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December 13th, 2016

December 13th, 2016

My (fairly justified) separation anxiety has given me coping mechanisms that sometimes make me worry that I’m a little too good at letting go of people when I need to.

What if it isn’t that I can put up the walls when I need to, but that I just can’t connect at all?

But apparently Kara believes this line of thinking is nonsense. So I’m probably just being too hard on myself. As usual.

May 5th, 2015

May 5th, 2015
May 5th, 2015

The men in my support group are some of the most loving and supportive people I’ve ever met. Without them, I don’t know how I would have made it through the last year.

I’ve been avoiding telling anyone who it was who was responsible for the childhood trauma I have talked about at length here, but tonight I realized that the reasons I’ve been keeping this secret have had nothing to do with me and everything to do with protecting him and his family.

Sexual violence leaves a complicated fracture in our lives. A year in, I feel like I’ve barely begun to see the pattern, much less picked up any of the pieces. But I’m healing and I’m growing.

If you need help, please seek it out. You’ll never be sorry that you did.