DEAR DEIDRE: I CAN’T go to family parties, weddings or birthdays because my brother married his cousin and her father – my uncle – abused me.
I’m a woman of 27 and I was 11 when my uncle would get into my bed. It carried on until I started my periods.
My family knew what I’d been through but they told me I had to “get on with it” and although my mother didn’t see her brother-in-law for over two years, she was still meeting her sister behind my back.
I thought I could put things behind me and move on.
But I threw up when my brother told me he was marrying our cousin.
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They’re both 30 and that was one wedding I couldn’t avoid.
It’s brought everything back to me.
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DEIDRE SAYS: I’m not surprised. What a betrayal for your family to not realise your uncle’s a paedophile.
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