Date: August 28, 2009 at 18:49:33
From: Thomas
Age: 61
Subject: I don't think so...

I agree with Nikki and Ren.

In the last few decades, childhood sexual abuse has become the one size fits all explanation for all our problems. It's become a "fad," almost, to explain everything through this. There is, of course, much such abuse, and it is horrible. But it's also the case that there, as it has become a major theme of our culture that childhood sexual abuse is common, there have been false cases and manufactured memories that have ruined many lives; most of the preschool cases have been examples of that, where therapists have convinced little kids that they were abused.

Your "blocked" memory could be just the result of most childhood memories being vague.

My guess, and it's only a guess, is that there are other reasons why you are destroying relationships, reasons more complex and harder to get at, perhaps rooted in your family history and relationships with your parents, or perhaps a result of something else. You may, for example, have felt pressured to become sexually active before you were ready for that, which would be a perfectly good reason for destroying relationhips with boyfriends. Those reasons are what you need to try to explore. Good luck.

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