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I Need to Vent

I wish I knew how to deal with openly aggressive people. I wish my mother wasn't a nightmare.

I've never had to deal with people shouting, or slamming doors, or doing things especially with the purpose of making me miserable. I get this desperate need to de-escalate, but that doesn't help. Everything I do seems to escalate it, instead.

It feels like I keep getting attacked, and I just lie down and take it because I never learned how to fight.

It's almost humiliating to say that I can't stand my mom, so I normally don't say it. I know some people wouldn't take it seriously, and I don't want people to think of me as some 14 year old who "hates her parents" because of something that is ultimately for my own good.

But I really can't stand her. She's awful to deal with.

I'm at the point where I want to kill myself right now, with the sole purpose of selfishly putting that eternal blame on my mother's shoulders.

At least that way, I can attack back.
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You can fight back without attacking. Don’t play her game. Set boundaries. Let her know what she does is unacceptable. I understand this because I grew up in a war zone of abusive lunatics. When I turned 19 I started exploding. Not that it was the best option because it was all I knew to do at the time. Also effective . I scared them.