From One Survivor to Another

Survivor Vocabulary #12: Sorry

[trigger warning: self-blame, abuse, sexual abuse]

A word that survivors of abuse or sexual abuse tend to overuse. For many of us, saying Sorry (even when we hadn’t done anything wrong) was one of the only ways we could appease our abuser(s). For others, saying Sorry for even the smallest of mistakes (or non-mistakes) is a reflection of how much we dislike and blame ourselves for what happened. When Sorry is used so often with our friends and loved ones, it shows how much we want to hold onto that relationship; because some of our very first relationships with others were abusive or manipulative, we cling onto the ones that aren’t.

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