Comments on: The Reflection of Two Little Girls http://www.sundrip.com/journal/2009/11/16/reflection-two-little-girls/ Sundrip Journals Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:56:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Beauty http://www.sundrip.com/journal/2009/11/16/reflection-two-little-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-7753 Beauty Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:59:01 +0000 http://www.sundrip.com/journal/?p=5523#comment-7753 Well no wonder the dynamics at home are so triggering for you that you've some misplaced anger going on. I find myself often doing the same thing, reacting emotionally as the little girl I used to be rather than the adult me who is no longer being abused. It's hard to get beyond the guilt of "I let him touch me with his filthy hands." Intellectually we may realize it's not our fault, but emotionally it's a different story. This sentence is just heartbreaking: "Square in the eyes of this young man’s target I see the reflection of two little girls unsure of when to speak or stand still, uncertain, fearful, powerless." Well no wonder the dynamics at home are so triggering for you that you’ve some misplaced anger going on. I find myself often doing the same thing, reacting emotionally as the little girl I used to be rather than the adult me who is no longer being abused.

It’s hard to get beyond the guilt of “I let him touch me with his filthy hands.” Intellectually we may realize it’s not our fault, but emotionally it’s a different story.

This sentence is just heartbreaking: “Square in the eyes of this young man’s target I see the reflection of two little girls unsure of when to speak or stand still, uncertain, fearful, powerless.”

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