Thank you for the document. Can you tell us where it comes from and who
wrote it?

Annette


>From: Syed Azhar Ali <strangers5@...>
>Reply-To: SocialFitnessForum@yahoogroups.com
>To: SocialFitnessForum@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [SocialFitnessForum] traumatic incident because of shyness
>Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:17:25 -0700 (PDT)
>
>just wanted to help you...............i am shy
>myself....and this has greatly helped me.........but
>please be motivated enough to actually work on
>this.......anyways goodluck
>
>--- "Shawni J." <shyboy476@...> wrote:
> > HI, I'm writing for advice for my husband Shawni.
> > Its a miracle that
> > we even met because he is shyer than any man I ever
> > had known. It took
> > a lot of time and energy on my part to get him to
> > trust me (he has a
> > big problem with trust). Anyway, he loves horses and
> > actually has a
> > couple at a local barn. Recently he came home with a
> > really ugly dark
> > bruise under his right eye. He said he tripped at
> > the barn and hit his
> > eye. I believed that but once his bruise was healed,
> > he came home
> > again with a bruise under his other eye, once again
> > saying he fell.
> > The final time he came back with a fresh bruise over
> > the one that was
> > healing. He was also
> > seeming to get shyer and more easily spooked. I
> > found out from a
> > friend what was actually happening because she was
> > in the barn when it
> > happened. She told me that the local ranch hands at
> > the barn were
> > nothing but nasty, mean, cruel, drunks. She came in
> > and suprised them
> > when they were drunk out of their minds and had
> > stripped my already
> > bruised husband, beating his tail with a riding crop
> > and trying to
> > sexually assault him in a way out of a scene from
> > deliverance.
> > Needless to say she had them arrested and we moved
> > the horses to
> > another barn. That traumatic experience left my poor
> > husband shyer,
> > untrusting of anyone especially other males, and
> > more sensitive
> > (doesn't take much to make him cry). I took him to
> > counselling but it
> > doesn't seem to help. They even have him on
> > medications to help his
> > anxiety but that is not helping. Does anyone have
> > any suggestions
> > that could be of help please let me know. Anyone
> > with any similar
> > experience of being abused just because they were
> > shy please let me
> > know.
> >
> >
>
>
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