Dear Jane,
I am sorry you having to go through all of this anguish. I think maybe you are panicking a little too quickly. Strikes are often short in endurance and if it happens, then talk to your mortgage company about what has happened and they will surely try to work with you. Life is not always easy for any of us and we run into these things that look so small to us after the fact, but huge while they are happening. Maybe I am overstepping the lines here of what I can say to you and what not to say, but it seems to me that maybe you have let your children see your panic and they are responding to try to help you.
If you still think you need a job, then talk to Social Security about what you can make if you have no other income for awhile.. such as the child support and mortgage and living expenses. Please remember that strikes do not happen because one person makes a choice.. it is a vote by the membership of the union that decides on strikes.. not individual workers. If he has been paying all of this regularly before, then maybe he will do his best to try to meet his obligations moneywise to you and the children.
Remember that in every hard time in life a lesson is learned and adds to the strength you need each time a crisis happens. Sometimes when we look to the negative side of everything and don't give prayer and God a chance to work in our lives, then it takes a long time to get that feeling that we learned something and that we gained strength of any kind.
I hope that you will be able to calm down and look at this as what it is. It is an impending strike and yes it will make things rough for awhile.. but strikes do end. If it lasts a long time it might take alot of phonecalls and appointments to the mortgage company to work with you, but it is possible. I, too am bipolar and know the ups and downs it causes, but they can be dealt with and you can stop a moment and think clearly about what your options are in any given time. Listen to your innervoice and try to find the peace it offers in this time as God/Creator works to help you. Stop for a moment in your life at this instant and pray to God. Talk to him about what is going on and what is happening and ask to be shown a solution. It might not be the solution you are wishing for, but it will be a solution if you let it. I talk to God many times a day and try to watch for the answers. This doesn't mean to stop living the life of everyday, but to find that peace that is offered to all of us in this life.
I will pray for understanding and for you to feel the light that surrounds all of us in peace and comfort and with so much love. May you find peace in this and move forward with what you have to do right now.
Love in Light and Peace,
Winds of Change
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