Hello my name is Micki. Iam a single mother of two beautiful little boys, Braxton 8 yrs old & Aiden 3yrs old. A little over two yrs ago my son moved to NY with his father. I have court ordered visitation in the summer and on holidays. His father is going against the order and wont let my son come home. He hasn't been home in a year. This is killing us. Im under so much presure because my son made me promis that his little brother and I would move to Long sland N.Y. as soon as we could .There are no words to tell you what this has been like for my family, my three yr old starves himself for wks at a time when his brother left, and each time after he visits the same, and thats just the begaining of what we go through. It's been two yrs and we are no closer to moveing. I don't have the funds to move , don't know how to find a three bedroom home for my children and I there , not to mention finding a job there that will afford us to live. I can not afford legal councel at all, so I am unable to file comtemt charges against his father..... My son has some special needs, he has "CAPD" hearing difficulty, and "ADHD", also has an inoppreible "aracnoid cyst", in his brain that was descovered right befor he left to live with his father. I know nothing about my sons medical wellbeing now that he is there , I know nothing about his education now that he's there, and it was ordered that his father provide me with that info. His father never met "his" son untill he was almost three, and that was because we went to NY to make him meet him. ONLY after that did he imedietly file for custody of my son .We fought for over two yrs. untill I ran out of money, Im still paying that off. Please befor you assume I wasn't proven "unfit" , that law doesn't apply to Oklahoma. Just "best interest" = IE", who has more money. What I need is help someway to get there, (N.Y.) money, job, home. ASAP". Thank you for anything you can do. I'm not looking for a hand out, not looking for a new life , my sons needs me and we need him. What has happend is wrong and I can't let this go on till he is 18 . I will do anything to get back in my little boys life. If there is any thing I can do for you in return please don't hesitate to ask. P.S. I miss him so very much.....please, please help us!!!

I am a mother of a 2 year old son.  My husband and I try very hard to make a home for our family.  He lost his job the day after Christmas and has had trouble finding another one.  I have picked up some contract work, and am now working two contract jobs in addition to my full time job.  I was diagnosed 2 years go with multiple sclerosis, so the extra work is not an easy task.

Anyway, we got behind one month on our house payment and have been unable to catch up.  Our bank is demanding two months (the behind month plus this month) payment within 48 hours.  I don't have it and don't know what to do.

I am in my early 50's and used to make 6 figures, but bad investments have put my few properties into foreclosure.  My business should make money, but hasn't - it's credit is excellent, though.  I need to either invest in my buisiness or get back into a high-tech field that was so good to me in my earlier days, but I have huge debts (mostly mortgages), lots of IRS $$ due.  I wish I could sell my real estate or get an investment of about $100K against 1/4 acre of industrial urban vacant land (it has no mortgage on it) so I can either (a) revamp my business or (b) refresh my career skills - depending on how my capital I have. 

Hi we are the West family my husband was in a car accident that removed him from work and haulted our primary form of income we are past due with our rent, and soon to be put out of our apartment. We have a 2year old son and we cant lose him because of this. we recently took my husband's sister and brother in our household, they were living in California and there father had a mental issue and put them out on the streets with nowhere to go. So we had to send for them to come live with us. My brother in law is eighteen years of age and my sister in law is seventeen years old. Today marks a week overdue in rent and were at a loss, we dont know what to do. I have called the local places that's supposed to help with situations like this, and their mostly out of funds for the rest of the month or taking care of other bills at the time. Weve ran out of choices and this would be our last resort, all of us are in dying need of your help please help us pay our rent. The rent is $855.00 and the first day it went up $50.00 and every day after that was $15.00. We will be absolutely grateful if an angel was sent to help us, we desperately need some help.

Thanks and God Bless

The West Family

I HAVE STRUGGLED THE LAST TWO YEARS HARDER THAN EVER. WORKED TWO FULL TIME JOBS;MANAGING ALL DAY & BARTENDING ALL NIGHT, SO THAT I COULD REPAY A DEBT MY HUSBAND LEFT ON  ME. WORKED MYSELF INTO THE GROUND SO THAT MY 4 YEAR OLD COULD HAVE A NICE HOME, AND FOOD, AND TOYS,AND A HAPPY UP BRINGING, & NOT SEE OR FEEL THE HARDSHIPS THAT I'VE BEEN FACING. SO MANY TIMES I WANTED TO GIVE UP.I FELT LIKE SUCH A FAILURE. NEVER BEING ABLE TO SPEND ANY REAL TIME WITH MY PRECIOUS LIL GIRL. HER ALWAYS HUNGRY FOR MY ATTENTION. IT BROKE MY HEART. I WAS SO HAPPY WHEN SHE WAS BORN, THOUGHT HOW WONDERFUL MY LIFE HAD BECOME. MY WORLD FEEL OUT FROM UNDER ME THOUGH IN 2006, WHEN MY HUSBAND WAS ARRESTED AND I WAS TOLD BY OFFICERS THAT MY HUSBAND AND LOVING FATHER, WHO I HAD BEEN WITH FOR 4 YEARS ;WAS A FUGITIVE AND WAS LIVING WITH AN ALIAS NAME.    HE  OWED SO MUCH MONEY TOO. TO PEOPLE I HOPE I NEVER RUN ACROSS AGAIN....I'VE MADE IT THIS FAR. I JUST FINISHED PAYING THESE PEOPLE OFF IN MARCH.....I PRAISE MY LORD THAT THIS BURDEN IS LIFTED, BUT NOW STRUGGLE WITH HAVING JUST LOST MY JOB, IN SEQUINCE I HAD TO GIVE UP MY HOME AND ASK MY MOTHER TO LET MY DAUGHTER AND I SLEEP ON HER FLOOR, TILL I CAN GET BACK ON MY FEET. I FEEL LIKE SUCH A FAILURE AGAIN. IM TRYING TO BE POSITIVE, AND WORK THE LAWS OF ATTRACTION INTO MY LIFE, AND GET BACK ON TRACK,AND START LIVING , INSTEAD OF EXISTING, BUT I FEEL SO BROKEN..........

I am not sure how to do this - you guess it - I'm a newbie!

Well, first off all I am a single parent of four awesome kids. My oldest is 13 yrs old, then I have twin boys who are 11 yrs old and my little one just turned 7 yrs old. I can't believe that coming this new school yr I will have three in middle school! I feel so old...

We have been struggling on and off for the past four yrs but have mangaged to surface and stay afloat. I married pretty young and I had the whole illusion that I would live happily ever after but that wasn't the case. After our 10 yr anniversary we decided to split and I found myself an apartment for myself and my kids. It wasn't until 2 yrs ago that things turned for the worst. My then astrange husband threaten me and tried to run us off the road and that was it. I was granted a permanant restraining order against him and I haven't seen him since but he sure has made my life a misery. I am constantly paranoid and looking over my shoulder. I live in fear that he will kidnap my kids. I have nightmares almost every night that he is trying to kill me so in some ways I think he has succeeded. I have yet to find an answer to my daily struggles (emotional ones). I have seen myself struggle with our daily expenses and my low income is no help...  The last time our electricity got shut off - I had to lie to the kids and say that the whole apartment complex was without power for some reason. We spent almost 30 hrs w/o power. It's amazing how much we depend on electricity and wouldn't you know it that my apartment is equipped with an electric stove... *sigh*

Well, I apologize for long entry but hopefully this will be a place where I can let out all my emotional stress day in and day out. 

Thank you for reading/hearing my post.

I am a single mom (well Im not single I have a bf but he's in another state, now so basically all I have is a little emotiional support, which is the only thing keeping me strong) I have 2 great little boys, one suffers from some mental health issues(like me) and the other has Asthma (also from me) Both their Fathers are crap. One more so then the other. I experienced a great deal of abuse from them. I am in and out of the court house constanly fighting for whats best for my kids. Umm anything else you want to know go ahead and ask I'll do my best to answer. Im from cali so, i'll post as many resources as possible for me.

Im not even sure what this site is for other than just having people out there who know what im going through. I have spent the last few years wondering if im going to be able to hang on. Im an adult survivor of child abuse and sexual abuse. For most of my life I have been able to maintain, but recently I feel like im comming apart. Im sure most of it is related to the fact that my life latley is so out of control. The economy is so bad right now that the stress level's have reached an all time high. I know im not the only one out here suffering, I just feel like I am.  I was diagnosed with Post Tramatic Stress Syndrome, re-occuring depression, Severe Panic and Anxiety. So with all this going on the lack of money isn't helping. I know what I need to do, and I want to be able to do it, I just cant. And I know what your thinking not with that attitude, but I used to have a great attitude, I just lost it somewhere down the road. My husband is Disabled with a bad Back and Knee, It makes it hard because we are trying to maintain a house and raise 3 kids on his disability pay and it just doesnt work.. I've tried everything. I have tried to work and tried to go to school but I just cant finish anything. I start out great and then fizzle. It gets so bad I get so over whelmed I cant continue I start getting panic attacks and then im done. If anyone can offer suggestions Im open. Anything.

until then Im still hanging in there.

To hell with WASHINGTON, yah I had to break some laws to get to and from work every morning another month and everything would have been paid off in full, screw thier randonm traffic stops! I HATE THIS COUNTRY! I was born here in the US so I cant be deported, but with such a bad traffic record I cannot leave either. I am deep in debt roughly 40 grand between student loans and traffic fines I cant pay because I havent been able to hold a damn job longer than a year since i graduated highschool, I tried college thought furthering my education would help my prospects that was total BS I lost my funding for school because of the huge bottleneck in the financial aid system.

That put me three months behind on my rent waiting two months into my 7th term in school for back financial aid. I had to leave school to work, and the only offers for the degree I managed to earn were non existent so I went ahead and started working for labor ready and all they pay is minimum wage which was barely enough to cover absolutely nothing.  I eventually found a driving job hauling scrap that payed decently enough and got complacent thinking I could start paying the already dillinquent loans off finally but lost that thanks to a DUI lets just say you figure out who your friends are when you are out celebrating your birthday, and you still wind up driving home on your own.  OK that ones my fault but hell.

 Here I thought in another month that if I paid the overdue fines as I tried getting my shit together after being homeless 3 times since college and twice since the DUI while attempting to comply with all the court orders  and finally landing another good job I cant keep because of this random traffic stop on monday, I AM FUCKED I guess I have to accept that. when some judge decides to throw me in jail becaue I cant pay my debts I'll accept that too and you all voted for it so you just have to accept housing and feeding a hardcore criminal like me

 iam a survior or what i call an ongoing survior of domestic abuse my abuser lied to a judge were i reside to help put me in jail( i wrote bad checks just to try to survive on my own acct) he told the judge that i would flee to mn i had already made arrangements with theda no jail just probation and restitution. so that he could have custody, or control for he never cared about my son before or the 5 others i have now gone from a cat team to where their recommendation was chips refferall i have lost my dl  trying to get that back he cost me over the years several jobs much money two children i signed my rights awasy to one so that if he got high and followed me(which he has ) so that he could not hurt her. they (gov) believe eveything that he says even when he is caught in the lie since the lie to the judge i went to jail lost ajob had to find another place to live since the police brought him to myhouse since all of this i have survived a rape and have a wonderful beautful child from iam just looking for to keep going for my children and my self anything would help thanks jen15

two of my children came down with salminalla posioning one years ago through no fault of our own my step mother had my children taken and i now pay 1800 dollars month for child support. i am three weeks a way from getting them back. Not only do i pay that i have to keep up a four bedroom home for them,pay 40 dollars a week for testing and food in the house for them. my house payment is 2 months be behind and both of our cars broke down. My step mothers best friend works for the dcs and everytime we do everything they come up with something else for us to do which costs more money. we have been fighting for one year now and about to lose everything. they are our heart and soul they want to come home so bad but if we lose our home they will not let them. also we have to travel 40 miles one way to see them .my husband and i have been married for 10yrs and i have had the same job for 14 yrs and my husband has worked in a tire factory for several years. Now the goverment takes everything and we have to choose to pay water electric and food or the house payment and it should not be that way. we need help and this has destoryed our credit. please

Mother of 5 year old with Leukemia and Developmental delays. I am needing help with transportation costs and related expenses of getting him back and forth to do the doctor and therapy sessions.

Dear Soulight,

I am in desperate need of some financial assistance to help me through this difficult time. The one thing that really bothers me is how my university of 4 years, has put me off from completing my Masters Program because I cannot afford to pay them $1,800.00 and because I am not working they have taken me off the program until I can pay this amount.  Although I feel it was not my fault I have no money to pay for a lawyer that can help me to fight this.  As it stands, my school loans from this univeristy is at 75,000.00, and I completed my bachelors with them in 2006.  My gpa stands with this university at 3.89, and they have no intentions of working with me to try and solve this situation.  They told me they cannot schedule me for classes because I am not working.  I feel discriminated from this university and hope that you can provide for me any organization that will help me to find financial assistance to gain some satisfaction towards this matter I face.  Presently, I am unemployed and am struggling to survive on a $422 a month income.  What type of individual grants are available to low income people like myself?  Please anything would help me.  

hi im italien 24 lives in montreal iv been on my own since 14 years old came from a bad family anyways im here .......and my life couldn't suck any more than it does right now droped out of school 2 work and survive but as time goes on i wonder if my life l ever change...? im a good person who can't get a break at all . i dont know what the futer holds but i hope it got some good news 4 me .  im at the point of know return i need 2 leave the city life 4 a while way to much stress .............So im here pleadding to anyone who cares HELP ME PLZ........IM A VERY HARD WORKER MY EMAIL IS .....ROCKY2367@HOTMAL.COM THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS

We made some mistakes in trusting who we thought were friends. To make a long story short we had to refinance to survive and then we were hung out to dry by our so called friends. We have been in foreclouser and now we have a date in court as the eviction notice states. My wife also has MS and we are just barely getting by. We have tried to find legal help but when they find out out status we are told to call back later when we are better off. I am not sure just how we are going to continue. We have been trying to move but with low funds can not afford to move or locate another place to live.

• this is all new to me i am just try this out and hope i learn some thing from this . the one thing i am try to always tell people is that god is good and god will always help us if we do right, we are not alway right but we fall down but we can always get back up so always belive that and life my be hard but one day it will get better . keep your head up always say thank you god he will make way!!!!!!!!! have a nice day