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November 11, 2006, 8:16 am PST

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I feel that I have forgiven my abuser. However I'm confused as to if I should have based on what someone has told me.... He said that I'm just being emotional and that I haven't completely thought about what has happened to me by this person (s)....and how its to soon to forgive...blah blah blah..... Obviously I know what has been done.....

 

He thinks I'm crazy for having a relationship with them after everything that has happened. I'm old enough to know what I'm doing but hes makin  me doubt myself. The relationship that I have with them is nothing like it was but he doesn't see it that way... half the time he says that I'm not being truthful... like if something happened I wouldn't tell him.... sooo not true.

 
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November 11, 2006, 12:59 pm PST

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Quote From: djmatt

I don't know your case, but it takes a powerful person to forgive, especially when it comes to child abuse.  You know what's in your heart.  And obviously you are not in denial about anything.

 

I don;t know if this is a friend, a family member, a spouse, etc but if this person is close to you, he needs to trust your feelings and allow you to make these kinds of decisions.

 

The only other thought I have at this time is that my wishes are that you are OK, and if there is any possibility  the perpetrator could be or could in the future abuse someone else, this issue needs to be addressed.  But only you know this.

 

God bless

 

dj

 

My situation is kinda complicated.... basically I left home to live with my dad cuz things at home was really messed up with my mom/stepdad.... i had a falling out with my dad and I moved back home.

 

I've been in therapy for a while.... met a guy there..... has similar story as mine... we'r friends and he's very touchy about abuse issues. He's been in therapy way longer than me and he thinks he's my therapist sometimes.

 

The main problem at home (amongst other things) before I left was my stepdad..... physical/ sexual.... relationship with mom was bad.... but now things are different.

 
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November 12, 2006, 3:42 pm PST

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Quote From: loubob86

Hello there Oreo. Will you E-mail me please? I'd very much like to talk about forgiveness.

Cyndi

Hey lou. It's been a long time. Would it be ok if we talked here?

 
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November 14, 2006, 7:08 am PST

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Quote From: lookin4hlp

It's been a long time.  I wondered how you were doing.  I started on the board just before you left.  I don't know if you remember me. 

I would like to talk about forgiveness, too.  I can't imagine forgiving my abuser unless he was truly remorseful and asked for forgiveness.  I can't see that happening.  What I can do is to find a way to make peace for myself and forgive myself.  I'm working on that.  Forgiving yourself is not as simple as it first sounds.  I think forgiving yourself is a process and is what our healing from the abuse is all about.

Maybe you already filled everyone in on what's knew.  If not, I was wondering what happened over the last year or so.  Glad you're back.  I've been gone myself recently, but for a much shorter time.

Sorry but I don't remember you. I tried looking at some old posts but nothing came up that I remembered.

 

As for me.... I did a lot of growing up over the past year or so, not just physically but mentally. I am alot more mature than I was the last time I was here.... thanks to therapy in part. Things are pretty good for me right now...minus a few things. How are you?

 

 
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November 15, 2006, 7:14 am PST

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Quote From: lookin4hlp

I now realize that when I first found the board, I read for awhile before posting.  I started posting after you left.  So, you wouldn't remember me.  I remember your abusive situation and that you went to live with your Dad.  Are you still with your Dad?  Are your brothers ok?  I'm glad things are better for you.

I've been in an intensive treatment program for depression and so I haven't spent much time here recently.

Oh okay... Is the program your in going okay?

 

No I'm not living with my dad right now.... I moved back home. My brothers are doing okay too. they didn't take to kindly to the fact that I have moved back but.... things are going okay... I wouldn't have came back if they weren't...

 
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November 15, 2006, 3:03 pm PST

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Remember me?

Not at first.... had to look you up..... read some old posts.  I talked to you alot I noticed... so yeah.... I remember you.... sort of... I guess thats mean not to completely remember someone who talked to you alot.... You gave me alot of good advice.... I do know that you were golfallday....

 
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November 16, 2006, 7:19 am PST

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Quote From: bzbluiii

I don't know if you took off or if you are still here.  You said you have grown up a lot since you were last here.  I hope that growing experience also includes facing up to the questions you know I have for you.  Maybe you are just busy and have not been back to the board since I last posted, I don't really know, but please know that many of us here invested a lot of emotion in you and your situation and would really like to have some answers.  I'm not trying to hurt you or judge, I just want you to show some consideration to others feelings and answer some questions.  I hated to bring this up here on the board, but I do not give out my email address and I don't expect you to either.  Please, if you have anything to say, please speak up.

Not quite sure where to start.......

I'm trying to think of a way to say what I have to say without being rude....

okay....

maybe I'm taking this the wrong way... but you are actually the second person who seems really ticked off at me. Is it the fact that I came back to the boards... that I went back home.... or the way I left and have been gone for a while..... I don't know.

 

Okay...

Why would I run off? I was in fact busy so I'm just now reading the board since I last posted.

I never said I didn't remember you.... I said I didn't completely remember you. You said it yourself that I talked to alot of people on the board who invested a lot of emotion in me and my situation... I did talk to alot of people on here and other boards, basically I was getting the same advice from everyone about myself and what I should do about what was going on so my memory of some of the conversations kind of mesh together. It's been a long time.

What do you mean I know what questions you have for me?

I really don't.

Is this like a post from you, her.... both.... or everybody that I use to talk to?

 

 
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November 19, 2006, 7:14 am PST

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Quote From: jayjay73

I was bored this afternoon so i thought that i would go online and see what was on dr phil's boards and i started reading this board, i couldnt believe my eyes when i read about oreo...then i couldnt believe that i was reading posts from 1995...i have searched every post looking for when she came back online and now she has...i know a lot of people who are hurt but i am so glad that you are back online...u have ur reasons for returning home and there is no judgement here.  hope to see u on again as i have searched for you for most of the day....hope all is well...

Seems like you are the only one.... who's glad to see that I have returned to the board... I don't know.. I'm not sure if I will continue posting on here.... between my busy life and the conversations that I've been having on here lately... I just don't know.

 

It's nice to meet you.

 

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