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pavane

Delays and such

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This is just a personal life update, so if that doesn't interest you, please feel free to ignore.

Sorry that things are moving slightly slowly with art. I was forced to move in with family very recently and it's a struggle as there's essentially no food as no one can afford anything; we can't even afford cat litter and there's a lot of problems going on to put it lightly. I can't really afford food because all my money goes to credit card bills (I had to save my cat with an emergency surgery a while back and still owe a lot of money). I've also fallen ill, I'm sure it's from stress.

My mother doesn't work; she is applying for jobs but none are accepting her. Part of it is that she hasn't worked a job in 20+ years other than stripping. I was trying to help her get an online job, but she's essentially technologically illiterate.

My father has a job, but they take 65% of his paycheck for child support to give to my 30 year old employed half-brother instead of my 16 year old sister who lives with us (and who I am forced to share a room with). (And yes, drawing the type of content I draw in a room with a sibling is quite tricky, to say the least.)

Either way, still chugging along, but just had a bit of a stall thanks to moving and to the current state (not eating anything, being sick, etc.)

I don't really vent anywhere or to anyone at all, so my apologies for that. I suppose everyone needs an outlet sometimes.

Edit: Oh, and just another complaint as the icing on the cake - I recently found out that my family accidentally threw away all of my favorite dresses and shoes. The remaining items of my clothing were kept in a grimy disgusting area behind the water heater to make room to use part of my bedroom as storage while I was gone.
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Added: 9 months, 3 weeks ago
 
Mikolai
9 months, 3 weeks ago
I would like to say first that I'm sorry your going through a tough time in your life right now. It is horrible that you are struggling as your family is too. I hope things turn around and it gets better soon for you all.

I am confused on the father paying child support to a 30 year old brother. Maybe you live somewhere else, but in the USA child support ends at 18 years old unless they go to college. Then it ends when the child is around 22 or 23 years old give or take the laws of the state that person lives in and what was decided in divorce court. Also, 65% is a ridiculous amount of money to be going to someone. But again you might live somewhere else where I'm not familiar with the laws of family court in that country.
pavane
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Thank you very much, I greatly appreciate it.

The child support thing is a bit fuzzy to me as well; I'm just going based off of what my father explained to me about it, though it's possible he's not really appraised of what is going on either. I'll probably ask for more details, because it didn't quite make sense to me either, but regardless his check is pretty severely gouged. I'll probably poke him for more details just out of curiosity because... yeah, weird situation.
Mikolai
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Yeah you might want to do that. I know the family courts are not great but if he is having to pay so much money with each check. Then that might be a time to sit down to figure out how the hell that happen and how he can stop paying this amount. Because there should be no court in the world that should be okay with this one guy paying child support to an adult while his own family starves to death at home.
ArielCelestia
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Вang that's rough! That's real real rough! I hope you can get out of that bind ASAP! Please look into social housing as well as food stamp / SNAP programs and visit local churches to get food there. Going hungry should never be a thing at all! You also need to see a doctor, if you don't earn anything at all or a low amount - Medicare would be an option.
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