Sunday, February 8, 2004Coming to terms with abuse, and moving onCaroline Myss, in her book Anatomy of the Spirit, talks about meeting a woman who was an incest survivor. The problem this woman - whose first name was Mary - had was only distantly related to incest; ask her a simple yes-or-no question (which someone did while she was in Myss' presence) and you got... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 6:00 PM Comments (3) (link) Tuesday, February 3, 2004Recommended readingThis piece of recommended reading is not a book - it's a blog right here on BN. Use the following link to go to Pecanflower's Lesbian Lessons and read about abuse in the lesbian community: http://www.bloggingnetwork.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/LesibanLessons/87611 Neither one of the incidents she describes... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 12:46 PM Comments (3) (link) Some more thoughts about child abuseRecently, I talked about two moms whose behavior I had the opportunity to observe while I was at the doctor's office. From the tone of the comments on that post, I gather that many of you sided with these parents and the way they handled the situations I described. I felt it necessary to post this... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 11:47 AM Comments (2) (link) This post is a continuation, in a way, of my last one. I mentioned last time that my former partner was a wimp (at least in my opinion), because he seemed to me to be afraid to do anything about his problems in any realm other than that of the occult, or that of the emotional abuser. Although there... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 11:29 AM Comments (0) (link) Friday, January 30, 2004Rules are made to be broken...That isn't just the title of one of TooeleWriterGal's blogs. It's also part of the sig line my former partner used to use. The full text goes something like this: "Rules are meant to be broken, along with the heads of those who make them." There's a reason for putting it in quotes, rather than... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 3:27 PM Comments (4) (link) Making choicesRegular readers of this blog will notice that I haven't been posting in here regularly this past month. There are some good reasons for that. First of all, I've been going to the doctor seemingly every five minutes - and I exaggerate only slightly. It's an occupational hazard of having kidney... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 7:34 AM Comments (0) (link) Monday, January 26, 2004What happens when a child-abuse report damages reputations and is wrong?A comment left on my last post in this blog got me to thinking about this very problem: What happens when someone gets falsely hotlined (that is, when someone "drops a dime" about their treatment of their children, and the children aren't mistreated)? Well, that's the problem with an anonymous... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 12:47 PM Comments (4) (link) Sunday, January 25, 2004Reporting abuseI have had a lively discussion, in the comments section of some of the posts on this blog, about just what constitutes abuse. One way to help settle the issue in your own mind is to talk it over with someone else. That "someone else" might actually be a state official, or someone else affiliated... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 1:05 PM Comments (2) (link) Friday, January 23, 2004Can you believe people still treat their kids this way?Yesterday, I had to go to an eye doctor to see what exactly was wrong with my optic nerves (it's a long story - trust me). While waiting for my husband to arrive to pick me up from the doctor's office for dinner, I was watching people. Two incidents horrified me so much I couldn't react... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 10:11 AM Comments (8) (link) Reaching out, yet againMy relationship with my former partner is another instance in which I wish people would have reached out to help me. Now, that last sentence may not make much sense to those reading this blog, but it does to me - nobody suspected that my former partner was an abuser because he was able to "con" them... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 8:58 AM Comments (0) (link) |
About this BlogThe name of the post is derived from a Francis Schaeffer book, and intended to rebut something I'd seen on the Internet. The blog itself is about what I've learned about relationships from the ones I've had, and the ones I've observed. It will not be pleasant to read, and might wander off-topic occasionally, but is intended to be a long-term blog reading like a public journal. Links |
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