Ask Amy: Online meeting might lead to a trap
If you had, you’d be skeptical enough to look into “Rob’s” background, social media and dating app presence in order to try to gauge his intent.
His choice to offer you an instant solution to your money issues is a huge red flag.
His suggestion about you being the mother of his children might have been a joke, or a suggestion designed to steer you in a specific direction. Either way, you don’t even know him well enough to decode his intent.
If you did participate in this scheme, you would be trapped in the household.
That’s the best-case scenario.
The worst-case scenario involves a “missing” poster with your picture on it and a camera crew from “Dateline” showing up at your folks’ door.
You should approach friends and family members for ideas regarding your finances. You could get a roommate, a second job, or perhaps ask your folks if you could move in with them in order to dig yourself out of debt.
Dear Amy: I’m in a pickle.
My wife and I are in our late-20’s. We somehow managed to buy our own house last year and are planning to have a child within the next couple of years or so.
My wife has started heavily advocating for her parents to move in with us.
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