole time and people always shipped us if you get what I mean. However, I do remember the airport back. We had a three hour wait time I think at the american airport. and we were going around in small groups of four or five and I just spontaneously chose to go around with Julie. Julie was with two of her other friends but we spent the whole three hours making tiktoks and laughing and joking about and we both really enjoyed it. Finally, we were back home and we proceeded to text until school came by again. This is where another recently solved problem comes around.
The last day of the trip there was a massive party and I met this girl lets call Bella. Me and Bella started texting from there and sort of started liking each other. By this point I really really liked Julie and never stopped thinking about her but never knew if she felt the same and was very cautious about it. However, me and Bella kind of died down after a week or so.
So it was back to me putting my full effort into liking Julie. At school we didn’t talk much be exchange the few words whenever I saw her. I was really nervous around her in real life and tried to do my best to make it discreet I liked her and directed my attention elsewhere while still having full attention on her. Yet we texted like crazy and full on as well. We would always joke around and call each other names jokingly and we were really really friendly. We didn’t talk as much in January and February but picked up again in March. I still really really really liked her again and in April we shared our ambitions and they pretty much matched up and we shared our ‘types’ and we described each other but were completely clueless we liked each other. It got a bit confusing because she liked me ( I later found out in June/July) but also mentioned this other guy so I got confused and then in June it got really really messy.
You remember Bella right? Well the American kids all came over to England this time and stayed with us. On the first few days me and Bella didn’t talk however we did one day and we kicked about a ball on a field where everyone on the exchange was hanging out after we had a football match. From there me and Bella hung out a lot together and did stuff together in class activities. We really liked each other and I no longer liked Julie. (It’s really important to keep in mind me and Bella didn’t know each other deeply etc.) However my feeling for Julie still remained a bit but slowly died out even when I still liked Bella the first few days. Anyways, me and Bella had held hands a few times etc. and when Bella went we hugged a lot. We weren’t into a relationship and a few days later we stated ‘talking’ (A state in which the relationship is similar to a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship but is not official.) and we called a lot. However a few problems arose when me and Bella discovered each other’s emotions and how we live and what we live by. It was present she was over reactive, over protective, quite mean (For example I’d talk about my day and she wouldn’t care and she’d talk about hers.), she also talked to a lot of other boys oddly (For example she blocked me sometimes and a few days later my friend was at the top of her best friend-list with a 😗 next to his name.) and she always had excuses. It just didn’t work for me and I wasn’t happy at all. Prior to me and Bella stopping talking me and Julie started to text again.
me and julie started to text again in about july 2023. (idk). julie had just got out of a relationship in august so i only started liking her again in september 2023. i tood my friends and obviously word spread but i always said i didnt infront of her so idk if she knew or not. anyway we still texted alot however another guy liked her who also texted her and there was a bit of competition. for a few months i didnt even know if i liked her, some days i would, some days i wouldnt and i was really conflicted. now, the ither guy and her dont really text much and so im not really bothered. we still both text each other loads and weve had eachother st the top of our best friends list for two weeks😂😂. anyways i have no idea if she likes me or not but i like her and were like best friends. feel free to ask any questions.
By the way the girl from american is completely out the picture. Julie doesnt know i like her.

Hey all ❤️ I'm 23, NB, and from the UK looking for some new internet friends!! I have a pretty funky schedule and work a lot so a texting buddy would be amazing! I'm currently watching terrible YouTube videos and I'd love some company! Hopefully it'll bloom into a lovely friendship!
I've been getting back into FF14 a lot, and digging into lots of the content I have to finish off and preparing for Dawntrail this summer! I play on light - show off n tell me about your chara!? (I love G'raha so much <3 ) I'm also making my way through my (very long) TBR! Currently I'm reading Oathbringer by Sanderson, and I'm really into Sci Fi and fantasy!
I adore gaming, reading, manga / comics, movies and anime as well - typical nerdy fun stuff!! 💖
I'm very light hearted, non judgemental and a sensitive soul, if you think we'd click please send a message/chat!!
Please only message me if you are 20+ !!
Thanks for readin' !❤️

we've been together just over 10 months. Over that time some odd things have happened which made me question my trust in her and I like her but have been slightly wary of her since. I've been staying with her at her apartment for the past couple months or so and lately nothing too weird has happened and she seemed to be much better overall. But she recently asked if I wanted to move in and I just felt like I wasn't ready for that kind of commitment at this point as I was still trying to regain her trust and wasn't fully over some of the stuff that happened, and so I ended things. She is completely heartbroken, says she's in love with me and wants me in her life. And I question whether I made the right choice and whether I overreacted to some of the stuff the has happened.
I wanted to write out all the situations but the post got way too long too quick. But one of the bigger incidents was once (before I was staying there consistently) we were texting throughout the day and then suddenly she stopped replying, And I didn't hear from her for the rest of the day. I tried again the next morning and then finally she replied that afternoon but it was a very short response that's very unlike her. Then that night she texted saying a guy had gotten stabbed outside of her apartment while trying to help her with something. So she brought him up to her apt and tended to his wounds and had him stay the night there (she says he stayed out on the couch). I didn't know what was going on and was a little bit angry as well and then she called me. She acted like it was no big deal but she could tell in my voice I was not in a good mood (I was trying to figure out what was happening) and she said I was being rude and hung up on me, and also said the guy had left.
She called again moments later (or I did I can't remember) and there was some guy talking in the background who I thought was one of her roommates but she said it was the guy. I said "I thought he left," she said "he came back." I didn't know what to say and then she's like "ooooh you got real quiet" in a mocking type way. The guy is super drunk and she's pretty drunk too I think. They were both being a little disrespectful to me and he mentioned how they played cards together the night before (something that was a thing her and I had started doing together recently which I really enjoyed) and they mentioned they were going to play a game this night too. He was telling jokes and in one of them mentioned the town and street I live on which was really weird. Also mentioned at one point that his son or sons came over as well (I think to check on him but also it sounded like they hung out for a bit too).
It seemed like he was going to stay the night again. I didn't know what to do but my instincts were going wild and while it was late and I had to go to work early and it's like a 35 min drive to where she lives, I said I was coming. We also facetimed and the dude was chilling laying back on her bed. I stayed on the phone the whole way there. Once I said I was coming she got a little quiet and the guy started acting nervous and at one point said "you didn't mention you had a boyfriend" (she says she did mention it) and "at least we didn't have sex". He kept saying he's got to go but she said stay and meet my boyfriend. I get there and they're in her room with beer cans and tobacco everywhere and then he leaves. She said to him "you can stay but we are taking the bed," (she may have said "room" but I'm pretty sure she said bed) which shouldn't that go unmentioned?? Once he was gone she's like "are you breaking up with me?" I wanted to in that moment but I pictured her just calling up that guy and having him come back if I did right then plus I was still in shock as to what just happened so said "no."
We talked a little about it in the following days and she knew I was not happy with what happened but we didn't have any huge in-depth discussion about it. Since that day she makes random comments here and there like "you're the only guy I want in my room," or "you're the only guy who would be anywhere near my bed" little comments like that in conversation.
There was a point where she was trying to get off of a certain medication, without a doctors help and was struggling with it big time and acting extra crazy due to it and I can't remember if this was during that time or not, but either way it's a bit messed up right? And even though she's been way better lately, I can't help but still be disgusted by this.
There are a few more incidents in the past I'd like to share but this one's probably the worst. And it's too bad because she seems to have changed for the better lately now that she's getting proper medication and whatnot from a doctor but not enough time has passed to where I have regained my trust on her and not think of incidents like this.

I'm 18 years old, graduating highscool in like two weeks. I've always wanted to go to college for art and get a BFA. When I was in middle school I thought it would be at some private art school like calarts but I grew out of that when I realized how expensive it was. I've instead been planning to get a BFA with an emphasis in illustration at my local university.
Here's my problem: college is still expensive (surprise). I've been looking into getting an associates from my local community college first. However, when I met with the university college advisor he told me that the local community college and the university have some issues with transferring credits (they have agreements for some classes to be equivalent classes but the BFA illustration program at the university has a lot of requirements that I can't get with my associates degree; I'd be taking more classes than necessary at the community college when I get my associates.)
Today I had a call with the community college advisor and she redirected me to one of the other advisors, who I can only get an appointment with 4 days before I graduate highschool.
My big question is this: What is worth it as an artist? Should I go through with the associates degree alone and try to build my online presence instead? Do I go for the BFA? Is college even worth it for me or am I getting a degree that's a waste of money and time?
For reference, I'm interested in doing various jobs: freelance, character design, illustration for picture books or graphic novels, concept art, etc.
Tl;dr As someone looking to become a professional artist, what level of higher education is worth it?

If you're here from my newest post on breakups thank you for caring first of all. and second, here's the post from a day or two after the breakup. also might be all over the place. sorry in advance lol.
01.24.24.
Hi, I never post on reddit, (in fact I just made this account for this post) but after thinking a lot and watching a lot of smosh's reading reddit stories, I think this might be the best place to get advice about this, given how specific it is lol.
Anyway, I'll just get started. I (18M) met my gf (17F) about 5 months ago online, a couple months after a rough breakup. Weirdly, she had just got over a break up too. After talking almost everyday for about a month, we decided to officially start dating.
I didn't wanna move on yet, but she completely changed my mind. She's the best. The absolute sweetest person in the world. I was so so in love with her. She was perfect. We called almost every night, texted all day while we were at school. I've always had mental health issues since I was 14. Most prominently, severe anxiety inherited from my father. Along with disorders like OCD and ADHD. But she completely cleared the fog in my mind. Everytime we texted, called, played a game together, or even just seeing her face on my wallpaper, it calmed me down. She was my safe place.
I can go on for hours and hours about this girl, you can ask more questions in the comments if you want but basically, she was perfect, and I believe she's my soulmate. Everything fell into place just for us to meet, which makes me think it was meant to be. Anyway, I'll just get to the point of this post.
It is Wednesday, January 24th. And on Saturday, January 20th, she texted me a long message saying she thinks we should break up. The whole idea was that she's never been quite sure about her sexuality. She always identified as Bisexual, but she thinks she might be a lesbian. As much as it hurt, especially with how sudden it was (we were telling one another how much we loved each other just the night before and she even posted a picture with a filter that said "I ❤️ my bf"). Everything felt like it was going amazingly, the best it's ever been. Then she dropped the bomb.
The first night and the whole next day, I was crushed. I don't cry often (not that I'm one to bottle up, it just never happens) but I cried hysterically. The most I've ever cried in my life, tied with when my childhood dog passed. My love, my happiness, my everything was gone.
Although, on Sunday, she said we should block each other as it would make it harder for both of us if we saw each other on our feeds. Which I agreed with, but I suggested we just unfollow instead of block. Due to her concerns that she might come to the conclusion that she's not gay after this journey she's taking. I love her, and told her I'll support her and her journey of self-searching. And if she never needs anything, I'll be here. She talked through everything with me to help me process it. It gave me clarity and made the following days easier. But I still miss her so much.
I love that she's so motivated to go out and find herself. I'm so proud of her. But I can't lie and say it doesn't hurt. Obviously, if she never told me, she would've been lying to herself and me. I know that. So I'm just accepting it right now. But this is where my head starts to get complicated.
I know it might sound naive because we're still so young. But I really think we're soulmates, and I don't think this is the end of us. It just doesn't feel right, and like it has to resolve in some way. I'm willing to do what it takes to get her back. I'm willing to wait months and months for her to maybe come back around. But is that wrong?
Everything I've heard is saying you shouldn't wait for them to come back. But she's going on a journey of self discovery, so I shouldn't push it right? I should wait for her to find out if she really is gay. And let her come to me when she finds out.
My biggest fear is that she'll wanna come back but she'll be too scared to reach out after she broke my heart. I know her and she's very considerate and sweet. This is something she would do, she's done similar things like this (obviously on a smaller scale).
But this raises even more questions. What if I wait too long and she ends up moving on? What if I wait for a year and she never even texts me? Idk what to do. I just want some guidance. Cause I'm kinda stuck.
If you read this heartbroken teenagers mind being spilled onto this random reddit post, thank you. Any advice is appreciated. And I'll answer any questions you have in the comments. <3

3 days ago i found out my (now ex) boyfriend had a second account on here dedicated to porn. During my awful discovery, I came across messages as well that offered women to pay for their online services such as facetime, videos and pictures. I didnt even mean to find this out, he gave me access to his computer for whatever it is that i needed because we lived together and sometimes i just liked playing on his PC. So when my bestfriend facetimed me to ask if i could help her create a feetfinder account i gladly looked up some examples and decided to look on his computer where i came across a redd post of some girl promoting her account and thats when my nosy ass decided to look around for more and hit the search bar and then found everything.
When he was on his way home he called me and thats when he found out i packed and was moving back home. During one of the phone calls where he was panicking trying to get me to stay he said that the reason he did it was because i masturbated and used my rose toy. To which i feel i have to be VERY clear. I never watched porn and I only ever used it because he didnt have time in the morning before he left for work or we never had the energy to do it bc we were tired after work or because he just didnt want to sometimes. And sometimes sex to me was to much for me.
Every day since i broke things off and moved out (same day) he’s been begging for me to give him a chance to talk and get things off his chest. As well as saying EVERYTHING ive ever wanted to hear during our relationship. And i keep wanting to just tell him how much i love him and how much i want him back. But i know that if i do he wont ever respect my boundaries bc it just goes to show he’s more than welcome to walk all over me the way he has been. :/
Ive been feeling very depressed and just want to lay in bed and rot all day. But im not and i feel like im losing my mind!!
I just wish none of this had ever happened.

I realized that a lot of people I grew up with bring out parts of me that I don’t like. I struggled with self confidence until I left for college when I’m with my back home friends they try to bring up stuff and put me down so I cut them off but they don’t seem to understand. A lot of them didn’t or haven’t left our hometown so they are being closed minded to the world. It feels like talking to high school me , I care for them and stuff but damm why would I want to pick up a phone call if you’re ur going to cuss me out and bring up embarrassing stuff from when we were 14. I cut one off completely after he made a tik tok under my name and was just making racist videos other I don’t talk to much because he knew I cut ties with the previous mentioned friend but added him to a phone call with me. It sucks that they act like that since I’ve known them my whole life but ever since I left for college they have had it out for school. I came back from college two years ago since I realized I didn’t want to be a college athlete anymore and started working construction with my helping him on his build for his retirement. my friends constantly bring up me dropping out when they haven’t attend school or don’t even have a bed. They bring up how they make more money than me and call me broke. I would always say something like yea I’m going to charge my dad journeyman wages when I’m learning a trade and it’s his retirement basically . They crossed the line when I was talking to a girl and he kept sending pictures of her ex to me. His excuse was I didn’t think you liked her. Keep in mind this is all with in a couple months of my older brother dying .I was chopped it up to that they are just miserable with there own lives .but it’s been 3 months since I talked to him and he texted me on his birthday calling me bitch and randomly texts negative stuff. I never bring up there failed relationships, business ventures nothing I as I don’t like being negative because you never know what someone is going through.i feel bad for cutting him off because ase I’m the god father to his kid but fuck my life has been so much more peaceful since I stopped talking to him.

So I started dating a girl I’ve known since I was 12 years old. We are both Christians. After we dated about 6 months she Ghosted me. Keep in mind we were talking about getting married. About a month after we broke up she text me. We never talked about what happened because I didn’t want to upset her. We finally stop talking because I told her I couldn’t get over her. She told me to get over it & to have a nice life. I was destroyed. I had never loved anyone that much.
During this time I prayed & I continue to pray about it. God told me to be patient with her & to trust him. I saw her on Facebook I messaged her & we have talked every day since then. 5 months. She messages me every single morning and says good morning. Somedays we message all day & some days she calls me.
I finally told her I was still in love with her. I told her what God said & she told me to do what he said. I never text, message, or call her first. I just reciprocate.
We finally talked about what happened between us & she said she was broken & didn’t know how to handle the situation.
I pray for guidance & for God to show me if she the one for me. Show me if she belongs in my life. I recently started surrendering it to God. I just need some prayer because I want to be obedient. If you don’t have anything positive to say please just scroll on. Thanks

My husband (24M) and I (27F) got Islamically married over 1 year ago. I had just reverted to Islam a month before we married, but we were dating for a year prior. So in total, we have been a couple for 2 years.
I am due to have my baby in 2 weeks... Yesterday I caught my husband texting another woman. He was sexually unfaithful before but swore not to repeat this. So to find out that he was messaging another woman was devastating.
He doesn't want to attend counseling, talk to his parents or speak to an Imam. His only two options were for him to remain 'unhappy' or to divorce. I can't raise a child in a family where one side doesn't want to be there. He will eventually cheat again, if that is the case.
So that leaves divorce. I don't want to but this is what he has been leading up to. He feels like his dignity is gone since the first infidelity and that I am the problem. He is choosing to look at all the negatives and not see the progress or positives.
Has anyone been through this before? I feel so alone and frightened.

You can get my pictures taken down but I’ll keep getting her CA taken down 😘 I’m running 2/3 and Momma Julie dipped. I’ll get the Krystal one next, I have an ongoing message thread with the scam department for CA. Have a lovely night!

My names Alexandra, I'm now looking to sublet a room for the month of August. I live in NJ and I'm planning to move to Boston at the end of the summer, potentially 9/1. I've had a difficult time attempting to find roommates and the right apartment/ location, from all the way down here in NJ, so I'm pivoting and I figure I'll come up for the month in order to be around in person to ( fingers crossed) meet my potential house mate candidates in person as well as see some apartments.
I'm looking to spend $1000-$1200 Max for room for the month, and I don't care too much what neighborhood , just so long as there is street parking, the common space is clean and people are friendly.
If you have a room free for the month of August, please leave a comment or send me a private message.

Hi all, I’m hoping someone can shed some light or insight to this bizarre situation. It’s a story so buckle up.
My 46 brother, let’s call him Michael, lives in Arizona with his girlfriend of over 10 years. They aren’t in a happy/loving relationship and never have been, it’s more of a dependency/comfort thing. I should also mention, about 15 years ago my brother had a cardiac arrest and was without oxygen to his brain for several minutes. It’s a miracle he is still here! For obvious reasons, he hasn’t been the same since this incident. He is able to hold a job and function as an adult, but he is very much brain damaged in many ways. His critical thinking, reasoning, and much more have been effected. That’s the cliff notes of the back story, let’s get into the “scam”.
He recently told us he’s considering putting in his two weeks notice at his job in AZ to move back in with my parents and work at his previous job here in the PNW. He said he doesn’t feel safe in the house with his gf and her 16 year old son.
And here’s what came out today, he claims two months ago when they made a trip to Vegas, he met Jenna Ortega. He says he was out wandering by himself, and they met. She took him for drinks and got his phone number. They’ve been talking daily since. He says they video chat, text and call several times a day. He claims to have pictures/videos from her and he recently made an Instagram to follow only her (she does not follow him back). This all came out because he said if my parents receive any packages to put them aside for him and not ask any questions. Obviously our family has questions. So after some prying, this is when the “relationship” with Jenna came to light. He plans to leave his current girlfriend and fly to LA to meet her “in person” before coming home. He also claimed that the package she is sending him is some sort of membership card. He says she hasn’t asked him for any money or anything like that. He says he knows “inside details of release dates of Wednesday and another one of her upcoming movies”.
So obviously we are a bit confused. Clearly this is not the real Jenna Ortega. But what’s the goal here? We are concerned because now she has personal information about him as well as our parents address. He also has no filter, so we have no idea what other sort of information about our family he may have give this person. Is this some sort of sex worker or sex trafficking scam? Has anyone heard of this with her or other celebrities?

Temporary accommodation available at Northside (adjacent to UTD) for up to two rooms from May/June to July 22nd (dates flexible). Unit has both rooms available and is in a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom format in building 2 (closest building to UTD campus). Unit comes with washedryer and kitchen. Parking spot is 10ft away from unit. Entire unit will be professionally cleaned. Please message me if interested even if only for one room or if you want pictures. Also if you want room for some time and not the entire duration, still message me.