u/adderall_sloth

My husband and I have our third anniversary coming up. We just went thru hell moving back to Virginia, and we’re hoping to just grab a great dinner next week. We’re pretty open to most cuisines. Though, if it’s seafood, we’ll need a solid steak/pork/chicken dish as he is not a fish fan.

We are unfamiliar with this part of the south side. I used to live on the peninsula, and he lived in Norfolk. But Chesapeake is a mystery to us. Any good places ya’ll recommend?

Edit: Thank you all so much for the recommendations! I’ll have my husband take a look and let ya’ll know what we decide. 😁

Need housing ASAP

Hi there. My husband is navy, and we’re moving to Norfolk at the end of this week. We arrive on August 7th. We had a home we were going to rent, but the brokerage company lied to us and the homeowner. The homeowner broke their contract. We had signed a year lease and paid deposits. The lease is voided since the homeowner parted with the brokerage company. Now we are without a home and leaving in two days. My family is me, my husband, and my mom. We have four pets (two cats, two dogs). We have applied for various rentals but haven’t heard back. Please. Does anyone know of anything that accepts pets and is available now?

Edit: Thank you all so much for the replies. I cannot begin to say how much I appreciate it. While some of it is stuff I’ve looked into already, it’s nice to know there is a community willing to help find resources. Plus, maybe it’ll help the next poor soul this happens to! I have a few ideas, and am in touch with a couple of people. I am a total wreck still, but very thankful for the help. Again, thank you all so very much for the kind words and resources. 💕

Need housing ASAP

Hi there. My husband is navy, and we’re moving to Norfolk at the end of this week. We arrive on August 7th. We had a home we were going to rent, but the brokerage company lied to us and the homeowner. The homeowner broke their contract. We had signed a year lease and paid deposits. The lease is voided since the homeowner parted with the brokerage company. Now we are without a home and leaving in two days. My family is me, my husband, and my mom. We have four pets (two cats, two dogs). We have applied for various rentals but haven’t heard back. Please. Does anyone know of anything that accepts pets and is available now?

It’s amazing what can trigger our most horrific memories. Things we’d forgotten. Things we never realized were as severe as they truly were.

While watching the new Lord of the Flies adaptation, a scene triggered a long forgotten incident. I told my husband about it.

A childhood “friend” and I were walking to school. This was in elementary school. He and I were thick as thieves, until he became friends with boys, particularly little bullies. While on our walk to the school one morning, he picked up a very large rock, one nearly half the size of my Jansport backpack. He threw it at me, and it hit my upper back. When I started crying and asked why he threw a rock at my back, he replied, “I was aiming for your head.”

Sometimes I am horrified by the amount of incidents like this my brain has had to hide. It’s a trauma response, I know. But it just crushes me that not only did it happen, but events like this were common enough that my brain had to resort to blocking them out. And to be honest, I can probably tell you why I told no one. I’d already asked a “trusted” adult at my advanced school for help with another bully. Their response was that since the other bully was holding me down and rubbing dirt in my hair at the pick up school, not the advanced school, there was nothing she could do. My trust in adults vanished. Why would I tell them a boy tried to kill me if they’ll just ignore me again?

Of course, as a child, I didn’t know what could have happened. That I could have died if he’d had better aim.

I just needed to get this off my chest. The little girl I was never had a chance.