LateBloomerBuds Weeky Challenge: Alone

I’ve been waiting all day for WordPress Photo Challenge of the week.  And Margie, better known as LateBloomerBuds got tired as well and created her own challenge–Alone.  I want to support her efforts, so please check out her blog and feel free to participate and link your to her blog.  Let’s have some fun.

Here are a few photos that I’d like to add to the Alone topic.

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Margie,  you are not alone.

Hugs and blessings

Cee

 

 

What was the moment that changed your life?

Chris asked a question which really made me think and I would like to answer her.  The questions is “What was the moment that changed your life?”   Check out her blog My Mother Hates You to find out her answer.

I don’t know the date, like Chris does, but I can explain the circumstance.  There were really two distinct and related instances that definitely changed my life.

I come from a family that never got divorced and life to the world seemed fairly normal.  I have one sister who is 18 months older than me.  For most of my younger life, my father sexually abused me.  When I was in the 7th grade, I gathered up the courage to tell my mother what he was doing to me.  When I told my mother, she didn’t disagree with me.  First thing she told me was that she was abused too as a child and it was “no big deal” and “normal”.  The second thing she did was get my father and confront him.  He admitted to the sexual abuse.  But he didn’t take any kind of responsibility.  He said it was my “fault”.

My mother was always concerned what our neighbors thought, even though we didn’t know them.  We were the type of people who would go to church on Sunday’s just for “show”.  So it was only natural that my mother made sure I was out in public with my father so we would look like an ordinary family.  This was in the early 1970s and incest was so not talked about.

Feeling Alone

The hallway above is  an image I took a couple years ago, when I was taking a 6 hour class on composition.

I’ve updated my About Cee and added a new page Living with Lyme and I hope you enjoy what I’ve added.