Leslie Bennetts
Leslie Bennetts
adult affect child damaging
I think that having been abused when she was a child has had a really damaging affect on her adult relationships.
painful vulnerable
It's tremendously painful for her to dredge all of this up. It makes her feel very vulnerable and very exposed.
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It's rather an explosive chapter in her personal history. I think Teri has always been tormented about what happened with her uncle.
affected beyond burden carry heavy move rid trying
This was a very heavy burden to carry around for all these years. She's unloading it, getting rid of it. She's saying, 'This is who I am, this is how it affected me.' She's trying to move beyond it.
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The debacle with Mystery Man made the parallels between her romantic failures and the legacy of her sexual abuse seem too obvious to ignore.