When I was five years old, my mother got together with a man that she met at her workplace. As the months went by, he began to sexually abuse me. I told my mother twice, but she never did anything about it. Instead, she married the man and had a child with him. Now I [...]
My father sexually abused me when I was a child.... Because I am a follower of Christ, I know that we are supposed to forgive. I have done everything I can to forgive, to the extent of attending family gatherings and still treat him as my father. But very often I can’t help but feel [...]
When I was barely fourteen years old, my stepfather would get my mother drunk and then come into my room to touch me inappropriately and convince me to do indecent things. As a result, I got married before turning fifteen. I am now twenty-five years old, and I still hate my stepfather the same as [...]
I was married for fourteen years.... After five years of marriage, my husband was unfaithful to me, and became an alcoholic and addicted to drugs. Even so, I stayed with him until the day that he touched my older daughter inappropriately. That day I left him for good. I didn’t want to know anything about [...]
When I was twelve years old, my parents got divorced because my father abused my mother so badly that a judge issued a restraining order preventing my father from coming to our house or seeing us. About three years ago, my father contacted me saying that he wanted to talk to me and meet my [...]
During my childhood I was sexually abused by various members of my family on numerous occasions. Every time I would tell my mother, she would tell me that I deserved it because I was a dirty girl and a liar. She would always make me think that I had imagined what had happened, as if [...]
I have felt the need to change religions, and the family is opposed.... I have come to know Christ in a personal way, and I am happy about it, but my in-laws are judging me for my decision.... I don’t know how to respond to their attacks because I love them, but they hurt me [...]
I am the oldest of three sisters. That’s why I was brought up with strict discipline.... The treatment my sisters have received has been different. They’ve done things I never did.... things that bother me because, if I had done those things, I would have been beaten, insulted, and run out of the house. I [...]
I am a forty-six-year-old woman with a twelve-year-old daughter and a ten-year-old son. For the past seven months I have been separated from their father... because I discovered that he was cheating on me for years with a thirty-five-year-old woman.... I feel badly because I listen to a radio station every day on which they [...]
I have an eighteen-month-old daughter from an extramarital relationship. When she was born, her biological father refused to give her his last name, but today I got the court to mandate child support from him. The rejection from her father’s family caused me to legally seek to deny him any visitation with her. I ask [...]
