Help a Mother and Daughter Rebuild Their Lives

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Help a Mother and Daughter Rebuild Their Lives

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Hi everyone,
This is a lot for me to write and it's killing me to have to reach out and ask for help but here we are....
Some of you know what has happened most of you don't. Since I left California almost three years ago life has not been kind, mostly due to the fact that the man I trusted with our lives was not who we thought he was.
I don't even know how to start because it's a lot so here we go.
Upon moving out here and leaving my amazing business that I met so many wonderful people you weren't just clients you were family and my friends. I had left everything behind...
So, about 6 weeks after moving across the country with my ex he decided that I was his punching bag, I have never been hit in my life, and I was beat in front of my daughter for well over 45 mins. There was no pre cursor to this action and I was shocked while trying to stay alive. I could hear my daughter screaming and all I could say while trying to fight off the monster that was beating me was to keep herself safe and hide in the office, I didn't need her to face the potential wrath of this person, her father.
On 4/19/2023 I had my ex arrested for domestic violence. This incident in which my daughter had to stop him from strangling me to death and while sustaining injuries on her back where he pushed her to try to finish the job. After the sheriffs arrived he tried to flee the scene and was taken to jail, from that day forward we have zero physical contact from him, but I have received death threats and multiple kidnapping threats and my daughter and I have not felt safe since.
I was not only and instant single mom but had to keep the entire business going all alone, while being across the country with no support.
On top of the physical and mental abuse I endured I also found out he was cheating on me with multiple women one in which he hired to deliver packages for us. He put the business into financial distress due to taking money and embezzling from the business accounts to feed his affairs and addictions, (me not knowing he was addicted to drugs like steroids, Adderall and Xanax) while lying about using said money to fix the trucks and other business expenses.

Fast forward to 3/05/2025 ... I was struck by a car while heading to the FedEx terminal causing massive injury losing my car and the use of my right hand. After months of physical therapy, I will no longer be able to go back to what I have known and loved for the last 2 decades of my life. Due to the accident, I lost my FedEx routes because of my injuries and currently have no income to support my daughter and me.
Our lives post-accident has been trying and stressful, I am in dire need of help and there is so much more to this story, and I am humbly asking for the kindness of others to keep us afloat until we get back on our feet.
The donations will go to basic life needs such as utilities, car, mortgage, medical bills, and ongoing therapy for my daughter and I due to the trauma we have endured.
For those of you that know me know that I am not one to ask for help and have always taken care of myself and my daughter so this may seem out of nowhere, but this move was not what it was supposed to be, and we are out here trying to make work. This has been the most trying situation of our entire lives This situation is an emergency; we are just trying to stay afloat until my accident attorneys come up with a settlement offer.
We have exhausted all other avenues which is why I am here asking now.
I know most of you will have questions and will be concerned please message me if you would like to know more.

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Marisa Bustillos
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Bluffton, SC

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