My mom and I need help

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kripke-is-my-king:

kripke-is-my-king:

Please read this. I know it’s a bit long. But it’s a lot to tell. We’re in danger of not only losing our home, but of being seriously hurt (or worse) by my mom’s violent alcoholic husband.

After graduating college, I planned to find a good job with my degrees and move in with my boyfriend of 3 years. 

Instead, I found my boyfriend cheating and moved back home with my mom. 

I’ve been unable to find a job with either of my 2 degrees in the time since. I’m making $9.25/hour working part time just so I have something to make money. 

My mom’s husband thinks I’m here because I’m lazy and just want to live off of my mother forever. I guess I planned to have my heart broken and be unable to afford the home I’d built for myself…  

He hates me and constantly blames me for the family’s problems. He screams and punches holes in walls, he threatens to hit me and my mother. I know it’s only a matter of time before he follows through. A few years ago, he killed my puppy while I was at work, burning his body and then lying to me about it. He’s a sick, dangerous person. On the night this and this were posted, he threatened to burn our house down with everyone inside if I didn’t leave the house immediately. When I have nowhere else to go. 

The cops were called that night. And it wasn’t the first time…

I’m back home trying to pull myself together and get my feet back under me. Something far too many college kids can understand. But this man thinks it’s just me being a problem and my mother enabling my supposed lack of ambition. All of our money problems are specifically somehow because of me. 

This man doesn’t have a real job. He “works” for his friend that lives in the house behind ours. He doesn’t get any benefits. He’s in hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for various reasons, and that’s not an exaggeration. He spends all of his money on beer, tobacco, and back-child-support for a poor little boy he fathered during an affair and hasn’t seen since the paternity test when he was born.

My mom has been trapped in this marriage for years, because we couldn’t afford our house without him. He barely helps, but up til now, he’s helped just enough to keep a roof over our head. My mom’s only options seemed to be either stay with him, or we all become homeless. 

We have 3 dogs, 4 cats, and a turtle. We couldn’t afford anything where they would be welcome. But honestly, we couldn’t afford anything in general. 

As I said, I’ve been unable to find decent work. But my mom also had to retire as a teacher for medical reasons. She was then denied the disability she was originally promised, and teachers don’t get social security because they’re government employees. 

We’re in a tougher financial situation than we’ve ever been in. But my mom’s husband is no longer helping us pay for our home. His spending habits and irresponsibility have led to our home being foreclosed. 

We were supposed to be OUT by October 3rd, but my mom found a law firm that specializes in saving homes from foreclosure. We have to pay them $1,000 a month for four months to get their help. 

We’ve already paid the first two months. We have two more to go, and then this law firm will restructure our house payments to a price mom and I can afford. By ourselves. We can get rid of her husband once and for all. We can be safe. 

But my mom’s lawyer says the divorce will cost $3,000. 

My mom’s husband is planning to file bankruptcy. If he does so while my mom’s still legally his wife, all of his debt will transfer to her. Unless she files with him. In which case we could lose our home despite all our efforts to save it. 

It’s dire that she gets the divorce immediately. For our safety, and to save us from further economic hardship and possible homelessness. 

We’re doing our best to save our home because it is ours and we have nowhere else to go. But this is all for a house which has been in disrepair for years. 

Those of you who have been following me for a few years may remember a giveaway fundraiser I held in 2014 featuring Supernatural’s Osric Chau. It was to repair our home from severe flood damage. 

I raised enough to fix my bedroom, and to buy materials to repair the bathrooms (one of which is still demolished down to the studs because of the severity of the water damage). 

We spent all the money I made, repairing what we could. And I will forever be grateful for those who helped me put on that fundraiser and those who donated. However, we’d like to continue the reparations if at all possible. To not only save the roof over our heads, but make this a genuinely safe and happy home again. 

Because it’s not safe right now. For so many reasons. 

I’ve set up a fundraiser.

It has a goal of $10,000. We desperately need $5,000 to save our home and help my mom file for divorce. I’ve included the additional $5,000 in the goal in the hopes of repairing more damage to our house. 

I hope to come up with some donation incentives as I did in the previous fundraiser, so please check back on my page if you’re interested. For now, I just need to get the fundraiser up and going as soon as possible. Our next $1,000 payment is due on December 1st, and we don’t have the money.

If you can, please donate. If you can’t, please share this message and/or share the link to my new fundraiser. 

You would be saving our home, and keeping my pets with the only family they’ve ever known. Anything you can do means the world to all of us. 

(Me, my mom, and my teacup chihuahua Rattle. Not pictured: my dogs Phoebe and Wyatt, my cats Dusty, Luci, Theodore, and Simon, and my turtle Edgar). 

We are only $500 away from paying for the last month, and then our home is out of foreclosure and our payments will be affordable! Please reblog, and donate if you can. We’re so close to saving our home. Anything you can give means so much.

NOT SHIPPING RELATED

I know y’all follow for the ships, but it’s the season of giving and I see this post on my dash a lot. I know this young woman, and she and her mother do not deserve what they’re currently going through. If all you can do is share to spread the word, any help would be much appreciated. Kripke-is-my-king is a fellow Supernatural fan who’s in need.