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Broken down and very scared

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  • Shoe_Gal
    Shoe_Gal Posts: 7,235 Forumite
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    Amazing news :j
    Sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes - that's why we need really special ones!
    Total debt @ Oct 2008: £29,226.42 Credit Card- £[STRIKE]7493.56[/STRIKE] - £7243.56
    Weightloss : 0/34lbs
  • patricia50
    patricia50 Posts: 269 Forumite
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    I've just read some of your thread. When my ex husband left he said he was going "to sort his head out" Really he had gone off with someone else so had not taken all his clothes etc. I put it all in black bin bags, (we didnt have wheellie bins back then) and the bin men came the next day and took it all. I'm not suggesting you do that and I was a bit worried I would get in trouble but it did feel good at the time and he didn't have the nerve to ask for them. lol Keep strong and I wish you all the best.
  • tealady
    tealady Posts: 3,851 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Hi
    Glad to hear you have something to look forward to. You sound as if life just keeps getting better, after what you have gone through recently I think you deserve it.
    Find out who you are and do that on purpose (thanks to Owain Wyn Jones quoting Dolly Parton)
  • Learning2Budget
    Learning2Budget Posts: 1,092 Forumite
    Wow, I have just sat and read this entire thread, and watched you hit rock bottom, then pick yourself up and restart your life. Hope your ex has karma come round n bite him on the bum!
    My hat goes off to you honey, have an amazing time in Oz.xxx
    LBM 2008 [STRIKE]£45,091.23[/STRIKE] eek: now £7889:T Debt free date 18/07/2018 :)
  • thought i would just let you all know how things are..

    mammy has beat cancer, disciplinary's are all gone at work, im sooo excited about my trip to australia, and the possibility that i might come home with a rock on my finger.. hubby came round the other day to get his things, it was an emotional time, not because i miss him or love him, but because it was saying goodbye to the end of a chapter. he still wont sort divorce, and still tries to play me, but i just let it go over my head.

    i have read through my posts on here, and i have realised just how much i have been through in the past 9 months.. marriage failing, losing a baby, almost dying, fighting my employer, finding out mam has cancer and her and dad being in hospital at the same time, moving house the list goes on. my life has been such a rollercoaster, and if it hadnt been for the support of my amazing family, my new man, and the wonderful people on here, i dont think i would have got through it.

    so i just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who gave me advice and thought about me, and picked me up when i felt like i just could not go on..

    im no longer broken down and very scared, im now fixed up and very happy.

    im not going to pretend that every day is a good day.. i still have down days when i ask why did it all happen to me, but you know what, these things are sent to try us, and boy did they try me.. but they also proved that i am strong enough to cope with just about anything.

    i will post again from time to time, just so i stay sane if anything goes wrong.. but once again, thank you all so so so so much, from the bottom of my heart.

    xxxx
  • Hovel_lady
    Hovel_lady Posts: 4,291 Forumite
    Hello, just caught up with this.
    I'm so glad you're feeling happy and things are sorting out. Yes, you have proved you're strong enough to cope with anything.
    Enjoy Oz.
    Do update here when you can xx
  • Congratulations for surviving your emotional rollercoaster, I think you have been amazingly brave and are an inspiration to lots of people! you should write a book!!
    I hope your life has turned the corner and he gets what he deserves!
  • jellybean39
    jellybean39 Posts: 474 Forumite
    Oh im so sorry he has done this to you what a @$%^&*"". You will get through this at least u have come where we all are in similar positions and everyone can help you. have been her 24hrs and the help i have is fantastic.
    You are dealing with this head on and not burying your head in the sand which i have done for years so good for you. Things will look up so keep positive xxxxx
    Mum 30k/29000
    BC1 11500/11300
    BC2 10500/10300
    BC3 6500/6400 NW 950/800 Next 600/450
    Here we go a again!!!:mad: DFD Oct 2016 hopefully!!!
  • hi guys.. just need a little bit of help please..

    i have decided that i want to move to australia next year, partly because of my new partner, but also i need to start again and put everything that has happened beind me.. but i need to get my life in order first.. i have debts all over the place, all of which i am paying off (i think) but i would rather just have one payment that can be managed every month whilst im there.. problem is i am having to save really hard to move.. any ideas?

    xx
  • tealady
    tealady Posts: 3,851 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Hi
    If you post an SOA then the lovely peeps on here will give you loads of advice. If you put the amounts owing and APRs into the snowballer then it will advise what to pay to whom and in what order.
    Good luck with OZ, put a picture whre you can see it every day so it will motivate you. Think of every £1 paid off is a step nearer to a new life.
    Good luck.
    Find out who you are and do that on purpose (thanks to Owain Wyn Jones quoting Dolly Parton)
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