I Was Abused By My Family

It was mainly by my older sisters. They hated me. And when my parents got divorced they blamed me for it. And when I said I wanted to live with dad they scream that I don't get to choose who I live with. After that things just got worse and worse. Verbal abuse turned into physical abuse. And no matter what happened mum never believed me they were always the good girls. Even after they pushed me down the stairs and put me in hospital. It was always my fault. And after dad tried to gain custody of me and lost the court case mum sent me to a boarding school just to spite him.

But when I was 16 I lost it. While mum was out, I told them what I thought of them and that I was leaving. Before I could even get to my room they attacked me leaving me with a broken nose and a black eye. But I retaliated knocking out my oldest sister but the other manage to get behind me and start kicking me to the ground. After she thought I couldn't move she checked on her sister and I knocked her out. As quickly as possible I packed up some clothes and some money and got on a train to Bristol to escape them.

SW-User

WOW, my mom was an abusive individual. Not physically as much as it was emotional torment, although she used to flick me in the lips with her fingers and smack me in my face when I said something she didn't like to hear. She had over 20 different affairs on my father and she and my father are still married. I left home when I was 21, I moved to a homeless shelter in downtown Cleveland Ohio in the USA. I don't have much of a relationship at all with my mom nor my father, my father has no opinions of his own anymore because he doesn't wanna make waves with my mom. I resent my folks and out of spite and anger I no longer choose to have a relationship with them.

meemo70 · 51-55, M

that's sad.. but you were (still are I hope) a brave girl to knock them down and escape..

olderdad · 61-69, M

@karenof2: You had a tougher road to travel than most people....but you got there and that is your victory.