IHTM CONTESTANT - xoJane

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Had Pinworms in My Vagina

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:00:00 -0400

When I wiped, I saw a single white worm on the toilet paper. Like any sane person would do, I freaked out, sobbing hysterically at 5 am.

It Happened to Me Contest Entry: I Miscarried My Ex-Boyfriend's Baby

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:00:00 -0400

He broke up with me the week before Christmas. I spent the next week holed up in bed, eating éclairs and watching Grey’s Anatomy. If I had been in a better state, I might have noticed I had missed my period.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Work At A Living History Museum

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:30:00 -0400

My favorite part of my internships hasn’t been the costumes, although I wish I could wear most of them every day. It’s the moments when I start talking to a little kid, and I see them become transfixed.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Dad Is A Pedophile And It's Ruining My Wedding

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:00:00 -0400

What had been a complicated father-daughter relationship became an impossible one.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Boyfriend Supports Me Financially And I Feel Like A Bad Feminist Because Of It

IHTM CONTESTANT — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:30:00 -0400

Sylvain isn’t a sugar daddy or some wealthy, businessman dude. He is a normal guy in his late 20s who works in an office.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Was Sexually Abused By Another Child

IHTM CONTESTANT — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:00:00 -0400

For god’s sake, my neighbor was five when it began, the same age I was. He didn’t know what he was doing. It certainly couldn’t have been abuse.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Dated A Porn Addict

IHTM CONTESTANT — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:00:00 -0400

I guess I thought that a porn addict would be into sex. Little did I know that it is often impossible for porn addicts to achieve orgasm during real-life sex.

It Happened to Me Contest Entry: I Am a Birthmother Who Reunited With Her Daughter

IHTM CONTESTANT — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:30:00 -0400

MySpace was the social media site of the time, and I thought maybe she had one. I began one evening to look for all the 16-year-old Nicoles in a 50 mile radius of where I was from

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I'm The Adult Child Of An Alcoholic

IHTM CONTESTANT — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:30:00 -0400

Even though the alcoholic in my life has been gone for years, the disease still lingers. I’ve locked it out of the house and it sits on the front porch waiting patiently to sneak back in.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Mom's Traumatic Brain Injury Was Published By Sassy And Not Much Has Changed

IHTM CONTESTANT — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:00:00 -0400

When I was 24 years old, Sassy magazine published my “It Happened to Me” about me and my mother’s Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Mom’s injury was relatively recent and I truly believed that we all would learn from it.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Mother Killed Herself Four Years Ago -- And Maybe She Did The Right Thing

IHTM CONTESTANT — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:00:00 -0400

She killed herself in 2008, but I think she would have done it a lot sooner, were it not for her unabashed love for me.

It Happened to Me Contest Entry: I’m A Real Housewife Of Beverly Hills

IHTM CONTESTANT — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:30:00 -0400

Technically I am “Real Unemployed Stay at Home Girlfriend of Beverly Hills” but whatever.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Had Hyperemesis Gravidarum

IHTM CONTESTANT — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:00:00 -0400

I threw up for three straight weeks. Multiple times a day. All day. Every day.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Saved Myself From Suicide, But I Couldn’t Save My Brother

IHTM CONTESTANT — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:00:00 -0400

I think about my brother all the time, question how I could have acted differently, what I could have done. Was I too selfish?

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Was In An Abusive Relationship With My Best Friend

IHTM CONTESTANT — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:30:00 -0400

We joked that we didn’t have time to have relationships with guys because we were too busy dating each other.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Was Roofied, But No One Touched Me

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:00:00 -0500

It started off as a perfectly normal Saturday night, until I was sweetly kidnapped by southern eccentrics, drugged, and given a free sex show until I threw up.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Called Off My Wedding

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:30:00 -0500

I was over the wedding before I was over getting married, although that would follow soon after, the way one begins scraping off too-sweet icing before throwing away an unfinished piece of cake.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Husband Went To Prison And It Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:00:00 -0500

Sometimes I think of how life would be if that day in September were just a horrible nightmare, and you know what? I don't want that life.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Father Was A Child Molester

IHTM CONTESTANT — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:00:00 -0500

I've wrestled with the idea of that horrible person being my father, someone who, for the first part of my life, made sure we had a home, food and even vacations.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Affair With A Devout Christian Led To A Mental Breakdown But I’m Slowly Getting Better

IHTM CONTESTANT — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:30:00 -0500

No doubt he represents himself as Mr. Squeaky Clean Role Model to the parishioners in his wholesome Midwest hometown. They just don’t know he’s really a kinky sex maniac who’s totally into coveting thy neighbor’s wife.