Hello,
I really do not know how to begin, but here I go. I am a 34 year old mother of two great kids. My son is 12 and my daughter is 18. My daughter lives in another state with her grandmother because she is going to college nearby there. I was married to my children's father for 13 years. We divorced in 2004. I then met and married another man that I thought was the man of my dreams. He is a nurse. I truly loved him. While at work, my husband fell and injured his back. Long story short. . .he was prescribed and began taking oxycontin. This was the worst thing ever. This medication made him into a monster. He became a horrible person. Then he began drinking along with taking the pain medication. For my son's protection and for my own sanity's sake, we divorced. My divorce was final in February 2006. My parents and my sister both have supported me in helping me to try to get an apartment and to get on my feet. They are now to the point that they have done just about all that they can do. I am now in an apartment, but I have no beds for my son and I to sleep on. I sleep on a camping air mattress while my son sleeps on an old couch given to me because it was to be thrown away. This fact really bothers me because before this last marriage, I lived in a 4 bedroom brick home that was nicely and completely furnished, but when I got married and we combined households most of my things were sold or given away. After all, I thought this marriage was a forever thing. Well, for the first 3 months(Jan.-March) I was out of the house and into this apartment, I struggled, but managed to pay my bills and survive. Now I have come to the point that I have exhausted all of my options for delaying and or paying bills. This month I have managed to pay all bills except about 800 dollars worth, because my children's father failed to pay child support and I was sick and missed 2 days of work so my pay was docked 400 dollars. Anyway, I guess my main problem is that I can't pay my rent and will be homeless if I fail to do so within two weeks. I am needing help and do not know where to turn because teachers make too much money to qualify for any type of assistance. I am sad, lonely and depressed but must still put my happy face on each day to go to my job at a disciplinary alternative education school and to help my son off to school and baseball practice etc. I feel myself cracking and about to break. This feels like it is killing me. What can I do?
Tonya
