Retribution such as being shunned by the church is why many people don't seek treatment or even admit that the abuse ever happened. They are then cut off from the only support system (as weak and conditional as it might be)they've ever had.
Proverbial rock and a hard place.
Me 57/H 58 M36 S 2.5yrs R 12/13
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. Caroline Myss
