Dad Said There Would Be Days Like This

Rich guy pays coed to be his girlfriend, “a sugar baby.” She decides to end the business arrangement. Independent of her decision, he decides to trade the wife in on a newer model…the sugar baby.

I don’t get it. He spends money and buys her a bunch of shit. In return she whispers lies and pretends she likes him. Sounds like a normal relationship.

Anyways here is the tale of woe from the Sugar baby’s side.

I’m a sex worker, doing sugar baby work to pay for college. It’s not what I want to do for long.

I was seeing a guy Tom for six months and he was paying for a girlfriend experience, basically he pays me but I don’t acknowledge it when we’re together. I act like his girlfriend in public and private and accompany him to social things, say sweet shit, etc. It was a weird vibe, he’s a banking exec and he’d bring me around his co-workers (who know his wife and family) and they all just accepted me being there because they also had girls on the side. I’m Unsure how many of them were paid for.

I also pretended to be exclusive, but to me that was just a part of the acting gig. He also said shit about loving me and wanting to leave his wife for me, but I took it as all play-acting and played along. I was playing at being his girlfriend, he was playing at telling me nice things about our future. I didn’t take an iota of it seriously; it seemed like the BS every cheating guy says without meaning.

I wasn’t feeling it any more than a job; I felt more stressed by it than anything because he was clingy with my time when I needed to be focused on school. It got harder and harder to plaster on that smile.

So this Spring, I have a work co-op rotation lined up. My engineering school has 3 semesters of work rotated in with my classes. It’s tough because I don’t get summers off; I either do an internship rotation or summer classes.

But anyway, I landed my last work rotation, and it pays a lot better than my first two. I crunched the numbers and I could pay the rest of my tuition with it.

So I had this plan to quit sugaring this Christmas. I would continue till then, and then make a clean break. But up till then, I played along as I had. Saying all the lovey dovey bullshit, “yeah I love you, yea, let’s get a house together after you get that divorce. Bla bla bla”

Then this week, everything went to shit. Tom told me he had an early Christmas surprise for me. I was like “oooh what” expecting a purse or some shit, and he was like “I served my wife divorce papers” and I was baffled. I’d thought all that was a game he was playing, like he was playing at being in a relationship with me and not acknowledging it was a business transaction…

Hell, my sugaring persona isn’t even me. I use a fake name, I showed him a fake ID, my whole flirty affectionate carefree personality is the opposite of my actual introverted sarcastic stressed personality. I use a Google voice number and pretend it’s my cell. i lie about where I live.

So I said I needed to go home and study and I’m honestly freaking the fuck out. I don’t know what to think, I was seeing my time as being “on the clock” and wearing a face, and cherry attitude like a fucking customer service smile. But if he’s serious, he’s really done something crazy.

WIBTA to stop answering his texts and calls and disappear?

It might be me, but I can picture the sugar baby and future ex-wife getting together over drinks and laughing like hell. He might not get the joke. He will get the bill, they used his Amex card.