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Eviction On My Credit Report

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Disclaimer: Domestic Abuse/Suicide

Location: Milwaukee

Previous location: Austin TX

Wondering if anyone has any further advice for me as I(22F) am actively trying to deal with this situation. My story is very complicated. About two years ago now was around the first time my ex partner domestically abused me in our apartment, it ended up being my sister who called the police and he ended up going to jail and losing his job. I unfortunately went back to him out of love and guilt. We stayed together for months more as the abuse continued sporadically. Finally I made the decision to tell him I was moving back home because I could no longer take the abuse and was scared for my life. I paid the next full month’s rent by myself and said I would continue to send him money from back home to help pay rent until the lease was done. He ended up taking his life the next day after telling him I wanted to leave. This left me in a terrible state, I still moved back home, I didn’t have much money because of having to pay that full month’s rent. I have been living pay check to pay check ever since trying to pay off the $3000 in credit card debt I racked up because of his abusive ways of taking my money and making me purchase everything because he wasn’t working anymore. I have paid off the credit card debt, but on top of all of this I was a full time online college student, the depression kicked my ass and caused me to fail 3 classes, now I need $4000 out of pocket to get my degree, and the 3 months that was left on the lease of the apartment with my ex has been put fully on me, I couldn’t pay any of it because I was barely scarping up funds to pay rent where I live now, so my credit has plummeted and the debt collectors are coming for me for $4500 and I now have an eviction on my record. I am struggling but getting by day by day. It took me a year to get my shit together. I am coming up on the anniversary of his death at the end of the month. Just wondering if there’s any advice out there or am I royally fucked for life, I know that can’t be the truth but does it get any worse than this

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