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my 14yr old daughter has gone to live with her abusive dad

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confusedjulie · 30/01/2013 07:51

hi i need some advice. there is an awful lot of information to keep it simple i will try and list the relevant info in points
i lived with my physically sexually verbally emotionally abusive husband for 7.5 years before i left him
i remarried and have a 3 year old with my new husband, i also have a 19yr old all of us get on, my 14 yr old doesnt get on with any of us
my 14 yr old is very challenging she has never really had a relationship with her dad and is pretty unaware of the abuse i suffered, she does not believe what she has heard because her dad brainwashes and manipulates.
she wanted to see her dad but he hardly ever showed when he said he would and spent the time asking how my husband was treating her and about himself
she has for the last few months refused to talk to her dad now he has started to bother with her (last 6 mts) avoids conversations with him, ignores text
ex has been abusive to exgirlfriend too as recently as 4 mths ago, she wanted to marry him until last few days, this is the strength of his manipulation, he has bitten a piece out of her arm while she slept, and recently punched her in the face while sober, has not drank for 2 years now
she left to stay at her dads 5 days ago, she refused to speak to me, she says that i disgust her because she thinks i have allowed her step dad, my husband to abuse her verbally for the last two years. i have stepped in on occasion when swearing has been involved and once when he pushed her. the main offence has been a lot of nit-picking, ie pick up you stuff, calling her horrible child because she has reduced me to tears or said something really offensive to him. i have taken this as 6 of one and half a dozen of the other as there has been blame all round. i have offered to get my husband to go to his dads for 2 weeks to give us some time to talk, have the head master mediate between us and suggested she has counselling if she feels abused, i have said maybe it would work if she spent half the week with me and half with her dad, and when she is here my husband stays at his dads.
i have met up with her once since she left and i had to meet her on my own with my ex, he says i should have kicked my husband out, she just says to me why have i stood by and let my husband abuse her for the last two years and to tell her how i felt while he was doing this. he wants her, himself and me to have a friendship, i despise him, and is interested in knowing how quick i can sort out the child benefit! his ex tells me he is loving it
i am sick inside i can't sleep or eat
please help,

OP posts:
MoonlightandRoses · 30/01/2013 22:28

I'm sorry, I can't help with what you're going through, but just wanted to let you know you may be better re-posting in either the Relationships or Teenagers topics. They get more traffic and it's likely you will get some good support from people with experience of the kinds of issues you're currently going through.

Hope it gets better soon.

RowanMumsnet · 31/01/2013 19:33

Hello there

We've moved this to Relationships now. Best of luck to the OP.

Kione · 31/01/2013 19:40

If you think your daughter is in danger, get Social Services involved. I am so sorry to.read this. big hugs.

Sioda · 31/01/2013 20:14

So your husband swears at her and assaulted her. I don't care if she is a pain in the , she's right, you have let him abuse her. There isn't 'blame all round', she's 14 and he's the adult. End of. And you still aren't protecting her.

joblot · 31/01/2013 21:15

Family lives is a great organization- Google them. They have forums and free phone line. Particularly aimed at parents with teenagers. Might help you to talk it all over with a real person.

AgentProvocateur · 31/01/2013 21:23

Poor girl. Maybe going to her abusive father's house is better than being sworn at, pushed around and being called a horrible child by her stepdad? Is anyone looking after her best interests? She seems to have been let down by all the adults in her family.

ratbagcatbag · 31/01/2013 21:31

Agree with others, I have a 14 yo DSS, and god it's hard, I have told him off, I have said his behaviour is horrible at times (but never him) and I can't think I've ever laid a finger on him other than mucking around and he thinks he's hard done too. Your DD feels you have let her down dreadfully, and as much as you are not happy about her living with her dad I really think you need to separate the issues, he may have been awful to you in the past but that doesn't mean he will be to his DD.
You are too focussed on her dad rather than listening carefully to what she is saying to you about your DH, I'm not saying whats she saying isn't skewed, but she genuinely sounds like you left her to fend for herself and you have already written her off saying she doesn't get on with anyone.
She's sounds like she's rejected by your family but yet you don't want her having a solid relationship with her dad.

chipmonkey · 31/01/2013 21:41

How can there be "blame all round" when you are talking about an adult and a 14 year old?
Calling her a horrible child is abusive
Pushing her is abusive.
Swearing at her is abusive.
It sounds to me as if the poor child is between a rock and a hard place. Live with an abusive Dad or a mother who doesn't protect her from an abusive stepdad.

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