{"id":4499,"date":"2018-09-28T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2018-09-28T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:19:22","slug":"it-has-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=4499","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Forget&#8230; A letter to my rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IT HAS BEEN&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days since you raped me.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9, 635 days since you violently took my virginity from me. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 of my dealing with the repercussions of your evil act. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of understanding how such a betrayal could occur.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of wondering how a \u201cman,\u201d a father, a husband ( at the time), a supposed \u201cman of God\u201d could violate another human in such a way? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of wondering how someone could profess to care about the pains and hurts of one and then use that information to his advantage? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9, 635 days of my questioning what did I do? Was this my fault?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of trying to understand what kind of father would violently rape a young woman (period) and then do so with his child in the bathtub next door?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of wondering if you know you are a sick person? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of wondering if you realize you are a narcissist? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9, 635 days of wondering how the leadership of church I was part of and loved could turn its back on me?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of wondering if your wife knows the truth? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of wondering if your child\/ren have any idea of the vileness of their father?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of feeling sorry for the 1000s of people you have reached, knowing you are betraying them too.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9635 days of feeling sorry for the leadership and friends who did not hold you accountable and yet knowing they will face God, at the ultimate judgment.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It\u2019s been 9,635 days of me struggling, sometimes just surviving as my body dealing with the repercussions of someone physically pinning me down and forcing his being into my most sacred of places. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of constantly looking over my shoulder. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has be 9,635 days of fearfully being anywhere alone with a male. \u00a0Riding an elevator, going to my car in a garage, putting out the garbage in the dark are things that haunt me constantly.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has be 9,635 days of fighting PTSD, panic attacks that take over, or just uncurling from the safety of the fetal position, all exhausting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of screaming out at the memory of ultimate betray. \u00a0I trusted you. You made me trust you. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of wondering who else, how many others? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days of waiting and hoping that time heals all wounds. \u00a0Yet realizing some wounds leave a huge, ugly scar that will be felt everyday.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days my view of this world changed forever. \u00a0I believed that most people had good in them. And yet, you proved me wrong.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 since my colourful world became black and white.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-It has been 9,635 days. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Tomorrow it will be 9,636 days.<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT HAS BEEN&#8230; -It has been 9,635 days since you raped me. -It has been 9, 635 days since you violently took my virginity from me. \u00a0 -It has been 9,635 of my dealing with the repercussions of your evil &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=4499\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,189,259,28,6,1,10,32,13,140,5,11,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}