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Greg Smart

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  1. This is so true. But don't always blame the young guy when things get ugly. A few years ago I was swept up by an older man in New York who purposely threw massive amounts of money at me in order to "Make my life so expensive that I could never leave him" (his words, roughly). I had no idea what I was getting into. After he got me to fall in love with him and look forward to a future with him in my life, he abruptly cuts off all contact with me - all because of a petty lie that he could have come clean about MONTHS BEFORE and an entirely separate outcome would have occurred for both of us. For me, getting cut off wouldn't have been that big of a problem, but I was stuck with an expensive phone plan, cable and internet plans, health plan, etc... with huge monthly payments I couldn't cancel; plus memberships in New York City that had very steep exit costs that I got stuck with. The total cost of getting out of that lifestyle was staggering, like over $13k. I had to spend 2 years fixing that mess, and repeated attempts asking him for help were met with radio silence. An attorney I contacted said that if I went after him in court I would have to admit under oath that I accepted money in exchange for sex across state lines, which is a felony (I was on the west coast and he is on the east coast). That would've put both of us in jail. Him and I had exchanged a lot of damming emails and when I showed them to my lawyer he just shook his head. The statute of limitations on that hasn't run its corse. The worst part were the accusations he made against me that I was milking him for his money. That was soul crushing, especially when I continued to tell him to stop throwing excessive money and gifts at me. I didn't know how to loudly I had to express to him that He Won, I'm in love with him! Something in his brain wouldn't allow him to believe it, or maybe he did believe it and was afraid or, in reality, didn't want it all together. Either way, wether he understands it or not, to leave me out in the cold like that was cruel; and to justify it by blaming it all on me was worse. What I was looking for and thought I was getting was an older, intelligent, experienced, self-made man who could be a mentor. He took advantage of that and what i really got was a habitual lying hypochondriac who wanted me as play toy. After my brain and emotions settled down, I realized that you can't reason with a careless person. Sometimes, you just get scammed. Theres no articles about when this happens to the young guy. Its always the young guy scamming the old rich man. I wanted to shout "Outrage," but no one was going to feel bad for me- even with a trail of damming emails. Plus, I'm no slouch- I got my life back together in a hurry- it was just these 2 years fixing the damage he caused that were the worst (and I'm still fixing the collateral damage to an extent). But whenever I read a story about a G4P doing something to an old man, my first reaction will always be 'what did the old man do to him?' Having lived it my view of things skewed.
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