Ardatha

Ana, I'm new here too, but I hope you'll allow me to add my welcome too.

FLP, I'm also new here but the warm welcomes quickly put you at ease. I hope you'll find this a comforting place to be. It sure seems like it is.

Thank you everyone for the very warm welcomes! I can tell this is a very good place to be. That's extremely encouraging. Balue, are you my long lost sister??? I know exactly what you mean about the ax sticking out of your head. There were many times I'd injured myself as a child and got that response. Very supportive, no? Anyway, again, thank you all for the welcomes! I truly appreciate them.

Thank you for the welcomes. Dreamer, I don't know the answer to that one. It's a shame because it's one of the most therapeutic things a person can have done for them. Black Opal, if you don't mind me asking, what's CSA? I've wracked my brain and can't come up with anything it could be.

I just found this board and although I've considered myself pretty far along in the healing process, I was almost choked up to realize that a place like this exists. There have been times when I have needed a place like this, even recently. I am 51 years old, a grandmother of three wonderful boys. I am the survivor of childhood sexual abuse. I am currently married the second time around to the most wonderful, caring, nurturing, decent man on the face of the planet. He knows my story and has done something for me that no one has ever done in my entire life... he's held me in his arms whe