My best friend's mother is an absolutely loathsome person. To wit, my friend is:
- not allowed to have his own opinions
- not allowed to talk back in any capacity whatsoever
- not allowed to use the internet (he does anyway)
- allowed half an hour of video games each week
- not allowed to tell anyone he's gay
- not allowed to leave the house without his mother unless it's to go to school
- not allowed to make his own plans for anything, ever
In addition, his mother is religious and hates atheists (which he is), ridiculously overcontrolling, homophobic, and beginning to edge into physical violence. His father lives in the other half of the country.
This has all pushed him to the edge of suicide. He's sixteen goddamn years old.