I am 17 years old going to be 18 in september and have lived with my mother since I was born. I want to be emancipated because I believe I am being emotionally abused. Also when I was 15 my mother threw me into a wall and made bruises on my back from the corner then threw me on the ground and kept slapping me over and over again until I gave her my phone. From what I have heard if you say no to a direct order nothing lawfully can be done. Now back to my situation. I clean the house everyday cleaning the kitchen, my brothers room, the livingroom, the laundry, my mother and her boyfriends room, and sometimes they're laundry. I cook and vaccuum and do everything she asks me to do. If I make a mistake I get yelled at because her boyfriend is a clean freak. If I'm hanging out with my boyfriend (He is 18 and has witnessed this) and i have laundry on the dryer only for a bit and me and him are sitting on my bed she throws the load on to me and his body. She also glares at me when doing so. Now I know my duties to do this and yes I do slack at times. But since i have been babysitting my brothers almost everyday since i was 9 she has put a lot on me. I always have to be there to babysit them. She has started calling me "bitch" and "ass". I cry all the time because she always yells at me. I am grounded for 2 weeks and owe her 25$ because I was late for my brothers after meeting my niece for the first time. Yesterday, since I'm grounded I can't be around my boyfriend or my friends, I brought my boyfriend after GED testing (dropped out of high school because It wasn't working for me and I'm close to getting my ged) I went to go get my food handlers card from her for my interview. When I told her that my boyfriend was with me she sent me a text saying "I'm so angry that I can't see straight, You know you are grounded and can't be around him. Your grounded for another 2 weeks! and I'm blocking everything!" luckily that didn't happen. but I thought that was the last straw. She has said I'm going to be a stripper since I can't get an education she has said that I'm going to find a wealthy husband and live off of him while i pop out babies to live off wellfare. She has hurt me by favoring my brothers of me by not letting me have a game system. what happened is that we have an xbox 360 and she moved it to my brothers room. I asked her if I could have it since they are 7 and 8 and they have ruined games to let it be in my room. She said no. So i asked if I could have the regular xbox in my room. again she said no and glared at me. just for asking. So all I have is my broken laptop to play on. I know it seems like i have a lot. But also she has like maybe three to four pictures of me...and a dozen pictures of her boyfriend and my brothers. My boyfriend has seen the texts she sends me. So i was planning on once I get a job to either moving out (if she lets me) and living with him and his family who would gladly let me stay for free until im able to pay for rent or getting emancipated if she wont give me the option. I always feel stressed and I'm always afraid for her to come home... I need help...Do I have enough of a case to get emancipated? I also live in washington.. thank you everyone who answers...I just can't take her anymore.