I have just been released from my stint in jail after more than half a year ago and I have been jobless and struggling to get a hold of a decent job ever since.

I’m not ashamed of my past: every saint got a past, every sinner got a future.

I did time in prison for assault, I whacked this guy until he ended up in the hospital because he slept with my girlfriend at the time.

I am ashamed of my actions and have served my punishment, I’m trying to move on with my life now and doing my best to raise my 2 year old daughter as a single father.

But it hasn’t been easy to secure employment due to my conviction, I can’t get a decent full time job, even with my aviation engineering diploma.

The last time I held proper employment was before I was jailed, and I have been doing Grabfood these few months to get by.

Our expenses have been eating most of my salary from Grab, and much as I want to chiong Grab delivery, I really can’t because I still have to take care of my daughter.

I make about $1.5k every month, and after paying for the bills, food, diapers, nursery fees, babysitter (there’s no one to care for my daughter) toys, and etc, I’m left with practically nothing.

I work in the day time and at night I keep sending out dozens and dozens of my resume, hoping to secure employment.

in all of my employment applications, I am honest about my conviction because they are gonna check anyway, so might as well be honest.

Maybe it is one of the reasons why my employment keep getting rejected, meanwhile i am down to my last dollars – i have about $23 left in my bank account.

I don’t know how to get by and I have a daughter to feed, and my parents are out of the picture, they passed away a few years ago.

My ex-girlfriend is also out of the picture, god knows where the f she disappeared to with that other man…

I’m leaving my husband tomorrow, Days like this I just want time to freeze so I can’t have more time to think.

I’ve finally had enough, I love him, but it’s not enough anymore. He has such a drinking problem and refuses to even acknowledge it and I feel like it’s the final nail in the coffin.

He’s maxed out two credit cards on going out and drinking. He’s choked me out while he’s drunk, and on the same night assaulted someone else.

After that, I completely stopped getting intimate with him. I couldn’t handle the idea of him touching me, let alone sleeping in the same bed together.

Did he understand it? Not even slightly, he just kept pushing and pushing intimacy on me so I caved in and let him sleep with others so he wouldn’t be angry with me for not fulfilling his needs.

He stopped couples therapy two years ago, while I continued it.

He goes out to find prostitutes and drinks with his friends and spends massive amounts of money till the earliest hours of the morning and expects me to be okay with it and not question him or what he does.

He says the meanest things; “I’m only good for having *expletive withheld* in my mouth” “You’ll never amount to anything” “Nobody wants you.”

The part that I want to get off my chest is that even though he’s hurt me in ways I never thought I’d experience and he’s the biggest jerk in the universe…

Leaving him feels like one of the hardest things I’ll ever have to do in my life.

I’m scared, because I have no idea what I’m going to do tomorrow.

Netizens’ comments

• You. Deserve. More. You deserve to be happy. I hope the next chapter of your life brings you the joy you’ve been robbed of. Good luck to you in every way.

• I am sorry you’re going through this. I can definitely see how it can be hard to leave him, but know & remember you’re doing what’s best for you. I wish you all the best.

I went out last night and I must say I did NOT expect to get as wild as I ended up doing. I went out with a few friends and I wore a pretty short skirt and crop top. I was kinda dressing revealingly and I did plan on seducing men, but I didn’t expect to go to the extent i did.

For the first hour or two at the club I just danced and danced with a few guys and had some shots before this one really tall hot guy asked if he could get me a drink.

After getting me a drink we danced and his hands went all over my body and even under my skirt. I got really turned on.

He whispered in my ear that we should go out to his car for a smoke break and I agreed. We didn’t even get to smoking cause the moment we got into his car we started making out and I ended up pulling his D out of his shorts and sucking it in the front seat of his car.

I said we should go in the back and I rode him and let him f me for like 15 minutes in the backseat of his car.

He actually made me finish which I was surprised by cause I usually can’t finish in an uncomfortable place like a car but I guess I was really in the mood.

He was nice and asked if he could finish inside me and I surprised myself by saying yes since I knew there wasn’t really a way for me to clean up after.

He filled me up and we got out of his car and went back to the club. I think I was pretty f-ed up cause I realized that I actually forgot my panties in his car.

i reached down in the middle of a crowd of people to feel myself and I was literally dripping down the inside of my leg. I felt like such a sl-t

I lost track of the guy who I hooked up with and I couldn’t find him for the rest of the night. I ended up just dancing with some of my friends for a while until eventually another guy came up behind me and started grinding on me.

I was really turned on from the previous encounter and knowing that I was “full” inside, and I let him grind on me and feel me from behind.

At one point his hands found their way under my skirt and when he felt that I wasn’t wearing any panties, he started getting hard.

He rubbed me down there and whispered in my ear that I was naughty for being this wet and not wearing any panties.

If only he knew lmao. I let him play with me for a few minutes before telling him that I had to go find my friends and leaving.

What an eventful night I definitely won’t forget it.

asking for money when my kids stay with me?

I have 9yo and 6yo boys with my ex. She’s married to Michael who has a 9yo boy Xander and lives full-time with them.

Xander and my 9yo are not just stepbrothers but best friends. They get along so well that they share a room and a king sized bed. You cannot separate them.

I find the whole thing funny so Xander comes to my house whenever I have my own kids (Wednesday through Saturday).

The thing is that Xander is a rubbish bin and eats everything. I took the three of them to eat some fast food and Xander ate four cheeseburgers.

Seriously. An hour later he said he was hungry and ate 6 waffles. He’s definitely not fat. He’s skinny.

I asked his dad if be could transfer me $20 because this kid won’t stop eating and he said why am I putting a price on our children’s friendship.

He said that it was tacky. I told him that his kid ate $16 worth of burgers in one sitting. He said that he often pays for my sons food so why can’t I pay his son’s?

Netizens’ comments

1. I agree with Michael – it’s tacky.
   Rather than giving him 4 cheeseburgers which is a ridiculous amount of calories, you have to learn to say No – you are the adult here, and you get to set the rules in your own house.
   If you’re giving them breakfast, lunch and dinner plus a few healthy snacks – you can say “hey bud, I think you’ve had enough of that”.
   Some kids can’t moderate themselves well and need adult supervision to help them create healthy habits.
   That said, I wouldn’t risk the relationship for the sake of your son, and co-parenting well with your ex and her husband. A few cheeseburgers simply isn’t worth it.
   If you can’t afford the extra costs, set a limit and make sure they know that they can only have 2 burgers. Totally reasonable!
2. You are providing free childcare to a 9 year old, it is not the same as Michael and your ex paying for your boys.
   Ask Michael if he’s up for for buying meals for your girlfriends 6 year old, along with free childcare.
3. you are not his parent and if you dont feed the kid enough and he complains to his father the shit will hit the fan… Little guy should be shipped to you with at least a little of allowance for his needs.
   What does he call you? Does he think you are his step dad or smth?

Ok, so I (20F) have been best friends with this guy (20M) since we were 15. Purely platonic. And when I say best friends, I mean BEST friends.

He likes me more than his male friends and I like him more than my female friends.

Throughout the years, we never did anything more physical than hug on rare occasion and I never got the feeling that he wanted to hook up.

When people at parties or whatever would ask if we’re together, he would say no and that he would never get with me.

At the risk of sounding conceited, I’d say I’m an attractive person, which led me to believe that he just wouldn’t want to ruin our friendship over a hookup and I was fine with that and it didn’t offend me.

Anyway, we got drunk one night alone at my place and started hooking up. He asked to f me and I said no because I had forgotten to take my birth control that night.

Then, a few days later, we f. Then, a couple days later, we f again. That pattern has repeated for a couple months.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s easily the best f-ing of my life, but it’s starting to mess with my head. We hang out every day and cuddle every night and f a few times a week, but the conversation of actually dating has never come up.

He even does all the cutesy things like kisses on the head and play fighting. I’m wondering if he thinks I’d reject him or if he just doesn’t see me as girlfriend material.

This is becoming increasingly difficult though, because I want a boyfriend and have another guy (21M) in my life who could potentially be that person.

Do I just let things play out like they are or do I stop sleeping with someone I love because he won’t ask me out?

Guy #2 and I have also been friends for years, and we have SO much in common and very similar life plans. Guy #1 is someone I love tremendously, but we also have different plans in life. Help, I’m stuck.

I got laid off from my job.

I had been working as an electrical trainee for almost 6 months. Everyone loved me and I was immensely popular in the company. I almost got laid off (or fired) in August, because of a few things:

1: I used my phone “too much” (IE: pulling it out to check the time occasionally, answering texts from my family once in a while, and replying to work emails).

2: Taking “too many bathroom breaks,”. I have IBS and IBD, so I had to use the bathroom once every hour, and I even explained the issue to them.

3: I was making some mistakes. Since everyone liked me, nobody told me I was making them, and they fixed my mistakes without notifying me at all.

4: I ate a handful of Skittles from the candy jar in the shop office. The boss accused me of eating all the Skittles, and I didn’t.

5: Not taking a long lunch. Company norm is combining your rest breaks with your lunch to create a longer lunch. I didn’t do that because I am prediabetic, and I needed the time to eat a handful of cashews or an apple and recharge.

6: “Leaving early”. Everyone told me that the shift was 7-3 Mon/Thurs, and 7-2 on Friday. I left at those times.

Anyways, I was given a second chance, and I didn’t use my phone as much. But on Thursday night on my way to a concert, my boss called me.

He told me him and the vice president of the company had done some talking, and they were going to go ahead and lay me off. I just said “okay” because I didn’t know what else to say. Please let me know what you think.

Netizens’ comments

1. “Everyone loved me and I was immensely popular in the company.”
   Apparently not
2. You were fired. Not laid off.
   Looking back at your previous postings. You come off like a problematic employee. Health issues aside. Sounds like they had just had enough of you.
3. This sounds like a just firing and you sugarcoating the issues. I can’t imagine why an apprentice would need to check his phone regularly during work. Any relevant information would be relayed to you by your direct supervisor.