LJ idol week 3: Brushback Pitch

[sonarvampress]

I saw his picture the other day, and it hurt. It's so strange to me that someone can still have that kind of power over me. The kind of power that made me hide in a back room when I knew he was at our house even as a grown woman. I tell myself he can't hurt me now. Logically, I know that, but something strange happens when he is around. I flash

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[baxaphobia]

Awww. I'm sorry. It's hard when someone has that sort of hold on you.

[rayaso]

This must have been so awful to experience as well as carry around with you. There should be a special punishment for people like that.

[penpusher]

In just these few paragraphs you captured the intensity and pain of the circumstance and the shame, all of it, goes to Steve.

[adoptedwriter]

He's the one who should be ashamed! Hugs....

[halfshellvenus]

I'm so, so sorry, for all that happened and for the version of yourself you lost to the existence of this awful man.

The shame is all his, the shame and the wrong and the evil. You may feel as if you're hiding-- and who wouldn't, even someone bigger and more powerful than him if those memories are still inside them? But he does not deserve an audience with you, and I wonder if it would help over time to think of it that way.