Can I have a private post? My ex is a child sex offender. You wouldn’t have kn…

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Can I have a private post?

My ex is a child sex offender. You wouldn’t have known it to look at him. Everyone thinks they look a certain way. They don’t. I certainly didn’t know- I had two children with him! He was very emotionally abusive and manipulative. He made me think it was because he had PTSD but when he was arrested for historic sex offences, he was interviewed by a psychiatrist and admitted that he loved that he was able to manipulate my emotions and was in charge of my self esteem and happiness and that he’d done it so well that I always thought I’d done something wrong and that his constant bad moods and nasty behaviour were my fault. He admitted cheating on me numerous times and that it was thrilling to go to one woman and then come home, treat me like crap and have me desperate to please him because I thought I’d done something wrong. He wasn’t crazy, by the way. Just nasty. So anyway, he went to prison and I have kept the children away from him and hope they forget all about him. It’s been years now, the youngest doesn’t remember him and the oldest has few recollections, thankfully- as he abused her too when I was at work. The memories she does have are horrible and discussing them and coming to terms with them is part of her weekly therapy sessions. Yesterday a relative visited and when my oldest smiled at them, they stared at them in shock and with a look of horror on their face. I didn’t know what was wrong and neither did my daughter. After she left the room, my relative said she looked just like her dad when she smiles and pressed her hand to her belly as if it had turned her stomach to see it.
I can’t get that out of my head. I don’t see it. But my daughter doesn’t deserve that reaction. What if other people see it and react the same? What if someone tells her she looks like her dad??
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