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Comment by Honeylorraine on 30 Aug 2012 at 4:07 pm<\/p>\n

Hi Karen. I learned an unforgettable lesson from your story. Since this happened to you as a child, what gave you hope when everyone let you down? How did you cope when feeling unloved? Were there any positive adult role models and who were they? I never met you, BUT I love you very much! Please keep writing and catch up. You are a gift from ABOVE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dear Honeylorraine,<\/p>\n

Thank you for your question. What gave me hope was prayer; I prayed all the time. My faith saw me through many difficult times, but then, after many years of trying, I started to fall. I assumed God had given up on me. He did not. \u00a0One day my grandmother, my mother’s mother, caught my father abusing me and she prayed non-stop for over six hours. This frightened me beyond belief. Though I didn’t understand all of what she prayed for, she did tell me at that time that she prayed God would put someone in my life to help me when I was older and able to deal with what was happening to me. At the time I believed her. I often wonder why she didn’t report my being abused to the police. My grandmother died long ago, so I’ll never know. Nearly twenty years later, I found Dr. Baer and believe my grandmother’s prayers were finally answered. Dr. Baer never gave up on me and treated me with great respect during eighteen years of therapy.<\/p>\n

Though I admit I felt unloved most of my life, there were people who I knew truly loved me and I fed off their compliments and compassion. These were people placed in my life at the right time for me to know that I am a survivor and will get through. I wish I could say they were my family, but they were not. I consider these special God-sent friends my chosen family.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your compliments and for loving me! I truly am grateful to hear these words.<\/p>\n

Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comment by Honeylorraine on 30 Aug 2012 at 4:07 pm Hi Karen. I learned an unforgettable lesson from your story. Since this happened to you as a child, what gave you hope when everyone let you down? How did you cope when feeling unloved? Were there any positive adult role models and who were they? […]<\/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-3021","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\/3021","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=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}