KathySmith
New Member
I think I have a serious problem and feel that maybe it's too late to do anything about it. My boyfriend and I are on the lease for a house we've lived in for almost 4 years. About 7 months ago I found out he was doing drugs and asked him to stop and get the stuff out of our house. He told me to get out and I refused. I had no where else to go. He told me if I didn't leave, "He'd have me curled up on the floor sucking my thumb for what he was going to do to my family". I had never seen this side of him ('m assuming it was the drugs) he is rather "macho" but I figured it was his country upbringing on the farm and didn't recognize it as abusive behavior. I took a few belongs and went to my mothers. I was very frightened at the time. I have since tried repeatedly to retreive my personal property to no avail. He even went to my parents house to get some of the things I had managed to get out and threatened to have drug users come to their house and destroy their home if the things weren't returned. I have signed statements from my parents regarding this. The "things" was a partial collection that he and I had collected over the years and the pieces I took were the ones I had purchased with my own money. He has told me if I go to the sheriff or the courts he will run me over with his truck or hire someone to physically harm me. I have been to the house several times to talk but he would never let me take anything. I am still on the lease and I have contacted the landlords concerning this issue. They say I have every right to remain in the home as I am on the lease. I was unemployed at the time, he didn't want me to work and we rented the home as a married couple but this has left me homeless. He held over my head that he would seek help and we would "get back together" when he got better and the time was right. I have come to realize that this is never going to happen. He told me to forget that I ever owned anything and has been giving or throwing my things away. So......how can I prove what is or was mine in the house and get it out of there? What about the things he has given away or destroyed? Do I have a right to reenter the home, is there any way to make him leave? Do I have any kind of a suit against him for the treatment, threats, abuse and stress I have endured as a result of this.
Thanks,
Kathy
Thanks,
Kathy