You know a parent has to be bad when their child is willing to move into a homeless shelter instead of spending another minute under the same roof as them.
On Sunday, this girl is turning 18, and she will be moving into a homeless shelter due to how horrible her mom is. She’s her mom’s only child since her mom suffered from some complications while giving birth to her that resulted in her mom no longer being able to have kids.
Her mom constantly blames her for this, but that’s not the only awful thing about her mom. Her mom steals her money and sabotages all her chances of a better life.
She graduated from high school early and always got straight As, so she wanted to go to college, but her mom wouldn’t give her what she needed to file the forms to receive financial aid. Her mom says college is ridiculous, and she thinks she will fail out.
Moving on to the housework, her mom forces her to clean the whole house alone. She gets up very early to work a part-time job, and her mom yells at her for being lazy. Her mom also enjoys making messes for her to have extra things to pick up.
And if you’re curious where her dad is, her parents got divorced when she was in middle school due to how abusive her mom was to him.
She hardly sees her dad, but her neighbor allows her to go over there to call him on the phone in secret. She wishes she could live with her dad, but he has a small studio apartment, a mean landlord, and isn’t in the best situation.
What really pushed her over the edge and made her want to move out of her mom’s house was when her mom stole $300 from her, and that’s hardly the first time, since her money from work gets deposited into her mom’s bank account.
“I demanded to know why she took it. I told her I was also trying to save to move out. She said, ‘Your money is my money. If you live in this house and make money, it is going towards bills,'” she explained.
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“That was another lie; she always used my money for her to go out to eat, buy cigarettes, and to get her nails done. She also uses that money to buy clothes for her new boyfriend.”
“Her boyfriend has his own place, fortunately, so I don’t have to see him much. I never liked him. He had a horrible and entitled attitude.”
So, when she turns 18 on Sunday, she’s moving into a homeless shelter so she can be free of her mom. It’s not difficult to get accepted into a shelter where she lives, but if she does have to wait to move there, her friend will let her sleep on her couch.
Since she’s been concerned about how her mom will twist her leaving, she made a post on Facebook to publicly announce why she’s moving out.
She started out by saying she doesn’t want to be reported as missing and that her mom is the reason she’s moving out. She detailed how her mom steals her money, makes her clean the house, and wouldn’t let her apply to college. She called her mom out for being a liar before signing off.
“Then my family members from both sides called and texted my mother. They tore into her. My mother burst into my room and demanded to know why I was going to a homeless shelter,” she added.
“She said I’m not allowed to leave. I calmly responded, ‘When I’m 18, there’s not a thing you can do about it.’ Now my mother has been ranting all day, yelling, cursing, breaking things, and slamming things in the house. I packed my backpack [with] all my essentials.”
She has clothes, her birth certificate, her social security card, and a secret cellphone her aunt gave her. Her mom swiped her phone months ago, but doesn’t know about the second one. She also has $20 in case she has to ride the bus to the shelter.
She’s left wondering if she’s wrong for calling out her mom publicly for being so mean and explaining why she’s moving to a homeless shelter.
I don’t think she’s wrong for exposing her mom on social media and for wanting to leave home. While I get that her dad might not be an option to live with, she should see if her aunt or another family member will take her in, so she doesn’t have to go to a shelter.
What do you think?
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