u/Alone_Succotash4674

My uncle was one of the smartest people I’ve ever met. He had a PhD in physics and spent most of his career working for NASA in the 70s and 80s. He wasn’t an astronaut, but he was heavily involved in research and development for space missions.

When I was a teenager, I asked him the big question: “Did we really land on the moon?”

He didn’t laugh, didn’t roll his eyes—just gave me this tired smile and said, “Kid, if you knew how many people it takes to fake something like that, you’d realize it’s easier to just go to the damn moon.”

That answer has stuck with me ever since.

My boyfriend and I have been together from February 2020 to now. we were 19 years old and now 26 I am pregnant with our first child. We grew up quite different, he was along the poor side he had no running water, electricity, not toilet and he never had to pay any bill.we use to be so happy we never really argued just small fights like every normal relationship but we were okay. in 2021 I started to sleep by his house a lot he fixed it up for me and I would be there mostly every night.we use to bathe outside and get gas for his generator and stuff like that.he works construction and throughout all these years we have been together he barely worked first i blamed it on the pandemic , but came to realize he doesn’t really want to work I never pressured him to get a job because he would always find lil jobs to make money. He told me he had a car never say the car because he didn’t wanted me to see it in a bad shape. I gave him money to fix the car but never say the car he told me he eventually sold it.i got a car I use to go to work and school and let him drop me. he crashed the car took forever to fix it. I had to get my own money to fix the car. we moved into my family home so my rent wasn’t a lot I never asked him to help pay any bills because I could of managed the bills on my own. when I did asked he would only give me a portion of the funds and never give the res. I always managed to get everything under control. He didn’t have no documentation , I drove him around to where he had to go paid for his things to get his documents and checked up on everything for him, he still says I don’t do nothing for him we don’t go out on dates we dont travel we don’t do gifts we do no despite that fact that I told him I wanted to star doing these. I paid for us to go on vacation last year all he had to do what come up with the spending money. He proceeds to tell me he don’t think he going be doesnt have enough money a day before our flight .i went on the trip myself and my sister later came.he says he loves me but I just don’t believe his actions but I so think he really loves me. I came to notice that he puts his family before me which I don’t mind but I tell him sometimes you have to put me first I have been here when you have nothin I have bailed him out of jail numerous of times because his family doesn’t have jobs or don’t make enough money. we bought a new mattress together and he burned it even though I paid for half of it the car that he owed me he continues to take it back from me I guess because he bought it. We have had huge arguments when I try to tell me he needs to go I pack he things and tell him I don’t want him in my house he doesn’t pay bills he doesnt have a job . so him being around is pointless. Whenever we make back up he throws it in my face that I kick him out with nowhere to go. We always fight over finances he would give him countless amount of money because I know when he makes it back I would get it.he would just go and take the money without asking . he told me to stop working because of the pregnancy he barleg gives money and leave me home until he arrives with food to eat. Yesterday we had a another big fight he told me to get 235 and that would be money for me I never officially took the money but had it laying around I spent a total of 150 out of the money he started complaining and I got tired i decided he needed to leave he always does this he started saying he doesn’t care if eat and I don’t do nothing for him and that he doesn’t want to be around me he tired of me kicking him out and make me feel like I am in the wrong can someone give me advice on the what to do I love him but i don’t know how much more I can take he left last night with his things and still came back to sleep I am not a confrontational person I just want him to leave me alone he already say he dont want to be around me but he never leaves