Yeah. If she'd spent even a fraction of the time to try and understand me as a person, rather than on figuring out ways to "make me comply" (via abuse and punishment) things could have been so much different.

But, she never did. And she never got better. Probably worse if anything. There were signs years later (after her mother - my grandmother - died) that she might have reflected on things and matured.

But no. Given an opportunity, she reverted back to form and went with the abuse approach.

That time, by (literally) forging my signature on paperwork to ASIC signing me out of being the director of my own company. Which she took over.

I wish I was joking. I'm really not.

One really sick thing about it is from her point of view she justified everything as doing it "for my benefit".

Like, you cannot make this crap up. :( :( :(

Anyway, if someone's in my situation then I truly feel sorry for them. I don't know of any way to fix it other than "get out and don't look back".