This may be a long post so forgive me for run on sentences and Grammer fuck ups. Ok, so me and my son's mother aren't together and have been broken up for time now. I broke up with her because she was lazy as fuck, never worked a job in her life (she just turned 30), and put her friends before me etc. Not to mention she slept with a friend of mine at the time. Fast forward and she jumped into a relationship with a new guy right after me (whom she was also cheating on me with) right after the break up, and I mean literally after I walked out the house the dude was down the block right after. Long story short she fell for this dude hard and got his name tattooed on her arm just after a few months into the relationship. Okay, whatever. Turns out he was in some kind of accident when he was a kid and he was slightly off. So years go by and things start to hit the fan and he's verbally abusing her and I believe to myself was also hitting her. This had a bad impact on our son and he started reflecting the situations going on around him. Fast forward again. She is now staying with her parents again and a friend of hers is with them as well so it's five people in a two bedroom apartment. Her and her mom have never really been able to get along and the father is very passive and just kind a goes with the flow when they start arguing etc until he either blows up and storms out. So here is where things get really odd. Apparently, she is seeing someone else now. I met him recently at my son's birthday party and I was surprised because I couldn't for the life of me figure out what kind of guy would put himself in this kind of situation. Shes a single mother, no job and shows no sign of wanting to work, another man's named tattooed on her forearm from a previous relationship and just downright lazy. I'm under the impression that the guy either has no or very little self esteem. He is rather heavy (from my understanding he is a chef), he has a car and lives in PA, while she is located in New York (so it's also a long distance relationship to a degree). When I was introduced to him, I shook his hand and felt NO type of confidence in his shake what so ever. So my question to you guys is this. What the fuck is going on? George Lucas couldn't make this shit up if he sat on a toilet for a half an hour high off LSD. Am I missing something here? And here is the icing on the cake. He parents were able to speak with the housing association about getting her her own apartment literally RIGHT around the corner from where they are right now. She is getting assistance from the government and they said they would pay half of her rent but she must come up with the rest. I think the rent is something like 425 or a little more. Not 100% sure, so her dad naturally offered to pay the rest but they said they wouldn't accept it because there isn't a commitment to the payment method (if they get into an agreement and he doesn't want to pay than their assed out), so she told her parents to speak to ME and see if I would be willing to sign paternity papers to set up some kind of child support agreement(since I'm the dad and it would be a much more reliable payment method). I just think this whole situation is HELLA goofy. What do you guys think? And sorry for the long drawn out post.