Considering Christian culture is based on biblical text, we can take a look at the role of women in the bible. Well, there’s Mary. Famous only because she was a pure vessel for the production of the great man. There’s Eve, famous only as a temptress who got Adam into deep shit. There’s Mary Magdalene - bad woman…

She has been cheated on repeatedly by a child molester.

Some friends with children sometimes tell their kids to hug me. Quite often they don’t want to and I always say that they don’t have to. When they occasionally spontaneously hug me it means so much

Pretty sure the statue of limitations on sexual abuse is a feature and not a bug of our damned sham of a legal system. 

For my son (he’s 3) I ask him “do you want to give x a hug" and if he says no I tell him that's okay since it's his choice.

Same. It makes NO sense. Especially considering victims of childhood abuse. By the time you reach an age where you can process it and talk about it, you’ve run out of time. I don’t understand the logic behind it.

Telling children who to hug is big issue for me. A couple I love dearly are always telling their kids to hug Auntie/Uncle So&So goodbye, and when it comes to me I always tell them they don’t have to.

Aside from all the other atrociousness in this article.....I will NEVER understand why there is a statute of limitations on sexual abuse. 

Her cult does not allow that, and, she knew he was a child sexual abuser before she married him.

That statement was so gross. "It was always over the clothes! Except for the times it was under the clothes..."

Unfortunately, she is probably being blamed for her husband’s actions, for not keeping a devout enough home, not being a good enough/enticing enough wife, if only she had been more doting on him, he wouldn’t have done this etc etc.

They’re brainwashed to believing it’s the woman’s job to heal their men.

The whole “It was just over the clothes! And a couple incidents under the clothes but what’s the big deal?” made me ill. And of course at the same time the girls are being told that somehow they led their own brother “into sin” by existing and being female.

As parents, what you did was show your daughters that some abuse is okay and the abuser’s feelings and life journey and the harmony of the family unit are more important than you and your trauma. A little bit of abuse being okay basically preps them for a lifetime of abuse. Because it’s always going to be “a little…

She has been cheated on repeatedly by a child molester. I really hope she can find it in her to leave him. Her kids do not deserve the trauma of having to be around him.

Based on her responses, she’s not there yet. It always baffles me how little christian culture cares about woman, but how deeply it depends on their servitude to survive. I too hope she wakes up.

I have to respect your honesty about an oft-stigmatised condition. Recovery of all kinds - addiction, trauma, mental illness in general - is rarely ever linear, but that’s something that people outside of it don’t always know. You’ll hear things like, “But you were doing so well!” when you relapse in the smallest way,…

There was a great cartoon going around last year showing the same picture of somebody buying a grocery cart full of alcoholic beverages in two panels. First panel was labeled 2019 and had the guy going “Don’t worry, I’m not an alcoholic; I’m just throwing a party”. The second was labeled 2020 and went “Don’t worry,…

yes, I had to enter rehab during covid. But really the government should be allocating resources to harm reduction. People keep using over doses as an argument that covid restrictions should be decreased, when in reality access to substance services should be increased.

I’m in recovery for cocaine as well, it’s hard because it can be very easy to hide if you fall off the horse at first until it’s not, so I’m always pretty transparent to people around me that recovery isn’t linear and that abstinence isn’t the goal for everyone even if that’s what works for me. I still sometimes have…