ok not sure if this the forum for this or not, when i was younger i was emotionally abused by my stepfather and there was physical abuse but that truely did not affect me it was not much. my mother dated my stepfather when i was three, they married, we lived in an apartment at first but my stepfather lived at home with his mother until he live married my mom, they got married when i was 11 so he was like 37. that being said his mother who literally came over on the boat from italy in 1910, started having accidents and he kept running when she called. eventually, she ended up being bed ridden and instead of putting her in a nursing home he hired people to come into the house and take care of her 24 7 well thats where my emotional abuse started, i wasnt allowed to do anything, i was stuck in my situation, ieverything in my house had to be done, when he said not if i was in the bathtub and he said do something i had to get out and go do it,. when he said it no matter what. no friends allowed over, if i listened to the radio tooo loud i got yelled at sometimes hit, but not often it was all degrading me to put me in the place i was, eventually it got so bad my mother finally realized it, and while they seperated and my mother got an apartment for her and i , but after some times, she began to leave me at home by myself and go out there. so i basically was moved out on my own, and left to my own resources until i