Short Story
Hello. So I have never had to do anything like this before in my entire 41 years of life and really embarrassed to be doing it now. I literally have no other choice. For the last 8 years I lived with my sons Dad in the same home that whole time and together we lived and got by just fine. The day before Mother’s Day 2023 I got a call and my other half was on his way to jail for a DUI. Unfortunately this wasn’t the first one and in turn it landed him in prison for 3 years. So needless to say I was left with raising our disabled son alone. I get just enough disability for him to pay rent and am left nothing extra but I was okay with it. Our landlord hadn’t raised our rent in 7 years but soon as he found out my son’s dad went to prison he raised the rent $150.00 and proceeded to tell me I wasn’t going to be able to make rent told me I would need to move. I got a job the very next day and explained I would now be able to make rent and so not happy about that he said okay yet the following month I receive a letter stating rent would be again going up this time it was for $500 more a month so now he’s raised it a total of $650.00 a month and again tells me I need to move out. So I agreed after begging and pleading telling him we had nowhere to go I have no family and sons dad’s in prison and I was trying everything I can but he insisted on making me leave the house no matter what. So he showed up to eventually evict me and when he got the paperwork for eviction showed up with ppl they packed and moved me out and literally packed food with garbage dirty dishes with clothes even packed raw hamburger into my storage they broke many things including my son’s bed and bottles of salsa all over my storage. Also they left many of our things behind. The tossed everything in a storage like it was a dumpster. So my son and I and our three dogs had to live in our SUV I saved up from the disability payment until I could buy a pull behind to get us out of the truck. But I know zero about campers. I was and still am not anywhere near understanding how to live this way. It’s cold and there is so much to it. It’s quite terrifying to say the least. But that’s what we’re doing. Learning little bits how to live and survive this way one day at a time. Recently since I moved the disability suspended my sons disability payment due to change of address not being reported but I haven’t been able to get a stable place and address I recently found a place that I can park the camper for an extended stay that will provide us water sewer and power for a monthly rate. I’m hoping all them things work in the trailer as I’ve not tried it because I again. Have no idea what I’m doing but I do know that I need a steady place I can park the trailer because there are so many places I’ve learned u can not. I need a steady place so that I’m able to have a address for disability payment as well as get my son into school again and hopefully get back to work but moving park to park every other day and being told we can’t be there or other rules I didn’t know about we have to keep moving and moving and that leaves me unable to know where we will be day to day which in turn leaves me unable to get him into a school. I’ve tried everything I can to come across ways to get settled down a bit at least so I can have a solid address so he can go to school I can go to work and the SSI will reinstate his payments so I come here today to try and get the money needed to get into the long term stay. I need 1st months and deposit to get in the door then from there I should be fine and everything else should fall into place leaving me no issues to pay each month I just can’t get my foot in the door so I’m able to help myself out of this mess I was handed anything helps $5.00 $10 or anything you can help with would greatly be appreciated and I promise to spend it on nothing but this so that I’m able to help myself. I have no problem finding work. But I have to have a steady place and my son needs to go to school that way I have the freedom during that time to work as I have nobody to watch him. I have no family or friend no support group. I don’t have friends because it’s too hard to find good ones anymore and all my little bit of family has all passed on. My sons dad’s family don’t really talk to me because I was always fighting with him to stop his drinking and they were supplying it while saying I didn’t want him around his family. I actually didn’t want him ending up where he is now but anyhow they turned against me for always trying to get him to come home and stop drinking. So they aren’t at all helpful. So I was left standing here where I am today. I’ve asked for assistance but they are all out of funding. I’ve survived so far this long since this has happened but I just can’t seem to get to the next step on my own specially now that my only source of income was stopped right after I purchased the RV and was broke. Please if you can help pls do God bless you. And if you can’t help maybe you can share with someone who can. I won’t be back to ask again. I will use this to excel once stable living is available I got it from there I can succeed. Thank you for reading and take care.
$Nvgirl83 (cashtag)
Displaced Mom and 9 yr old disabled son
Story
Hello. So I have never had to do anything like this before in my entire 41 years of life and really embarrassed to be doing it now. I literally have no other choice. For the last 8 years I lived with my sons Dad in the same home that whole time and together we lived and got by just fine. The day before Mother’s Day 2023 I got a call and my other half was on his way to jail for a DUI. Unfortunately this wasn’t the first one and in turn it landed him in prison for 3 years. So needless to say I was left with raising our disabled son alone. I get just enough disability for him to pay rent and am left nothing extra but I was okay with it. Our landlord hadn’t raised our rent in 7 years but soon as he found out my son’s dad went to prison he raised the rent $150.00 and proceeded to tell me I wasn’t going to be able to make rent told me I would need to move. I got a job the very next day and explained I would now be able to make rent and so not happy about that he said okay yet the following month I receive a letter stating rent would be again going up this time it was for $500 more a month so now he’s raised it a total of $650.00 a month and again tells me I need to move out. So I agreed after begging and pleading telling him we had nowhere to go I have no family and sons dad’s in prison and I was trying everything I can but he insisted on making me leave the house no matter what. So he showed up to eventually evict me and when he got the paperwork for eviction showed up with ppl they packed and moved me out and literally packed food with garbage dirty dishes with clothes even packed raw hamburger into my storage they broke many things including my son’s bed and bottles of salsa all over my storage. Also they left many of our things behind. The tossed everything in a storage like it was a dumpster. So my son and I and our three dogs had to live in our SUV I saved up from the disability payment until I could buy a pull behind to get us out of the truck. But I know zero about campers. I was and still am not anywhere near understanding how to live this way. It’s cold and there is so much to it. It’s quite terrifying to say the least. But that’s what we’re doing. Learning little bits how to live and survive this way one day at a time. Recently since I moved the disability suspended my sons disability payment due to change of address not being reported but I haven’t been able to get a stable place and address I recently found a place that I can park the camper for an extended stay that will provide us water sewer and power for a monthly rate. I’m hoping all them things work in the trailer as I’ve not tried it because I again. Have no idea what I’m doing but I do know that I need a steady place I can park the trailer because there are so many places I’ve learned u can not. I need a steady place so that I’m able to have a address for disability payment as well as get my son into school again and hopefully get back to work but moving park to park every other day and being told we can’t be there or other rules I didn’t know about we have to keep moving and moving and that leaves me unable to know where we will be day to day which in turn leaves me unable to get him into a school. I’ve tried everything I can to come across ways to get settled down a bit at least so I can have a solid address so he can go to school I can go to work and the SSI will reinstate his payments so I come here today to try and get the money needed to get into the long term stay. I need 1st months and deposit to get in the door then from there I should be fine and everything else should fall into place leaving me no issues to pay each month I just can’t get my foot in the door so I’m able to help myself out of this mess I was handed anything helps $5.00 $10 or anything you can help with would greatly be appreciated and I promise to spend it on nothing but this so that I’m able to help myself. I have no problem finding work. But I have to have a steady place and my son needs to go to school that way I have the freedom during that time to work as I have nobody to watch him. I have no family or friend no support group. I don’t have friends because it’s too hard to find good ones anymore and all my little bit of family has all passed on. My sons dad’s family don’t really talk to me because I was always fighting with him to stop his drinking and they were supplying it while saying I didn’t want him around his family. I actually didn’t want him ending up where he is now but anyhow they turned against me for always trying to get him to come home and stop drinking. So they aren’t at all helpful. So I was left standing here where I am today. I’ve asked for assistance but they are all out of funding. I’ve survived so far this long since this has happened but I just can’t seem to get to the next step on my own specially now that my only source of income was stopped right after I purchased the RV and was broke. Please if you can help pls do God bless you. And if you can’t help maybe you can share with someone who can. I won’t be back to ask again. I will use this to excel once stable living is available I got it from there I can succeed. Thank you for reading and take care.
$Nvgirl83 (cashtag)
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