Comments on: Erin

By: Traci

Traci — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:52:12 +0000

Thank you for sharing your story. You are amazing, strong, courageous and inspiring. What you have done here is beautiful and will help other victims to speak out, thank you xo

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:25:05 +0000

Erin, you are an amazingly wonderful person. Sharing your story so openly and for talking about your survival and how you are so strong. I am a parent of a child who was sexually assaulted at the age of 4. She told me. I believed her. And we too faced down evil.

I can tell you that winning doesn’t take away the pain and the hurt and the anger and the anxiety or immediately lift you out of hell. Well, not from the mom perspective anyway. I hope my daughter will be strong like you. And one day when she writes her story that she, too, will say she faced down evil and survived.

Thank you are two very small words that carry with them so much that I am unable to articulate. I hope you know how much your story has impacted me.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:19:48 +0000

Erin, I just got over here and read this and I’m so proud of you for sharing. You’re so brave and so loved.

By: Arianne

Arianne — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:18:54 +0000

Sweet Erin, you are awe-inspiring. I hope with all of my heart that each time you share this story you feel justice, vindication. Because each time you do you prove how you have endured, persevered, overcome, grown more and more and more beautiful. You’re helping others with your story, your life, when the waters of violence could have washed you away. You’re my hero. xoxo

By: Danielle [Left of Lost]

Danielle [Left of Lost] — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:47:48 +0000

Oh honey. I am so very sorry. Thank you so much for sharing your story. You are a strong woman.

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:01:18 +0000

I understand. I understand the sudden knowledge that you’re NOT going to be able to leave. And then stop resisting. I understand a lot of this. I am glad the first response was your friend putting the blame where it belonged. The first person I told I’d been raped, said No, you were seduced.

I am proud of you fighting in the legal system, though I am not strong enough to face that. My rapist was also a father. I think only idiots will base rape on how much you do or do not bleed. As if.

I am thankful you joined our community by sharing your story. I hope to see you around.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:19:52 +0000

Erin,
I’ve been reading your blog for awhile and keep returning because there’s something seriously inspriring about the way you choose happiness despite what’s happened to you. Thank you for being brave.

By: erin from swonderland

erin from swonderland — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:07:56 +0000

Your story personally affects me in a way I can’t explain. Knowing it was THAT day (my 18th birthday, a very memorable day for me), knowing now the details of how totally powerless you were, that you knew the guy and trusted him and he, in exchange, wrecked you. All of it is a nightmare. You’re brave and lovely and I am so glad that there are women like you — women who do the talking for all of the other women who aren’t there yet.

By: Mendie

Mendie — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:03:42 +0000

I am numb just from reading, I can’t even begin to imagine how you live with this everyday. What a horrible man, and I’m sure he will get his karma for what he has done to you. But I am so glad to see that the glimmer of hope and love gets stronger everyday for the good left in the world and I’m so thankful that you kept a strong hold on that light when you needed it the most. Thank you for sharing and I know we all wish we could take it back for you. Hugs.

By: Georgie

Georgie — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:02:44 +0000

What a strong women you are Erin – your courage and beauty filter through the horror of your story and I imagine you standing tall.