What was the strangest rule(s) your Nrent(s) enforced when you were growing up?

My nMom literally never came home. She would stay with her boyfriend every night. But I still had strict rules I had to follow, that GC brother enforced. (He's 6 years older)

I got kicked out, and moved into a mental institution for two weeks, after my brother told her that I snuck out every night to meet up with an older boy. He told her that I'm sleeping with him, and I sneak him into the house while he's asleep. None of this was true. After the mental institution, where all of the doctors dismissed my feelings, told me my mom loved me and is only looking out for me, (I guess they believed I did those things too, because they treated me like a criminal) my mom proceeded to pack all of my stuff up. When she came to get me, she immediately drove me three states away and made me live with my father whom I had only met once, when I was much younger, and who was also a notorious drug dealer.

She told the whole family to not talk to me. And they didn't. For two years. No calls. No texts. No letters.

To this day, I'm still not sure if there's anything I could've done to make that NOT happen. My brother was legit just mad at me, for probably no reason, and made some story up that ruined my life.

Oh and she had a weird thing about walls. I wasn't allowed to touch the walls, or door frames. I guess she thought I was a dirty child? And that all I do is "rub dirt all over everything."

And we had to ask for food. If she wasn't home, we waited until she was off work and called her cell phone to ask. It was usually a no, but when it was a yes, it was usually a cold can of green beans because she didn't always pay her bills and we usually didn't have electricity. I had a friend up the road, who would bring me food usually, or let me take a shower at his house when our water got shut off.

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