So I am worried about my cousin. And maybe I shouldn’t be, but I can’t help it. I found out from my mom today that she (my cousin), told my grandpa that she no longer wears shorts. She used to dress really unmodestly. And now she’s not even wearing shorts? What is happening? When I heard that, the only thing I could think of is that she is possibly SIing. Because it just seems so strange to me that someone who used to dress like her is suddenly no longer dressing in that manner. My family thinks she is just more modest and that it is great that she has turned her dressing habits around. It scares me. Scares me to think that my cousin might be walking down the same road as me and nobody knows it. I know her home life is not great. At all. And it would be very very easy for her to hide something like this from everyone. We haven’t been close for years. We didn’t get along for a long while, but for the past few years, things have gotten better between us, so that we are at least not arguing anymore. Despite this fact, we just don’t talk on a regular basis. We go to different colleges, so seeing each other is almost impossible due to scheduling. I do have her phone number though and am seriously thinking about calling her. Just to ask if she is okay. But you all know how that is. We always say we’re fine because we don’t want to bother anyone. I know if she is indeed engaging in this behavior, that is what she will do with me also. So getting anything out of her is going to be almost impossible, due to us not already having had a strong relationship to begin with. I too would like to believe that she has turned more modest. But unlike my family, I am not so easily fooled. Maybe I am worrying too much. But I would rather worry, reach out to her, and be wrong than not worry, not reach out because I think she’s okay, and miss something that is right in front of all of us.
I’m know that I’m not the best for this one but I would have to say call her. If anything, let her know that you are there for her if she needs to talk. I’m sure that’s one thing that she needs the most.
Darn it! She must have changed her cell phone number (it’s been a couple of years since I called it). I just tried the one I had and someone else’s voicemail came up.
Okay, I am going to try a new approach. My aunt stays in touch with my cousin quite a bit, so I am going to email my aunt and see if I can get my cousin’s phone number and her email. Then I have two choices of contact and can pick which one to use.