Me and my girlfriend are in our junior year of high school. My girlfriend’s dad has drinking issues, when he gets drunk he’s not verbally or physically abusive, he might raise his voice sometimes but most of the time he’s very drowsy and doesn’t get anything done. Her mom on the other hand when stuff like this happens, she makes it a lot worse. Her mom screams at her dad, argues with him, says all this horrible shit, she just doesn’t make it better and ends up crying about it.

Her dad is genuinely a good person but her mom on the other hand really isn’t and you’re gonna see why in a second. Today this morning her mom made her dad leave for Tennessee. Her mom a night before stayed in a hotel with my girlfriend’s aunt. her aunt’s daughter was visiting to come see my girlfriend this weekend. Anyways my girlfriend is very upset about this and she does not feel comfortable around her mom as she has been literally verbally abusing her all morning, her mom called her a jackass and a little b*tch for literally no reason at all. Her mom has screamed at her and her sibling to go down stairs and clean the house while she just sits in her room crying about her husband leaving. 

My girlfriend mentioned to me that her mom said she only was with her dad for money and is divorcing him and taking my girlfriend with her back to the state where my girlfriends grandparents live. It was scary to hear that her mom would say something like that. My girlfriend and I were just talking on the phone in her car and she had to go back in her house to get something and when she came back she told me her mom apologized to her but then started screaming at her when my girlfriend said she didn’t want therapy. Her mom said she needed it because she’s going to have to “face these same problems” in the future. If anyone needs therapy it’s her mom and we both agreed.

She’s been very sad and I just want to be there for her and make her feel better but I also feel like I should do something because she literally does not feel safe in her own home, her mom is literally not making anything better and verbally abusing her. Like what should I do to help her exactly? She feels like she doesn’t have any grown adult to talk to about it and she doesn’t want to talk about it with anyone else but me, what should I do?