Name: Anonymous 2007-12-08 20:54
Hey lounge, I found no help at /b/ ( surprising no ? ). Since my thread has no need for images, this should work fine.
My current girlfriend whom I've been seeing for 2 months now has told me some very bad and depressing things. Some I know are true, others a little less believable. The problem though is that, how do I respond to stuff like this ?
When she was in the 5th grade she took a bus from her rural house to a urban inner city to hang out with some friends. Her parents didn't know, and still don't. Once getting off the bus she waited she for quite a bit for her older friend to pick her up. While waiting a man came and attempted to abduct and rape her. He was only stopped by the older friend showing up. The older friend is dead now due to OD. This leaves only her, the man who did it, and now me knowing this.
How do I respond to this ? How do i NOT stop thinking about it ? Another example.
When she was younger she had this black boyfriend named rick. Her parents did not know about this either. I know very little about this subject, all I know is Rick was abusive, and she knew it, but it sounded as if she stayed for a while, knowing she was in a bad relationship.
And i know that she's been in a lot of short term bad relationships, from the sound of it. But how can so much be wrong in her life like this ? Here's the basics of everything else she's told me.
Drug Use. Family Issuses ( Not abuse from what I know ). Depression. No motivation anymore to succeed.
I have no idea how to cope with this. I feel like I'm one of the only good things to happen to her. I treat her like a princess, whatever she wants to do, we do. Whatever she wants, she gets.
Am I paranoid ?
My current girlfriend whom I've been seeing for 2 months now has told me some very bad and depressing things. Some I know are true, others a little less believable. The problem though is that, how do I respond to stuff like this ?
When she was in the 5th grade she took a bus from her rural house to a urban inner city to hang out with some friends. Her parents didn't know, and still don't. Once getting off the bus she waited she for quite a bit for her older friend to pick her up. While waiting a man came and attempted to abduct and rape her. He was only stopped by the older friend showing up. The older friend is dead now due to OD. This leaves only her, the man who did it, and now me knowing this.
How do I respond to this ? How do i NOT stop thinking about it ? Another example.
When she was younger she had this black boyfriend named rick. Her parents did not know about this either. I know very little about this subject, all I know is Rick was abusive, and she knew it, but it sounded as if she stayed for a while, knowing she was in a bad relationship.
And i know that she's been in a lot of short term bad relationships, from the sound of it. But how can so much be wrong in her life like this ? Here's the basics of everything else she's told me.
Drug Use. Family Issuses ( Not abuse from what I know ). Depression. No motivation anymore to succeed.
I have no idea how to cope with this. I feel like I'm one of the only good things to happen to her. I treat her like a princess, whatever she wants to do, we do. Whatever she wants, she gets.
Am I paranoid ?