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Talking through trauma and PTSD

Running

Running

"Behind every strong person is a story that gave them no choice"

My life is all about a lack of choice.

I'm alive because death would've outed him, it would have sealed his fate in prison.

TW: cultic, rape, trafficking, torture

I'm the daughter of a Satanist...

One trained to breed...

One pregnant at 6 years old...

One prostituted to whoever could afford her...

The girl her dad didn't want...

One men hired to have fun with...

One men experimented with...

One who was tortured for speaking up...

One trained for the sole purpose to please her buyer...

Regardless of age...

Still though...

One who never stayed silent...

One who broke free... twice...

One who rose up...

One who seeks to prove them wrong...

One who has been running for 15 years...

One who just needs to feel heard...

One who went through hell and survived...

That this Phoenix can rise...

She will not be burned...

She's proven that...

I have proven that...

I'm 35 and 90% of those I've been in prolonged abusive situations insufficient evidence for prosecution

A system that protects the abuser more than the survivor

And yet I still try

I don't try for me, I try for the ones after me, the ones like me, that they will see their justice

But for now I run...

From a dad that wants me silenced...

From the nightmares that plague my sleep...

From the memories that invade my mind...

From the choices made for me...

Didn't expect that to come out as poetic as it did

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@Jynx

I asked him for help

I asked to use his carport and trestle table

I asked! I ducking asked and he ducking said no!

I move house in 2 days and just needed to reorganise the stuff in my car out of the rain! And he said no! After he visibly saw me shaking and crying from the stupid faeces head Monty python!

With it bucketing in rain and I've had to do all this ducking packing on my own because I'm surrounded in privileged people who don't know how to pack a box and just throws out what doesn't fit!

I asked for help!

I'm at the end of my tether and I asked for ducking help!

This is what I get for asking for help! A slap in the face and a kick to the curb!

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@avant-garde omg hun that is so horrible!! End of your tether feels like an understatement. I am really sorry that this has been the response to you expressing your needs. Something I know so many of us here struggle with at the best of times.

Also that frustration at people who try to help but make it worse is so real. You want to share the labour so you only have to do like 70% of the effort but then their interference means you end up needing to do 100% plus an extra 30% just to sort out their mess. (I'm definitely not jaded by past roommates who sucked soooo much at cleaning that I would have to do the dishes again, the vacuuming again, the bathroom again, no no.... smh)

I wish I could be there with a brolly and an extra pair of hands hun 🥺

I can offer virtual hugs for you!

🫂🫂

They're squishy and full of safe and reassuring vibes 💜

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@Jynx

It hurts so much and I'm so so tired

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Aye and when the pain tugs at our inner child wounds - rejection, abandonment, having to go it alone - it's like feeling all the past pain all over again. It's hard @avant-garde and you have every right to feel some Very Big Feels right now. Also hard when we're so spent, hey.

What are you up to for the rest of your evening? Will you get a chance to rest and recuperate or are you still too time-pressured?

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@Jynx

Will pack the pantry instead of the tops of the furniture, that's a bit easier and involves a bit of sorting.

Aside from that nothing else thank goodness

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Good plan @avant-garde - I dunno about you but I get immense satisfaction from sorting!!

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@Jynx

I'm the same, I enjoy sorting

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Now if only I could sort my life out @avant-garde 😅

Hope the packing and sorting is moving swiftly for you hun 🤞

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@Jynx

It's all a bit too hard right now

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@avant-garde I am sorry hun. I really wish I had a way to provide you some relief, some respite, something to alleviate the intensity of it all. I know it's not much but I am sending even more hugs

🫂🫂🫂🫂

I do have to skedaddle, but I am thinking of you and holding hope for an easier week ahead. When next we speak, you'll be in a new home!! Exciting!

Night hun 💜

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