Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

AIBU to never speak to my mums side of the family again?

40 replies

cloverpie · 04/06/2022 15:14

This is going to be a long one.. But because i lost all my friends but one during the pandemic, i could really use some advice from outside the box.

My mother, and her mother, my nan, have always been off.
My mother did hard drugs when i was a baby and i was placed in the care of my nan, who ultimately abused me, shutting me in a room for 6 years, no friends, no tv, no nothing. She also groomed me from the age of about 4 to believe that my mother hated me and my grandfather [her ex] had raped me, and fed me little bits of normality like sweets and jewellery if i told her friends that he raped me. He hadn't. When i ran away at 15, back to my mum, who had settled and had a new family, i didn't know what the internet was, or condoms etc etc... I knew nothing a 15 year old in the 2000s should know, at all. My mum used this against me, and abused me too. She would starve me until i became so small i could fit into my little sisters clothes [she was 7] and call me a slut and a bad child, even though i had never slept with anyone and just stayed in the house all day, as i didn't have friends or a phone. She started going out on benders again when her boyfriend left her and i became a permanent live in baby sitter.
I ran away again in the same year, and went to live with a good friend i had made at a youth program at a community college. I ended up dating him, and his mum took me in and raised me for the rest of my childhood. The first time my boyfriend said 'do you want to see this meme' i was so confused because i didn't know what any of it was.

A few years later, we got our own home, had a baby and settled down. I had next to no contact with my nan, due to her own choice, and rarely saw my mother so she could see my son, who is now one and a half, current day.

I thought we had moved past all the things said and done in the past.. But unfortunately, my grandad, bless his soul, couldn't keep the secret anymore.

He said he felt terrible, but my mum would hold weekly meetings about me, because i was the 'Rogue Child'. She would proclaim that i was a Satanist, that they saw me do drugs, that i would abuse my sisters when around them, and that my son needed to be taken from me as i wasn't coping, and they even made arrangements to do so.

To clarify, i have never done drugs, i don't even drink, my partner has never done drugs either, and has the occasional cider... I am not religious in any way, and i am not demonically inclined. My sisters have no problem with me, i barely know them so its very cordial when we get together. And me and my fiancé are coping perfectly with our little one. Both of us have never felt happier than we do now.

I will make a short list of things relayed from my grandad of stuff that she called me and accused me of.
Toxic
Snake
Apostate
Drug User
Unfaithful to my partner
Slut
Teen mother [ i am in my twenties??]
That my house is dirty [ I have OCD towards cleaning, so that isn't possible]
I ruined the family
My partner beats me, because he is black
My son is dirty and uncared for
etc etc etc

After this, i just sent her a short and calm voice message explaining that i knew she was talking behind my back, and then i blocked her. She then messaged from different numbers demanding to know who told me, and that it wasn't true. I just blocked those too. Then she pretended to be my sister and accused my grandad of breaking up the family. Posing as a 12 year old is not sensible at all.

AIBU to block her without listening to her reasoning? She is the cause of my PTSD and Anxiety.

OP posts:
IDreamOfTheMoors · 04/06/2022 20:30

cloverpie · 04/06/2022 20:18

I tried therapy for over a decade, and usually , once i had finished with my story, the therapist would sit there blankly and not know where to start. NHS mental health care hasnt been too good, and i cant afford private. But im always willing to try again and again, just incase someone knows how to help. But i have done well working through it on my own so far xx

@cloverpie

Just staying and keeping away from these frightening people would more than likely be the very best therapy you could receive.
I’m just so very sorry - and appalled that there are human beings as awful as this in the world.
Hang in there.❤️

tkwal · 04/06/2022 20:40

You have given your birth family more chances than they deserve. You have strength and dignity in spite of them. Cherish your child and partner. Live the life you deserved all along, take all the support you're offered and flourish. 💐 🎈 🎈 🎈

Onwards22 · 04/06/2022 21:18

I would have nothing to do with any of them including your grandad as you’re just a pawn in their pathetic games.

It is so lovely you have found a partner who loves and supports you so much but I worry that keeping any of these family members in your life might impact your relationship.

Get rid of them all, even if you do it slowly over time.
If one of them mentions the other person just say you don’t want to talk about them.

Then write everything down and try and get some therapy.
Then concentrate on your proper family.

cloverpie · 05/06/2022 23:33

My grandad has had no proper contact for years, he just gets info siphoned to him through my younger sister, who is still a child, and he still talks to her for religious reasons. My grandad has been nothing but good to me, but he felt bad for not telling me sooner. He is perfectly fine.. But the rest of them can get off at this stop 😂

OP posts:
WalkWithDignityAndPride · 06/06/2022 09:58

Who the fuck has voted YABU?

10HailMarys · 06/06/2022 10:02

Literally never speak to these people ever again. You don't need to explain anything to them. Cut them out of your life. They're dangerous abusers and they should frankly be in jail.

cloverpie · 06/06/2022 15:02

Probably my mum 😂

OP posts:
SailingNotSurfing · 06/06/2022 15:11

Are your birth family part of some religious sect? I can't understand why you feel some kind of responsibility for them and I can't understand how, as a looked after child (fostered by your grandparents due to your mother's addiction disorder), you were failed so badly by everyone around you.

standoctor · 06/06/2022 15:19

Ignore these people
Of they contact you do not respond

cloverpie · 06/06/2022 18:40

Yes they are JWs.

OP posts:
Bednobsbroomsticks · 06/06/2022 18:50

Is your 12 year old sister living there still? Or have I misread

cloverpie · 06/06/2022 19:53

4 other sisters all 12 and under still live there.

OP posts:
Whowhatwherewhenwhynow · 06/06/2022 19:56

Cut all contact. Tell anyone you do have a relationship with that you no longer want to hear anything about them or what they are doing or saying.

they’ll never change. Don’t let them be a part of your child’s life. They already cast a shadow over your childhood, don’t let them do it to your adulthood too. Sounds like you have your own lovely supportive family now…so they bring nothing but strife.

Bednobsbroomsticks · 07/06/2022 08:47

cloverpie · 06/06/2022 19:53

4 other sisters all 12 and under still live there.

Are social services involved. V concerned for your sisters are they going through same awful abuse you did?

SpaceRock · 07/06/2022 08:51

cloverpie · 06/06/2022 19:53

4 other sisters all 12 and under still live there.

I think you should phone social services and explain everything, all the details from your childhood.

This woman (family!) is dangerous

New posts on this thread. Refresh page