Hi Readers,

You may find me posting intermittently here as a close friend of Joe and someone who likes to think they know him quite well. I chat with Joe every single day on the phone and love him to bits. Each and everyday I listen to him breaking his heart that he cannot save the world. Every ounce of Joe’s being wants to be able to help everybody but as I am sure the readers here will understand this is just impossible.

I’d like to make a couple of points to the readers of the Joe Peters website; firstly signing the guestbook- you do not have to provide your email address. Leaving your email address means that people can, if they choose to contact you directly via the email address you have submitted in your guestbook entry. My suggestion is don’t leave your email address unless you are willing for others to contact you. Anybody and everybody who reads this web site can see your email address.

Secondly, please do not leave personal contact information on the website; again with the world wide web being available to anybody with an internet connection you are in danger of being contacted by people who you may not wish to contact you.

The Joe Peters website is a work in progress; the aim of the site when it was originally set up was for Joe to be able to help children but Joe is just one man; a man who has suffered terrible abuse as a child and he physically cannot help everybody. Until the charitable donations and funding for the Foundation of Survivors start coming through the only person who is answering emails and trying to help the children who post here and email him daily is Joe.

As someone who has suffered abuse myself I can relate to how Joe feels and why he continues to try and help those in a similar situation to himself but my advice as his friend has been that he cannot physically help everybody.

Anyone who has ever suffered abuse knows that this is something you carry through life with you; it never goes away but with the love and support of a good family, supportive wife (husband for me) and loving children you start to heal.

My opinion, as Joe’s friend, is that he doesn’t heal as well as he should because by dealing with the emails and comments he is constantly picking at the scab, excuse the comparison.

Do I sound heartless in my wording? That isn’t my intention at all, I simply want to help and support a man who has my utmost respect and love and wanted to try and verbalise how Joe is feeling.

Over the next few days we, Joe and I, with the help of his adorable wife will be putting together a post of useful contact numbers and email addresses for people that do need help and support whether it be that they are suffering at the hands of an abuser now or need some support in dealing with abuse suffered in their youngers years.

For now though, as a close friend of Joe, I would ask that you remember he is just one man, a man with a heart of gold and a million good intentions but one that is still trying to heal his own pain as well as succeed in his aims for the Foundation of Survivors.

Love to you all

Nickie

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