I also got in a relationship with a 32 year old man when I was 15. I thought I was in love. I still think I was in love but I think he was taking advantage of my situation and my emotions. My mother died from cancer when I was 15. My father was never home, always out drinking and trying to find a new wife. My dad and his girlfriend knew that I was staying at this man's house. In fact, he would even come to my house and visit me and my dad would stop in for a few minutes and see him there and talk to him briefly. The school knew I was in this relationship, we didn't hide anything. Anyway, I was left to raise myself. This 32 year old came along and he was absolutely the only caring adult I had in my life. Even the school I was going to failed me but that's another story. I can look back at it all and see how he groomed me. I was with the 32 year old until I found out I was pregnant with his child at the age of 19. We were working on have a baby, so it was not a surprise to either of us. He decided he wanted someone older and more mature, I caught him in bed with a woman who is now his wife. She is only 4 years older then I am. I am in my 50's now. I was not able to see the situation for what it was until I had a teenage daughter of my own, then I could see exactly what happened. In the last 3 years he started following me on Instagram so I sent him a friend's request on facebook, he accepted it. I still feel like I need some closure on this. I sent a couple of messages saying hello to him, he ignored both. I sent him a longer message asking him how he was, telling him he had beautiful children, just chit chat and he ignored that as well. I still have him as a friend on facebook but blocked him from seeing most of my posts. I kind of want to remove him but then I don't want him to know that I have conflicting feelings towards him. When I was 19, I was so upset with the way he was treating me that I ended up losing the baby, he was not there for me despite my sister trying to call him over and over.
Anyway, I can certainly relate to how ET may feel, this case has really brought up some old emotions in me.