Is there anybody out there from another state that might feel like I do. I am down.... real down.... I am from Texas, I have nothing against Alabama, but I have had nothing but bad luck here....

I am a single mom of three. I work and work and work and cannot get ahead. Does anyone else share my sentiments....??????

Child support is a joke....

marastokes, (I don't remember if I spelled that right). I am not from out of state, but I raised four kids, no child support, no welfare, worked til they were grown. It took me seventeen years to get out of debt because there was no health insurance. Home when not at work. But I am proud of my kids. They knew we were poor and never complain. I sure cried a lot of tears. But now I can say, I did a good job. They tell all the time I did. It's a hard life. This doesn't help does it?

barefootangel - 09 July 2008 07:18 PM

marastokes, (I don't remember if I spelled that right). I am not from out of state, but I raised four kids, no child support, no welfare, worked til they were grown. It took me seventeen years to get out of debt because there was no health insurance. Home when not at work. But I am proud of my kids. They knew we were poor and never complain. I sure cried a lot of tears. But now I can say, I did a good job. They tell all the time I did. It's a hard life. This doesn't help does it?

thank you and bless you. i feel so alone. i have no family and no one to talk to and you are so right. I have a sixteen year old and a fourteen year old boy and neither one are in trouble. they just told me the other night that they think i am a good mother. they will not use drugs like so many of their friends do because they learned from me. my daughter who is ten, has family here. they all spoil her to death. she gets everything. i guess i am just down because we are living with no air conditioning and it is so hot here in the summer. we did this last summer and it really sucks.... my daughter is with her father and his family so she doesn't have to deal with it like me and my boys do... thank you for your reply.... i really appreciated it...

and PS I know about the debt... I will be in debt the rest of my life from my ex....

I hope you are still there. I got sick right as I posted last night and am just now reading. I was all alone with my children. no family. It was just God, me and a lot of prayers. my children are grown now. I have three sons. My daughter was killed on her way to worked three months before her seventeenth birthday. The funny thing was, I never told any of my kids they had to go to work, it was like the harder they saw me working the more determine they were . None of them went to college but all of them makes gooood money. I have never ask for one dime but somehow they manage to come over with these "gifts". I know you really have it hard and it is a very lonely life. But keep focus on the main job. Raising those kids. I would get so angry because they would ganrish my wage and I knew I was paying bill as fast as I could, and I like I said, seventeen years later, I did it. I understand about not air, I have wash clothes in the bathtub, walked/hitched hiked to work,. being a mother is hard, being a single mother on you on is harder. Please feel free to talk with me, I will be glad to help if I can. I will pray for you to have strength.