There was a time in my life when the pain was completely unbearable. I could not live with what had happened to me; the shame, the memories that would not leave me alone. They kept repeating over and over, popping up in my thoughts no matter how much I tried to forget and think of other things.
People can be cruel. I couldn’t take a life of repeated cruelty where all I could look forward to was loneliness and hurt. The pain was so intense it felt physical. I felt it in my stomach, my arms, my head, my chest. My home situation was […]