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Chapter 1: How did the abuse start and what were the early signs?
My name is and I was molested by my half brother. I really just want to come on here and share my story and hope people don't feel alone if they go through something similar. So my parents have really been my rock throughout all of this. They are so supportive and I wouldn't have been able to get through any of this without them. So just want to give them a shout out.
My dad was previously married and had a child in 1992. His name was Alex. My dad and his ex-wife divorced in 1997 and my parents got married in 2002. I was born in 2004. My little brother was born in 2005. We're Irish twins, so we're exactly a year apart.
Wow.
Chapter 2: What led to the decision to report the abuse to the police?
We have the same birthday, which is pretty cool.
That's awesome. And then, so your dad had a kid in his first marriage? Yes. Okay, and that's going to be the half-brother. Yes. Got it.
I grew up in a... Loving home, lots of neighborhood kids. We would always be outside riding around. Nothing special, just ordinary. And then in 2013, we moved from a one-story house to a two-story house just a couple blocks away. And that's whenever things really changed.
Chapter 3: How did the family cope with the aftermath of the brother's suicide?
Was your half-brother living with you guys the whole time? Yes. Okay. He... permanently lived with us. He would visit his mom, but he lived with us throughout his whole life. So whenever we moved, he moved with us and I was excited to move into a new house, but I was also scared.
Chapter 4: What challenges did the guest face in her faith after the abuse?
And so one of the first couple nights I was scared to sleep in my new room by myself. I was nine years old. And so I decided to sleep with my half brother, Alex, in his room. And And in the middle of the night, I remember waking up at 3am and he was molesting me. And I was just, I thought it was a dream at first.
Chapter 5: How did therapy play a role in the healing process?
I didn't think it was real. And I just remember getting up and I ran out of the room into my room and I was really confused. I didn't know what had just happened to this day. I still wish I just would have ran downstairs, but I just went to my room. I fell asleep and I was just kind of in a daze. I don't really remember most of it. And then
Chapter 6: What impact did the guest's story have on other victims coming forward?
A couple of nights later, I slept in his room again because I was just I thought maybe it was a dream. I don't I don't really know. And so I went in there and I slept in there again and I woke up to him molesting me again. And I knew it was wrong. I just was too scared to tell my parents.
Chapter 7: How did the guest navigate relationships after experiencing trauma?
Yeah. And I feel like too, like you said, you don't really know what it is. Yeah. You know? I was very confused. And nothing ever happened prior to that that you remember? No.
Chapter 8: What are the ongoing struggles and coping mechanisms for the family now?
No.
He was 21 and I was nine.
So there was a big age gap. Yes. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I kept it a secret for eight years. I...
didn't tell my parents I remember telling a couple friends but I was like I'm not really sure though like I think this happened but and they were all supportive and urged me to tell my parents but it just wasn't the right time I remember pacing my room like back and forth like should I go downstairs and tell them right now like what are they gonna think what's gonna happen I was I
so scared and i'm an anxious person person already it's like how do you talk about that you know and you know i think too it's like you probably know within yourself that the aftermath of telling something like that there's going to be a shift you know it's more than just going downstairs and telling your parents what happened exactly he
continued to live with us after that i was never molested again but there would be times where he would brush up against me or he would just there was one time he like messaged me at 3am just like hi and just odd things i had always sworn that i was never going to go to his apartment Because at that point, he had moved out. He got his own apartment.
And I was just like, I'm never going over there. Like, I don't want to go over there. And my parents would always, like, urge me. They're like, go spend time with him. Like, you should go over there. And at one point, I did. And we were not staying the night. We were just going over there for the night. And we were watching a movie. And he...
was in the middle of my little brother and i and he was touching himself while the movie was playing and i was just like what is he doing like and then i realized and i was just so uncomfortable and i was like this is why i have always told myself i'm never coming over here yeah and And I just had that gut feeling, but I ended up going home and I didn't say anything about it.
And then in 2015, my mom got pregnant and my little sister was born. We just continued with life. My brother Alex went to school for criminal justice. He wanted to be a police officer. We now know that the reason why he did not become a police officer is because you have to take a lie detector test, and he did not pass that lie detector test.
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