Originally Posted by Lara

OMG

I just re-read this whole thread over and over and over trying to understand it and some things that were written and you know what?

I don't know that it was a wall. I think it was secrecy. Trying to keep secret painful things from family.

I don't think they knew. I imagine or think it must have been shocking to them to find out how he'd been thinking all those years.

PTer's daughter was/is always a friend of mine. She's the most amazing woman. We met in person in the USA and she's a Long lost but much loved contact.

I think it was me that accidentally tipped her off to her father's posts at SOS. She had asked me how I knew her father and I knew her father because he'd visited my home forum and suggested I might find some friends at SOS... which thankfully I did. I didn't know she had no idea he posted there. It may have been very shocking to her.

She had wondered how I knew her father. I knew him because I stood side-by-side with him on a number of times in that original old forum where people were being discriminated against because of certain conditions. I raised my voice with him to try to help other people understand more about the particular conditions. I remember this so well.

I recall PTer coming to my home chat/ not forum at the old mgh place and saying he was going forever, (I remember it was late at night my time in au and I was talking with robyn from Victoria and she wondered what was going on. I was so sad. He said that I wouldn't talk to him again and that was that. We talked/chatted in real-time and then he was gone. forever.

Oh my...