u/Leather-Toe205

My dad is kind of your average dad, he’s pretty nice sometimes, but pretty weird other times.

For starters, I’m in a conservative family but not the kind that’s really hardcore, but they (excluding me and two of my sisters) don’t support LGBTQ and things of that nature.

I’m gonna cut to the chase, I think my dad has a serious problem with how he views his children, we are all girls.

He doesn’t let us say the word “period” out loud, even shushing us and becomes upset quickly. We’re not allowed to wear shorts around the home if he’s there, but I get too scared to wear them even if he’s not there.

He’s the type of parent who relies on surveillance to keep their children in line, he even does this to my mom.

Whenever he comes home, my mom puts down her phone and makes it seem like she was doing something productive.

I have to be really careful with what I watch on tv so if I am watching YouTube or something, I switch it to a strictly kids cartoon whenever he comes around.

When he’s upset he doesn’t talk about it but he very obviously shows us by swerving really hard on the road and speeding up if nobody is talking to him.

One time my sister and I were talking about potentially taking our head coverings off out of fear of ICE and because we don’t really like wearing it anyway.

My mom for some reason told him when he called home and said “oh yeah we were just discussing our head coverings”

And he replied angrily “why don’t you just go out naked too?”

He makes jokes about me not being able to eat—if I hesitate to come to the dinner table for any meal or snack, he immediately says “oh she doesn’t wanna eat”

I skip dinner so I don’t have to sit down at a table with that kind of atmosphere.

I love him but I don’t want to live with him. I don’t have the means to leave, I am really uncomfortable here.

I was at a party I didn’t want to go to, with a lot of convincing from Milly and winter, I went.

Then they ditched the party for 10 minutes (winters house is also a 10 minute walk) and I was borrowing winters clothes for the party, and Milly was supposed to be my ride home.

I thought they went to winters house, the hostess friend of the party called them so I talked to them over her phone asking where they were because I didn’t have a ride home.

They laughed at me and said “who are you?” In a joking tone.

Most of the party was in the driveway waiting for them to get back, specifically the hostess’s dad because he’d thought he’d lost two children under his supervision.

They came back and I was upset, Milly came up to me and said “we’d never leave you” but they did…

After leaving the party I ignored them for two days and then sent a huge message explaining how they’re shit friends.

They tried to gaslight me and ganged up on me, even saying “it’s you against us”?? (So cheesy) and they were FaceTiming the entire time and when I asked them to stop they said they had to talk about what to say to me because it was me against them.