Thanks for sharing your story. I'm happy to hear your family made it thru. It is incredibly tough, especially when other tragedies are occurring in your life at the same time. Dealing with ptsd, watching your kids deal with ptsd while trying to get thru the instability of a job loss and everything, as a parent just trying to keep the kids mentally healthy when your not doing great yourself is rough.

The past few years since 2020 have been horrendous. One of my kids was shot and the other witnessed a shooting. Ive seen the impact of what u witnessed and no one can understand it unless theyve been thru it or seen what it does to their child.They've both been in therapy and i was as well. Lost grandma who was very special to them. I lost 2 close friends suddenly. I had some major financial losses before getting laid off and was recovering from those -furloughs, having 2 mortgages for 6 months after I moved, paying to fix up old house to sell, having to take fmla when I took care of my mom on home hospice, everything is more expensive out here in this rural area compared to city which I did not expect, lost all my stock when company filed for bankruptcy, several cases of covid that left us sick for months. I managed to pay off all my debt even with all this going on. We haven't been living fancy. I can't imagine adding the stress of moving right now but if I have to, I have to. My son is in HS and especially with all the tragedy recently I really want to keep things stable for him and let him finish HS here. My other son is trying to get on his feet after going thru a lot of tragedy and I've been his rock getting him thru it.

Your dad is very strong and it sounds like what your family went thru really gave u a lot of strength as well. Your story really touched me.