Is there a traumatic incident you never talk about?

[Anonymous]

When I was about 13, I was with my family on a sort of walking trail. I saw this couple that seemed a little bit older than my parents. I saw the man choking the woman. She was staring at me while she was being choked and I still remember the way her eyes bugged out while she was being choked, looking at me.
I. told my family and it was dismissed. A few minutes later I tried to tell them again but they hadn't seen what I did. I don't even want to imagine what else that woman must have experienced every day or what her life is like now, a few years later. Sometimes I feel really guilty that I hadn't done more to insist something was wrong, because that poor woman could be dead now for all I know

[Cherokeehp]

I was nearly raped my first week of college. I met a guy at a party and we agreed to meet up and hang out the next day. We went to his dorm and we were just watching TV and chatting. I was just sitting in a chair by his desk but he told me I needed to move out the way but I could sit on his bed. I thought it was weird but I figured I would stop it if he were to try anything. After a while he got into the bed too. He laid down but I continued to sit straight up cross legged. After a while he pulled me to lay down with him. He asked if he could kiss me and I said no. He kissed me anyway. I was in shock and kinda just sat there frozen for a moment. I guess he could feel that I wasn’t kissing him back so he stopped for a moment, but then he sat up and straddled me and began kissing me again. Then he stated reaching for my pants to undress me, and that’s when I like snapped back to reality and started struggling. He laid on top of me to stop me from struggling long enough for him to readjust himself and start trying to undress me again. I started yelling NO and struggling harder. He started yelling back at me cursed me out and told me get out. I quickly gathered my things, and I snapped a photo of him before I left just in case I decided to report it I’d have a photo of what he looked like and proof that I was there. I left crying. He told people he slept with me anyway and that I gave it up easily. So many people believed him. The only people I’ve ever really told are my boyfriend and my best friend. Other people know the jist, but not all the details. All they know is that I hate that guy.

[blondfrog]

Don't feel bad hey you did way more than your parents did and you were really little. Also I hate to say this, but when you get older your perspective on life changes. This is a cold hard truth in America. If the victim in the relationship doesn't file for a report and press charges themselves when the cops are present they will do nothing. Sadly most abuse victims will call the police or someone else will for them, but they don't file up on a report and press charges. So the abuser gets nothing. It's because the victim is so scared. They have to learn how to help themselves.

[Wise4myage]

Sorry that had to happen to you. I wish you had called the cops when you got home, doing so would have made you feel better. I had a traumatic experience when I was younger, that I never tell my friends about, but I have revealed it to strangers online a few times.

[YHL6965]

Technically, there is a friend that knows probably the darkest things about me because she is such a good friend to me but, otherwise, other people ignore a big part of me that is filled with dark, sad things that happened to me.

[Anonymous]

A particularly bad run in with a girl. Things between me and her were great but she had a lot of jealous guys following in her trail so needless to say I got attacked verbally and physically and eventually police got involved.

[Tunasub]

The year 2020.

[Anonymous]

Yeah being treated like a dog by my mother and sister treating me like a dog all the time. They would pull me around by my shirt collar all the time calling me doggie.

[Konabeana]

I am sorry you had to witness that :(

[swettannie]

about what you see, you sure it wasn't consensual?

[Asker]

I don't really understand why the woman would consent to something like that, especially in a public place with children nearby.
I just feel that it wasn't right. It didn't seem okay.

[swettannie]

It's not necessarily right to do it in public with children nearby, but some girl are into breathplay

[Asker]

Well I really hope that's what it was I guess

[swettannie]

if it is, and it probably is, she wanted this

[Agape93]

Yeap

[Anonymous]

Yeah, being raped by an ex-girlfriend

[Nachowedgie]

Plenty

[Anonymous]

maybe