Posted in Anger, Anxiety, Art, Choices, Daughters, Divorce, Emotions, Enablers, Fear, Happiness, Hope, Incest, Justification, Life Stories, Losing Innocence, Mothers, Non-Offending Parent, Panic, Rape, Remember, Resiliency, Secrets, Sexual Abuse, Sisters, Suicide, Survivors, Trust, childhood sexual abuse, church, church of Christ, control, cutting, dads, denial, depression, empathy, family, guilt, healing, love, memories, mental health, molestation, religion, sexual predator, taking sides, understanding, tagged birth, birthday, childhood abuse, childhood sexual abuse, dads, Daughters, determination, love, molestation, Mothers, protecting, Secrets, Sexual Abuse, step-dads, unconditional love on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Twenty four years ago, she entered the world on her own terms on her own chosen day. She was not suppose to be born until December, but she did not wait. Three hours after a rear end accident, my water broke and there was no stopping her birth. Labor started after a couple of hours [...]
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Posted in Anger, Anxiety, Choices, Daughters, Divorce, Emotions, Enablers, Fear, Grandfathers, Hope, Incest, Justification, Life Stories, Losing Innocence, Mothers, Non-Offending Parent, Panic, Rape, Remember, Resiliency, Secrets, Sexual Abuse, Siblings, Sisters, Suicide, Survivors, Trust, Victim, childhood sexual abuse, church, church of Christ, control, dads, denial, depression, empathy, family, grandchildren, guilt, healing, humankind, love, memories, mental health, molestation, religion, sexual predator, sin, taking sides, understanding, tagged Anger, aunts, Belief, childhood sexual abuse, control, dads, daugthers, disbelief, e-mail, empathy, hurt, lying, mental health, molestation, Mothers, nephews, nieces, non-offendign parent, Rape, Sexual Abuse on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I heard it in her voice as soon as she answered the phone.
“What is wrong?” I ask, not sure I can deal with the answer. I hear her gasping to clear her voice, to make it work and to get the words out.
“It’s about an awful e-mail I got from my Sissie.” Long pause as [...]
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