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I was born in September 2002. I was only four months old when my mother left me in the care of my father to go
July 17, 2025
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I was born in September 2002. I was only four months old when my mother left me in the care of my father to go
I was the second of seven children, and as a child, I never really had a good relationship with my father. He was into sports,
I was born into a dysfunctional loving family in August 1972 to a kind, loving, clingy mother, a disciplined, loving father who could also be distant and disconnected at times, and an indifferent brother.
My story isn’t all that unusual. I was molested around the age of 5 or 6 by a family member, then by a friend of
I am a porn addiction survivor. It began when I was in grade school with “men’s” magazines and became an on and off thing until
I wonder how many people around my age feel the way I do. Now that we are adults, we see things differently, or do we?
I am a child of divorce. My parents were 19 and got pregnant with me, then got married. I was born in 1991. They had
I am a 28-year-old man, a separated husband, and a victim of the Sexual Revolution. I’m not only a victim of no-fault divorce, soon to
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I am a different victim of rejection from society due to being fired in 1986 after I was married and then assaulted in a women’s
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