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Hi. My name is Grace. I live in Alabama, which is probably one of the worst states concerning emancipation laws. I live with my 40 year old mother, my seven year old brother, and my grandparents.
My mother is horribly abusive, often steals from me, threatens me, and forces me to perform humiliating tasks, like pulling the grass out with my bare hands because I missed the bus today. I am at my wit's end. She refused to let me get a driver's license, because she wants me to have to rely on her for rides to work. She constantly demands money from me, or she "won't pick me up and she'll let me sleep on the pavement at work overnight". My mother makes less money than I do. She makes minimum wage, while I make $9 an hour. Upon discovery of this, she yelled at me and punished me. She regularly threatens to kill herself, and makes my brother cry by telling him that when she kills herself, he'll be forced into a foster home, where he'll probably get raped. She regularly cusses and screams at both of us. It's a tradition for her to reduce both of us to tears on our first day of school, and she succeeded once again this year. She spends all of her paychecks on drugs, alcohol, and fast food, and mooches off of my grandparents and makes them pay all the bills. She has threatened to move out of our grandparent's house, and to force my brother and I to be homeless and live in our car and not attend school. She has purposefully held us out of school before, just to exercise her own power and make our lives harder. She has almost all of the symptoms for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), but refused to get help. She just takes out all of her frustrations on us, and I can't take it anymore.
I have an 18 year old boyfriend whom I met at his work. We've been together in a very serious relationship for six months now. He is an honor student, who has a full ride scholarship to Auburn University this fall. He has his own car, and an apartment that he shares with his best friend.
The point of making this thread was to get opinions on the likelihood of emancipating in my state. According to Alabama state law, the age of majority is 19. This means that I could be trapped under the boot off my mother for more than two more years, and I honestly can't handle it anymore. I need solutions. My mother has driven me to attempt suicide once, and I need to escape, whether that's by emancipation, and joining my boyfriend's lease, where I'll pay rent and live on my own, or running away and living with him anyways.
My mother is horribly abusive, often steals from me, threatens me, and forces me to perform humiliating tasks, like pulling the grass out with my bare hands because I missed the bus today. I am at my wit's end. She refused to let me get a driver's license, because she wants me to have to rely on her for rides to work. She constantly demands money from me, or she "won't pick me up and she'll let me sleep on the pavement at work overnight". My mother makes less money than I do. She makes minimum wage, while I make $9 an hour. Upon discovery of this, she yelled at me and punished me. She regularly threatens to kill herself, and makes my brother cry by telling him that when she kills herself, he'll be forced into a foster home, where he'll probably get raped. She regularly cusses and screams at both of us. It's a tradition for her to reduce both of us to tears on our first day of school, and she succeeded once again this year. She spends all of her paychecks on drugs, alcohol, and fast food, and mooches off of my grandparents and makes them pay all the bills. She has threatened to move out of our grandparent's house, and to force my brother and I to be homeless and live in our car and not attend school. She has purposefully held us out of school before, just to exercise her own power and make our lives harder. She has almost all of the symptoms for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), but refused to get help. She just takes out all of her frustrations on us, and I can't take it anymore.
I have an 18 year old boyfriend whom I met at his work. We've been together in a very serious relationship for six months now. He is an honor student, who has a full ride scholarship to Auburn University this fall. He has his own car, and an apartment that he shares with his best friend.
The point of making this thread was to get opinions on the likelihood of emancipating in my state. According to Alabama state law, the age of majority is 19. This means that I could be trapped under the boot off my mother for more than two more years, and I honestly can't handle it anymore. I need solutions. My mother has driven me to attempt suicide once, and I need to escape, whether that's by emancipation, and joining my boyfriend's lease, where I'll pay rent and live on my own, or running away and living with him anyways.
288-5434, (877) 393-2333 or the National Child Abuse Hotline (800) 422-4453.
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