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I fostered wildly unrealistic expectations of the kinds of experiences worthy of suffering until very little was worthy of suffering.
“A good therapist knows you have to live in the house while you remodel.”
angry male politician is passionate, a revolutionary. He is a Donald Trump or a Bernie Sanders. The anger of men is a powerful enough tide to swing an election. But the anger of women? That has no place in government, so it has to flood the streets.
We are trapped in a legal system that has never favored women and has never believed survivors.
No other physical wound with injuries as severe as those perpetrated by sexual violence could be ignored or deprioritized without international outcry.”
Yet by his own admission he did not have verbal affirmation; and even if she never said no, silence certainly does not equal yes.
People with cracked foundations will understand better why sometimes you do crazy shit to shore up your own.
This story is in the bedrock of me. It’s in my bones, what happened, and I have grown around it and over it, and you can’t have it. It’s mine.
