When a friend destroys your trust

How do you forgive someone who betrayed your trust? A person you thought was a very close friend, but turned into a snake in the grass? How do you trust someone who had a family member hack your computer? How do you trust someone who continued to act as your friend after they turned you into law enforcement. How do you trust someone who turned you out of their house when it was ten degrees below zero and snowing? Knowing you had no place to go? How do people like this exist in society? All of these questions are true. It happened to me in 2018. Now I am paying a dear price for what this friend has done. She isn’t the only one to betray my trust. While I was in jail I requested visits from my pastor. He didn’t get the approval from the jail until I had been released. The pastor came to see me after I was released. He gave me one hundred dollars to keep me off the streets. Now he is going to pay my hotel bill until I fly back home to Virginia.

Back to my snake in the grass. After she turned me in, she continued to use me for free and reduced travel for herself and her family. I didn’t find out she was the one who turned me in until I had been extradited back to Colorado from Virginia. Why didn’t she call me and ask if I was aware of any inappropriate content on my computer that I purchased at a pawn shop. Instead she went directly to the police department and now almost four years later…