Prices are killing my family. We both work and my husband works 60 hours a week. I work part time and home with our children who are all young. I also take care of my mom part time (she's paralyzed). I have so many health issues and am considered disabled but don't qualify for social security.

We had been saving for two years for a vacation. We had to empty our savings to pay for November expenses as the cost of inflation is rising so high. We haven't had a date or anything for ourselves in over a year. We just can't catch a break for the cost of life. We both work so hard and have no help for childcare so we can't ever afford a sitter so we don't. I'm on the brink of a breakdown physically and emotionally I carry my whole family. I'm in so much pain and I have no other choice then continue every day and not burden anyone because they rely on me. The pressure was already so much. To know I can't even take a vacation after saving 1,500 for over two years really just melted me today into sadness.

We don't believe in debt and just have our home as a debt but we never can get ahead. My husband's work jeans I have been trying to patch up as they are all holey my underwear is from two pregnancies ago and has no elastic. We go without making sure our family is ok.

I don't know how other families financially manage but we are suffocating and I feel so helpless. I cry most of the night from pain and still get up every day in agony and see no way out. I'm told because of my heart I'm a stroke and heart attack risk but I'm too poor to take a break. I don't have help and I'm so overwhelmed by life.