Tag Archives: abuse
Four Years: Another Birthday Missed
Four years. That’s what it will be in ten days. Four years since I’ve seen, spoken to or really had any contact beyond the occasional email or text message where she wants something… where I can’t even be sure that … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life, People, Personal, Relationships
Tagged "child abuse", "toxic relationships", abuse, birthday, hope, love, no contact, oldest sibling, protective, sister
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The Return
It was early in the morning, just after 5:00, on October 12, 2008, when I said goodbye to Los Angeles, and the last two plus years of my life. I didn’t want to leave, but I needed to leave. It … Continue reading
Posted in Family, home, Journal, Life, Personal, Relationships, Thoughts, travel
Tagged "mental health", abuse, abusive relationship, adulting, closure, college, danger, double life, fear, friends, going home, graduate school, healthy choices, Los Angeles, Nebraska, need versus want, past, reckoning, risk
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The High Price Of Being The Better Person (And How It Cost Me My Sister)
I have a very complicated relationship with my sister. All right, that is misleading or an understatement or just doesn’t seem 100% true. For the past three plus years I have not had a relationship with my sister. And for … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Health, home, Inspiration, Journal, Life, Parenting, People, Personal, Relationships, Thoughts
Tagged "child abuse", "developmentally disabled", "intellectually disabled", "toxic relationships", abuse, being the better person, college help, editing, facing your abuser, hope, left out, leverage, love, martyr, memories, no contact, oldest sibling, protective, relationships, sister
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Domestic Violence: It’s Not A Women’s Issue, It’s A Human Issue
October has always been a big month for me. It is LGBT History Month (Pride is something else yo). In college and graduate school there were midterms and big-deal projects. But October is also something else – it’s Domestic Violence … Continue reading
I Miss My Sister
Yesterday, my sister turned seventeen years old. I wonder about the young woman she is today, and I have a good idea about some things, but I feel blurry on a lot of it. I haven’t seen her in three … Continue reading
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Tagged "child abuse", "toxic relationships", abuse, birthday, hope, love, no contact, oldest sibling, protective, sister
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