Advice from people who have been through it please
*trigger warning*
I was sexually abused by my brother from ages 8-11. I now have a 4 month old daughter and I have the most intense anxiety whenever she is left alone with men (she's really only ever left alone with my step-dad, who would never hurt her and has zero history of doing anything even close to something like that. Shes also only left with him for a couple minutes if like im upstairs and hes downstairs. Also im a single mom and i live with my mom and step dad) anyways yesterday i was downstairs and the baby was napping upstairs and we heard over the monitor that she was waking up so my step dad wanted to go check on her. He was up there for a while and i started to panic so much and i went to check on them and he was just laying with her trying to help her go back to sleep. So i started to go back downstairs but started crying because i dodnt want to leave her with him my anxiety was so bad but theres no reason for me to not trust him with her. I just dont know what to do shes going to have to be left alone with him at one point or another and i cant be having panic attacks over it. I am seeing a therapist weekly. Has anyone else gone through soemthing like this? How did you deal with it?
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