Hi everyone. I guess I just need to vent here. I am a you g single mother, 24 years old with a 10 month old son. I work 40 hours a week, I make $15.40 an hour. Sometimes I even work 50-60 hours to get some overtime in to help.. But I am physically exhausted when I do this, and it also takes even more time away from my son which I HATE. I pay $200 a week for childcare so I can work. I have a $311 car payment a month, (I need it to get to and from work, bring my son to daycare) and I unfortunately had to move out of my apartment and move back in with my mom because my sons “father” wasn’t helping me at all so he’s out of the picture and I pay $600/mo for rent to live with my mom until I can get back on my feet. I’ve tried to get some help for childcare and food stamps even though I don’t want state help but I’m really struggling especially since I don’t receive child support. (I have a restraining order on my sons father and it’s for both my son and I for domestic abuse) I tried to apply for assistance and was denied because I “make too much” to qualify. But I don’t make enough to afford it I’m just scraping by basically. I guess what I’m trying to do is get some reassurance that everything will be okay because I don’t know how many single parents do this with multiple kids never mind just having 1!! I even get frustrated as to how some people that I know personally can get all sorts of state help and they make more money than me and their kids are all older yada yada. I just don’t think it’s fair! Ugh