Posted on 04/23/2011 9:34:11 AM PDT by george76
LOCKED out of her apartment and hammering on the door, Sharon Bridges had never felt so alone.
Inside was her husband of two years, Rickey Bridges, who had been released from a tough American jail just two months earlier after serving 14 years for manslaughter.
Sharon, 34, had given up her job, her husband, her son and her life in Britain to marry the ex-con after meeting him through a pen-pal service.
But instead of the fairytale romance she had hoped for, the British mum found herself living on a gang-ridden, drug-infested Los Angeles housing estate.
Now back in the UK, Sharon told The Sun: "I feel like an idiot but I loved Rickey with all my heart and I wanted to make my marriage work.
"But the final straw came when he locked me out after a blazing row about how I made the bed.
"I called my mum and she bought me a one-way ticket to come home. I'll always love Rickey but I just couldn't stay there any longer."
Sharon, from Nottingham, was a married finance worker with a young son when she first made contact with Rickey in 2007.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Adultery, lies, deceit............why did this moron ever think this was a good idea?
What a sparkling example of stupidity coupled with low self-worth.
Great sense of judgement there, Sharon!
But convicts are misunderstood. They are where they’re at in life because they never got a fair shake. All it takes to change them is love.
That myth crashes and burns when you’re in gangland running for your life.
But convicts are misunderstood. They are where they’re at in life because they never got a fair shake. All it takes to change them is love.
That myth crashes and burns when you’re in gangland running for your life.
What did she expect, "pen-pal" is short for Penitentiary Pal.........
wow, talk about a story full of fail and stupid!
This woman is crazy mentally!
I am sorry for her first husband and son. Imagine the pain and embarrassment she caused them both.
...and she has the temerity to make herself the victim of the situation SHE put HERSELF in?
I hate to say it, but it sounds as if she got what she deserved.
What a moron.
One must be habilitated to be rehabilitated.
Forest had it right: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Stupid doesn’t even begin to describe this....
But I had a co-worker in the 1970s who left a hard-working steady guy because he was too boring and hooked up with a small time pusher; and heard a girl at the hair-cutting place bragging about the same thing last year.Some idiot women crave "exciting,dangerous" men,omly to end up as abused "victims" by their own stupid choices.
Brainless idiot. She's lucky to be alive.
The brilliance abounds in this article. She'll have a real good time explaining that to her son while begging him not to hate her.
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