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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

There was a time when I was living in Europe and in a pretty bad situation. A husband who was in trouble ( again ) , a young daughter, no family, no friends.

I realised society has things in place to help people just like me, people who are alone. So I used the social services that were set up to help me and they helped me as much as they could.

Long term, that understanding of how our society works really helped me a lot.

So use every single free service you can use. Government, charity, church. It's meant for you.

So many hugs, you are not alone.