#abuse

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It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.


Mark Morford


#child-abuse #mormonism #catholicism

It wasn't a sign of weakness to tell what happened to me. I feel guilt no longer, only regret. The other emotions are coming around too. How much further do I need to go? I'm not sure, but there is comfort in the fact that I am in the hands of expert guides, both in the doctor's office and at home with Sue.


Charles L. Bailey Jr.


#guilt #healing #journey #onion #painful

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God." Aristotle


Bruce Wayne Sullivan


#animals #childhood-memories #dogs #good-book #life-struggles

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.


Dylan Thomas


#definitions #humor #substance-abuse #humor

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people".


Julie Klam


#animals #dog #protection #love

This is my first real memory of James. In every memory before that, he’s just a flash of color, a warm body with a blurred face, a comforting voice begging me not to die. When he planted himself between our father and me that day, an eight-year-old with small fists clenched at his sides, I think I fell in love with my brother.


Kate Avelynn


#issues #new-adult #young-adult #love

Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.


Rebecca O'Donnell


#hope #incest #insecurity #memoir #love

I remembered during puberty, through the anorexic mists of intermittent menstrual cycles, that man, my father, lifting Shirley's nightdress over her head and asking her in his mocking way to choose what colour condom she wanted. 'Red or yellow?' Which did she choose? I can't remember. Perhaps she alternated. Perhaps there were other colours. It didn't happen once. It happened again and again. I had no power to stop it. That man, my father, had some control over me. I was drugged by the black silence in that big house, the vile whiff of aftershave, the crushing torment of inevitability. My father fucked Shirley using red or yellow condoms and it was those condoms that brought it all to an end. It was my last realization of the day; any more would have been too much to contemplate. That time when my mother had found used condoms in bedroom, he had admitted, after a pointless burst my father's of denial, that he had been going to prostitutes. That was no doubt true but I can't imagine clients take used condoms away with them; prostitutes would surely get rid of the things. No. My father kept those used condoms as a prize. He was fucking his fourteen-year-old-daughter. He was proud of it. Rebecca welled up with tears. Poor thing, she kept saying. Poor thing.


Alice Jamieson


#child-abuse #child-rape #child-sexual-abuse #condoms #dissociation

There, there, best to bring it all up,' she said. My memory was in shreds. Imagine a photograph cut into narrow strips then jumbled up. Everything is there, but you can't see the whole picture and even the strips have no bearing on reality. I did know I had consumed a large amount of alcohol. But I must have done something crazier than just being found drunk to have a nurse sitting by my bed. I thought it would be a good idea to say something and planned it for several seconds. 'She's all right,' I said. 'Who is?' asked the nurse. 'Alice. I'm all right now.' As I spoke I wondered if I had said something wrong. didn't sound like me. There were so many voices muttering in the background it was hard to tell.


Alice Jamieson


#confusion #dissociation #dissociative #dissociative-identity-disorder #fragmented

If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office.


Linda Pohl


#lawyers #love #power #romance #secret