DS is 15, and he's pushing me to my limit.
He won't do schoolwork unless I literally make him do it. My DP has lent him something on condition he does it, but he needs to be policed doing it or he won't, and even then I face the wrath of his anger.
Before DP lent him this thing DS had not done any homework of his own accord for over 3 years.
Weekly detentions, and is now excluded for swearing like a navvy at the teachers.
I've raised him myself, I've fought tooth and nail for that boy. I've protected and defended him.
I get daily contempt. i get glared at with absolute hatred. I get sneered at.
If I tell him off, or ask him to do something, he squares up to me. He also makes it clear that if I upset him he will get depressed and he makes it clear that I can't risk that.
I'm being manipulated. I'm being bullied, and tonight I've been intimidated.
I threw him out of the house, told him he can come back when he can show respect to me. I thought he would lump me one, so I literally dragged and pushed him out the door.
He's now with family. And I had to hear this from someone else. Family are loooving this 