Alright family and friends, as prideful as I am—yucky as it feels, embarrassed as I am, I’ve been very blessed to have amazing people in mine and my children’s corner, lending an ear, love, or just advice.

My custody case is a messy one and a very complicated one, as I have to hire two lawyers—one being for VA ruling of charges for my self-defense case and another in Ohio to handle all of my custody for the children.

I’m mortified I even have to make this post as I am and always have solely provided and taken care of my children’s every need, but so many friends and family keep suggesting a GoFundMe to help ease the burden of having to hire two attorneys in two different states and appearing before both court systems.

If you know me—as prideful as I am, as gross as I feel about it, I’m willing to put all opinions, via my own or anyone else’s, aside and ask for help. So many have offered already to my decline, but I’m running out of time.

This is me humbling myself to help get my children back to me and away from any and all emotional danger they are in at the moment. No child should ever have to go through what mine are right now. I can’t imagine how confused they are. The last sights they have of their mother is her getting loaded in a cop car in handcuffs for defending herself from their father who attacked me.

So from the bottom of my heart, I’m sorry I have to make this post. I need a little help, and I just need my kids safe. They deserve all the things I cannot give them at the moment, and that being peace, safety, and their mother.