I'm an 18 yearl old emirati girl. My parents are divorced and it ended very badly, my mom was hit occasionally and me and my siblings were too young to realise because my dad never did it infront of us, he would hit her and threaten her when she wouldn't listen to him, eventually she gathered the courage and tried to divorce him, it took about 6 years to officially leave through out that period she left the house often and would come back only because he wouldn't let her see her kids. After she left whatever problems he gave her turned to me for a couple of years I would tell him that I was still speaking to her and seeing her, but the lectures about how my mother was no a good person got too much for me to handle and now I see her without telling him, I feel bad for lying to him but I couldn't take the lectures. I started dating a non muslim foreigner more than a year ago I have introduced him to my family but they don't except him and want nothing to do with him, I have met his family and am inlove with them, they treat me like I was one of their kids. My father has been putting restrictions on me and not letting me out of the house I have abit of freedom but I can not take the lectures, he thinks I'm a liar and I won't deny that I have lied to him before, but he abuses me verbally and make me feel like a horrible person, if I argure with him or try to tell prove my point he'll tell me to shut up, call me a liar and other names, if I argue with him after he tells me to be quiet he'll hit me. I want to leave home and I told him once, he threatened to ruin my boyfriends life and his families. I can't go live with my mother because he'll ruin her life too and she's just started her new life and is finally semi happy. I want to leave and can not marry my boyfriend because I need my fathers permission. I need to leave my home. My brothers are all on my fathers side except for my younger brother, none of them speak to my mother because of the lies my father has told them. I need to know what to do. I can not live with them anymore. 
Sorry for the long post.
Please help.




 I appreciate the advice. I do plan on leaving but it will take sometime most probably a year or two, I intend on either transferring my credits from my current university and going abroad or getting a job overseas    until then ill manage. Even if I do leave though I don't want to break my family ties, my father loves me for sure he just doesn't know how to show it. I forgot to mention this in my earlier post but my father is bipolar, he was diagnosed with it a couple of years back but just claims that the psychiatrist was making things up. Its quite evident that he is because one day hes a complete angel and the next he acts completely different and angry. I know he is a good man at heart and his intentions are good, even if I leave one day he will always be my father and I will always love and take care of him.
 I appreciate the advice. I do plan on leaving but it will take sometime most probably a year or two, I intend on either transferring my credits from my current university and going abroad or getting a job overseas    until then ill manage. Even if I do leave though I don't want to break my family ties, my father loves me for sure he just doesn't know how to show it. I forgot to mention this in my earlier post but my father is bipolar, he was diagnosed with it a couple of years back but just claims that the psychiatrist was making things up. Its quite evident that he is because one day hes a complete angel and the next he acts completely different and angry. I know he is a good man at heart and his intentions are good, even if I leave one day he will always be my father and I will always love and take care of him.

 
  Only in rap songs would you hear lines like pop that *you know what*. But yeah, I agree with him. Your situation is tough and what makes it worse is the fact that you are Emirati. As Nucleus said, you will have to discuss religion with him
 Only in rap songs would you hear lines like pop that *you know what*. But yeah, I agree with him. Your situation is tough and what makes it worse is the fact that you are Emirati. As Nucleus said, you will have to discuss religion with him
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