My 18 year old daughter verbally abuses me and physically hit me last weekend
My name is Sandra and I am the single mom of 2 kids a daughter who is 18 and a son who is 14. My daughter is graduating from h.s. in a few weeks and since she turned 18 she went from the normal arguments a teen has with her mom to verbally cursing at me and now this past weekend she started a fight with me which escalated to her punching me on my leg 3 times. In front of my 14 yr old son and her girlfriend who lives with us. My son was crying, her girlfriend did nothing to stop her. I have an auto-immune disease called scleroderma and she hurt me so bad that I have a huge black and blue bruise on my inner knee and thigh. My first instinct was to call the police, but, I didn't want her to get arrested. I made her leave and she lives with her gf's family now until we move to Florida to be closer to her father and father's side of the family. I have not told her father yet, I want him to live with her so he can see what I'm talking about with her mood changes. We're divorced, he will think it's me who provoked her in some way. Even though we have been divorced since 99'. I don't even want to go to her h.s. graduation. I'm embarrassed and don't know what I should do? I left her dad because of the same behavior, my kids were 3 and 1 so they never saw any abuse. I'm in a position of being her mom and wanting to help her, but God forgive me I don't like her right now.