Someone I thought was a friend.

The primary factor of saying "YES!" is that I am so very tired of hurting and living with the effects of the abuse. It has become cellular and though my recovery began years ago and my progress has been great, I still ache from the effects and frankly, I'm so very tired of it. I'm tired of losing ...

The abuse wasn't "revealed" to me until my mother died when I was 28. At that time my sister and I were not speaking at all. But nightmares and depression set in so suddenly after the funeral. One day I was driving and the song "Heart of the Matter" came on the radio. I pulled the car over and ...