My 13-Year-Old Daughter Kept Sleeping Over at Her Best Friend’s – Then the Friend’s Mom Texted Me, ‘Jordan Hasn’t Been Here in Weeks’

I’m a 40-year-old mom, and I thought my 13-year-old daughter was having innocent sleepovers at her best friend’s house—until her friend’s mom texted me, “Jordan hasn’t been here in weeks.” My stomach dropped.

Jordan had been asking for sleepovers more often. At first, I checked in every time. Then it became routine, and I stopped confirming. I trusted her. I trusted the other mom.

That night, Jordan left with her overnight bag like usual. Ten minutes later, I got the text.

I called Jordan immediately and asked where she was. She said, “Alyssa’s.” But her voice was wrong. When I told her to come home now, she panicked and begged me not to drive there.

She came home an hour later in tears.

The truth shocked me.

She hadn’t been staying with her friend. She’d been staying with her grandmother—my husband’s estranged mother. The woman we cut off years ago after cruel comments and constant disrespect. She’d secretly moved nearby, approached Jordan after school, and told her she was sick and didn’t want to die without knowing her.

Jordan lied because she wanted a grandmother.

When my husband got home, we confronted his mother together. She admitted everything and apologized—truly. She was sick. And alone.

We set strict rules. No secrets. No guilt. No visits without us knowing.

Jordan is still grounded—but she can finally say, honestly, “I’m going to Grandma’s.”

And that honesty changed everything.