Homeless
I’m 18, my mom kicked me out because she felt like me having a boyfriend changed me..
May 2021 I bought myself a car, before I bought it she was so happy to not have to drive me places anymore but now that I have it she wish I never got it.
My car is on her insurance so her way of keeping me from going places (my bf house) she says I need to stay home because she doesn’t have time for me to get in a accident and her bill goes up.
I always drive how I’m supposed to. Never have to worry about me speeding, I’m always home 2 hours before curfew but I guess that ain’t enough for her.
From age 13-17 Ive cared for my 2 younger siblings as if they were my own. I understand helping out your mom with the younger ones is normal, I know but it’s not for me to feed them, bathe them, discipline them, and be with them 24/7. Day in and day out. Just like she gets tired I get tired. I didn’t even get to hang out with friends because I had to “watch my sisters” I couldn’t even go to the movies or a friends birthday party because my sisters “needed me”, “who’s going to watch your sisters”, “no you need to stay home and clean this whole house” “why do you want to go over there, you have a house here” etc.
I’m tired, my mother cutting me off from the world. I fell into depression and I was beyond tired mentally and physically. I refuse to let my mental get that low again. I’m 18, I know she is still my mother and I respect her 100% but I’m done with her trying to control me and take over my life.
She was too busy trying to “protect” me from the outside would that she could protect me in our own home when her husband tried to get me drunk then sexually assaulted and touched me at 16.
She did nothing, she made him sleep on the couch.. that’s it!
3 days before she kicked me out she allowed her husband to disrespect me AGAIN and I couldn’t even defend myself. She told me to “go in your room or leave or something, just go somewhere”
She has proved to me everyday that he means more to her than I or any of her other children do.
I’ve been living in my car ever since, my boyfriend and his parents aren’t really seeing eye to eye right now so I have no where to go.
5 years ago my mom moved us from Georgia to NC so I have no other family here.
Any advice or suggestions survival wise?
(Me moving back to GA is out the question, sadly)
I do have a job, my first day is tomorrow.
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