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Article: Incest: the hurt ... the shame ... the healing. (includes related article with answers to questions about incest)
- Article from:
- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- November 1, 1992
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I am a survivor of incest. A minister, my father molested me before I could speak. He did not inflict physical pain when he violated me. We had a close relationship, and secrets from Mommy. I adored him. My father introduced me to the excitement of the forbidden. He died when I was only 5, and I felt abandoned.
All my life I have asked why. I have struggled to know who I am, what place in the world I might occupy, what contribution I might make.
Perhaps the illness that ended my father's life caused him to violate me. Perhaps what occurred during his childhood--he and his siblings suffered physical heatings, verbal tongue lashings, emotional ...