{"id":296,"date":"2008-10-21T01:21:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T01:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2008-10-21T01:21:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T01:21:34","slug":"karen-answers-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/21\/karen-answers-benkaren-answers-ben\/\">Comment by Psychologist Ben on October 17, 2008 <span style=\"color:#cc0000;\"><span title=\"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/13\/karen-answers-child-molester\/#comment-280\">12:23 am<\/span><\/span> <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;\">Dearest Karen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;\">Oh good gracious God! I just read child molester<span style=\"color:#000080;\">\u2019<\/span>s comment. <span style=\"color:#000080;\">\u00a0<\/span>Where did this guy come from. <span style=\"color:#000080;\">\u00a0<\/span>Don<span style=\"color:#000080;\">\u2019<\/span>t answer his questions Karen. <span style=\"color:#000080;\">\u00a0<\/span>He<span style=\"color:#000080;\">\u2019<\/span>s a pervert. <span style=\"color:#000080;\">\u00a0<\/span>I have read your book. <span style=\"color:#000080;\">\u00a0<\/span>I am grateful to have had pleasant childhood experiences to share and pass down to my children.<span style=\"color:#000080;\"> <\/span>\u00a0I am sorry you weren<span style=\"color:#000080;\">\u2019<\/span>t able to form pleasing memories because of what happened to you at the hands of perverts like the child molester who wrote to you on your page. <span style=\"color:#000080;\">\u00a0<\/span>How you must have felt reading this? Are you talking this over with Dr. Baer? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;\">Psychologist Ben<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\">Dear Ben,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\">Thank you for being concerned about my well being. \u00a0I know there will be questions that will hit a nerve and trigger bad feelings in me. \u00a0Dr. Baer and I discuss these posts. \u00a0I can&#8217;t stop people from asking questions that may be objectionable.\u00a0 I\u2019ll try to answer each one in the best way I can. \u00a0When there is a question that is inappropriate, such as this one,\u00a0I\u2019ll talk it over with Dr. Baer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\">Although my memories of abuse were not pleasant, I was able to treasure some memories of meaningful times. \u00a0When sharing stories with my children, I always focused on the good times.\u00a0 I told them stories of pleasant experiences, from family related television shows, from what I&#8217;d witnessed from being around good families, and my dreams of how life could be if I were loved.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\">Thank you for caring,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;\">Karen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Psychologist Ben on October 17, 2008 12:23 am Dearest Karen, Oh good gracious God! I just read child molester\u2019s comment. \u00a0Where did this guy come from. \u00a0Don\u2019t answer his questions Karen. \u00a0He\u2019s a pervert. \u00a0I have read your book. \u00a0I am grateful to have had pleasant childhood experiences to share and pass down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}