I am being financially held hostage by my mother.
She has manipulated me into giving her every paycheck I’ve ever made allowing me to live on the bare minimum when I lived away from home, and then when I moved back manipulated me into giving her access to my credit card. She told me I was incapable of going to post-secondary school and convinced me to give up my spot and scholarship to go to my first choice school. She has doomed me to a life of working for minimum wage, I am in debt and financially incapable of leaving. I don’t pay rent to live with her and she uses this to blackmail me into manual labour. She screams and rants, she uses me and then guilt trips me when I call her out on her toxic behaviour. He says I need more sleep but I am a diagnosed insomniac. You may be thinking “Oh woe is you” but this is my only outlet. I have no one to tell this to. My mother is a prominent figure in a lot of social circles and I would be routinely harassed were I to mention this. I am stuck in the most literal sense of the word and I have no way out.
