HeatherMcLeather
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Joined: 5/21/2011 From: The dog house Status: offline
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Happy to answer them. Yes we are. I see a therapist for my issues relating to my abuse. We follow Hanners' strategy of not prejudging men. Hanners has gotten back in contact with the men in her extended family after many years because she feels she can trust them and by doing so can reassure herself that there are normal everyday men who are decent (three cousins are write offs, oh well, that's still better than nothing). We have deliberately sought to make friends with men, we don't avoid them. That's pretty much what we're doing. We are far from the environment she was in. She keeps in touch with a few of the people she knew back then, but only the ones that are important to her. In my case the environment was my bedroom in my parents' house. I'm no longer there, but it's pretty hard to classify that as an environment expected to bring one in touch with the dregs of society. Well being in a lesbian relationship, our social circle doesn't include a lot of men, but Hanners works in a hardware store, and we socialize with the other employees when the opportunity presents itself. Hopefully this will change in the fall when i'm in school and we'll be able to encounter more men in a better milieu than at a bar or club. which isn't the best place either, the men there generally want to watch or join in, or "save" us, so they aren't really much better than what she encountered. No, Hanners isn't in any counseling. she has reasons i don't agree with, which she's talked about elsewhere in other threads, so i won't repeat them here. We also subscribe to the view that we are not victims, and that that is an unhealthy thing to do so. Hanners also thinks its an unhealthy thing to distrust all men, which is why she tries not to, she tries to give every man a chance. Thanks for asking. these are the sorts of questions I had hoped her post would generate. Any ideas that you think would be helpful are most welcome. Well Hanners informs me that my reply is perfect and I should stopp fussing with the wording and sentence structure and post it so we can go on to other posts, so...I'm done
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