My Teen Years Were Marked By Abuse

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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My Teen Years Were Marked By Abuse - Bob says he was a confused teenager from a broken home when he was sexually abused by an older man, and he wonders if therapy might help him overcome his anger. - Dr. Laura: "Some victims incorrectly believe they allowed the abuse to happen." - Has therapy ever helped you achieve your goals? Email me your thoughts at: drlaura@drlaura.com | To participate on the radio program; call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment - https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11. Bob welcome to the program.
0:13.5	Hey, Dr. Laura, how are you? Good. What can I do for you?
0:19.0	I'm just need your advice on something. Let me give you a little background about me. I'm 35 years old.
0:28.0	When I was 15, I feel like I was sexually taken advantage of.
0:34.0	I married man and it lasted from 15 to 21 when I found myself I just left and moved to Atlanta and just started my life over.
0:50.0	How can I put it? Yeah, I just started my life over.
0:56.0	So you got killed in a car wreck a year after I moved there. My problem is now I met and I've been selling like this for about eight years.
1:09.0	I keep it to myself.
1:11.0	Well, sir, we need to look at another part of this.
1:15.0	Okay.
1:16.0	And that you were an adult still having sex with him.
1:20.0	He didn't have any control over you at that. You said till 21.
1:26.0	Unless you were locked in a basement of his house and he fed you through a little square in the window.
1:32.0	You were participatory at that point.
1:35.0	So sometimes when we're angry with ourselves, we try to scapegoat it.
1:40.0	And what you really need to take time to look at is what made you need his attention.
1:49.0	Okay.
1:52.0	I didn't really have a father figure in the house.
1:56.0	I had my mom love my mom to death. Great ladies.
2:00.0	She was a Christian and my daddy wasn't.
2:03.0	And so I think I looked at him as a dad figure too.
2:09.0	You know, I'm 15.
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