Thanks Carrie!

--- In positivepartnersofsurvivors@yahoogroups.com, Carrie
<hope_is_necessary@...> wrote:
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> I have been quiet for a long time now, only checking the site once
in a blue moon to see if anyone from my time of need here has posted
anything new.  I am so very sad to see that the group has gotten so
silent and am so very grateful that when I needed it, the site was
active and HOPEFUL.
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> I am very blessed to have come as far as I have - and found that
my relationship has weathered my discovering of ME. So often, I
focused outward when I should have been focusing inward. I know that
now, and I know how to take care of me without needing anyone else.
Only when I discovered that, was I then able to be in a healthy
relationship.  It just so happens that I continue to be in a
relationship with a survivor. 
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> Please know that some of the diatribes about how CSA relationships
cannot work is only a reflection of the poster's OWN EXPERIENCE. 
Not everyone's.  Know that it is so very true that those of us who
are in a better place do not come here as often - or post as much. 
We do exist.  And hope should exist as well.  Please do not let
someone else's experience shadow your own.  And do not take someone
else's "shoulds" as your own.  NO ONE BUT YOU can define what you
should or should not do.
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> Blessings,
> Carrie
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