Wow, I’ve been doing a terrible job keeping up with this blog. Rest assured I’ll be writing more nowadays. I have to, because the next year is going to be a rough one. I’ll give a very brief update and dive more into the details later.
A week ago I received the devastating news that my dad passed away unexpectedly. He drowned while snorkeling in Hawaii.
As a child I witnessed him verbally abuse my mom, and once physically abuse her. They divorced ten years ago. He sometimes turned the verbal abuse on me as a kid. Since the divorce, that side of him has rarely showed. We were starting to have an okay relationship… but now, this. Complicating things is the fact that my brother is adamant that no abuse took place and gets furious if a bad word is ever said about dad. They were very close.
Stay tuned for updates as I try to navigate this twisted situation.
Thanks for reading this post. You can find my backstory here.
Scarred but Not Broken: Healing From Sexual Assault and Domestic Abuse 