Need some advice, Family related. Very long read.

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Ok heres the low down.

For the past year and a half, my sister (Still 16) has been seeing a lad (aged 18) he lives about 8/9 miles away.

In the past few months, my parents have noticed, as well as myself that she has been coming home with brusing all over her body. At first we thought it was just random, but its been constant, and its apparent that my sister is trying to hide them, and they are getting more severe.

So a couple of months back, my mum asked her if her bf was abusing her in anyway, she implicitly denied it, and it went away a little while. But recently he has been a real ***** about certain things, for example me or my parents having to go and get her from my Grans (Who lives 10m away, where as for him its more than half that) saying he's got no petrol, although the previous day, my sister has been in the car with him when he's filled his car all the way up. The way he acted upset my Gran, and my mum then went off saying he wasn't welcome in the house untill he appologised to my nan.

Anyway, my sister seemed to be doing really well, she had started at College in september doing Forensic Science, and last week, she dropped a bomb shell on us saying that shes decided to leave.. and get a job. Now its not like her, because she took a part time job before she started college and left inside two weeks because she hated it and said she would much rather go to college. So again, this doesnt make sense.

My parents have started to say things like shes just doing it to line his pocket.. on the same day that he refused to pick her up he knew it was the day that my sister got her family allowence, and beacause he knew this and the fact my sister for some bizzare reason owed him £70, he insisted that it was transfered Electronically (same bank as my parents) to cover his D/Ds that were going out. This didnt happen and he kicked up a stink about that too because what had been going on.

Now back to the whole denial thing... the other day after all this had happened, because Louise was acting so strangely leaving college and trying to get a job, my mum confronted them both over it, and pointing quite angrilly she said to him, if you lay another finger on here etc.. she wont be responsible for her actions. Which seems totally fair, because if I ever saw him do it i'd give him the decking of a life-time. He nodded at her perfusley (Sp?) and hardly said a word, now whats so strange is that if he wasnt doing it, he would be defending himself (what normal bloke wouldnt) and my sister also told my dad on the phone that he (the bf) was looking at getting help for his temper. And if it wasnt true, my sister would be jumping down their throats in denying it, so from the way they're acting, theres deffinatley something not right.

Now me, and my parents especially are seriously worried about her, because its not just physical, its obvious a degree of psycological minipulation involved here. They have said to me they think they are going to have to loose her in order to get her back sorta thing.

Thoughts/Oppinions?
 
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They have said to me they think they are going to have to loose her in order to get her back sorta thing.

Thoughts/Oppinions?


I understand what you mean by that but this guy sound like a right **** and it could just get worse. I would go at it head on and speak to them both along with your parents and find out what the hell is exactly going on.


If nothing comes from it then I think you know what to do.
 
Find out what it would take for your sister to leave him and make it happen.

Obviously I don't know what that would be and I'd never suggest anything amoral but she's clearly better off without him even if she doesn't know it.
 
So your parents have money worries and also obvious safety fears for their daughter, yet you decide to argue about a pie?

nice :/
 
So your parents have money worries and also obvious safety fears for their daughter, yet you decide to argue about a pie?

nice :/

Dont start with that.. believe it or not since that thread i've put a lot of things in perspective and im being as helpfull as I possibly can. Plus atm its besides the point.. all I care about atm is the safety of my sister...
 
Take the guy out for a drink and have a word with him. Tell him to treat your sister right, if she has one more bruise on her, or forces her to leave her college course or doesnt pick her up you will batter him. Dont be rude or anything, just say it nice and polite, tell him what you know and you and your mates will be keeping an eye on him and your sister.

If he gree's fair enough see what happens. If he touches your sister, batter him.

Personaly if it was my sister, id tell her to get back to college and batter the idiot right away, making sure he knows why he is being batter'd.

Hate people who push others around, had it myself and takes someone outside your circle to point things out as you get use to them. Help your sister, she will, in the end, after a while, thank you for it.

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seriously sounds like this guy is ******* up your sisters life... shes 16 you say, way to young to be dealing with all this...

if hes been hitting her, why the hell is she still with him? probably far too intimidated by him to do anything about it, thats where she needs your help as a family.

id have serious words with your sister to finish with this dead beat.
 
I can never understand it when i hear of these types of relationships. Why would you stay in a relationship to be beaten, ive never been in this situation so to me im thinking "wtf"

Im being serious here, you need to sit your sister down and give her a long hard talk. Persuade her to split from the *****. Then you need to get yourself, dad and a few mates in balaclavas and remind him with or without crowbars that hitting women is wrong. (pls no keyboard warrior remarks, id seriously do this if someone was abusing my sister, i think the only ppl who wouldnt would be spineless ****)
 
Then you need to get yourself, dad and a few mates in balaclavas and remind him with or without crowbars that hitting women is wrong. (pls no keyboard warrior remarks, id seriously do this if someone was abusing my sister, i think the only ppl who wouldnt would be spineless ****)

You have no idea how many times i've considered this, but we still have no conclusive proof that he's hitting her asides from the constant brusing. The rest of the stuff is all circumstantial..

Like I said, I think its gonna be a case of loosing her to get her back, the key point I think is christmas, he is so much of a control freak he is gonna insist that she spend crimbo with him, she will say no because she will want to spend it with us. That will do his head in.
 
I hope the right result comes from that then, do you think he will 'show his true colours' so to speak?

It will probably be a while because he has me and my parents breathing down his neck, but with her being 16, if my parents try to split them, she will be driven away further. I give it till xmas..
 
even if he isnt hitting her (highly unlikely as you say yourself, he would have defended himself when your mum mentioned it), he sounds like hes a **** anyway. wouldnt even drop her home? meh, jog on!
 
even if he isnt hitting her (highly unlikely as you say yourself, he would have defended himself when your mum mentioned it), he sounds like hes a **** anyway. wouldnt even drop her home? meh, jog on!

No, I ended up getting her.. she got her stuff, as soon as he saw me pull off in the Mini, he jumped in his car and followed us home anyway!

She then forgive him and she was sleeping at his again that night.
 
No, I ended up getting her.. she got her stuff, as soon as he saw me pull off in the Mini, he jumped in his car and followed us home anyway!

She then forgive him and she was sleeping at his again that night.

What a juvenile - West you didn't say mate, is he at college or whatever?
 
This sounds like a terrible situation to be in and I feel for your family. I think what I would do is just let your sister know you are there for her...that's the best you can do. You have no hard evidence he is abusing her but I think you must be on the right track from what you've said. If your sister knows what you're thinking and that she can come to you if need be then I think that will be a great help.
As for him, he sounds like a right toerag. It'd take a lot to stop me having a few choice words with him in private. At the end of the day though, its your sister that has to make the decisions.
 
What a juvenile - West you didn't say mate, is he at college or whatever?

He's on more money than me! he's a web-designer for a company in Birmingham. Im only on just under 14k, and he has a brand new 07 Grande Punto.
 
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No, I ended up getting her.. she got her stuff, as soon as he saw me pull off in the Mini, he jumped in his car and followed us home anyway!

She then forgive him and she was sleeping at his again that night.

seriously what a pleb.

i think the first port of call is to convince your sister she deserves a lot better?

depends how easy she is to talk to though... as a family i can imagine this is a very difficult situation but your doing the right thing acting on the matter.
 
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