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• A Once Broken Woman ...Since then my husband has had to put up with landmines in the bedroom, suicide attempts, drug and alcohol abuse... (more)
• Who Wants Someone Force Themselves To Be Affectionate...I have to turn on the over-ride button sometimes... (more)
  
  
  
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• A Rough Road...We end up marrying the wrong person, for the wrong reasons, and either divorce or stay in abusive situations because we feel we deserve this... (more)
• Aunts, Mother, & Me...distinguishing the difference between my husband wanting to get off on the woman he loves, and the illusion of perverted demoralized sex... (more)
• Depends On The Man...My husband took it as having married a dirty woman, as if he’d bitten into an apple with a worm in it... (more)
• I Got Lucky...my husband couldn’t fix my shattered emotions regarding this and I tended to lean too heavily on him... (more)
• Only Way To Hurt Him...I grew up thinking sex was just sex... (more)
• The Girl Is Taught To Lie...Some of us learned so well that we kept the "secret" for many years... (more)
• Unless...The relationship with his kids is still extremely challenged... (more)
  
  
  
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• A Dirty Past...I felt “dirty,” like an object, and the words “No” were ignored by men... (more)
• Abuse Our Mates...someone making us lie as a child does not give us permission to kill or be untruthful... (more)
• Being Children, Being Adults, Being Responsible... naïve thirteen year old’s first sexual intercourse experience, and it threw me into a tail spin... (more)
• Bitter Or Better...It wasn’t my fault (5 yr old) But what I do now... (more)
• Choose To Do The Right Thing...bad things sometimes happen to good people... (more)
• Decision Made...I felt as though I didn’t matter, a piece of meat... (more)
• Defining My Life...An image of my father flashed in my mind and I screamed to the man to get off of me or I was going to tell my father... (more)
• Especially If...the unbearable feelings of shame and filth... (more)
• Faith Helped...I would “die” for my children, which I came to realize my mother wouldn’t do for me. She knew about the abuse... (more)
• I'll Be Damned......Trust was a real non-issue, it just didn’t exist in my life... (more)
• If Someone Loves Her...even the most perfect of persons who marry the most perfect person will have problems, difficulties, and trials... (more)
• Molested By My Father...being molested does not mean... (more)
• My Old Trunk Of Hurts...amazed I would even consider marriage again after all I had been through... (more)
• Not A Ruined Woman...I started using at 14 had a child out of wedlock at 17... (more)
• Not Who I Am...I am the only one responsible for myself; for who I am, what kind of character I have and the morals I chose to abide by... (more)
• Tell Those Men...I spent the next 7 years in a home with him and a mother who blamed me... (more)
• Trusting...God bless the women who share in this pain... (more)
• We Attract What We Are...I would tell people so they would feel sorry for me because I thought I was a victim... (more)