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In reply to the discussion: Has this ever happened to you? No? Then I am glad. [View all]In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I was. Glasses of buttermilk went flying.
Sometimes I ducked sometimes I was backhanded.
As a child I watched my stepmothers (both of 'em) beat on my father until he retaliated.
One Monday morning my father was wondering where his bruises came from. It was me.
I hit him in an attempt to protect my stepmother.
I moved away from home when I was 17.
No brothers. No sisters. Alone in the world.
Safe as long as I trusted no one.
I became an investigator for Child Protective Services of New York.
Trying to stop the horrors of my childhood from happening to another defenseless child.
I was sexually abused as a child.
Seduced by a 26 year old nephew of my first stepmother.
Oh yeah. I was I was told I was to blame.
When I was 15 my second stepmother sexually abused and humiliated me.
Do I have mommy issues (as one very rude DU male ask when I was posting on a thread about the rape of a fourteen year old by her mother) . . . you bet I do.
Do I trust women in real life ~ no.
The one good thing that came out of my abuse: It never happened again as an adult.