My suppressed anger was the source of my shame, guilt and self-destructive behavior.
Renz, 8, right whose father is believed to be Norwegian, and his mother Nelcy, 30, with his two half-brothers at their home in the Hadrian 3 slum.
Yet at times my behavior was the opposite: super-responsible, perfectionist, mature, overachieving and ambitious -- to the point of near exhaustion.
A year ago, I was dating a cargo-pants-wearing computer programmer who constantly sported an oversized hoodie.
I knew something about me was wrong.
In most cases of abuse, there are two people who are abused -- the child who is now being abused and the parent who was abused as a child.