Category: Healing

Saying goodbye in an open letter using self-reflective writing helps you acknowledge the ill-treatment endured, process the consequences, and overcome the abuse victim identity. This is my open goodbye letter.

Dear Abuse Victim,

Unfortunately, you suffered ill-treatment as a child and grew up in a dysfunctional family without the parental and spiritual guidance to live an abundant life.

The father who was supposed to provide and protect violated you, and the mother who was supposed to nurture and love neglected you.

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I wrote this sincere “Open Letter to Parents” back in 2014. I was putting the broken pieces (called life) back together at the time. I was healing emotionally from child abuse and domestic violence and spiritually from years of living in darkness with fear.

Dear Parents,

I’m mad as Hell at you!

The life you prepared me for was filled with turmoil, anguish, and pain.

It sucked!

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Parental rejection is difficult for a child to understand, and the effects of a parent’s rejection can be long-term. Perhaps my story will help others to understand their own parent’s rejection.

My Story of Parental Rejection

As a child and young adult, I could never understand why my mother rejected me and never showed her love towards me. She always seemed distant, callous, and cold-hearted.

She locked us children out of the house until late afternoon in the summer months. Her children were a bother to her.

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