How did my wife not go crazy?

My wife had the most horrible life of anyone I've ever known. She was:

Abused by her parents and taken away to live with her aunt and uncle

Raped by her step brother/ cousin and had to apologise for crying rape in front of her church (he later admitted to "consensual" sex with her when she was 12 and he was 17).

Ran away from home at 14 to get away from the abuse and met a man who forced her into prostitution

Got pregnant by a convicted child molester and had his baby when she was 15. Gave her baby up for adoption.

Got a boyfriend at 15 who during sex decided to forcibly fist her. Sex is still painful for her.

Got gang raped by several homeless men.

Got off the streets and found a boyfriend and married him. He was very abusive and did a prison term for giving their baby shaken baby syndrome.

While he was in prison, his mother introduced her to one of her friends, a used car salesman who was fucking 55 years old who made her have sex with his friends. Who would try to get their 17 year old daughter in law hooked up with an old man like that? And she (the mother in law) was a county jailer.

She then married a jobless loser who she supported for several years.

Then she married me and seems happy, though the past still haunts her through nightmares and insecurities.

How did she survive all of this? I don't think I could have made it through it all and come out as normal as her.

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  • lordofopinions

    Love her deeply and unconditionally. It will take time but things will get better for her.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    so does she have any symptoms from this past?

    flippin out over weird shit? ignorin important shit?

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    • She has the emotional scars that you would expect, though she hides them well. It doesn't affect her job performance but at home the memories get to her sometimes.

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

        well be good to her and understand that that shit can bubble up in odd ways

        i dont get why its so hard to be good to people

        like some people think im a jackass cause im contentions sometimes but the kinda shit yallre describin is just fuckin terrible and it baffles me why peoplere like that

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  • RoseIsabella

    I honestly don't know. I think it's a miracle that she's still alive and that she hasn't tried to kill any of the evil people who hurt her so terribly.

    This is why I hate sex offenders, they are human garbage and deserve the worst!

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    • This is what happens to kids on the streets. With no one to watch over and guide them, the predators come out of the woodwork. There are a lot of people in the world who would victimize kids if they could.

      If the people who took advantage of her were with me right now, it would be a slaughterfest. I promise it would. Her brother already got his hands on the guy who fisted her and beat him to a pulp. I would have taken it farther.

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      • nikkiclaire

        I hope, for her sake, you arent trying to be a savior. As a survivor of many atrocities my alarm bells went off.

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        • I'm not trying to be some savior. I just want her to not feel the pain of it all. And I want to punish the people who took advantage of her. That's all.

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          • nikkiclaire

            Living well is the best revenge.

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            • Only her step brother and the pedophile who got her pregnant served time. Both were convicted of molestation, but neither were arrested for what they did to her. The rest got away with it. Living well doesn't make them pay for what they did.

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