Help!

I and my son live with a very narcissist mother. I have a bankruptcy on my credit that won't fall off until 2029 and I'm disabled. Because of that I only make $1700 a month and section 8 is closed. Anyone else wants you to make 3 times the amount of rent in income each month so that stops me in my tracks Everytime. She has the electric here in my name and won't pay it but she pays the rent on time. She won't allow w access to my mail so there are many things missing. I don't know how she gets a hold of it but she does. My car note is cosigned for by her and SOMEHOW my car note ended up $1600 behind. Although I did make her pay it because when I called in they told me I'd made payment arrangements that were not paid, which I never did, and somehow it was $1600 behind. I have always paid my car note on time. But she gets ahold of my car note bills and I have no idea where they are. She gets a hold of the electric bill and I have no idea where it is. I had to ramsack her room once and make sure I put everything back the way it was just to find my birth certificate, my son's birth certificate, and my marriage license. I hid it but she adamantly looking for them claiming she wants to go on a trip and get his real ID and passport. The police have told her to take action and I know she wants to get his real ID and passport to take him overseas somewhere and leave me here. So hao things are hidden. Because my ex husband and my mother financially screwed me over I cannot move out. There is also the epidemic of racism in the United States so upon hearing my voice or seeing my name and skin tone I am refused many benefits and not protected. Men around my area attack me if I shop in my area, it doesn't matter their skin color, but when I call police they only trespass me from the property, antagonize me, ask about mental illnesses, and call me names. I live in Tinley Park, IL. The police department here have been known to tailgate and harass even other cops who are Spanish. For some reason black and white people, especially the men, seem to be working very closely together to hate single dark skinned women such as myself. I have had to take to learning MMA just to keep safe. My mother works for the state and has power to do whatever she wants and face no trouble. She is a case worker at the department of human services. And a domestic violence shelter is not an option with my skin color. Last time my son and I did get into one my mother was allowed to keep in contact with my son. And the white ppl running the shelter started to try and isolate him away from me and make him sign things without my knowledge. He was 14 at the time. So we had to leave and come back home. I don't know what to do. My mother is very sneaky and seems like she has a lot of help from the ppl in my religion who are just like her and including the police around here. I don't know why they come here and believe her every word but they used to drag me out of the house and make me get a mental evaluation accusing me of hallucinating and various things at her request. I've filed plenty of complaints against many officers and they have not dragged me outta here in years. But I am still stuck here with her. I cannot attend my religious services in house either anymore because I will be physically and spiritually attacked. The last straw was when my son and I were getting out of our car to enter into the place and some man purposely rammed his 4X4 into my open car door claiming he did not see me. When I filed a report he openly told the officer who was a woman this time, he didn't have his license on him. I was antagonized and gaslit by him and by the female officer and I ended up just having to leave. My car door would not close at first because of the damage but he smacked the car door in and made it close by the time the officer decided to show up. I didn't stop him because by that time 2 other men had come out and I've had men put there hands on me plenty of times before. I had my son with me and I did not feel like being arrested. My mother has also physically attacked me. I have a small scar over my eyebrow and my son and I had to flee the house until the next day. She and the police blew up my phone the entire night and she eventually let us back in the house the next day as she went to work. Unfortunately seven days later I was arrested as somehow the stage got involved and put a warrant out for my arrest. I was arrested in front of my son when 4 police cars screeched up to my door while we were bringing in groceries. All charges were dropped but they sat me in the holding cell and refused to allow me to wear my shoes or socks. And when they took me downtown they refused me food and water for two days almost. I went in at 270 lbs and came home 240 lbs. There were many other black women in my cell and in that facility who'd been arrested and charged with domestic battery for fighting against their attackers. One of which has her ribs stomped in and she said she could feel liquid in her stomach. I stayed up all night with her and prayed with her and took care of her as she could not lay down due to her ribs hurting so much. I don't know if this is all racism because my mother is dark just like me and many other people in my religion are dark and they all seem to be able to abuse me and my son and get away with it. Even outside of my religion people who are not police officers get away with attacking me and causing property damage. I don't know what to do. There's no where in the United states I could move to. Believe me I've tried. Everyone wants me to make 3 times the amount of rent in income a month. Shelters are not an option. Section 8 is closed across country. And because my mother keeps me financially controlled I cannot save any money. I'm exhausted as this has been going on for 30 years. She hates and abused me, my entire family hates and abused me, my religion has banned me and hates me, I get no help from police or any programs. I even found out there are things in my healthcare chart that I've NEVER been diagnosed with or taken medicine for. I'm tired of this. And I love myself. I can play 19 different instruments. My son just graduated high school he's 15 now. I am learning 3 different languages. I just found out I am 62% Nigerian by DNA. My son and I are very close and despite all the crap going on around us we remain happy and healthy. We serve Jehovah. And that's the only thing keeping us this way. But I would like to move out at some point. SOMEHOW. I was thinking about moving to Puerto rico since we both are learning Spanish and it's very cheap living there. Unfortunately we've been detered by others who are racist, by my mother and her supporters, and by the police. I have had to lace this place with cameras just to keep safe. There is even one in my car now. I don't know what to do. And so far I am out of options. Any suggestions?

Posted Mar 14, 2026, 7:08 AM UTC

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