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Originally Posted by Monique7nuns  I can't remember a time I've ever felt more liberated than when I lived in my truck before the YWCA. Actually, it was probably camping in a tent.  |
I've heard (from a very reliable source) that being homeless for more than 90 days is risking being homeless forever...Of course I don't know all the ins and outs of that, like: did you "choose" to be homeless or run out of places to stay. While you were living in your tent or truck did you have a place to bathe and did you have food.
The thing you don't mention is children. This is one I've really had to think about. (I have kids---I don't have money or a job.) In the movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness," the son gets dragged around to public bathrooms and homeless shelters for 6 months. I really have to question the acceptability of that. Just how much of a sacrifice for Mom's or Dad's self-fulfillment is really OK?
This isn't a hypothetical question. I'm very close to getting evicted, and can't convince myself to take "any" job just to pay the rent. None the less, I've registered with a temp agency and the temp jobs I've had so far aren't covering the bills. My kids will have a place to stay, their dad hasn't deserted them, but I know they would consider it abandonment if I didn't have a place for them to stay with me.
@Ninja. Doesn't Steve write from personal experience? Hasn't he said Erin was working? Maybe you can take his experience and try to apply it to your own situation?
(Personally, I don't think I can do that right now because I seem to be stuck in the lowest levels of consciousness. OK I'm not suicidal. I would NEVER do that to my kids...even if I thought they'd be better off without me, they wouldn't get that...they would only get the being abandoned part. And I never think that anyway. NO ONE, not their father, not their "other mothers" will ever love them as much as I do. Just not possible.)