How to deal with abusive dad who isn't violent?
I'm a 22F living in a middle eastern country, Muslim. Born to a sacrifing submissive mom and a narcissist selfish stingy hypocrite with anger issues dad Yes, basically a bad person. Someone I'd never love nor respect. I dealt with a lot growing up, some I've gotten past to and some issues I'm still dealing with now. The ones that bother my the most how controlling he is. Growing up , the only place I'd go is school and in summer vacation I'd just stay at home. That's it, I literally don't know the streets or anyplace other than my home and my school which is across my home. We would visit our home country every 2/3 years and that when he have to buy us clothes so he wouldn't be embarrassed around his family. As a young girl, of course I would love shopping but it hated going there because he will always complain and throw fits on how much we spent, where we would buy 2-3 outfit maximum from sales stores he brought us to. What's really frustrating he is not poor, we were middle class, his closet was always full with a lot of perfume and all types of shoes where I would have only one that was for school. He also like to show off giving money to his friends but never his family Even when I needed a pencil he would complain for 5 minutes that he doesn't have money for it and then would give me the money I even believed we don't have money for pens so I would ask my pears to lend me because my father can't afford getting it If I have a school event that needed money I had to try asking him everyday a month prior so he gives me the money , which he always responded that he didn't have any. After crying and begging he would let me sometimes and most of the time he won't. So I've grown up not asking for anything,until now. Only the necessities like food which he also complains about. Our financial state got worse , but still we weren't broke and could afford living well but would tell us to stop eating 3 meals a day Fun fact he eats the most and is picky and we only eats what he wants and brings He literally scolds us every meal to stop eating and complain about how much every one ate One time he throw a fit about it and then brought a literal sack of mango because he loved it It was always like that, he didn't want us to even eat but he wants to enjoy everything he wants He also don't want us to go anywhere because the cost of transportation, sometimes because he just don't feel like it. He also don't let us to work(females) and go anywhere after 5pm (not that we go anywhere during the day lol) He never supported me in anything, I tried to find passion and hobbies with no financial support which he always hated it because it may cost him money so he will always tell us to be religious instead (because it costs him nothing lol), he made us hate our religion by a lot of his actions which I won't mention now He also never respected my mom, and is horrible at desicion making in which all of our fates depend on. Today something similar happened were he didn't allow me to go to maintain my only social relation left by saying again he didn't have money for transportation then proceed to buy expensive food he loves while still making us guilty for existing I hated it and I can't confront him because of my mentally sick brother (which is also because of him) have to be in stress free environment. I just blamed my mom for everything and how she just does nothing and she should've divorced him from day one and she is as fault as him for our traumas, literally none of us is normal without a mental issue or anxiety I felt guilty after throwing a fit on my mom who again did nothing but listen and I'm tired of living like this I feel my mom won't do anything unless he becomes violent which he had done sometimes before but didn't repeat for a while There is no solution as moving out, since this can't happen in our culture and country, the only way to move out is to get married which is the solution for most of the girls with abusive parents here Because of my parents relation I don't want to marry either Just wanted to rant but any advice will be welcomed and thank you for reading.
Posted Dec 7, 2024, 3:57 PM UTC