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It would certainly test the strength of character and many people just could not cope. For me, if my family was safe and healthy, then I could cope okay. We were in a similar situation many years ago when we had to sell our farm because of my husband's health. He had not been well for some time but we always hoped he would get better, so didn't sell and the farm detiorated and after a couple of years we felt that we had to sell. We had enough money to pay off our debts but not much left over but still it was a real struggle. The worst thing we did was delay selling because once the farm had been sold, although we had not much money, my husband's health improved. Not quite as bad as your situation but then again we were much older than you are now, and our chances of ever recovering financially were limited. However, it was a valuable lesson to us that we should never take anything for granted. With reasonable health, or at least heaps better than it was at the time we sold the farm, we are happily settled into a nomadic lifestyle without pressure or stress. How would I handle it if I were in your situation is to talk to my family, accept advice, support and assistance from them and special friends I could trust. Then work to a strict budget and get my life back on track, but not repeat the mistakes that put me in the situation in the first place. Congratulations on pulling yourself up and making a good life for yourself now. :)

I'd probably knock on my mother's door (again) and look for accommodation for a while. Then I'd try to get out and get another job and start all over again.

Both my mum and dad have always said to me that there is always a home for me with them and if I ever needed them in any way I only have to call. That's love and compassion for you. It would actually work out positive for me, because it would be a clean start, a clean slate in life, to start again and put the past behind me, it would be the kick I needed to start something new, do something new and make big changes that I couldn't do previously, after all if I had nothing, I would have nothing to lose!

Wow! Good question!! i guess, i kinda take everything for granted that this never crossed my mind at all...i guess the first thing i will do is to bring my family to a relative or a close friend house for shelter first. Then try to find a new job so that i will have money. btw, what happened to you?

Yes I would and I have, fortunatly I still had my House just and it has been a long and hard fight to keep it but yes I would carry on as I still have my Family and I did carry on It is still very tough now but I have got this far so will get further lol

interesting... it has never happened to me before, and i hope it never does... i guess i would be thankful that i still have what is really valuable. i am sure to be depressed, and sore for a while, but that is something you can get over, losing your family or friends is something that you cant.

Yes I think I could. I have no job, no vehicle and no money anyway so I wouldn't be losing a lot! And I have lost my home before. I had my family to go to and plenty of people to help out. I think as long as you have people who care about you whether they are family or friends, you can cope with any situation.

I doubt if this is ever likely to happen to me now because I have a steady income and I can budget well enough to avoid major problems occurring. Nevertheless, it is a good question to consider. I do believe that I have sufficient presence of mind to be able to cope with such a situation. The main target would be to find somewhere to live and employment, in which case any level of employment would be acceptable in order to generate an income to make some financial headway. I have seen friends in this situation before, and I am always impressed with someone who can cope well enough to accept life as it really is rather than just give up and blame society.

This actually happened to me, add that I lost my physical health (accident on the job) and my family became divided.

That was a good question. It really gave me something to think about. All you need in life really is God and to pray. I believe that if you believe in him and if you do what you are supposed to do, then everything will work out for you. I'm glad that you made it back to better than before. Maybe that was just some kind of wake up call from God for you to straighten your life out and to do better. We all go through similiar things like that but its not the end of the world. Good Luck!!!

A good point and one I hadn't thought about much in recent years ..... something similar happened to me several years ago when the ex-wife and I split up. Suddenly homeless ..... but luckily away truck driving all week but weekends spend on sofa with mother who lived in retirement village. Could only be there for 6 weeks at a time .... those were the rules .... so after the 6 weeks, would drive the truck to Queensland with a load spend the weekend there or pick up load and detour to brother's place for 2 days then deliver load when place opened on Mondays ...... after a few weeks of doing this, back to mother's place for another 6 weekends. Wife booked up all these bills ...... paying that plus half all house payments etc meant things very tight .... I managed but it was hard ..... took on extra trips just for the money. Then met my current partner who started to sort it all out ..... only maintenance for girls to ex-wife ...... got solicitor to put house on market and just held out on settlement ...... hard time because partner and I had bought our small farm. Now quite the same as ended up with something ..... after about 3 years but struggled financially through those times ..... thankfully had partner, brother and sister-in-law to help out when needed.

waking up and discovered you are totally alone without your family but you still have your job, house, etc. is scarier. family comes first, right? when something bad happened, isn't it the first people we call is our family? no matter how hard life hit you but when you know that you still have a family around, you can still survive and somehow relieve...but being alone..it's really sucks!

I belief it is possible and there is always a reason why things happen to you. As you said, you most probably did not go and cry about it but stood up and carried on with life and that is why you succeeded.

I think that as long as I had my family, I would be okay. That is all that really matters, all else is just possecions. Things that you can replace. Family is all that matters.