Intimacy is about safety. The peace you feel in someone's presence. The ease in their voice when you disagree. Someone's attentiveness when you are struggling. Their language when they speak about you, someone's curiosity to learn you and the surrender when it comes to you.
This woman got married young, her husband (23) got into an accident and suffered brain damage. A few years later she divorced him because she wanted a family but remained his legal Guardian and caretaker. Her, her current husband and their children love and take care of him 🥺😭
People in general don't know how hard it is to call out an abuser. Abusers usually defend each other. And have enablers that will defend any of their actions. They're really good at getting people to side with them. And usually have some kind of power within their communities.
On November 24, 2009, John Edward Jones tragically lost his life in the Nutty Putty cave following a harrowing 28-hour ordeal.
While exploring with his brother Josh, Jones accidentally entered a constricted tunnel, mistaking it for another tight passage known as the "Birth Canal." He became lodged upside-down in a 10 by 18 inches (25 by 46 cm) opening approximately 400 feet (120 m) from the cave's entrance.
Jones was trapped in a position resembling a hook, where any movement could cause severe injury due to the unnatural angles of his body.
A large team of rescuers responded, employing an advanced rope-and-pulley system in their efforts to save him. However, the operation faced a setback when a pulley malfunctioned during the extraction process. Jones eventually suffered cardiac arrest, a consequence of the prolonged stress on his body from being in an inverted and compressed position.
The rescuers, realizing the high risk involved, decided against attempting to recover his body. An agreement was reached between the landowner and Jones's family to seal the cave permanently, turning it into a memorial for Jones.
To secure the area, explosives were used to collapse the ceiling near where Jones was located, and the entrance was filled with concrete, ensuring no further access.
In December 1963, Rodney Fox was spearfishing off the southern coast of Australia when he was abruptly pulled under the water.
In a matter of moments, he suffered a punctured diaphragm, a lacerated lung, a pierced scapula, and an exposed abdomen, ribcage, spleen, and upper stomach. When he was finally rescued, his wetsuit had to be left on to keep his organs from falling out.
After undergoing four hours of complex surgery and receiving 462 stitches, Rodney Fox miraculously survived one of the most extreme non-lethal Great White Shark attacks ever recorded, going on to recount his astonishing survival story.
If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.
@HeemDice@BeardedPriest1@MattWallace888 I was thinking about her and the other driver too and how just a second sooner could have meant their lives were taken. This happened so fast .. I cannot fathom what I just saw