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bigchris
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Thank you for replying to my post. It helps. Most of you here are the real victims/survivors. The focus should be on you as the focus should be on my wife. She has dealt with a lifetime of pain and learned helplessness. Like some kind of evil gift that keeps on giving. She is terrified "it" will happen again and she will have to "go away". She feels so much guilt and shame for not fighting. She says she realizes a simple "no" probably would have ended it, but she couldn't speak or move. And he just kept going. I tell her it's not her fault, and that she is no less pure in my eyes. She didn't p
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My dear Erin, My heart breaks for you. I'm only a loving husband of a survivor. I've only recently posted my "hello" post. You posting here was a first step. Very brave. Continue to reach out for help. There is help and there is hope. You are no less pretty and certainly NOT weak. You survived. You are to be admired. bigchris
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I've no where else to go so I ended up here. If I'm out of line posting this here, I'm very sorry. I'm just hurting and don't know where to turn. I met my wife 27 years ago when I was 18 and she was 15. She came from a house of horrors where she was left in the care of her older brother who raped her daily. By the time she was 12 she learned to not fight and just "go away" to her "place". This continued until 15 when I came along. Thinking I was a knight in armor I took her away at 18 and married her shortly thereafter. The years have beeen tough with suicide attempts and stays in mental hospi