I dont have to be silent anymore. YOU don’t have to be silent anymore. YOUR VOICE MATTERS. This has been happening for generations. My grandmother went through it, my mom, and now it happened to me. But it stops here, because healing is possible. My mother never liked to talk about her past. I’m not sure she ever healed from it, or maybe that was her way of protecting me from our family. Sometimes I’m still confused about everything that’s happened. My mom knew that my father was hurting me, but no one did anything. The abuse started when I was four. It later became sexual abuse. I felt alone and afraid, like there was no one safe I could talk to. I stayed quiet for years. I have anger at my mother for not doing anything, but also sympathy for her younger self. She was supposed to protect me and be someone I could trust, and I couldn’t. And my father, well we don’t talk anymore. He was a very bad man. I don’t like thinking about what happened, but I also don’t believe I should put it all in the past and suppress my emotions. I want to heal. I want to be free. I want to be happy. And I want to heal.