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version It was the
silence about abuse and sexual
assault which sealed my fate. Until I
learned to speak, I could not heal.
Break The
Silence I was born in 1953,
molested by age five, and attempted suicide at age 11. When I was thirteen I worked up the courage to visit the school psychologist. In 1966 children were not allowed that freedom. I was told to come back the next day. The psychologist called my mother, and Mother was waiting for me at the kitchen door that afternoon.
No one questioned why. No one asked if I was ok. No one followed up on the incident. Mother’s word was law. And in her words, “You don’t ever tell anyone what goes on in this family!”
I obeyed.
Many things happened to me over the next 22 years; I was molested again at 16, living with my boyfriend at 17, in a mental hospital at 20, 4 children by 24, divorced by the age of 30. I was a childless mother by 31, when their father removed the children from my custody.
What did not happen in those 22 turbulent years?
I did not tell anyone what happened to me.
At age 35 I picked up my first white chip in Alcoholics Anonymous, after 4 years of trying to drink myself to oblivion. The same year I began to deal with the incest issues.
I am 55 this year. I will never be silent again.
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