I (26F) have been no-contact with my parents for 9 months. I suffered from physical and emotional abuse from them for my entire life (also they taught me how to have an ED at 8 y/o); when I cut them off it was a life or death mental health situation for me. They have been getting their friends to reach out to me this whole time, but it’s getting worse. I got a call from a family friend tonight. I rejected the call and told him I’m bedridden with the flu (ugh). Then I received the text from picture 1. I called my therapist and decided to block the number for the time being. Then, she went and created a text thread with every phone number I’ve ever had and my best friend from college and that’s the second screenshot.

The tone change is crazy. They are on vacation with friends and I’m sure they’ve been drinking.

Also, they’ve told all of their friends that the reason we’re no contact is because I didn’t feel supported for being gay. Which…. somehow makes them more homophobic?

I have a good support system and I’ve started doing activities I love like yoga and improv. I’m as happy as I can be given the circumstances. But yeah, voluntarily orphaning myself…. sucks.