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It’s so hard to remember what it felt like back then when I was in so much pain it’s only now I am starting to feel the real emotion & pain of what happened to me back then.

At the moment I have an emotional block somewhere & I am beginning to think that it happened when I was just 5 years old, maybe even younger.

My mother was never the loving type she was the strong one who would stand for no messing from anyone especially my father she would fight back with him when he physically abused her.

To everyone on the outside world she would be seen as being too strict with her children especially my older brother and sister there is about 8 years between us, because I was abused from a very early age I never got to know what a real mother was suppose to look like and what she was suppose to do.

It wasn’t until I got to the age of 7 when I started to fight back which meant I was harder to abuse because I wouldn’t just sit there and let them do things to me like I did when he first began at the age of three years old.

By the time I was 5 yrs old I stopped crying and shown my anger I was what they used to call “A crazy child” because I would have so many tantrums in the shops I guess back then I just wanted someone to make them stop what they were doing to me.

By the time I was 7 yrs old the violence and abuse got worse because I was fighting back they couldn’t control me as much as they could do before but they always won in the end because even though I was fighting with them they were the adults and they still got the better of me.

Some say that no matter how much I fought back they were always going to get the better of me.

So many times I hit & kicked who ever was raping me at the time & by this time several different people were hurting me both men & women. If I fought with them they would hurt me more I am sure that was just to get me back for fighting them.

Can you imagine a 7 year old fighting anyone??

My mother used to tell me after something had happened she loved me but what did that actually mean??

How can she justify love with hurting your child??

Did I mean anything to her??
 

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Dear Lady,

Nothing I could say would really make a dent in what you are feeling and holding in. Please know that you are worthy of love and care and no one deserves what you suffered.

Please know that you will be in my prayers and in the prayers of others here. If you want to try, I can say from personal experience that the number one thing you could do to free yourself is to forgive all those who hurt you.

I know it is hard. almost unthinkable. But if you can do it you will begin to be free. and it isnt a one shot thing either. Forgiveness in humans is a process.

In my life it took years and I am still doing it. But it has been so freeing for me. I can love and mean it. Not 'will you accept me if I love you' but I love you whether you accept me or not.

Please stay with us and talk to us and learn about us and the process of healing will work for you.

Your mother may have been abused herself and couldnt know the meaning of real love. You know yourself that when you are so horrifically abused your world warps. Nothing is truly as it really should be.

In my case I linked my ordeal to milk as I was almost drowned in it by my father. Now I dont drink it. It took me a very long time to be able to drink chocolate milk or ice cream, or any milk product at all. I have other things like that as well.

I am forgiving my abusers daily. I will do it until it is truly a fact in my mind.

and Im not doing it for them either but for me!
 
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I'm so sorry you had to deal with that, sweetie... no child should have to go through those kind of experiences.
You are doing really well to be able to talk about it here.. that is a big step. :hug: I know you have to wait for therapy.. I hope that you get some real help soon.
You are an incredible person... and you *can* get through this process and learn to leave the past behind. Takes a long time, tho, I know.
Praying for you, and here if you want to talk :hug:
 
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