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Old Dec 05, 2012, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by lostgman View Post
Thanks for sharing your struggles and what you have learned from those struggles OE. You never know who's life you touched just by sharing.

Gman
Thank you my friend, you have helped me a lot too, more than you know.

What I hope that your wife will be told, has to know, is that inspite of what happened to her, she still found her way to "empowering" herself. This journey is not about her "needing to hurt" at all.
The only thing it is focusing on is to just help her understand herself better, answer some questions, make sure she realizes that she was a victim and it was "not her fault". And what to do with the anger that may still be inside her that she may not have known how to let out.

I think she is somehow thinking she has to wait to be haunted or hurt again by this PTSD. It isn't about that, it is just finally addressing these things/emotions/fears/pain that comes out and finally put it all to rest.
She doesn't have to believe that she needs to be afraid of it either. She doesn't have to be made to feel "embarassed" about it either.
It doesnt mean she was wrong or is at fault or is damaged in any way at all.

Open Eyes
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Thanks for this!
Beachboxer, lostgman