Recently I went home with a kinky man after our first date. The experience phased in and out of being consensual throughout the night. I distinctly left his apartment feeling violated and I continued to feel violated for several days after.
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trauma
I'm so sick of my sex brain. I want a new one.
abuse
I feel awful. But feeling and doing something aren’t one in the same.
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Although the circumstances are very different, I have been feeling exactly like that trapped little girl with blood on her spelling test and fear of the unknowns in her heart.
ihtm contest
John taught me that not every guy was like my husband. It was the push I needed to really see that life could be normal again.
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Maria Menounos, who recently opened up about being sexually abused by two doctors, has faced criticism for not reporting the incidents to the authorities. Neither did I.
ihtm contest
What had been a complicated father-daughter relationship became an impossible one.
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In the seven years of my off-and-on affair with cutting, I've crossed several lines I promised I wouldn't.
family drama
They blamed me for tearing the family apart by calling 911 that night in August.
issues
This is a story about when music is survival.
abuse
The majority of the abuse was emotional. Sometimes I was a fucking slut, sometimes I was a stupid bitch whore, sometimes my friends were fat, ugly cunty bitches.
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There had been a couple of things about him that had always seemed “off.” But nothing could have made me suspect that he spent his spare time raping women and helping himself to the contents of their purses.
ihtm contest
What makes the situation doubly painful is that some people refuse to even acknowledge that domestic abuse exists “the other way around.”
abuse
The same people who suddenly care a whole lot about disability when it involves a reality television show are nowhere to be seen the rest of the time, and I can’t help but be just a teensy bit bitter about that.
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For women crossing the border, the threat of sexual assault including strip searches, unwanted physical contact, and rape is very real -- and they may fear reporting because of their undocumented status.
abuse
Everyone talks about the physical aspect of domestic abuse -- which is, of course, no small thing -- but there’s more to it. Conor left me not only physically battered, but nearly bankrupt.
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At first he only threw things. That graduated to blocking my path out of the house and threatening to harm our pets. I wasn't a shining example of civility, either.
