Parodydude
Sep 27, 2007, 07:16 PM
I am a 33 year old disabled man living in my mothers house. The agreement we have is I pay her $750 a month out of my social security check to live here, as rent, to cover expenses. We have no written contract. She is also disabled, with kidney failure. The problem is we do not get along. Our relationship has deteriorated steadily in the years I have lived with her. I love her a lot, but her emotional abuse never stops. I have been helping her with household chores, cooking, laundry, and taking care of the pool and spa. I am just barely able to do these things but I do my best to help out. However my service is inadequate, because I don't respond to her damands quickly enough, or with a smile on my face.
She is very abusive to me. I believe this is due to her illnesses. She has said things to me like 'i own you' 'you are my slave' etc. She acuses me of bullying and abusing her when I refuse to or are unable to help her in a timely fasion. Sometimes I am in too much pain, and just unable.
Between the two of us we aren't able to keep the house clean so we hire a teenager to help out now and then.
Lately I have been reluctant to leave my room, I spend 99%of my day locked in here to avoid conflict with her. I am literally a prisoner in my home. All I want is to live quietly and peacefully.
I should mention that my mother has emotional and mental problems which she has never sought assistance with, but that make her unreasonable to deal with. If we have a disagreement, she screams at me and tells me I have to move out. I cannot count how many times she has told me to move out. This time she has called my father who lives in another state to enlist his help in moving meout. They plan to bring a uhaul and against my will move me to Oregon, from California, to live by myself in a hovel or a room rental.
I feel bound by duty to stay with her and take care of her, I have found her sick and had to call 911 to save her. She needs someone here. I am reluctant to go for this reason, also because I don't know where I can go and live on my minuscule income of 1100 a month in this area. I do not want to live with my abusive father in Oregon. He doeent even acknowledge the fact that I am disabled and calls me a failure because I don't find work. (which I am unable to do)
So I giess my question is, do I have any rights? I might be able to find a place but I need to save all my money for a couple months to pay for a move and a move in. I should also mention that while I give her $750 a month upfront, she also gets about $250 a month more from me for incidental expenses, car repair, household needs, meals out, etc. My friends think she financially abuses me because she takes so much of my money. I just want to live in peace.
Some of my illnesses, Cardiac AFIB and psoriasis are worsened by anxiety and my mom does nothing but cause me as much anxiety as possible, She even told me a sheriff was going to come get me over a bill I owe. She also said she's going to get a order of protection to make me leave without notice, if I don't obey her.
I am become a shut in, afraid and reluctant to leave the house on my own, terrified to defend myself from her for fear she will claim I hurt her. If I say she is abusing me, she says I am abusing her. If I refuse to come out of my room, she says I am abusing her. She has told her friends and my father that I abuse her. I am terrified, ddepressed, I have high anxiety and therefor I am having a hard time thinking of what I can do to help myself out of this situation.
Thanks,
Imprisoned in my home.
She is very abusive to me. I believe this is due to her illnesses. She has said things to me like 'i own you' 'you are my slave' etc. She acuses me of bullying and abusing her when I refuse to or are unable to help her in a timely fasion. Sometimes I am in too much pain, and just unable.
Between the two of us we aren't able to keep the house clean so we hire a teenager to help out now and then.
Lately I have been reluctant to leave my room, I spend 99%of my day locked in here to avoid conflict with her. I am literally a prisoner in my home. All I want is to live quietly and peacefully.
I should mention that my mother has emotional and mental problems which she has never sought assistance with, but that make her unreasonable to deal with. If we have a disagreement, she screams at me and tells me I have to move out. I cannot count how many times she has told me to move out. This time she has called my father who lives in another state to enlist his help in moving meout. They plan to bring a uhaul and against my will move me to Oregon, from California, to live by myself in a hovel or a room rental.
I feel bound by duty to stay with her and take care of her, I have found her sick and had to call 911 to save her. She needs someone here. I am reluctant to go for this reason, also because I don't know where I can go and live on my minuscule income of 1100 a month in this area. I do not want to live with my abusive father in Oregon. He doeent even acknowledge the fact that I am disabled and calls me a failure because I don't find work. (which I am unable to do)
So I giess my question is, do I have any rights? I might be able to find a place but I need to save all my money for a couple months to pay for a move and a move in. I should also mention that while I give her $750 a month upfront, she also gets about $250 a month more from me for incidental expenses, car repair, household needs, meals out, etc. My friends think she financially abuses me because she takes so much of my money. I just want to live in peace.
Some of my illnesses, Cardiac AFIB and psoriasis are worsened by anxiety and my mom does nothing but cause me as much anxiety as possible, She even told me a sheriff was going to come get me over a bill I owe. She also said she's going to get a order of protection to make me leave without notice, if I don't obey her.
I am become a shut in, afraid and reluctant to leave the house on my own, terrified to defend myself from her for fear she will claim I hurt her. If I say she is abusing me, she says I am abusing her. If I refuse to come out of my room, she says I am abusing her. She has told her friends and my father that I abuse her. I am terrified, ddepressed, I have high anxiety and therefor I am having a hard time thinking of what I can do to help myself out of this situation.
Thanks,
Imprisoned in my home.