I'm a [24f], my [26m] partner committed a felony sex crime and is facing 10-15 yrs in prison. Not sure what to do.

Hey, Straight talk from a stranger. Don't stay with him. You'll be walking a very stressful and expensive road. My husband is a sex offender cause of something stupid he did when he was 21. His was a misdemeanor that he spent less than 3 months in jail for - very minor.

He has to register as a SO at $60 a pop per police jurisdiction in my state (a very lenient state actually) this past years registration fee was $180. Then he has to have sex offender on his license and id - those are renewed every year so we're talking another $80. Then every 5 years or whenever we move he has to send out cards to every address within a mile of us. That's $2000. In addition to the cards he has to publish it in the paper that's $175. Our cars have to be registered. One time I was pulled over 60 times in 38 days just because I was driving my own god damn vehicle - not one ticket.

No one will hire him. Every job he gets he loses as soon as they find out. I made the mistake of having kids with him (don't get me wrong I love my kids). Parents ostracize them when they find out. They will never have a sleep over much less friends over. This has lend to a lot of depression and anxiety for my husband (who I love and have loved for 20 years). Recently it all got to him and he purposefully orchestrated his rearrest thinking we'd be better without him. Basically suicide without killing himself. To be honest he's not wrong - in some aspects our lives will be better without him but now my kids don't have a father and I lost my best friend, partner and lover in one night. He'll be in there something like 10-20 years and he encouraged me to walk away which I'm partially doing. I'm keeping in contact via letter.

You're the age I was when I got married. Walk away hun - life holds more for you.

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