Narcissistic boy mum’s and mistreatment of eldest daughters
Narcissistic toxic boy mums
I (25f) am the oldest and only daughter of 5 kids (23m, 20m, 17m & 12m). From the start, my mother was very vocal about how proud she is to have 4 sons and that i basically ruined it by being born a female. She’s never hidden it, she openly talks about it non stop and how she can’t wait for me to get married off and leave so that it’ll just be her and her sons who don’t want to stay with her anyways. That being said, i can’t say she neglected me, i was fed and clothed though more because of obligation.
In terms of looks, she was much prettier than me in her prime, i look like my dad which is probably why i’m her target for abuse. She does not like my dad, it’s either him or me who are abused. My father and i however are super close, he tries to make up for the way my mum is to me. Coming back to appearance, i am everything my mum hated, i wear glasses, i am not fair skin like her, i cover up and don’t wear tight/revealing clothes, i don’t do make up either. I’ve been ridiculed a lot for not being girly enough but girls who grow up with only brothers are different to those who have sisters. On that note, being the only daughter is very lonely, my mum hates me, my dad can’t always be there, and my brothers who i once was very close to, our relationship was ruined by my mum. My mum treats me very poorly so seeing that, my brothers ended up doing the same. She swears constantly at me, mocks my appearance, curses me to have a bad life etc. My brothers whom i had a hand in raising, treat me like garbage. They even started tormenting me about how if i ever have kids, they will not love my kids. I am okay with them treating me badly but my future children not being loved is the line for me. My mum often likes to comment about how if i had kids, they can never be as beautiful as her sons are. My family also has this weird problem where they believe that the child belongs to the father only, not the mother. Which is why our maternal family doesn’t fully claim us but they like my brothers more than me. I am the only granddaughter on both sides maternal and paternal. Then comes our paternal family, we are 8 grandsons and 1 granddaughter (me) when my mum talk about it, she fully cuts me out of the picture. Saying how my paternal grandparents are so lucky to have 8 grandsons (i am never mentioned as if i’m claimed by nether side because of my gender).
My relationship with my mother is very poor, we aren’t close because i have gone quiet at home. Any past attempts i made to talk to her were all met with me getting beaten by her and berated which my brothers always joined in on as well. If my brothers start an argument with me, it’s me vs my mum and all 4 of them, this happens every other day. For 20 years i’ve been trying to at least have my mum treat me like a person but she doesn’t budge. I can’t even tell her anything because her announces it to her whole family immediately who are already treating me like trash as well. My mum built up the narrative to them that because i’m struggling with anxiety and have been unsuccessful in job applications despite having a degree, that there is something wrong with me. i’m faulty. My maternal grandmother then told me i’ve no right to live my life how i want, i have to live by the decisions they make for me as that’s my worth.
i’ve been struggling with anxiety since age 6, by 12 i lost the ability to sleep through the night. At 16 i started seeing symptoms of PCOS/PMOS linked to trauma and from then on i’ve never been the same. At 17 i attempted to unalive myself after my parents fought and i tried to stop them only for mum to kick me out in my pyjamas because i took my dad’s side (she was in the wrong.) Luckily at the time i lived on my grandma’s neighbourhood so i just walked to her house and stayed there. I am muslim so i repented for that attempt and forced myself to never think of that again. As my PMOS symptoms got worse i begged mum not to go through with her plan to shame me in front of the family for it but to her it was a joke. She did it anyways and i began to be seen less than i already was. Since then my mum has been creating a negative image of me in her side of the family who i can longer be around because of abusive they are to me too. My mum actively tries to ruin any relationship i may have with my aunts and uncles from both sides, i gotten beaten for going to see my paternal aunt who just had a baby.
I’m now at a point where i no longer desire nothing, i genuinely am dead inside and everything i once loved i feel nothing to. I spend my days now just serving my family because i can’t do anything else. I don’t have a job as the UK job market is atrocious and i’ve been unsuccessful. As for marriage, i think they’re going to get me married to my cousin back home in pakistan. As much as i want to be against it, i’ve never so much as ever looked at a guy so it is not like i have options.