I see so much pain here... I want to help but sometimes I hesitate... I know more than I want to about a lot of things... How can one person have had that much happen to them in just 50 years...
I would complain but to be honest a lot of what has happened to me in my life has given me a deeper understanding of others. I've grown stronger... I can help others more... I can help myself and the ones I love more. Been there done that
Never got into drugs or alcohol too deep although I did get scraped off the barroom floor a couple of times... Not smart really stupid but its what we were doing... Like I told my kids it wasn't because I was a "good" kid"... but you remember those folks that used to come around to our schools... the ones that were paralyzed from the waist down because of thinking they could fly and finding they couldn't... or the friends they told us about who didn't make it... well... they convinced me... I was scared poopless...
I am a child of divorce...
I was mentally, physically, and sexually abused as a child. I truly believe, and I hesitate to say this because I loved my dad, but anyway... I have said it for years and I believe it... I think my dad beat the self confidence right out of me... I'm 50 now and its long ago but I still feel sad about this so if you want to know when it stops hurting you'll have to ask someone else... What hurts is that I honestly believe that my daughter's lack of self confidence was a learned response... and it killed her...
That's enough for now... thanks for listening
I would complain but to be honest a lot of what has happened to me in my life has given me a deeper understanding of others. I've grown stronger... I can help others more... I can help myself and the ones I love more. Been there done that
Never got into drugs or alcohol too deep although I did get scraped off the barroom floor a couple of times... Not smart really stupid but its what we were doing... Like I told my kids it wasn't because I was a "good" kid"... but you remember those folks that used to come around to our schools... the ones that were paralyzed from the waist down because of thinking they could fly and finding they couldn't... or the friends they told us about who didn't make it... well... they convinced me... I was scared poopless...
I am a child of divorce...
I was mentally, physically, and sexually abused as a child. I truly believe, and I hesitate to say this because I loved my dad, but anyway... I have said it for years and I believe it... I think my dad beat the self confidence right out of me... I'm 50 now and its long ago but I still feel sad about this so if you want to know when it stops hurting you'll have to ask someone else... What hurts is that I honestly believe that my daughter's lack of self confidence was a learned response... and it killed her...
That's enough for now... thanks for listening
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We always want better for our kids than we had but after a certain age the life they choose is theirs and it won\'t matter what you do or say.I guess i beleive in fate and sometimes things are just meant to be.You survived all of it so there must be something else ,some other reason for you to be here ,some other thing you have to acheive before its your time. Maybe even being a friend here is something that you were meant to do,to somehow touch someone elses life,you may not even know them or how you have affected them but i\'m sure its there.