Can you call a shelter just for advice without staying there? I don't have any family here other than my kids when we got married we moved to where his family lives. My family lives in another state. I do have three kids; two of them are adult age now. I would move back to where the rest of my family is which would help, but my daughter and my granddaughter don't live with us anymore and I wouldn't want to move away. My sons would live with me if I left and my oldest has been encouraging me to leave.