I'm about ready to pack up and leave.

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KittyPink
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I'm about ready to pack up and leave.

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I'm done with my grandmother's manipulation and abuse, I'm ready to fucking pack up my stuff and just leave and never look back, even if I still have a couple of months left on the lease and no idea of where to go that's safe.
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Sam W
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Re: I'm about ready to pack up and leave.

Unread post by Sam W »

Hi KittyPink,

Given what you've mentioned previously about your grandmother, those feelings make total sense. If you're genuinely thinking about leaving, we may be able to help you connect to some resources to help you do that as safely as possible (it's also totally okay if this was more of a venting post, but I wanted you to know that was option).
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow/with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go/turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain/and like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.
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KittyPink
not a newbie
Posts: 378
Joined: Thu Nov 17, 2016 2:11 pm
Age: 24
Awesomeness Quotient: I do art.
Primary language: English
Pronouns: Xe/Xir or She/her
Sexual identity: Lesbian, switch, polyam, rope addict.
Location: Parma,Ohio

Re: I'm about ready to pack up and leave.

Unread post by KittyPink »

Just as a safety precaution, can you connect me to resources?
"You are a dreamcatcher, you are beautiful to look at and you take the bad away and only give people the good." - Andrea Blankenship

***Transfeminine***

LIVE AND LEARN
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Sam W
previous staff/volunteer
Posts: 10320
Joined: Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:06 am
Age: 33
Awesomeness Quotient: I raise carnivorous plants
Primary language: english
Pronouns: she/her
Sexual identity: queer
Location: Coast

Re: I'm about ready to pack up and leave.

Unread post by Sam W »

Okay, it looks like this may be the best resource in your county to contact to get a sense of what your options are (finding this is really the extent of what we can do in terms of your housing concerns, since that's an area outside our wheelhouse): http://ohs.cuyahogacounty.us/

In terms of other things to consider, you may want to look at The Scarleteen Safety Plan , specifically the sections that cover how to get out of an unsafe home.
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow/with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go/turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain/and like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.
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