Friend offered place to stay when I couldn't go home at the beginning of the pandemic saying I could stay for as long as needed. She said I don't have to pay rent, but I felt bad &amp; made sure to work hard to make sure I paid anyway, if not in cash then labor. Hesitant, I took the offer. 

She has a hard time asking for help. She's a divorced, single mother with her own two story house so I offered help frequently. I helped with her mutual aid program, cleaning, repairs, laundry, &amp; dinner. I offered cash for multiple reasons (I searched my chat history &amp; found 12+ examples to make sure I wasn't imagining it) but she would usually refuse. 

This year they asked for help with utilities, which was fine. I crowdfunded it &amp; ended up giving her more than she needed with my partner and my own donation.

On April 24th she texted us what came as a surprise to me: she was moving people in to start a co-op the 1st week of July. At first I was like cool here's a hard date... Time to double the search. Then it hit me: if I don't find a place by then, my rabbits are gone. 

My housemate's pit bulls have killed two cats while I been here, 1 of which I heard die one early morning outside, the other of which I had to pull off the new pet cat my housemate got for the mice, so the past couple weeks have been nearly sleepless due to nightmares about losing my babies. 

I posted what is in hindsight calls for help on social media, afraid my rabbits would be lost to me via homelessness or mistakenly leaving the misaligned door open for the pits. My chest constricts every time I think of it since they can't live with me in my car because they can't stay with me in a shelter. 

My housemate's brother messaged me today telling me that I have been "constantly villifying" my housemate on social media &amp; that I have no right to feel how I do because she gave me adequate time to find an apartment. He kept saying she has a tendency to overextend, but I didn't know that. 

I showed her the brother's messages today because I was confused. 
She said she didn't send her brother after me &amp; that she's gonna tell him to butt out. I didn't even mention her by name &amp; I don't complain about her. She said she didn't see my posts because she unfollowed me, saying her husband used to post about her passive aggressively &amp; she didn't wanna see that in me. 

She took a screenshot &amp; showed me a text from January where she said she was struggling with utilities. My response had been that my partner (5 hrs. away) &amp; I "should be moving out in 6 months" &amp; that I can help her raise money, which we did. The 6 months was based on my partner's credit score growing; we spent the pandemic saving &amp; raising my partner's credit cuz our scores made it was hard to find apartments this spring. My partner &amp; I sent her $500 for this months utilities for the whole house today because she said she needs it. Planning to send $500 more, unsolicited, for next month so that I don't have to deal with more of this before I leave.