Originally posted by stripedangel:
you can take positives away from your experiences

What I was trying to say is that I can't take positives away from my abuse experience. Now I can, and do, see positives in what happened after, and one of them is meeting all you good folks here, and sharing stories and support together.

You all can't (well some of you can, now that I think about you) imagine how much better I feel since coming to this forum. All this was bottled up for so long and I kept it hidden. It's the first time I feel like I have someting to say, something that's important and can help other people who suffered abuse.

And to anyone who can't bring themselves to speak up. Just follow the thread and see you are not alone. When you are ready to speak you won't be able to shut up. (It happens to me on this subject all the time now. I was just going to post an, "aw shucks, thanks," to stripedangel and I'm still typing away...lol) Anyway, when you are ready to speak, we will be here to listen.

stripedangel, (oops, I mean stripey) thanks. You are very special.