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survivors of childhood sexual abuse
A place for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to support each other as we travel along our healing journey.

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Offline suicidal38
Subject: Been Put through the wringer!
Date: Nov 12, 2009 21:23
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I am only 38 yrs old,but i have been through so much in life,as a child,as well as an adult.Well where do i start?.....I was 5 years old when i was first sexually abused by a babysitters husband,while my babysitter(his wife) watched.I was totally unclothed.My mom and dad had seperated,i did not know why at the time,but i began wetting the bed when my dad left.This is why i was unclothed while i was being abused(I found out after the fact).

     I acted as if i were sleeping because i was terrified and did not know what to do or think,so i layed there feeling helpless and un-moving til he did the sick thing he did to me,while his wife watched and i could hear her saying to him,"you should not be doing this"his response was "Oh it is ok,go get me some vaseline,so then i hear footsteps,the footsteps of his wife going to get some vaseline.He then rubbed it all over my private area(vagina).When he stopped i waited til i heard them leaving the room,cause i was on the floor laying on a blanket,naked.I sat up and said,frantically,"where are my clothes?" His wife replied"they are hanging in the bathroom ,You had another accident".I then ran in there naked and proceeded to put them back on,soaked in urine or not.I didn't care.I sat on the couch there rest of the day,which felt like eternity,til my mom got there to pick me up after work.

      I was so happy when i heard the knock at the door that i practically ran to her arms and could not get out of that apt quick enough,because i had to pee so badly,I had not moved from that end of the couch,nearest the door,since that traumatic event that morning.My mom and i left and i don't remember anything else until we got to my grandma's house.I remember sitting at her kitchen table and her and my mother were talking.No cops were ever called,the babysitter was not called or confronted, that i know of,So i didn't know what to think?Was what he did right?Was what he did ok?maybe it was my fault?All i know is that my mother never took me back there again.My grandmother started watching me from that night on.I can't even remember telling my mom what happened or what her and my grandma were talking about,i gues i just kinda assummed that i had told my mom,since she never took me back there again. 

      I still wet the bed though.Well my mom was still working her butt off and grandma is watching me.I was so happy.MY aunts and i were like sisters and best friends,since we were all about the same age cause my mom had me when she was 18.Well everything was going well,my mom and i had a little apt by ourselves.Then one day her friends introduce her to some man(who eventually became her husband).Everything was all good until i turned nine and i had already began liking him.He did things with me and my mom,like my dad used to do.The only difference is that when i was 9 years old i am laying on the couch with him,taking a nap,while mom is at work(it seemed like she was always working).This was differenthan any other day,until all of the sudden his hand goes to my private area,and he acts startled as if he did not know what he was doing.I was so scared and didn't know what to think again.

     Well,to make a long story short,He sexually abused me til i was almost 16years of age and in high school.I finally started seeing ABC after-school specials and then i realized the wrongs that had been done to me.I did not know what to do.My step father had threatened me and had me terrified.Finally i told my aunt(who is only 2 months and 3 days younger than me).She didn't know what to think or how to act(but i remember we were in woolworth's store when i told her(there are none now,it was in downtown cincinnati,ohio).She said i should tell my grandma,her mom.I was too scared,so my aunt told her.I remember my grandma coming to me and asking me about it.I told her and she did not believe me because,at this time my step-dad had been trying to keep me away from my boyfriend at the time.So she thought i was doing it so he would go away.It hurt me so bad that my grandma did not believe me at first.

    Well when my mom got off work,we went home.I don't think my grandmother told her or if she did,my mom never said or did anything about it.     

Will finish this later,i got alot to do.and felling better,a longtime friend i haven't talked to in forever just called me........will finish this in a minute.

    

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Offline RadiantBlue
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Date: Oct 29, 2008 10:11
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In the book that my crisis counselor recommended(The Courage To Heal), there is a section for supporters & family of survivors and I found a poem there...I thought I would share it with everyone here, I place it here cause I know you hurt...I hurt too...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For Neil, Because You Asked
by Krishnabai

Stress my long enemy,
visits me often
wearing long, full skirts
which harbour her children.
They creep out
when my back is turned.
They try to overtake me.

The eldest, Fear
is strong & cruel.
He jumps on my back,
arms around my throat
shrieks horrors in my ears,
and on fast feet I jump
out the window,
scream down the street
into the dark
horizon of the night,
and only much later do I return
ragged, weeping, alone.

Here's how to care for me
when I'm with fear:
move softly as approaching
a Luna moth,
have gentle, calm eyes,
stay centered from my panic,
and, if we ever
reach this place of safety--
just hold me.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hugs from Denise


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Offline RadiantBlue
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Date: Oct 28, 2008 14:20
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Hi....
  I am new to this group today, but not new to RMH.  
I am also new to dealing with my childhood sexual abuse... I don't know where to start here.
      I don't remember my abuse...except thru flashbacks, I know i had to be around 8, by the place it happened, I know my abuser was my brother & his 2 friends... and possibly my uncle...
   I recently spoke to a crisis therapist who did an assesment on me and when i told him i left a 24 yr long abusive marriage, and he asked me what caused me to choose an abusive man...he said... that tells him that abuse happened to me when i was younger and did i know of any?  and that's when it hit me...i told him about my flash backs and he gave me a book to read (The Courage To Heal) and OMGosh...it's like a whole new world of abuse for me...alls i know is it has affected my whole life & being...  I feel like my journey is just beginning but the truth is, it began when i was born... 49 yrs ago.
I don't even remember my childhood until i was age 10. and after that, i remember my sister always beating me up and verbally abusing me...I remember the rejection from others in school, i was one of those unwanted, unpopular, ugly kids, out of date, out of fashion. I remember my best friend, HA! in JR High beating me up in the locker room, and me getting expelled for it.  and i can't function socailly anymore and people don't understand why, and me...i wish i could get over all this...
What a wasted life!!!!  and yet i don't wanna die, i wanna live and live well, i don't have to have riches & things, just simple is ok, but that is so hard...I'd like to live without the day to day struggle in my mind & emotions...

I saw the last entry date here...will this letter even matter? will it go unseen?
OH well, i wish i had a friend here in Charlotte NC just to have a soda with...

it's time to pull myself back up, buck up and get on...  you know...be tough, be strong, get on!

later,
Denise
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Offline sweet_misery
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Date: May 16, 2008 04:34
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hi, lovely people. Im the baby of my family. my abuse started at 4 ended when i was 12,one of my older brother and his friend sexually abused me whenever he wanted and done whatever he wanted to me. um used to wet my bed cause i was so afraid to get up at night even though the hurt was going to be anyway, my mom would get so mad at me and make me suck the sheets and hit me with extention cords or switches. hmm, sickning. my dad used to carrry me out to different places and leave me in the car and i would get drunk and me too. i dont remember much about those days or nights. he used to have a staff that was tall and made of wood dont let him be on his spree form drunkness, nobody got sleep. pretty much my bad days outweighed the good. at 7 I tryed telling my mom about what my brother was doing to me but nothing was done she what beat me again, she even caught him sometimes and it was more painful than the pain he was forcing on me. all those tormented days and nights has cause me hell since then. Im grown now and dont know if im going or coming. I have 3 beautiful children of my own. and i am terrified, cant hold a job cause im so scared to leave them with anyone and i constantly worry how they are gonna turned out to be. Their father is in our life but im always on pins and needles cant relax, im tired and exhuasted physically and mentally sometimes i cant even make it out of bed to see them off for school. im alway watching, he know a little bout my life, i know he tells me "just me a chance youll see, let me be your light" hmm im just so tired of being in captivity of my own past.

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Offline FallenAngel24
Subject: My abuse
Date: Jan 31, 2008 15:35
Mood: Guilty
Music: How Do You Get That Lonely - Blaine Larsen
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I'm twenty-three and it took until my nineteenth birthday to tell.  When I was ten my mother remarried.  I thought he was great.  He'd buy me things and make me feel special.  I was his little girl.  Pretty soon he was touching me because I was "special"  I didn't like it but he told me if I told he'd kill my mom and baby sister.  He also said that they would take him away and he'd kill himself.  I kept quiet.  By my fifteenth birthday, I understood that if I let him and his friends have sex with me then I would get things.  I became a whore.  If I wanted something I got it using my body.  It still hurts to think of it like that.  My stepfather made videos using hidden cameras of me and by boyfriend while we were underage.  He picked Matt so that he wouldn't have a challenge.  Then I met my second boyfriend (now my husband) and he helped me some, but we fought a lot.  He was going to break up with me because I was being really mean to him so he would go away so he wouldn't find out my secret.  I couldn't let him find out.  I had the choice and I told him.  He made me tell because it was killing me.  I had had few suicide attempts.  So I told.  Jerry killed himself and left a note blaming me.  I can't help but think just how I caused his death.  Everybody even my husband doesn't see it that way, but had I not told he'd be alive.
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