I'm an adult but we run a family business. I moved in with parents after I got my degree and the company is great and profitable, but I'm seeing it fall apart in front of me. Parents are in their mid 50s. It is really just my Dad and me running it now, Mom doesn't bother anymore. She was always into amateur psychology and often accuses people of being bipolar or narcissists, but lately she has gotten into religion and is accusing everyone she meets of being demon possessed. She accused my Dad of being possessed by a demon and seems to hate all men now. She is usually ok with me, but if I ever disagree with her slightly she starts accusing me of being an evil man to and gaslighting her, she also says things like "you're just like your father!" which hurts because I think my dad is a great man. Despite this, things are usually good three weeks out of the month, but lately she has been getting worse and throwing a wrench into company operations. She doesn't realize that the company literally pays for her life and covers all of our school debt, I don't think she cares actually. Dad is depressed now most of the time, and keeps saying he was just a weak man who failed her, even though he works 24/7 for her and always tends to her needs since she has multiple health issues and never leaves the house. I think she got into some weird facebook groups or tik toks that talk about demons all the time.
At this point I just want to leave and move out, but I have an obligation to this business we started and all of our customers. I also worry about leaving my dad alone with her, sometimes I think she might snap and kill him one day. I hate that I have no one to talk to about this except for 4chan

>>33343405 (OP)
That sucks anon. On one hand you dont want to let yourself family drag you down and make you life worse, or less than it needs to be. So you should look out for yourself and get out of a bad situation that might just get worse.
On the other hand, if you do really care about your dad and you think hes be better off with you around, a good son would stick by him and help him with the mental anguish of living with a crazy person, and to help him run the business.
Both options has negatives. Neither is the obvious right choice. To me at least
I guess you'd have to weigh whats more important to you, your own happiness, or the righteousness and responsibility of sticking by your dad.
Maybe there's a compromise somewhere....

>>33343405 (OP)
The Bible commands us to honor our fathers and mothers. This means that we shouldn't abandon them, we should take care of them when they need us, just like they took care of us when we needed them.
Your mother is having mental health issues, she should be kept away from the company and should be directed to seeking professional help.
Your mother's mental illness is also affecting your father, you should be close to him and give him the support he needs to keep moving on.
You and your dad need to confront your mother and make her seek treatment. Try to be understanding and not come from a place of accusations and demands when you confront her. Explain that her problems have affected your dad and are starting to affect you, ask her to voluntarily leave the business and and treat herself for the sake of the family.
If she doesn't want any of that, then she should be forcefully kept away from the business, you and your dad.
>You can't help someone that does not want to be helped.
Have that in your mind. She needs to realize what she is doing and want to stop it. Otherwise there's nothing that can be done, and you should send her away.

>>33343438
>>33343451
the problem is, they apparently have had tried marriage counseling in the past, and my mom has tried therapy separately. She usually speaks extremely highly of the therapists and counselors at first, but she always ends up saying they're gaslighting her and she quits the therapy.
Also, my Dad gave her 51% of the company when he started it. I don't think she knows how to do anything with it, but she could tank the company if she wants.

>>33343499
So she cant be professionally helped and is stuck with the company until she dies or willfully gives it up. Your stuck with her.

So stay or leave. What are you leaning towards?

>>33343499
She should try therapy again. And you and your father might have to liquidate the company and cut your losses if needed.
No one expects therapy to magically solve all problems, she needs to keep trying, again, and again, and again. For the sake of you and your father.
If she doesn't care, then sadly you and your father will have to cut your losses, like I said.

>>33343515
not sure yet. I worked a corporate job after school for 2 years and hated it, I love the business we've built and I said Id never go corpo again, but things fall apart I guess. I need to pay my debt and if we are going to close the company, I need to offboard our customers gracefully or it will tank my rep. sometimes i think about going off grid and living in the woods to escape all this. Dad wants to keep the company going and I think hes realizing Mom is a lost cause too so we are thinking of ways to lock her out of the company so she cant sabatoge it. It is a technology company and she is tech illiterate so she cant do much on the tech side.

>>33343405 (OP)
>She accused my Dad of being possessed by a demon and seems to hate all men now.
She read the scriptures wrong.
PS after being on 4chan for just a bit I am at the point of hating all humanity and hoping Jesus can come back sooner to slay the wicked but what can I do about it?
It's all on God's terms not on mine.
Typically you first have to let god point out the flaws within you and not be so rash to accuse others.
And if she was a real christian she would know that Jesus doesn't go around accussing people of being possessed.
He can see the demons dwelling in the man, and if the man is willing to change to serve him only then will he cast them out.
Doing things your way will get you beat up like those jews that tried excorcising a demon but were stripped naked and beaten senseless by the possessed.
Casting out demons as a human requires divine insight which she won't get just from reading the bible once. God or more properly Jesus actually has to reveal himself to her

>>33343607
Majority of the times it is not demons causing the problem in a man but the flesh of the man itself yearning for worldly desires because ironically it seems that a spirit of greed and envy has gripped your mother

>>33343607
>>33343621
it is so messed up. She keeps saying things like "I don't need anything from you, I have MY JESUS". I used to be pretty religious too and tried to connect with her on it, but she kept acting like her "personal relationship with Jesus" invalidated my own relationship with Jesus, she even told my dad that he didn't have a real relationship with Jesus, only she did. It's almost as if Jesus has replaced her husband and me, her son.

>>33343405 (OP)
You have to separate the idea of family members from that of business partners. Your father will probably support that, and then when your mother's craziness threatens the company, just tell her that such talk/thinking belongs in the home and not the boardroom. And enforce it.

>>33343633
Listen brody I have something to tell you as well.
Most of my knowledge of god is from youtuber youth pastors and if I am being honest I've never had Jesus reveal himself to me
But you have to be careful because sometimes demons can pretend to be angels and perhaps even Jesus himself.
It's very difficult for a person especially one involved with worldly matters like a company to truly get to know Jesus.
If she is willing to leave the company for Jesus that is how you know it's probably legit.
Jesus does require us to prioritize him and God above all us
But I don't think Jesus is telling her to call you demon possessed because that is not what he has done.
TL DR everything Runs through god.
I also have an issue with my own mother but in a different situation

>>33343633
Also it is funny how she specifies MY Jesus implying there are multiple when jt should be the other way around.
Jesus should be the one saying MY Anon's Mother.
Jesus is possessive of us, not the other way around.

>>33343663
>>33343685
I dont think shes possessed, shes been like this before she was religous, its just instead of thinking it was demons she was always accusing people of being a mentally ill narcissist. it is worrying me a lot that she thinks that way about people. She wont go to any church no matter what either, so everything shes "learning" about religion is on Facebook.

>>33343797
>She wont go to any church no matter what either, so everything shes "learning" about religion is on Facebook.
She is cooked mah boy they are teaching her that false gospel 100%
Here's what you gotta do
>Step 1 treat her like a child
>Step 2 ground her and take away e devices for non work purposes
>Step 3 make her write 100 times the internet is not reality

>>33343405 (OP)
>At this point I just want to leave and move out, but I have an obligation to this business we started and all of our customers.
Is the business run out of their house? If not, then you can move out and still work for the business. That way you won't have to deal with your mother directly.

>>33344030
We have a small office space I'm paying rent for, so i could live in the office for a bit, business needs to get more profitable first before I can realistically move into my own house.

>>33343405 (OP)
I won't read how to fix third party threads (it's hard enough trying to fix OPs). I won't read glutton-for-punishment threads posted by subhuman morons who can't seem to figure out what the front door is for.