I've been stranded in New Bedford MA due to an unstable living situation. (The person where I was staying is dual diagnosis and he isn't taking his meds and he's not taking his drug management properly as well as other things that will cause his condition to be exacerbated. He has been exploiting and abusive myself and my partner and using intimidation such as extreme temper tantrums to gain control as well as physical threats. This is atypical of certain chemicals used to manage drug addiction. He was also doing so with malace, forethought and intent because he would cease this behavior when others were around and continue the abuse when alone with us.)
I had to flee the house. I have a friend in this area who let me stay with her for a few days. I then found an interesting and wonderful shelter for women run by religious women from India (Catholic).
As intriguing as this place is precious I have to leave due to a woman named Geraldine.
She seemed fine at first and I humoured her in her attempts to completely blame the shelter system for all her negative experiences but she then became agitated almost consistently. She is now so unpleasant it's stress inducing for myself and others. Tonight she overheard me saying something under my breath about my conversation with my partner which I had been having some issues with tonight and she became paranoid that I was whispering to her. Also she was awake at this late hour in order to hear which I did not expect anyone to be awake at all.
I usually sleep thru the night but stress worry but mostly how unsafe I feel around her is what kept me up this evening.
Shes an older woman, overweight, grey hair. She does not shower as required and she wears a weird shirt to bed with skimpy undergarments so one can definitely tell she doesn't shower (put some damn pants on or a proper night gown). That was the first thing I noticed when I came in here was the very inappropriate clothing worn at night. It made me uncomfortable.
She has a pleasant voice of a higher tone.
She has a