Hi there
I'm just posting a thread on what my daughter's friend has told me. I'm slightly worried at what to advise her on especially as she wants to run away. Trying to keep this short.
My dd's friend is 17 and from a strict household. When she was 15 and started socialising with boys, her younger brother aged 11 then, was very very into snooping on her. He still does and now that she has a boyfriend, the messages can be very incriminating to read if from a conservative religious household. She feels rather unreligious as well. She has also tried self harming when she was bullied by her younger brother who threatens, steals and follows her.
Her mother occasionally defends her but often snoops and sends her to bed early, gives her little time to do her A levels homework often just being 3hrs and there being no time for rest. Her mother doesn't trust her leaving the house early to go to school and has her school timetable at hand. It doesn't help that she has a wheelchair making her feel more adequate. Her brother and mother both hate her friends probably because she confides in her and talks to them.
I don't know what to tell her.. Should she go? I would house her but it would be too obvious if she stayed with me