Quote From: acamp922I am 19... I've been in college for a year now and I am taking time off this semester to re-group.
My mom turned into an alcoholic, abandoned me my senior year and only was there for me financially even though I had to work and go to school and miss out on some things my senior year that I could have been a part of if the situation was different. Then she got even worse and while I was working 2 jobs and going to school part time this last semester so I could work two jobs and help her out because she was taking care of her dying husband and spending money on hospital bills, alcohol, and cigarettes. Well this summer, she got plastered one night and kicked me out. I havent had a home for nearly 5 months now. I have lived with her ex-best friend, my best friend, my boyfriend, and now I am staying with her but I will probably be going back to her ex-best friend's house tonight actually for about a week until my boyfriend's parents get my room ready. Then I am moving to Arkansas for college in January. Now I am afraid that she will take my cell phone, laptop, wont let me use her info for a pell grant, wont help me financially, and when I get to college I will have to not only focus on school but getting a job and paying for things on my own and not getting to gradually break away from it. Thankfully my dad is paying my car insurance and the car is in my name but he cant really help me much financially because he lives down south and the hurricanes are causing major problems.
So I am worried about paying for college, paying for other necessities, being a college student, and having to work way more than I should have to because my mom has an alcohol problem and cant get grips on her life and is in the end punishing me for something she's done to herself.
Well that is my story... Any advice?
You have a good head on your shoulders and you need to keep going to school. I would suggest you talk to the school counselor and get some advice. They maybe able to help you. Life is hard I know I could write a book about my life. All I know is that I will NOT let anyone take me from who I am as hard as it is you will be so grateful that you finished school and broke the cycle your Mom has left you to deal with. You are so much better then that I can feel it from reading your post.
Take care a good luck to you.
