I have a friend, Paul, for about two years. He’s super sweet and always helpful and kind. He has expressed desires to want to be in a relationship but he needs to be much more established for my liking (he still lives with his dad and brother)
I’ve always sort of heavily questioned Paul in regards to why he can’t find a job with a master’s degree in engineering. He’s applied to probably 10 positions since talking but was never accepted, so I assumed maybe his interviewing skills sucked or the market in our area sucks. He does $13/hour under-the-table maintenance work right now which was always strange to me. He also never told me his full name and any pictures with his full name had the last name edited out. I never thought anything of this for some reason.
I cooked dinner for him on Wednesday night and he told me that he wanted to get something off his chest. He told me that he was a convicted felon and spent a few years in prison for talking to minors online and paying minors for sex a decade or so ago. He’s still on probation for it. He said he thought he could trust me and just wanted to finally admit it.
I don’t even know what to think. I am clearly shocked and just feel...I don’t know? I asked him to leave shortly afterwards because I was so uncomfortable. I’ve done some thinking and wonder if he likes our age gap because of pedophilic tendencies. Also two years of a friendship without me knowing he did that is just...wow.
It makes sense why he can’t get a job and is only able to do under the table work and lives with his dad/brother.
I feel like cutting him off is the right answer (right?) Or is someone who’s shown decency and been a good friend worth forgiving his criminal past? I don’t even know. Please help.
TL;DR: a pretty close friend of two years just admitted he is a felon and on probation for being a pedophile and I honestly don’t know what to do.
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 04:04PM by gentle_but_strong https://ift.tt/3uom6P9
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