Hi All

My beautiful daughter Aimee is 13. It has been just the two of us since her dad left when she was 2 and we have as a result always been very close.  I have always been the strong rock solid mum, who has always been there and handled anything that came our way, I've been her safety and security....

As you all know too well, IC turns our lives upside down and I am now not the same mum I was in so many ways.  She is a sweet girl and like me is very sensitive and the last 20 months have been very hard on her, she is facing so many challenges both at school and physically as she enters womanhood   She is receiving help to cope mentally and emotionally with the effects IC has had on our lives from the her school and I am grateful to them for the help they are offering to her but I feel that she needs more help.

It occured to me that just may be some of you have teenagers of your own who may be experiencing similar feelings and difficulties and that they could email each other and be a support to one another as a result of their mutual experiences just as we are of support to each other.

I completely understand if that is not something you would want your children to be a part of but I thought I would ask on Aimee's behalf just in case there may be another teenager out there who would like to link up, if so I would love to hear from you....

Thank you for reading this post and I really hope I do not offend anyone by posting it.