Hey there @Glisten 🌺🤗
It’s ok - lots of posts here, and it’s very easy to miss any one of them 🙂
I didn’t make it to family court, so I was corralled into a situation purely based on vulnerability and inabilities based on significant lack of health and financial resources at the time.
I was also still fighting three cases in district court for my rights to be upheld after being hit and run some years before (those cases went on for 14 years before I finally won my freedom and was no longer being blamed for what happened to me). There are some societal loads that are beyond the limits of what an injured and traumatised person can cope with, and the divorce case was simply beyond anything humanly possible that I could engage with at the time. However, it doesn’t matter what it is, but I’m sure many of us (if not all?) here know what that all-encompassing, utter overwhelm combined with no way out no matter what you do feeling feels like, and sometimes personal/physical and emotional damage mitigation is the only option - not necessarily seeking justice, particularly when unable to access various ‘supports’ in society as and when they are so desperately needed.
Having said that, the important point is this…
The threads that stitch us so harmoniously together is our deep knowledge of traumatic experiences, and our wisdom in moving through and knowing our battles, and how that builds an entirely new facet to our existence: we have all a fully developed sense of compassion and empathy - even if that empathy hurts.
That’s what I treasure, love, and respect immensely about people who survive trauma, and I see it every single day amongst the forums here being shared throughout. That’s what I read in your messages Glisten 💜🙂🌺
