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Family dinner tonight. My family... Well it's complicated.
Grandma is wheelchair bound, and my mom and aunt care for her 24/7. So when we get together, it's always at grandma's.
My aunt, who is relatively awesome, has decided she wants a relationship with her ex-husband again, after a traumatic event he went through.
Her ex molested me more than once when I was younger. No one believed me.
My daughter is 13. I just had to tell her who he is and that I didn't want her in the same room alone with him. I didn't tell her specifically why, but I want to vomit.
It's been more than 20 years, and I just can't. No one should have to face their abuser in a room full of family who never believed it happened.
Maybe he won't be there. Maybe this is all for naught. It just hurts my heart that we even had to have that conversation.
Grandma is wheelchair bound, and my mom and aunt care for her 24/7. So when we get together, it's always at grandma's.
My aunt, who is relatively awesome, has decided she wants a relationship with her ex-husband again, after a traumatic event he went through.
Her ex molested me more than once when I was younger. No one believed me.
My daughter is 13. I just had to tell her who he is and that I didn't want her in the same room alone with him. I didn't tell her specifically why, but I want to vomit.
It's been more than 20 years, and I just can't. No one should have to face their abuser in a room full of family who never believed it happened.
Maybe he won't be there. Maybe this is all for naught. It just hurts my heart that we even had to have that conversation.