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  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    Right now since where I live is his house nobody will give me anything without paperwork from him saying he moved out and is contributing nothing to my life or the kids lives and he refuses to do anything like that. He told me yesterday that he is going to file a restraining order on me tomorrow to get me out of this house. He just rents this house but my name is on nothing at all. He trashed my credit so badly over the years that I can't get anything in my name at all. I applied for housing assistance but got turned down because I have so many unpaid utility bills in my name. I can't even get insurance or food stamps for my kids because of him. He is banned from food stamps for life so since I live under his name I get nothing. Did start a gofundme account for the kids and I but it stalled after a couple of days. I wake up everyday looking for the sheriff to come and throw us out of this house. All I can really do is just sit here and hope we survive another day everyday. I have six weeks of chemo left before surgery so I just hope before then I can find a way to have my kids somewhere settled so they will be ok while I recover from surgery. I am getting a restraining order on him hopefully so I don't have to worry about him messing with us if I ever get out of here. gofundme.com/248duuxw is my gofundme acct if you could pass it along on any social media I would very much appreciate it. I tend to ramble I apologize for that. I have no one really to talk to except my kids and that's so unfair to them I just blurt out everything I can here.

  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited May 2016

    Trish...Since he is filing restraining order against you you will legally be considered Homeless

    i understand he messed up with FS and he is banned for life but at least the minor children should be getting it

    Children should be under your disability. Correct me if I'm wrong...

    Please don't give up there are other sources that can help you during this crisis like Salvation Army. I care

    I can also post your GO FUND ME page on my FB...I have plenty of friends that i met them here on BCO.....

    I care

    Sheila

  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    yes I have sole custody of the kids even though he and I have shared a house pretty much since I got on disability but I spent most of their life not working a regular job to be home and raise them so I only get $750 a month. I don't understand how much of anything works honestly. All I know is I get every door slammed in my face when I apply for anything. I am embarrassed to admit it but I've been his puppet for so long that I'm lost without him running my life. I'm so depressed. I wish I could feel happy for just a day maybe. I feel paralyzed by the way I feel. I so appreciate that people like you respond to my crybaby messages. Thank you so much.

  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited May 2016

    Benefits for children under your Disability. Please read this

    I don't find you messages cry baby...i feel you are suffering.

    https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10085.pdf

  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    thank you,I'm so depressed I can barely breath today.

  • Lily55
    Lily55 Member Posts: 3,534
    edited May 2016

    I am not in USA so I cannot offer any advice BUT this man is a total piece of C..p     How can he trash your credit?  Credit is an individual thing.  Can you contact the landlord of he property where you are living and ask to change the contract in to your name and ask if you can change the locks?  Its been your money paying for the house anyway..................

    Thinking of you, stress really affects health, I left my relationship because of it 

  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    Honestly I give him my money but I can't afford this house by myself. If could get a roommate I would give them my bedroom and I'd sleep in the living room but I have no friends at all. Controlling men run everybody out of your life so that they are all you have. And then all of the sudden he is gone and you realize that you gave up everyone else for him and you are alone. I'm a complete fool! 22 years of my life gone and now fighting cancer while he goes off and has a great life with zero responsibilitys.

  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited May 2016

    Trish,

    Thinking of you during these tough times. I agred with an earlier poster in that food assistance should be available to the children at the very least. Since you are legally divorced, anything financially that he has done since the divorce shouldn't effect you.

    Lily, credit negatives that happened during a marriage reflect on both parties, regardless of who incurred the debt. I know this one well 😣

  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    Well I also was so deparate to get the divorce I let them put all the debt that we had at that time on me because he kept contesting the divorce. Screwed me hard because the debt kept me from living without him forcing me to live with him and getting even more debt piled on me. And then I ended up disabled and now cancer. Check mate for him!

  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited May 2016

    Yikes! Trish, how did your lawyer let you do that? Never mind, what's done is done. Moving on is all you can do. I know things differ from state to state, but there has got to be some assistance since you have dependent children. Have you contacted your congressman and senator's offices? Both state and local could be of assistance

  • Smurfette26
    Smurfette26 Member Posts: 730
    edited May 2016

    I'm in Australia so can't offer much help trish1314 but wanted you to know I'm thinking of you and hoping you soon find the assistance and support you need.

    Is he paying any child support? You are entitled to that.


  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited May 2016

    Trish/smurfette,

    Child support is negotiated as part of the divorce settlement. It can, of course, always be revisited. Those who do not pay mandated child support can have wages garnished.

  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    I didn't have an attorney, I filed the paper work and had to handle it myself. No way did I have attorney money.

  • LisaAlissa
    LisaAlissa Member Posts: 1,092
    edited May 2016

    Trish,

    Go see your local Legal Aid Society. They may not be able to help you, but if not,they should be able to direct you to help. It sounds like you need help with (at least!!!) (1) disability, (2) food stamps, (3) general assistance, (4) housing, (5) child support, and (6) domestic violence.

    As to child support, that is your children's entitlement, not yours. They are entitled (legally) to the support of their parents. So you can't have negotiated it away in your divorce. And as a result, it can be revisited at any time. (That's one of the questions you should raise in your intake interview with Legal Aid.) BTW, if you get assistance from your state to support your children, many states will (themselves) seek an order of support from your ex to reimburse the state for the support for your children.

    If you can't get help or referrals from Legal Aid, try the social worker at your cancer treatment center. Or your local Salvation Army. Or your own local church. Or the local food pantry. You're looking for someone who can get you hooked into the network of assistance which is available where you are.

    Hang in there, and just make at least one call each day to try to access the assistance network where you are!

    LisaAlissa

  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    I have a friend who is an attorney/judge in another county so he hooked me up with an attorney here locally and I have an appt with him on the 19th. I am making a list of things that need worked on , fixed ect. Hopefully he can handle everything. I've been trying to get into see him for a month now.I have social anxiety so even something that can possibly help me scares the crap out of me.

  • Peppin
    Peppin Member Posts: 29
    edited May 2016

    That is a good step in the right direction Trish. I am also not from the US so I don't know how things work there and I can't give you advice on that. What I can tell you is continue reaching out. You're doing well - you are making steps forward, you are listing things to take care of and looking forward - that is brilliant. You'll get out of this. Every now and then take a deep breath. Think of something real nice - a nice view, a nice place - something you really like. Live in that space for a short while. It'll give you strength. Make sure you sleep and rest - when you lie down to sleep - don't think of these issues. Let them go for a while. Then when you are up and ready to do something about it, as LisaAlissa said, focus on getting at least one thing done. Every step forward you take will give you strength and courage to carry on.

    Things will get better.

    XXX


  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    Well everybody I got in big ass trouble last night. My ex found out about and read my go fund me thing. And his father and his wife saw it also. I have never made him this angry in 22 years! He of course says it's all lies and he will make sure I pay big for publically humiliating him. Oops lol. Everything I said was the honest truth and I told him so. Also I have zero regrets that I posted that thing because right now it's feeding my kids! Everyday is a struggle to not let it bother me that he's so pissed at me. I'm so use to always trying to fix that insane relationship that the habit is overwhelming. Today I have treatment and I'm afraid he is at my house as I sit here robbing me of TVs or anything else he can take out of my house in 3 1/2 hours. But I guess I will find out later. Maybe I will get lucky and my dogs will bite him lol

  • Artista928
    Artista928 Member Posts: 2,753
    edited May 2016

    He may be able to take things from you, but don't let him take you. Who cares he's pissed. You should have put his name and pic for all to see. lol What a jack ass. Keep plucking away and do what's best for you and screw him and others who are like him.

  • Lily55
    Lily55 Member Posts: 3,534
    edited May 2016

    Speak to the landlord and explain why then get the locks on the house changed.

    As you have no assets can you go bankrupt in the USA?  erid of the debts then start again, you and the kids...?

    If I got my hands on your ex husband I would kick him in his non existent balls until he cried like a baby then stick his head down the toilet until he agreed to leave you alone and meet his responsibilities.


  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    I have an appointment with a bankruptcy attorney this week so I'm all over that. And I am asking my dad later today if he will buy new locks for me. I'm sure he will. My ex leaves loads of his stuff in the house even though he no longer lives sleeps or anything there. Thats a little game he plays to have some right to just walk in anytime he wants to. Thats going to stop! You chicks make me laugh and I thank you for that.

  • Lily55
    Lily55 Member Posts: 3,534
    edited May 2016

    We are all right behind you tomorrow you are NOT on your own anymore........

  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    Becoming part of this site was the best thing that could have happen to me. I don't feel alone anymore with all of you having my back!

  • Tomboy
    Tomboy Member Posts: 3,945
    edited May 2016

    I LOVE Artista's idea of posting his mug shots for all the world to see! You know, though, you can go to an abused women's shelter? I worked at one about 15 years ago, and they can help hook you up with all social services, temporary housing, etc. They have mainlined the process, so you can have help right away. They know that women come to them with trashed credit, because that is a major way abusers insure that you can't leave. You must be absolutely sure tho, that this is really what you want to do. Believe me though when I tell you~~, this is NO GOOD for the children to see!!! Also, you should post pictures of yourself WITH the kids on the Go Fund Me page, it may draw more $$$

  • edwards750
    edwards750 Member Posts: 3,761
    edited May 2016

    Such a sad story. Your X sounds scary and violent. Be careful. Your poor kids. They must be scared too.

    I haven't worked at a shelter but I have contributed to one. Certainly not the ideal place for you or your kids but you have to do something. A BK attorney is a good idea. Freeing yourself of the debts is a step in the right direction.

    Who cares what he or his family thinks? You are in survival mode plus you have medical issues to deal with. You have a lot on your plate but you will get through this. Once you are rid of him things will get better. I was married to an abusive person for 2 years. No kids thankfully. I finally got the nerve to bail. Thank God I did. Married again to a great guy.

    Diane

  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    Here is how I try to explain my relationship to people, which I find myself doing a lot because I've had dozens of people over the years say just leave, it's like being a severe drug addict for half your life. Also I've never been a drug addict but I've known many and watched it kill them and I watch a lot of intervention and that's pretty much what being a relationship like this is like. Its hard to say when I actually stopped loving him, I'm not 100% sure I have in the last maybe 17 years or maybe I still do I don't know. I think if I can truly get free of him I will find out that I don't at all and haven't in a very long time. It sounds crazy but if had physical beat me it would have been way easier to get away. But it's all emotional and mental and verbal abuse. And he drinks A LOT! And that has gotten worse and worse over the years. I honestly havent seen him sober at home in so long I can't remember when it was. Of course I'm not aloud to bitch about it at all because it's perfectly ok to be drunk all the time and who am I to think I'm aloud to have a problem with it. I'm totally not against drinking. If people want to celebrate things with booze have at it. But I do have an issue with somebody who is literally drunk everyday. We use to fight when the kids were little because I would through these huge birthday parties for my kids and his contribution would be to load of his cooler with beer. Id say you know this is a party for a 5 year right. I'm going to have like 25 kids here that we will be responsible for. Well needless to say that would only get me in trouble. As I say all this I can remember a 1000 other stories just like it yet here I sit youth gone, health gone, all my families help gone most or all of my kids childhoods gone all for what? My drug of choice him. I know there has always been shelters I could go to but damn it my kids have lived this nightmare right along with me and I could never bare the thought of doing that to them. And now they are teenagers with lives and friends that's just truly not an option in my mind. I also have stuff and animals. I can't walk away from everything I have or that me and the kids have. There has to be a way I can come through all of this and not lose everything we have. Its truly like a drug addict in the sense that I spend most of my time just trying not to think about my drug. I have to work every second of everyday to not text him to not think of him to make sure I don't look around for him when I leave the house. Its even crazy to me. And no way I can lay eyes on him or hear his voice! I see his truck sitting at a bar and everything in me goes wacko. I have to concentrate on so many different problems at once to keep me and kids from drowning and of course there is the whole I have cancer thing. Every emotion I have is on the verge of exploding out of me at any given second but I have to control it and get things done anything at all done that might get us through. I am truly grateful I found this place to say what I feel because I have nobody else that wants to here all this crap anymore. My family is sick of it and my kids have heard way more than they ever should have in their young lives. I changed the picture on my go fund me last night and someone rewrote my entire thing for me but it looks like it's stalled out so I just have to make the best of what has been donated on there. It will pay utilities for three weeks because I found out he always pays them a month behind. I've gotten two disconnect notices in the mail so far. So at least I can take care of those. Its more than I had 5 days ago so that's a plus for once. The rent is making me super nervous because I know that I'm going find out that's a mess. I haven't tried to find out yet because I know it's going to hit me in the head like a hammer. Its a minute by minute hour by hour day by day thing right now. I had treatment yesterday so the steroids ruin any chance I had of sleep last night and I feel super weird today but I have to suck it up and get off my ass and see it if can accomplish anything for us today. Which I'm totally clueless and have zero ideas today. Hopefully something will come to mind once I get moving around and put my hair on lol. Thanks for listening to my ramble.

  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited May 2016

    Our stories have many similarities. I was married to someone who was verbally and emotionally abusive for 23 years. He too was an alcoholic, though very functional with a high paying job. We looked like a wonderful family from the outside. Appearances and status were important to my ex, so few knew the reality. I too did not want to ruin the life my children had, but when my younger one was 16, I woke up and said ...no more! I did not care if I lived in my car and I now know that my girls didn't care what we did as long as we could get out of a bad situation. Thank goodness they both knew that happiness and family were more important than the well off lifestyle that my ex wanted to show the world.

    I realize the big difference between us is financial. I know that this must be very, very difficult. I had a great attorney and got substantial alimony for 7 years. I also have a career that I love, but...whatever difficulties you go through in the short term will be worth it to regain your sense of self and happiness. I was dx'ed, stage IV, years after my divorce. It may sound strange, but despite this, I am happy because my life is my own. My dd's are my biggest cheerleaders and they both wish I'd left their dad sooner.

    So, do whatever you need to do to rid your life of this man ASAP. There may be struggle, but happiness can be reclaimed, even after decades of abuse.

  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    well I saw an attorney today and he told me I'm totally screwed and have zero power against my ex and if I F with him he could take my kids from me.

  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited May 2016

    This doesn't sound right, though I don't know the terms of your divorce agreement.Seek out another attorney's opinion.

  • trish1314
    trish1314 Member Posts: 50
    edited May 2016

    We have been divorced since 2009 nothing that has happen or is happening now means anything at all! And the divorce agreement was nothing but paper work I filed and me getting all the debt put on me and $50 a week child support on three kids. Which he barely paid and had to continue to live with him.

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