I have learned in the past couple of weeks that a close friend and a close friend-in-law were both the subjects of prolonged abuse as children. Neither knew how to grapple with this for years, nor did the people they told have the framework for how to address it.
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There never will be.
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I’m not saying this to be negative, but realistically as soon as people find stuff like this out they generally bail in some way. It becomes a threat to them. Of course any gov programs are gonna be what they are too so, it’s a societal problem. Abuse is stigma. It’s instinctive.
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Please explain how it was a step-brother and the family was a mess...
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A little while back a close friend and I realized we'd both gone through similar circumstances. Figuring out that you're not the only person you know who went through something like that makes you feel less abnormal and you become eachothers support group.
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We wonder how many other people we know have gone through similar circumstances but are suffering silently with no one to talk to about it, and neither of us know how you'd even bring that up because we don't want to be looked at as the people who were abused.
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