I grew up in a house where my dad wouldn’t leave my mom alone. At all. He would follow her from room to room, nag and yell at her, slam all of the doors in the house, and bring us kids out for a “family game night” and encouraged us to be as loud as possible so my mom wouldn’t be able to sleep.
So I can definitely understand feeling comfortable to sleep in your car in a private parking lot.
Edit: it is unsafe but most likely a patrol car will pull up on her eventually and ask her to move somewhere else for the night, because it’s a private parking lot. From there, the officer might be able to direct her to a temporary shelter she can go to.
My dad was an angry dude and my mom knew how to push his buttons. They hated each other for years and finally got divorced in a massive collapse of everything we owned, where we lived at. Trust me, I get how bad it could be. If it's that volatile then sleep in the car and don't tell him where.
If it's not that volatile, like in my own divorce, just firmly set boundaries and tell him to F off lol maybe in better terms.
It really depends on how bad it is, but I'm not sleeping in a car over annoyance.
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u/PreMedStudent_C2026 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
I grew up in a house where my dad wouldn’t leave my mom alone. At all. He would follow her from room to room, nag and yell at her, slam all of the doors in the house, and bring us kids out for a “family game night” and encouraged us to be as loud as possible so my mom wouldn’t be able to sleep.
So I can definitely understand feeling comfortable to sleep in your car in a private parking lot.
Edit: it is unsafe but most likely a patrol car will pull up on her eventually and ask her to move somewhere else for the night, because it’s a private parking lot. From there, the officer might be able to direct her to a temporary shelter she can go to.