Please Help Me Finalize My Divorce and Take My Power Back

Please Help Me Finalize My Divorce and Take My Power Back

Hi everyone,

This is hard for me to write. But I’m choosing to share my story because I believe in the power of community, and right now, I need help not just for me, but for my children who have already lost too much.

Three years ago, I ran for my life.

The man I’m married to the father of my children nearly killed me. I left my home, my family, everything I knew, because staying meant risking everything. I didn’t want to leave, but I had no choice. I needed to protect myself and my babies. That decision haunts me every day not because it was wrong, but because of the pain it’s caused my children.

I was with him for 17 years. I gave him everything. I worked. I cooked. I cleaned. I raised our children while he barely worked a steady job. I carried the weight of our lives on my back. I kept our family going while I was silently breaking inside. I thought if I loved hard enough, stayed loyal enough, and held everything together, he would change. He didn’t.

Now, after all the years I spent trying to keep our family whole, he’s turned his back on the only people who still wanted to love him our kids.

He doesn’t support them. He doesn’t call. He’s blocked them completely because he has a new baby now. My daughter who used to be his shadow cries herself to sleep because she doesn’t understand why her dad won’t talk to her. My 15 year old Demetrius and 12 year old Miracle are starting to see the truth, but my 9 year old Amariah still thinks he hung the moon. She misses him every single day.

No matter what happened between us, our children should not have to carry this pain. They deserved better. They still do.

I’ve spent the last five years trying to finalize my divorce. But it’s expensive, and when you’re a single mom trying to survive and heal, every dollar counts. I’ve finally found a lawyer willing to help me for $2,250 split into three payments of $750 over the next three months.

What this money will do is more than legal it’s emotional. It will allow me to:

Close this chapter and finally say, “Enough.”

Fight for the child support my kids are owed.

Reclaim my name, my rights, and my peace.

Show my children what it looks like to stand up and fight for yourself.

I don’t want pity. I want freedom. I want safety. I want to stop surviving and start living again. For me. For them.

If you can give anything $5, $10 please know it’s not just money. It’s a piece of hope. And if you can’t give, please, please share our story. The more people who see this, the closer I get to putting this nightmare behind us.

Thank you for reading. Thank you for caring. Thank you for helping me take my power back.

With all my heart,

[Derinthia]