Hi sblack.
Sorry youre feeling down, its early days yet and perhaps you are still in panic mode. You know youre in this position, but you dont have to like it. It can be so scary just looking at you bank balance and knowing thats all there is, having no little red numbers to fall back on, took me ages to accept that one.
~Any change is scary at first and I guess its only natrual to question, 'can I really do this? Even the day after I was free I cried my eyeballs out, I dont even know why.
You will cope, when youre feeling a little bit scared about it just come here. I have become really resourcefull and my kids are happy. They didnt have anything new etc but as long as we made it fun, they coped.
As long as youre happy your children will be. Thats what they need most. I can remember my daughters birthday and we got her a phone from a second hand shop, we did boot sales, traded stuff in and even felt down the sofa...did she treasure that phone.
Another time when I was feeling a bit ****ty, we decided to go for a run, I have this nosey neighbour. We all ran out of the house one after the other, round the block and bet on how long it would take her to take her to knock the door to find out what was up. We also had a race of course.
Tell yourself you can do this, and you will believe it.
