NGrandma to me: "I MADE YOU"
I'll write this in bullet form because it's going to be a bit long.
- I live with my NGrandmother and my enabler grandfather since I was 7 years old. In my first few years of living here as a child, they doted on me, showered me with everything I need
- By the time I hit puberty, NGrandma started being verbally and emotionally abusive
- I'm 25 and still living with them (don't judge, it's part of my culture) but she's becoming more abusive through the years
- Last week, she screamed at me "You will be a WHORE just like your mother!" just because she doesn't like my SO who doesn't fit her crazy standards
- She tells me that I should get a boyfriend whom I could be proud of, who has "titles" like a doctor or a lawyer. I told her I didn't want that, I love my SO for being a kind and decent human being. She answered, "Who needs kind when you can't brag about him?!"
- She insists that the neighbors talk about me being a "cheap woman" and that it reflects on her
- She forbids me from bringing SO in the house because he doesn't like him, but accuses me of being "cheap" because we meet up outside (?!?!?)
- She said this in our language "You won't be human if it weren't for me!" (she raised me since I was 7 because my mom and dad left)
- She regularly comments on me being fat (I'm 4'10 and 100 lbs) she "jokingly" calls me a whale, tells me I settled for my current BF because no one else probably liked me because I'm fat
- She says I should be ashamed that I'm this fat and compares her slim figure when she was my age
- She regularly serves CHICKEN BONES for dinner. When I say something, she insists I'm being picky and goes into a rage.
- She keeps saying I don't contribute in the house even if I regularly pay for my share of the bills
- She once cancelled my 25th birthday party on the same day, just when my friends were about to arrive, just because she was pissed at me over something trivial
- All her children are just as bad (including my dad). One of her children was diagnosed with schizophrenia
- Our house maid stole money from me once, but she blamed me because apparently I "tempted" them because I was "messy"
- She once screamed at his husband," You are good for nothing just like your parents, your whole family is scum! " and my granddad ended up crying alone in his room
- Since my NGrandma hates my biological mom, she once told me," You're scum just like your mother's family, guess that's why you have their last name and not ours"
- If I answer back, she calls me an "ungrateful dog"
- I'm extremely scared of criticism, I feel like I'm being judged all the time, I go into a deep depression where I succumb into self-loathing and just wanting to die
I'M SO THANKFUL I FOUND THIS THREAD. Like others here, I initially thought my NGrandma's behavior was normal. I'll be moving out in a few weeks, and my obnoxious relatives were quick to point out that I wouldn't survive. I'd love to prove them wrong, but I want to focus on my healing too. It's bad enough that my own parents abandoned me, but to live with an NGrandma made it a lot worse. Hoping life will finally be happier for me soon.
Posted Apr 15, 2016, 2:40 AM UTC
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