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[quote=Anonymous]My husband was laid off in May. He is the breadwinner of the family. It cut our income by 60% and we went through our savings pretty quickly. He was hired for a temporary job out of state in October and was gone for 4 weeks. During that time we kept our son in daycare (per our contract) while I worked from home. Living without any unemployment income and on one income for 2 months put a further strain on our finances.

My husband came home two weeks ago and he still hadn’t been paid for his work. We haven’t paid the mortgage yet this month. We are running low on groceries and he doesn’t want me to put anymore expenditures on our credit card. It’s a quite large payday (in excess of $20,000), so we are really hoping the money comes in ASAP.

We have bills coming out and we don’t have enough money in our account to cover them. The payments will either bounce or put our account into overdraft.

My husband keeps telling me to "stop feeling depressed", but Im struggling. I took this week off thinking we would be able to go somewhere as a family for a few days to an Air BNB or something. Instead we are sitting at home, eating leftovers.

I haven’t told any family or friends about our money issues.  My husband called his client today to ask them if they have sent the check (he is a contractor) and we haven’t heard anything.

I was hoping we would get a stimulus check but it seems the government doesn’t want to help either.

Im sorry - things are just really hard right now. I’m trying to put a happy face on for our son, who is too young to understand what’s going on. [/quote]

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