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Originally Posted by Leah123
I have been here too, not being sure of the exact reality of my allegations. I realized "true or not" was actually an unhelpful, less important question than 'bad enough' or not. What I said was clearly based on things being "bad enough" at home that I HAD to have change. Stagnation was unbearable. It's not the exact incident, Yearning, it's the reality that you had a story in you begging to be written, and you wrote it, and bad things have happened to you at the hands of your family, and you deserved and needed change.
I honor you for doing what you did.
If a child needs to be out badly enough to follow through... that child deserves safety, caring, empathy, respect.
Facts matter, but there is a deeper truth than can be found in racking your brain over technicalities.
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This is the difficult part sometimes, because I question whether I wanted to be out of that situation because I was scared of being hurt or just because I was ashamed of what I did and too much of a coward to face my mother after what I'd said.
Ugh...maybe children don't always know what's best for them; maybe I did just want to get out because I didn't like following rules; maybe I did just want to get out because my father bought me more things than my mother and I thought living with him would be more fun; maybe, maybe, maybe...