When a child grows up thinking abuse is what love from a parent looks like, you don’t know it’s so horrifically wrong until someone else tells you.
One of the women was a employee at work. The Board of Directors called me in. After questioning me about this they terminated my employment, effective immediately.
There’s some sort of hole in your heart that you're still trying to get filled. You wish your Dad had said some wonderful things.
When my mother was pregnant with me she decided she didn’t want to have me
I should have been killed. I should have been thrown into trees or paralyzed, but by the grace of God I was spared.
I’ve never in my life felt so wanted and so and so needed and so desirable.
"I really wanted to call him and say, “I’m sorry for what I had done.” Months earlier if you’d asked me I wouldn’t have admitted to have done anything wrong."
"I was mad at my dad for destroying my family. He had taught me homosexual behavior was a sin. He had instilled in me that homosexuality was wrong, and suddenly he was trying to get me to justify it."
"Sometimes a man is not grown at twenty-five, thirty, or just because he has a family or kids. He is grown when he takes responsibility as a man, you know."