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I Will Start With The First One I Recall ...

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I was 19, I was a virgin, my boy friend of 8 months dumped me in January, he just disappeared, went to a party for saint pattys day with my best friend and some guys from school, got drunk, snuck into a bar, her boy friend planned to pick all of us up later, but I saw my ex, got upset.

Made out with a football player, best friends bf came to get us, took football player with us, my friend was friends with him, he was a college kid just like us, friend's boy friend too us to his parents house, passed out in a bed, in a house I had been to many times, in a bed I had slept in before, my best friend in a room across the hall.

I was asleep, I don't know when I woke up, that part I can't remember, the football player, he had crawled in bed with me, I didn't know, or I don't remember knowing, I came to, he was on top of me, he was inside of me, I told him to stop, he told me I would like it, I still said no.

Friends boy friend walks in, the guy stops and looks at him, i don't know why, I jump up and run, I am naked, I hide in the bathroom, my friend comes to talk to me, says she talked to him, says he's sorry, he wants to talk.

Her and her boy friend go to bed, I go to basement, he says sorry, sort of, the apology ended like this "the worst part about this is I basically just ruined any chance I had with your friend", nice apology.

I lay down on the couch, I just want to sleep, I feel worthless, he goes in bathroom, he comes out mad, walks over to me and says he needs help finishing, I told him not to touch me.

He grabs my arm and picks me up, pulls me in the bathroom, he tries kissing me, I tell him I'm not touching him, he tells me to just take off my shirt so he can look at me, I'm scared, I listen, I remember having my back up against the door, he touches me while he touches himself, I can't recall much of how long that lasted, or what all he did, but I will never forget that bathroom, the color, the light, the exact placing of everything.

For some reason after that I begged him to hold me, I scrunched up next to him on the couch, lay there awake, him barely touching me now, I may have fallen asleep, I wake up on the floor.

People said its cause I was drunk, they said it was no big deal, they walked up to me in the dorms and said "hey, I heard you and ___ got it on this weekend."

Was I still considered a virgin? I didn't know, I tried to think they were right, that I "got it on", I didn't, they were wrong.

Started sleeping around, can't connect with anyone, keep dumping nice guys for assholes, I want assholes to respect me, it's a vicious cycle.

To be continued ...
 
Congratulations on starting your diary. I know that's awfully tough to do. Truly. Good job. :hug:

What horror to wake up to such a living nightmare. What horrible things that abuser did!

It doesn't matter that you were drunk. You did give him permission to do the things he did, and THAT is the only fact that matters. No consent = rape, plain and simple.

Rape is NOT sex. Rape is violence. Virginity is lost through sex, not through violence.

You protected yourself the best you could. Your actions were 100% human. Begging him to hold you afterwards because you were reeling in pain doesn't mean you liked his violence.

It's human to have trouble connecting to good people after going through violence like that. I'm glad you're in this forum, and I hope you're getting good help.
 
Thank you for the comment @The One Who Knocks! I appreciate the support. I am very much enjoying all I get out of this site!

The real trauma feeling comes from not being able to connect with anyone. To think back and not feel like I can tell a story about my "first time", and not as much that I can't tell it, but I don't enjoy it. That feeling has lead me to more bad decisions, more trauma, and more heart break.

I have always hated how everyone disregarded what happened as nothing, as normal. I think that in itself says a lot about youth culture in general now days, that it is okay to have sex with someone for one night, with someone you have never met before and do not care to ever see again. How should that be okay?
 
I was raped 20 years ago, while I was in college by an acquaintance. I had been drinking, invited him to my room but not for sex. The next night I stayed up all night, begging God to take me home. I felt as if I died, no man would ever want me and life was over. The victim" advocate" I met with discouraged me from reporting to police, said he said/ she said and that he was a popular frat boy, no one would believe me. Since then, I've been in and out of therapy and found a true victim advocate who helped me find hope.

Today, I've been married for 15 years, I'm a mother and a victim advocate. There is always hope, never give up on yourself. Your job was to survive the attack, which you did.
 
Sounds like you had a very similar situation to me @shrinkingviolet. It was almost more frustrating to know that he was just walking around on campus like everyone else, and me not feeling like he even knew what he did to me. I eventually transferred schools, not because of him, to get into a program I wanted, and made new friends. Then a couple years later at a nye party with my new friends, he showed up, him and I had a mutual friend! That's how regular he seems to everyone in the world but me. That idea used to upset me, now it just feels weird knowing he is out in the world somewhere, maybe with a girlfriend or family of his own, just existing without knowing that night changed me forever and the course the the next 7 years of my life. It altered good relationships in to bad ones and bad ones into good ones in my head, while I was sleeping around I got pregnant, didn't go through with it, and in an attempt to feel "normal" landed in an emotionally abusive rationship. I will embarrassingly admit from time to time I wonder if my attacker remembers me, thinks of me, would know my face if he saw me? Somehow, dispite all that though, I've had a good support system that kept me afloat (sometimes barely) even though they had no idea what was going on.

I really appreciate your reply! One of my biggest struggles still, is to Not feel like I am over reacting and hearing a similar experience is much appeciated.
 
Its as if we are in a special club @mephoto , one no one ever wants to be a member of by choice but it's nice to know you are not alone. I too transferred schools and moved a thousand miles away. I was very angry at the time but decided if I kept that hate, he continued to take pieces of me which he didn't deserve. I went back a year later, confronted him and he actually cried and apologized to me. I forgave him for my own inner peace, but it will never be forgotten. It changes you but I choose to not let it define who I am.

It takes a very brave and strong person to share your experience and how you have survived despite the circumstances. Thank you for sharing. :-)
 
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