After The Threat Is Gone
On survival, moral honesty, and what changes when an abuser can no longer reach you.
"I shared this post on the magazine, Know Thyself, Heal Thyself. It's about the death of my abuser, and how that made me feel. Maybe now I can finally leave what happened thirty-one years ago behind me."
Three days before the end of 2025, I learned that the man who had abused me in 1994 had died.
His death wasn’t peaceful. Following a night at a bar, he came home drunk, fell…
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