is it safe to walk to the store alone
my mom is super scared of everything, even getting the mail that is only a few steps away from the house. she’s scared to get out of her car to get food in a restaurant and scared to be in the garage because she thinks the garage door doesn’t lock on its own so someone could break in.
i’m going to college soon, and she was telling me how i would have to go to the store to get things (soap, bathroom stuff, food) and i was saying how there are stores near campus.
she told me that i shouldn’t walk alone and if i do i will be murdered stalked and raped. not that these things don’t truly happen to people, but i am very hurt that she said it in this fashion (she said those words exactly) and i just can’t stop thinking about how she was point instead tell me how to be safe or offer to take me to the store on the weekends (i am less than an hour away)
i can’t believe she boils my existence down to being raped. it’s all i can think about. i was so excited to go to college but now im really scared. i know this behavior is the reason im leaving but it is still getting to me. i dont know anyone at the college campus so its not like i will have a walking buddy, and she reminded me that i dont know my roommate (we met off instagram) and that she could be crazy too. im scared to do anything without my mom around but i know i have to in the end
i started crying thinking about it because maybe i should stay home.