I will admit that it's hard for me to not help people that I rock with, especially if it's something as simple as financial issues. I'm naturally a generous person but people take advantage of that unfortunately. I was about to trick off on a chick that called me with her financial woes a couple of weeks back and I stopped myself.
Then I started thinking back on previous conversations and the broad was setting me up for the okey doke. I'm going to speak to my therapist about this next year when we resume our sessions lol...
You need to call it what it is: you've been a victim of financial and emotional abuse. You were and have been in abusive relationships. The way we talk about abusive relationships its always from a woman's perspective so we grow up thinking men rarely if ever are victims of gaslighting, emotional abuse, financial abuse, etc.
Men are afraid to see themselves as having been victimized in any way, but if you don't admit that you are/were someone that predators scope out and manipulate, you will keep finding yourself in the same situations. Your ex IS a predator.
The coli is kind of like a group therapy session because you get the benefit of the years of experience and advice from hundreds of other men. Its important that you continue to follow through on your growth and learn from your mistakes.
Sometimes being kind and helpful means reccomending that a broke woman goes to credit counseling rather than tying your cape on and offering to pay for shyt.
Sometimes being a kind person means instead of reassuring a woman who has had bad luck with men, you reccomend that she unpack her trauma with a therapist and hit you up when she's making breakthroughs and is a happier and more secure person.
We have to reprogram men. Too many of us are falling for the bullshyt and getting taken to the cleaners. The stakes are even higher when kids are in the mix.