My teenage daughter was renting a small flat while the her girlfriend was away working. One evening to her shock a man entered the flat with a key and introduced himself as the owner’s fiancé. He then made advances on my daughter who made it clear she wasn’t interested and from her bedroom called me, an hour away, to help her. I set off and meanwhile the man had entered the room starkers and got into her bed.
She was petrified with fear but convinced him that someone was on the way to fetch her and would call the police if he didn’t let her go. I arrived to find her with her belongings outside the flats at 1 am.
She wrote to her friend to tell her what had happened and the friend flatly refused to believe her, accused her of being over imaginative or the one offering favours or just paranoid and the friendship was dead on the spot. It took my daughter a long time to get over the incident; the erstwhile friend and fiancé married some months later.
People often won’t accept the truth about loved ones.
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