Homelessness Who would have thought??

I woke up one and noticed i was sleep walking my way through my life.. I had been married to a man i had not loved and respected in years. Our child was affected with PTSD. PDD, and ODD. I had duplicated the childhood I had hated so much for myself and handed it down to my son. The shame, and guilt i felt drove me literally 200 miles away to a future with unknown consequences, and no income. 

Now I was free of my abuser, and my son could get the help he needed however, we are homeless. Wow I am not thinking that I should have done anything different, I would have chewed off my arm to get out from under an oppressive home life that was run by a dictator, and not democratically. 

It is not simple to make the decision to leave a home, some sort of stability even if it is dysfunctional. 

I am writing this because I am an female with years of decisions being made for me, and walking on eggshells. now i am trying to find my feet. 

 while we run stories on pets that are abused, believe me years of pet owning that i have done I believe that this must stop, but I also think that like those helpless, and downcast animals, we human beings can feel much of the same feelings. No one hears me, no one cares. Neighbors turn a blind eye or ask why you are still there when unemployment is up and resources for families are down. reality television gets more attention than reality in the streets
 or in schools. 
Television media want us to believe that we are more interested in Reality Television than the Reality that is all around us. Pass by bridges and look under them some are bare and some are full of people that need us more than we need them, maybe or maybe not.

I have gone off track I am for People not just Women being helped to get back there lives. after all my young son has so much to get through before he is "normal"again, and I am on here pleading that people rally around each other. don't let the warming shelters close, the safe houses die out, or the possibility of a new life for a family go down in budget cut history. this is my soap box and I am now done. thanks for reading my rant... I am speaking for myself and others who can't. 

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