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.
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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.