Woman who documents her life as a 'prison wife' insists her husband is NOT using her for her money

Release time：2024-05-29 06:33:26 Source：Planet Panorama news portal

A woman who gained online fame after documenting her life as a 'prison wife' has insisted her husband is not using her for her money - despite spending $80,000 on gifts for him while he was incarcerated.

Arrogance, from Puyallup, Washington, first met Zyion at a barbecue years ago, not knowing he had just been released from prison, but was immediately intrigued by him.

'I was like, "Who is that chocolate drop?"' the 33-year-old recalled. 'I'm like, "Oh, I need him, I'm going to get him."'

But their love story was slow to start as the pair did not strike up a conversation until a few weeks after they met. 

Arrogance, 33, first met Zyion at a barbecue years ago, not knowing he had just been released from prison, but was immediately intrigued by him 

Their love story was slow to start as the pair did not strike up a conversation until a few weeks after they met 

Zyion said a few weeks after the barbecue his cousin asked why he hadn't contacted Arrogance, to which he indigently replied that she hadn't contacted him - only to find out she actually had.

'She sent me a pair of eyes - some emojis,' he recalled. 

'I'm fresh out of prison,' Zyion exclaimed. 'I didn't know what an emoji was.'

Zyion said his run-ins with the law started when he was just 14 with trips to juvenile institutions that turned much lengthier prison sentences.

'By the time I'm done with this ankle bracelet I've given this adult prison system 10 years of my life,' he said.

Zyion and Arrogance married in July 2019, but he was back behind bars just a few months later in September, and was then sentenced again just before Covid.

'I actually got to prison a week before Covid, they shut the whole prison down - no visits, no nothing,' he explained. 

'We didn't have visit for two years,' Arrogance chimed in. 'We had video visits for a year.'

The couple say that Arrogance received backlash when she started sharing her life as a 'prison wife' online, particularly after revealing how much she spend on gifts for him - which she estimates totaled $80,000 (pictured with the tracksuits she bought him)

She showed off the lavish gifts she'd given to her husband, including a rack full of matching designer track suits and over $1,000 worth of cologne

The loved-up woman says she doesn't understand people who ask her what she's getting out of being married to a man in prison

'But we got those taken away,' Zyion interjected. 'We were doing too much stuff that wasn't PG13.' 

Arrogance said she remained faithful to her husband the whole time he's been in prison and continued supporting him.

'I'm not one of those who are "oh he did the crime so I'm not going to do the time,"' she said in a video posted to social media when Zyion was in prison.

'We going to do time together baby, I didn't give him no hard time,' she said sassily.

Arrogance said she spent the time he was in prison dedicated to her husband and going to school - but had ways she kept herself from missing him too much, including a personalized comforter set.  

'I said: "I'll hug this pillow until I can hug you,"' Arrogance recalled. 'And I kept it on until he got released four years later.'

The couple say that Arrogance received backlash when she started sharing her life as a 'prison wife' online, particularly after revealing how much she spend on gifts for him - which she estimates totaled $80,000.

She showed off the lavish gifts she'd given to her husband, including a rack full of matching designer track suits and over $1,000 worth of cologne.

The loved-up woman says she doesn't understand people who ask her what she's getting out of being married to a man in prison, with many commenting on her stories warning he would leave her when he's released.

'I said: "I'll hug this pillow until I can hug you,"' Arrogance recalled. 'And I kept it on until he got released four years later'

Now, the couple are expecting a baby which was conceived while Zyion was in jail, the couple were allowed conjugal visits

'It's deeper than that,' she insisted, with Zyion saying he urges her not to read the negative comments.

'Hate is you expressing love in a negative way,' he said.

Arrogance and Zyion were allowed conjugal visits after two-and-a-half years of Zyion being in prison, partly due to Covid.

'You have to be basically a straight A student,' Arrogance explained. 'We stay in a trailer [in the prison compound], they're really really nice.'

Arrogance explained the trailers they use for the conjugal visits are set up like a 'little house.'

'You set it up how you want during those 48 hours,' Zyion added.

Arrogance said she always made sure to 'deep clean' before they met up in the trailer.

'I sanitize everything,' she explained. 'I won't even sit on the couches or I put sheets on everything I'm telling you I know the stuff I was doing in the conjugal, so I could just imagine what others was doing.'

The couple - who are now expecting a baby boy that was conceived during one of the conjugal visits - admitted that their family members sometimes struggle with their relationship.

'My sisters and his family members, some of them were very judgmental,' Arrogance explained.

Arrogance said her older sister Dorothy was particularly skeptical of their relationship (pictured is Dorothy)

She said her older sister Dorothy was particularly skeptical of their relationship.

'I just felt like he wasn't on her level at the time, [then] all of a sudden he wants to marry her after he's fighting a case?' she recalled incredulously. 'I'm like f that I think he's using her.'

Arrogance admitted that during Zyion's incarnation she didn't reveal as much of her relationship with her sister because she would be judgmental in certain situations.

'I hated it [when Arrogance and Zyion started dating],' Dorothy admitted. 

Arrogance said her sister was largely concerned with who was paying the bills and things that were 'out of her concern.'

'I didn't like how much they talked - it really irritated my soul,' Dorothy said. 'We would be talking mid conversation it's like, "oh Z is calling I got to call you back."

'I'm like "what do you guys have to talk about?"' she exclaimed. 'I think she probably spent $1,000 in a week on phone calls which was ridiculous to me.'

'I don't feel like she lived her life in those four years,' the loyal sister continued. 'I think she just was stuck in a rut.

Dorothy said Zyion needs to 'prove' to her that he's 'worth all that money that she spent.' 

'She could have been traveling the world with me,' Dorothy pointed out.

However, Arrogance argues that if she'd listened to other people she wouldn't be in her relationship right now. 

'This is the happiest I've been in any relationship,' she added.

According to Zyion, his relationship with Arrogance has 'elevated' his life, 'because being with a woman of her stature, you have to grow up.'

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