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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Thankfully, this happened just after a Costco run so we’re not going to starve right away, I’m more worried about missing payments on bills in a couple of months when the little bit we’d squirreled away runs out. If things go well and one or both of them can get back to work before the end of the month/early March, we shouldn’t be too bad, but I will definitely look at some of those. We’re on an NVMO provider already, so our bill is less expensive than the big 3 at least. It’s just overwhelming to think about and I’m just trying to keep myself sane.


  • But when you are stuck working constantly, exhausted, hurting, and just barely making ends meet, and know that if you stop you’ll go hungry… that is what makes people want to end it all.

    I feel this in my soul. My wife has had years of on and off illnesses and because the doctors cared more about getting beds turned over healing the root cause, it took her 10+ years to get her gallbladder removed. Because she was so sick going into it, it took way too long to recover and she’s been struggling to get anyone to give her a new chance. All of this stacks up to a metric ton of mental health issues (she gets sick from stress some days) and more struggles. My son had been helping us keep afloat but he also just got canned recently. So my one income, which will barely cover rent and food, isn’t going to be enough. If one or both of them doesn’t land full time employment before the end of the month, we’re going to default on basically everything. I’m only able to maintain my sanity by reminding myself that if I lose my mind, my wife will be absolutely inconsolable. If I could live somewhere that a basic job actually made for a good life, I’d move yesterday. Sadly, I don’t have anything skills that would land me a job in China, so I have to just keep on keeping on for now.