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Was my mother emotionally abusive?

Postby djscrew » Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:40 pm

Hey there, I'm wondering if this would be considered child emotional abuse, some people have told me it is and some not. I'll try and keep it succinct.

I'm male early 20's, I've been moved out of my mother's house for a year now as we always had problems.

She is a single mom, came to North America in the 70's with my family after leaving their home country due to civil war, which was pretty traumatic for a child. Her father was physically & emotionally abusive and extremely unpleasant. She got married in her early 20's and had 3 kids, I'm the middle. My father was abusive to her as well and she eventually got rid of him after years of court/custody hearings. I haven't and dont want to see or hear from my father in over a decade.

I admit she has had a hard life and has provided a lot for my siblings on a single income and no child support. I used to use that to excuse her behavior but since I've moved out I've been looking at things differently. I'll list the most obvious things.

She screams, a lot and very loudly. When disagreements get heated enough she yells, screams and shrieks. Been doing this my whole life. She can be extremely unrelenting and stubborn and scream for extended periods. Got to the point where the screaming stressed me out so much I'd kinda of dissociate and feel all numb and dreamy when she did.

She emotionally manipulates and guilt trips. When in an argument she will guilt trip me, saying I don't care about her and calls me ungrateful, saying she raised us all by herself, etc. I remember her telling me how stressed out I make her, and that she could get "stress cancer" if it gets bad enough. I was probably 5 - 7 years old. She has compared me to my abusive father a number of times. Cries when she wants to.

Threats, usually involving her breaking something of mine (phone, computer, both of which she has destroyed). Or threats that imply social embarrassment. Once she showed up at a party I was at and threatened to call the cops when the host pretended not to know me, all because I didn't answer her text message "on time" (I was with a girl, and the legal drinking age). Drove to my ex-girlfriend's house at 3 in the morning to get me because she didn't want me sleeping over there, threatened to start honking.

No respect for privacy. She would go into my room, phone, backpack, at will whenever she felt like it. Forced me to give her my online passwords (facebook, gmail, twitter, etc). She used all above tactics to get me to give in.

Preventing me from going out and having a normal social life. She would use above tactics to stop me from going out, saying she was worried I'd do something stupid or overdose on drugs or whatever she could think of to stop me. If I did manage to get her permission I would have to text or call her at specific times, and if I didn't I would get in trouble or have to go home. This got less and less as I got older.

She made my brother stand in the corner when he was 17 or 18 until i arrived home and flipped $#%^.

ALL of these things were present up until I moved out a year ago.

I admit I did get into VERY mild trouble as a kid, like going off school grounds to the corner store for candy without permission in primary school. I like to smoke pot and occasionally try other things but I'm quite moderate about it. I've been working and/or going to college since I left high school and never been in trouble with the law. I moved out and things are better.

Does this sound like abuse? I feel it's affected me quite a bit, particularly the lack of a social life
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Re: Was my mother emotionally abusive?

Postby calischizoidxenafan » Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:37 pm

she probably needs meds. My mom is like that too, she will yell at me for the dumbest things and would call me worthless all the time. I moved out of her house 2 years ago after her boyfriend beat me up by punching me in the head over 10 times with his fist. HE lives in the room i was in and it looks like a broken down house, there's trash everywhere, however h he has schizoaffective disorder so it's okay cause he's sick. yeah whatever. He's also my age and thats even more disturbing, i used to drive my mom back and forth to work and the mental facility where her bf was in so she could have him live with her, because she got in a 2nd car accident due to her meds. Mom's aren't supposed to make their kids hate their lives, some do and that's when you know you need to get out and get help. I wish i could help you out, im in cali and really bored right now.
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