A little more about me.

1. I have two older siblings (8 and 9 years older, respectively), and a younger half-sister (8 years younger). My mom and dad divorced when I was 18 months old. She remarried to a man 10 years younger and very controlling and overbearing.  He could not control my brothers, so he played his mind games with me. Because my personality is more compliant than my other siblings, it didn’t take long for him to get inside my head. He’s been dead for 20 years and he is still inside my head, reminding me how stupid I am.

2. When I was 12, I was molested by a 13 year old boy on three separate occasions. He forced me into a storage room at school and forced me to perform oral sex on him and told me that he would beat me to a bloody pulp if I ever told anyone. I was already dealing with self-worth issues before this happened,  making matters much worse. I told absolutely no one for almost 30 years.