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People need their experiences validated

Posted by LTP on August 25, 2002 at 18:37:02:

In Reply to: Re: Forget the infighting and get on with life posted by goth88 on August 25, 2002 at 17:32:30:

That's why these boards are important, IMO. People need to be able to come and talk about what they went through, what happened to them and that their experience was real and they really were spiritually abused and even raped with the sexual coercions that went on. For someone to say that coming to these boards means they aren't moving on is ridiculous. Everyone has moved on, but who can they talk to in order to validate their experiences? Is there an exmember of the Family support group meeting on your corner? There is an AA meeting everywhere, I see them all the time. There's groups for abused women, for people who've lost loved ones to cancer, to drunken drivers, to wars, and on and on, but not for excultists and particularly for the family. Someone once told me that I had been spiritually raped and I see that as true. We were all raped, spiritually.