The sexologist Joan Nelson had a similar experience with her mother’s reaction to learning of an incestuous relationship she was involved in when she was eight. “When I was a child I experienced an ongoing incestuous relationship that seemed to me to be caring and beneficial in nature. There were love and healthy self-actualization in what I perceived to be a safe environment. I remember it as perhaps the happiest period of my life. Suddenly one day I discerned from playground talk at school that what I was doing might be ‘bad.’ Fearing that I might, indeed, be a ‘bad’ person, I went to my mother for reassurance. The ensuing traumatic incidents of that day inaugurated a 30-year period of psychological and emotional dysfunction that reduced family communication to mere utilitarian process and established severe limits on my subsequent developmental journey.” She related this by way of full disclosure in the introduction to her paper “The Impact of Incest: Factors in Self-Evaluation.”
The sexologist Joan Nelson had a similar experience with her mother’s reaction to learning of an incestuous relationship she was involved in when she was eight. “When I was a child I experienced an ongoing incestuous relationship that seemed to me to be caring and beneficial in nature. There were love and healthy self-actualization in what I perceived to be a safe environment. I remember it as perhaps the happiest period of my life. Suddenly one day I discerned from playground talk at school that what I was doing might be ‘bad.’ Fearing that I might, indeed, be a ‘bad’ person, I went to my mother for reassurance. The ensuing traumatic incidents of that day inaugurated a 30-year period of psychological and emotional dysfunction that reduced family communication to mere utilitarian process and established severe limits on my subsequent developmental journey.” She related this by way of full disclosure in the introduction to her paper “The Impact of Incest: Factors in Self-Evaluation.”
There’s loads and loads of similar stories I’ve heard or seen that people have compiled over the years. Good example.