The Gift

In the archives of this blog, I believe there's a post entitled "First Love". It's the story of a young girl who is belittled by her lover in a most cruel and abusive way. She finds her inner strength and in the end, leaves permanently.

Fast forward 24 years.

She sits in the doctors office and listens to him say "Moms whose boys hit them almost always have something, abuse or trauma that is underneath."

She recalls and retells the story. How she heard his mother being abused. And until today, didn't get that NOT leaving at that very moment was because she had heard her mother being abused.

She is still learning to not be abused.

It hurts.