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Abusive Ex And His Family Keep Reaching Out Years Later

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So this is going to be a long story but I need help and I don’t know what to do. It all starts in 2021 when I (16) lose someone very close to me and fall down a dark hole, I’m at the lowest point in my life. I get kicked out, I move in with this boy. He’s (18) very sweet until he’s not. 3 months in we start dating, he doesn’t even give me a chance to be a girlfriend. One night I’m sleeping and he wakes me up by stomping on my chest calling me a whore and slut, stuff like that. Turns out he find outs I had a boyfriend in 8th grade, me and said 8th grade boyfriend never even shared a kiss so I wouldn’t even call it a real relationship. Anyways, he starts beating the shit out of me and his mom comes out and basically victim blames me. So I feel the most unsafe I’ve ever felt in my entire life. Everytime I would try and leave he would try and hit me with his car or put a loaded AR next to my head. Keep in mind he has acres of farm land and all his neighbors do too, so much of his yard is fenced off full of bulls and his driveway is gravel with just enough room for a truck to drive up. His neighbors did mostly crop though so I wouldn’t dare run through the bulls onto their crops and ruin them. I know they probably would’ve understood but still I was brainwashed and always on eggshells so it was natural for me to think of someone else before myself. This is why it was so hard for me to run in any direction along with knowing the chance of someone letting in a beat up young girl in the house at 3 am is slim. This happens for about a year. It gets worse through out, at that point I have no phone. If I wanna talk to someone I have to use his and he needs to watch. I obviously was isolated from everybody. At some point during that time I was able to stay with a friend and get a restraining order but they never served him cause they couldn’t find him. I feel the cops aren’t taking it seriously and I’m brainwashed so I go back to him. It just gets worse. A little over a year after I meet him he gets raided on unrelated charge. He was supposed to get 400 but it dropped to 30, just to get an idea of how bad he was outside of our relationship too. Charged with 21 different felony assaults, and a couple misdemeanors for guns and drugs. It’s also all conspiracy and gang related, he’s a crip. So he gets arrested and I feel a sense of relief until I realize I still have nowhere to stay other than his mom’s house, who is also insane. He gets in his cell, and they finally serve him that year old restraining order but his mom makes me rescind it. Now he’s able to contact me, which didn’t really matter cause his mom was forcing me to talk to him under his sisters name, but I just dealt with his verbal and mental abuse. Now come the end of 2023 I finally tell my dad what’s going on. He thought I was just running away and doing this stuff on purpose because my abusive ex was texting him like me arguing with my father. And I thought my father hated me because that’s the stuff my ex would tell me. My dad finds out, cause obviously my ex isn’t texting him acting like me. He gets a new apartment in a new city and I move in, I ghost the entire family. I thought I was free. Wrong, his mother finds where I live and work and stalks my apartment and work place. August 2024, I move across the country from east to west. But it’s not a new address, it’s my mom’s house and he knows where she lives. My mom died in August so I stayed to take care of my younger siblings. Im still getting texts and I’m sure my east apartment is still getting letters full of threats. Fast forward to January 1st 2025, not even one day into the new year. This boy somehow has a phone or Instagram while in jail and is trying to reach out. His mom is trying to reach out. And they’re not just reaching out to me, they’re reaching out to all my friends. Idk what to do. It’s mentally draining, I’m obviously not the same person I was at 16, I mean hell I’m almost 20. It’s psychotic and I’m really worried he’s going to get out when he’s 51 or something and finish me off because he’s genuinely that crazy. He’s a master manipulator and knows the law so well but at the same time he doesn’t care. Everytime he hit me he would do face shots, and this community doesn’t allow pictures but I wish I could show how swollen my eyes used to be. He detached my retina because at 18 years old he found I had a little boyfriend years ago before we even knew each other existed. Anyways the point of the story was to show how scary this man and his family is, but I need to know what to do for my safety. He only hangs around people who do murder for money and his family is also insane so it’s not like I just need to worry about 1 dude. Can I get a restraining order from across the country? Should I get a lawyer? And how do I get them to stop harassing my friends too? Can I even get a restraining order considering i had one and got it rescinded?

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