Everything here was supposed to disappear. Banned subreddits, deleted communities, cancelled blogs — much of what is archived here survives nowhere else.
It stays free — no paywall, no account — for the next man who comes looking, the way it was free for you.
I pay for the servers, the storage and the bandwidth myself. If you want this record still standing in ten years, become one of the people who keeps it online.
Support the archive
[–]spikcicleFDS Specialist 32 points33 points34 points (0 children) | Copy Link
[–]super_thinker_ 15 points16 points17 points (12 children) | Copy Link
[–]Downtown-Temporary52[S] 2 points3 points4 points (7 children) | Copy Link
[–]lovessourbeer1 points [recovered] (3 children) | Copy Link
As someone currently finalizing a divorce after an abusive relationship/marriage— idk if by ‘writing and sharing’ your experience, you mean sharing more stuff publicly to platforms like Medium. If that’s the case, I would be really, really careful. Posting anonymously to FDS? Great idea. Posting on Medium, presumably with your name attached... feels different. If you can do it without a part of you hoping that he and his friends will see it, then you’re superhuman.
The first comment on this post was a bit blunt and you do deserve more empathy, but for me, one of the hardest things to try and let go is the need for everyone to validate that my ex is abusive. My parents know, my close friends know, my therapist knows, but every attempt I’ve made to communicate with him or his family (who I was extremely close with) about it has backfired. I’m not trying to tell you what to do in any way, just noting that publicly blasting him or trying to ‘win’ in the court of public opinion will probably always hurt you more than him.
[–]Downtown-Temporary52[S] 1 point2 points3 points (2 children) | Copy Link
[–]43rdaccount 1 point2 points3 points (0 children) | Copy Link
[–]super_thinker_ 6 points7 points8 points (2 children) | Copy Link
[–]Downtown-Temporary52[S] 4 points5 points6 points (1 child) | Copy Link
[–]super_thinker_ 3 points4 points5 points (0 children) | Copy Link
[–]43rdaccount 0 points1 point2 points (3 children) | Copy Link
[–]super_thinker_ 2 points3 points4 points (1 child) | Copy Link
[–]43rdaccount 0 points1 point2 points (0 children) | Copy Link
[–]Downtown-Temporary52[S] 1 point2 points3 points (0 children) | Copy Link
[–]Downtown-Temporary52[S] -2 points-1 points0 points (0 children) | Copy Link