Emerging From Broken by DarleneOuimet on FB

Because I didn’t fight most of the abuse when I was growing up in it, I believed that I had given up my right to fight it as an adult. I believed that my childhood silence was ‘consent’. The truth is that as a child I had no choice; disclosure would have made it worse and silence/compliance was survival. As an adult I have a choice. Talking about it is like taking my rights back. ~ Darlene Ouimet