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Go it alone or am I being stupid?

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  • He did know my age obviously I was still suppose to be at school. Although I wanted to be in the relationship then I wasn't forced.

    Thank you about the history I am on my phone so he wont notice I've cleared the history I don't think.
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  • Person_one
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
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    He did know my age obviously I was still suppose to be at school. Although I wanted to be in the relationship then I wasn't forced.

    You were 14, none of what's happened to you was your fault, you didn't deserve to be targeted by this man.
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    Rented through the local council/HA
    In that case throw the useless sod out. Stick up for your kids, they don't deserve to have to live in a drug infested house.
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  • The Refuge website is helpful too, do give Refuge or Women's Aid a call as soon as you're able.
    "We have to be kind because everyone is fighting a great, great battle" - Sir Richard Attenborough
    "There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women" - Madeleine Albright
  • VestanPance
    VestanPance Posts: 1,597 Forumite
    At 13 I was passing myself off as 16.

    The boys I snogged/dated at that age (between 16 and 20) had bo idea I was 13. So were any of them pedophiles?

    Technically yes they are.

    They also could have found themselves permanently on the sex offenders register too had they been caught. No matter that you lied about your age, looked older than your age or anything else.
  • Dunroamin
    Dunroamin Posts: 16,908 Forumite
    Person_one wrote: »
    She was an exploited child, from the sound of it. Please don't victim blame.

    Don't make women into victims just because they have made bad choices!
  • notanewuser
    notanewuser Posts: 8,499 Forumite
    Technically yes they are.

    They also could have found themselves permanently on the sex offenders register too had they been caught. No matter that you lied about your age, looked older than your age or anything else.

    Do you honestly think that's fair? In the absence of any other evidence, if somebody looks 16, and tells you they are 16, you'd not believe them?
    Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman
  • Person_one
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
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    Dunroamin wrote: »
    Don't make women into victims just because they have made bad choices!

    Have you actually read the thread or are just trying to be provocative?

    She wasn't even a woman, she was a girl when this man groomed and basically trapped her.
  • Person_one
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
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    Do you honestly think that's fair? In the absence of any other evidence, if somebody looks 16, and tells you they are 16, you'd not believe them?

    Why don't you start another thread about that, this isn't really the best one for that discussion, is it?
  • notanewuser
    notanewuser Posts: 8,499 Forumite
    Person_one wrote: »
    Why don't you start another thread about that, this isn't really the best one for that discussion, is it?

    True. Sorry for derailing.
    Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman
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