Hello, for those of you who don’t know me personally, my name is Angela Folsom. It’s been difficult for me on a personal level to actively seek help from others. For those of you who do know me, I’ve spent the majority of my life independent, loyal and hard working. None of those attributes in me have changed, but I have been struggling in all aspects of life for the last several years.

I’m coming out of a long term, extremely abusive, relationship with my ex. I, as many others in life am a victim and more importantly a survivor of Narcissistic Abuse, and Domestic Violence. It’s cost me my relationship with my step children, and it’s affected my relationships with my Family. This abusive relationship has cost me everything, personally, financially, spiritually, physically and of course, emotionally. For the last several months, I’ve been forced to depend on others for numerous places to stay, sleep, bathe, eat, transportation, and otherwise feel like a normal human being. It’s cost me my autonomy and my independence as woman and I’ve been forever grateful to my family and friends who have continuously supported me during these difficult times.

The majority of my belongings, which I don’t carry with me, personally, have spent the last couple of years, in storage, which I’ve struggled to keep due to my situation. In the last several months, it’s been brought to my attention, that by all accounts, my ex broke into and I have been unable to make it there to assess the “damage” and what was stolen from me.

It’s been a truly, horrific and deeply exhausting and frightening situation and experience for me on every level. I’ve recently taken the necessary steps to seek legal advice, and to press charges against him, and to seek justice knowing that this course of action, most likely will result in me never seeing my step children whom I’ve raised since they were small children. It’s heartbreaking for me on every level for me to comprehend the finality of this decision, but I’ve been left with no recourse but to hold my ex responsible for the damages, the overwhelming financial losses, the physical and mental toll, anguish and abuse of suffered at his doing, and as I’ve found out, was done maliciously and on purpose. The fact that I have had to accept that someone could be this evil, and would maliciously and actively try to destroy my life and my relationships with not only the children, but my vehicle, my belongings, and my overall sanity.

I’m creating this Go Fund Me page, as a plea for help. I’m well aware, that as human beings, we all struggle and fall down in life, but this journey for me has been so difficult for me, that being able to just start, to try and get on my feet has been nearly impossible.

My goal is to rise enough money, to get myself a vehicle, get it on the road, and insured so I can travel to my storage unit, assess what’s gone, pack the rest of what belongings I do have left, and make the journey from Georgia to a place where I can feel safe so I can take the time I desperately need to heal from the years of physical, financial and mental anguish I’ve suffered through, the only word I could possible use or comes to mind, is nightmare. I’m trying to get on my feet and feel like a human being again.

As I’ve already mentioned, even for me to have to ask anyone for help is something that I feel deeply uncomfortable about and while embarrassing, I have struggled for so long, that I feel like I have no other option but to create this Fundraiser.

I want to sincerely thank all of you for reading this, and I know and understand that so many of you are struggling to make ends meet in your own lives, and that any and all help is deeply and greatly appreciated.

Thank you all for your help and support ☮️ Warmest Regards, Angela Folsom