Okay I suffer from anxiety and sometimes depression due to being molested by my uncle when I was 5-8 years old. I told my mother about it and she didn’t care she was actually having an affair with him at the time and basically my mother never cared about me during that time because she had many affairs, she would bring men to the house and I would witness all the disgusting things she would do with them while my father was at work that I also felt that being abused so young opened my mind more about being sexual that it would open a door to other sexual predators that at that time I thought they “liked me” when I was only 12-16 years old I “started having relationships” with older men.

For this reason I’m very over protective of my children. Not just because of SA but other things that I wouldn’t want my children to be part of like drugs, gangs etc..

my daughter is excited she’s back in school since last year they were fully remote. She made new friends and these friends hang out everyday after school so she’s asked me to let her hangout with them for a little. The thing is I don’t trust them 😩 kids in middle school are worse than high school. She’s changed so much she does her makeup, hair, and nails but she has also been in the middle of some problems with her friends and this is why I don’t trust them. I hear so many stories in the news like the other day I heard about some friends who tricked their other friend to hangout and they stabbed her stuff like this makes me over think and be very over protective. But I also want to give her some freedom, I told her she can invite her friends over if she wants or she can take her brother with her he’s a year younger than her but I know is not the same. I just want some advice how can I give her some freedom without letting my anxiety interfere with it?