- Nov 10, 2020
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- United States
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- Lutheran
- Marital Status
- Single
I joined this forum tonight to ask for help, but I haven't quite found the right thread or forum yet and I need to fall asleep soon. I think this means I just need to leave a message that I think might be validating and maybe helpful to at least some young women my age (and I'm sure it applies to women of other ages too):
Millennial women got violated--literally and figuratively--we were assaulted/bombarded by explicit material online since we were children and grew up in a generation with boys who experienced the same. We endured a barrage of mixed messages about our bodies, our worth and we were called "crazy"/socially-ostracized for not knowing how to cope with it. We wanted sacred intimacy--but for many of us, we were groomed to the point where we were not given a choice and we were violated. Jesus protected Mary Magdelene, don't you ever forget that.
I know what it feels like to feel lost in the culture.
I am too scared to date, and I am single because I refuse to sacrifice my safety/health/the safety-of-a-potential-child for a man who refuses to adhere to a wholesome covenant. And I just can't take dealing with dangerous situations/perverts anymore.
I know it's hard, I know it's confusing and scary and you are probably just sick and tired and looking for hope.
When I feel like that I cry to Jesus--alone, speaking out loud and in my thoughts; because the Lord protected the traumatized; The Lord saw the reality of trauma and helped good people who were traumatized in his life. I then remember I have a purpose, I have a path--and although this hardship is unfair and so painful and so lonely and so terrifying, God and the Lord has helped me survive--giving me tools and led me to other good people. Yes, morality is still here. Wholesomeness is still here...it seems rare...but it is still here. Never give up.
Millennial women got violated--literally and figuratively--we were assaulted/bombarded by explicit material online since we were children and grew up in a generation with boys who experienced the same. We endured a barrage of mixed messages about our bodies, our worth and we were called "crazy"/socially-ostracized for not knowing how to cope with it. We wanted sacred intimacy--but for many of us, we were groomed to the point where we were not given a choice and we were violated. Jesus protected Mary Magdelene, don't you ever forget that.
I know what it feels like to feel lost in the culture.
I am too scared to date, and I am single because I refuse to sacrifice my safety/health/the safety-of-a-potential-child for a man who refuses to adhere to a wholesome covenant. And I just can't take dealing with dangerous situations/perverts anymore.
I know it's hard, I know it's confusing and scary and you are probably just sick and tired and looking for hope.
When I feel like that I cry to Jesus--alone, speaking out loud and in my thoughts; because the Lord protected the traumatized; The Lord saw the reality of trauma and helped good people who were traumatized in his life. I then remember I have a purpose, I have a path--and although this hardship is unfair and so painful and so lonely and so terrifying, God and the Lord has helped me survive--giving me tools and led me to other good people. Yes, morality is still here. Wholesomeness is still here...it seems rare...but it is still here. Never give up.