I'm sorry what... my mind is absolutely blown.
So, it's okay that B would most likely have got T a bottle of WKD, instead of spirits to still look cool in front her mates.
T is 13.... THIRTEEN. FFS RACHEL!!!
It's still alcohol! It's still underage drinking! I THOUGHT YOUR HUSBAND WAS A POLICE OFFICER?!
Why is it okay that B would have handled it in private?
Why is R calling B to check that how she's handling it is okay? B is still only 18!? Yes, she's an adult but she's not T's Mother... stop placing all the mothering responsibilities onto her and let her live her bleeping life.
Does she not think about what she's spewing?!
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY YOU'RE UNDER SOCIAL SERVICE'S RADAR.
I’ve not caught up yet but I can’t not comment on this. I think this is why I get so triggered by her and so very rarely comment. My mother would have rung me and “checked” she was “she was doing the right thing” when i was B’s age and younger. I believe it was 100% to put some of the responsibility on to me and not her. And yeah to guilt me into taking care of them “because I was so natural and caring and just know what to do.”
I won’t get into it to much because I’m in danger of going off on a tangent but So much of the way B is towards her siblings I see in myself. Even the bitchy snarky parts. In a way it makes you very resentful that they seem like they are allowed to be “free” while you are given adult responsibilities (at least emotionally if not in all areas) from as young as you remember. Because your mum loves the attention of having kids but not the work it entails.
It also makes you feel so protective of them. And I was a kid so some of my ways of protecting them were stupid. My mum should have stepped in. But she didn’t. If I had gotten in real trouble from it she would have absolutely claimed her own innocence as well.
I still feel responsibility for my siblings and my mothers well-being and happiness now and I’m nearing 40 and they are all adults.
Whoever is reading this for her needs to let her know all of this is going to affect every choice her eldest daughter makes for so much of her life. The guilt I was conditioned to feel for doing anything even slightly for myself will never go away. I have boundaries now (and boy that took a lot of therapy) but some days the guilt and self doubt is horrendous. It’s absolutely
bleeping heartbreaking knowing how B must feel to me and I’ve never met them.
It’s also made me the same to my own children as I am to my siblings. And I’ve missed so much of the times I should be enjoying them because I was worrying or feeling guilty for them. So I’ve probably damaged them in some way as well. (Or made them think they have to take absolutely no responsibility in their lives because I will.)
Anyway this is about 10% of what I could say on this topic but I need to stop or it will be ridiculous.
oh but just to add if my son’s girlfriends mum had even slightly hinted to anyone that my son might have had sex with her underage daughter (they are similar ages to L) I would have been livid. Let alone to potentially thousand of people. SERIOUSLY how can you possibly think that’s ok??