Before I even publish anything about the challenges I faced due to sexual abuse, I just have to let you all know how I feel today. The day I began writing about things I could remember, it opened a can of worms. This is, however, not a bad thing. These worms have hidden inside long enough. Time to expose and pull them all out.
I felt free ever since I published my first post on the abuse. I still haven’t been able to remember everything that happened in a logical sequence. My mind has numbed certain things out. I have realized I have to just keep writing as the memories come. I may not be able to give you a chronological look into how these events occurred, so please excuse me. Treat it as a movie that comes under the non-linear narrative category.
I have read much about psychology and what one must do to recover from traumatic events. I do not know how long it might take for me to completely recover from the feeling of stress related to the abuse, but one thing I know is I am feeling better. After allowing myself to write about what happened and breaking my promise of silence to the perpetrator of my abuse, I have felt an immense release and joy. Yes, there are days when I feel things I suppressed and today I feel really terrible. But, it’s okay. This is like a chiseling process, which will hurt on some days and will give me joy on some.
The sexual abuse was just one of the many kinds of abuses I pulled through. I will be talking about them too. So, I will switch back and forth. Today, I just feel betrayed. Betrayed by the one man I know is my biological father. I loved him. There are times I can say he was a good father to me. He educated me, fed me and provided. Because of which, I never really reacted too badly to the emotional and verbal abuse he put me through. And then one day, he left all of a sudden. I had to fend for myself and my family. Give up on my dreams and earn enough to support them. Thanks dad! I grew up and this has definitely made me stronger and less naïve. There are days when I do wish I could cry like a little baby and my father would just hold me. But hey he chose to un-father himself.
He died a year ago. I am disappointed. ANGRY!!! I hoped for a chance to tell him some day about all that happened. To understand why he did. He was a pathological liar. LIES! I hate them. He swore on my life when I was 16 that he would never cheat on my mother ever again. We gave him a chance. Only 10 years later, he was allegedly murdered by one of his many mistresses. I feel like even the good times I had with him were a lie. He lied and lied just to keep us from leaving him, so that in society he could portray himself as a family man. Even in his last email a month before he died he wrote to my sister, “There is no woman in my life. I am an old man and unable to have any affair.”
LIES. A month later I find out he died of drug overdose cause someone injected him with an extra dosage of quinine. And his ‘wife’ was with him. I clarified that his wife was in another country. Found out all along he was living with the woman we suspected he was living with. Over a period of a few months, she conveniently changed all nominations on bank accounts on her name and her son’s name (she had this son with her ex-husband, or maybe they remarried after usurping our savings). His last email was filled of fear and a bit of regret. He still did not apologize. This is all by the point. I believed him when he promised me that he would never have an affair again. I thought we would be family again. I am angry with him. But, who can vent on ashes? I pray, God I am so angry, help me. I cannot stand people breathing in the same room as me. Yet, I curb my angry feelings and act normal. The storm inside me rages on. This is how I feel now. I am not going to suppress it. I will write it here and have you all read it. It feels good to let someone know. I can trust you all because I know there is no possibility of betrayal. I am finding it hard to trust anyone today. Jesus help me! I feel so angry I cannot talk to anyone. I will soon be in a room full of people who will ask me why I am not talking much. I dread it. I feel insane. I have to go. It is music practice. I love it. But, I want to be alone. I do not want anyone to ask me what’s wrong. I want to leave from work where I am now, but I am stuck. I will go now to the bathroom and cry. Do not want anyone to know. That’s for now. I will write more later. Hope I get rid of this feeling without suppressing… this sucks!
There’s more to this, but I shall write some other day, or I will break down right here, which is not a good thing. Love and God bless to all of you!