Should I Confront My Molester?

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Should I Confront My Molester? - Sarah was molested as a child by her father, and she would like to contact him and tell him how he has affected her. - Dr. Laura: "Letting something go is the only way to have inner peace." | 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.
0:11.0	Sarah, welcome to the program. Hello. Hello. What's up? So I, um, I called about eight years ago in regards to, um,
0:23.0	wanting to tell my sister about sexual abuse that happened when I was a kid. Um, so at the time, um, I hadn't told her all the details, but eight years later, I told her all the details now, and she recently gotten contact with my father and basically said her,
0:43.0	her piece and said her goodbyes not wanting him in her life anymore and that kind of, um, it made me want to go and reach out to him to tell him how I felt because I never got to do a proper victim impact statement and court.
0:59.0	I was very censored with what I was allowed to talk about and, um, my mom is a bit concerned because I want to tell him how I feel after all these years because he's a very unstable man.
1:13.0	So I just wanted to know, can I ask you a simple question? I think it's useless activity.
1:20.0	Really? I just, I don't feel like I ever got the closure to tell them that there you won't get closure. You won't get any closure. The only closure you have is letting go.
1:32.0	That's the only closure any of us has for any traumas mistreatments, betrayals. It's letting it go. We have no other means telling somebody who doesn't give a shit that you're upset.
1:47.0	It's just going to make you more upset. It's not going to end anything. It's going to make you feel worse because you're going to realize it all years later still doesn't care and it doesn't change what happened.
1:57.0	He didn't care then he doesn't care now.
2:00.0	Malusters don't care.
2:03.0	Now let me ask you a question. Yes, no question. Mother stay married to him after she knew he did this.
2:08.0	Oh God, no, I told her after they were divorced.
2:14.0	I told her after they were together. She didn't know. Sorry.
2:20.0	Why didn't you tell her?
2:23.0	I didn't know that it was sexual abuse until I became a parent when I was in my early 20s. I.
2:30.0	I'm sorry. What was it that he did that you didn't know was wrong that always happened in secret and you couldn't talk about it.
2:37.0	So tell me how you didn't know what happened that you didn't know was wrong.
2:42.0	I guess I just grew up with no what happened what happened what did he do?
2:52.0	He used to come into my bed at night and try to touch me.
2:57.0	There was a point where he actually.
3:00.0	Am I allowed to go into big detail?
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