Hey dude, same shit happened to me as a little kid expect my mom robbed me blind for the first 14 years of my life. Each year I would get money from each of my grandparents sides, about 200 from each. My mother encouraged us to put the money into our savings account which she still had access to of course, I remembered it a few years ago and thought that I'd like to see how much I had saved up in the account from all of the Christmases and birthdays. After many weeks over the summer when my mom was out getting drunk and partying spending my father's child support money, I found a bank statement in the mail which was addressed to me as well as one to my sister. My sister was totally sided with my mother in our family as she was foolish and could easily be won over. I opened to statement from the bank expecting to see something in the range of upwards of 2000 dollars, but what I saw instead was dissapointing and something that destroyed the trust in my own mother forever. 14 measly dollars remained in my account. For all of these years my mother had been hiding and collecting the bank statements and limiting any exposure to what the actual balance of accounts was, making the illusion that she had the best interest for us and was trying to help us save our money. It really hurts to know that the person who gave birth to you would trick you and steal from you at such a young and innocent age. Another thing which she has wormed from us was property that my father bought for us when we were younger and my parents were still married. Currently I believe that the property stands at somewhere around $800,000 but who knows, she could've sold more of it without anyone knowing, but when we were younger, my mother decided to sell a portion of the property for $100,000, while getting child support from my father as well as additional support, stressing the fact that she was a single mother raising 2 children. She canceled her life insurance a few years back as well as I could tell she stopped getting letters in the mail from the life insurance company. I think that my family experiences have really ruined my perception of other people and totally ruined my ability to hold a long term relationship with anyone. It is so traumatic to think that literally anyone, no matter how much you think they care about you or love you, could simply be using you. I experienced a lot of physical abuse from my mother when I was younger as well which she just traded off to the psychiatric workers and tried to claim I was lying and lied straight to the face of all of the workers. Sometimes I wish that I hadn't lied to them and told them that nothing was going on and that I wasn't the problem.

I hope you had a great Christmas overall and when I read this I just felt really sad for you because I experienced something really similar. I hope you can resolve your situation with your parents taking you money and possibly try to see it in another light. I always like to think that I will get a great job and leave my past behind me.

Good luck and Merry Christmas :)