Old thread 404s so I guess I’ll make a new one. Sit down, listen to some music and offload your baggage.
My life has gone to shit. I just need to put it all out there and hope someone listens. I quit my last job, if I didn’t I was probably going to die there from overwork. 50-70 hour weeks every week was breaking me physically and mentally. I saved up enough to last me at least 6 months and looked for another job that wasn’t going long to kill me. It’s all gone now because of my mother and sisters. When the oven shorted out and nearly burned the house down, I was the one who bought a new oven. When this short also killed half our breakers, I’m the one who spent 400 dollars replacing them. When her car battery died I’m the one who bought a new one and bought her alternator a new belt. For the past 1-1.5 years I have been buying the groceries every week. When she needed to borrow money I gave it to her. What usually happens is she just says it counts as payment for car insurance and leaves it at that.
For several years I was basically the family maid. At least once a month my mother and sisters would go out shopping, or to eat, or to go to the movies and leave me at home to clean the house. Each and every time I was promised by my mother she would make my sisters help. This never happened and I eventually accepted it never would.
When my parents divorced and my father remarried, little by little my mother and sisters turned against him. I started to hear stories from one of them about abuse and being handcuffed because she was losing her temper. Now I only ever saw this happen on one occasion, but if what happened was the average then it was entirely justified. This sister was extremely angry. She got violent regularly and both sisters would fight often. When I was in middle school I would be terrified nearly everyday that I’d come home and find one of them murdered the other. When it came to punishments, I was frequently grounded and had my possessions taken from me. While my sisters would simply get yelled out and maybe a slap on the wrist. I just got told it was because of blood pressure problems she had now and punishing them raised it too much.
When I attempted to join the Air Force after graduating I had a fall and required surgery to repair the damage. When this happened my mother and her boyfriend decided that I was going to college. I Managed to get a job and started saving up money. But it wasn’t enough to pay for everything. The loan I actually needed was only about 2,000 dollars or so and that would have covered everything I needed. Then I had to draw out an additional 3,000 dollar loan because my mother needed money. Like an absolute idiot I gave it to her. I dropped out of college soon after that. While I was still a delivery guy my mother also traded in my car, and gave me the older one she was driving so she could buy a new SUV. Several months after that I approached her about getting the car title switched over to my name and only to find out she had taken a 5,000 dollar loan against it.
This is not the first time something like this has happened either. When I was 8 she took my GameCubea Christmas gift from my grandmother all its games and stuff, and traded it in for an Xbox. When I was 14 she complained about how my Boy Scouts membership was so expensive and guilt tripped me into quitting.
Now my money is nearly all gone, the military will not accept me because of my prior injury and just about every attempt I’ve made to get free of these people has been sabotaged or some twist of fate stops me. I’m at the end of my rope guys. What do I do?