I suppose I should be a bit more specific.

It isn't my intent to perpetuate some any victim mentality. Anyone that knows me best would know it's hardly my style. I would, however, appreciate a bit of understanding that my fear isn't something based on something amorphous, it is something real and something that has already happened to me.

What I would like is to hear some shared experience, but, more importantly, discuss manners of addressing and overcoming this fear. I can't shake the sense that in re-opening that door, I will have things with which I will have to deal.

Considering my history and experience, I'd like know the ways someone thinks I should prepare.

P.S.: Sorry, Coming2, I wrote this before you posted! Thank you!!