ladyxiang

Salutations! I am also new and in just a few days I've found, amid the various posts, tons of great advice and words of encouragement. I hope you find the same!

Thanks janepp for your response. I am sorry about what happened to you. You said when you were R two years ago 'everything stopped'. It's funny you should say that. My abuse began when I was six and sometimes I feel like I am still that six year old child, as if time did suddenly stop. Sometimes I have dreams of being back in my childhood home and back in my bedroom surrounded by my dolls and toys, or I am back in grade school. Do you sometimes feel that way, as if you are still that age, because of what happened to you?

One day I just started writing. The next thing I knew I had several pages. To make a long story short, I gave different parts of me different names. I set them in a fictional home. Basically, it is the story of a woman who chooses her own needs over those of her children, three daughters. If you would like to know the name of my story, I will gladly tell you. It is available on Amazon as a book or a digital download, and is written under an assumed name. The abusive events in the story actually happened. It took me 2+ years to write it. Reliving some of the events was very painful and i k

Hi everyone. I joined the site a few days ago and after reading some of the posts of other 'first-timers' I finally felt I was ready to write something. Forgive me if I ramble. I feel like a spectator of life, as if everyone around me is in the parade and I'm left standing on the sidewalk watching all of them pass me by. Picture, if you will, the floats in my parade. There are no floral tributes. The floats in my parade are, instead, what I call 'life events', those things that normal people encounter in the course of a lifetime: graduating from high school, attending college, having a career