Reflections on abuse and closed communities

Observations

"Tan told Annie’s colleague that she was “fully OK", that she was acting “like a child", and that she tended to “exaggerate over small issues”. - An extract from a news article on a legal abuse case.

Also recently read a TGC article about a documentary on Hasidic Jews' insular community - and the people who left these closed cultures with pain and trauma.

Reflections

From a psychological perspective, it is another case of denying feelings, pretending things are fine, which slows progression to a true peaceful solution.

Used to wonder why people did not just leave or do the right thing. Now I appreciate how limited their emotional/mental capacity must have been. Both abuser and victim. 

Shall remember what God has inspired plenty of people to do despite sin. Schools and churches were set up to educate people, to stem sin and ignorance and pain.