Relationships & Prison

I was totally baffled at your post until you explained that.

Any relationship can work, be it long distance or if one of you is in a prison cell. All a relationship needs to function is devotion and honesty. Two very demanding things, I am aware. But if it's a matter of 'love', then anything should be worth it.

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Also, not everyone who goes to prison is neccisarly (spelling?) a "felon" who's determined to burn down your village or what not.

But that aside (and of course, no offense meant Britt), I don't think prison-related relationships would work. Distance is killer enough, add in a lack of communication on top of the lack of touch, and you got some bad stuff on the horizon.

Yea, it's true. Not all prison-related relationships work but they do if you have the patience and all that mushy stuff.

I am currently in a relationship with someone in prison. He's been locked up for a year and a half. We've been together for 4 years. Why am I still with him? Shxt happens and we're all human. And like I've told him, it's the people who were suppose to be his 'friends' that took him in that direction. Til this day, not one of those 'friends' have tried to see how he is doing, or to check on his family.. nothing. He realizes what he's done and that he's not able to take anything back. When he did his crime, he was trying to fit it. I know that's not him.

He's straightened up alot. Like someone already mentioned, they have a lot of time on their hands when they're in prison, time to focus on themselves and what they have done (if they want). My boyfriend is working on finishing his GED and is looking at degrees he wants to major in. Above all, I am so proud of him for realizing that there is more to life than just gang-banging and drugs.

This is one of the many conversations that my boyfriend and I have had. Being in prison for a while, they feel forgotten, as if everyone has forgot about them. First they try to talk with people they already know and if they don't accept they move on to someone else. If none of the girls they knew before they got locked up wants to keep in touch or any of the sort.. they move one to something else. That something else is paying other inmates to "hook them up" with somebody. My boyfriend has asked me plenty of times to see if my girl friends would at least write the guy [inmate] but my friends refuse, so there's nothing I can do. The point is they will do whatever they need. When I mean whatever, that's when the guy [inmate] won't care whether the girl is short, tall, big, skinny, light, dark, big ears, little nose, one foot longer than the other, missing teeth,.. it doesn't matter anymore.