I am not happy to do this, but I would really need to ask help. My foreigner boyfriend cheated on me and left me alone in this city. I left my work and family behind to move to Manila with him and now I am in big trouble with my bills and debt.

I know there is other people who needs help too. But I dont know what to do anymore.

I hope someone with good heart could help me. I have done everything myself. I have sold my belongings and clothes in ebay already, but it is very hard to findwork here in Philippines

Please help me, I will be glad to do anything to repay everything and give every pennyback when life gives me the chance to do so. Please help me, everything will be a blessing in my horrible situation. :(

- Sandra

I'm a missionary who travels to different places telling ppl about Jesus and i work to support myself but since the economy has crashed work has been few and far between so means of supports and housing has been long since gone and i have no licenses to drive. so no car So if you have any suggestions other than get a job I did or go stay at a shelter, and you've never stayed in one yourself and don't know anything about them. Except what you hear keep your comment to yourself! 

I've done the shelter thing they are not at all what they are cracked up to be! It's really all about your ss# so we can use it for the next 5 years so we as a shelter can get federal funding. I want The Christians to start standing up and doing what Jesus and the disciples did they lived in community and helped each other one was a cook another a tent maker etc.. so each one did their part so noone had need!

Hello

I am sorry you will be going to a shelter. I think your pastor is right as they will have more resources for you. Look the ones over that you are choosiing to be at.

I am sorry as I have given you all that I know and here is something else but you will be on a waiting list for public housing.

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Question: Why do poor people have kids if they cant afford them?

You can be alone in this society as I was talking to someone else and you could be screaming something was wrong and no one would come to your aid. Or when people now you are alone in the real world not the net no one says let me come over or come over to my place to visit and spend the day. The time I get out is to go to the dentist. I am trying to find a cat and other work from home and neither is working out. When I lived in my old beach apartment I knew of seniors and brought them food and if I had to go out one was on oxygen is there anything I can get you?
No one around here the friends I had give a hoot. So I want a cat. Better eat or I get the shakes. Like everyone else I never thought I end up like this ...Just in a blah mood and the weather plus no one around makes it worse. Why doesn't anyone when they know you are alone offer to hey eat and lets go out etc?..Miss living at mom's house and with Sunny. I thought I would have been moved by now and things just aren't getting really better.

Great post.

Single women sometimes struggle with being alone.  Some hate living alone, going out alone and coming home from work and eating alone.  Before Eve was created, God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone"(Ge 2:18).  That statement would surely apply to the woman as well as to Adam.  But the reality is that some of us are alone.  We're single, and we're living a life of aloneness.

But while singles may be alone, we don't have to be lonely.  Loneliness is an attitude, a state of mind.  People can be lonely even in a crowd or at a party.  It's not necessarily a lack of company that makes a person lonely.  Loneliness is a decision; we can choose whether or not to be lonely.  When we're lonely, it may mean that we have not yet learned to enjoy our own company.  We have not yet realized the gift of aloneness.

Everyone--single or married--needs time to be alone.  Aloneness is an investment in oneself.  It's a time to recharge one's emotional and spiritual batteries, to think and pray, to gain insight or find a solution to a pressing problem, to rest after a battle or a long day, to find grace to deal with life and all of its challenges, to hear from God.

Jesus took full advantage of his singleness and moments of aloneness or solitude.  Mark 1:35 says, "Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed."

It is when we are alone and still that God can speaks to us most profoundly.  Didn't he tell the psalmist, "Be still, and know that I am God" (Ps 46:10)?  We all need moments of aloneness to hear from God, reflect, meditate and recreate.

Embrace your time of singleness as a special time of aloneness with God, not as a time of loneliness.

My Personal Comments:

After my divorce, I thought i would have to hurry and remarry in order to not have to deal with being alone.  I thought about my life up to that point and i had never been alone.  I lived with my parents and siblings for 18 years, went straight to college and had roommates, then married, then later had a daughter.  So i basically never knew what it like to be alone.  Yes during those years i had experienced being lonely.  But now that i have been alone for 8 years I am so glad i did not rush to remarry.  I really feel blessed to have experience this alone time for many reasons.  I know God knew that this time would be a time that many women and men would experience living alone.  The point is being able to realize that it is truly a gift and a blessing from God in many situations.  I embrace mine to the fullest.  I still hope to get married someday but not just because  i don't want to be alone.

Greetings and thankyou for existing. In some time between 03 and '04,I finally had what amounts to a nervous breakdown that had been riding my back for a very long time. My subsequent behavior and decisions coming from desperation and learned survivor behavior snowballed into my 27 month incarceration. Within barely 2 yrs,I was barraged with a hasty marriage,losing a baby,giving birth to my 2nd son-right after another woman had just given birth to a daughter by my then husband,my mother( and soulmate)doing her first run at an overdose after being sober for more 12yrs,and then her 2nd and final overdose. This pretty much took me to my knees. Prison was my intervention that I can say surely saved my life. I only wish there was something like your group to help me finish the recovery and renewal process that had began with my incarceration. Frankly,I am still a mess and could use some help. It is my sincere desire to help others once I can get myself together. If you could provide any resources that I could use from here or direction of any kind I would be grateful. As with most, there is so much more than this letter that go into the kind of assistance I could use. At this point, I desperately need money towards a car to get to my drs appts and disability. Affairsm the main thing that a car would enable me to do is see my sons. I have noone left alive for family except some extremely abusive people I had to distance myself from.I am aware that you all must be very busy. Again,thank you for your time. Sincrely, Manic Mamma

So, I just posted my first blog on Aidspace, and I noticed that I sounded desperate and negative. I told my self this morning to look for the love around me. I live with five children two are my own the other three are my roomie's children. With all the craziness that comes with them I have no time to wallow in my misery. When they are gone, I miss my ex husband (even though he was abusive), I allow myself to feel as if I amount to nothing, I crave drugs and or alcohol. So, today, after my roomie went to work, I embraced the children and had a great time. We played basket ball out side and went window shopping. So I thank God for the love of the children around me. They are a challenge, especially the teenage boys, however, I think that I need them just as much as they need me. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to warm my heart at night or when I am alone? I guess I mean, the sick lonley feeling that I get, does anyone have any suggestions to get over that feeling? Thanks and keep Trukkin.

Are there any who grew up in Foster Care, orphans here that feel like they don't have family or anyone to talk too?

Are there any in the North Carolina area or surrounding areas?

If so, please PM me.

Kids who grow up in foster care and never get adoted need to be able to have some place to talk. Some place where they can feel like they have family even if it isn't blood. Times are hard during the holidays but we can all get through it

I agree it is a great poem and I love it too.

I love that poem. That is great.

we all go through so much as woman! Even though we have to worry about how to support our family, we still have to go through the hell with the men we are with because they will not stand up and be real men. But we still love them all the more. I hope you like this poem explaining the feelings we go through with our men!

Crave his Love

As a woman, we go through so much.

We crave the love of a mans touch.

When that love develops into relation.

All we can think about is the sensation.

We love the thrill of how he makes us feel.

Especially when he flaunts his sex appeal.

We’ll do most any thing for his attention.

Even turn on close ones, did I mention?

I crave his Love like no other.

I love him more than my own mother.

He took my emotions and threw them away.

But still I pray that he would come back the next day.

I crave his love, like a devil in heat.

Even though he treats me like a piece of meat.

Will this craving ever subside?

Or will I have to run off and hide.

Hide from this man that I can’t get out my system.

Be for one of us turns into a victim.

Because I am afraid to let him go.

Even though he has me around just for show.

These feelings are getting real deep.

If they don’t change soon, I’m going to kill the creep.

Crave his love, us woman always give the most.

When they are finish taking, they move on to their next host.

                                       By: Genevieve James {P.E.P}

                                      Pure Encouragement Poems

 Hi My name is Gina! Please Check out a few of my very personalize poems. You can check out this site: originalpoetry.com/GinasDiamond  and You will find quit a few of my poems. I'm not making a living at writing my poems yet. But a few dollar That I get Here and there dose help. Please e-mail me at ginaspropertymanagement or go to my paypal to make any donations towards my poems. If you would like a Framed personalize poem contact me asap. Just give me a topic, heading or phrase and I'll do the rest for you!    Here is another sample of my work.

TOPIC: A Real Woman!

A Real Woman is true to the end.
She's always a real friend.
A Real Woman, Stands by your side.
No matter what, She has plenty of pride.
A Real Woman puts her family first.
They will get a drink befor she quinches her thirst.
Every successful man has not made it on their own.
They had a Real Woman behind them.
Leading straight to the throan.
A Real Woman fights tooth and nail.
She would never let any one in need fail.
A Real Woman always thinks of a way.
To get us all through another day'

By: Genevieve James {P.E.P}
Pure Encouragement Poems

Thank You and God Bless!

Hi it's Richie again. I have been holding on now to what seem to me to be a broken world. I barley get by now. I have posted on this site for almost a year. Thougts from most would be :He should have had a good job by now" if you took the time to read my last entry. Things are not better. Prayers do not seem to get answered.

It is sad to say that the cat I was feeding over eating myself has now passed on. I loved that cat more then anything in this entire world. He never asked for much except a can of food and some fresh water. I guess he just could not hold on any longer. As for me, I have been living on Top Roman, I can but 5 backs for a dollar. Even a dollar is a lot. Sometimes I eat week old bread and coat it with mayo to take away the nast taste. Water from the tap is just fine with me. When I pass a place where I see happy folks sitting around a nice table, candle glowing etc, my only thought is "I wonder how that food tastes" and what are they going to do with the left overs. I have not done what is known a dumpster dive, but it now would not be off my list. I will once again be living in the dark, as my lights and power should be getting turned off soon. I have a cell phone that I keep about 10 minutes of time in case I just no longer want to be around and can call someone if only a hospital where I can get some food.

I dont believe that this is a site that people are willing to send money to help because there are those like myself who need help, that have been taken by those who were only out for a buck or so. If anyone can see in their hearts to send me anything at all to make me feel half human and decent again, I would honor and bless them every single day. I sleep on a small mattress with a thin blanket. The cold is just around  the corner now, and my next mission is to find something to keep me warm at night. My clothes that use to be so nice and clean are now nothing more them rotten smelly things. I could get a better interview if I had money to get a nice shirt, shoes and most of all self respect back.

I am not lazy, I apply myself everyday for work that can help me pay for the roof and some food but who would want to hire a man of my age that looks so down and out.

I still go to church every Sunday and sit and talk with God. I know he has a better plan for me but while he is working on it, I am fading away into a very lost soul.

If there is anyone that can send me a few dollars for food, a bed and clothes I would be the most gratful person in the world and I will never forget you. There may come a time when my life does a complete turn around, and I will be able to repay all that came to my aid. Thank you all for reading this and God Bless you all for being here...Riche..A Broken Man       

I find myself isolating a lot lately.  Feeling down and out - not feeling like myself.  They tell me to get up and get going to get out of this funk!  Easier said than done.  There is no such thing as a "happy" pill that gets you up and about.  Being disabled adds to my isolation and low mood, and mood swings.  I undergo counseling, but it doesn't seem to be working very well lately.  Maybe speaking with others that feel this way, we can find a way to feel better.  Write me when you can.

Lost and Alone

I hope everything worked out for you and your wife Jeff.

I hope everything worked out for you Jeff...

I have the disease I own it, its called reality at times, and  NO ONE shoud have to experience..  it but we all  have or will at some point in life...feeling ALONE...  There are friends,   and then there are aquaintances, and there  those people I call, "when your fun I wanna be there" friends..  Some people, honestly, I think just feel helpless, when they cant help you, I don't they stop really caring, although it does feel that way at times...

by the way "going crazy,  >     arrived and will probably be here for longer that I like....  but thats ok, because crazy or not, I know my heart, and God knows my heart , and yes I can  say that,  because its for me,not to lure someone.  anyway,

If there your friends, you know the ones who know everything about you, and love you anyway... friends. So what if you ask for money, if they are freinds, for  they   probably  already know, your hurting money wise,  if they could help you they would..

Then are those that just want to be hang around, when all is wonderful, all the time,  and lets just hang out on a pink cloud  kind of friend,, I think they are the ones that have lost touch with reality.. 

 With all of my heart  I believe sometimes, they just feel hopeless to you hurts and needs, and they have said every thing they can think of to confort you.  and yet, sometimes, we still bring up our forever money issues, and needing  money for "in my case teeth implants, some one else rent,  it could be anything, and if you feel as though you are in a crisis, your going to repeat it..  well I do, I don't mean to at times, but its very easy to be self absorbed, when you feel your  world is crumling, and you cant seem to stop it,  whether friends like it or not, if they have choesn to have you as a 'real friend' they usually know what your wrapped with, and if your wrapped tight.. sorry..  long day..  Friends,   and honestly most of us,  if  were honest, only have  oh  maybe 5,  if your really blessed, or maybe its me, and every body else has  more..of  the true good friends...

To me a friend is, as I mentioned earlier  is for one,  they pretty much know what blocks you've been around, and know  most all there is to know about you , and love ya anyway,  think that most people,  when you open up and they the hidden you, would go, YOU WHAT?    and start quietly judgeing you.    Because my friend, and at this point actually your a aquaintance, barely, but all of us, and I mean ALL of Us, have things in our past, maybe in our present,  that we are not thrilled that are there, but its a fact of life.. maybe being poor,  and with out money all the time.  I don't know.  Personally, I hate to say it, but I have been a open book for many years,  people will be drawn to you,  are repelled to you,  by your honesy, but those skeltons have a way, of coming out of the closet when you least expect them to... So  I just answer people honestly, when asked about almost anything. 

I don't thing your paranoid, I think you are just living in reality... bummer, had to happen sometime...  I'm trying to keep it lite.  because it is a horrible feeling when you think even your friends, have turned a deaf ear..

Give them space, even good friends need space, I almost can guarntee you, almost,  we all know there no real guanatees, but almost.....that if they are your real  friends, you may have smothered them, with your trials and issues and having no money,  they just need some air.. they will be back. and if they don't come back, and never answer you when you call or phone  you again....  YOU HAVE LOST NO ONE, they were never friends sorry....  I don't know if I helped or made it worse...  I hope I helped.  if you need clarification feel free to message me....

Make it the best day you can, then call it that, thats all any of us can do, is our best, when thats not good  enough---OH WELL... 

I have  been where are too many times,  thats why I had to respond...

Be patient,  and try to imagine if the situation was reversed, could you have some one as a friend and step back just for a time,  so you could be a better friend and not so worn out...

Thanks for your time....

Alove, but never alone..........Ponder

God bless you....and may your need be met quickly and your friends be true....

Kat

oh you mean the disease called poverty... yeah we all got it, its like living in a leper colony. No one calls, comes over, or whatever, God forbid it should be contagious! I like to think of us as a private gated community of elitists - only the chosen few are allowed in and we intimidate the others.

Besides, I've seen NORMAL, I'll take crazy anyday - we're a lot more fun!

BTW... Ekika does give some wonderful tips... try checking out the "normals" in their regular habitat...

Venture out yourself.  Try making new friends.  And,  do not ask your new friends for money, that could be a real turn off.

You could find friends by joining:  (1) meetup groups in your community (go online to find out about these in your community, they have some where 'moms get together', 'people who share interests in certain activities', etc) (2) join a book club at your library or book store (3) local church or synagogue (4) attend classes at community college (5) courses/activities offered by your chamber of commerce

The above are just a few.

Best wishes,

ekikaseven

I just wanted to know do any of you feel like you have a diease?  maybe I'm paranoid but friends stopped calling, I don't see anyone anymore.

I guess they think I'll ask for money, it's just a strange feeling.

Has anyone received any help on this site? at all???? 

 I am going to lose everything very soon. I just got a letter stating that if i do not make a payment on my car  by the 15th they are going to repossess it.  I can not pay this months rent. my landlord will surely give me a 72 hour pay or vacate notice, if that happens i will end up on the streets with my dogs.  on top of that, my power is going to be shut off soon if i cant get a payment into them as well.  with all the bills now falling on me, they are piling up quickly and I am drowning. I don't know if I am wasting my time by making this post, and I hate to beg, but I really just don't have anywhere to turn. I will except any form of help! I have absolutely nothing to eat and my pets are in the same boat. I had one offer for groceries but unfortunately that never came through. I overdrew my account last week just to buy something to eat, so that resource is used up. I am truly beyond desperate.

IS THERE ANYONE AT ALL WHO WILL HELP ME,  PLEASE??

 lilmiss

Christians need to obey God and start voting like disciples of Jesus Christ or leave the church.

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Thank you so much for your prayers. Yes this lady is really dedicated and she has stayed at the hospital and sleep there for the past 2 weeks and basically she will be homeless when this is over. I do what I can for her with the little bet of free time I have. Her love is so unconditional it is amazing. Once again thank you for your prayers.

NYC What dedication she has for her mom. There need to be more families that care so much for each other in this country . In many families , close ties like this have been lost ,and it has contributed to many bad social conditions. God Bless this young woman and her mother . They will certainly be in my prayers. soulight

Well this is an update on the 83 year old lady with brain cancer, she is bak in the hospital now with congestive heaart failure and being placed in hospice, I have watched her 38 year old daughter who has never been married or has not even worked in the past 10 years because she has dedicated her life to taking care of her Mom who only has social security, This girl will have nothing not even a place to live because where they live now is only for the elderly and she was able to stay there because she looked after her mom. I went to the hospital and it is amazing this girl will not leave her mothers side and yet she is faced with being homeless and where they live there is no transportation and she does not drive, I only hope that if I live that long that one of my children will be that faithful and unselfish. I do not know if anyone can help but if you can please do and most of all please pray that when the time comes God will give this girl the peace and help her to be strong, this will be a great lose for her.

In the last three months my mother has died, my brother was killed and I had my purse stolen with my last paycheck monies in it. I was plannning on moving back to take care of my elderly father. I just need enough to rent a uhaul, pay for gas to get from Denver to Phoenix and pay for the first months rent. Iappreciate any and all help!

    My name is Jeff.  I'm a 22 year father of one, and I need help.  I work two jobs, my wife is in training for a job until the middle of next month and we have a two year old little boy.  I owe money to the gas and electric companies and my water got shut off today.  As I said, we both work and we only have one child, but somhow we can't make end's meet.  We're not layabouts or moochers, we just can't pay our bills with the money we earn.  For some reason we've been turned down by every organization that is supposed to help people like us.  I'm so ashamed that I can't support my family but I'm more angry that so many people with half a dozen kids who don't work get so much assistance from the state.  I am a decent hardworking person and nobody is willing to help me. Please if anybody out there cares at all, help.

i do not know how to make a web link, i tried everything loan, friends, family, who is non supportive. i have called mortage co , please do not report me late. give me until the 30th. no they say. i looked in the paper, i applied for several jobs although with breast cancer you look so sick. although i am not sick.

hi, i have never done this before but i am so desperate. i have had yard sales, i have no family, i have been with two alcoholic men since i was 20 years old i am 50,. i have had breast cancer, i went through chemo alone, my mother wouldn't come sit with me thinking she will:catch it" ok so i am over it. i raised my kids alone, i worked put them through college. i am raising my 4 year old grandson , alone, i don't ask for help , we have our neccessassites. however i fell behind on my mortgage. i am devestated. i need one thousand dollars just one thousand dollars to pay on time. i have been late twice , i was told if i am late again my refi in this novemebr will not happen. and my goal is this, not to take money oout , not to remodel , but to lower my payments so that i have a home a real home to raise my grandson in. and with the mortgage just 300.00 less i can do it. i can keep my home. but i was sick i fell behind for the life of me i cannot catch up. i do with out. i feed the baby if there is extra i eat. i make a nic ehome for him i want him to grow up and to be a successful member of this society. i don't have muchh money but we go to playgrounds we collect creatures, we talk about the world the sky, the moon the sun. i love him so much. he needs me and i need him. we are all we have. but i need 1000.00 it does not seem alot but to me it is the difference betwen keeping my home or not can someone please help me. sincerely karen  kmbiondi46@aol.com

so im three months pregnant two steps from being put out of my apartment and cant seem to get hired anywhere i have no job record and no way to make money i used to be an exotic dancer and now that is so not an option i need advice and help quick

 this is tanya short i have 2 children boy 8 and girl 5 i just got kicked out of my home i have no food no money for gas and nassesaties that i need to take care of me and my children can u please help or find some one who will help with a little cash deepley a presiate any help u can give please reply assoon as posssible thanks god bless u tanya short