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@RussH - I'm definitely holding her to an impossible standard. Regardless of who she was, it was dumb luck that put a monster like him in her path, and I think I'd be hard pressed to have seen him for what he was in time. She already had a pretty warped idea of what a "caring and trustworthy" man was like given the earlier abuse from my dad.
Coming to terms with the fact that she was just trying to hang on to someone that she genuinely thought was caring for her is hard. Accepting him as a monster even now is hard.
But yeah, I'm working on it. I'm kind of hoping that if I can treat her how she really deserves, it will help for it to sink in that she's just a kid.
Putting myself in the category of innocent children who were abused is hard. I've spent my whole life believing that I wasn't innocent. But that's the reality that I've got to accept. Behaving like it's true is one thing, believing it is gonna take a lot of time.
Coming to terms with the fact that she was just trying to hang on to someone that she genuinely thought was caring for her is hard. Accepting him as a monster even now is hard.
But yeah, I'm working on it. I'm kind of hoping that if I can treat her how she really deserves, it will help for it to sink in that she's just a kid.
Putting myself in the category of innocent children who were abused is hard. I've spent my whole life believing that I wasn't innocent. But that's the reality that I've got to accept. Behaving like it's true is one thing, believing it is gonna take a lot of time.
