Last September, I divorced and left my ex-wife of ten years. My(our) daughter and I left Colorado and moved to Ohio to be with family. Family situations as they always do, dissolved very quickly. By February of this year we've been living in transitional housing. Family destroyed our important documents. ID, Socials, birth certificates. It's been an absolute hell trying to find our footing again but it's a hole we're slowly digging ourselves out of and we're on the verge of completing the program for stable housing.
I found Torn right around the time we moved into the transitional housing program, and it's been one of the grounding things in my life that have kept me from going crazy. I know we all find Torn in our own way, and we all still here for our own reasons. This is definitely mine and continues to be the reason.
My daughter has ADHD, ODD, and IED and as a single father, after leaving an emotionally abusive relationship, the world has been scarier than I ever really knew it was.