Goodbye DUP

 

It’s been almost 8 years since I joined DU.

It’s been almost 8 years since I left my abusive ex-husband.

I had been living with him for 8 years before finding this site.

Finding DU was finding my voice, a voice that had been silenced for so long. I was being tortured, suffering, suicidal, and on the verge of relapsing with self-harm.

The community here saw my pain bleeding onto the page, and you came to support and uplift me. More than that, you all saw my potential, and encouraged me to overcome great feats.

There will never be another place quite like DU. It is a community of unique souls coming together from across the world. In real life, I have no personal friends. I have no community.

The site closing feels like my voice is being taken away. My safe haven that rescued me from years of torment. The people on DU literally saved my life more than once.

I’m beyond heartbroken that my online home is shutting its doors. I processed so many traumas here through poetry, and tried my best to uplift others who felt that similar human pain.

Now, anytime I get on DU I am driven to sobbing fits, knowing it is coming to an abrupt end. I will never forget this chapter of my life, as it comes to a close.

Goodbye DUP.


Forever Yours,

nightbirdblue

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