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We've known each other since we were 16.

We've dated off and on.

2008, he joins the Army.

Basic training.

He lives on a base.

It's four hours away.

And Christmas time that year, he basically says, let's get serious.

Got down on one knee and proposed to her, said, hey, I want to bring you into my life.

Everything was taken care of.

I mean, everything was going great, you know.

And then pretty quickly, the whole thing just soured.

It's impossible to know exactly what happened, but Christy says that Dustin just simply didn't offer any support.

He says that he did, or he tried to at least, but shortly after she got pregnant, she basically just shut him out and stopped taking his calls.

I didn't get no phone calls, no text messages, nothing from her out of the blue.

And I'm just like, well, what's going on?

And he says that he tried to get in touch with her.

Drove those four hours from the base.

It sounded like her and the kids, they wouldn't answer the door for me.

And then one day he says, She sent me a message saying, I don't want to be with you no more.

And three weeks after that, She's like, well, I want you to sign your rights over.