Thank you. Reading through your posts brings tears to my eyes, because I can relate to what you said in every way. It sucks to have to go through this, it's the worst thing ever. We interact with people expecting them to be decent human beings with the ability to love and show compassion... it turns out that's expecting too much. Now we have to go about living our lives with distrust for everyone, because they might turn out to be someone else. It's quite terrifying to be honest. At the same time, there's a lot we can do to make things better, and make it a lot harder for these people to hurt us. So we should focus on that, right? I'm really sorry for what you had to -and currently are- going through. You sound like you're a good person with a good heart, and you know it; I hope you'll never let someone take that away from you. I believe everything you said is right, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

If it's OK with you, I'd like to run something by you privately and get your opinion. I've thought about it quite a bit and it makes sense in my mind, but I'm not 100%. Let me know if that's OK with you, otherwise I'll see if I can maybe post it on this thread.