I’m desperately trying to raise money for an attorney because my narcissistic ex just served me with a motion to extinguish my Protection From Abuse order against him in order to gain parental rights back that were revoked.

I am a full-time nursing student and do not have the income or family that can help. On April 2nd, I had to flee my home with my two daughters out of fear for our lives. He was in the midst of a terrifying manic episode as part of his bipolar disorder, which included religious delusions and delusions of grandeur. It began as just verbal abuse and neglecting his family responsibilities by spending literally 22 hours a day out at bars, which I could handle, but escalated to him making a direct threat to end my life and my entire family’s lives by giving my address to my ex-husband, who had beaten and strangled me as well as made a murder plan for my first baby.

Having this protection order has been the only thing that has given me any sense of peace after being terrorized and threatened, and he is trying to retaliate by taking that away from me after I refused to engage in his attempt to communicate through a third party, which was an order violation.