Category: Child Abuse
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When Family Loyalty Requires You to Abandon Yourself
This post discusses family dysfunction, addiction, abuse, estrangement, grief, and boundaries. Please read with care. 💚💜 “Blood doesn’t make you family. Loyalty does.” — Eric Thomas When Loyalty Becomes Self-Abandonment Family loyalty is a beautiful thing.And it should be. At its healthiest, loyalty means loving people through difficult times, supporting one another, telling the truth,…
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Grooming: When Trust Is Slowly Turned Into Control
Why People Stay Longer Than Most People Understand Content Warning: This article discusses grooming, childhood abuse, sexual exploitation, harassment, substance use, coercive control, trafficking, kidnapping, and manipulation. Please read with care. 💜 Grooming is an elaborate and deeply complex subject. It can take many forms and affect children, teenagers, and adults in ways that are…
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It’s Been 5 (Long) Years!
I Didn’t Think I Would Survive — But I Did I didn’t hit rock bottom the way people think. There wasn’t just one moment.It was a series of them—stacked so close together that I stopped believing I was going to make it out at all. At one point, I truly believed I was going to…
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