People who have been to prison, what unexpected habits did you pick up inside and stick with following your release? [serious]

I'm probably going to prison for even telling this story, but I was very young (minor) and talking to this 23 year old inmate at a GA state prison. I thought I was in love or some dumb high school thing, but he became obsessed with me yet still somehow the boss of me. I had rules and expectations and he had some helluva trade system going on.

Ever heard of greendot cards? Well I'm not giving more info than that but if you know what I'm talking about you know it. He used to call me on his cell and I had to stop whatever I was doing at any time - even skip class or wake up in the night.

I am an upper middle class latino-irish girl, so I was excited to be so naughty and the rush was crazy, even though I wasn't really doing anything wrong.

We talked for 3 years until he got out of prison (he had been in for 5. As the how we met...we didn't until then) and he was out for a week before killing someone and now he is in for life. He told me if I ever left him that he would kill me. I still have the last letters he ever wrote me, I sometimes read them and miss writing dirty letters and being like a Bonnie to his Clyde.

Anyways, life for him in prison was gang related. They called him (name)MOB (like if his name was Phillip it would be PhilMOB...this is not the "mob" it is an acronym). And he ran things in his block. But he also was very unstable. He was a very quiet individual, never said much, but he probably spent overall a year of us talking in the hole (OITNB calls it shoe for reference) from stabbing someone or beating someone to the ward. There was this CO, she was a bigger girl, but used to help him out a lot in the trade in exchange for sex.

Sn: To my knowledge he never wore a condom but my friend I knew used a glove (like an actual glove).

Anyways, when we would be on the phone he always had people comin to his block to ask for favors and requests and cigarettes or to pay him back for something. Sometimes he said no. Actually most of the time he said no. He was kinda ruthless (but I guess you have to be?)

There is a lot more but this is the longest post ever so I'ma stop.

I stopped talking to him because I knew I wanted to at least have physical contact with my man but also, in college you want to party and have fun and I never could without feeling guilty.

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