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anonandsad · 01/10/2013 17:12

Hi i was wondering if anyone could help im at my witts end. Im 32 and my paternal grandad raped me when iwas 8 up until i was 14. No one knows, he died recentley and his funeral is next wk. I dont think i can go!!! How can i explain that to my family!!! Please help

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Fontofnowt · 01/10/2013 17:15

Don't go if you don't want to.
Tell family as much or as little you want to share or just outright lie and say you have a major migraine on the day.
This is about you feeling ok not showing your face for others sake.
So sorry this has happened to you.

anonandsad · 01/10/2013 17:17

Thankyou font. It would be soul destroying for me too go

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holstenlips · 01/10/2013 17:19

Im sorry that happened to you (I was abused but by a family friend so slightly different)
Have you ever told anyone? Maybe now is a good time to get some support?
If I was you I wouldnt go either.

Whatnext074 · 01/10/2013 17:42

anonandsad - I am so, so sad to hear you went through this. I hope you do have some support.

Don't go, you have had enough pain.

Vivacia · 01/10/2013 18:20

If you don't want to go, don't go. What do you think the outcome will be of you deciding not to go?

Cabrinha · 01/10/2013 18:22

Well, you could go, and see it as a personal celebration that the bastard is dead.
You poor love.
But you don't have to go. Migraine on the day, or say you were too upset -which is perfectly true.
And please please talk to someone - your GP, Samaritans, Rape Crisis.
Good luck x

anonandsad · 01/10/2013 18:24

Im scared ppl will ask questions if i dont go.
Thanx everyone. Ive never told a soul. He raped me weekly for 6 years. I had an abortion at 13 with this monsters child and had to tell mum it was a 'boyfriend'
He was very respected man, very high up in police. I didnt think anyone would believe me.

Dont think i realky believed it myself. This has ruined my life.

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anonandsad · 01/10/2013 18:25

Thanks cab, exactly, the sick bastards dead. I should stomp on his grave

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Vivacia · 01/10/2013 18:28

I think you should get some professional help anon. This might well be the right time for addressing what happened to you. However, my best advice is to either A) pretend you're going and then have an emergency on the day or B) tell people you're sorry they are confused by your decision but you're not ready to explain yet.

Whatnext074 · 01/10/2013 18:42

Just terrible, I wish I could say something to make you feel better.

Cabrina is right and perhaps you could talk to Rape Crisis to ask their opinion on how you should best handle this. It's important you do what you think is right for you regardless of what others would think of you if you decide not to go.

googlecanthelp · 01/10/2013 19:02

anonandsad, is there anyone you can talk to in RL?

Of course you are conflicted about going to the funeral and personally I wouldn´t go. There is no way I could go and I have been through something similar.

Do you have a good friend you could call, you are going to need support through this. You may find that the death of this excuse for a human, is the catalyst to a lot of different emotions. Its hard to explain but I know I went through anger (that the bastard had got away with it), joy (that the bastard was dead), guilt (for not doing anything to stop it) and a load more. The only thing that helped me was to talk about it. By talking I was able to see it not as a secret I had to keep, nothing I was or had any reason to be ashmed of. It was painful, soul distroying at some points. But it closed the door on that part of my life and let me grieve not for the death of my abuser, but for myself and for the person that they should have been to me.

Do what feels right in your gut and heart, is the only advice I can give you, and remember that there are people you can talk to and people that will help you "accept and deal with what was done to you"

Remember at all times you are a wonderful person and someone did a terrible horrific thing to you, that does not make you a terrible person it makes you a victim of abuse. However you feel is the right emotion, people may not understand but that is their problem NOT yours. Do NOT go the funeral if you don´t want to, or it will just be another incident of suffer your soul has to take because of this "man"

Have a hug, a hand to hold and a shoulder to lean on from me

Hissy · 01/10/2013 19:10

My love, I can't add much, but hope that you find the strength to listen to the voice you have within, that tells you you're free of him. He can't hurt you any more now.

I'd not go if it were me, and if anyone asked i'd say that he'd understand.

I think you may find in time that you're not the only one he abused.

Huge hugs from me too.

anonandsad · 01/10/2013 19:12

Thankyou google, im sooo sorry someone else has suffered the same pain that i have. I will call my bf tomoro and vhat about it. I fully trust her. Im not going to funeral, ill have a migraine that day!!

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anonandsad · 01/10/2013 19:12

Bf i mean best friend lol

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googlecanthelp · 01/10/2013 19:30

Anonandsad. You will find that there are a lot of people that have suffered, in similar ways. The problem is our abusers continue to controll us and in subtial ways the abuse continues for many years after they stop physically abusing us. The prisons they helps us build in our minds are so strong that they often last a life time. Abuse is isolating and secreative, we keep the secret of what they have done like a tatoo on our hearts and souls. No one can see it but it is there and is so strong, it alters everything, its always there in the background. When we finally break through from the prison of our abuse and start talking that tatoo fades little by little, we take the controll and power back from our abusers and we are finally able to stop the abuse, we suffered. Abuse is not JUST the physical acts we endured its the lasting tatoo of what it did to us, its that prison in our mind, and the ache in our soul. That abuse does not stop the day an abuser dies, it stops when we are finally free from the prison they made us build brick by brick.

I really hope you can see what I am trying to say possibly not very eloquently.

You are strong, and you have no idea of that strenght but trust me you are strong, you can and will get free of that prison. Your friends will help you and I promise in time your life will not ruined or defined by the abuse you endured. It will be defined by your suvival, strenght and by happiness and love.

EvenBetter · 01/10/2013 20:04

I'm sorry this happened to you, pet. Quite often it's 'respectable' men who do this. You're an adult now and living your own life, my way of dealing with a slightly similar situation was not to think of myself as a victim, or a survivor-I didn't want his actions to have any influence on my life or status. But it took me a long time to get there.
As for the funeral, do what you want to do, if it would help you to see the coffin, or if it would make you angry hearing people blathering on about what a top bloke he was.... If anyone asks just say you have the norovirus with explosive diarrhoea. No one asks too many questions there!
There's a support phone number by a group called something like People Abused in Childhood, which could be helpful.

anonandsad · 01/10/2013 20:09

Ive decided that if defo NOT going. Having a glass of wine with hubby whilst he watches celtic game lol. I will tell him tomoro before i tell best mate. I kno he will support me. He kinda dropped hints in the past when i get upset ovrr abuse on telly. And when i refused to leave our wee girls over to grans on their own. Hes never questioned tho.

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anonandsad · 01/10/2013 20:10

Im also scared of opening a can of worms and find out hes done it to other poor girls

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googlecanthelp · 01/10/2013 20:26

Anonandsad

Please tell you dh he will want to support and help you

Tell him tonight if you can dont wait until the morning unless you have to

Don't worry about the can of worms, you opening or not will not change anything that may have happened to someone else.

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