I'm not entirely sure this is actually the right section for this but was worried about getting a bad response in other sections. I've name changed.
DSD is 16, she's lived with DH and me for about 5 years. During that time she's spent a varying amount of time at her mums. Recently it's only really been every other weekend. She's never had a great relationship with her but it seems to be getting worse and worse. Last week DH ended up picking her up at 11pm as she phoned and was very upset. It turned out her mum was very drunk and had been shouting at her and had physically attacked her. When DH arrived she was calling DSD a fucking bitch.
Since then poor DSD has been very withdrawn, she's hardly come out of her room and won't talk about what happened. She's always pretended that she doesn't care about her mum's behaviour (there's a long history of this kind of thing) and makes jokes about it but obviously it really does affect her a lot. She's a lovely girl and we have a close relationship, I feel so sad for her. I'm just not sure how I can help her now
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Think DSD is getting depressed...
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Helpstepmum · 16/12/2012 20:12
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