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I'm glad to know I wasn't dreaming!
That's so true of my former partner, too - I think I've mentioned this huge perverts' social event he hosts in the northern suburbs of Chicago (not as far north as Schaumburg, closer in to the north side of Chicago), and he's very popular and charming there. He's got his friends there convinced that I'm deranged. I'm going to have to find a way to warn my therapist that he feels he can make my psychiatric records public easily.
posted by
kidnykid
on December 22, 2003 at 7:59 PM
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Consider yourself reminded.
When I was married, everyone thought we were the perfect little family. When I filed for divorce, most people assumed it was because I had lost interest, not because Mr. Perfect and Devoted to His Family had done anything wrong. When I mentioned abuse, a few people suggested that I was delusional.
The abuser learns early on to disguise his proclivities for unkind, unpleasant, and socially unacceptable behaviour. He comes across to most people as the suave, charming, Bond-esque figure of fiction. Sadly, he is fiction, and the ones he hurts are powerless to convince the world that what they see is a sham.
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editormum
on December 22, 2003 at 8:11 AM
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