You survived...Now you can thrive!

I just recently found my friend's brother was sexually abused. I asked her if she felt comfortable telling me what happened. She said he didn't confess the details. She said it probably was for the best, because she'd be afraid to know...

How sad! So what is this survivor supposed to do? Go on living with the pain I know he feels inside of what some kind of creep did to him, whenever it was, or how long ago it was?

Why oh why aren't there places for men to go to---back in day there were no battered women's shelters, women had to put up with their emotional, physical abuse by themselves, cope with it themselves.

Now they have shelters, they have houses that take them in. They have someone who will care for them. That's fantastic.

But it's about time---as a matter of fact---it's way overdue to have a place in every town just for male sexual abuse vicitims to come and talk about what has happened to them, instead of holding it inside, holding in the shame that does NOT belong to them, because whatever happened, WAS NOT THEIR FAULT!

And let them know, above all, THEY ARE NOT ALONE! There are so many out there, no one can imagine.


I had another friend a few months ago, inform me he was sexually abused by a wonderful family friend---He also told me that I was the only person he has told. He, again, did not tell me the details, just that "getting it out", by telling me HIS SECRET has even dispelled some of the pain he has carried inside for so many years!

Imagine that! Imagine, yourself, being a vicitim of sexual abuse---okay, now imagine hiding this secret inside for years. You will remember it out of the blue, even though you so desperately want to forget it. It'll haunt you in flashbacks, in nightmares, and sometimes ruin relationships within your family, in your life that you're trying to get ahold of.

So, please get help! Go to www.malesurvivor.org

Or, the site above listed. You will make it....And you will be okay!