Getting things taken away from you without warning

[eclipse]

My parents do this to me a lot still. If I have a friend over but they wanted me to do something else they'll get mad at me. If I was in the doorway they wanted to go through they'll get mad, and so-forth. The result has been me becoming highly territorial about everything. A good example is that I recently bought some olives on sale (I love olives) and, since they were 2-for-1, I got my mom some too. Before I had even opened my jar she was hovering nearby and, as soon as I did open it, she stole at least 10 without even touching her own jar.

Parents. Respect your kids boundaries. It is one thing to punish them when they've done something wrong, but going overboard results in resentment and them becoming defensive about everything.

You're. . .a lot older than TC, judging from the sounds of things. You might want to consider moving out.

I'd respond to TC, but I don't like giving advice when I feel like I don't have the whole story.

[Snowy_One]

You're. . .a lot older than TC, judging from the sounds of things. You might want to consider moving out.

I'd respond to TC, but I don't like giving advice when I feel like I don't have the whole story.

Give me a job and the money and I will. I live in one of the most expensive areas in the U.S. ATM. Moving out means, quite literally, moving to an entirely different state unless I go for something thats basically falling apart. I wouldn't be surprised if cardboard boxes come with a $100 a month fee.

[eclipse]

Give me a job and the money and I will. I live in one of the most expensive areas in the U.S. ATM. Moving out means, quite literally, moving to an entirely different state unless I go for something thats basically falling apart. I wouldn't be surprised if cardboard boxes come with a $100 a month fee.

You're talking to someone who lives in Hawaii, so forgive me for not sympathizing with you. You also have your own topic, so I have no idea why you'd barge in with your own story.

[I'm gay dabadeedabada]

I'm looking at this thread and wondering why no one is suggesting calling some sort of child abuse hotline because, believe it or not, that's emotional abuse, and emotional abuse is illegal in most first world countries.

Also, calling someone pathetic or disgusting for threatening suicide when they're backed into a corner and in an emotional wreck is worse than threatening suicide, ever. Being manipulative and crushing someone further when they're already desperate enough to threaten something usually unthinkable to do is gross.

When I was a kid, I actually wanted to die, and I made a lot of detailed plans to do it. Every time I said I was gonna kill myself to my mom, she'd say "Okay, let's drive off a cliff together"

and that shit was traumatizing as hell

because

1.) I didn't want her to die

2.) I didn't want to die with her

3.) that's plain rude

When I informed my mom a few years later that she was emotionally abusing me (she still did a lot of horrible things and my stepdad neglects me) she mostly stopped though. I think she's just borderline.

Quick Google:

http://germany.usembassy.gov/acs/childabuse/

Seek help at the local Jugendamt, apparently. You'd have to Google your own region's.

Edited April 5, 2015 by Yasako

[Tryhard]

I'm looking at this thread and wondering why no one is suggesting calling some sort of child abuse hotline because, believe it or not, that's emotional abuse, and emotional abuse is illegal in most first world countries.

Also, calling someone pathetic or disgusting for threatening suicide when they're backed into a corner and in an emotional wreck is worse than threatening suicide, ever. Being manipulative and crushing someone further when they're already desperate enough to threaten something usually unthinkable to do is gross.

I'd agree, you should be reporting this if it's actually what you say instead of posting about it on an internet forum.

Threatening suicide if they have no plans of actually going through with it is emotionally abusive in the first place. Note that I don't think that subjecting people to emotional abuse is any less worse.

Forgive me if I think that the story is a little far-fetched, too.

[Life]

I'm gonna call bullshit right now.

A lot of kids who claim to contemplate suicide because "their lives suck" are, in my book, whiny little brats.

Why can I say this? Because I have friends who are emotionally scarred from warfare and a good friend of mine who, as a Marine, had a soldier of his recently commit suicide because of actual terrors.

So if you're going to call suicide because Mommy is giving you a bit of tough love, grow up.

[The Geek]

If your parents are denying you food for extended periods of time to enforce obedience, then I'm pretty sure that counts as child abuse, in which case you should call the cops.

[Just call me AL]

At least your folks aren't hiding your stuff on you without you even knowing about it, and giving you horrendously vague answers in regards to where your items are.

I can't even begin to count how many times that happened to me.

Edited April 7, 2015 by Just call me AL

[blah the Prussian]

Threatening suicide in an attempt to get what you want is, as mentioned before, an absolutely cowardly and deplorable act. Ot only is it emotionally manipulative, it defiles people who committed suicide because they had actual problems. I generally agree with Man Bun on the topic of suicide. Very few things in life justify it. Shellshock is one of them. If all of what you said is true, then it is child abuse.

[Misses Elise-chan!]

Think of the children in Africa :'(

They has no food, be very thankful for the life you have. Xenu bless you in the name of Cthulu.