Please help my family in this desperate time of need.

Hi everyone, my name's Alexza. I’m a mother of 3 beautiful children and stepmom to a very kind, loving young boy. My fiancé and I raise our kids together and do our best to make sure they have all the chances they need to succeed in life and know that they are LOVED every day.

The past 6 months have been by far the most difficult times I’ve had. My fiancé and I both worked for the same company owned by my step-mother. I worked there for almost 9 years and he worked there off and on for about 10 years. However, due to the hostile, abusive, unprofessional work environment, I could no longer tolerate being there every day when most days I’d leave in tears; my anxiety would make me physically ill. My fiancé , unfortunately, would take the brunt of the abuse from her.Many people would ask why we didn’t leave sooner and the truth is, living in California, raising 4 kids, expensive and truthfully I loved and had close relationships with many of my coworkers outside of work. But ultimately, we couldn’t afford to leave.  After I left the company, a few weeks later my fiance is fired. For almost 5 months we’ve been unemployed now. We filed for unemployment and my fiance was able to get it but when I had to file a new claim a month ago, I was denied it because of a FALSE statement submitted by my stepmother. When we both still worked for her, she conditioned us to believe that without her we would fail and our kids would lose everything. She’s now making sure those things happen any chance she gets. We both have struggled looking for another job. We’re behind 1 1/2 months on rent, my car finally received a repo notice for non-payment, our phone service was shut off yesterday, and our PGE I will be shut off soon. 

We are currently living off of my fiancé’s $1300 a month unemployment benefits. I’m scared we will be evicted soon, I’m scared my car is going to be gone one morning when I wake up, our ONLY vehicle between the both of us. I was lucky enough to get food benefits for groceries but it barely getting us by. I’ve never been more scared of the future in my life. I hate the idea of asking people for help because of my own struggles and don’t like to make it about me. This is truly about my kids. They deserve stability, they deserve to be comfortable and trust mom and dad will always make sure they’re taken care of. It breaks my heart knowing I can’t give that to them because we’re on the verge of homelessness.