Booksie.com true_confessions/all Publish.Read.Get.Read 2013-05-24T12:13:38 AM-01:00 Mike Defraga(MikeDefraga.com) http://www.booksie.com/parts/images/logo.gif http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/all/rss/2.0/popular/1 Booksie Love is posion http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/miscellaneous/oliviaantonia/love-is-posion 2013-05-23T11:38:27 PM-01:00 A love that was so deadly, yet so powerful. A love that sucked the life out of me, but I couldn't live without. Oliviaantonia http://www.booksie.com/oliviaantonia Denial Shame and Blame http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/poetry/blair_w/denial-shame-and-blame 2013-05-23T08:54:10 PM-01:00 Changing my view from Denial, Shame and Blame to Acceptance, Remorselessness and Glorify. Blair W http://www.booksie.com/blair_w Holy Acrimony II http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/katy_graham/holy-acrimony-ii 2013-05-23T08:53:31 PM-01:00 Domestic violence is the abuse of an individual in the same family or household, or with whom the partners have a child in common, and may include abuse or children, siblings, and elderly. Domestic violence also includes the abuse of an individual in a dating or sexually intimate relationship. I am a survivor of domestic violence. Having been abused by former husbands and partners, I have been terrorized in my home physically and emotionally. I have been abused by my Church leaders. I have been judged by these and have not been treated with dignity or respect. I sought Pastoral counseling on many occasions over the years with inappropriate and ineffective relief, emotionally, spiritually and financially. I was driven out of fellowship with my church due to abuse and sexual harassment by male church leaders and members. Stalking is a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed or molested. Date or spousal rape is criminal sexual conduct. Usually not reported or prosecuted. Sexual limits need to be communicated and respected. Victims need services including support from a community of professionals due to health and long term mental illness. Economic dependency, lack of support from family and friends, no available options regarding shelters, fear and guilt of responsibility for keeping a family together are some reasons it may be difficult to leave an abuser. Mounting tensions, false sense of hope that things may change, tensions ever-present with no calm period, isolation, blame, e.g., substance abuse, manipulation by abusers including his efforts to control her, feeling a need to prove abuse when others refuse to believe the individual is abusive and describe him as charming. Children caught in the middle may be injured, confused, have poor performance in school, aggressive behavior in relationships with peers and family members and poor self-images, and may feel responsible and may be abusive to other family members. These dynamics are why the cycle of abuse continues. Katy Graham http://www.booksie.com/katy_graham Alone yet not forgotten http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/article/yammers/alone-yet-not-forgotten 2013-05-23T08:00:10 PM-01:00 a cute romantic article for all ages 12-+. Yammers http://www.booksie.com/yammers Mental Health criminals http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/book/revelation12/mental-health-criminals 2013-05-23T04:41:37 PM-01:00 This story is true and something I went through in 2005 in London Ontario Canada. revelation12 http://www.booksie.com/revelation12 What Could Have Been http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/brittanybee/what-could-have-been 2013-05-23T02:17:40 AM-01:00 It was all about you. It still is all about you. Yet, you will never understand. You were it. You were the one. This is for you. Brittanybee http://www.booksie.com/brittanybee Music on the Move http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/miscellaneous/the_randomiser/music-on-the-move 2013-05-22T10:55:22 PM-01:00 Just my point of veiw on music. The Randomiser http://www.booksie.com/the_randomiser Choices - Part 1 http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/book/author_davis_k_/choices-part-1 2013-05-22T08:38:33 PM-01:00 Choices is the second set of short confessional stories from Author Davis K Author Davis K http://www.booksie.com/author_davis_k_ Facade http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/2weird2live/facade 2013-05-22T06:24:00 PM-01:00 idk 2weird2live http://www.booksie.com/2weird2live Holy Acrimony http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/katy_graham/holy-acrimony 2013-05-22T05:44:26 PM-01:00 The cycle of abuse and domestic violence that I sought to depict began long before I was born. As far back as I was told my grandmother Nanny was forever affected by the murder of her father which she witnessed as a young child. Even more heinous was that this crime was committed by relatives whom she should have been able to seek solace from. Marrying for security instead of love affected her parenting technique and my Mother described Nanny as unstable. Nanny was reported to be authoritarian as a disciplinarian and used an iron hand over both her children and spouse who struggled with alcoholism. This was passed on to my Mother whom was also an authoritarian and disciplined her children with an iron rod. Mother was also a closet alcoholic and accused my Dad of being one as well. The cycle of abuse and domestic violence was unavoidable. The effects on my behavior caused me to disassociate and struggle to cope with a dual personality all my life. Due to severe trauma during my early childhood an alter ego manifested as a sex addict in my life. The struggle of good and evil raged on the battleground of my mind and soul. Follow along with my journey in my memoir. - Katy Kilpatrick Katy Graham http://www.booksie.com/katy_graham Fitting in http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/poetry/futurepoet80459/fitting-in 2013-05-22T02:36:59 PM-01:00 the world futurepoet80459 http://www.booksie.com/futurepoet80459 I dont want you http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/poetry/futurepoet80459/i-dont-want-you 2013-05-22T02:32:51 PM-01:00 I dont want you futurepoet80459 http://www.booksie.com/futurepoet80459 goodie two shoes http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/poetry/futurepoet80459/goodie-two-shoes 2013-05-22T02:23:55 PM-01:00 I am not a goodie tqo shoes. Don't take offence to this poem cuz I made it up........... futurepoet80459 http://www.booksie.com/futurepoet80459 Booked in jail http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/poetry/futurepoet80459/booked-in-jail 2013-05-22T02:19:49 PM-01:00 being patted won futurepoet80459 http://www.booksie.com/futurepoet80459 I should've known http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/poetry/futurepoet80459/i-shouldve-known 2013-05-22T02:04:57 PM-01:00 By T>J>L futurepoet80459 http://www.booksie.com/futurepoet80459