angelal wrote:I would move out. Yes, she is your mother and yes, you love her. But nothing in this world is worth losing your sanity from emotional and mental abuse.
I should move out. I have no money. I have to finish grad school. I have two months to go. I will move out when I have an income. She threatened me a couple days in a row. I asked her if I could use her credit card to help pay for a fee to be a substitute teacher. She handed me the card. Now she has been threatening eviction daily. She is taking about a dozen pills a day so I can see how uncomfortable that is. Thanks for the thought of moving out. She acts like bully with a "gunnysack, release, honeymoon" pattern. She lays in bed all day thinking up things I have done wrong. Then when I get home after working in a school all day she unleashes her anger and tells me I am a thief and should go live in my car. Then I talked to her and kept the mood level by keeping her up to date on my schedule. I told her I'm done in two months and then I can pay more rent, move out or whatever we decide on. She wants me to work and pay some rent. I can do that until I have a job that can help with rent somewhere else. When she is upset I have to hold my ground and argue a little just to calm her down. She wants me to tell her what is going on. Between her loud TV and her manic inability to listen it is hard to talk to her. I have gratitude uncommon knowledge is her for issues like this. My therapist communicates the message that even though family is off and on manipulative and threatening pure hatred does not exist. The desire to commit aggravated assault is just not there. Anyone out there have ideas about how to deal with daily minor and major threats?