As many of you know at the end of this month, I will be saying goodbye to Marla as my wife. We have shared many good memories for the last 11 years, but some issues have come into play that have caused this relationship to decline and we have both found it to be best for us to be separate and still together for the overall success of Christopher as he continues to grow up.

To be blatantly honest many of these issues did occur with the death of my mom and the fact that she had no life insurance made the bills extremely high. Her funeral was very expensive and to this day, I have still not bounced back from these debts, even with assistance.

Other issues such as high cost of living in the city of Washington DC plus lower pay as an athletic trainer have compounded the issues and made it difficult for me to have funds available for many of the bills and debts that I have accumulated over time.

Because of this, for much of my entire life over the last 5 years, my account has been in the negative and I have tried to my best to keep things going as best as possible for the family even with low money available.

However, with a negative balance it did cause a chain reaction a couple of credit cards and other debtors constantly asking for payment over and over and created an issue where many bills were sacrificed while other bills were attended to.

Throughout all of this trouble. I have tried to be a good father, a good husband, and a good athletic trainer and trying to work as hard as I possibly can to ensure a high quality of life and ensure that everybody I come in contact with remain as healthy as humanly possible.

However, there comes a point in which all of this hard work and dedication seems to become irrelevant and other actions must be taken to ensure a genuine life reset can occur.

To some it may seem like my transition from Washington DC to Miami is a way to get away from my problems. However, this is my way to actually tackle the problems and ensure that no issues like this ever happen again.

I am working hard for strategies to increase my money and be able to have more money available for Christopher throughout his time as a child and be able to teach him methods of saving and the importance of caring for your money at all times.

While away I am trying to keep in touch with him as much as possible showing him videos of specific events that occur in Florida to keep his interest up both in my activities as well as what life is like in the Florida region.

Obviously none of this is easy and I do miss him very much every single day. So I still need to do more and more as a father to be more present in his life and help him with other activities such as academics and activities from here to make it appear as if I am there as well and be more present.

Being legally bound to this debt, I have tried to find many loans to pay for this myself. However, with low credit most loans are easily denied for me and makes it really hard to find a large amount of money anywhere.

Although it may appear to be some form of "cyberbegging" it truly is not that. I am asking for a little assistance from many people to help with this endeavor and to make everything run as smoothly as possible.

I still care deeply for Christopher and want him to have the best life possible. And I am willing to do as much as humanly possible for him even from 14 hours away.

I will get to visit him many times throughout the holidays. However, I have not been able to yet just getting settled into the new job and allowing the initial expenses to settle.

Please consider helping a little bit as I am not asking for a lot from anybody at all. These may be true donations and not be able to be paid back at this time. However, I am already eternally grateful and thankful for all of your hard work and dedication throughout the 45 years that I have known each and every one of you.

I understand that many of us are going to struggles the same way and this is not a good time to be asking for money. So please do not take that the wrong way as I know many people still are reeling in the Asheville region.

I am grateful for all of you and love each and everyone of you and I'm thankful to have each one of you in my life in one aspect or another.

Thank You again for your time and consideration. I will leave this open for the next 2 weeks and hopefully will never have to ask for money ever again. It truly tears people apart for no reason.

Thank You All.

Love,

Chris