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Old Nov 25, 2012, 06:41 PM
wosbaby wosbaby is offline
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Member Since: Nov 2012
Location: Texas
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I'm sorry..the first part of my post was cut off. Please read this first, then the initial post. I apologize for any confusion!

I'd met Liza online 6 years ago, in a group forum. We became friends online, and with my moral support, she was able to get out of a 15 yr abusive relationship. When she left her ex, she'd moved into a women's shelter in GA. While in the shelter, she met another man through a dating site, which turned out to be a scammer and used her to move items bought with stolen credit cards.
Liza remained almost 2 years in shelters for domestic violence, when she'd finally gotten a job as a nanny in our state. I was overjoyed that she would be moving so close to us, and that I would finally get to meet her in person. After a week at that live in job, she surmised that the father of the children was a polygamist. She'd called me, frantic, asking what to do because she did not feel she could safely leave. I advised her to call the police and tell them what she'd told me. She did, and they escorted her to a bus stop away from the house, where I'd driven to pick her up.
The plan originally was that she would spend the weekend with us, then on Sunday evening, I would take her to the local shelter, which I'd already contacted. Sunday evening came, and my husband and I just didn't have the heart to take her to yet another shelter, so we agreed she could stay with us until she was on her feet.
I tried to get her to apply for jobs, but she always had an excuse not to. Thinking she was penniless, both myself and my 16 yr old daughter bought her new clothes. We found out later that she had $80 on her.
I got her a job at a hotel that I'd just begun managing, as a front desk clerk. It soon became very apparant that she could not even handle a simple task such as that. She repeatedly makes mistakes, "forgets" how to do the most basic of things, and calls me constantly for advice on how to do mundane tasks. The owners have wanted me to fire her, but I fought to let her keep her job and only use her on slow days.
During all this, my family and I have hit some finanacial stress in which we are struggling to keep our electricity on, find our next meal, get my daughter the glasses she so desperately needs, etc...
Knowing our financial situation, when Liza got her first check she went and bought herself a new iphone! No offers to help with even gas for my car for taking her back and forth to work, much less anything else! All she does is sit on the couch, talking online to various men she meets on dating sites.
She does nothing to help around the house, offers to pay nothing, and makes a mess.