Derek Jones
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Dec
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We met through Facebook, actually.
I want to say it was towards the end of 2016.
I live around the Fort Worth area. At the time, I didn't. I lived over in Archer City, which was a good hour and a half from Fort Worth, roughly, I think.
I mean, nothing stood out that was like alarming or anything like that. You know, I was like, hey, this is you know, I was enjoying the conversation. It's hard because I look back at it now and I have a different perception. I looked I was in a dark place back then. And so I don't think that helped with my conversation.
judgment very well but i i mean back then i looked at it as i didn't see anything alarming and you know this nice girl that had her stuff together and like i said i was a single guy so i was like hey why not and then did she eventually suggest that you meet up in person and how did that piece of things develop We both were like talking back and forth about meeting up in person.
And then finally, I was able to have a free weekend when she had a free weekend. And so then we finally just made plans to meet up. And I said it was about three months after we started chatting that we finally met up. I came up to Fort Worth.
100%.
Yeah, it definitely makes you stop. And when everything came out, it made me and once I got clear headed and understanding of everything, and I was like, where was my judgment at, you know? But it also makes you stop and look at it. Like you said, it's like, It's hard to remember how I thought back then. Yeah, because I'm leaps and bounds ahead of where I was even back then.
And so it's yeah, it's hard to think about it, like to the point of remembering exactly what were your thoughts, because myself nowadays, I'd have been like, what in the world? Something's off here. But at the same time, going through this has also made me.
me hide my awareness like little things throw you know catch red flag red flag you know and it's it's made me harder to trust people yeah um because it makes you like I said it makes you question your judgment but it also it's like you you thought you know yourself better than that
But now you're like now that you've come out on the other side, you're like before I'd have been just like, oh, yeah, no problem. Like, I believe you now. I'm like, yeah, yeah. And then I'm going to I'm going to take some time and evaluate it and think about it.
I had one from a previous marriage. And I was just in that place in life where
then i didn't know that i was in a depression and everything and i i really didn't learn how deep of a depression i was in until actually all this came out i didn't realize and how far i'd had disassociated myself with family and everything else and so i i i look back now and you know like i said my judgment wasn't the best and i i could i will put 100 that it wasn't now that i look back but
You know, we started dating and we started hanging out and she would come up and see me and I would go up there and see her. And it ended up moving really quick. I want to say it was around April of 2017 that she had called me up to let me know that she was pregnant.
Yeah, she calls me and tells me she's pregnant. And I was like, well, you know, I'll be there. I'm not going nowhere. You know, I'll be there for my kid. We keep dating. She calls me one day and she goes, hey, I just got back from the doctor. And he says, there's two of them. And I said, no, you're kidding. And she says, no, I'm not. I'm like, no, this is not funny.
Like, you know, all joking aside, how did the appointment go? She's like, really, we're having twins. And I was like, wow, you know. And so I ended up making plans and moving up to Fort Worth with her. because I wanted to be here through the pregnancy.
At the time, my work was where I lived. And then I found a job up in Fort Worth when I moved up here. Looking back on it, it should have been an alarm that, hey, she was in transition of houses. So she was staying at her grandmother's house. But she's like, you know, my grandmother said, you can move in here with me. And I said, I wasn't in the best mindset. And
So I ended up moving in there with her, with her grandmother.
she told me she had been a nurse at Cook's, but then she had told me when I moved in there, she was working at a nursing home. And then right before I moved in, she had been working at a nursing home. Once I moved in, pregnancy was getting hard on her. And she told me that the doctor said, Hey, If I don't start taking it easy, they're going to bed rest for the rest of the pregnancy.
And this was way early on. Me being a young, dumb guy, you know, I didn't know nothing about it. And I fed right into it because I'm like, okay, you know, there's two. I've only been, you know, my first one was just one. And so maybe the twin pregnancy is different. Maybe, you know, it's a lot.
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