Ok to start off, Im in my mid/late 20′s and slightly successful. I have gone through a divorce which brought me to my knees financially after making 6 figures a year and giving it all up because I was mentally broken and could no longer enjoy my career. I took off a year traveled the country and ended up broke, however I am a go getter. I am rebuilding my life and the main factor in me not becoming a bartender in Barbados is due to my current boyfriend. He was in the same boat as I so we found solace in each others company. Plus it didn’t hurt he was probably the most attractive and best lover I have ever had! He was an amazing person for ohhh I’d say 4 months, then the trouble began. We moved in together because I had started to make more money and he was still living in his moms house.

He lost his job, I was supporting him completely and even helping with child support. Not cool to me because I don’t have a child and never really wanted one but this child really opened my eyes. To make a long long story short it hasn’t stopped other than I have stopped paying his car payment, and child support. This morning he complained about me not putting gas in his car because I drove it around the block once….wtf? Anyways, all my friends and family are concerned that I am making the same mistake twice. But I do feel he contributes emotionally (well sometimes when he is not breaking me down). The one thing I really like about our relationship is we trust each other. He is very honest and sometimes brutally honest which at times hurts but I still like that side of him. So my question to pose to you is…What in the world do I do, I really haven’t had a lot of boyfriends as I was married to my first love and I didn’t have to break up with him because he left me for another woman. I still consider myself a beautiful, intelligent woman but Im worried I am making the same mistake twice with a freeloader. Any advice will be greatly appreciated

2nd question: should I give up hope on ever finding a charming, attractive, funny, intelligent, equally sharing, man with character in our society?


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Please help, I think I have the worst boyfriend in the world…

ok… my boyfriend and I met on the street in my neighborhood when I was on my way back home from the grocery store back in 2006 he always told me he loved me but as our relationship went along I started to notice that he did not mean it.

He was doing drugs and one time he stoled from me and gave to his friend to buy drugs with it and when I tried to get it back from him he yelled at me and then he slaped me in the face. As time went along he started treating me real bad he was always blaming me and accusing me of cheating on him while he was at work. He barely ever took me out and when he did it was only to go bar hopping and get me drunk.

One time he got me so drunk (he took me out to a restaurant and ordered me nine drinks) that I almost lost consciousness and when I got home I was vomiting and I was already 2 weeks pregnant by him.

My family was so mad when they found out I was pregnant they wanted me to get an abortion but I refused I told them I was 19 and old enough to make my own descions they said they were going to take me to the abortion clinic anyways and get the abortion done I told them I wont go so they spoke to their friend and she advised for them to force me to have an abortion against my will but they said they did not know how to do that. My boyfriend is 35 and very immature for his age he blames my family and curses them all the time and says he hates everyone.

He urinates in the street on the sidewalk and sometimes on people’s cars. He cheated on me with the irish bartender at the local irish pub and then gave me HPV. We lived together for a few months and when he could not have it his way he would get aggressive and hit me one time he was choking me and so I screamed and the landlord from downstaires heard him so he knocked on the door and asked what was going on it was only then when he stopped. He was mean to me once and told me to get out and was shoving the door of his apartment on me and he got so mad because I told my mother that he was doing drugs and giving me drugs while living at this apartment.

He barely ever takes me anywhere except to a restaurant or bar hopping to get me drunk. Usually when he calls me he only wants me to go to his apartment to have sex and nowhere else. He says that he is my husband even though we are not married and that I have to do whatever he wants. When I was pregnant and he knew I was having a girl he was talking about her private parts and said some sexual things about her and said that if I was with another guy he would rape my daughter because she will not be his biological child and he will not like her because of this.

He loves to fight with my family and says if I ever cheat on him he’ll kill me and the guy. On new years day he caused a big scene he was calling me on the phone and talking to me about my grandfathers death so I put it on speaker so my grandfather could hear what he was saying. My grandfather told him never to call again but he kept calling when my grandfather shut off the phone he ended up at the door banging loudly demanding to be let in and cursing everybody out my grandfather said if he didn’t go away he was going to call the security he did not leave and my grandfather had to call security and when the security came he was arguing with them and got 2 summons to go to court 1 for tresspassing and the other for disorderly conduct.

He says that since I am his wife (which I am not) I have to take care of him and cook for him and clean his house I told him I wont do it because I am not a maid he does nothing for his 2 and a half year old daughter and does not pay any child support whatsoever. He blames me for not having my own apartment and still living with my parents at 23 and not being able to cook or clean. He is an illegal immigrant from Ecuador and not legal in America. My parents tell me the only reason he is interested in me is because he wants to try to get legalized on my behalf. When I was in the hospital having his baby he was there all night long because he wanted to make sure his name was on the birth certificate, he refused to leave until the hospital personnel kicked him out.

I was sick for some time and did not go to his apartment for 3 or 4 days. He went to the local pub and cheated on me with that irish bartender and then gave me HPV from her I also found some calling cards from escort services in his apartment. When I asked him about it he denied it and said it was old calling cards that he used when he was single and that he forgot to throw them away. I also saw some phone numbers which had female names in his phone book.

I had to get 2 surgeries in order to get rid of the HPV that he gave me and he was not with me in the hospital when I had these surgeries. I really think he’s a terrible guy and I want to leave him but I am also afraid of being single and having no one at all. I also want to have more kids and I know that without a guy I can’t get pregnant what should I do?


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We have only been married 18 months and she is very controlling and abusive. She wants to spend all of her time in the bar. It also doesn’t help that she works in a bar as a bartender. I could handle it at first but now she gets very mean. I tired to get her into counseling a year ago and she refused. For a while, she got a lot better and now she has relapsed again.
Yesterday she worked an eight hour day shift and I showed up right after she was done to pick her up. She wanted to hang out for a while so we ran into some friends and were having a great time. Then our friends left and she demanded that we stay for four hours even though I hadn’t eaten at all that day and it was now after 10pm. Then on the way home, I started getting screamed at and she hit me. She then kept screaming at me to give her the money she had given me and told me under no circumstances was I to give her the money. She was so drunk she fell trying to hit me again and then said "I made her fall".
She has had a rough life and went through things as a baby and child that no kid should have to. She constantly ditches me for the bar. I drink too, but not near as much or as often as she does. I cried my eyes out most of the night and told her today that I wanted to separate. She then asked if we could finally try counseling. I really love her and want to find the woman I love again. She refuses to go to AA and refuses to even acknowledge that there is a problem. If I mention anything, I’m nagging and have to get off her case or get screamed at. Do you think counseling will even help? She is also very jealous and has driven away 90% of my female friends, yet she is allowed to have as many male friends as she wants. She does not drive, so often I am her ride and have to stay at the bar until she is ready to go no matter how tired or hungry I am.She can be very sweet and has had a hard life. I know if I do leave, she will be crushed. What do I do? Sorry for such a long post.


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I’m a bartender and won’t be able to return to my job, because we’re a small business with only 3 people working, and it wouldn’t be possible for me to leave for 6 weeks and expect to have a job to return to. Am I able to collect unemployment because of this situation? I’ve saved up enough for the period I’m gone, I’m just nervous I won’t be able to find something right away and would like to know my assistance options.


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My husband found out I had cheated on him. He found some text messages on my cell phone and I confessed to the cheating. We lived apart for a couple of months and during that time we barely spoke. I heard he was spending a lot of time with a bartender that works at the local bar. I also found some text messages on his phone but he denys doing anything with her, and they are only friends and she is fun. Since then he has told me he wants me back, but he doesn’t want to change his lifestyle. He goes out 3-4 times a week and he comes home at all hours of the night. I think he still sees her and it bothers me. When I bring her up or bring up his going out he gets defensive and tells me that I’m a nag and I am smothering him. He told me that he wants me to relax and chill out and our marriage will work. I do smother him, because I want answers and he won’t talk to me. I have gotten advice to leave him alone and see where it goes. Is this the right choice and will he love me again?


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