A few weeks ago, my ex boyfriend, who lives in Arizona, texted me out of the blue and asked what were the names of the six apps I do retail audits on as a side job. He said his former girlfriend M was now living in her car and he wanted to tell her about them so she could improve her situation. I gave him the names of all the apps with my referral links *even though* there was always kind of an understanding among people who do this to not be handing the referral links out so much. In the online spaces for these apps, we all seemed to understand that would cause over saturation. But I did it this one time anyway. I haven’t done any of those jobs in about three months honestly.
Then I asked my ex boyfriend why M can’t move in with him. I made it ABUNDANTLY clear that I was encouraging him getting back with her. Don’t wait for me to be single again, because I don’t plan on it. He said because his mother would take his house away if he ever had a live in girlfriend or got remarried. I knew his parents owned his house, but I didn’t know they were so against him having a second marriage or second family to the point that they’d take his house away. He never told me that. He just always made sure that they never knew I was visiting, and everyone else in my life thought that he was hiding me from another woman. He also works at his parents’ company, and the downside to that is they have convinced him that literally no one would ever hire him ever. So he HAS to work for them. My ex boyfriend has his own side business as a stagehand, and he’s done some pretty amazing shows. He also used to be a surgical technician, assisting surgeons by handing them instruments and sometimes even closing people up. I started to realize just how hard it must be for him. It made me glad that my parents weren’t business owners. If they were, I’d be in the same situation.
A few weeks later, one of the apps informed me that I received a $25 referral bonus. I texted him to let him know. He then lied and said that she shit all over the idea and wasn’t doing any of the jobs. I said actually, I wouldn’t have gotten the referral bonus unless she’d done at least 200 or 250 audits just on that one app alone. He didn’t respond, and I don’t really want to speak to him again other than to get updates on his kids. I’m so glad I moved on, and I hope he and M do as well. Apparently she’s been working at the Amazon warehouse AND doing the apps. If he went back to working in a hospital and kept up with the stagehand side business, they could do really well even if he did lose his house. Some people's parents really suck, and sometimes I wonder if the previous generation actually set us up to fail so they could have a good laugh. I’ll always care about him, but I’m no longer in love with him. And I’ll always love his kids.
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