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Can I get a restraining order against my mother?
I'm so confused as to what to do with my mother. I know that the question generally would confuse people. What? Get a restraining order against your mother?
The relationship with my mother is very complicated. I personally believe that's she mentally unstable. She's delusional and was inept as a mother. Two years ago I admitted to her that I was raped in a psychiatric hospital (that she placed me in after I attempted to run away from home) by one of the night orderlies. After this emotional exchange she simply told me, "That's not my problem. I did the best I could do as a single mother to raise you." I'm sure she didn't know how to respond, and she continuously insists that my upbringing was perfect and that she was an amazing mother. After that I decided that I needed what relationship I had with her altogether.
Thankfully I live in Ohio (I moved to live with my father when I was 16) and she lives in Texas. Right? No. My mother calls me constantly, multiple times a week or even in a day. I've changed my phone too many times to count. I've had her number blocked. I've even become estranged from most of my family because they always give her my new number. She always gets a hold of it. I had to make my Facebook completely private and go by a different name. I've blocked countless phony email addresses of hers. She always sends me gifts for my birthday and holidays. She sends me letters. She even tries to visit me. Last semester she flew up here and weaseled my class schedule out of whoever at my college through some lie (she's a pathological liar). She came to my class and demanded that I speak with her. I had to drag my mother out of school while yelling at her. Then I drove to a friend's beach house in North Carolina to hide out (and I missed an exam). I had no clue what to do. She's threatening to come visit me again for Christmas.
I need serious help and I have no clue what to do. She's my mother and in some crazy reason I still have this child-parent attachment to her so I don't want to see her hurt. However, I need to do something drastic to get her to leave me alone. I need to move on with my life, and I need her to not be a part of it until she gets help (which seems highly improbable). I want to get a restraining order to prevent all forms of contact from her. I want there to be some sort of legal ramifications for her harassing me. I've finally decided to completely sever this thought process of her being a mother to me.
Any help would be very much appreciated. This is beyond exhausting and it always brings me down. I can't move on in therapy with a lot of my issues with her constant negative influence. No matter what I try she forces her way into my life. I don't even know where to begin.
Best regards,
Justin
Can I get a restraining order against my mother?
I'm so confused as to what to do with my mother. I know that the question generally would confuse people. What? Get a restraining order against your mother?
The relationship with my mother is very complicated. I personally believe that's she mentally unstable. She's delusional and was inept as a mother. Two years ago I admitted to her that I was raped in a psychiatric hospital (that she placed me in after I attempted to run away from home) by one of the night orderlies. After this emotional exchange she simply told me, "That's not my problem. I did the best I could do as a single mother to raise you." I'm sure she didn't know how to respond, and she continuously insists that my upbringing was perfect and that she was an amazing mother. After that I decided that I needed what relationship I had with her altogether.
Thankfully I live in Ohio (I moved to live with my father when I was 16) and she lives in Texas. Right? No. My mother calls me constantly, multiple times a week or even in a day. I've changed my phone too many times to count. I've had her number blocked. I've even become estranged from most of my family because they always give her my new number. She always gets a hold of it. I had to make my Facebook completely private and go by a different name. I've blocked countless phony email addresses of hers. She always sends me gifts for my birthday and holidays. She sends me letters. She even tries to visit me. Last semester she flew up here and weaseled my class schedule out of whoever at my college through some lie (she's a pathological liar). She came to my class and demanded that I speak with her. I had to drag my mother out of school while yelling at her. Then I drove to a friend's beach house in North Carolina to hide out (and I missed an exam). I had no clue what to do. She's threatening to come visit me again for Christmas.
I need serious help and I have no clue what to do. She's my mother and in some crazy reason I still have this child-parent attachment to her so I don't want to see her hurt. However, I need to do something drastic to get her to leave me alone. I need to move on with my life, and I need her to not be a part of it until she gets help (which seems highly improbable). I want to get a restraining order to prevent all forms of contact from her. I want there to be some sort of legal ramifications for her harassing me. I've finally decided to completely sever this thought process of her being a mother to me.
Any help would be very much appreciated. This is beyond exhausting and it always brings me down. I can't move on in therapy with a lot of my issues with her constant negative influence. No matter what I try she forces her way into my life. I don't even know where to begin.
Best regards,
Justin