Recent content by mintgelato

If she is willingly with him, that could be a concern to her, too. If she's still in that "in love" mindset with this guy, she's not going to want him to be in trouble either. She has to be beyond thinking she cares about what happens to him next for that to help, too.

It won't help the discussion here, but it was losing his baby. I was pregnant soon after we left and lost it at just a few weeks along. I'm praying for ET. I hope she makes it back home safe before anything worse happens.

I wasn't being held captive exactly. I honestly don't believe that ET is yet either. It was all manipulation. I could leave whenever I wanted, but he made me believe that I didn't really want to go anywhere. I was also scared to go home, to that judgement and what people would say about me, and...

This could definitely be it. As a teen, I took off with a much older man just like this and quoted is exactly how he got me to stay when I thought I'd try to go back home. He'd be lost without me, he loved me, he'd given up everything, etc. Based on some of the back & forth I've read between...

That seems too complicated, but would could work. The gift card just seems easier. Grocery stores, Walmarts, etc., all sell them. It'd be easy to run in for it and go without the cashier paying attention at all.

All he needed to do is buy a gas station gift card with cash, and he could pump gas without going in or worrying about any of this. I do it all the time to avoid using my card at the pumps.