What has caused you to question the truths you know in your own heart?

My father, mother, sister and brother all trusted the pedophile to tell me bed time stories and put me to bed. In those days the threat of pedophilia wasn’t common knowledge and I don’t think it even occurred to them not to trust him. It’s very weird to have all the closest adults in your life tell you how wonderful this other adult is, whom you’re pretty sure is doing something he shouldn’t. But my feeble attempts to ask questions got nowhere. He was a trusted adult. What he was doing must be ok, even if it didn’t feel right. This was probably my first experience of questioning what I knew in my heart. My natural way of dealing with things was to put the topic in my mind on hold until I could know more. Sometimes this method can be quite wise. In this instance I, of course, didn’t know it sort of meant putting myself on hold for decades. Luckily, events occurred that reduced this man’s influence to every couple of years.