Family enmeshed & emotional incest
Hi everyone 💛 I am new here 😇 and so glad I found this community. Can’t really afford therapy at this time and really just need to vent/talk to someone.
Im 35 and I live at home. Main,y still here due to my parents (really my dad) not wanting me to move out. Rewind back to college my mom had an affair on my dad and since then it’s like I’ve been having to hold the pieces. My mom avoids hard topics or conversations and constantly works. I think to escape the house, but that leaves me home to console my dad to a degree. He tells me all his problems and it’s like I’m his mini wife. Nothing sexual but we hang out ALOT. Which I enjoyed as a teen/young adult but now being grown it’s starting to be annoying & overwhelming.
whenever I attempt to start dating or t ll him about a new love interest or mate it’s like he gets an attitude & finds something wrong with everyone. If I go out with my friends on the weekend or after I get off work it’s a problem, he denies it but you can see the attitude or feel his mood change.
it upsets me because my mom will be like “ you’re grown you can do what you like” but she won’t tell him that. Like I don’t have any back up.
I was looking at houses last year and that got him upset too saying “ oh you wanna move out-why” I’m like kids eventually want to leave the nest!
So now they want to give me the family house to move into but it caught fire last year (with me in it & my 3 dogs-they died in the fire 🔥). So it’s like I’m being held hostage until the remodel is complete which they have basically stopped working on. I’ll be 36 in December and just feeling like the world is closing in around me. Someone with advice or just kind words I’d love to hear