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libidoergosum

my contribution to No Pity, No Shame, No Silence.

Aug 04, 2004 15:28

I've been reading and sort of following the tales of friends and some of thier friends... I am greatly disturbed and quite frankly enraged by what I've been reading. Please do NOT mistake my rage for those that have suffered, if you think I am, you're missing a whole lot. I am disturbed and enraged that the men, the true men in thier lives have ( Read more... )

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ga_sunshine August 4 2004, 12:45:16 UTC

I had a former boyfriend who used me as a punching bag for a year before my friends knew. I was young and scared and stupid. They only found out when I couldn't hide a black eye. Let's just say that the men in my life were NOT silent. Five of them showed up at his apartment that afternoon. And you know what? I was dumb enough to cry over the fact that my friends beat him up because I didn't know any better at the time. I grew up in violence and that's what I thought love was...it took me a long time to realize I didn't deserve it, I didn't bring it on myself, and I had a choice. Those three things are the best lessons we can all help each other learn.

libidoergosum August 4 2004, 12:47:37 UTC

I was thinking something a little more civil, but hey, I'm not gonna cry if an abusive schmuck gets his just desserts. I am embarrassed to admit that because of an environment created by my ex-wife, I nearly became one of those abusive bastards... fortunately my friends (male and female) intervened.

deza August 4 2004, 13:03:12 UTC

That's rather like my relationship with Scott. I don't know how many body bruises I hid from y'all, or how many times I didn't go out with my friends because he told me to stay home.

ga_sunshine August 4 2004, 13:49:24 UTC

Yep. I hid a lot back when Frank and I were dating.

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Re: Choices... ga_sunshine August 4 2004, 17:43:54 UTC

I will have to read this later...I got through the first two paragraphs and had to stop for now. I've got a lot of stories that I haven't touched on here and...well, maybe we can sit and share with each other sometime? *hugs*

*goes to meditate

Re: Choices... jaguarraven August 5 2004, 14:19:16 UTC

I'd love to listen if you'd ever like to talk. I've been remembering so much, but it is time to once again put it in the past and move forward. It was good to remember the hell I have lived through. I forget sometimes, not that I repress it or have blanks in my memories, but I just have dealt with it and moved forward. I'm a live in the present/future kindof girl. There's always tomorrow and usually tomorrow has been better.

I'm going to delete this thread because I feel like I have spewed emotion where it was inappropriate, but I wanted you to know this before I did.

Hugs!

Re: Choices... ga_sunshine August 5 2004, 17:25:59 UTC

Oh, I didn't mean for you to feel it was inappropriate!!

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