I guess that's the difference not growing up around child abuse.....I knew what my moral values were & I didn't give a crap what anyone called me....I had enough confidence in myself to KNOW exactly what I was willing to get into or NOT & no one was going to push me to do anything that I wasn't willing or didn't want to do without one huge fight & they would be on the loosing end....& they knew it.

That is definitely the difference between those who don't grow up having to know child abuse survival 101: please the person that has the power.

I was taught if that power goes against your own moral values fight it like hell & knock the crap out of them if necessary if they refuse to listen to you. I probably would have been killed fighting if I had ever been in some of the situations that others have been in. I was lucky also in that I never ended up in situations like that either.....I never had a serious BF because I refused to allow any relationship to go in that direction before. I had lots of guy friends who were really wonderful but that's what they were & that's what I wanted & believed was right until I finally ended up finding the guy I got married to.

It really does show up the damage that child hood abuse really does & how it makes a difference throughout life.