I work late at nights at Wal-Mart, so when I get home, I am exhausted. \ between nine and ten, my mom came banging on my door and/or yelling to wake me up. I opened the door and then we got into an argument. I went and got a cup of orange juice and I was drinking in when she really started to get into my face. She went to hit me a few times and I blocked with the arm holding the juice and it went all over her. It was an accident, but she flipped out. She really tried to beat me up, but I am so much larger and I am able to defend myself. Now I feel I really need to get out. She threw fragile things at me and metal things at me. She cut my foot with them, bruised my ankle (and i dont brusie that easly) and just really lost it. I leave in a month for college, but I really feel it's time for me to go, but I don't know what to do. Should I leave? Should I stay? I can't take the physical abuse because next time, I might just snap and hit my mom back. Should I leave or toughen up and take it?

Why did your mother start abusing you? Did you do something to anger her? If so, I'd highly recommend you talking to your mother about it. Tell her that every time she abuses you, you get angry and you feel like leaving the house. However, she might be angry at that moment but calm her down by saying that you still love her. I've never really experienced this before so I'm not completely sure. As for the college, if it were me...I would rather solve the situation than just leave it like that. It would be kind of odd for me so if I were you, I'd have that conversation with your mother. After that, you'll be purify with any doubts so anything between your mother won't bother you anymore. Good luck, Charlie.

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Parents are allowed to use corporal punishment up to the point of leaving lasting marks, and your mother has passed that point. Do you have your own place? Because in that case, just keep your mother out. And if you don't, find an apartment for the month. Don't put up with that, if you're going to college you're obviously not a child any more and she shouldn't be treating you like that.

Hey Charlie I'm sorry to hear you're going through that. And as idealistic as sitting down on the couch and having a heart to heart is, I doubt it'll work for you. For the very fact your mother is not apolgetic she has left marks on you, shows that standard forms of communication aren't going to work. Approaching her and going on the offensive about how she is doing things wrong will only harden her stance. Parents almost never like to hear how they're screwing up. Not to mention there is still the "I'm the parent, you're the child and as long as you're in my house...." problem.

Do I suggest you pack your things and leave? No I don't think that is in your best interest. Your best course of action is to pool together your resources and hold out till college. Once you're on campus you're going to be away and she's going to have time to simmer down and reflect. You also will have an entire 9.5 months to decide if you want to live at home any more. If you don't, then use your time at college to meet up with fellow students who would be interested in off campus housing. Depending on your area this might not be much more expensive (or even less expensive) than living on campus. I wish you the best of luck Charlie. Take care of yourself.

i think this is what im going to do. im going to hold out for three weeks and the last week crash at a friends house who lives and hour away from where the college is and my job. as for christmas break im going to be charged $ 43 a day each day i stay so i need to find out if i have funds or not. hopefully i get in contact with a friend that i havent spoken to in ages and crash there for a while i dont know though but thats all in the future.

Thats a good idea, however I feel that communication is what is needed between you and your mom. Walking away from your problems doesn't solve anything for now or the future. You need to talk to your mom, allow her to express her opinions and why she was feeling the need to hurt you, however I also feel that you should be entitled to expressing how hurt emotionally and physically you were by her abuse, she needs to know that she hurt you. So I think that you should talk to her, then consider whether or not you want to move out, or whether thats the best decision.. Just dropping it and moving out isn't solving anything; if anything it might anger her more.

yea have tried in the past it just doesnt work. my mom is a correctional officer and b/c of that she isnt able to seperate me from a inmate alot of the time. i mean when i leave i still am going to talk to her, i mean she is still mom and i cant forget all she has done, doing and will do. latly i been thinking and i came to a conlusion with my mom in our present time. she is providing for me and more right now but i dont feel loved. we dont hug or anything like that. the only thing is she and i say i love you but it just doesnt seem real. by me moving and not coming back im hoping that it could change the relationship; hopefully for the better. thank you all for telling me to talk but been there and doesnt work. what im doing is the last thing i know i can do. i survived 18 years and nine months so i tried everything except thing. dont look as it as me cutting connections but changing it so that theres distance

It's been a while since you updated this thread so I'm hoping that the situation with your mom has been better. I also hope that the relationship between you and her has been settled and it worked out for the better. It could probably be assumed that she's currently at that stage in life when she's extremely angry at the things around her and she doesn't have much people to take it out on, therefore when you go home, she'll be able to take it out on you. As painful as that may sound, it could be a possibly that she needs to release some anger on someone.

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I grew up in a household that at times was a little violent and agressive. The one piece of advice I would give is DO NOT hit your mother, no matter what. It is something that you will never ever be able to undue. Just dont do it. Leave the house. go to a friends, run away from him, but do not hit her.
That is my feedback.