Child Abuse Story From Norma

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Child Abuse Story From Norma

by Norma
(Pensacola, Florida, USA)

My father was phyically and mentally abusive to my mother until they divorced in 1976. I witnessed many violent events which was my father's way of dealing with life problems. I am now 47 years old, but every Easter I am reminded of one Easter morning when I was about 11 or 12. When my younger siblings and I got up that morning, we found the ham planned for dinner and all the Easter eggs cut into small pieces and smashed on the kitchen counters, walls, floor, ceiling, table, etc. Even more horrifying was the butcher knife sticking out of the wall.

Just recently I have realized this was child abuse.

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May 07, 2011

Norma:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

It was child abuse on more than one level. There was emotional abuse, in particular terrorizing and witnessing spousal violence. I do hope you are getting some kind of help for the emotional toll the abuse has had on your life. If not, please consider seeking out some form of counselling in order to help you deal with the repercussions of what you witnessed. Thank you for sharing your story with my visitors and me.

Darlene Barriere
Webmaster: www.child-abuse-effects.com
author. speaker. survivor. coach
From Victim to Victory, a memoir

May 08, 2011

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by: maurice

Norma: Great you found Darlene wonderful site to share your feelings in a cry for loving, caring, supporting and encourageing words to do something to letting go of the effects of abuse you witnessed and experienced as a child/adolecent: Yes, it must have traumatised you seeing one abusive man abusing your loving mother: Sadly, what you experienced many others did too: So you are not alone Norma: Read, read Darlene's comment consider your options and then go for counselling: Oh Yes, Norma you'll be fine once you get all of what you wrote into perspective and move on to live a full life each day you wake from your sleep: Have friends and people around you who value and respect you for the great and good woman you are NOW; You have begun the road to letting go and going forward thinking positive, acting positove and being positive in all you do and say about your own welbeing: Live well: Laugh alot: LOVE much beginning with your beautiful self: Be gentle and kind to yourself and your body: Oh yes, hug and cuddle love into that gifted me looking out at you from the mirror Era go on, go on there is no one looking: Now have'nt you a feeling good feelings about yourself; Norma say I'M SPECIAL AND I LOVE ME:

May 08, 2011

Norma
by: Anonymous

Norma, something was seriously wrong with your dad. [I hope] you reported him to the police after your parents got divorced. Oh, and I know what it's like to destroy the very Easter that you guys were supposed to enjoy, especially when it came to the Easter eggs being sadistically destroyed everywhere in the kitchen, the butcher knife sticking out on the wall, etc. When I used to paint the Easter eggs back then, if my dad ever did that to any of my precious Easter eggs, then I would be so mad at him! Oh, and I hope that you are in a safe place now and that you will try counselling.

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