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Leaving my mother
Nobody should have to take abuse, in whatever form, from anyone, including parents. This year, after years and years of verbal, physical and emotional abuse from my mother, I decided to call it a day. I no longer speak to, hear from or see my mother.
The fact that my mother has made no attempt to contact me since our last conversation is probably enough to justify my decision, although I have many more reasons in my arsenal as to why I'm not speaking to her than just her indifference towards me.
The abuse goes as far back to as I can remember, and from the age of around five I was terrified of my mother. My earliest memories are not of being comforted when crying, but of being told 'if you don't shut up I'll give you something to cry for.' And often she did, by pulling me around by my hair or repeatedly hitting me across the head. I spent much of my younger years flinching, locking myself in the bathroom until my dad came home and developing a range of psychosomatic conditions, such as not being able to swallow or go to the toilet when she was around.
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