is this mental/emotional abuse?
My dad works really really hard at his job. He’s worked there for 20+ years and they treat him like crap. My dad is always frustrated with his work and is mad most of the time and takes it out on my mom and I by yelling, arguing, and using hand signals to make us quiet when he wants to hear something on tv. I am a rare teen that actually likes to have conversations with my family and talk to them about everything. He has an ipad and is always on it. I’ll talk to him and sometimes he won’t even hear me and will say something like “I thought you were talking to mom” when she isn’t even in the room. My mom says he wasn’t like that when she married him.. that he was happy and laughed all the time but all I have ever known is mean and angry all the time. I’ve seen my dad laugh probably 5 times in 16 years. It doesn’t feel like he loves me and I’ve argued with him so much and says he doesn’t have to prove his love. He barely tells me he loves me. He hasn’t in a few months right now. I have severe depression and I have been having lots of suicidal thoughts lately.. he isn’t helping matters. I feel like I’m a burden and I’ve asked my mom to leave him but she always says “I didn’t get married to have a divorce”. I can’t talk to him. I don’t know what to do.
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