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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
For a while I have tried to find a thread I had started when I joined the forum that could be a "home" thread for me.
Being busy about the forum has been a coping style, where I can acknowledge all my different life experiences that had been silenced. Possibly do some good and prevent things from getting worse. Like the little boy with the finger in the dyke.
Feeling fragile
Needing Nurture
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AbnerSenior Contributor
That's fair enough @Appleblossom , you've earnt a rest.
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Emelia8Senior Contributor
@Appleblossom 💞
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
My mother liked Pell, and her friends adored him. I was doing silent protests and spoke to Julia G for the Royal Commission into Institutional
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avant-gardeSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom
I'm not there yet, still trying to accept it and have had no one really help me with this.
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Just offering a hand out @avant-garde
your journey is yours…
mine story is different but some similar themes
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
@tyme @rav3n
It is really shocking what over privileged people and women can get away with.
RESPECT phone line is only one sided. Manipulative behaviour can go both ways regarding the battle of the sexes. Women can do coercive control.
I may withdraw from the forum as my circumstances are so unjust, I might post too much and it may have legal ramifications.
I have really understated the horror of my existence. I did not know what was normal. It is really not normal to be functional at all given my experiences, as a child, a young mother and a grandmother.
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tymeModerator
Awww my dear @Appleblossom . I'm so sorry to hear this. We want to be here for you, but we also respect if you feel it is safer to step away for a bit.
It seems that just as soon as you start posting more on the forums, and connect with more people, then life through this curveball at you.
We are here for you.
Hugs.
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rav3nSenior Contributor
sorry to hear about your son and grandson, that's a difficult position to be in @Appleblossom totally understand wanting to take a step back from forums to look after yourself and your family.
i hope things get better soon, your son and grandson deserve to be treated with respect. 💙
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
@Glisten i am not doing well
been deleting lots of posts
Like taken kicks to m gut
if only it were just physical
very triggered by too much cutesy stuff on the forum
i should never have survived
aswell as grandson and sons situation
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