I don't have any great ideas for you Stacey, just hang in there. Don't give up hope that you can get out of that living situation.

I think I could have a real addictive personality, but I obsess about all of the worse things that would come out of putting a mind-numbing band-aid on the situation. My biggest vice is shopping. Any time things aren't going too great, I get the need to buy something to cheer myself up or fix things. Let's just say I really racked up the credit card debt the last year I lived with my ex husband, and now I'm really paying for it.

Please, please, please, try to avoid doing something temporary that will things worse in the long run.