Rhys, thanks for the suggestions. Money's tight even for sliding scale right now. I've been wanting to get to at least some support groups for domestic abuse victims, but I've had my kids nonstop during meeting days. I want to go at least once before I have them come along to the kid's programs that run simultaneously, so I can feel at ease. If I bring them along the first time I go, my anxiety is going to show and I don't want that.

Kimmydawn, when I was at the beach on Sunday, I was thinking of your story about the pearl shells.