Hey Sup Forums,
I know a lot of people will probably scroll through this, but it may as well be worth a try.
When I was 9, my mother married a guy I didn't know, and we moved in with him. He already had children before and now didnt really care for more children. Never really treated me as his child, always found things that I did wrong, or gave me near impossible tasks to do on the weekend and when I was home from school. Eventually this escalated over the years, my first birthday party turned into my last, and I stopped bringing friends over home because he would be extremely nice to them and when they left he would use the information they gave him to abuse me even more, emotionally and verbally.
When i turned 14 the abuse had already been physical for a while but I thought this was normal, since I thought it was just discipline, but eventually he began to get physical.
He would come home from work and drink 2-3 big coffee mugs of wine and then start to mess with me or pick at what I did that day trying to start an argument because that would allow him to abuse me more.
Fast forward to me being 16, I moved out because he started physically punching me in the face and everyone at my school were asking me if I got in a fight etc.
I moved to a single room apartment that my mother cosigned for me and paid half of my rent, I was going to my part time job to pay for it after school.
Fast forward to yesterday, he was painting his house, and as he was about to finish, he leaned too fa on the ladder, and fell off, hitting his lower back.
Now he is in the ER, prepping for a surgery, chance that he will be paralyzed from the waist down if it doesn't go well.
Either way the bills are going to be big since he had the most minimal life insurance.
I dont have much money, I work in retail and make about 25-30k a year. I took the small amount of savings I had in crypto out yesterday to help him pay the bills, because I don't want my mother to be in debt.