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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally I would want to discuss this with the therapist [/quote]

What?!! Lol that's NOT how it works. [/quote]

No. This is actually good advice.

First, I will say that I was molested by a family member when I was 8.  Memory is funny.  I always knew at some level something had happened. But here’s what I remembered— the bedspread. Because that is what I focused on to try and make it go away. It took a lot of therapy— at first drawing and writing— to talk about it. It was never reported by my therapist because I was not a minor.  I chose not to report it myself for several reasons.

OP’s daughter needs to drive the process here.  People almost never “think” they were molested out of the blue. It’s very likely something happened.

OP needs to go in with her daughter to a therapy session and talk with her daughter and the therapist about what her daughter wants to do. And what OP can do to support her daughter.  DD can talk to the police now, when she feels ready down the road, or never.  And DD can dictate the terms of the interview. She may want a female detective, she should want someone who specializes in abuse victims, she may want her mom and/or therapist present for support. She may want to be interviewed in her home and not the station. Of the police can’t work with that, DD doesn’t have to interview.

OP is asking the wrong question. The issue isn’t what OP should do. It’s what her DD decides to do.  And she should not be made or pressured to do anything. [/quote]

I don’t think somebody that did not get therapy for their child molestation is in a position to give advice.[/quote]

Did you read before posting?  It says very clearly that I dealt with having been molested in therapy for a significant amount of time. [/quote]

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