Starting Over After Losing Everything—Please Help Me Rebuild

Hi, my name is Alex Bojorquez. I don’t like asking for help, and I never thought I’d be in a place where I had to. But right now, I’m at a point where I truly don’t know how else to keep going without support.

In the past few months, my life has fallen apart piece by piece. My marriage ended suddenly, and my wife decided to move out, leaving me with all the financial responsibility for our home. The car we shared was totaled before she left. I had to make the heartbreaking decision to rehome my dog, who was one of the only things keeping me grounded. Not long after that, I was laid off from my job.

Since then, I’ve been trying to survive, but everything feels like a losing battle. I can’t find a job that pays enough to maintain the home on my own. My credit has been destroyed, and I have been denied every loan I’ve applied for. My motorcycle was stolen after I fell off of it during the storms in Texas the night of July 4th. I left it in a neighbor’s yard, and by the time I came back to pick it up, it was gone. After knocking on every door, reporting it stolen, and calling every tow company, I have no answers. I’ve gone from being someone who helped others to someone who now has to visit food donation spots just to eat.

It was just my 30th birthday on July 20th, and I feel like I had nothing to celebrate. Just five years ago, life felt stable. Now I’m at risk of losing everything, including my therapy and medications that help me manage my mental health. I’ve been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, and I am doing my best to stay consistent with treatment. But with no income and no safety net, I don’t know how much longer I can keep this up.

This fundraiser is not for luxury or comfort. It’s emergency money to help me survive while I keep applying for jobs and trying to rebuild from this rock bottom. Anything raised will go toward rent, food, transportation, and keeping my therapy and medication going. If you can’t donate, I completely understand, but even sharing this would help more than you know.

I’ve always tried to give back when I could. I used to cook and pass out meals to the homeless in Austin. I carried frozen water bottles in my car to hand them out during the extreme heat to people that needed it. I never thought I’d be the one on the other side of that kindness. I’m asking for help now, not because I want to, but because I truly don’t see a way forward without it.

Thank you for reading this and for seeing me in this moment. If you’ve ever felt like the world was crashing down and still found your way through, I hope to do the same with a little help.

With all my heart,

Alex Bojorquez