A person raised in a healthy family is equipped to live a confident and independent life; someone from an unhealthy family is filled with fear and self-doubt. He has difficulty with the prospect of life without someone else. The devaluing messages of control and manipulation create dependency so those who most need to leave their family of origin are the least equipped to do so.
Christina EnevoldsenTags: fear doubt manipulation self-doubt child-abuse abuse healing-from-abuse dependency unhealthy abusive-parents abusive-family child-abuse-effects
I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my mother scream and things breaking. Of holding my brother and sister and listening to them cry and begging me to stop it.'
My voice is slow and steady like a freight train at night.
'I was too young, and we were always told that they'd put us in foster homes where people would rape us if we ever said anything. So we explained away the bruises and my mom wore big sunglasses whenever she left the house. And we invented car accidents if the bruising was too bad to cover with make-up.
Tags: fear lies secrets denial society-denial hidden siblings hiding threats abuse screaming domestic-violence physical-abuse bruises foster-home abusive-family societal-denial
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