Hi Michael,
I'm disapointed now, I had just puckered my lips and then you said Not the Guys.
Seriously though.
Thank you
In my work as a therapist I hear many stories and my heart bleeds but to see the relief when somebody believes or understands is great and to help folks realise that it wasn't their fault is even better. In my work I'm pleased that it's not always nescessary for people to tell me everything but sometimes they want to and thats ok. I am privileged to be trusted and so all here should feel that way about your posting.
You're obvious sense of right and wrong have made you what you are, so never change that. I was apalled, when, after a lifetime of being brought up by parents who taught me to care and accept people for who they are, to suddenly find my mother, having lost my father to cancer and then suffering the same fate herself, saying rash things against staff who were black. She had been listening to a politician who, despite his top class education was instilling the fear of loss of national British identity with badly thought out words and my mother like many others seized upon the fear issue and blew it up in her mind.
She never hated or even ill-treated others in her life but through the bitterness of loss and some foolish words by another she started to question her values insead of putting her trust in God.
I could write a whole article about abusers, both of children and other vulnerable people but this isnt the time, however, my wish is that society learns that some of these folks are really sick and that we learn to deal with the education of folks to include the need to tell others not just about our abuse but to teach everyone that if we find ourselves attracted to things that are clearly outside of normal behaviour we have a duty to ask for help. You see, that by the total disgust we all feel for some of these people we make it impossible for them to come forward before it's too late.
Don't get me wrong, I advocate the accurate use of a sharp knife and an operation in a certain area for some of these offenders, for the harm they do is lifelong, but, I wish there was a way of getting these people to come forward for help before they blight lives.
Congratulations on being chosen to be here and for bringing a different perspective to this forum.
You have great friends here and clearly love many so if you are not on my friends list you are certainly getting an invite. Youre humour is appreciated.
Well done and enjoy your fame.
I teach what mother's didn't ''It's ok to be selfish unless it hurts others'' Enjoy a little praise, you're worth it
Roger