(((((((((Machshefa)))))))))),

For all you have gone through & endured. I can't imagine what you have gone through except by watching the movie "sleeping with the emeny".....which is not close to what reality actually is.

The one thing that I have learned through my many years of experiences however is that there is a time & place for everything. Everything that we go through & everything that we do throughout our lives is something important, something that is needed so that we can get to the next place in life. For without each previous step & experience, we wouldn't have them put all together to get us to where we are supposed to be. Everything we go through has its purpose in our life.

The time you were spending on the internet alone, getting support online just to keep yourself alive during the most horrible time, wasn't going to be a permanent thing.....it was just a stepping stone to getting out of where you were in the middle of horrible abuse. Without it, you probably never would have been able to get out, or you would there would have had to have been another stepping stone needed to get to where you are today.

I think for all of us, support internet sites are what gets us through the horrible times & then we give back what we have received.......it is not our complete lives, just stepping stones to get us through the rough spots & on to other parts of our lives.....keeping that internet support there to give back to others what they have given to us so that we might help with a needed stepping stone for others just like ourselves.

You are blessed to have the strength to have escaped your abuse & go on to help others.......the only way you would have been trapped where you were is if you couldn't have escaped.....we all have phases in our lives where we cling to what is keeping us alive for as long as we need it.

It's wonderful that you have found us here....it's wonderful you found the support you had through those horrible years of your life.

Everything has it's purpose,
Debbie