Oprah: If the abuser is any good you won't even know its happening...
(media.gab.com)
🤢 These people are sick! 🤮
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I'm no Oprah fan and I highly suspect she's up to no good. But in this clip, Oprah was talking about the complicated feelings that can arise when a child victim is molested by someone they are close to, who uses "love," attention, and affection, rather than violence and force, to sexually abuse them.
In some cases, there are parts of the relationship, including the physical relationship, that feel good. Many child victims have reported this. She was saying that's part of what makes this kind of abuse so devastating. These mixed emotions can cause the victim to experience immense shame, self-blame, and self-hatred. It can take decades for some victims of this kind of childhood sexual abuse to realize that they were not consenting participants in a relationship with someone who loved them, but innocent victims of a manipulative abuser.