I don't expect to get it - but that doesn't negate my feeling that I should be entitled to compensation - to be made whole, to be put back into tne position I woukd have been had the events never transpired. There are problems with this, however - first and foremost the fact my abuser has been dead for 16 years. Ah, dear old dad, may he burn in Hell for all eternity.
The real issue is that I am becoming increasingly angry with the rest of my family, mother and older siblings. I used to view them as co-victims, which of course, they are. But I increasingly blame them for not stopping him - especially my mother, but my siblings were young adults when the worst of it happened, when I was a teenager.
Nobody did anything - and as a result my life has been profoundly diminished from what it should have been.
Not that I expect $ - I want them to acknowledge everything I went through and be sorry that no one stood up and did the right thing.
Valid?
The real issue is that I am becoming increasingly angry with the rest of my family, mother and older siblings. I used to view them as co-victims, which of course, they are. But I increasingly blame them for not stopping him - especially my mother, but my siblings were young adults when the worst of it happened, when I was a teenager.
Nobody did anything - and as a result my life has been profoundly diminished from what it should have been.
Not that I expect $ - I want them to acknowledge everything I went through and be sorry that no one stood up and did the right thing.
Valid?