Keeping Your Sense of Self Intact The Empty Mirror The Ultimate Loss of Innocence Communicating / Silent Negotiating Different Worlds Dancing In The Dark Power Imbalance Your Naked Self Using Sex To Prove Something Finding A Teacher Bad Choices Based on Bad Information What Will Be Enhanced? The P Word Friends What the Shattered Self Chooses Family Secrets Where’s The Fun? A Big Deal Pleasing You / Pleasing Me Be True To You On a Whim Being Present

16 – Family Secrets

Emily’s Story

We moved again, to a small town, and here it was just me and eight boys around my age in my neighborhood. The town was way up in the middle of nowhere. There really wasn’t anybody to talk to about all of this stuff I had seen. I wouldn’t have known what to say. What would I say? Like, “This is scary.” Like, “What the hell’s going on?” Something along those lines. I just don’t remember ever being innocent about sex.