Reply To: Life as the son of a Child Molester: My story

Hey, everyone, there’s something that has been bothering today. I went to a friend’s aufruf shabbos morning to say mazal tov, and on the way home I just was feeling so upset. And what made me even more upset was that it was because of jealousy. NOT because he’s getting married…rather, because he had a shul where he was accepted and cared about, where everyone wished him mazal tov, where everyone loves his father, where he gets respect and love for just being himself. And on the walk home, I couldn’t help thinking “I don’t have a shul here where I would even have an aufruf. I don’t feel accepted here by anyone. I don’t have a father who is loved. Who would even wish me a mazal tov?” And it made me so upset that I was being so affected by jealousy that much. I’m still upset about it. I don’t what I can do to stop.