Help a 73-Year-Old Rebuild After Heartbreak
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- I'm almost 73 years old and devastated. WHO would do this to someone after 15 years together? With a TEXT message that said he won't be home for "a period of time" because he "needs some time in life to understand where it is heading." I immediately started packing his belongings and called a locksmith to change the locks on our house. He picked up all of his belongings, tools, and riding mower over the next 2 days from the porch where I had put them. He has cheated on me before. This is his 3rd strike. I have an idea that he's moved in with a lady he runs with. Don't know for sure; basically, I've been ghosted. I have learned a lot about him. He is a narcissist who is a "legend in his own mind." A distance runner, he spends lots of time training and running with a group of younger women who call themselves "Crabby's Angels." When he left, basically all he took was his running stuff and a ton of ribbons off the wall where I had them all hanging. I knew he needed a lot of attention, and I tried to wax his giant ego. I had a neighbor tell me that when they talked, all he talked about was himself. She said he had never asked about her. I didn't do anything to deserve this. In fact, I had asked him numerous times over prior weeks, while I was helping to pack my older sister up to move her closer to me (she was 2 hours away), and he kept assuring me that we were fine. My neighbors said whenever I was gone, so was he. He controls the money. I gave him some of my SS disability each month toward bills, plus I got almost $300 a month from insurance for food. I was hit by a car as a pedestrian in 2007, but that's another story. He gets his SS and a monthly pension from a company (he set this up so he gets a larger amount and if he dies, I get nothing). His married daughter was with him when we met, and she basically set us up together, neither mentioning that he had a wife at home. He lived with me a week before she found him; he had left his phone on the table and "ghosted" her too. I would very much like to write a book. In fact, I have already started. But, I badly need a good attorney and a home to write in, so I'm humbly asking you to help if you can in any way. It all adds up, especially your support, prayers, and just the fact that people see him for who he truly is. He is a smooth talker and told me I'd get this mobile home "over his dead body." I know how incredibly stupid I am and sound, and there is more to come in the book. Children live what they learn, and I feel like I have a story to tell. His own family doesn't talk to him besides the daughter who was born out of wedlock when he was a teen, who found him right before we met AND helped to fix him up with me. Thanks for reading this. Might you learn from my mistakes. Please, please share it with everyone. P.S. I also recently found out that my mobile home is infested with termites that will cost a few thousand to treat and cure.
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Roberta Crabtree
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Lakeland, FL