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• *hugs* Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I can't imagine how difficult that is to write. I have a question that maybe some of you who are survivors can help me with: I am a non-survivor friend of someone
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• i wish i could show this to my mom. unfortunately, she hasn't talked to me since last september - when i told her about the abuse. she chose to believe her husband over me. she didn't believe me because of (posted to A letter to my non-survivor friends: things I want to tell you but don't know how)
• Great letter and great list of tips for non-survivors who are friends with survivors. I'm also a survivor and while I have accepted what happened to me as a child and as a teenager and am pretty open to talking (posted to A letter to my non-survivor friends: things I want to tell you but don't know how)
• It has been taken down. Phew! (posted to A letter to my non-survivor friends: things I want to tell you but don't know how)
• I retract my previous concern. (The few extra details you added really do make a difference.) I've read a lot about the topic in Skeptical Inquirer magazine back in the 90s, when, as you point out, there really were some (posted to A letter to my non-survivor friends: things I want to tell you but don't know how)
• Thank you for your courageous message. I am also a survivor of incest and wanted to let you know that your words encouraged me to share my story of abuse with my partner. You helped me define why I (posted to A letter to my non-survivor friends: things I want to tell you but don't know how)

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