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I’m 14 years old and live in Saskatchewan. I hate my mom. I know you might be thinking this is normal teenage hormones causing this but no. My mom threatened me and my siblings with physical violence ever since we could talk (example: Shut the fuck up or I will punch you out.) I never knew what emotional abuse was until I read some books about abuse and psychological trauma. I can’t regulate my emotions and i can’t get over small things easily. I have so much anxiety over arguments and yelling. My mom let her boyfriend physically and mentally abuse us and her. She always took him back and he assaulted me and my younger and older siblings. She always told us not to tell anyone about it or she would “Knock us out”. I have so much built up sadness and my chest hurts when I get talked down about, even if it’s a little joke. She gaslights me into thinking i’m wrong and that I’m a horrible person and I believed her. I also should mention that when i was 7 I didn’t wanna go into a laundry mat with her and she stabbed me in my arm with her acrylic nails into my vein causing my arm to bruise and bleed. when asked about it by my grade 2 teacher, i said i scraped it because i was scared if my mom would punch me or worse.

My aunt said she would take me. She lives 1.5 away and said she would gladly take me but my mom would never let go of me. After all, who’s gonna take out the garbage, do dishes, clean the bathroom, ect. I have other siblings but they don’t have to do any of it, But when it comes to me I have to or she threatens to make my girlfriend’s mom make her daughter break up with me.

I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what i’m doing. I feel wrong for wanting to leave but she really hurts me emotionally. I’ve become suicidal and depressed because of it. She scarred me. If i can get evidence or just tell a judge this, will they let me enforce emancipation 2 years early?

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