this is domestic violence. full stop. 💸✨🪦✨

ok, so.

💸🪦💰

i need everyone
to stop fucking playing
that abuse ends
when the punches stop.

🤫🥊✨

baby,
it doesn’t. 🤑

per the
U.S. National Coalition
Against Domestic Violence:

👤🫵🏻

economic abuse
is when an abuser
“controls a victim’s ability
🔥 to acquire,
🔥 use,
🔥 and maintain
economic resources,”

🤰🏼👶🏼💸
trapping them in
dependence and instability.

🪦

sweetheart.

he didn’t stop abusing me.
he goddamn changed weapons.

💸💸💸💸

this is the reality

i am
✨the sole caretaker of his child.✨
a baby.
22 months old.

he knows this. 💰

there is
a court order
for child support.
clear amount.
clear start date.
clear enforcement path.

👏🏻✨💰

he has paid…
nothing.

besides one (1)
👏🏻✨💰
$100 payment 💥💥
that comes out to
exactly

.30 a day.😵💫
the same morning
i goddamn outted
his first awkward-ass
alleged “affair”
💍🤫❤️‍🔥
(see
here)

lmfao.

YES 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻✨

✍️

that is not an accident.
sweetie,
that is an action. 💫

let’s be specific,
since people love
pretending
this is “complicated”
or his counsel
feigning
that they
don’t comprehend…

✨✋😬🤚✨💰

💥💥
two
orders
already
exist
😵💫🥴🤑

ok.

✊🏻🥺

💥 protect that deadbeat, bro.

💸💸💸💸
💸💸💸
💸💸
💸

✨🕊️💰💰💰

babe.
are you ok???
🗣️⚠️ y’all passed the bar???
right??
🗣️⚠️ y’all know what “court order” means???
because
homie—

🔥🔥🔥 this is economic domestic violence. 🔥🔥🔥

to recap
for the people
still protecting abusive men:
economic DV includes:

💥 withholding financial support 💸
💥 ignoring court‑ordered obligations 💸
💥 leaving one parent to absorb all childcare costs 💸
💥 using money to control, punish, or destabilize 💸
💥 creating chronic scarcity that limits safety and choice 💸

shit.
it is recognized
in domestic violence frameworks
because it produces
the same outcome
as physical violence:

fear.
✨instability.
dependence.
✨exhaustion.
loss of autonomy.

💰💰💰

homie,
🔥 cosigned $600 a month carnote—
🔥 promised he’d pay it
(mid-his cheating/lying “career launch”)
✨👤🫵🏻
🔥 then totaled
🔥 my paid off vehicle
🔥 3 days before i gave birth
🔥 used the cash value
🔥 to pay off the credit card debt
🔥 he ran up on my cards
🔥 I PAID to fix the vehicle💫
🔥 he drove it into the fucking ground
🔥 and then dumped us
🔥 with all the fucking debt.
🔥 and $3k more in car repairs
🔥 when he fucking bounced!!!
💸🪦

🔥 oh!
🔥 and stole my tuition refund✨💫
🔥 and then used our dependent benefits
🔥 to support some random-ass woman’s kids!!

in fucking…TEXAS. ⭐🇨🇱🔥 🔥 🔥

🤠👍

babe!
this is
TOP 👏🏻
TIER 👏🏻
ABUSIVE. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

🌶️🤠🐎🔥🔥🔥

the only difference
is there are
no goddamn bruises
to fucking document.

but yo!

🗣️⚠️ this is a fucking chokehold

🔥 every week
🔥 he doesn’t pay
🔥 is pressure on my throat.

not metaphorically.
fucking functionally. 💸🔥🔥

because while he
withholds ALL money,
i still have to:

🏠💥 feed our child
🏠💥 house our child
🏠💥 insure our child
🏠💥 transport our child
🏠💥 protect our child

babe!
i cannot opt out.
i cannot pause.
i cannot “just not.”

he knows that. 💸

that’s why it works.✨💫

🗣️⚠️ stop calling it neglect.
🗣️⚠️ it’s violence.

🗣️⚠️ against his own baby.

babe.
neglect is passive.

this is fucking deliberate.

🗣️⚠️ he is not “unable.”
he’s out with
another chick’s children.
🔥 ball parks.
🔥 drinking.
🔥 partying.
🔥 concerts.
🔥 raves.
🔥 holidays
🔥 traveling with his side hoe.

💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🤑🤑🤑

shit.
he is choosing
not to pay
while knowing it forces me into:

⚠️ constant financial crisis
⚠️ FOOD SHORTAGES
⚠️ credit damage
⚠️ housing precarity
⚠️ nervous system collapse
⚠️ zero margin for error

💸💸💸

yo!!!
that is coercive control.

that is punishment.

that is fucking domestic violence. 🏠🔥

ok but,
here’s the part
that should make
the room go quiet

when this continues
when enforcement stalls,
when institutions delay,
when people minimize it —

you are not fucking neutral.

🗣️⚠️ you are
part of the mechanism.

💸💸💸

because
abuse doesn’t stop
just because it’s bureaucratic.

the baby still eats.
the bills still come.
the chokehold stays tight.

✨🏆✨

call it what it is
or stop pretending
you care about survivors

nah.
this is not a “support dispute.”
this is not “family court drama.”
this is not bitterness.

this is ongoing domestic violence,
🤜🏻💥😵💸
carried out through money,
enabled by stalling,
and disguised as paperwork.

🤡💸 🚩

no fists.
same outcome.

✨💵💵💵✨

baby!
don’t believe me??
check the docs!

✨🕊️🧾

Samantha Lee Lowe

sammie lowe is a single mom, law student, and founder of bodhi cleaning co.—an ethical, femme-forward cleaning collective rooted in fairness, ritual, and rage. born from survival and built with purpose, her work redefines what it means to clean house—physically, emotionally, and systemically. she blends practicality with a little bit of magic, runs on justice and white vinegar, and believes that women shouldn’t have to choose between making money and making meaning. this isn’t a side hustle. it’s a standard.

http://sammielowe.com/
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