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help my mum is controlling my life I can't do what I want, I'm 34 years old still living at home, not allowed to do anything, always constantly criticising and cursing me, never blessing. She is unbelievably hard and restrictive, while claiming to protect me. She thinks she literally owns me body and soul. I am not even allowed to do what I like with my own hard-earned cash.
I need to break free, please, ask God for mercy and grace..I'm coming to breaking point. I am meant to honor her to have a long life..but I don't feel I can live that long if I stay here any longer.
I am not a baby but she treats me like one and doesn't trust me to do anything. She doesn't do that to any of my other siblings. I don't know what to do. Please pray. Hope that something good comes soon.
Im not dependent on my mother and never have been but she likes to think I am.
I have never asked her for money that isnt rightfully mine. She was actually withholding money that was mine and it took ages to access it, was like getting blood from a stone.
Now i am financially free, i.e. Dont owe anybody any money and am not looking to get into debt again to anyone else, which is why Im not buying a home as thats just going into debt again, since the only way you could afford one in nz is to go to a small town where theres nobody. You could literally count on one hand the number of homes available to first home buyers.
When she tried to give me new years money I just gave it back to her.
I dont know if my mums issue is narcissm, it sounded more like OCD personality than narcissm to me when I read the book about emotional vampires. Basically the root is fear. Mum has a fear and she passed that on to me. It had to be cast out when I was born again.
I dont know if my mums issue is narcissm, it sounded more like OCD personality than narcissm to me when I read the book about emotional vampires. Basically the root is fear. Mum has a fear and she passed that on to me. It had to be cast out when I was born again.
I read the second link.
Now I know.
I was put in hospital at 16 and thought it was all my fault and was going crazy. The therapist said that my mother and me were 'enmeshed'.
I remember growing up afraid of something, I don't know what, I had nightmares of being suffocated. I was afraid to sleep. I was put on a cocktail of drugs. They called it bipolar disorder.
I suffered from this a long time before the Lord set me free, and helped me to be strong.
I didn't know anything about boundaries.
I noticed in another friend who suffered bipolar that her relationship with her mother was not normal either. In the end her neglect and lack of affection killed her - she went missing. When I read biographies of people who suffered,(used to be called manic depression) it was always the mothers being controlling, and they, the mothers always painted themselves as saints and the daughters as wayward. But the daughters couldn't speak out about their mothers to anyone. It was impossible. Only a few admitted the truth but they ended up destroying themselves...they could never turn on their own mothers.
My mother doesn't do anything that you could report to the police. Its more subtle than that. Its like death with a thousand cuts instead. If I don't follow the Lord and without his grace I could end up just like her without realising. Before I got free from bipolar after much prayer my suffering was inexplicable and I leaned on the verse 'my grace is sufficent for you'. When I am weak He is strong..I had to learn to cast out those demons.
I think its the ancient dragon worship. She is like a dragon, she hoards everything and uses it against me. She has this power over me that mothers have, but before it was all consuming and I didn't know how to fight it.
Its like she picked on me as the weakest one. Because I didn't actively rebel like the others and stand up for myself.
I read the second link.
Now I know.
I was put in hospital at 16 and thought it was all my fault and was going crazy. The therapist said that my mother and me were 'enmeshed'.
I remember growing up afraid of something, I don't know what, I had nightmares of being suffocated. I was afraid to sleep. I was put on a cocktail of drugs. They called it bipolar disorder.
I suffered from this a long time before the Lord set me free, and helped me to be strong.
I didn't know anything about boundaries.
I noticed in another friend who suffered bipolar that her relationship with her mother was not normal either. In the end her neglect and lack of affection killed her - she went missing. When I read biographies of people who suffered,(used to be called manic depression) it was always the mothers being controlling, and they, the mothers always painted themselves as saints and the daughters as wayward. But the daughters couldn't speak out about their mothers to anyone. It was impossible. Only a few admitted the truth but they ended up destroying themselves...they could never turn on their own mothers.
My mother doesn't do anything that you could report to the police. Its more subtle than that. Its like death with a thousand cuts instead. If I don't follow the Lord and without his grace I could end up just like her without realising. Before I got free from bipolar after much prayer my suffering was inexplicable and I leaned on the verse 'my grace is sufficent for you'. When I am weak He is strong..I had to learn to cast out those demons.
I think its the ancient dragon worship. She is like a dragon, she hoards everything and uses it against me. She has this power over me that mothers have, but before it was all consuming and I didn't know how to fight it.
Its like she picked on me as the weakest one. Because I didn't actively rebel like the others and stand up for myself.
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