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“In healthy development, trust evolves. How do we decide whether to trust? We share a feeling with someone and watch their reaction; if the response feels safe, if it is caring, noncritical, non-abusive, the first step of trust has developed. For trust to grow, this positive response must become part of a relatively reliable pattern… Trust develops with consistency over time.”

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Book:Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women

Source: Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women

“Sometimes sex is the price that is exacted from her for warmth and attention. And if these sometimes wonderful moments of closeness must coexist with terrifying, confusing moments of abuse, she learns to see the two as parts of the same experience. She grows to think she wanted the incest itself. Because they’ve become enmeshed, she doesn’t know that it was love she wanted, not sex.”

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Book:Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women

Source: Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women