As a survivor, appropriately marking Mother’s and Father’s Day is always tricky. We tend to see all the folks who have good, warm relationships with their parents marking those days on social media, posting their great childhood memories on Facebook, sharing old family photos, or wishing their spouse, their partner in raising their kids, a…
I was interested in a post by Cecil Murphy over on the 1in6 website, and as I was reading it, I was saddened by the first paragraph. Recently, I read an in-progress master’s thesis on male sexual abuse. The writer’s research said that most men don’t deal with their abuse until they’re middle-aged—late 30s to…
Recently I had a chance conversation with another survivor of abuse. We were talking about the lasting effects of abuse and she was sharing with me how things she was told by her abuser have stuck with her over the years. I think we all know people just like her. People who were told at…
As we approach the end of another year, rather than making resolutions, I am much more prone to looking back and the last year, and measuring the success by comparing where I am in live to this time last year. Wow, the end of 2011 looks very different than then end of 2010 did! First…
By now I’m sure most of you are familiar with the recent charges brought against former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, as well as charges of perjury and failure to report against Penn State officials. If you aren’t familiar with the details, you can read them here, although they are quite disturbing. When I…
I spotted this post by Faith Allen on her blog recently, and have been enjoying the various comments that came pouring in. In it she talks about how healing has become a challenge within her marriage because she is not the wife her husband expects her to be any more. She has been spending her…
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