zana0566, contact your county social services to see what assistance you are eligible for. Ask too if you may be eligible for any federal assistance. Ask what assistance your daughter may be eligible for.

You may find you are eligible for more assistance if you live apart from that man who treats you so shabbily.

My thought is for you to contact a safe shelter or support group to help you through this process. You are going to have to decide what you want. Sounds to me you have been brainwashed into thinking you are helpless. That is where the safe shelter or support group could be very helpful.

Please keep on posting. We are talking about some major changes here and that is scary too. But realize this also: YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PERSON and YOUR DAUGHTER IS TOO!

Good luck.