I’m 24 years old and I have two kids. When I was in high school I was very outgoing, smart, and was mildly popular. I had hopes and dreams to go to college, travel the world, and just be a free, person. I was very career minded and independent. Even though I wanted a good life and family, I was perfectly willing to put it on the back burner for what desires I really had.

In my senior year in high school, I started dating a man that would cause this all to change. He was polar opposite of me in every way. I came from a wealthier family, was education, never did drugs or even curse; not because I was stuck up but because I didn’t think smoking and cursing were lady like. He on the other hand was in and out of facilities, had no education, came from a poor family and used more drugs but the time I met him at 17 than most people do in a lifetime.

For some reason he seemed to have a strange power over me and I quickly fell for him. When I look back now, the red flags were here, I just didn’t see them. I thought that he was a great guy that treated me well but just had some past issues, kind of a hard life thing. I soon found myself in dangerous waters.

I knew from about day two that he had anger and aggression issues but he soon started to hit me. Kick me. Slap me. Punch me. Spit at me. Break my things. Destroy our home. It started out light and he even cried the first time he slapped me and told me that he loved me, was sorry and promised to never do it again. Did I mention that he is a boxer?! These hits were not soft and when I was 7 months pregnant with out second child he beat me bloody one night and after a neighbor called the police, I ended up in the hospital with a broken finger I got while trying to defend his powerful blows.

I haven’t finished college; haven’t even come close even though I am still attending. I don’t have a job so we live off of my student loans. He doesn’t work. Doesn’t clean the house. Doesn’t worry about money or paying bills. He says he has a shoulder injury that prevents him from doing almost everything; playing with out kids, lifting things, working around the house, cooking, cleaning, working a job, anything you can think of he can’t do…yet he can beat me. Its like he has a free walk through life. He is very envious of women and the way we are. I tell him that he wishes he was a woman. He thinks men have it hard these days and women are like little devils that get whatever they want. He says he wants to have the bronze of a man and get treated like a women since according to him us women have it all real easy.

I want to cry all the time and I want to leave but I have to way out. I know that people say that there is always a way out but for someone in the position I am in, you know that you can’t get rid of someone who doesn’t want to go. I’ve requested restraining orders and he breaks them like its nothing. I call the police and he somehow turns it around to make me be in the wrong. I’ve tried to leave several times and he eventually finds me.

I’m not asking how to get out or for someone to tell me the obvious fact that I need to get out. I’m just asking if anyone out there can relate to me and my story? I know that I am a fighter and a strong person but for some reason I can’t seem to leave. If you can relate to my story, please let me know how you got the strength to finally leave! What plans did you set into motion to get yourself and kids out if you have them? Any positive advise is welcomed.

And a last piece of information, I am very lonely. I don’t have any friends anymore and I’m not allowed to go anywhere. If I leave my house, I am expected to take my kids because he needs a break and I’m the woman so I need to take care of them. I never get a free moment or the ability to do something that I am interested in.

Well heres the deal… im 18 and my wife is 18. We both have crappy jobs at sears bring home a total of 00 a month. We are going to get our own place within a few weeks. If we do, with our income we will need to get a one bedroom apartment.

Now, heres where the question comes in. My dad past away a few years ago, so my mom is all alone in low income housing and gets a disability check for 0 a month. If my mom moves in with us, we can rent the 4 bedroom house we were looking at. Its extremely nice, huge yard for my syberian husky, shop in the back so i can continue working/painting cars, and its towards the country so i can even some horses and piggies for my girlfriend (mom and girlfriend LOVE animals)

We all get along pretty well. Me and my mom dont always see eye to eye though, but mainly thats because we live in a tiny 2 bedroom apartment all my life and i hate it. I just want everyone to be happy, but thats hard.

Would it be a disaster for my mom to move in with us? I worry about her alot being all alone and shes a senior citizen. We could also get a much nicer place if she helps with rent. By the time she decides to move out, ill have a good job enough that i could pay the extra rent without trouble.

Sorry for the long post… but im scared things would become ackward such as me and my wife having sex :/
wow sounds like someone needs to get laid

I bought this house three years ago there’s a large woods in back of it including partial wetlands. I got a certified letter on Friday that there is a proposal on the table to build 214 apartments on this property. I assume they have a plan to get around the wetlands thing. I went to the municipality today and they couldent tell me if it’s low income or senior citizen. What are the common ways to fight this? I don’t have 500hr for a attorney. There’s going to be a formal hearing on the 15th. This is in new jersey if that helps.

what can i do. im a woman in my 20s and im being legally held hostage by a man who thinks he is my husband. i dont know this strange man and i dont want to assosicte with him. he got my mother pregnant and then i was born.
this man has beaten me and robbed me of my money. he has also made sexual advances and abuse to me when i was an underage child.he has threatened to murder me many times and almost did.
i live in the usa. please contact me because i cannot leave this strange mans home and i am not his wife

i need a divorce from this man who impregnated my mother. he has connections high up in the court and he is a millionare so he has lots of money. he has connections to the police precinct,supreme court judges,psychiatrists and other law professionals. he has it all set up.
this man wants me to be married to him and wont allow me to marry anyone else. he has a friend who is a supreme court judge, a male buddy of his. and the 2 of them set it up so that when i was in the hospital getting surgery.he went to court against me and i couldnt show up so his friend signed the legal order to him, saying that he owns me now.

he owns my physical body, if i get sick he will decide if i can get medical treatment or not, he can donate my organs,force me to go through plastic surgery or what treatments he wants and write a will and a do not resusitate order

he owns all of my money and my social security number and hes using it to do harm
i dont have money for food,clothes or medical care now.
he cancelled my health insurance and invades my privacy

i am a woman and i want to marry a man my own age,but he says if i leave the house or try to date he will call the police on me.he has adult guardianship of me. if i do anything against what he says he will call his police friends at the local precinct and they will arrest me and have me put into an instititution of his choice. he has munchuasens by proxy disease so he likes to pretend that im sick and mislead doctors on medical exams and treatments and he had doctors force drug me, which he will continue to do if he institutionalized me in a mental ward for life.
not for me i just want to get away from this man. he is a pervert and had made sexual remarks and advances to me. i was molested by him and his wife and times when i was an underage child. i dont know him,i did not chose to assosciate with him.

i feel helpless. i am a us citizen.
he also wont let me get a job or apply for money. i cant do that and i cant sign any papaers because he has the court orders. he dosnt want me voting or bettering myself or having friends. he tries to isolate me. i dont want to end up like that woman on the news. i am scared. he also tries to not allow me to have food. i am wasting away becase of this man

again all of my resources are cutt off by this man who physically and sexually abused me.he also murdered a family pet.

my resources are cutt off because

1)police, the local cops are good friends with him, no matter how many times i called they wouldnt arrest him. they also handcuffed me because i called. because he has papers from court what they will do if i call again is place me in a mental institution and drug me and keep me there for a year or lifetime and electrick shock my brain and heavily drug and sedate me whith dangerous people, and or i get electricshock in the hospital with drugs for a year and the get placed in a state residental institution for life or a nursing home with senior citizens

2)he took all of my money, so i cannot pay for a lawyer. i called all the free lawyer services, i called legal aid 20 times and begged them to tears to help me and they said they cannot help me because they dont handle my case, the lawyer assigned to the case talked to the pervert man who went to court against me and hes on the perverts side

3)he is friends with the judge who wrote the case and he has many inside connections to people working with any case

4)if i try to leave him or sneak away and the police find me after he calls to report me then i will be put into a mental insitution where i will be drugged and electrickshocked and kept there for a year or lifetime.

none of those seem reasonable, but this man is dangerous and he can snap his fingers and make things happen. he gets what he wants and he has many big shot connections. what he says goes. he got this order didnt he? and im not a mentally ill or mentally disabled person. he got his buddies who are psychiatrists to write letters about me saying im sick mentally, even tho these psychiatrsits never met me once. they did favors for him
i am sure he did favors back for them too$$

what cAN I DO, im a helpless woman and i need to start a life without entering a looneybin for insane people. if i have to chose between 1 perverted control freak man and 50 crazy mental patients and 50 abusive staff members. id chose 1 person which is why i shut up and stayed still and didnt try to leave. i
i dont want a newspaper

im asking for help

HEALTH CARE WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE

The masquerade is over! The "public option" is … dead.

Health care reform is now a private option: WHICH FOR PROFIT INSURANCE COMPANY DO YOU WANT? You have to choose. And you have to pay. If you have a low income, under HR3200 government will subsidize the private insurance companies and you will still have to pay premiums, co-pays and deductibles.

The Administration plan requires that everyone must have health insurance, so it is delivering tens of millions of new "customers" to the insurance companies. Health care? Not really. Insurance care! Absolutely. Cost controls? No chance.

You will next hear talk about "co-ops." The truth is that insurance company campaign contributions have co-opted the public interest.

I need your help to spread the word and rally the nation around true health care reform which covers everyone and maintains fiscal integrity without breaking our nation’s bank! Your contribution will empower our efforts to continue to fight for the single-payer, not-for-profit health care bill, HR676 "Medicare for All," which I co-authored with Rep. John Conyers. The bill now has 85 sponsors in the House.

The hotly-debated HR3200, the so-called "health care reform" bill, is nothing less than corporate welfare in the guise of social welfare and reform. It is a convoluted mess. The real debate which we should be having is not occurring.

Removing the "public option" from a public bill paid for by public money is not in the public interest. What is left is a "private option" paid for with public money. Why should public money be spent on a private option which does not guarantee 100% coverage nor have any cost controls? A true public option would provide 30% savings immediately which would then cover the 1/3rd of the population who presently have no health care.

Unfortunately, under HR3200, the Government is choosing winners and losers in the private sector; proposing to spend public funds on subsidizing insurance companies who make money not providing health care. This process will insure only the expansion of profits. Gone is the debate over cost.

As a result of current negotiations, the Medicare Part D rip-off will continue for another decade, further fleecing senior citizens. Drug importation has been dropped, so no inexpensive drugs can be accessed from other nations.

Instead we are told the pharmaceutical companies will accept a 2% cut in the growth rate of their profits – they call this cost control!

If the matter were not so serious, it would be farcical: The executive branch pretends that the proposed health care reforms are something they are not. The legislation is being attacked for something it is not. Congressional leadership and the White House defend the legislation, pretending it actually is the very proposal that is being attacked. But it is not.

A commonsense government health care reform policy would insure that every single American has full access to health care by expanding Medicare to cover everyone under a Single Payer System. We are already paying for a universal standard of care, it is just we are not getting it.

I need your help to spread the word and rally the nation around true health care reform which covers everyone and maintains fiscal integrity without subsidizing insurance and pharmaceutical companies and breaking our nation’s bank!

My voice in Congress will continue to challenge the special interests who do not want "single-payer" to succeed. I need you to join me in combating the special and corporate interests who spend millions to try to win this Congressional seat. With your help WE will win again. With your help I will continue to represent your concerns, be YOUR VOICE in the United States Congress, and be the voice for health care for all Americans!

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With your help, we can accomplish ANYTHING in America. Persistence, dedication, truth and courage will lead the way and win out in the end.

Thank you.
Corruption Grumpy. He didn’t get elected because the media blacked him out.
Kucinich was excluded from the January 15, 2008 debate in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kucinich sued for the right to participate in the debate, but the Nevada Supreme Court ruled in favor of MSNBC. The media was trying the entire election to keep him hidden. If I recall correctly he was the most liked after the first debate. That was cause of concern for the power structure that he challenged.

trying to locate a hud senior facility in 90001

I applied at a new senior housing development tax property called Rittenhouse in downtown Los Angeles, CA (owned by TSA properties and regulated by HUD and the city housing authority). I filled out signed the application and authorized the employer, rent, and credit checks. During the interview but before the end of it I was repeatedly harassed about my income and told "You are going to have to move out because I can see your income is going to be too high." The owner has refused to supply me with copies of the application and the three checks that were done.

I’m only 20 years old lol, but here are mine:

1) I remember when I was around 3 or 4 I had these wooden blocks with letters of the alphabet on each one, and I was stacking them in a tower. I had put more than one of them in my mouth lol!

2) I think when I was around 4 or 5, I was walking around our apartment and my father would watch this TV show called "News Hour with Jim Lehrer", and every day they would have coverage of the Bosnian War. I remember one day I glanced at the TV and there were these Bosnian Muslims walking away from their homes on these train tracks, because the Serbs had destroyed them.

3) I remember my first day of Pre-Kindergarten when I was 5 or 6. I kept on crying all day, and kicking and screaming, because I felt that my mother had abandoned me. I even hid under the chair when the whole class had to sit in a circle, and I just remember everyone staring at me.
(Please STAR this question, so others may see this question! And we’ll get to compare each others’ answers, and hopefully get some insightful stories!)

losing home cause property has been sold. and im a senior citizen, looking to share apartment with also , have low income and can’t aford a lot

organizations that would come and do activities with the senior citizens at no charge? Thanks in advance!

Obama’s letters for Rezko
NOT A FAVOR? | As a state senator, he went to bat for now-indicted developer’s deal

June 13, 2007
BY TIM NOVAK Staff Reporter/tnovak@suntimes.com

As a state senator, Barack Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko’s successful bid to get more than million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens.

The deal included 5,000 in development fees for Rezko and his partner, Allison S. Davis, Obama’s former boss, according to records from the project, which was four blocks outside Obama’s state Senate district.

According to Obama, Rezko did not ask him to write the letters, he wrote them so the development would be built. What do you believe?

Obama Provided Political Favors To Tony Rezko, Including Writing Letters On His Behalf:
“As A State Senator, Barack Obama Wrote Letters To City And State Officials Supporting His Political Patron Tony
Rezko’s Successful Bid To Get More Than Million From Taxpayers To Build Apartments For Senior Citizens.” (Tim
Novak, “Obama’s Letters For Rezko,” Chicago Sun-Times, 6/13/07)
The Letters Show That Obama Did Do A Political Favor For Rezko. “Obama’s letters, written nearly nine years ago, for the
first time show the Democratic presidential hopeful did a political favor for Rezko – a longtime friend, campaign fund-raiser and
client of the law firm where Obama worked – who was indicted last fall on federal charges that accuse him of demanding
kickbacks from companies seeking state business under Gov. Blagojevich.” (Tim Novak, “Obama’s Letters For Rezko,” Chicago Sun-
Times, 6/13/07)

i need to let the elderly know this is half the price of home health care and i am licensed

I’m 65, disabled and not Catholic. I just moved into a senior center which is run by nuns. This is a wonderful place and I’m most grateful to be here after being robbed of everything I own by my children. One of the residents is running to the head nun and reporting I’m doing wrongs continually. I am not doing wrong. She has made others miserable with her controlling and abusive behavior and is hated. The head nun listens to her and immediately calls me and royally chews me out over petty and insignificant things. I’ve been sick all weekend because my blood pressure is way up and my diabetes has gone off the chart. This due to emotional stress. I’ve been here since the 22nd of May and I’ve been chewed out 7 times. Mostly because I’ve been weeding the extensive gardens. Others, including the groundsmen are happy I’m helping. I’m in hog heaven because I haven’t been able to garden for over 5 years. I’m not Catholic and I refuse to submit to what I consider Catholic tyrany. This is HUD housing and I am considering making a harassment complaint to HUD but only want to do that as a last resort. I’m a very independent thinker and I hate being controlled. I would never have been in this spot if it weren’t for my children taking advantage of my incapacity. I won’t put up with this harassment but I want to handle it very carefully and appropriately. Suggestions?
I don’t know if the nun is so hated but the little troublemaker resident who wants to control others is the one who tattles to the nun and she is hated. Her IQ is fairly low, but her sneakiness is very high.
I’m probably a "dudette"!
This is independent senior living. I am slowly losing the use of my right arm. I am only 65 and there is still a bit of tread left. What I am doing is much appreciated by other residents and the groundsmen who have given me a key to the sprinklers and access to the garden shed. Lastly, my mind is still honed and sharp and my post graduate legal training is still helping me. I am suing my own children for repleven with out an attorney. The public attornies are coaching me how to use the law library. I am easy to get along with, very tolerant and kind and generous. But I am also the last person you ever want to piss off. You don’t want to pick a fight with me. I usually win, if I don’t, it is at the least a draw.

“As a state senator, Barack Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko’s successful bid to get more than million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens. The deal included 5,000 in development fees for Rezko and his partner, Allison S. Davis, Obama’s former boss, according to records from the project, which was four blocks outside Obama’s state Senate district.”http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/425305,CST-NWS-ob…

Why isn’t Obama up front with the American people on his 20 year friendship and his dealings with property developer and political fixer Antoin Rezko?

my grandmother is 95 years old with Alzheimer’s disease… she needs a primary doc. to make home visits. she lives in queens new york.

Does my manager pay taxes on the property or gets somethign for it?

I am an experienced carer for the elderly and am organised and experiened in office procedures. I have been thinking for a number of years of starting my own business and would like to start a business providing caring support to the elderly or anyone needing home care support as I think it is a worthwhile business and from what I have seen a money making business! I would like to hear from anyone who has advice or experiences to share with me.

I recently I decided to re-paint a dresser, I was spray painting it behind my apartment where there is an empty parking space besides mine. I was in the middle of my big space, far away from her car when the next door neighbor came out to ask me what was I doing? As if I was bothering her. I politely told her that I'll be done soon and will take my dresser inside. Well, I must have been too polite, because now, she left a note on my windshield telling me to be considerate when parking.
My only guess is – as a senior citizen – she might believe it is unconsiderate of me to park at a regular speed, rather than inch my way into my parking space. I admit, the day before I parked a little faster than usual, because there were cars behind me. So what if I park in a hurry, it is my parking space and I did not hit her fancy car. Not even close!!
I want to knock on her door and ask her for feed back – What does she mean by considerate? Why can't this senior citizen live and let others live?
Thanks everyone
Yall are so helpful
FUNKY — FYI, my friends consider me the nicest person to senior citizens and I'm in my early 30s, however, some unhappy people don't take the time to get to know others – they make a judgment too quickly.

I am now providing in home care for an elderly woman with altimers (sp). I am receiving free room and board and food but I would like to know what if any salary should be included. I do all the house work, cooking, laundry and day to day care for this woman.

A senior citizen is TEMPORARILY housed for one month in a private apartment in County A but is HOMESTEADED in County B where she has resided in her own fully paid off home since 2005. Therefore, in which county should a guardianship petition be filed? Which court, A or B, has legal jurisdiction? I prefer a real attorney answer this question. Thanks! (P.S.–If the answer for jurisdiction is B, how do I get Court A to sign off or dismiss the whole unnecessary guardianship petition?)

Home care business for elderly people.

Ok , we live in a senior citizen / handicap apartment , and the building is responsible for snow and ice removal . Anyway , nothing has really been done to remove the snow and ice from where we walk to our car , and this past Monday I slipped and took a real hard fall , me head hit so hard on the ice , that it bounced and hit again . Ever since the accident I have been having what feels like a small electric impulse in my lower back , followed by severe pain in my left lage that often goes to my feet .I also have pains like this in my upper back and arms ..Could I have injured a disk ..And can I sue for pain and suffering ..