Each morning, I get up, I take my son to school, I come home, and I work. It's all I can do right now. I don't make enough, but someday I will, and if I stop, if I just disappear like I so desperately want to, that someday will never come.

I had my son when I was 19 years old, and struggled to get by as a single mother for the first four years of his life.  In 2001 I got married to a man who accepted my son as his own.  It's been a rough and rocky marriage, neither of us was really ready for it, but it started to really fall apart when his ex got in touch with him and he began a long-term affair.  I forgave him every time, I believe that marriage is a lifetime commitment.  He always ended up coming home to me, until a week and a half ago when he suddenly announced that he couldnt' take it anymore and he was leaving.  I was stunned.  We were getting along much better, and he had seemed much happier.

Now I'm just trying to pull myself together.  I'd been working for several months as a transcriptionist, and have started to increase my work with that.  I have a 9 year old son to care for, and we're just trying to make it day by day.

A week and a half ago, my husband of almost six years left without notice.  I am working, but not making nearly enough to cover my expenses.  I found out after he left that my husband had not been paying the bills and have started getting shut off notices for water and electric.  State aid is impossible for me to get, I cannot meet their requirements without quitting the work that I'm doing which is what will enable me to pay the rent and continue paying the bills!  I have a nine year old son that I have to take care of.  I need $1600 to catch everything up so that we don't lose everything.