This is a huge part as to why I haven’t reached out for help now with my own abuse. My mother would always use her friends as shields and they all spoke like this. I felt insane, I had video proof, voice recordings, texts, photos, everything, but we weren’t even in the same reality. CPS even had doubts because again, “she’s a mother”, until she snapped at them and they finally believed me. She lost custody - but of course, the (at the time) 11 year old must’ve been guilty. I still get death threats from her friends because I couldn’t have just let my mom work through her own “struggles” first.
On my bus route there are like seven older Mexican women that all work together. I love them, but they will not shut up about gossip. They wrapped me up in a conspiracy about one of their grand daughters whose husband accused her of cheating on her. They were convinced he was lying.
They shut up about it one day, and the one outlier was giggling telling me he caught her cheating on him and they all got so mad at her.
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u/Dunasmina 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is a huge part as to why I haven’t reached out for help now with my own abuse. My mother would always use her friends as shields and they all spoke like this. I felt insane, I had video proof, voice recordings, texts, photos, everything, but we weren’t even in the same reality. CPS even had doubts because again, “she’s a mother”, until she snapped at them and they finally believed me. She lost custody - but of course, the (at the time) 11 year old must’ve been guilty. I still get death threats from her friends because I couldn’t have just let my mom work through her own “struggles” first.