I was bullied when I was young and now find it very hard to make friends | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

Your history of being picked on at school has a lot do with your feelings of being ‘faulty’. Getting involved in a group of mixed ages would help avoid memories of childhood I’m in my late 30s and have a beautiful two-year-old boy and a supportive husband. But when I take my son out I feel like a rejected teenager again, surrounded by groups taking their kids out together. I had friends when I was younger, but moved schools as a teenager and was badly bullied. It affected my confidence to the...

By Annalisa Barbieri