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Cant take 29 yr old SD anymore!!!!

codependent momma's picture

I cannot take this anymore. She is the most spoiled selfish person I have ever met! She guilts her dad into she is the victim everytime. I don't even know where to start.
Last week my 17yr old daughter and I came back from a mission trip. Her boyfriend of a year broke up with her the day we got back by phone (yes he is a cold jerk I am glad is gone) and she was devastated. I caught her cutting herself and called 911 for help. Meanwhile my husband is in CA on yet another drinking binge. He is calling me non stop while I am trying to talk to the paramedics and get her the help she needs (thank god the cuts where not too deep and only required bandages. Emotionally we are still working on). Long story short Husband ends up in a treatment center. Turns out the week I was gone he admitted himself into three different hospitals and checked himself out of each one when he didn't like what they were doing. After 68 phone calls of who i am not and what a horrible person I am he admits himself once again to another center. I need to fly to CA to get the animals that he has left on their own for days at a time. i book a last minute flight, drop my daughter who I should be with more at my moms. Fly to CA visit husband in rehab to be once again told off. Jump in the car with the animals to bring them back to WI so they are taken care of.
Meanwhile SD comes home to WI for Easter. Not with us mind you. Her boyfriends family. Last year when we were all there she couldn't come. This year while my daughter is breaking down she decides to come home. SD and my daughter both share a bathroom in the remodeled basement. She knowing what my daughter is going thru decides to move her out of the bathroom and throws all her stuff on the floor and on her bed in her room. and then puts pictures of her and her friends up from high school (yes she is 29 now and has her own apartment in Milwaukee daddy pays for ... another story). We get home after an exhausting return to find SD has completely moved her out of the shared bathroom. My daughter is already heartbroken and now this 29 yr old kicks her while she down. She doesn't understand why SD hates her as she has done nothing wrong except leave her make up out and some bandages from the cutting because i had to leave last minute and run cross country to help husband who lost it. But SD is the victim and my daughter is wrong for being upset according to husband. I can just scream.

Icansorelate's picture

Your DH is not home (in the treatment center?).

Lay down the law to SD right now including telling her to go stay somewhere else if necessary. DH is not there so he gets no say- take control of the situation yourself.

Stop answering DH's calls since he just wants to berate you.

Then, once both of these stressors are gone/minimized, focus on your DD and get her the help she needs and also take care of yourself.

robin333's picture

Exactly. And don't let DH in when he gets out of rehab. Get to an attorney and get advice on ending this situation. Focus on your DD.

Rags's picture

Evict the adult skid and as a departure gift give her a brand new scalpel. Write in the card… “Get your shit together or check out. You are not a kid any more. Grow the F up!!! Good luck. Write if you find a job. Buh-bye.”

Sometimes you have to call the bluff of the toxic morons.

Take care of yourself and take care of your daughter. Purge this negativity and toxic manipulation from your lives. I would.

You are only codependent because you continue to choose to be. I read the book (Codependent No More) as assigned by the marriage counselor that I engaged during the demise of my first marriage more than 25 years ago. I got one major message out of it. Codependency is a choice. So I made a different choice.

You have a perfect opportunity to rekey the locks, file for divorce, and purge the crap NOW. All you have to do is make the choice.

Good luck.