My (14M) closest friend (15F) since 6th grade is having serious problems at home and i need to know what I can do to help, if anything.

To start off, i am really worried about my friend. She has severe anxiety and depression that have been further augmented by her situation. Her mother is incredibly overbearing and overprotective. For an unknown reason, she has taken an interest in me. Creepily so. She wants my friend and I to be together and eventually have kids and the like. Neither of us, as far as i can tell, have any interest in this. As i said earlier, she is extremely overprotective of my friend. The only friend her mother permitted her to have contact with during the summer was me. She decided to talk to someone other than me and her mother found out. Now she has no way of contacting her friends except for me and that still goes through her mother. I haven't voiced any concerns or at all questioned the Mother's relationship for fear of damaging her trust because i believe that i need to do everything I can to be there for my friend. As far as i know, there is no physical abuse. But i would definitely classify this as emotional. I was invited to a 4th of july bbq at their house. I intend to go just to see if she is ok. But i could use any advice on what to do or how to help.

Tl;DR: My friend is being emotionally abused and I need to know if there is anything I can do.



Submitted June 28, 2019 at 12:12AM

To start off, i am really worried about my friend. She has severe anxiety and depression that have been further augmented by her situation. Her mother is incredibly overbearing and overprotective. For an unknown reason, she has taken an interest in me. Creepily so. She wants my friend and I to be together and eventually have kids and the like. Neither of us, as far as i can tell, have any interest in this. As i said earlier, she is extremely overprotective of my friend. The only friend her mother permitted her to have contact with during the summer was me. She decided to talk to someone other than me and her mother found out. Now she has no way of contacting her friends except for me and that still goes through her mother. I haven't voiced any concerns or at all questioned the Mother's relationship for fear of damaging her trust because i believe that i need to do everything I can to be there for my friend. As far as i know, there is no physical abuse. But i would definitely classify this as emotional. I was invited to a 4th of july bbq at their house. I intend to go just to see if she is ok. But i could use any advice on what to do or how to help.Tl;DR: My friend is being emotionally abused and I need to know if there is anything I can do.
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