A bit of backstory: My mother F38 and me F17 haven’t ever really gotten along, she’s a heavy alcoholic and I’d always let her push me around when I was younger simply because she said “she was the adult” and I was afraid of her.
Recently she just came back from a month’s stay at an in-person rehab centre, and a week later she started heavily drinking again and fighting with my stepdad.
Well tonight they got into a big fight again, and I tried to stay in my room away from it like I usually do, but she just wouldn’t leave me alone. She kept coming in the room to yell at me over tedious things like restarting the washer so I could wash my school clothes or calling me on my phone to shout at me as well.
After things died down a little bit, she came into my room at 12am , demanding that I give her my laptop and phone and I refused. Not only because I bought these both with the hard earned money I got from my part-time job, but because I did nothing wrong.
She then said that if I didn’t give them to her that she’d “smash the bitches on the floor”, which made me refuse even more. After 5 minutes of going back in forth she left, but ten minutes later she came back in saying “And after your clothes are done washing, don’t even THINK about using my dryer, you better hang them bitches up outside”.
Should I not have stood my ground just to keep the peace or should I have done something else? Please help 🙁