Dear RoseRose;

I am sorry to read that you were deceived and betrayed by this man who led you to rent a home believing that he will pay part of the rent, then he broke up with you and refused to help you out of the financial trouble of being stuck in a rental contract that you can’t afford, even though he is financially well off.

You wrote: “Heart-break I can deal with and do not need to talk about (I do not really want to have to keep living anyway”- I am not sure if I understand: do you mean that you don’t want to relive the story by talking about it or that you don’t want to keep being physically alive???

You shared that “he said himself that the money for the rent is really just a small fraction of what he makes a month”, that he knew that you were broke because of him, and yet he didn’t offer to give or even lend you any money so to be able to pay the rent he was supposed to help you pay. He communicated to you in an email that the two of you were never married and therefore he was not responsible for your rent, or otherwise “not obligated to do anything for you”.

You tried to report him for evading taxes, if I understand correctly (“I have filed a complaint weeks ago”), but you didn’t get any response regarding your complaint. If I understand correctly, he lives in the U.S and you live outside the U.S. (?)

If he indeed lives in the U.S. and you live in another country, I can see the difficulty in you as an individual person taking any legal action against him, or in encouraging the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) in the U.S. to take action against him. Maybe you can get an appointment with a lawyer who practices international law who can help you “serve justice”, which is what you want to do. Maybe there is an agency in the country where you live that advocates for women in your situation.

I hope you find a way to hold him legally and financially responsible for the wrong he has done to you. Because unlike what he wrote to you in the email (I hope you save this email, so that it can be used against him), he is responsible for what he did even though he was not married to you. When he agreed to pay part of the rent, he made a verbal contract with you. In the U.S., as in other places, it is illegal to break a verbal contract. If you lived in the U.S., I think that you would be able to sue him in civil court for breaking a verbal contract, asking the court to direct him to compensate you for financial and even emotional damage caused by him illegally breaking the verbal contract the he made with you.

anita