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Sexual Assault Survivors Support

hrmjustin

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5. It is so sad how people can react the wrong way even thought they love us.

Reply to angstlessk (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 09:23 PM

Mar 2013

I decided not to tell my mother for several years after. I just could not face her and tell her that. I came out at 15 and it happened to me in senior year. I had a nervous breakdown but I refused to tell my mother. I told my older brother and he wanted to kill him but I was able to talk him out of that.
We did not choose this.

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Thank you for this group...I hope I can post...I started to then chickened out.. [View all] angstlessk Mar 2013 OP

DU wants this to be a place of healing, comfort, and safety. hrmjustin Mar 2013 #1

I was raped when I was 11 and there were many things I did that were wrong angstlessk Mar 2013 #3

It is so sad how people can react the wrong way even thought they love us. hrmjustin Mar 2013 #5

I am sorry for your trauma.. angstlessk Mar 2013 #7

Well they guy who did it passed away in his late 20's because in his earlier 20's he contracted hrmjustin Mar 2013 #8

WOW you are a kind person to forgive him angstlessk Mar 2013 #9

You can forgive as a part of your healing process. hrmjustin Mar 2013 #10

Unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of choice about my mother - Ms. Toad Mar 2013 #11

I imagine it is like a pit in your stomach when you are on the phone sometimes. hrmjustin Mar 2013 #12

More that I avoid making phone calls thatare likely to be emotional Ms. Toad Mar 2013 #16

I would say that is the same as my mother saying 'wash that filth off of your body' angstlessk Mar 2013 #13

Yes. Ms. Toad Mar 2013 #17

Well I strongly support people subjected to the crime of sexual abuse in any form MichiganVote Mar 2013 #2

Take your time.. one_voice Mar 2013 #4

My rape did not just happen angstlessk Mar 2013 #14

There's no pressure. LadyHawkAZ Mar 2013 #6

I want to tell my story..but with all the background it entails angstlessk Mar 2013 #15

it took me a long time to get the courage to post olddots Apr 2013 #18

Hi olddots! Sissyk Apr 2013 #19

Your thread is still here... one_voice Apr 2013 #20