Madison's Grief and Income Support

My name is Madison.

Five months ago, the most important person in my life, the love of my life, Alex, was killed.

For obvious reasons this has made every aspect of my life more difficult. Grieving has been hard. It takes all of my strength to even get out of the bed and refrain from breaking down, with mixed success. I am currently in grief counseling weekly, but healing has been slow and strenuous.

Compounding my daily struggles to function and provide for myself, my employment has slowed to the point where my income no longer sustains my monthly bills, further compounding the complications from my 8 weeks of very necessary but unpaid bereavement.

My support system has been wonderful, but there are limits to what they can do.

I have struggled to be open about this, and especially the issues associated with this. I have tried to put on a brave face and tell everyone I'm getting better. I have put this off as long as I can, I have exhausted all other avenues of financial support and fear that now if I don't ask for help now the consequences could be dire, including going further into debt, facing eviction, and struggling to feed myself.

Until then, this aid will help with the following bills:

I am at the very end of my means and running low on steam to continue at this pace. Healing from grief and waiting for work to restore us to normal hours is taking time that I unfortunately don't have.

I greatly appreciate your support. I desperately wish I didn't have to ask for it.