domestic violence

[turtleswim]

I am finishing graduate school. I live with my Mom. She is bi-polar. I know from experience that she has trouble with transitions, holidays and any changes to her routine. I thought, "She might escalate close to when I graduate and threaten me more with throwing me out." She has a friend visiting for a month. He is schizophrenic, has restless leg syndrome and heart disease. He got angry at me last night because I ate some tortillas. Yesterday was my last official day in my last seminar in grad school. Here is what I wrote about my interaction with this visitor last night: "He said, "I wanna punch you in the face,' last night. He was making noise in the kitchen so I went out there. He angrily asked, "Where are the tortillas?" I said, "They're gone, are you angry?" He said, "Yes, you don't do enough around here to help your Mom." I said, "look at me, look at me." Then he said, "I wanna punch you in the face." Then I called 911 for security. They told me to stay in my room. I went to my room and went to sleep. I have not seen him yet today. Mom yelled out another homelessness threat. All she said this morning was, "return His clothes." I called my Dad in my room. He warned Him to not threaten me. I knew finishing grad school would be weird, just not this weird." Anyone else out there experience weird synchronicities when something wonderful (graduation) and something terrible (domestic violence) happen simultaneously?

[Richard@DecisionSkills]

So you called 911 and (1) the police didn’t show up and (2) you went to sleep. That doesn’t sound like domestic violence.