Blog Reader Appreciation Day
A HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO READERS OF SANCTUARY FOR THE ABUSED!!! This week Sanctuary for the Abused got it's 467,000th hit. That's 467,000 hits in the 6 years since I opened that site to the public. I am honored and awed that so many have found resources and answers there. I am moved often to tears by the thank you letters I get from women & men who found the strength and information they needed to reclaim their lives there. I started that blog in November, 2003 as a way to keep my own personal research on abuse private and out of view from people around me, including my abusive ex. As a voracious reader and a research junkie... I needed answers and I got them. Five years ago I was 'emotionally raped' by a narcissistic sociopath. Someone who I had cared for and felt I was friends with for more than 1/2 my life and yet - had no idea of his true nature for those 28 years. Someone who, to this day, tells a very backward, upside-down and twisted version of the truth (...