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I don't want an affair child, but my family is pressuring me.

Oh, boy.

Trigger warning mention of substances and assault.

So I-27 male was in a very high-stress situation because of my family and business problems for months,

and I failed to deal with it in a healthy way.

My fault.

I was a substance user during my college days. When I asked my girlfriend 24 female for a date, she said, I would have said yes if you weren't an addict. Oh. I said, give me a chance. I will leave everything. We started going on dates. And in six months time, I was no longer a regular user. Boom. My whole relationship was built on this promise. Oh, God, I'm waiting for the other shoot a drop. By the way, this comes from deleted. And if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R slash OK Storytime subreddit. So whenever my friends would invite me for a party, they made sure that there were no substances around. but at a party over a month ago, it turned

out there were. I went alone because my girlfriend was visiting her mother, and as I mentioned

earlier, everything going on in my life had been wearing me down. When I saw the devil's lettuce,

I thought, just trying it once might help me unwind for at least one night.

And like a fool, I did it after being clean for six years.

That's rough.

After that, I didn't stop there.

I ended up drinking too much as well.

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