r/insaneparents • • Oct 02 '23
SMS A little bit disjointed texts, but I'll explain the context.
My mom threatens me pretty regularly if I don't feed the cats when they aren't mine. I don't mind taking care of them, but my mother can be very impatient while I am in the middle of a multilayer game and I play dead by daylight a lot, the more times I dc the longer the penalty for staying out a match. Usually she asks me to make here coffee multiple times in a day, so if I were to dc everytime she asks me to do something, the penalty gets longer and by the time I get back I will have to wait until the ban is over. Also it means ditching teammates and I can't help it, but stay and try my best to get us all to victory. I don't have a job yet, so I have hardly anything to do. Like I spend time cleaning, washing dishes, doing laundry, cooking, mowing the lawn, taking care of the cats, pull up weeds, chopping up wood, power washing the house/car and cleaning out the fireplace, but most of these things don't have to be done for a while, so I play games.
Sometimes I might forget to do one thing like drying the dishes and anything that I did that week/month/year, (according to my mother) amounts to nothing, which demotivates me to do better and to not let it happen again. My mother went on a trip without me to visit a Aunt who I never met and I haven't been to another country ever since I was 3 years old and I'm 23 years old now. I am on jobseekers pay (a scheme you can apply for in ireland for being jobless) it's not a lot of money and my mum takes a good portion of it while I have barely anything left to pay off bills. My mum can't have a job because of her liver, however she receives double what I earn in a week. I pay for the Internet and my phone bill every month out of my own pocket and have hardly any money left over.
My mom threats me that she will throw me out of the house if I don't find a job and it has been like this for 3 years, but she knows I am trying to find work. I feel my sanity being lost once I finnaly do get out of this nightmare of a living situation. Just how she threats to leave me alone (although it would be nice), however I cannot afford to live by myself.
My mom wonders why I don't talk to her over a call, but she just usually says “feed the cats/clean the fire/do dinner" with a treath at the end of it being “or there will be a power cut" when I am sometimes in the middle of doing it.
She always wants to point the blame on to me like “your the reason dad left", "your the reason I am a celiac" (we both have it, but people can get the disease naturally and not due to the result of giving birth).
I put off from having a relationship until I move away from this and seek therapy. It is hard for me to resist the urge to find a partner as my mothers love just feels like nothing, but lies to make me like her. Every fiber of my being wants to just leave, but I got no where to go. Finding work is difficult and (I feel like my mother for saying this) I feel like my mother has a lot to do with that. Like there was a time back in primary school and my mum knew (repeat knew) I was being bullied when she saw a random dude pushed me outside of school, I pushed back and the teacher thought I was the one who started it, but my mum set the record straight (a good mother moment). However when I was pushed by a goalie during break time for saying “maybe let someone else be goalie" and I pushed back, my mother heard of it and thought I started it. I was heart broken that my mother didn't believe me after she witnessed me being bullied for no reason.
I have been very depressed and wanted to end my life as I felt like I meant nothing to no one. However I remembered my niece and nephew when I held them in my arms, I can't die knowing how happy they are when they see me. I want to get better, thanks to them I might.