Child Abuse Story From Amanda
by Amanda
(Dawsonville, Georgia)
I don't know when my mom's emotional abuse started. When I was in eighth grade, mine and my mom's relationship got real bad. It was probably because that was when my sister got more physically abusive. She would hit me and shove me. Once she hit me with the phone and left bruises on my elbows. Another time, she chased me out of her room with a hanger and started hitting me with it (but she was allowed in my room; Mom's rules). She's two years younger than me and I could never stand up to her because my mom would get mad. She never believed anything my sister did was wrong, so I never told on her. My mom would tell me that I was lying if I ever told on my little sister. So I stopped talking to my mom.
After that, I never seemed to do anything right. I was always selfish and mean and rude. I think the comment that hurt the most was when she told my I was the most hateful child in the world. It hurt even worse when I told her that it hurt me badly and she just said, "Well, you are." We weren't even fighting and she wasn't mad at me, that I knew of. She would call me a b****, and she said if I got my eyebrows done I would look like a hooker.
I never thought my mom would hit me, but she did. It truly felt like a metal baseball bat was colliding with my head. My food went flying across the table and I was almost knocked out of my chair. I was really scared. She's also hit my arms and legs, but my head is where she likes to hit me the most. And I should note that she doesn't hit me often, but when she does, it really hurts.
She hasn't hit me since my dad found out that she had hit me. My parents are divorced and they despise each other so much that they can barely talk. That is until my dad found out about all the stuff she was doing to me. He was furious!
I'm still going through this, but I only have a few more years. My dad has told me that I could move in with him, but I really don't want to leave my friends, so I haven't. I don't talk to my mom or my sister, at all. If we do happen to end up in a conversation, it turns into a fight. It's always my fault. I never win and she always gets the last word. That's why it's better if I keep my mouth shut.
Hopefully, one day she'll see that she's really hurt me and she'll apologize. Until then, I can't do anything but forgive her.
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