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My family stays emotionally manipulating me and I don’t know what to do. I feel like they locked every door to my life and even if I tell family members they would take my parents side. I don’t know if I’m crazy or if what I’m feeling is truely right
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Anonymous 20h

It’s breaking me apart tryna figure out.

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Anonymous 20h

Give us some examples of things they influenced

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

They don’t listen to any emotions I’m trying to convey. I’ve been verbally abused to a point where I don’t even know what true a true compliment is without doubting someone. They forced me back to live with them a few years back when I said I would work and pay my own tuition(I had some bad grades but I was adjusting), but now the say I’m just wasting my own money

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

Wasting their money*

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

It’s just so much more I can’t put in the comments

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

Very similar to my own parents. My dad would get mad at me if I dated someone he deemed too overweight or whatever. Mom would treat me like what you’re describing and I actually did kinda get forced to live at home too during college. She was so manipulative and forced her opinion and way of doing things down everyone’s throat

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

When my mom finally started having health issues I was kinda happy. She had 2 strokes and no longer has the brain function to keep up her mental gymnastics

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

Oh fat shaming since I was a child is another one for me as well. But I’m so sorry you’re going through that yourself. I know everything else like school, life, dating, severely declined due to that and I’m a very out going person

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

I don’t think i would feel anything if something bad were to happen. I was also forced to internalize all my emotions to myself for over 20 years to a point that it’s just turned to pure rage

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 19h

The worst one for me was finding out the super amped up ADHD shit I was on for years was causing me to have mood swings and making me hypersexual. It basically robbed me of my teenage years all so I could get a higher number on my report card bullshit. Number go up so gotta suffer whatever consequences I need to I guess in their eyes…

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 19h

But it gets worse… doctor told me I never needed it. I was misdiagnosed and was just depressed my whole life which checks out. I was furious.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

What did you do to get out bro? Like how did you even start to think about getting your life back

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 19h

I ended up joining my dad starting a company, quit college, was away from home 5 days a week for 3 years, got married, moved out… tbh the only way I was able to really create distance was to let my mom really get hurt and just not show up. She was aweful to me for years. Time to let it bite her ass

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