I was kidnapped **warning** (mult. triggers)

Thank you for your kindness. It went on for about 4 years. I didn't have a father at home and at the time my Mom was an alcoholic and didn't pay much attention to me. She was there, but she was very violent and if I said anything she may have killed someone and then she would have been in jail and I would have been left without a home....or place of refuge. Plus who knows where I would have been placed...in a foster home? In the hands of youth services or a group home with other sexually assulted boys that would have preyed on me? I was wize beyond my years and street smart. I knew how to get away and i knew how to dissociate myself when I was caught. It was a horrible childhood. I was always in trouble with the police, a one kid crime wave. I was put in the juvenial detention center and escaped from there. I finally joined the Marines and was able to escape the perverts. I have never lived in that city again.
37 years ago I left never to reside there again. I visited there while my Mother was alive but, not since. I survive by having a close relationship with my DW, 2 sons and 6 grandkids. One day at a time.

SA=sexually abused

May you find peace.