Child Abuse
Partner Sexually Abusing Her Daughter – Child Sexual Abuse and Trauma
Lack of compatibility, spark fizzling out, being cheated upon…among the many things we worry about in romantic relationships, the fear of a partner turning out to be the perpetrator of child sexual abuse rarely makes the list. It’s a possibility so grim that we don’t even want to imagine it as a worst-case scenario of …
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8 Relationship Problems You Can Face If You Had Toxic Parents
As children, we have certain obligations towards our parents. But what if our parents hang these obligations over our heads for their personal gain? Being parents doesn’t mean that they own our lives. Unloving toxic parents abuse their children emotionally, mentally and sometimes physically. They are delusional about their relationship with their child and use …
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Child Sexual Abuse: I Was Sexually Abused By A Family Member
Durga Pujo vacation was around the corner and I had a spring in my steps because the festivities for the Bengalis were about to begin, and I was soon to revel in it, breaking the drudgery of my school life – class tests and studies and endless activities. I was a 13-year-old girl studying in …
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My mother abandoned me as a child for a lesbian relationship
Question: Dear Sir, My mother walked away from my father and me when I was in school to be in a lesbian relationship. She never kept in touch with me for several years. Now she wants to be present for my wedding and my relatives are pressuring me to allow her to sit in the …
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How the #MeToo campaign dug up my old memories of being abused
When I was abused as a young student These days the ‘Me too’ campaign has thankfully caught on fiercely amongst the educated class the world over, but my story dates back almost 30 years or more when I was still an almost wet behind the ears, eager to please teenager, bursting with the importance of …
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Why can’t we admit to being abused, in our country?
Just another case of abuse by a trusted person She was 9. He was 35. She was a student. He was a tutor. I know you will object to this story. How can there be a “together” between these two? Because this is no fairy tale, it has unpleasant twists and turns. So, one day, …
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I confided in my parents about being abused and yet they did nothing
When a trusted grownup violated the trust of a child The first time I was violated I was 8 or 9 years old. My mother’s cousin, who is also my aunt’s (bua’s) husband, had come to our house. Ours was a small house. My parents and my brother were in the house. But still the …
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