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Thanks for your response Hodge. My father actually does know what happened. He was the one who took me to my grandfather's house. He actually walked in on my grandfather sexually abusing me and just turned around and walked out. And he still continued to take me there even after he walked in...

"The desire to be identified as a victim creates a sense of entitlement and a motive to devalue anyone who does not offer special recognition and validation of victim status or compensation for it." Seriously?! It was hard to continue reading this article after just the first paragraph, which...

I had an appointment with my emdr therapist the other day. It was a pretty tough session. I was feeling worse (as in my score was higher) at the end than when we started. My therapist had me go to my safe place in my mind so that I would be okay to go home. While I was in my safe place, my...

Thank you guys for your responses and hugs. I do have a therapist I am working with. I am trying to work through all these thoughts and feelings, its just pretty tough right now. I will keep working on it though.

Why didn't anyone care what happened to me as a child? Why didn't anyone stop it from happening? Why didn't anyone love me? What did I do to deserve it? Was I not good enough? Was I just a throw away who had no worth or value? Why didn't anyone protect me? I have been asking myself these...

Thank you for your replies. I like the idea of going to talk to a professional with my husband. Maybe hearing from someone else will help him understand that this is a big deal an needs to be dealt with. Maybe it will help educate him, if he is willing to learn. I know how much it hurt me...

Not sure if this is the right section for this... My 7 year old daughter just told me this weekend that my 3 and 4 year old daughters were sexually abused by their cousin (he is 8) on several occasions when they were over at his house. She said he would bribe them or force them to do things by...

Thank you guys for your input! It's nice to know I'm not alone in feeling like I need to talk about it. I plan on clarifying with him what he meant at my next appointment. I will also try to tell him how I am feeling about this. I am kind of scared about opening that door though.

Ok, so this is my first time posting here. A little bit of background, I have been meeting with my current therapist for over a year now and I believe we work very well together. I trust him and respect him and have found the work we have done to be very helpful. My last few therapy...