When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.
I was physically abused and I retaliated.
And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.
Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.
She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.
By not coming forward (about rape), you make yourself a victim forever.
I was hit for the first time before I was married.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time.