Emotional family abuse *LONG story*
So, I’m going to start off with a little background. I was raised by my aunt and her GF(my mom). In other words, adopted. My bio mom had me at 16 and chose other things to do with her life. We had more of a friend relationship. She passed a couple years ago. Well, my aunt is a recovering addict. She has mood swings and a lot of the times I let things go bc I know it may not be 100% her fault. She’s going through things. However, she’s interfering with my relationship in a negative way and she’s beginning to emotionally abuse me. It has gotten to the point of almost splitting up my relationship. My boyfriend is not the biological father of my two year old daughter and I’m currently pregnant. I’ll just start of by saying he’s took her as his own and he is involved in disciplining her (which is an issue to my aunt). He’s been in her life since she was a little over 1 and he has done everything for her. Her biological dad I do not allow around her because he was both physically and emotionally abusive. CPS got involved and he was non compliant, meaning he didn’t take the classes or counseling he needed to have visitation. He doesn’t provide child support either, but I’m not too concerned about that my daughter has more than she needs. However, my aunt feels that at the end of the day that’s still her father and I’m wrong. My daughter is going to hate me because I didn’t allow him in her life. She says that I emotionally abused him(I’m not sure how) I asked and she didn’t answer, and that’s why he abused me. Basically I deserved it. But it doesn’t add up to abuse my daughter didn’t deserve at only a couple months old. It only took one time for him to hurt her and I called the cops. I feel like I’m just trying to protect her. I don’t want to put her in any risk of danger and on top of that she’s only two, she can’t tell me mommy something bad happened. She (my aunt) proceeds to go behind my back and talk to the bio father about my daughter. Which concerns me because I know what he’s capable of, and I don’t want him to show up here or anything bad to happen. I have no idea of what exactly she’s telling him, she just let me know he does text her. I did let her have my daughter for a couple hours one day and recently found a picture of my daughter with her bio dad!! I was livid, now I have no trust in her at all. I don’t even want my daughter going around her without me being there. It hurts me though bc my daughter asks for my aunt and mom and I don’t know how to tell a two year old about this besides “not today”😔 In addition to the drama with the father, I’m supposed to receive a settlement on a car accident I was in back in February. My car was totaled. The car I had I took over payments from my aunt and mom. It was going to be repo because they couldn’t pay it. So I said I’ll just take it and pay the payments and when it’s payed off y’all can sign the title over. I payed it for two years. However, they feel that if it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t have had the car. Which is true. But they want half of my settlement. I have permanent back damage and am still seeing the doctor. It’s going to be a fairly large settlement and with me being pregnant we need a house. We have a small two bedroom apartment. I can understand giving them the total cost of the car, but half is a little steep. My boyfriend doesn’t agree with the half or any really bc he said I’m the one suffering with permanent back damage and I was already paying the car off. Here’s where the issues start in my relationship. Not only does my boyfriend not like the fact that they are using me for money, disrespecting my wishes with my child, but the fact that my aunt tries to put negative things about my boyfriend in my head. He works crazy hours (plants) so she says small accusing things about him (cheating). But I know for a fact he’s not. We have each other’s location, not for insecurity, I’m high risk so if he needs to get to me he can. Plus, we have one car so I have to pick him up from work from all these different locations. He calls me to let me know everything and when he’s not at work he’s at home with me. He’s a homebody and a gamer. I’m NOT concerned lol. But it offends him, which I understand completely. I tell her off but it doesn’t make a difference. He believes I should cut her off for a while til she gets the point. I’m not sure if I should cause she doesn’t have much of anybody and I feel bad. She’s like a mother figure I guess. But I don’t know what to do😩 I’m torn, I love my boyfriend and don’t want to lose him and at the same time she’s my aunt. I’m high risk so I’m not supposed to be stressing, he also says she causes me to stress too much. I’m thinking he’s right, I’m just having a hard time with believing that she would be able to do this to me.
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