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Let's go to Jasmine in Seattle.

Hey, Jasmine, what's going on?

Hi.

Thank you for taking my call today.

You bet.

Thanks for calling.

What's going on?

I, over the weekend, was the end of my relationship.

I am a mom to a one and four- old and we left and came to my mom's in Seattle. We were in Alaska.

And now I am looking at fighting for custody and trying to figure out how to start life on my own as a single mom

at 26 and it's just kind of scary.

Yeah, it's so scary. Why'd you leave Alaska? What happened?

Well, the kid's dad is an alcoholic and has struggled with substance abuse with other drugs.

And he's not physically abusive, but mentally, emotionally, financially.

And it's been like two years up there of just the same pattern of things going okay for a couple weeks.

And then he starts going out all night and not answering the

phone and just like disappears on a bender and so what happened that made you say this is enough is

enough is enough I'm out of here I'm getting my two little ones and we're going um what we got into

an argument and he told me to leave i brought the kids with me because

he was intoxicated at the time um and then he came and got them from me intoxicated and i didn't

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