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Mental Abuse and Doormats
Here is a past journal entry from July 2007. My eyes were finally starting to open to the mental abuse around me from everyone I love. It still amazes me how I allowed myself to be treated this way. What happened to my sense of self worth? Before My Eyes Opened Monday, July 9, 2007 “Doormats” Doormats! Handy little things. They just lay around outside through all kinds of weather, getting stepped on, mashed, beaten, kicked. Then having to deal with everyone’s crap being wiped on them. Just so that person can enter into their nice clean environment. Leaving the doormat to deal with the dirt!!!! There is a question…
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Out of the Abyss – Losing Myself
When I married my first husband, and father of my two children, life changed. He already had two young boys. So I was instantly a 20 year old stepmother of two. Despite the pleading of my parents to at least wait until after graduation, I quit college at the beginning of my junior year to get married. I convinced myself that my life would be wonderful. My life would consist of creating a happy home with my new husband and his boys. There Were Signs There were signs that things were not good even before the marriage. I missed these. Signs of infidelity, emotional abuse, anger, control issues. We fought…
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