My family won’t talk about my molestation and I don’t think I can ever truly grow close to them because of it.

I was molested at a young age, by another member of the family. When I finally spoke out about it, our family was divided. I was taken with my mother to another state and haven’t been in close proximity with most of my fathers side of the family in over ten years.

Time has passed. Enough for me to heal. I’ve reached out to a close sister of mine before and talked about what truly happened after the incident.

She’s the only one in the family who I can actually talk about this with. Everyone else on my fathers side pretend it never happened and it’s definitely making trying to rehabilitate my relationship with my father and his side of the family very difficult mentally.

My sister has told me to let it go and said I won’t gain much by bringing it up.

I’m just lost. They’re still my family, I just wish I can finally bury this hatchet.