@MuddyBoots:

I am delighted to hear that you have secured 60 days in a women's shelter for yourself! That is wonderful news! A lot can happen in 60 days. When i was in crisis in my mid-twenties and got a bed in a shelter for battered women even tho i was merely homeless, after a month i found an exquisite apartment in our magical downtown core that was rent-controlled, and it is almost unheard-of to find rent-controlled properties in my city. I didn't even know there were such things!

Really wishing you the best of luck and hoping that my post of several months ago on my own similar struggle just might have had some small thing to do with your good fortune! But, of course, you are the one tackling all the obstacles and persevering in the face of some daunting odds! Sure don't want to steal any of your thunder! You rock!!!

Hang in there! During my darkest days, perseverance has seen me thru! Even when it just seems like inertia, just keep on keeping on!