sexual abuse
Partner Sexually Abusing Her Daughter – Child Sexual Abuse and Trauma
Lack of compatibility, spark fizzling out, being cheated upon…among the many things we worry about in romantic relationships, the fear of a partner turning out to be the perpetrator of child sexual abuse rarely makes the list. It’s a possibility so grim that we don’t even want to imagine it as a worst-case scenario of …
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Child Sexual Abuse: I Was Sexually Abused By A Family Member
Durga Pujo vacation was around the corner and I had a spring in my steps because the festivities for the Bengalis were about to begin, and I was soon to revel in it, breaking the drudgery of my school life – class tests and studies and endless activities. I was a 13-year-old girl studying in …
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When it comes to women’s safety, what are some of the steps we need to take at an individual and societal level?
A UK journalist made a documentary on the Nirbhaya rape case. The journalist interviewed the perpetrators from behind prison walls to shed light on the deplorable living conditions of the rapists to explain how one could commit the heinous crime that they did. It showed the surroundings in which they grew up, infested with violence, …
My best friend molested me in a movie hall
Question: Dear Ma’am, My best friend molested me. We were watching a movie in a theater and suddenly he hugged me tight and then started touching my private parts. I tried to protect myself and told him not to do what he was doing. But nothing happened. After 2 minutes I started crying, but he …
Sexual abuse has left me depressed and I feel like it was my fault
Question: Hello Sir, I am desperate to get normal. As a teenager, I faced sexual harassment on numerous occasions. I am not comfortable writing about it but things happened at different levels. Now I weep like a baby. I can’t trust people and just don’t want to live my life. I feel that it was …
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She Was a Victim of Marital Rape and Yet Blamed for the Divorce
“You chose your husband. Stop complaining and deal with it.” That was the only thing I was told when I talked to my mother and father about being raped every night by my husband. They wouldn’t acknowledge I was a victim of marital rape. (As told to Kirthi Jayakumar) Your husband owns your body…I was …
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Why do we return to our abusive partners?
Even after the most traumatic turn in their partnership, victims of abusive marriages and relationships often return to their aggressive partners. This happens mainly because after going through an extended period of abuse in the relationship, the violence becomes normal to the victims. This feeling stems from the low-esteem brought upon us because of the …