I’m 19 and only after seeing a therapist have I realised just how abusive my mother is, and my father having left when I was a child means the only parent I really knew was my mother. I was never allowed to go to friends after 5pm until I was 16 and because I only got home from school around 4 I usually just figured it was simpler to stay inside so I never made any close friends, and the few I did my mother would interrogate (often finding out the last 3 generations of their families, and stalking them online to determine if they were “the good kind” of people. It’s been 2 months since I’ve seen my therapist and realised how much my mother verbally and emotionally abused me for my entire life and I don’t know what to do anymore. At times I consider giving up entirely.
