Dear HoneyBlossom:

You didn’t mention the surgery, did it take place???

“It’s too difficult for me to speak much of actual incidents of abuse.  Firstly, where could I start. It went back as far as I can remember and it’s triggering for me to talk about” – too much pain is attached to the memories of abuse, it’s difficult to … choose to feel pain by sharing about it, isn’t it?

“Physical, verbal, emotional and psychological abuse…  shaped me to become a person who always felt that I was not as good as or as deserving as others” – the abuse did not shape you to become a person who is not as good and deserving as others; the abuse shaped you to become a person who feels/ believes that she is not as good and deserving as others.

“Thank God I live alone now where there is peace, and I can choose who comes into my life and who doesn’t” – a child does not have the option of living alone and choosing who comes into one’s life and who doesn’t, and that’s the tragedy of a child being born into abuse.

Thank you for your kind words, HoneyBlossom, and if I may say so, you are a good and deserving person!

anita