I never thought life would bring me to this. I am the mother of four and live a modest life. My husband and I have a small house that we desperately want to keep our children in. Our oldest is my husbands child from a first marriage. She is with us half the time. Over the past year her mom has been trying to take her away from us for reasons that she can only get full child support if she has full custody. We have paid a lot out to lawyers over the last year to keep our family from being broken with no light at the end of the tunnel. Now, she still is with us but the costs have been devastating. We have cashed out my 401k and taken a loan out on my husbands but we cannot pay our mortgage this month. The amount of money we need to help get us in the right dirrection is not a huge some but to us it is the world.
My husbands family does not live in the united states. We send them money regularly or they would not be able to eat or pay their essential bills. We recently had to wire them money up front to pay for eye surgery for my mother-in-law. She still ended up blind.
I have never been so scared in my life. I am constantly sick to my stomach and I feel like I am losing patience with my family.
I try to help others as much as I can (my kindergartener and I were bellringers for the salvation army last night) and we bought christmas gifts for the giving tree and mittens for our local mitten tree because we know times are tough for everyone.
My husband and I both work full time. I work nights and weekends so one of us is always home with our children. They recently cut my shift premium and and my husbands hours have been drastically reduced for about a year now. I have contemplated bankruptcy but do not want to destroy my credit, my children could need student loans cosigned in the future.
I wish I could be more certain about my families future but now I feel depressed and hopeless.
I would appreciate any help and hope that someday I can afford to help in this way and to continue to help my husbands family survive.
Thank you for taking the time to read and God Bless.
