I (F19) am the middle child of 4, I repeated senior year because of family conflict and problems that caused us to move 4 times in 2 and a half years, mainly because of my mom being unhappy anywhere we are, finally she’s settled in City A, she has family here and no its not the city she grew up in, there’s basically no work opportunities at all, and everyone here is very conservative, and just with a different mindset from the one I grew up in, and because I’m an Introvert I really don’t like being forced to go out to all those events my mom is forcing me to go to, and there she’d always complain to anyone who listen about me
City B, has work opportunities and a high chance I’d get a full scholarship, and she hates it so a bonus is I’d get to move there alone, and my dad’s family is there (she hates them) and he visits 2 times a month.
Reasons why I really want to move :
My mom is abusive, verbally and physically, she’d always curse me out. Says things like
“You’re fat and ugly, why bother dress girly?”
“You’d never match to my beauty, even as I’m 50, you’re still no match for me”
“You cannot expect to be called beautiful when you look like that?”
“Never wear that again”
and many more, she’d also pull my hair and slap me anytime I defend my self, she’d also throw plates, cups, and anything that’s within her reach at me.
One time I forgot to put the soup on the stove like she asked, her reaction was to throw an empty bowl of soup at me and pour the now boiling soup at me
Another was I told her the story she was telling was fake, she get the TV remote and beat me with it till it snapped
One time she asked me to put a show she liked, except she didn’t tell me, she walked into my room and started yelling “WHERE’S MY SHOW WHERE’S MY SHOW” while hitting me with her phone
The most recent one is she locked her doors because she’s the only one who has the keys, and about an hour or two later I hear her screaming “OP HOW DARE YOU LOCK ME IN HERE! I KNEW THIS DAY WOULD COME BUT HOW DARE YOU LOCK ME IN HERE! YOU’RE GOING TO KILL ME” Later she unlocked the doors and came downstairs to say “I could’ve died in there” and spat at my face
She’s not like this all the time, this is her craziest side, usually it’s just yelling all the time, which is tolerable. But a couple of weeks ago she found out I want to move to city B for university (in my country, once ypu pick a university its near impossible to transfer to a diffrent one). I don’t know how she found this out as I only told my online friends (my mom can’t read English) and my older sister but she lives in abroad for her university.
My moms reaction to this was to bring it up everytime she sees me and I think she’s trying to guilt trip me or shame me because she keeps saying
“Who’ll help me cook? You wish I was dead don’t you?”
“Who would clean for me?”
“Who’d take care of your younger brother (8) and sister (17)”
“Who would do all my PowerPoints for my work?”
And then if that wouldn’t work she’d throw stuff again and scream
Since that stuff hasn’t changed my mind she’s now doing what she’s done my whole life but now she’s not denying it. Favourites
I passed garde 11 with a 94, not my best but I’ve been moving countries and cities and put in a diffrent curriculum with a language I barely understand and that was my first year in it too, because my grades were high I got an exemption from the finals. I got a “great, you’re free, come do more house chores”
My sister (17) has gotten an 89 on her grade 11 report card, she only got the exemption because she begged our principal for it, and she’s been in this curriculum for 3 years now, my sister gets a cake, money, celebration and a rose gold watch (I was the one talking about how much I loved that watch and was saving up for it) my mom made sure to keep telling me “when you graduate, I’ll throw a party for you too” but my sister didn’t graduate…and she keeps repeating “if only you stay here”
(BTW I’m not mad at my sister, I’m proud of her, but I’m just adding this because of my mom)
Well that didn’t work either so now she’s fighting with my dad 24/7 about him “agreeing” to let me go, my dad didn’t agree, he doesn’t know, but I asked if I was to get a full scholarship would I be able to go to a city of my choice, he said yes.
I wrote this while being stressed, ignore any grammatical errors
Comments
NTA. Get out as soon as you can. Im sorry you have to deal with this.
You’re 19. She doesn’t get a vote on where or if you move.
Your dad is offering you a place to live, go and don’t look back
Get out as quickly as you possibly can.
You need to save yourself, this is unhinged behaviour and there needs be an interventions by professional bodies before it’s too late.