When Abuse Is Spoken About – and No One Listens
Back at Work After a Break Yesterday and today I returned to the cooperative after a week of vacation. Paddy showed up too – even though his sister died just a week ago. Both Paddy…
When Truth Hits: A Week of Revelations
This week completely overwhelmed me. I had barely finished and published my post, “Paddy – Child Abuse, and What Remains,” when life opened the next chapter—one that I hadn’t even processed myself. Monday: Pia’s Slow…
Child-on-Child Abuse: What Remains?
Paddy is my cousin—18 months older than me. Between the ages of six and eleven, he sexually abused me. It was a case of child-on-child sexual abuse—a reality many people refuse to acknowledge. As a…