Homeless, unemployed mom of four navigates going it alone

“All this time I was with an idiot and sometimes I feel that way about myself too because look how long I have been with him and now I have four children, four daughters, and I have to move on. Sometimes I feel so depressed and frustrated I don’t know what to do. I need help but don’t know where to turn,” she told me, speaking quietly and slowly.

“…I feel so stressed. Sometimes I think about just doing something and end it all…,” she trailed off. This young woman is in her late 20s. She has four daughters, one of whom is just months old, and she recently separated from the father of her children. With no job and nowhere stable to live, she is at her wits’ end. She reached out to me on social media, wanting her story to be told as she needed help.

“I have read so many of your articles, which I have gained so much knowledge from,” she told me when introducing herself.