Quote of the week.

Quote of the week.
One from the Family and Friends forum, from our indomitable friend "Wifey".
Oddly, it's a quote without cursing. ;)

Dave

the Psychiatrist said I definetly do NOT fit the classic symptoms of depression, but rather the classic symptoms of being Pissed.
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Again from the Fam & Fri forum, and it's Danny this time, expressing something I hold to be so true.
Thanks Danny.

I don't slog through all this misery in hopes of making other people happy; though I firmly believe that other people will stand a better chance of getting some good from knowing me as a result of my recovery.
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Rik says it all.

If you want hope, I have gone from being a total wreck (physical & mental) to someone that is now attending an ID parade to point the finger at my abuser...
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Bobby was having a big long vent, and a very good vent as well!

And I liked this bit best.

A lot of times on this incredible journey, I have no idea what I'm fighting or why I'm fighting it, but I'll be damned if it's gonna beat me....and I win, too. But I'm not sure what I've just won....but I know it'll be back.
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Bill said something simple, but rock strong, and I want to post it here:

Bless you and your courage.
Bill
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thank you Bill, that little thing means a lot to me and the others I'm sure.
 
Leosha said:
A year ago, I would say nothing of what I mean if I think it will sound negative. Credit this site and the confidence I have gained through it to be able to say anything like this now.
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That is what this place is about, good for you!
 
A quote from Fhorns that speaks volumes.

My sex life has been with the strangers in my head. FUCK! That's real.
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I think most of feel that way, and that's sad.
Dave
 
In a reply to the topic posted Andrei used few words to make the point,

well done,

You sound like you are doing rude book report. Who cares of what someone look like? I am greatful that people work for this site, to keep it here. Maybe you need to observe more and speak less.

Andrei
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Classic
 
there's a terrific topic on the Family & Friends forum about why partners are attracted to, and why they stay with, Survivors.
For guys like myself, it's a question I often ask.
I'd like to think Sunshine2 speaks for my wife and all of us lucky enough to have someone we love standing alongside of us.
Dave

My attraction to my SO is for who he is. The abuse is something he went through, but that doesn't ultimately make him who he is.
Sunshine2
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I am very new here and it was a bit unnerving even looking over what is on the site, but I hope it is okay if I draw attention to what I thought was a remarkable passage in Glaukos' journal - which is full of remarkable things:

I can see the letter in my hand. Dad sees it and looks at me. All I have to do is give it to him. Hes waiting. My arm moves through the dark & the letter is shaking in my hand please help me. Dads hand is on the letter & I feel it sliding away. The paper is cold. I could grab it back & run but I dont. I want him to know. I have always wanted him to know. Now he does. Nobody can hurt me now. I have just done the most important thing in my life.
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I don't blame my own father for what happened to me or for my inability to tell him; it was a different time and I have no memory of any resources to help me, or even of any recognition of child abuse as a problem. But when I see this kind of courage and passion for life I think maybe there is hope after all! I of course hope that my own son never has to come to me with this sort of letter, but if he does I hope the relationship we have built gives him the same sort of trust that I see here.

Larry
 
My quotes are not as deep as most of these:

From the movie Cousins
"I am going to make some chicken salad out of this chicken Sh*t"

From the great Rev. Jimmy Buffett:
"We are all half-baked fruitcakes"
and
"If we could not laugh we would all go insane"
 
I just live to see other survivors making steps forward, big or little it doesn't matter, just as long as that person is moving forward.

Andrei's moving forward.

This last year, it has been a lot of feelings, not always good, lot of physical pain and sickness, lot of hurt feelings. But there is so much good now too. I feel real, I feel I am real person again, and did not feel that since I am little boy before I leave home.
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I just love it.
Dave
 
Kev, 'Glaukos', has some righteous anger he's letting go, and we should ALL listen up.

Dave

Grownups here talk about their inner child. I like that idea. Its like, I dunno, I was talkin about this big and little thing with a really cool adult friend here, & I guess thats the same as the inner child. But guess what dog? Child? Here I am. Here we are. Lots of us. More than you think.
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It's young Kevin again -

All of us are somebody first I think, not molested first & then us second. Does that make sense?
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Oh yes ....

Dave
 
By Glen.
"Come on who ever on this planet thinks its ok for an adult male to sleep in a bed with a boy should be shot for being stupid."
 
This is from someone on the Members Forum:

"I stand proud that the boy so badly damaged managed to get me this far and I will honor him and myself for being a survivor."

Such powerful words. What an inspiration!

Zipser
 
When young Andrei hits the keyboard in one of his reflective moods you just KNOW there's going to be someting that leaps out and touches your soul, and he's done it again
Dave

I choose happiness. I choose to be at comfort with myself and my character, and to not act against it. And I choose to be a survivor of the past, not a victim remaining in it. It takes no courage to remain a victim. I think it perhaps takes more energy to be miserable sometime though! I am not so in love with my pain of the past to wish to maintain it. There is of course things still I must learn and deal with and heal from. But I am an active person in the process, not the passive victim.
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