Whoa there. Where do I even begin? It’s been a rough few months, but the last couple of weeks have taken the cake by far. I’ve dealt with a lot of crap over the years, and this one honestly just blows me away.

First off: There is a lot of information that I simply cannot post here, so if you can’t quite connect the dots… well, apologies in advance.

Let me give a tiny bit of back story here before I go on with the drama. I’m the type of person who will help others before helping myself. I tend to have my quirks, and come off as submissive-yet-intimidating when my confidence level is at it’s highest. At it’s lowest, anxiety takes over and leaves me fearful and timid. People who don’t know me generally avoid me, but the few that have managed to break through my walls will tell you I’m one of the nicest people they know.

I also make it through each month on less income than anyone I know.

So this lifelong friend of the family, who I didn’t personally know very well starts coming around. She’s nearly my opposite personality wise and I knew right from the beginning that she was trouble, but out of respect couldn’t make anything of it. I tuned her out when needed, and learned to tolerate her without pulling out any hair.

In the beginning, she would talk highly of her boyfriend; about how he gave her a massage every night, take care of her needs, was an excellent father, and generally all the things that a boyfriend should be doing. Things started tapering off after that, she would have stories of a new argument between them nearly every day. She didn’t share all the details of the arguments, but was dead set that she was right-he was wrong-and there was no other way to look at it. When I say they argued, they are the type of people who regularly called the cops on one another when they argued.

They were having an ongoing argument about whatever, and the boyfriend moved out. She came to me, saying she had these checks that he had presigned for her and wanted me to cash them in my bank account. My account does not place a hold and wait for checks to clear – the cash can be withdrawn immediately.

In total she withdrew $2000 from my bank account, swearing to me that there was no way that these checks would bounce. I wasn’t comfortable doing it, and originally said no but it obviously didn’t work out the way I wanted (did I mention that I’m also easily intimidated?). I’m betting you’ve already guessed this by now (or maybe you read about it on the EdenFantasys forums) but yes, the checks did bounce.

She insisted that when her boyfriend found out that she cashed the checks, that he showed up at her house to take the cash from her. She kept telling me I had to wait until she could talk some reason into him on paying the money back, and then she finally said I would get the money on (this past) Thursday for sure. Thursday comes around, and when asked if she had the money she said “maybe tomorrow”. That was it. We decided to contact her boyfriend to see what was up, only to find out that he knew nothing about any checks at all. She signed his name on the checks. Furthermore, the checks were for an account that she knew had been closed some time ago.

Turns out, she did take money from his actual account. Quite a bit more than what she took from mine. And she spent it all on fucking crack. No one in the family even knew she had a problem.

I’ve been evicted from my house because I couldn’t pay the rent, I need to be out by tomorrow afternoon. (OMG) My bank account is overdrawn by over $2000 and I can’t see any way that I can recover from it. I’m a nervous wreck and my mind is spinning with the possibilities of what the future will hold. I tend to just stop thinking about things that stress me out, which is why I’m bad for putting things off for months without even realizing how much time has passed. I have managed to make it through every obstacle in the past, and am sure I will somehow make it through this one too but DAMN! How does somebody do this to another person and still feel good about themselves?

Despite all this, I’ve decided to go ahead and help another family this Holiday season through Eden Gives Back. You can find all the details about the local charity I’m teaming up with and follow along with what I will be doing over the next couple of weeks on the forums here. EdenFantasys gift cards and points can be donated until December 13th by emailing: Sam @ edenfantasys.com with a subject line of Eden Gives Back Christmas donations.

Some reviews will be coming soon, sitting and writing this was quite therapeutic. I’ll also be putting up a giveaway in the next couple of days, exciting! Right? Right?

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