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<blockquote data-quote="change" data-source="post: 200749" data-attributes="member: 4808"><p>Yes. We had to. He sexually assaulted (violently) our daughter. It's been almost a year since it happened and he was arrested and out of our house immediately but it was no small feat. We've been socially isolated, judged, etc. Now that's it's officially over (legally) we feel some relief but the real healing is just beginning and I don't really see any light at the end of the tunnel sometimes for my daughter. I'm very worried about her future. She is 13 and has gone from being an identified "gifted and talented" student to being in Special Education. over the course of 3 years. She is also behaving very "clueless" and spacey. She basically has regressed in maturity and has shut-down in all aspects of her life. It's awful. She had so much potential before and was on scholarship at various fine arts academies. Now she might very likely lose her spot at the only one she's in now. She just seems to have lost all drive for anything. It's not the same for my husband and I. We've thrown ourselves into our work and into her and have dealt with the grief that way. Our careers have not suffered at all. I guess we are simply opposite personalities to her. Amazingly, we have not shut-down at all. (It doen't mean I haven't shut-down on the inside though in private.) I manage, but barely. I provide myself with a lot of distractors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="change, post: 200749, member: 4808"] Yes. We had to. He sexually assaulted (violently) our daughter. It's been almost a year since it happened and he was arrested and out of our house immediately but it was no small feat. We've been socially isolated, judged, etc. Now that's it's officially over (legally) we feel some relief but the real healing is just beginning and I don't really see any light at the end of the tunnel sometimes for my daughter. I'm very worried about her future. She is 13 and has gone from being an identified "gifted and talented" student to being in Special Education. over the course of 3 years. She is also behaving very "clueless" and spacey. She basically has regressed in maturity and has shut-down in all aspects of her life. It's awful. She had so much potential before and was on scholarship at various fine arts academies. Now she might very likely lose her spot at the only one she's in now. She just seems to have lost all drive for anything. It's not the same for my husband and I. We've thrown ourselves into our work and into her and have dealt with the grief that way. Our careers have not suffered at all. I guess we are simply opposite personalities to her. Amazingly, we have not shut-down at all. (It doen't mean I haven't shut-down on the inside though in private.) I manage, but barely. I provide myself with a lot of distractors. [/QUOTE]
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