📝 AITAH for moving out at 18?

By ThrowRA_bunny25 • Score: 2 • April 27, 2025 10:31 AM


Hi everyone, so I (18 f) moved out of my parent's apartment and live with my partner and his family. My partner and I have been together for 1 year and he's an amazing man. His family likes me a lot and I love this town a lot because some of my dad's side of family live here and live 5 minutes away from my grandma. I'm graduating from school in less than 2 months. My life at home was difficult, my parents were mentally, emotionally and sometimes physically abusive for years. One parent more than the other, the other mostly just watched things happen and didn't try to help me. alcoholic mother for years now. Fights every day, feeling unsafe, it has entirely screwed with my nervous system. You'd get yelled at and insulted over simply making breakfast in the morning when she's hung over. And just to give an image of how bad this would get. I was picked up by her once from my dance training, and she crashed out over taking a wrong turn on the road, she screamed HYSTERICALLY how tired she is and she doesn't want to be picking me up. She threatened to crash the car on the highway, swerving the car like a maniac. I was trembling for an hour once I got out of the car. I told her a month ago that I'm moving after I graduate. To my surprise she broke down, begging me to stay, she quit drinking right then and there, told me she wants to appreciate me now and be a mother to me and make things right. I told her that it's still a few more months till I move. However this changed. A week later she wanted to go on a mushroom trip to feel better because "she became depressed because of me after I told her I'm moving". She wanted to force me to be there for her trip, that she needed my help. I was too scared to be there to see her in a state like that, despite them both yelling at me that I'm selfish and I should be there and called names, I left anyway. I went to my partner for the weekend. When I came back I was greeted with screaming, insults and threatened. I've had enough. I've struggled with study all year long because of my home life, I was done and I had to save myself because I felt myself shutting down. Within 2 days I arranged everything for me to move by the end of the week. When I told my parents I'm leaving, God it was a shit show. My mom had a panic attack and my father told me how cruel I am to my mom. I left. I've been talking with my psychologist throughout these weeks. She knows about my struggles and knows my last therapist said I have PTSD. My parents don't call. They want me to call everyday but if I don't they get mad. They say I disrespected them and I'm a liar because I moved earlier than I said I would. AITAH?

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