#baby stuff (at least in my country) normally cycles around the community until it falls apart | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

the-aesthetic-weasel · 5 months ago

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Yes ask your friends for help, and I just wanna add there's no age limit on asking your friends to help you. I know that with age people think like they should be more and more self-reliant, shouldn't be "accepting handouts", shouldn't be bothering their friends because they have kids or jobs or houses. But don't forget that with growing self-reliance of your friends also usually grows their capacity to help! As does yours, when you get out of the bad place you are now, you can keep the help chain going.

everytime i see someone promoting crisis lines i just remember the times both a suicide hotline and a domestic violence hotline hung up on me lmao

#for example my mum's friend will be staying in our spare room this summer #yes this lady in her late 50s will be staying in the spare room of 30yo lesbian couple with a baby on the way #we don't mind this lady helped my mum to organize stuff at our wedding and I've known her since I was a baby #she is in a bad situation because of an abusive relationship and her old flat being under heavy reconstruction rn #and yes when the baby is born we will be accepting handouts left and right because a young couple with a baby always should #baby stuff (at least in my country) normally cycles around the community until it falls apart #it's all things you usually need for a few months or a few years tops and it's expensive and difficult to store #so usually even before your own kid grows out of nappies and strollers somebody already gives u an echo about another person expecting #and you go “brilliant I can give them this and this and this but only probably like in a year?) and you just set everything up #and this is the whole point of community - to help eachother

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