I'm 26 years old and unemployed. I've been trying to do gig work, cause getting a 9-5 isn't in the cards for me. I moved back to live with my mum last year, after being supported by my uncle for a year, cause my mum was so violent and would constantly kick me out .She started kicking my brother and I out when we were 8. And carried on throughout my whole life(BTW I'm in a developing country, so I couldn't support myself with part time jobs, cause they barely exist , unless you're well connected. Or are in a position to have a side hustle, I had no money and no stability to try start anything, since I was always getting kicked out, and was constantly stressed about where I'd sleep or what to eat.)

My mum has been giving me false hopes on working on a project together, then shelving/ postponing the idea. Long story short my mum has always been abusive; physically and emotionally. She did the project that she promised we'd do together, but didn't hire me cause she said it'd be cheaper.

She'd given me some money cause she made a lot of money a few months ago , she spent about 6 - 10 times more on my brother's expenses but barely give him as cash cause he has a drug problem but is a functional druggie .I decided to set aside the money she gave me for moving out cause I know how volatile things can get at home.

She also asked me to start 2 USD bank accounts and manage them for her ( meaning do the donkey work of going to withdraw the money all the time). I had to go far from where we live and change it to the national currency then send it to her .She ended up getting broke after sometime and used up all the money in the bank accounts. She begged me to give her the little money I had been saving ( though I didn't tell her what it was for) and she would refund me in no time.

It's been 4 months now she hasn't refunded me, and I've had to pause all my projects, so I've been broke for the past 4 months, waiting for her to refund me. When I bring up the conversation she gets mad and says that it's actually her money, cause she's the one who gave me the money. I get so mad cause she never tells my brother any of this.

I thought once you decide to give someone money it's theirs to spend and do as they please. I believed her when she said she's going to pay me back. She never tells my brother this after spending most of her money on him, it's mostly cause he can't save money, cause of the drug problem.

It's been this way since we were young, my mother outwardly favoured my brother , and everyone called it out but she would brush it off. My brother even went to private uni and got to choose their course, while I was taken to a public university and made to do whichever course the university chose for me , no questions asked.

I'm starting to feel like my mum knows that I'm gonna help her no matter what and she's taking advantage of it. She recently became very violent with me and tried to unalive me by brutally beating me up when she was drunk, cause we got into a heated argument since I asked her to pay me the money I'd lent her, since everything had come to a standstill in my life cause I didn't have any money to do any projects.

I asked her on phone why she's constantly going out during the day, then to clubs in the evening, and she always comes back broke and sometimes can't even afford transport back home. One of her friends overheard cause she accidentally put the call on speaker and she was so mad about that and embarrassed. The friend then asked her how I could question her and she's the one taking care of me , How dare I ,since I'm unemployed at the big age of 26. A quick backstory, this friend spent a lot of her money back in the day and then aired all her dirty laundry to their mutual friends , and her boyfriend.

My mum was so furious about her friend overhearing the conversation, and I was so furious about her not paying my money and constantly trying to change the topic when I brought it up. We got into a heated argument and I told her not to confront me about her "useless" friends who use her time and time again, and just pay me my money so I can move out. ( Sidenote; I even got depressed cause of constantly having to stall my projects since she didn't refund me in due time) .

She then started hitting me with sandals and even threw me to the ground and was stepping on my body , basically trampling me while hitting me with sandals, I couldn't move (she's 50 pounds heavier than me) . We were both shouting and I was furious, I went to have a bath and we continued arguing, she came and hit me with a wooden stick on my head repeatedly after I got out of the bathroom and said she would kill me if I didn't shut up. I'm bruised and had so many scratches, my head is swollen from being hit with the stick.

She then called my sister the next day , while she was out with her "friends" and was jokingly telling her how she almost killed me yesterday and even saw blood on the wooden stick that she hit me with. I guess she wants her "friends" to know that; boy oh boy,she really showed me.

She's supposed to get paid for one of her projects but had me use my details for all the paper work. She doesn't want to do paperwork, she finds it demanding so she had me do the donkey work,as usual.

She had me start a bank account where all the money will be deposited and it's under my name. I'm thinking of taking 18 - 20 % of the money and going no contact and starting my own life away from her for good. The money will hit my bank account soon and she plans on giving me 1%. She also wants me out of her life after that, and I have no idea where I'm supposed to go or how I'll survive.

AITA for planning to do that?

I REALLY NEED ADVICE.