Comment by shxtou on Sign - Chapter 29

since we're giving out their crush stories or tragic stories...bi*** ill give both. so, me and my boyfriend have been dating for 3 years now - close to 4. Im so thankful for him in so many ways. He's always there for me, as am i for him. He didn't blame me when i told him what my adoptive dad and uncle did to me, both separate and together. It caused me to have a sh problem that I still have. (i'm 2 years clean - cutting wise... i still sometimes bite myself, put my hands under super hot water, and snap a rubber band around my wrist. I don't know why. it's habit. And when I'm sad, it gets worse.) It started before I even hit the double digits, and only stopped when I was 15 years old. They said it was because I looked like a girl, and I deserved it. Nobody believed me. Well, actually, they did, but they didn't care. My adoptive mom said that I was 'tempting' them, and she hated me for 'sleeping with her husband'.  When I told my boyfriend, i was still being antaganized by that adoptive family. I'm japanese and was born in canada, and when my parents passed 4 years after i was born, I was then moved from house to house, but eventually i was adopted by this white family in a white neighborhood, and i was treated like sh** for my entire life UNTIL i met my boyfriend. He convinced me to cut off that family, and I'm so glad I did. life feels so much better without someone telling me 'it was my fault'. Everything is a lot better now, even though I still get traumatized, because it only stopped 8 years ago. it hasn't even been 10 years yet. I still get flashbacks and cry, but he's there for me everytime, and he doesn't make me feel like sh** for expressing myself. I'm so thankful for him, because without him, I'd be dead, I'd tried twice before. So yes, without him, I never would have found out I was actually gay, and I would have been in denial about everything about myself. Thank you to my boyfriend for always being there for me.