My cousin has changed her story with me and I am so confused. After the initial call where she agreed with the sex abuse

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22. debm55, I may be misreading your post. . .

. . . But it seems to me that at least part of the pain is being blindsided by your cousin. -----That old idea of no good deed goes unpunished.

There is little that you can do when somebody disappoints you. But you can see from all of the words of support, that it really wasn't you. It was the cousin who behaved poorly. You did a nice thing, and your cousin was judgmental and unsupportive.

I have to tell myself quite often don't let someone else being evil stop me (myself) from being good. Evil may be too loaded of a term. I certainly can't call your cousin evil. But I can and do recognize that this cousin was at best thoughtless and could be considered manipulative.