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Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim.

She was battered incessantly, regularly, all the time. I'm not saying 24 hours a day, but the incidents of battering were extraordinarily high.

You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.

Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or
friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust,
and openness -

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you. To

Remember, tears are like rivers that start in one place and flow to another - they can help carry you to healing.

Instead of promoting healthy development, they unconsciously undermine it, often with the belief that they are acting in their child's best interest.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

I estimate the number [of incest victims] to be somewhere between ten and twenty million Americans...