20F from a Muslim household
I don't know if I'm playing my problems down but I've been talking about moving out of my house for two years bc it's become tiring being the runt of my family. I'm the only daughter and I'm made sure to feel that loneliness too bc I'm always ignored or made the problem in arguments. I want to move out because my parents have become severely more aggressive over small actions I do or say and although it's not physical aggression they make sure to hold that over my head any chance they get. Examples of small problems are recently I took 310 to pay for my bus and train pass that would start in Jan because mine was finished. I didn't get to pay for it (from the money my parents took from my sfe and stashed to the side) because they saw the bag was messed with and counted the money to the pound until I admitted I took it over some shouting. They would always tell me the money is mine so I stop asking and bother them and then have a huge fit as soon as I touch it. I don't need the money rn, my next sfe came in I just didn't want to be tied to the house for the holiday (which I was).
Another example would be today as I'm writing this post, my dad had a problem I would sleep late at night after school (1-2am) bc I have no time to game doing all the cleaning they leave after I come back 2-3 hours later. (I commute from another city for uni) I don't have anything else to look forward to at home anyway, but my dad's been complaining and for the past month because I should still somehow be mopping the floor upside down even tho I'm done? like I should be in bed as soon as I'm finished. Today he's threatened to break my pc I built and anything else I care for if I don't just do as he says. I wouldn't normally be doing this cleaning and serving alone but my mom is pregnant with my baby sister.
That's the next problem, I grew up with two brothers and wanted a sister to relate to all my life, now I'm 20 and this sister would practically be my child for the responsibility I have over her and she's made wanting to leave so much harder. I already felt guilt leaving my family behind because they're first gen immigrants and I know it's common but they have no else to rely on and they'd be just 5 left alone. I would've been done with uni soon and been able to work and help my dad since he gets maybe 12 hours of security work a month but now there's another problem.
My mom was told about a Sudanese man (27) who has his life in order and wants a wife, I've been in a serious relationship for a year that they don't know about and I can't tell them either bc they're not Sudanese and they're young. My dad speaks ill of anyone different and it's jarring to listen to but I also didn't care bc I didn't think I'd have to worry so soon. Now there's a man they're trying to introduce me to and even though I've explained I really don't want marriage right now to him, he doesn't seem to get it and keeps trying despite never having seen me himself. I don't want to marry out of my problems, all I want is to move into a small studio with a cat and pretty lights.
I know where they keep my sfe 6.7k (they've moved it into a locked briefcase that I'll just take and go without opening) and I have 2.4k from this sfe and 2.8k from the next. It's my last year so I know I couldn't depend on that but if I were to find work this would keep me steady.
I don't know how to get over the emotional bind I have to them and my unborn sister. I might not even have cared so much if I had another brother but it's not like I don't love mine dearly like my own, it's that I know my guilt is that I'm leaving my sister to fend for her own like I did, and she wouldn't have siblings to rely on the same way because my brother's have never understood being ignored for 2 months because your mom's upset with you or your dad screaming down at you for an hour or two that you've recorded just to check the time because he feels he's too superior over you and calls you the worst things, even after you're shaking and developed panic attacks and feel so horribly alone. I don't know if I can leave her with any of it. I can't lie to myself that they'll get better bc my parents hated me more when I became a woman and wasn't quiet like one, didn't move like one or talk like one or serve like one.
So what should I do? Stick it out? and until when, because the only option they're giving me is marrying out. I'd rather wake up in a bed alone for the rest of my life rn.