Originally Posted by Ditter43
I took my DGC home yesterday afternoon and stay with my DDil last night as my DS is out of town till Friday. She is a nervous wreck. When I got there there was an alarm company there putting in security sensors etc.
We sat up until midnight talking. She was so strung out she couldn't sleep. Both of the children slept with her last night. I will spend the next two nights there so she won't be alone. She feels so violated and after she told me all the details, I can understand why.
Hopefully the alarm system will make her feel safer. It is being completed today.I know it takes time for things to return to normal after a traumatic experience. :-(
I know exactly how your DIL feels. Our home was broken into in May. When I came home from running some errands they were still in the house when I opened the garage door. One was waiting in a parked truck(the watchout) and another in the house that went out a back door. They got away with all of my nice jewelry, a camera, some coins and were about to get the small gun safe out. Think they were going to back the truck up to the garage and load the safe and a couple of other things they had sitting in the hallway to the garage. I did not sleep well for about a month. We now have a security system & feel better now about leaving the house. She is lucky the security company was able to install the system so quickly. We had to wait over a week for ours.
I still think about it almost every day. I think it will take a long long time for me to get over it. Hope things calm down soon.