Nikolette -> RE: Confessions (8/5/2006 11:19:24 PM)
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I'm not confessing this to get it off my chest, my life is a pretty open book... but I just wanted to let everyone know there was an additional someone who'd had to deal with a lot of hard things, and that it DOES get better. 1. I was sexually abused by different people from age 2 until 21. I am 22 now. It was accompanied by being physically abused at home, and rape and physical abuse during my teen years. 2. I was in a deeply deeply abusive relationship with a man for almost three years. It was physically, emotionally, spiritually, sexually, and psychologically abusive. However I still occasionally miss him. Next March will be my second annual Liberation anniversary, marking my freedom from the relationship. 3. My brother killed himself when I was 8. I haven't believed in God since. I still feel guilty about it, like there was something I could have done. 4. Both of my parents were drug addicts- I emancipated myself when I was 16 because of a culmination of problems. One being they let someone catch our kitchen on fire by making meth, and two being they let someone who killed a 19 y/o girl over stolen drugs in my home. My mom has been clean for about three years. She is a different person. My dad has been clean around 6 months. He is the same. He probably won't stay clean. 5. My dad had an unwanted baby with a girl around my age. She is a drug addict. They do not take care of him well at all, but not to the extent that I can prove it. I wish a LOT that she would die, so that I could convince my dad to let me take care of my baby brother who is not yet 2. He needs someone who will love him and protect him like my father, and this drug addict never will. 6. I haven't cut myself for about 4 months. Before that it was almost a year ago. I might cut again, but it won't be like it used to be, and it won't be for any reason unless saving my life. Which sounds retarded, I know- but for me it makes sense. 7. I am probably going to start going to counseling again- because after all of that.... I am finally safe. And I am terrified of this new way of life. 8. I am only 22... I am starting to love myself completely. I am ecstatic I got this far in this short span of time. I know other people strain and waste years... I am so so so grateful that I have had a mentor truly love me, invest in me, respect me, hope for me, pray for me, trust me, fight for me, stand by me, council me, play with me, advocate for me, and promote me ... no matter what. She is my best friend, she is 37, her name is Heather and she saved me, when I couldn't. 9. "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." -Mother Teresa
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