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My mom and my boyfriend have been getting too close and she is much nicer to him than she is to me. She's been giving him money, paying to fix his car, giving him rides to work, picking him up, etc. And I feel as though it's all because he has a job and I don't. He has been physically abusive in the past which I never shared with my mom because I thought she would react badly and not allow him to live with us (we rent out the granny flat). I called the cops on him new years Eve because he had choked me once again and I was afraid he was going to kill me eventually if he continued doing things like that. I came to find out that my boyfriend asked my mom if she could give him a ride to court, and he told her why (he needs to get an extension for domestic violence classes). So now my mom knows that there's been domestic abuse going on in our relationship. She didn't say one word about it to me! We were texting and she told me she was going to give him a ride to the courthouse, but that was the extent of it. Not only that but she offered to go in with him (for support I assume). I am beyond hurt by this. Not only does she not care that I've been abused by him but she is supporting him through it all! It literally makes me sick and not want a relationship with her. The both of them have narcissistic traits and are toxic, but that doesn't make this all hurt any less. I feel like she is "on his side" for lack of a better way to put it. She did something similar with an ex boyfriend of mine many years ago as well. I don't understand why. Is she doing this to hurt me? Why would she want to be there for an emotionally support a man who has abused her daughter and gotten arrested for it! He was charged with domestic assault with bodily injury which is a felony because he choked me.
Domestic abuse victims are 10 times more likely to be killed if the suspects choked them in the past! Can anyone tell me why she might be doing this or why she's like this? I never thought she'd do such a thing, even as cold and toxic a mother she is. I've struggled with feeling unloved by her for a long time, but this has truly broken me. |
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I'm sorry I can't tell you why your mother is doing what she's doing. But I noticed no one had replied to your post. So I thought I would. My personal opinion is that it's never really possible to know what's going on in another person's mind unless they choose to share it openly & honestly. (And how often does that happen?)
To my mind perhaps the real question here is why are you still with someone who has choked you, & in other ways been physically abusive, as well as continuing to live with a mother who apparently places more value on your abusive boyfriend than she does on you? So my thinking here would be that, rather than spending mental energy trying to figure out what's going on with your mother, perhaps what you need to be thinking about is how to extricate yourself from the potentially dangerous situation you're in. Having written that though here's a link to a blog, here on PC, that perhaps may be of some help in figuring out what's going on : Knotted: The Mother-Daughter Relationship My best wishes to you... P.S. I also wondered if you are aware of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Here's a link to their website & their phone number: National Domestic Violence Hotline | Get Help Today | 1-800-799-7233 1-800-799-7233 Please take care... __________________ "I may be older but I am not wise / I'm still a child's grown-up disguise / and I never can tell you what you want to know / You will find out as you go." (from: "A Nightengale's Lullaby" - Julie Last) |
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I'm sorry. I understand how it feels to have a parent who doesn't care. IME, they react this way because they don't have compassion or empathy for us. Narcissists only care about what happens *to them*, so if the abuse didn't happen to your mom she wouldn't care about it.
I dealt with my father's narcissism by learning that he really can't feel anything for me, so I have to stop expecting anything from him. Once I realized that, I started to heal. I don't talk to him anymore. If you're not in therapy, I recommend seeing a therapist who specializes in parental emotional neglect and narcissistic parents. On Youtube, check out Dr. Ramani Durvasula. She talks a lot about narcissism and the way it affects a person. I truly hope you heal and find better people to love you. You deserve a lot better than this, just remember that. |
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That's sad. I suggest you get rid of the guy--and let your mother have him, if that's what she wants.
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This thread is from August 2019 , hopefully the OP has sorted her life out now
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I'm sorry. I know how it feels to have a parent who does not care. I hope things are going much better now for the op.
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