Anne-Marie Green

It is hard to be a single parent.

And so I'm always impressed when I hear about single parents succeeding.

And in May of 2021, she meets Billy Rickman, who is staying at the hotel that she's managing.

He has this larger-than-life personality and immediately introduces himself to her.

But what was it about Rickman that she was attracted to?

Definitely.

I think probably a lot of people have experienced love bombing and, you know, it feels wonderful.

But there's always sort of a little bit of an edge where you're like, geez, we just we just met.

I mean, but if they do it well and obviously he did, it's you can get lured in by it within weeks.

Right.

Gloria and Rickman, they became a couple.

He began staying at the Oyo Hotel because she stays there and works there.

Gloria's parents do not approve of this relationship.

They want Rickman out.

And so they say to her, listen, you know, you can stay at the hotel and be the manager or you can leave.

And she chooses to leave with him.

In September 2021, Gloria moved to a new apartment with Rickman and her son and took a new job as a manager at the Holiday Inn Express.

But it wasn't long after that that Gloria really started to realize that Rickman was not the guy that he was making himself out to be.

Hmm.

Well, there's a theme here when we talk about living off a woman.