Moving on...

In the last few months, my husband Sean and I have been dealing with neighbor issues. It turns out that our down stairs neighbor has mental issues that, for whatever reason, make him angry and aggressive toward Sean. He has come up to the apartment and verbally harassed Sean, he watches us as we come and go. This latest week has proved to be the hardest. At 5 o'clock in the morning, one morning this week, Sean and I were awoken by what sounded like someone trying to break into the apartment. Sean, being the manly man that he is, grabbed the Louisville security system, threw the cell phone on the bed saying "Call 911!", and ran out of the bedroom. The only humor i can find in this is the memory of watching Sean run out of the bedroom in his tighty-whities.
So all of this being said, we have decided that it is time to move on. We will be moving out of the apartment as soon as we can find a place to relocate to. I am hoping that we can move around the first or second weekend of April, and put all of this behind us. As I told the land lady, even if she evicts the downstairs neighbor, he still knows where we are at, if he wants to he could come back and do us harm. I severly doubt that a restraining order would do any good in this case.
The situation is sad when you stop and think about it. The man has serious issues, that medicine alone can not truely help. But it seems that everyone is turning their backs on him. I truely wish there was something I could do. Throwing him out of the apartment would do more harm, and little good. He would become yet another homeless person, who would fall through the cracks of society, like so many others before. The system is flawed and broken and this man, who when he is on his medication (when he chooses to take it), is a very kind gentleman; he is the proof of the forgotten people who are victims of a system that is in desparate need of an overhaul.
So we will move on, because it is easier for us to move and find a new place than it would be for him. The only thing that we can do is pray for him, and hope that someone who can truely help him will come into his life.