My ex was jobless and lost his apartment so I let him stay with me temporarily to help him get back on his feet. I was a full-time student, full-time intern, and I was working part time as well. Turns out, he got a job, spent all his free time drinking his paycheck away, and I found cocaine in my apartment. I confronted him, and he finally showed his true colors and became physically abusive (in retrospect, there were plenty of signs and he was pretty psychologically abusive before that). 

I was scared of what he would do, and I had pets also, so I decided to take him on a trip to his hometown. I woke up at 5am, snuck out of the hotel room, [took] his key to my apartment, and left. That day, I moved all of his stuff into a storage unit and blocked his number. 

I heard from one of his ex co-workers that he ended up being arrested a couple months later for a couple felonies (fraud and identity theft). Haven’t heard from that a--hole since and am in the healthiest relationship of my life, thank god. 

— @smitten_mitten