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Cece7

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I don’t know how to handle the relationship I have with my parents. I really need to vent and hope someone can read and give some insight into this situation because I’m feeling like total crap right now. Yesterday I was joking with my family as they were talking about my siblings and how they acted in high school. I then joked with my dad about how he felt I was. He couldn’t even talk about my teenage life without basically going silent and blaming me for my mom having this anxiety and bad sleep habits waiting up for me. They make me so irritated because they were so freaking strict with me as a kid like I would get in trouble for texting boys or listening to music that wasn’t religious enough. It was insane and they were always reading my messages and being very invasive and making me an emotional wreck. I was dealing with anxiety and depression like crazy. Instead of getting me help for those issues they just took the lock off my door and at one point hid their knives from me. Like that’s normal. It led to me finding relationships that were very toxic. I was in love with this guy for 4 years as a kid and being an adult now I know it was real love and I likely would’ve stayed with him a very long time if not married the guy. He was truly the only nice guy I was with until my current husband. But my parents would get me in trouble for saying even I love you to him and they’d read our messages, stole my phone all the time. It led to me trying to do anything to seek privacy which meant obviously to lie to my parents to get some space to breathe. I got hurt over and over again because the only guys that will date you that would lie to your parents with you tend to be shitty guys. Either way I ended up with my abuser and he was the first guy I was technically allowed to date. I lost my virginity to him and my parents always said if I did that with a guy basically had to be married and to top that off if I left him I’d lose a piece of myself with him. I was terrified of all this and felt like I’d never move on if I had trouble enough getting over guys I didn’t have sex with. So I stayed with him long enough for him to abuse me and r*pe me. My daughter was conceived through that non consensual time. I told my parents and said I want an abortion. I was only 17 and needed their permission to get one. I knew I wasn’t ready for this and knew this would keep me attached to this guy forever. Instead they force me to keep the baby and say the only way they help me financially if I live with him is if I marry him too. So I marry him. Years of abuse and divorce later I’m here still so angry over my entire life choices I was forced into. I’m angry that my parents see this all as me making dumb teenage mistakes and don’t see their role in anything. I’m here trying to get through college with comments from my dad about how I’m still working on my bachelor degree years and years later like as if he’s not the reason because I’ve been raising a kid this whole time and working the majority of it. Like somehow I’m supposed to graduate in 4 years with everything I’m dealing with. I have crippling ptsd and I feel like total shit most of the week and I’m just so overwhelmed with anger toward everyone that I don’t know how to have a good relationship with them. At the same time I can’t cut them off either because I do like spending family events together when not discussing my trauma. I just don’t know how to heal from this. Sorry for the long post and appreciate anyone who got this far!

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    • Doodlebugs

      654d

      @Cece7 I agree 💯. You can reach out to chat

    • amandaMarie19

      653d

      I don't want to say I know what you're going through, but I do know what it feels like to have to prove yourself to your family. Or be rejected from your family. And all I can tell you, is that it makes you mentally (once you accept and get through it) accept what you have v don't have. It makes you grateful, along with making you make goals.

    • amandaMarie19

      653d

      Baby...I absolutely love you and love that you are so strong and have made it this far. If you ever need someone to talk to, I've been through almost everything there is to claim, and I would LOVE to share my thoughts and lessons learns from it. MORE IMPORTANTLY, I would LOVE to be the person I desperately wish I had at your age. If you would want it.

    • Creeky

      654d

      😥

    • bambipony

      654d

      Wow that's terrible, sorry you have to deal with your parents and their religious b.s. and it's terrible you were forced to have a child you were ready for, that's child abuse if you ask me. More than likely people as religious as your parents chose religion over their own family sadly. I'd probably just live my own life free without them personally.

    • BethanyWatson

      655d

      I can't imagine the pain you've been through, but it sounds like you need to put distance between yourself and your parents. If your ex husband tries to go back to you, get a restraining order. Please get help for what you're going through. Good luck!💕

      • Cece7

        654d

        @BethanyWatson thank you! I appreciate it 💕

    • scarelle679

      655d

      It took years, and I'm still in the process of, dealing with my parental trauma. If anyone needs someone to talk to, I'm here.🙂

      • Cece7

        654d

        @scarelle679 thank you! I hope that you’re able to find some peace soon in your situation too

    • Raina.8

      655d

      I haven’t gone through the same things as you but I understand parents invading privacy and abusive relationships verbal, sexual and sometimes even physical. I’m glad you were brave enough to leave and divorce that abuser of yours and I’m sorry that half the week every week it feels very hard to continue on. You don’t have to cut ties with your parents but setting a boundary and distance with them is very different. See them on holidays, sometimes even closely related to something that can bring up bad memories either change the subject or remove yourself from the toxic environment. I know it sounds easier than to do, but once you slowly break apart from the toxicity of your family you’ll be able to start healing from your ptsd and finally the weeks will turn to days and become more spread out where you’ll have more good days than bad. DM me if you ever need anything. I’ve gone through the trauma healing process and can give some insight if you ever need ❤️

      • Cece7

        654d

        @Raina.8 I’m sorry you have some experience in this area as well! It is so incredibly difficult to heal from. I’m really trying to figure out what boundaries to set. So hard to get people to truly respect them sometimes. Thank you for the advice I hope I can find some way to do that. ❤️ I appreciate that

    • Doodlebugs

      655d

      Wow, I'm sorry you are going through all of this. 😥 I was a teen mom too, got pregnant when I was 16 and had my baby shortly after I turned 17. I was told to give my baby up for adoption by my sons sperm donor parents because he would never be able to raise a child. I kept my son. Cutting those close to you off may be difficult but maybe finding friends can replace those toxic people and you can be happy.

      • Cece7

        654d

        @Doodlebugs having a teen pregnancy is so much harder than anyone makes it seem. Good for you for doing what you felt was the right choice for your life and not listening to others. I definitely need to find some friends because it’s so hard not having a larger support system.

        • Doodlebugs

          654d

          @Cece7 I agree 💯. You can reach out to chat

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