Yeah, what are the stats...1 in 4 of us were molested in some fashion? Wonder if that's just based on reported cases?
My observations mirror your own. My two best girlfriends, my sister, I had a creepy old man try to put his hand up my dress while I was sitting on his knee, but I pushed it away and got the heck out of there!
Hey, didn't you feel a sense of relief and rightness when you sent that e-mail and got his response? Seems he took it very well, ahem, as I predicted .
And lest you are starting to think I'm the queen of boundaries, I assure you I am NOT. I managed to let myself get VERY involved with a student of mine who has an eating disorder. I was the first one she told. I got her into treatment. I TOOK her to doctor's appointments. She told her mom with me there in my office.
I learned a great deal from that experience: the primary message I recieved (in meditation/prayer) was that "I cannot fix what is not mine to fix". I took that to mean I must work on myself, and no longer agonize over why she wasn't getting better...I had to withdraw and set some boundaries for the sake of my own health!
I'm MUCH more careful now not to let myself get that involved.
Well it's very late now, that 3 hour rest earlier really buggered up my sleep cycle
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