What my friend told me...NEW UPDATE/TRIGGER ⚠️

I am heartbroken.

My friend and I had a very rare girls night in at her house this past Saturday. We sat around and drank wine, talked and watched a movie.

While we were talking, my friend just nonchalantly blurted something out that has left me really questioning not only her and her husband but humanity.

She told me that on January 1st she and her husband are going to leave their kids with her mom and not return.

They plan to tell her mom that they’re going to a new year’s party and they are draining their accounts, taking their valuables and hopping on a plane to another state with no plans to return.

Their kids are ages 11, 7, 5 and 5 months old.

She is dead serious. I just cannot believe that two people I’ve known for so long could plan something like this. How is it possible that both parents are okay with just leaving like that?

They’ve had some serious financial issues and she’s had a hard time coping with being the mother of 4 but I never in a million years expected this from them. They have always seemed like great parents to me :(

Should I tell her mom what they’re planning? I feel like I should but what if she comes to her senses before then and I just start drama? Or worse, what if they just leave the kids alone at home ?

**edit**

She definitely wasn’t joking. I called CPS and they said they can’t do anything. She’s planning on leaving them with an adult so she’s not endangering them. They said they only thing that will happen is in 90 days the grandma can file for full custody. I do believe that her mom can and will support the kids...even though she shouldn’t have to. I’m going to wait a bit and talk to her again and see if she’s had a change of heart before contacting her mom.

**UPDATE**

This is not the update that I wanted to have to write. So, her husband contacted me yesterday and told me that he was NOT on board with her plan at all. He said he agreed because he was scared of what she might do if he didn’t. We decided to try to talk to her about it and it turned into a huge blow up. We called her mom and dad and they came to try to help and she calmed down a little. She agreed to go to see a therapist and we thought everything was okay.

Then at about 3am her husband called me frantic and I could barely understand him. He woke up at around 2 and she wasn’t in bed and the bathroom light was on. He went in to check on her and she had slit both of her wrists and was bleeding out BAD. He called 911 and their neighbor came over and stayed with the kids until his mom could get there to be with them and he rode with her. She lost too much blood and was pronounced dead upon arrival. I am in shock. I can’t believe this is happening right now. I was so angry with her and so judgmental and now I just wish I had tried to understand and tried to get her help. I wish I had trusted my instinct last night and stayed with them. I don’t even know how to process any of this.