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Was I heartbroken or furious? I didn__ know. I did know: that__ it. Our relationship could not continue like this, out of balance, unequal.And as surely as I knew this, I knew something else: But of course it can. We can continue to live exactly as we do right now, in a heavy-lidded state of love and unspeakable compromise. Isn__ that what people do? Every day? Don__ they ache but rename it tired?It made me wonder: Was it even fair to expect the person you__e with to be just as happy as you? Furthermore, how could you ever even know for sure? You couldn__, was the truth of it. You could not know this.

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The reality is, no matter what you were told, whatever happened to you as a child was not legally or morally your fault. Abused children are instilled with guilt regarding their "participation." It's an especially complex issue if the abuser is a family member. The child is told and believes that by his word his family will disintegrate, or harm may descend upon other loved ones. He fears he will lose more by telling than not.

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Sarah E. Olson

Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder