Recent content by Kimberly D.

Have a good night :)

My mom, who was molested by her father wrote a letter to him, but just to write it to help her, then she ripped it up. Her therapist asked her to do this and it helped a lot. Especially because he never apologized to her, which of course bothered her a lot. Writing letters to people who have...

I'm so sorry both happened. Bullying infuriates me. I am constantly making sure my son (10 yrs old) doesn't ever do that in school. He's compassionate, so he is the child who feels more sorry for others. What if anything did you do to help gain self-worth/self-esteem?

I completely understand. It does take an epiphany (or 2) to come to realizations that help us propel forward. You working on yourself, enabled you to meet your husband. The epiphany is exactly what happened to me a year ago. It's changed me, my thoughts about my dad, acceptance of who he was...

I love your happy ending. Not everyone can say they had a happy ending, so you are lucky and deserve it! So far, the results of the survey from my post, have proven that a commonality among survivors of DV is that we've had issues in some way or another with our fathers. It's very interesting to...

I just want to thank those who have take a few minutes to take the survey...it's extremely helpful!! I hope to have even more survivors take it.

A quote I found months ago, from an actress who witnessed her mother being abused by her father: "I think I've spent my adult life dealing with the sense of low self-esteem that sort of implanted in me. Somehow, I felt not worthy. Before I'm 'Halle Berry,' I'm little Halle ... a little girl...

Thanks. But if you take a look at my survey, there is a question "Did you witness your mom being abused by your father" precisely because it can and does affect children then and later in life.

Hi, Thank you for your post and information. I'd like to clarify for you and another person who responded in the thread...that I am only looking for women who have been in abusive relationships who had a strained relationship with their father, not physically abused. There are as another...

I wasn't going to. I've learned that it's against rules. Thanks

Thank you!

I am not 24 now, but when I got out of an abusive relationship...I was almost 22. I had PTSD afterwards and went into counseling. Counseling alone did not really help me. But then, I began seeing another counselor who told me about EMDR. After the EMDR, my PTSD completely went away. It was...

I actually didn't know about a "poll area." Thanks for bringing it up. Looks like there is some discussion here, but maybe there would be more in the poll area? Thank you for your insightful post. While I agree that it goes both ways as far as women who get into abusive relationships coming...

Thank you for your candor. Your feedback and history is really helpful. Thanks for taking the time to tell me about your situation. ;):)