WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think might help. Everyone and all sorts of troubles are welcome. May we find peace and healing here. Won't you please share the joy of WYFP by recommending?
ColoradoistheShiznit would be posting this, but she used up her diary to help me through a crisis with one of my daughters. I am stepping up to post, she will be in the comments to share WYFP with everyone.
My first thought when CitS asked me to post was that compared to yesterday I don't have any problems today, none that really matter.
That is due to the kindness of this community in their help to get my daughter out of a very bad situation. Then I remembered a really important problem. More below the fold......
This is the problem that has haunted my mind today:
I was 29 the first time I saw this wheel at a group I had been referred to after about the third time to the domestic violence shelter.
It was the first time I realized that my whole life had been some form of abuse. I didn't know what I didn't know.
Today one in three women are abused. (Yes, I know it can happen to men too, that's another diary)
At least one in three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some way, most often by someone she knows, says a United Nations report that decries ongoing prejudice against women.
Despite the tremendous gains of the 20th century, discrimination and violence against women and girls ``remain firmly rooted in cultures around the world,'' says the UN in its annual report on the State of World Population, released today.
For many years I felt secure in the fact that this wouldn't happen to my daughters. They had seen what I went through and how I turned life around for all of us by getting out of the cycle of abuse.
I was wrong, and I found that out yesterday when I received a hysterical phone call from her. She is safe and coming home in a few days. Although I said this above I cannot say enough how deeply touched and grateful I am for the loving support, and generosity, of my fellow kossacks here.
The fact that abuse is still so prevalent in these modern times is a problem in the forefront of my mind today.
This isn't a light and breezy topic, in a way I felt like I should have thought of one, but this is from my heart.
If you recognize yourself, or someone you know, there is help and a way out.
National Domestic Violence Hotline.
It's Saturday and time for WYFP. See you all below.