Abuse

  • Thankfulness

    Yesterday was the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, which of course makes today the biggest shopping day of the year as everyone gets the jump on Christmas shopping. (Well not everyone, I haven’t even left the house today, though I do have some plans with a friend for dinner, so I’m not a complete…

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    October Carnival Against Child Abuse

    I’ve been off-line for a couple of days, enjoying some vacation time with the wife. Tonight we’re in Boone, NC with free wi-fi so I’m spending just a little bit of time getting caught up on some things. One of those things is pointing out that the October Edition of the Carnival Against Child Abuse…

  • A Good Metaphor

    I saw this story quoted on the Jewish Survivors of Sexual Abuse blog and I thought it was interesting: Sometimes we just need to be reminded!In the room filled with more then 200 people, a well-known speaker started off a seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill, asking, “Who would like this $20 bill?”Hands started…

  • Looking for Links

    Since the wife’s job has her out of town this weekend, I’m taking advantage of the down time to do some much needed updating of this site. Update one was cleaning out some of the dead links in the blogroll. It’s quite a bit shorter now. Given that, there’s some room for new links. I’ll…

  • Spousal Support

    I was exchanging emails earlier this week with someone around the issue of trying to support a spouse who is a survivor. Obviously, being the survivor in my marriage, I’m not the expert on how to handle this, but I was able to offer some insight into typical male survivor behavior and mindsets that I…