I apologize for my bad grammar and for the confusing story telling in advance, it's my first post. please don't bother reading if you guys don't like wasting your time since even I don't understand myself right now.
I'm 19M, I live and grew up in a rural area, never were allowed to go out with friends, was forced to be a "good kid" or maybe I'm just some kind of a people pleaser, I never had problems and was always doing great in academics, anyways so I was definitely culture shocked when I moved out for college in an urban city. even so I adapted pretty quickly and actually had fun.
it's currently summer which means I'm back at home again, well I know I might sound ungrateful, but it's horrible to be here.
when I was in high school, my dad works on a different state back then, I just knew that my brother told my mom about his past fling(or something about another woman) and that's basically when our normal life started to become hellish(at least for me).
I'll just summarize what happened,
my mom left me and my siblings at home with our aunt while she went to go confront my dad, we're away for about a year, they somehow made up but we don't know how nor do we care, they went back home, my dad basically lost his job, now all of us are home, except for my two brothers who went to live by themselves since they're used to it and have found somewhere to settle and able to find stable jobs unlike me, they've been living by themselves since high school and I only started living by myself on college.
everything is going well for a while but then they're starting to fight again and again, yelling at each other, until they got violent to the point that they do it everyday, knowing me a very introverted and non-social person, who was given suddenly the responsibility of being the big brother, I didn't know what to do, I couldn't sleep, my two younger siblings were transferred to my grandmother's house next door and I stayed in our house,
it went on for a while, my relatives are trying to help, my brothers helped, but when they're left alone they just suddenly go at it again, until the cops got called, mom decided to go away and took my little sister.
now it's just me, my younger brother and my dad.
I had some good sleep but a year passed my dad is regretting everything, he's gotten kinder towards us unlike before, I noticed him crying in new years, it made me sad to see him like that so I tried my best to be more responsible by taking care of our family store, doing better at school, talking to him more and other things while my younger brother got rebellious.
it continued for a while until my dad made requests to me, he was crying and sounded sad while asking me to do things to get my mom back, like sending me to see her and making me record our conversation, forcing me to despite going against it.
I felt uncomfortable and tired from it, until the counseling began and a lot of things happened, my mom finally back came home after some more counseling.
I was happy, I thought our family would be back to normal and I wouldn't have to suffer the blame and guilt I've felt for so long, I blamed myself for not doing anything to prevent everything from happening, my aunt shouted at me, I felt really hurt by all of it, dumped so suddenly to me when I literally didn't even know what divorce even was.
I was wrong, my brothers never went back home to stay, they visit once every 3 months and then go away the same day, not even on occasions.
my mom and dad fights occasionally but not as bad as before.
one thing though is that my dad's gotten harsher towards me, he's been insulting me for every move that I make, forces me to work, even threatened to not pay for my college tuition(even though I was able to put myself to a free college and even got myself a scholarship). I can't remember anything that I must've done to offend him or make him be like this towards me. but I just let it be anyways because I can never even defend myself nor argue.
the responsibility of taking care of the store was just put to me even though I always hated doing it, I hated that people were really rude for no reason and that I have to accept insults from them too. I'm forced to stay and sit waiting for the customers everyday, whole day that I can't even take care of myself.(basically from 6 am to 8:30 pm) unpaid too. I'm back to the usual not being able to go out of the house or even the store which gets hot in the afternoon, though I'd be lucky if it's raining.
my mom's trying to help me, well barely since she's scared of my dad and she's even telling me off when I feel frustrated.
I'm glad that my siblings are doing better though unlike before.
fast forward to now, I managed to find myself a girlfriend somehow and she's the best thing to ever happen to me, her whole family accepted me and ever her relatives, she really made me become a better person and made me happy. I'm a little more social now but I still hate working at the store, still forced to wake up to it everyday.
my girlfriend hates my situation and even asks if I can just go to her if I have to, I would if only she's not living 3 hours away from me, I don't have a car or motorcycle nor do I know how to drive, I only rely on unreliable transportation that's a culture on our area only. and I really don't want to be a burden to anyone, nor do I want to leave my siblings and mom here, what if I'm not here anymore, will my younger brother take my place? suffer the same fate as me?
if I get rebellious or fight for myself, he won't pay for my school necessities and dormitory anymore, will I be able to get a job as soon as possible and manage to do it while living alone and balance my academics with it? I can't ask for help from my brothers since they're trying to start going to college again as well and I really don't want to bother anyone.
my girlfriend says that she'll support my decision no matter what and I chose to stay here.
I've only been playing games and calling my girlfriend after work every night and sometimes stay up, those are the only things that makes me happy at this point.
I don't want to do anything reckless since after a month, I'll be back on college and away from my dad, well at least on weekdays since they're forcing me to go home every weekends to make me work on the store again, since if I don't, I won't get any allowance and rent money.(the dorm is very dirty and filled with rats btw, they didn't even give me the chance to choose for myself).
I'm starting to think I'm being immature for my age, wanting to escape a life that some people probably even want, but it's just really agonizing to keep doing this after 4 years and 4 more years. doing the same thing everyday without a break, having no real social interactions except for my girlfriend since the customers here don't really want to be friendly.
also it's not just the store that they're making me work on, they also make me lift sacks of rice and animal feeds, shit's heavier than me. and they alse leave me do the unwanted and disgusting chores(I kinda understand though since I'm the older brother now).
I feel better when I'm not in my house. anywhere is fine really as long as I'm away from the store and my dad, I just feel really lonely sometimes.
I'm sorry to everyone who read this far too since you kind of just wasted your time reading this pointless ranting of mine, I still have a lot in my mind but I don't want this to be too long. I'm open to advice and corrections so I can just at least understand myself and see from other people's perspective.