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To her credit, she has Crohn's Disease too (well, she told me she had it after I told her I had it ... but I'm giving the benefit of the doubt and saying she does) and it's a hell of a disease.

If everything she said in that thread was true, then those problems could have very well led to a flare up for her and she could have very easily had her problems compounded.

My personal take on the situation is that it was never supposed to go this far. I don't air my dirty laundry on the boards and I'm pretty sure she was aware of it. Despite my email promises to "take it to the boards" I didn't a few times and would email back pretty much saying I'm serious this time, please pay me or I'm taking it to the boards.

I can be a big pushover when I let myself be one. I kept giving her the benefit of the doubt. For awhile it would have been nice to have the money but I survived without it. The present comes and I actually need it. I'm stressing over this electric bill and the disrespect shown by outright ignoring me was the breaking straw.

Remember when I said she was rude about my own personal problems but didn't want to go into details? Well, here goes ... everyone knows the money situation now so I have nothing to lose...

When I was doing work for her my Internet was shut off. I told her I'd hustle to get the money by text message. I no longer have it but she sent back really nasty like "Jesse, I have a business to run and I do not have time for your problems. Get the work done."

I was writing reviews for her at the time. I stayed up all night surfing sites from my phone and writing the reviews on my computer. When the morning came, I called and paid by check and managed to cover that check in time.

That text message stung so bad. Prior to that she was well aware of my problems and seemed truly sympathetic. At most we were talking about a 24 or 48 hour delay in doing my work. I hate even being 5 seconds late (by the way, there are plenty of gay sponsors that can vouch for my work and my turnaround) but based on what I've read on this board, to get something only 24 to 48 hours late is a freaking miracle.

Anyway, I ended up getting her work done on time. I busted my ass squinting at my cell phone all night but it got done and it got done correctly. How do I know I did it correctly? She put it up on her sites...

I remember that text message so vividly because she was so demeaning and attempted to minimize my own problems. Meanwhile, this is the woman that said riding on her coat tails would bring me amazing things. It looks like all it brought was an unpaid debt.