Keep Peach off the Streets
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Hi my name is Peach, and I’ve been trying to find somewhere to live for over a year. My current temporary situation is ending unexpectedly on Sept 15th (as you can see they're counting down on the closet door). This will leave me and my boyfriend with no where to live for 2 weeks, providing that we can actually make the money for a place by Oct 1st. Ideally, we would move into a place by September 1st with the help of the Red Cross and you guys! Also my boyfriend’s parents have stopped buying food and just get take out for themselves, so we’re living on the last of the pizza pops rn. More about my situation below.
(I don't actually live in california I just prefer to keep my location private.)
I have general anxiety disorder and clinical depression, which my mom couldn’t handle so she kicked me out of her house, so after couch surfing I ended up living with my boyfriend and his parents. This was July 2013.
Shortly after I got a job, but after a month I was fired due to the amount of panic attacks I was having from interacting with customers.
I moved back in with my mom because the situation was becoming tense at my boyfriend’s house and I couldn’t handle it with my anxiety. However, I also couldn’t handle how my mom couldn’t handle my anxiety, so I blindly accepted her offer to have her pay for me and my boyfriend to move to Mexico (move in w/ my friend who has lived there 3 yrs), expecting the situation to be alright. However when I arrived in Mexico I found that the job I had been offered was 90% walking around the pool of a hotel and talking to the patrons… which I don’t know why my mom thought that would be a good job for me since I have panic attacks when I talk to people. This was on top of the countless other lies we’d been told about our living situation, presumably from my mom thinking that no matter the situation it would still be nice living in Mexico (she’s only been to 5 star resorts).
Upon contacting both my parents to ask if I could come home as living in a different country with very limited basic necessities and an anxiety inducing, low paying job would severely aggravate my anxiety, they both told me to put on a smile and suck it up. So we were forced to contact my boyfriend’s parents, and fortunately they said we could live with them as long as we need. So after spending ten days going to the internet cafe everyday and sparingly buying hot dogs and ramen at the convenience store, we were able to transfer the rest of our money and get plane tickets.
However it is now apparent that “as long as we need” cannot exceed 7 months. We both had jobs in June but my boyfriend had to quit because they treated him worse than the other employees, and for $10/h. I had to quit my job because I was having panic attacks every shift from interacting with customers and coworkers. Their main issue is that my boyfriend didn’t have a job following this, but the job market in my town is horrible, and even despite that he got a job less than a week after they told us we had a month.
I have been trying to get started as a cam model, but it takes time to actually start making money. I also don’t have any materials except for a basic web cam, cell phone camera, a low quality vibrator that is on it’s last legs, and my raciest lingerie (2 year old lace panties with a hole in the butt and a few >2 year old black bras that don’t fit me)
So now our plan is to hopefully access the Red Cross emergency security deposit allowance and hope that the land lord at the place we found is as relaxed as our friend says he is and will allow us to pay the first month’s rent whenever we get the money.
Please, any amount will help us eat and put a roof over our heads.
(I don't actually live in california I just prefer to keep my location private.)
I have general anxiety disorder and clinical depression, which my mom couldn’t handle so she kicked me out of her house, so after couch surfing I ended up living with my boyfriend and his parents. This was July 2013.
Shortly after I got a job, but after a month I was fired due to the amount of panic attacks I was having from interacting with customers.
I moved back in with my mom because the situation was becoming tense at my boyfriend’s house and I couldn’t handle it with my anxiety. However, I also couldn’t handle how my mom couldn’t handle my anxiety, so I blindly accepted her offer to have her pay for me and my boyfriend to move to Mexico (move in w/ my friend who has lived there 3 yrs), expecting the situation to be alright. However when I arrived in Mexico I found that the job I had been offered was 90% walking around the pool of a hotel and talking to the patrons… which I don’t know why my mom thought that would be a good job for me since I have panic attacks when I talk to people. This was on top of the countless other lies we’d been told about our living situation, presumably from my mom thinking that no matter the situation it would still be nice living in Mexico (she’s only been to 5 star resorts).
Upon contacting both my parents to ask if I could come home as living in a different country with very limited basic necessities and an anxiety inducing, low paying job would severely aggravate my anxiety, they both told me to put on a smile and suck it up. So we were forced to contact my boyfriend’s parents, and fortunately they said we could live with them as long as we need. So after spending ten days going to the internet cafe everyday and sparingly buying hot dogs and ramen at the convenience store, we were able to transfer the rest of our money and get plane tickets.
However it is now apparent that “as long as we need” cannot exceed 7 months. We both had jobs in June but my boyfriend had to quit because they treated him worse than the other employees, and for $10/h. I had to quit my job because I was having panic attacks every shift from interacting with customers and coworkers. Their main issue is that my boyfriend didn’t have a job following this, but the job market in my town is horrible, and even despite that he got a job less than a week after they told us we had a month.
I have been trying to get started as a cam model, but it takes time to actually start making money. I also don’t have any materials except for a basic web cam, cell phone camera, a low quality vibrator that is on it’s last legs, and my raciest lingerie (2 year old lace panties with a hole in the butt and a few >2 year old black bras that don’t fit me)
So now our plan is to hopefully access the Red Cross emergency security deposit allowance and hope that the land lord at the place we found is as relaxed as our friend says he is and will allow us to pay the first month’s rent whenever we get the money.
Please, any amount will help us eat and put a roof over our heads.
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