I live with my Mom and let me start out by saying that she is an insane control freak! She feels the need to dictate what I wear, what I eat, where I go, when I wake up, when I go to bed and basically what, when and how I do things. And never once have I yelled and her or ever shown her any disrespect. But I’m only human. I channel my rage into video games and I cry myself to sleep in either anger, frustration or sadness. And now something terrible has happened: Our periods have synced. When
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My preteen daughter has bipolar disorder and has terrible rages that include shrieking, hitting and breaking things. My husband doesn’t want her to get help in a therapeutic boarding school because he doesn’t want to give up “control” (even though he can’t control her illness). We have been the victims of her crazy behavior for four years. Her younger brothers live with daily stress and misery. I get hit the most. She has broken a big screen TV and 5 computers. She does ok at school because she
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My boyfriend is the biggest control freak ever. I don’t have any say on any decisions that “we” make. We were looking for a new apartment together and he made up his mind about what he wanted and that was that. It didn’t matter what I wanted or had to say or that I am stuck with my name on the lease paying half of the rent and bills for a place I don’t even like. He never consults me about any decisions that affect both of our lives. I feel like he doesn’t care at all about what I want. He does
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