Choosing Homelessness
Sometimes we're forced to make radical choices that feel very risky... hell, what am I saying, that feel terrifying.
I made a decision like this in October 1999 when I made the choice to leave my controlling ex-husband and my home. I was leaving home and almost all my possessions but for clothes for me and my two sons, a few mattresses and sundry housewares.
My temporary home was a shelter for battered women in Erie, PA, 1/2 hour away from my home. I would never return to this place and the accommodations ahead promised very temporary.
Have you ever stepped off of a cliff and wondered if you could fly? The choice to close that chapter and walk away with nothing but my sons and become homeless in word and truth was the best choice available.
I had no income and no other option left, but hope and a prayer pushed me into the path that brought freedom from abuse and the world lay before us.
I would be stalked and harassed through the next two years before I was allowed to divorce, riddled with nightmares and poverty, but never once have I questioned this choice.
As I pulled from the driveway after 20 long years in a Ford Explorer my exhusband would confiscate later I never looked back. Homelessness is not nearly as loathesome to a prison like the one we fled.
This is my 5 minute freewrite hosted by @mariannewest. The prompt is homeless
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