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hurtbeauty

I feel hopeless

I’m 17F and I don’t know what to do. I have a small community of family friends and my dad is well known in that community, everyone respects him and he’s nice to everyone butI’m just realising how bad the way he treats me is. Ever since I was a kid he always kisses my cheeks and I didn’t think much of it. I’m almost 18 now and he still forces me to let him kiss me on the cheeks or he bites me.At home whenever I enter the same room as him he screams my name and begs for a kiss. He barges into my room and I have to push the door to stop him from coming in. Before I wake up he kisses me. I feel so sick I’m so sick of this. Normally I would give no reaction but then suddenly I broke down and ran upstairs to my room. I couldn’t control my emotions and started crying loudly. He entered my room a few minutes later and start slapping me and punching me. He told me to be quiet, and I was shaking I was so scared. I ran downstairs to my mom and he started hitting me with a wooden spoon, my mom tried to stop him but then he started hitting my mom. Later my mom blamed me saying it’s because I don’t pray enough and god is punishing me now. My mom said it’s becuase my dad doesn’t like attitude but all I did was tell him to stop and left the room when he asked for a kiss. He holds me down and and pulls my hair. My body hurts when he pulls me or whenever I walk past him he holds my tightly or starts to chase me when I run away. I’ve planned on running away but I don’t have any money or anywhere to stay. Even if I did run away I’d be seen as shameful. I don’t feel like I’d ever escape.

Posted Jan 25, 2026, 12:17 PM UTC

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