As a six-year-old little girl, I learned to keep the secret of my stepdad’s nightly visits into my room. The Secret I couldn’t tell anyone for fear they would be hurt if they found out. I carried that secret with me throughout my childhood and it ate me up inside. I developed undiagnosed OCD as […]
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Am I the only one who has spent their entire life too afraid to even try? I am now over 60 years old, and I realize that I have missed so many opportunities in the past 6 decades because I was too terrified to step outside my comfort zone. I decided that 2024 would be my year to take
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I’ve walked this earth for 55 years feeling as if I were a dead person. I woke up every day, I raised my children, I went to college, and I went to work, but I was a living shell. I wanted to be happy, I wanted to be in loving family, and I wanted to
There were no bars surrounding me I could have walked away at any time But I felt I could not I believed that God held me hostage Hostage to the marriage vows I took He did not care if I had made a mistake… It was too late and now I am trapped I had