Please help single dad get back on his feet

I never once in my life thought it would come to this. I have always been a person who gives to good public causes, PBS, people who are giving and doing something good for the world. I am the kind of person who not only would donate money but, donate my time at soup kitchens, etc..

I was always the kind of person who would give to the "less fortunate" now, I am the less fortunate.

How I ended up here is a long story. I’m not going to go into full detail but, give you a idea as to how this all came about.

My daughter is now 15 years old and just this year started high school. She has lived with me since she was six. Her mom and I were married young and it didn’t work out.

When she was about five years old, I met the person that I absolutely, undoubtedly thought that I would spend the rest of our lives with. We built a life together, a GREAT life! We bought a house, not the most glamorous house but, it was our home and it was great. It was the very first place that ever really felt like home. I was living my dreams, and I found out that I didn’t even know what those dreams really were. I found out that the only thing that I was truly good at and absolutely loved, was being a family man. I became extremely involved an my community, heavily involved in School activities and life was going really well. Work was good, not exactly great but, good enough to be comfortable and pay the bills. Which is all I could ever ask for in life, just to be content.

Then, about two years ago, my significant other decided that she wanted to end our 8 year relationship. I don’t want to go into the personal details, and I don’t think that it would be fair to her to discuss her reasons. I will tell you this, the reason I was given was "I just know that I need to do this" As for what she needed to do, that was never answered. So, my response to her was this, I don’t agree with you, I don’t want this but, I love you enough to support you on your decisions for yourself. So, there was no arguing or anything like that, she just left during my daughters summer vacation with her mom. No explanation for my daughter or anything. You have to understand that, this is the person she looked at as her mom. Her own mother had her own set of issue’s that made things difficult in their mother daughter relationship.

So, if all of this was not hard enough. I found out five months later that there had not been a house payment made since we split up. At the time we had agreed that, for the time being, my child and I would stay in the house. I would pay all the bills, her car payment, etc.. and she would pay the mortgage, until we decided what we would do. So, you can imagine my surprise when I found out that our house was now in foreclosure and the payments were so far behind that, I could not do anything about it. I didn’t have that kind of money.

At about the same time, I was laid off from my job of seventeen years and have yet to get back to work in my field. I am now pursuing ANYTHING that will generate some kind of income. I really need to go back to School and pursue another career which, is something I would really love to do! I have always wanted to get into a field where I can help people. I would love to help people who are suffering from substance abuse.

At this point we are completely homeless. I can barely type this because it brings tears to my eyes but, I am now forced to let my daughter stay with family so that, I know that she is safe and has food to eat, while I’m now laying my head on any couch that I can. This is CRUSHING ME!!! I honestly don’t know how much more I can take. Bills are piling up, I owe money to everyone it seems, and I just received notice that, if I don’t pay my self storage bill, they are going to auction everything off. Everything we own is in that storage unit, all of her past school work and special projects that I’ve saved, pictures, clothes, furniture, EVERTHING! It feels like the world is crushing down on me and it’s only a matter of time before I can’t hold it up anymore.

I KNOW that, if I could just raise enough money to get things paid off, get us a place to stay, get in school, and pursue and get work, I can make things better for the two of us again.

All I want is to be content again. I want to be the father she knows and counts on. The father that I’ve always been. The one who provides for her. So that she can have a place to come home from school, I make dinner, we do homework…. Just some kind of stability!

If you can please find it in your heart to give anything, it will be much appreciated! And not only that, I PROMISE YOU that, when I’m back on my feet, I WILL PAY IT FORWARD! I would love nothing more than to come back here to this site and help someone else who needs it!

Thank you. God Bless!

I never once in my life thought it would come to this. I have always been a person who gives to good public causes, PBS, people who are giving and doing something good for the world. I am the kind of person who not only would donate money but, donate my time at soup kitchens, etc..

I was always the kind of person who would give to the "less fortunate" now, I am the less fortunate.

How I ended up here is a long story. I’m not going to go into full detail but, give you a idea as to how this all came about.

My daughter is now 15 years old and just this year started high school. She has lived with me since she was six. Her mom and I were married young and it didn’t work out.

When she was about five years old, I met the person that I absolutely, undoubtedly thought that I would spend the rest of our lives with. We built a life together, a GREAT life! We bought a house, not the most glamorous house but, it was our home and it was great. It was the very first place that ever really felt like home. I was living my dreams, and I found out that I didn’t even know what those dreams really were. I found out that the only thing that I was truly good at and absolutely loved, was being a family man. I became extremely involved an my community, heavily involved in School activities and life was going really well. Work was good, not exactly great but, good enough to be comfortable and pay the bills. Which is all I could ever ask for in life, just to be content.

Then, about two years ago, my significant other decided that she wanted to end our 8 year relationship. I don’t want to go into the personal details, and I don’t think that it would be fair to her to discuss her reasons. I will tell you this, the reason I was given was "I just know that I need to do this" As for what she needed to do, that was never answered. So, my response to her was this, I don’t agree with you, I don’t want this but, I love you enough to support you on your decisions for yourself. So, there was no arguing or anything like that, she just left during my daughters summer vacation with her mom. No explanation for my daughter or anything. You have to understand that, this is the person she looked at as her mom. Her own mother had her own set of issue’s that made things difficult in their mother daughter relationship.

So, if all of this was not hard enough. I found out five months later that there had not been a house payment made since we split up. At the time we had agreed that, for the time being, my child and I would stay in the house. I would pay all the bills, her car payment, etc.. and she would pay the mortgage, until we decided what we would do. So, you can imagine my surprise when I found out that our house was now in foreclosure and the payments were so far behind that, I could not do anything about it. I didn’t have that kind of money.

At about the same time, I was laid off from my job of seventeen years and have yet to get back to work in my field. I am now pursuing ANYTHING that will generate some kind of income. I really need to go back to School and pursue another career which, is something I would really love to do! I have always wanted to get into a field where I can help people. I would love to help people who are suffering from substance abuse.

At this point we are completely homeless. I can barely type this because it brings tears to my eyes but, I am now forced to let my daughter stay with family so that, I know that she is safe and has food to eat, while I’m now laying my head on any couch that I can. This is CRUSHING ME!!! I honestly don’t know how much more I can take. Bills are piling up, I owe money to everyone it seems, and I just received notice that, if I don’t pay my self storage bill, they are going to auction everything off. Everything we own is in that storage unit, all of her past school work and special projects that I’ve saved, pictures, clothes, furniture, EVERTHING! It feels like the world is crushing down on me and it’s only a matter of time before I can’t hold it up anymore.

I KNOW that, if I could just raise enough money to get things paid off, get us a place to stay, get in school, and pursue and get work, I can make things better for the two of us again.

All I want is to be content again. I want to be the father she knows and counts on. The father that I’ve always been. The one who provides for her. So that she can have a place to come home from school, I make dinner, we do homework…. Just some kind of stability!

If you can please find it in your heart to give anything, it will be much appreciated! And not only that, I PROMISE YOU that, when I’m back on my feet, I WILL PAY IT FORWARD! I would love nothing more than to come back here to this site and help someone else who needs it!

Thank you. God Bless!

I never once in my life thought it would come to this. I have always been a person who gives to good public causes, PBS, people who are giving and doing something good for the world. I am the kind of person who not only would donate money but, donate my time at soup kitchens, etc..

I was always the kind of person who would give to the "less fortunate" now, I am the less fortunate.

How I ended up here is a long story. I’m not going to go into full detail but, give you a idea as to how this all came about.

My daughter is now 15 years old and just this year started high school. She has lived with me since she was six. Her mom and I were married young and it didn’t work out.

When she was about five years old, I met the person that I absolutely, undoubtedly thought that I would spend the rest of our lives with. We built a life together, a GREAT life! We bought a house, not the most glamorous house but, it was our home and it was great. It was the very first place that ever really felt like home. I was living my dreams, and I found out that I didn’t even know what those dreams really were. I found out that the only thing that I was truly good at and absolutely loved, was being a family man. I became extremely involved an my community, heavily involved in School activities and life was going really well. Work was good, not exactly great but, good enough to be comfortable and pay the bills. Which is all I could ever ask for in life, just to be content.

Then, about two years ago, my significant other decided that she wanted to end our 8 year relationship. I don’t want to go into the personal details, and I don’t think that it would be fair to her to discuss her reasons. I will tell you this, the reason I was given was "I just know that I need to do this" As for what she needed to do, that was never answered. So, my response to her was this, I don’t agree with you, I don’t want this but, I love you enough to support you on your decisions for yourself. So, there was no arguing or anything like that, she just left during my daughters summer vacation with her mom. No explanation for my daughter or anything. You have to understand that, this is the person she looked at as her mom. Her own mother had her own set of issue’s that made things difficult in their mother daughter relationship.

So, if all of this was not hard enough. I found out five months later that there had not been a house payment made since we split up. At the time we had agreed that, for the time being, my child and I would stay in the house. I would pay all the bills, her car payment, etc.. and she would pay the mortgage, until we decided what we would do. So, you can imagine my surprise when I found out that our house was now in foreclosure and the payments were so far behind that, I could not do anything about it. I didn’t have that kind of money.

At about the same time, I was laid off from my job of seventeen years and have yet to get back to work in my field. I am now pursuing ANYTHING that will generate some kind of income. I really need to go back to School and pursue another career which, is something I would really love to do! I have always wanted to get into a field where I can help people. I would love to help people who are suffering from substance abuse.

At this point we are completely homeless. I can barely type this because it brings tears to my eyes but, I am now forced to let my daughter stay with family so that, I know that she is safe and has food to eat, while I’m now laying my head on any couch that I can. This is CRUSHING ME!!! I honestly don’t know how much more I can take. Bills are piling up, I owe money to everyone it seems, and I just received notice that, if I don’t pay my self storage bill, they are going to auction everything off. Everything we own is in that storage unit, all of her past school work and special projects that I’ve saved, pictures, clothes, furniture, EVERTHING! It feels like the world is crushing down on me and it’s only a matter of time before I can’t hold it up anymore.

I KNOW that, if I could just raise enough money to get things paid off, get us a place to stay, get in school, and pursue and get work, I can make things better for the two of us again.

All I want is to be content again. I want to be the father she knows and counts on. The father that I’ve always been. The one who provides for her. So that she can have a place to come home from school, I make dinner, we do homework…. Just some kind of stability!

If you can please find it in your heart to give anything, it will be much appreciated! And not only that, I PROMISE YOU that, when I’m back on my feet, I WILL PAY IT FORWARD! I would love nothing more than to come back here to this site and help someone else who needs it!

Thank you. God Bless!